Twenty-five years after the worst attack on American soil, the country's leaders told two false stories in a single week, and between them turned a national day of mourning into a sales pitch for the …
The most powerful man on earth flew to Ireland to play golf at a course he owns and, at a press conference beside the taoiseach, suggested the borders of the United States' oldest ally could be redraw…
An 80-year-old president spent a weekend coloring in an empire on social media, and the most unsettling reaction to the map was not outrage. It was agreement. "That's not insanity. That's intention." …
The Republican Party's first midterm convention in the modern era ended the only way it could: with the president asking a half-empty arena to raise its hands and swear an oath of fealty. "Please rais…
The White House installed its most devoted conspiracy theorist to turn the "witch hunt" against Donald Trump into a real criminal case, and five months later he walked out, leaving one line behind tha…
The president who started a war on a whim has now given it a calendar: November, after the votes are in. "I think war is going to end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any lon…
Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the president who says two firemen carried him to safety is the same one presiding over the emergency that has kept America at war ever since. "They grabbed me…
One year after his murder, Charlie Kirk's witch hunt is still destroying careers, and his widow now runs the machine from his grave. "When you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out..…
A president who has run up a $40 trillion national debt tells a crowd he can pay every adult American $5,000, and calls it a dividend. "If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It w…
A Pentagon that cannot confirm its own stockpiles has started running lie detectors on its own officers to find out who told the truth. "The 'leakers' of these treasonous statements are being hunted d…
Six months into a war he said would last "four to five weeks," the man who started it is now describing it as "small potatoes." "I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's …
The government that promised the rich would finally get their due quietly dismantled the only department with the teeth to enforce the promise. "An obvious fact: If you get rid of auditors, you raise …
A president who kidnapped a foreign head of state now holds, on paper, a hundred-year claim to a fifth of his victim's oil. He calls it the biggest deal in world history. The gas prices say otherwise.…
The president called the people refusing a data center in their town "backwards and poor." His own party's senators did the math, and they did not like the answer. "No, Mr. President, the 75% of Ameri…
A consumer watchdog counted up what happened to the money of the people the president told to go buy his coins. The total was a number the White House declined to contest. "I am not a fan of Bitcoin a…
The president bombed a place that was never hit, with a video no plane filmed, and then told the country the enemy was finished. "Mr. Trump's tweets are laughable, and conditions in Kharg are calm and…
When a president can't stand to see his own approval rating, the natural instinct is to silence the people measuring it, not to improve the numbers. The Trump administration chose the first option, an…
A 150-year rule of American public land is being broken by a road that isn't even very long. "This is an attack on the American people that own this national park. It would also be unlawful and a cour…
An 80-year-old president signs a paper to rename a body of water, and Google, of all companies, obliges. "The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declar…
A president who raided another country in the middle of the night now claims to own half its oil, and the whole thing is described, in the main document we have, by a single social media post. "THE BI…
A president sold the country a miracle at the pump. The miracle, a lawsuit says, was built on fuel someone else didn't get to keep. "KRSM was able to sell such fuel for such low prices and garner such…
The name is more than four hundred years old. It predates both countries. It is the only thing in this trade war that no executive order can touch. "Canadians also know that naming reality means calli…
A war fought for the Strait of Hormuz is quietly unmaking the military deterrent meant for the Pacific. "We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in …
One man's word was worth $4.7 billion to the people who believed it. "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin ai…
A single offhand sentence about a 35-year-old aide set off a White House meltdown, and the fallout reveals a president who cannot seem to tell the difference between a job description and a comfort ob…
The Supreme Court didn't rule that the president can rig the election. It just ruled that the courts have to wait to be allowed to stop him. "This ruling violates well-established precedents concernin…
The war Trump's own voters are deserting is, it turns out, a boom time for the men who already own the country's refineries. "There is a massive transfer of wealth occurring as billions around the wor…
For the first time in decades, Canada's prime minister has told his own people that he is at war, and that the country he leads will not crawl back to the old deal. "You're at war when you get attacke…
A president insists every community should want a data center, even as his own regulator quietly rewrites the rules so those communities never get to find out one is coming. "Trump thinks that every c…
The soldiers the president sent to his own capital to make it safe are now the ones telling the country they do not want to be there. "I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left…
When the Justice Department finds nothing wrong, the funding still gets cut. "There's no way we're going to get a letter of no violation cleared." — A Trump administration official, as described by th…
The man who won a presidency on a promise to "drain the swamps" of corporate influence is now, at a White House gala, advising Silicon Valley that its unpopular machines could "use a little public rel…
An administration that calls a foreign government a death machine quietly hands its passport to that same government's agents and books a seat for a dozen of its dissidents. "Iran has requested that I…
A two-month truce is supposed to be a runway toward peace. This one was a countdown to the next threat, and the threat was aimed at a country that has not fired on the United States in two centuries o…
A president who is fighting a war in the Persian Gulf just told his most reliable ally in Asia that he is disappointed it said no, and that he would like to charge it less for being disappointed. "I r…
A president turns the White House into a data feed and starts selling it to the highest bidder. "Trump is trying to enrich himself by privatizing government information that he has no right to sell. W…
A president who once called the Navy's newest catapults "goddamned" technology has now signed an order to tear them out of a warship mid-build and replace them with steam pipes from the 1950s. "You're…
A regulator chosen by the president approves a federal bank charter for a crypto firm run by his own sons, 38 percent of which is owned by an entity he is affiliated with. "This is the most brazen act…
Five thousand sailors are stranded aboard a floating metal prison, some of them trying to jump overboard. The man who sent them there says the war has not gone on long enough. "Have some sympathy, som…
A president loses a court case over a building, then instructs the same board to bolt his name back on. "This latest development is a transparent effort to circumvent the court's ruling, and flies in …
A federal regulator has invoked emergency powers not used since Carter's grain embargo, telling a company to defy a court order, and even the company it is supposed to protect says it is being set up …
trump, corruption, first amendment, truth social The president of the United States is selling advance access to his own official announcements for up to $100,000 a month. "There is no legitimate inte…
$4 Billion to Build Nothing tags: trump, offshore wind, fossil fuel A president promises energy dominance while spending billions to erase the clean power industry. "I've spent 15 or so years working …
A former homeland security chief of staff says the Trump administration is building a blueprint to seize ballots in swing states, paralyze election certification, and weaponize chaos if the midterms g…
The president flew on an airplane that was officially not his airplane, using a vehicle that normally delivers sandwiches. "I'm number one on their list, before you. But if I go, you go, right? So per…
tags: trump, bbc, defamation, courts A sitting president declares an emergency to keep his business empire invisible, and the judge obliges. "It is a transparent effort to evade this Court's clear and…
A company with ties to sanctioned Russian banks and illegal online gambling is co-developing Trump Tower Tbilisi. The Trump Organization named the company as a partner. The company now says it has not…
A president's personal lawyer now sits atop the Department of Justice, and his first order of business is to finish what a Supreme Court majority started. "We're working to get solutions so that the D…
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the Trump administration is quietly selling off the security system Congress built to prevent it from happening again. "Somebody's forgetting." — Hydrick Thomas, AFGE TSA…
A law firm whose closest thing to immigration expertise is a corporate lawyer who changed fields five months ago has been handed $150 million to represent the most vulnerable children in the federal d…
A vice president vows to throw fraudsters in prison, working for a president who has pardoned dozens of convicted fraudsters and been found liable for fraud himself. "I don't care where you came from.…
The Supreme Court told the president the Constitution does not bend to executive orders. His response was to sign two more. "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution." — Chief Justice John Roberts…
100 Billion in Tariffs, Nothing Back for Americans tags: trump, tariffs, consumers, economy A president tells Fox News his economic policy has been incredible while the Treasury writes $100 billion in…
A ship doctor on the USS Abraham Lincoln warned the crew is about to break. The families of 5,000 sailors say they are already broken. "The morale is not good. Apparently, the ship's doctor or therapi…
Two Republican senators threatened to block the attorney general nominee, then took his word that a $1.8 billion slush fund would vanish. "I have not seen something as farcical as what I have witnesse…
trump, banking, capital one A major bank has formally told a court that Donald Trump's business generated transaction patterns flagged for possible money laundering. "Documents and Plaintiffs' own all…
The most loyal movement in American politics is already trying to fire the cabinet secretary who replaced its last pariah. "Mullin is the wrong guy at the wrong time for the wrong job. At a time when …
trump, munitions, iran, military The United States went to war with Iran and ran out of missiles before it ran out of things to hit. "It takes several years to produce a missile. If you put money into…
A White House official with prior representation ties to the Tate brothers told DHS agents to hand back seized electronics, calling it a waste of government time. "The Tates will be free, Trump is the…
An 80-year-old president has spent the better part of his second term acting as his own architect, designer, and interior decorator while the country he was elected to lead faces a war, economic anxie…
A president at war with Iran tells the American public that Iran could not possibly have hacked Minnesota's water systems. "Iran should be so lucky. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minn…
A sitting president has turned his public communications into a subscription service. "No company should help the president convert official government acts into personal profit." — Sen. Mark Warner, …
Todd Blanche was supposed to be Trump's reward for loyalty. Instead, he became the proof that loyalty only works when you have something to offer. "They know what they need to do, but they simply refu…
The world's most-watched sporting event is now being packaged and priced for private equity, with Trump's son-in-law on the buyer's list. "None of us are the owners of football. It is not FIFA's to se…
Florida's public university system found a new way to reward political loyalty: install a lawyer sanctioned by a federal court as dean of a law school. "It looks like politics has superseded merit." —…
A president seizes a foreign country's oil, collects $13 billion, and then makes sure nobody can find the money. "All of Congress has been kept in the dark by the Trump administration." — Rep. Joaquin…
A federal agency tasked with tracking injuries from lawn mowers and coffeemakers is now demanding the personally identifiable medical records of every person who walks into an emergency room. "They wa…
The Trump administration admitted in federal court that it canceled billions in energy grants because the recipient states did not vote for him. "Defendants freely admit that they made grant-terminati…
A federal law enforcement agency hired a man with a documented pattern of domestic abuse to carry a gun and a badge, then watched him kill an immigrant. "No, if those ... are facts ... I don't think h…
The Trump administration has spent 100 pages trying to convince Americans that an island suffering daily blackouts poses the single greatest ideological threat to the United States since the Soviet Un…
The Trump administration is rewriting what it means to "live here," using a regulatory filing so boring that almost nobody noticed it was submitted. "If you can't deport every immigrant, you can at le…
The head of the Department of Homeland Security has drawn a line in the sand: obey his election demands or face prison. "Those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even…
The man who spent decades calling vaccines dangerous now oversees the country's health agencies while diseases return from elimination. "When the Trump administration declares a crisis 'under control'…
The federal government admitted in court that it Ctrl+F'd through scientific grants looking for words like "equity" and "racism," then pulled the funding. "Identified the viewpoints they wanted to sup…
A president who launched a war to protect American interests has watched it choke the one supply line his allies built to survive that war. "If something like that happens, we'll take care of it. We'v…
pentagon, iran war, military, trump The official death toll says 19. A government official says the real number of Americans killed or wounded is far higher, and that the discrepancy is by design. "Of…
The president released documents meant to prove the election was stolen. The documents prove the opposite. "Ratcliffe's description of the analytical finding here is misleading, and this kind of inacc…
The president declassified intelligence to prove the election was stolen. The documents proved nothing. But every career analyst who touched those files is now on notice. "We have deliberately massage…
House Democrats say the emails prove Epstein was running a foreign influence operation for multiple governments, all while never registering as required by law. "Jeffrey Epstein never registered as a …
A family of accused rapists has been living freely in America for over a year, shielded by White House connections while the rest of the world tries to hold them accountable. "Yes, it was politically …
The Trump Justice Department subpoenaed the phone records of New York Times journalists' mothers and spouses to find who leaked stories about the president's Air Force One. "These actions demonstrate …
The sitting president of the United States is building a toll booth between himself and the American people. "Markets already move on Truth Social posts. As adoption grows, we expect Truth API to beco…
trump, fcc, media, first amendment The president threatened to strip broadcast licenses because two networks refused to air his speech. "Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses." — …
The United States has decided that giving bread to starving children in Gaza qualifies as terrorism financing. "I don't doubt the decision was made to seek Chambers' extradition because it looks good …
A Supreme Court ruled that the government illegally collected billions in tariffs, so it has to give the money back. The problem is everyone who actually paid those tariffs gets nothing while Wall Str…
The Trump administration believed that Article II of the Constitution gave the president unlimited power to fire any federal worker. A federal judge just told them they were wrong. "For the last 140 y…
The Justice Department has sued more than 30 states for their voters' personal data and lost every single time, at the hands of judges the Trump administration itself put on the bench. "DOJ is now 0-1…
The Justice Department is subpoenaing journalists who reported a security flaw on a plane the president was too embarrassed to fly. "The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of…
The president's teleprompter operator bet on his speech content. The president's stock trades line up with his social media posts. And now the president's social media platform is selling real-time da…
trump, israel, military, congress Buried in the annual defense bill is a provision that would give Israel a dedicated Pentagon official with the authority to override US military agencies on weapons d…
An immigration agency operates like a traveling carnival of lawlessness, with a president who fueled the chaos because he wanted it to look tough on television. "It's just surreal. I can't believe thi…
While his father controls the Pentagon's spending decisions, Trump's sons have been quietly building a defense tech portfolio worth billions. "Even if not buying drones from China is in the public int…
The government says inflation is cooling. At the grocery store, nobody believes it. Trump Promised Cheaper Groceries. Then He Went to War. "June CPI is a rearview mirror. The decline was real, but ref…
A federal judge has declared Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" a legal nullity, calling out the collusive fraud between the White House and its own Justice Department. "Settlements betw…
The federal government's only family planning program is being turned into a baby factory, and the people who run it believe embryos are already children. "Congress intended this program to help equal…
The president fires everyone on the only federal agency dedicated to elections, then cites a Supreme Court ruling that gave him permission to do it. "The Republicans should say, we want to take over. …
The world's most vital oil chokepoint has been reduced to a shooting gallery, and the ceasefire that was supposed to fix it is already dead. "A return to full-scale hostilities would have catastrophic…
The United States calls it diplomacy. The arrangement looks like empire. "Insane. Derelict. Unconscionable. And impeachable." — Elizabeth Saunders, Columbia University political science professor, on …
A man who spent his career telling America to keep its military hand on the trigger collapsed the moment he touched down from Kyiv. "Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I h…
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner bought a stretch of Albanian coastline from a man prosecutors say laundered cocaine money using forged deeds, and the purchase price is now frozen in a notary's account.…
The president of the United States threatens to annihilate a country on social media while diplomats scramble behind the scenes to stop the very war he is hyping. "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded …
With four seats empty and a midterm election three months away, the only federal agency devoted to elections has been left with no one in charge. "The guardrails Congress placed on this agency are cle…
Trump lost his birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court and his response was to demand a do-over from the same nine people who just told him no. "I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United…
mcconnell, trump, politics A sitting senator vanishes into a hospital room, and the entire Republican establishment responds with the same thing it always does: total silence. "No, I have no. I have n…
The president in charge of the nuclear codes confused an active adversary with America's oldest Asian ally, then called the Ukrainian leader sitting next to him by his enemy's name. "I told this story…
A country at war with another country is quietly feeding its enemy the names of people who fled it. "Congress made these confidentiality protections mandatory precisely because lives depend on them, a…
The president says that restoring basic democratic protections would annihilate his own political party. "They do this, and the Republican Party is DEAD!" — Donald Trump, on a resolution to restore vo…
The president of the United States made a phone call. A player's red card vanished. The entire world watched, and nobody knew what to do about it. "Red cards are not overturned by political phone call…
trump, midterms, republicans, gop Senate Republicans are receiving the same polling data as every other campaign in America, and it is making them panic. "The poll numbers that I am seeing are not ver…
The Supreme Court has quietly become a government by anonymous ballot, deciding more consequential cases in secret than in open court for the first time in modern history. "The result is a body that l…
The president wants the Post Office to decide who gets to vote. Two federal judges just said no. "The Proposed Rule violates paragraph 2 of the Agreement because the Postal Service cannot post documen…
The Trump administration has just made it federal prison time to possess political pamphlets you disagree with. "The punishment must fit the crimes, not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears …
An administration measures its commitment to justice by how many people it can put on death row, and the targets look exactly like the targets always have. "The American public has made a very, very d…
israel, iran, trump, netanyahu The United States went to extraordinary lengths to protect Iran's negotiators from assassination, and the country it asked to protect them from was its closest ally in t…
Brett Kavanaugh voted to block Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, then handed Congress the keys to finish the job. "Consistent with the 14th Amendment, Congress could amend that statut…
After ICE operations ended in bloodshed last year, the administration tried something new: do it quietly, with no cameras and no fanfare. "If you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we wi…
trump, crypto, corruption The president of the United States made over $1.2 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in his first year back in office. The investors who bought in are sitting on 80 percent…
trump, doj, domestic-terrorism, civil-liberties The Justice Department has recruited Guantanamo prosecutors to treat political dissent as terrorism. "It means they're looking at group criminality, con…
The Supreme Court gave him everything he wanted, including nearly unlimited power. But $5 million for a jury verdict he lost? That is apparently too much to ask. "Surprisingly, the Supreme Court decli…
immigration, trump, supreme court, birthright citizenship After the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, the Trump administration's next move was to try to bar pregnant women from setting foot…
The FBI Director who promised to root out corruption holds a secret stake in the very industry he is supposed to regulate. "Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real…
The sitting president of the United States is about to become a federally chartered bank. "For the first time in history, a president is leaning on a bank regulator to give his private enterprise the …
venezuela, deportations, trump, earthquake The United States deported 146 people to Venezuela on a Wednesday morning. By afternoon, twin earthquakes had killed over 1,700 in the country. The hotel whe…
A Supreme Court hands a president absolute power to fire anyone in any agency, then immediately refuses to give him the same power over one institution that controls interest rates. "The result is a P…
Five million Americans lost health insurance in six months. Their representatives made sure it happened. "Republicans created this crisis on purpose, and while Americans pay for it with their health a…
The Trump administration has handed down 450 years of federal prison time for what amounts to a noise protest outside an immigration detention center. "The punishment must fit the crimes, not the head…
A president promised a Golden Age celebration for the 250th birthday of the country, then built a plywood ghost town on the National Mall and told everyone the crowds were "incredible." "The Crowd was…
The United States signed a ceasefire with Iran, then bombed Iran. "Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement." — Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 26, 2026 The memorandum of und…
john bolton, trump, classified documents, justice The man who called for war with Iran and North Korea now has federal prosecutors asking for five years in his own country's prison. "None of which we …
A Texas judge just handed down a sentence longer than any January 6 convict received. "The punishment must fit the crimes, not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears that have been mongered ab…
A federal judge called it what it was: an unconstitutional power grab dressed up as election security. "The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections." — U.S. Distri…
For the first time in American history, both chambers of Congress voted to stop a president's unauthorized war. "Regardless of what President Trump says, this measure is binding under the War Powers R…
The Trump administration has built a detention system that kills people and then stopped counting the dead. "Your Administration either failed to account for this predictable result or proceeded despi…
tags: trump, africa, health, data The United States is trading lifesaving medicine for access to the private medical records of millions of Africans, and the countries have no real choice but to say y…
Congress gave the president a check for foreign aid, he signed it, and then his administration refused to cash it. "It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress." — …
trump, colombia, elections, latin america A US president publicly endorses a foreign candidate who represents paramilitary clients, then celebrates his narrow victory as though it were a personal win.…
The president spent $14.7 million painting a public pool his favorite shade of blue, then tried to arrest citizens for swimming in the green algae that grew in it. "These are very serious crimes havin…
For the first time in American history, a sitting president is asking a federal bank regulator to give his private cryptocurrency company the implicit backing of the U.S. government. "For the first ti…
Trump's Staffers Can't Keep Up With A President Who Keeps Forgetting Things A president who once built his brand on knowing every deal, every name, and every angle now needs aides to Google the people…
A foreign monarchy bought the plane, American taxpayers are paying to modify it, and it will end up in a president's personal library. "Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced …
He signed a surrender document at Versailles, threatened to "drop bombs right smack in the middle of their head" at the G7, and privately lost his mind when he realized nobody believed him. "They've g…
The Trump administration just asked Congress for one billion dollars to fight a parasitic fly that kills cattle. The twist? They dismantled the program that was keeping it at bay. "DOGE has cut fundin…
A president promised his vanity project would cost American taxpayers nothing. Internal documents show he was lying from day one. "Tie the project more closely to security-related issues since USSS is…
The governor of America's most populous state says the Justice Department is hunting for a crime against him, and he seems almost eager to be indicted. "One by one, anyone who has challenged Donald Tr…
An Albanian island that no one lived on is now the most fought-over piece of real estate in the Balkans, because a billionaire family decided it looked nice from a yacht. "We were on a friend's boat, …
The president has decided that the nation's 250th birthday is actually his. "On July 4th, at The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, in beautiful and safe Washington D.C., we are going to host t…
A president who illegally renamed a national monument is now holding it hostage over his own ego. "The District Court is not allowing us to close in order to properly fix up and repair the Building, i…
Trump declared victory in his war with Iran eleven days after starting it. More than two thousand hours later, every single objective remains unmet. "We won. In the first hour it was over." : Donald T…
A president turns the White House lawn into a fight club, dresses it in military honors, pays the fighters with his family's crypto, and kicks the press out of the building. "I'm literally flabbergast…
Trump appointed a mortgage regulator to run America's spy agencies, and it turned out to be exactly what privacy advocates needed to finally kill his surveillance law. "Voting for a clean reauthorizat…
The Roberts Court is about to hand the president a tool that no American chief executive has ever possessed: the constitutional authority to fire any government worker at will. "This is a choice—an il…
A Texas startup that could not raise money for ten years suddenly found a billionaire investor, right after the president's son took a secret stake. "Everybody in the world wants to do business with t…
A president turns the South Lawn into a sporting arena while buying stock in the company that profits from it. "Using the White House to promote a company and simultaneously buying stock in that compa…
A Trump administration housing executive with zero intelligence experience becomes spy chief, and suddenly Democrats find their spines. "Voting for a clean reauthorization of Section 702 is co-signing…
A Pentagon official admitted in a classified briefing that some of the people the U.S. military killed in its first boat strike may have been victims of human trafficking. "Why would 11 people be on b…
trump, inflation, economy A president told reporters he loves the very force emptying American wallets. "The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation." — Donald Trump, Ova…
The White House insisted there was nothing to see in the Epstein files, even as its own Justice Department produced millions of pages containing more than 38,000 references to Donald Trump. "I saw the…
The Trump Justice Department indicted a civil rights group for using the exact same informant tactics the FBI employs routinely, then pardoned the president's own proven fraud. "I don't think any pros…
A president can start a war without Congress, but he cannot stop his own party from eventually turning against it. "I'd say in that part of the world, 'cease-fire' is when you're shooting in a more mo…
The president sued his own IRS for $10 billion, then settled for something worth more: permanent tax immunity for himself and his family. "As far as I'm concerned, it was a beautiful thing." -- Presid…
The Department of Justice shut down a criminal investigation because the target happened to be Donald Trump's friend. "They were told 'pencils down.'" — A person familiar with the investigation into S…
The defense secretary who preaches meritocracy just proved that loyalty to a president matters more than qualification in his military. "He went through the list and scrubbed a few names. It was felt …
America's closest ally has been classified as its highest espionage threat. "The aggressiveness of Israeli intelligence collection on top Trump administration officials has been unhinged." — Senior U.…
Corporations wrote checks to fund Trump's golden ballroom and received $50 billion in federal contracts in return. "You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That's not a coincidence." — Rep. …
The Pentagon's new lending office was supposed to strengthen American supply chains. Instead, it became a fast lane for the president's son. "This is our money they're spending. This is corruption we …
A government contractor expert summed up what should be obvious about sole-source contracts under Donald Trump: "It is corrupt, is the word." "Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hid…
The man who warned Trump was building a retribution presidency has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges brought by that very administration. "I think it is a retribution presidency." — John Bolton…
The Department of Justice told a federal appeals court that if President Trump ordered the Statue of Liberty demolished, no one would have standing to stop him. "So just as long as you move fast enoug…
Three months into an unauthorized war, the House finally voted to end it. "You either follow the law or you change the law. You can't violate the law." \- Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on why he vote…
The administration that promised to restore order quietly dismantled the enforcement mechanisms that were reducing violent crime, betting nobody would notice until the bodies started piling up. "Just …
A man who built his career investigating the mortgages of political enemies now controls America's spy agencies. "That is how intelligence becomes politicized, how inconvenient facts disappear, how ag…
A president sues his own government, drops the lawsuit without a judge ever ruling, then uses the phantom case as justification to hand out $1.776 billion from the Treasury to an undisclosed list of a…
The Trump administration tried to turn four numbers into a crime. A federal judge said no. "The government seeks to squelch core political speech without any articulable, much less evidentiary, basis …
A convicted felon who breached her county's election systems is back on air claiming voting machines flip votes, exactly two weeks after a Democratic governor folded to presidential pressure and let h…
The United States government has killed 205 people on the high seas, and it still cannot tell you who any of them were. "I can tell you from firsthand experience that all of them could have been arres…
An administration that spent months trying to abolish America's disaster agency is now praying it survives hurricane season. "All of those things made the mission more impossible. And they're going to…
The president sued his own government, settled with himself, and used taxpayer money to create a slush fund for people who attacked the Capitol. "This is f---ing OUR money. At least I think Nixon's sl…
The man who built Trump's digital war machine now runs a foreign government's influence operation through one of America's largest conservative media networks, and nobody listening to Dennis Prager kn…
A federal judge told a Trump-controlled board that you cannot rename a national monument after yourself. "Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it." — U.S. District J…
A $15 million woman from the USDA told millions of people who just lost their food assistance that they are "moving into the American dream." "Unless the Trump administration has redefined 'the Americ…
A federal judge let Trump proceed with his plan to control who gets mail-in ballots, on the grounds that nothing has actually happened yet. "The Court recognizes that the Postal Service may ultimately…
A Republican operative who manages hundreds of millions for the House GOP's main super PAC quietly launched a "progressive" political action committee that spent over $3 million rigging Democratic pri…
A man convicted of felony fraud, impeached by his own legislature, and abandoned by his wife on biblical grounds is now Donald Trump's pick to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. "Ken Paxton is the mo…
After a man was shot at a White House checkpoint, Trump's Department of Justice ran to court with an emergency filing arguing that his ballroom is a national security facility. "The singular and vital…
The plan was simple, in the way that every good looting scheme is simple: buy empty warehouses at near-zero cost, then sell them to the federal government for ten times what they're worth. The buyer w…
The government of the United States has spent the better part of a year manufacturing terror in immigrant communities. It has done this with raids, with public threats, with the deployment of armed ag…
A 79-year-old president spends three hours at Walter Reed, claims his checkup went "perfectly," and nobody — not the White House physician, not the press corps, not the American people — is allowed to…
An administration insists it is at peace with a country it is actively bombing. Even its own media has begun to notice. "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You." — President Donald Trump, from the fore…