Kimberly Guilfoyle's final days as President Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece played out under the gaze of a very familiar face.Visitors to Jefferson House, the ambassador's residence in Athens that she decorated with large self-portraits, saw Guilfoyle peering past them at a television set on mu...

Every once in a while, someone comes along who explains the Trump phenomenon better than a thousand polls, focus groups and New York Times diner interviews ever could.Meet Eric Deters.Deters is a Kentucky attorney, former congressional candidate and longtime Trump donor who has apparently reached th...

President Donald Trump's own social media posts undercut his lawyers in court and helped hand him a loss, a free speech attorney said.Conor Fitzpatrick, chief supervising attorney for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told CNN's Laura Coates on Tuesday that Judge Timothy Kelly, a ...

A Trump biographer believes the president's latest overture to Moscow is the opening move in a plan reaching far past his term.Michael Wolff said in a Tuesday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," the podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles, that President Donald Trump's recent deal to buy Russian diesel ...

A former Republican pollster who sits down with Trump voters says one MAGA Senate hopeful has a problem with his own base.Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell said on Tuesday's episode of "The Next Level" that disaffected Trump voters in her Texas focus groups view GOP Senate hopeful Ken Paxton as a "hu...

President Donald Trump is apparently getting tired of his own affordability routine that he is performing at his midterm rallies, leaving the crowd in Alaska silent on Tuesday night. In the routine, Trump claims he was barraged with the word "affordability" on his first day in office, and tries to p...

A prominent election lawyer says the Trump Justice Department's excuse for ignoring a federal judge's order points to something far more troubling.Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias warned in an episode of his YouTube show Tuesday that the Trump administration is "willing to slow walk in order to b...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was caught on a C-SPAN camera addressing a thin crowd in Texas, just hours after claiming he was “seeing huge energy in crowds.”Johnson made the claim Tuesday morning on Fox News after host Dana Perino asked him to respond to analysts saying Democrats will win the H...

A congressional map redrawn to hand Republicans another seat is turning on President Donald Trump, according to a strategist on the ground.Democratic strategist Jackie Rosa, who works with the group The Bench, told host Tim Miller on Tuesday's episode of "The Bulwark Daily" that Bobby Pulido, a Teja...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's bombshell firing-squad plan is set to backfire — and leave President Donald Trump shot in the foot, political experts contend. Hegseth's stunning revelation that he intends to live-stream the execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan represents a "hu...

President Donald Trump shocked his critics on Tuesday after he posted videos of brutal animal attacks on his Truth Social account. In one video, a man was repeatedly bitten by a tiger inside an enclosure. The other video, which appeared to be generated by artificial intelligence, was a mash-up of di...

President Donald Trump backed out of his deposition in his own $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, and the network asked a judge to make him sit for it.In a motion filed Tuesday in Miami federal court, the BBC asked Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett to order Trump to set a date and secure a location ...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, appointed by President Donald Trump, joined Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday to flag “serious constitutional problems” in the government’s prosecution of a man twice charged with the same immigration offense.The unlikely alliance criticized the reasoning behind ...

Court watchers reacted with shock after a federal judge found that former officials in President Donald Trump’s administration knowingly spread false accusations against a fired official at a federal disaster agency.U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick cleared the name of Mary Comans, the forme...

Complaints about new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after her first nationally televised press conference were not limited to critics of the Donald Trump administration.MAGA fans were not pleased in the least, with many hoping it was just “nerves.”Promoting a stream of the press conferen...

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife is collecting a salary from a religious nonprofit that ministers to young congressional staffers, but she won’t say who's bankrolling it.Kelly Johnson, a faith-based counselor, refocused her Louisiana nonprofit, Onward Christian Education Services, on Washington aft...

WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding his colleagues across the aisle apologize to former special counsel Jack Smith after Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt launched false accusations at a recent hearing and called the former Justice Department official a “...

New press secretary Katie Zacharia had a rough start at the White House this week as she landed in a small corner office while President Donald Trump’s enforcer kept the large office press secretaries traditionally use.Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, is “the current occupant ...

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia got off on the wrong foot with White House briefing room reporters who are strongly aligned with Donald Trump’s administration.That is according to MS NOW’s Vaughn Hillyard, who reported that Zacharia’s decision to take only three questions before fleei...

The United States was one of just three nations to vote against a declaration on “pandemic prevention, preparedness and response” that was adopted by the United Nations, drawing alarm from public health advocates.“They are going to kill us,” advocate Laura Miers, best known for her commentary on COV...

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, opened up a new line of questions with an unexpected answer when asked where she had passed the bar exam.Trump has described Zacharia as “an attorney,” and she has repeatedly done the same on national TV. But a new investigation by Popula...

Vice President JD Vance sparked a wave of backlash Tuesday after appearing to use being gay as a punchline in a joke about Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico.Speaking at a campaign event in Tyler, Texas, for Ken Paxton, Vance responded to someone in the crowd who shouted that they love...

On a floor above one of the world’s most famous hotel lobbies — where the elite of fashion and finance are annually styled for the Met Gala’s red carpet — there's a salon run by a man Jeffrey Epstein's survivors accused of grooming them.The Mark on New York City's ultra-exclusive Madison Avenue — ju...

Two hours after Kimberly Guilfoyle was effectively fired as U.S. Ambassador to Greece, President Donald Trump told reporters on live TV that she had never been part of his family, the Daily Beast reported.Asked about her downfall as he left the White House for Alaska on Tuesday, Trump downplayed the...

President Donald Trump heaped praise on Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) on Tuesday, sharing a lengthy story about the lawmaker’s college football career that apparently came as a surprise to the president.In a ringing endorsement on his Truth Social platform, Trump recounted a conversation with former NFL co...

A federal judge ordered an additional two-week ban on cutting trees at a Washington golf course after President Donald Trump’s administration cut down hundreds despite her warnings.U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday barring the government from felling a...

A newly announced Trump administration appointment sparked a wave of bewilderment Tuesday after an official portrait of the incoming U.S. ambassador tasked with combating human trafficking circulated on social media.Barbera H. Thornhill was introduced as the U.S. ambassador-at-large to monitor and c...

Complaints about new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after her first nationally televised press conference were not limited to critics of the Donald Trump administration.MAGA fans were not pleased in the least, with many hoping it was just “nerves.”Promoting a stream of the press conferen...

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For the second time in three days, the White House is blaming the press for the empty seats at a Trump rally.The White House’s Rapid Response 47 account hit back at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she aired footage of bare upper sections at President Donald Trump’s Monday night rally in Youngstown, Ohio...

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, earned brutally bad reviews Tuesday on her first day on the job.Zacharia read from a statement touting the president’s accomplishments and popularity, then took only a handful of questions before leaving the press room. She did make news,...

On a floor above one of the world’s most famous hotel lobbies — where the elite of fashion and finance are annually styled for the Met Gala’s red carpet — there's a salon run by a man Jeffrey Epstein's survivors accused of grooming them.The Mark on New York City's ultra-exclusive Madison Avenue — ju...

Conservative journalist Carmine Sabia issued an apology Tuesday for promoting a false report about Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, prompting critics to suspect Sabia had only apologized to avoid legal liability.Over the weekend, MAGA world went into a frenzy over an allegation that Talaric...

President Donald Trump reportedly “overrode” the wishes of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in picking a new press secretary, according to the Daily Mail and The Daily Beast.Trump announced the pick, conservative personality Katie Zacharia, 41, on Truth Social on Friday. She will replace Karol...

One high-profile White House official may need to start looking for a new job with the arrival of new press secretary Katie Zacharia.According to the Daily Mail, the press secretary hire has put one official’s “head on the chopping block” and stoked fears of a post-midterm purge among uncomfortable ...

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle lavished praise on President Donald Trump after his White House asked her to resign.Guilfoyle’s praise came in a lengthy statement she posted on X Tuesday, the same day White House press secretary Katie Zacharia announced the request at her debut briefing...

Throughout his life of public vulgarity, chauvinistic misogynist and sexual abuser Donald Trump has always been unusually — and often inappropriately — fixated on beautiful blonde women. Trump cheated on his first blonde wife, Ivana, with his second blonde wife, Marla, then cheated on his third (na...

President Donald Trump posted a fabricated quote attributed to Denzel Washington on his Truth Social account Monday, spreading a fake endorsement that fact-checkers had publicly debunked two days earlier.The image Trump posted was a screenshot from an X account called Red Eagle Updates. Under the wo...

The debut of new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was cut off early by MS NOW, with the panel dumbfounded at her staring at her notes and fumbled her way through with fragmented sentences.After the cutaway, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle smirked and stated, “Let's look at the way that just st...

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, dropped some major news at her inaugural news conference.Zacharia took questions in the White House press room Tuesday morning and was asked whether Kimberly Guilfoyle would be asked to resign as U.S. ambassador to Greece.“We have asked A...

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife is collecting a salary from a religious nonprofit that ministers to young congressional staffers, but she won’t say who's bankrolling it.Kelly Johnson, a faith-based counselor, refocused her Louisiana nonprofit, Onward Christian Education Services, on Washington aft...

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney revealed two pressing reasons that Elon Musk is pouring record sums into the midterms for two reasons.Musk is on track to be the top Republican donor this cycle, spending at least $276 million on the midterms since July, much of it on the closely watched Texas Senat...

Fears mounted Tuesday following an emergency order issued by the Trump administration designed “to mitigate blackout risks” ahead of a “period of elevated demand,” an order that impacts more than a dozen states in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.“Nothing to see here, just [an] energy cr...

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Monday aired humiliating footage of pervasive empty seats at President Donald Trump’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio, one week after Trump insisted he has never had an empty seat and never will.Collins, hosting “The Source,” showed video from CNN’s crew inside the Covelli Centre ...