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Donald Trump's increasingly erratic, unhinged and potentially illegal conduct continues to rattle more and more Republicans, with one privately telling Salon that the president is "falling apart."On Friday, Brian Karem, Salon's White House columnist, published an extensive rundown of Trump's barrage of alarm-raising scandals over the course of the last month, from his administration's unrelenting deportation effort in Minnesota to the FBI raid on election offices in Georgia to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's claim before the Senate Co

President Donald Trump is suing the IRS as part of a $10 billion complain. But, according to court documents, his complaint is with the government's actions during his own tenure.Lawyer Ed Whelan, at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who writes for the conservative National Review, posted in a thread on X noting Trump is relying on IRS leaks from May 2019 through Sept. 2020 for his lawsuit. Trump was president during that time. "Thus [he] had formal responsibility over those agencies," said Whelan, noting that

More than forty days after federal law required the release of the Epstein files, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it will post about three million additional documents from its trove on Friday.In addition to the documents, 2,000 videos and about 180,000 images will also be released, according to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who “said the files included images taken by Epstein and others that were on his devices but he didn’t take,” NBC News reported. “Blanche said that the public should not find within the files

Donald Trump's much-anticipated pick for the next Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh, has a close family connection credited with sparking the president's long-running obsession with Greenland, according to a Friday report from Fortune.Warsh is a financier who previously served on the Fed Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011, with Fortune noting that he may be perceived as a more grounded and disciplined choice to lead the central bank than many expected from Trump. The president and his new nominee are said to differ on key economic philosophies, with Warsh sai

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appeared Wednesday in a large coat and hat as the FBI raided a Fulton County elections office in Georgia.It piqued the interest of reporters at a Justice Department press conference on Friday as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke. "Can you explain Tulsi Gabbard's role in DOJ activity?" the reporter asked. "What do you mean her role?" Blanche asked. "It was reported that —" the reporter began before Blanche interrupted her. "... She happened to be present in Atlanta. I mean, yes, I saw the same photos you did," Blanche said. "I mean, she's not — she does

White House deputy chief of staff James Blair on Friday called out media outlets for not posting in their headlines that reporter Don Lemon was arrested as a result of a grand jury indictment. That information, however, remains under seal. "Any 'news' outlet failing to make clear in their headline that Don Lemon was indicted by a federal grand jury is intentionally misleading the public. Thank you for your attention to this matter," said Blair on X. Speaking at a press conference about an hour later, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said he

MS NOW reporter Carol Leonnig is reporting that federal prosecutors in two different states refused to handle the attempts to indict journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. "What we've been hearing for really a week and a half has been concern among prosecutors in Minnesota about the way this office has basically been by the deputy attorney general and the attorney general's office," said Leonnig. The acting U.S. attorney in the Minnesota District is Dan Rosen, who has no experience as a prosecutor, she explained. That "will sound familiar to a l

On Monday, December 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter — which finds President Donald Trump and his administration arguing that he had a right to fire former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and Slaughter countering that he had no business firing her from an independent agency established by Congress. At issue in the case is a far-right legal doctrine called the Unitary Executive Theory, which claims tha

Although the United States' 2024 presidential election results were far from the "landslide" President Donald Trump claims they were — Trump won the national popular vote by roughly 1.5 percent — the demographics outcome was a major source of frustration for Democratic strategists. Trump was the clear favorite among working- class whites, especially working-class white males. Moreover, Trump won 48 percent of the Latino vote compared to 51 percent for Democratic nominee and then-Vice President Kamala

The Minneapolis Police Department on Friday disputed claims made by Donald Trump's administration, according to Politico, stating that their characterization of an incident involving federal agents at a restaurant was "incomplete at best."On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance took to his official X account to decry "a number of crazy stories" he claimed to have heard out of Minneapolis, including one in which two off-duty federal agents were "doxxed" at a restaurant while trying to get dinner