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In the wake of reports that “MAGA-coded” CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil has been assigned to the show 60 Minutes, we’re learning more about the shakeup as insiders suggest that he’s a “useful idiot” for those at the network who aim to promote a “Trump-friendly” narrative. According to recent reporting, CBS News chief Bari Weiss — who has been criticized for her tendency to extend journalistic sympathy to President Donald Trump — is "opening up 60 Minutes to the news division," which will mean appearances from CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil. As t

Those arrest states that FBI head Kash Patel is waving around at Congress this week are cooked, reports MS NOW Justice reporter Ken Dilanian. Sources inside the Trump administration claim the numbers are fake in damning statements about President Donald Trump's arrest statistics at the FBI.“FBI insiders are saying this is a blatant attempt to pad the stats,” Dilanian told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur, referring to Patel’s repeated claim that he’s outpaced his predecessors capturing fugitives on the vaunted Ten Most Wanted List that's been around for decades.“When we looked into this, we found out that of the six peo

Democratic strategist and political commentator James Carville is blasting what he says is the "one thing" President Donald Trump is thinking about on his trip to China, and it has nothing to do with diplomacy, the U.S. economy, or the war in Iran.Carville told Al Hunt on their Politicon podcast that it was "really interesting" that all the people he took to China were essentially the people who were in the "first three rows" from his inaugural address. He "put them on Air Force One, and he took Eric — who handles the business end of his business.""You're going to watch a grift and graft over there, like you can't imagine," Carville continued. "That's all this trip is about, and I got news for you, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack, or whoever you are out there, he doesn't give a s—— about you, your future, your finan

The evidence against would-be presidential assassin Cole Tomas Allen is overwhelming, but former prosecutor Elie Honig says that doesn’t stop President Donald Trump’s hapless appointees from blowing it. Witnesses saw Allen running with a shotgun and a handgun toward the ballroom where Trump was about to address the White House Correspondents’ Association. His mad

When President Donald Trump deplaned Air Force One in Beijing on Wednesday, one person was conspicuously absent: his third wife, the Daily Beast reported. Rambling down the steps behind the president, who turns 80 in June, was his son Eric Trump and his wife, Lara. The last time Trump visited China in 2017, first lady Melania Trump was in tow, with a full schedule of events alongside China's first lady, Peng Liyuan. The two toured the Forbidden City and visited the Great Wall. Mrs. Trump also visited the Banchang Primary School and participated in activities with the students. She attended a Peking oper

Few slogans have been so essential to the MAGA movement as President Donald Trump’s “America First” campaign promise, by which he assured his followers that he would prioritize U.S. domestic considerations above all else. But according to political journalist James Ball of the iPaper, with Trump’s latest venture to China, he has “betrayed” MAGA once and for all. At the core of Trump’s “America First” messaging, writes Ball, was the assertion that “the rest of the world was laughing at America… and had been ripping it off for too long. America was bei

A judge appointed by President Donald Trump — and who has been repeatedly accused of ignoring proper legal procedure to make decisions in his favor — is now blocking the release of files in a case regarding some of the most serious criminal charges previously filed against him.“In an opposition brief on Tuesday, Trump attorney Kendra Wharton tore into the Knight First Amendment Institute and American Oversight for persistent yet ‘meritless’ attempts to fast-track appeals,” reported Matt Naham from the legal news website Law and Crime

Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is unlikely to be a Republican presidential candidate in 2028. He is a traditional conservative, not ultra-MAGA. And many MAGA Republicans still resent him for certifying Joe Biden's victory in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election. But Never Trump conservative George Will admires Ducey's brand of non-MAGA conservatism, arguing that Ducey is exactly the type of Republican should be looking to as a presidential candidate in 2028. And in his May 13 column for the Washington Post, Will envisions what a Ducey campaign anno

A top spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services is the latest Trump official to quit the administration in response to a new policy push that is poised to expose children to higher risks of lung disease and cancer.On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Rich Danker, the chief spokesman for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had submitted a letter to President Donald Trump announcing his resignation. He specifically cited the administration's recent pivot to

It’s been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington—or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women’s History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the second woman ever to hold that title. Weeks later, also in a social media post, he fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, the third woman ever to serve as head of the Department of Justice.While in the first year of his first presidency, Trump 1.0 had fired numerous officials, this time around, Bondi and Noem, who ran the two largest law enforcement agencies in the country, were the first cabinet officials to be dismissed. Both—no surprise—were replaced by me