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Mike Johnson Makes His Next Move on Obamacare—and It’s Grim
“He’s an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it’s not helpful, but he is his own person,” Wiles said. When Musk claimed in an X post in March that Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions but their public-sector employees did, Wiles said, “I think that’s when he’s microdosing,” explaining that…
Read MoreSusie Wiles Claims Trump Was Tricked Into Helping Ghislaine Maxwell
“He’s an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it’s not helpful, but he is his own person,” Wiles said. When Musk claimed in an X post in March that Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions but their public-sector employees did, Wiles said, “I think that’s when he’s microdosing,” explaining that…
Read MoreTranscript: MTG Humiliates Trump over Reiner as MAGA Crackup Worsens
It’s just another way to say, Hey, guys, the base is in a real bad place for us right now. And it looks like they’re not going to do anything to extend the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies, which absolutely clobbers the base. It’s no accident, Alex, that this is one of the early things…
Read MoreTrump Just Gave Himself the Perfect Excuse to Invade Venezuela
Reiner was found stabbed to death in his Los Angeles home Sunday, alongside his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner. Their son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, was taken into custody early Monday and is being held on $4 million bail. The motive for the gruesome killing is not clear. But in Donald Trump’s mind, the murder is…
Read MoreChristianity Today Editor Slams Trump’s “Disgusting, Immoral Behavior”
Reiner was found stabbed to death in his Los Angeles home Sunday, alongside his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner. Their son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, was taken into custody early Monday and is being held on $4 million bail. The motive for the gruesome killing is not clear. But in Donald Trump’s mind, the murder is…
Read MoreStephen Miller Announces Chilling Hunt for “Fifth Column”
Reiner was found stabbed to death in his Los Angeles home Sunday, alongside his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner. Their son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, was taken into custody early Monday and is being held on $4 million bail. The motive for the gruesome killing is not clear. But in Donald Trump’s mind, the murder is…
Read More“Disaster”: How Kash Patel Is Wrecking FBI Counterintelligence Work
FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly crippling the FBI’s counterintelligence capabilities, former bureau agents have told The Bulwark. On Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first day in office in February, she terminated the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force in order to “free resources to address more pressing priorities, and end risks of further weaponization and abuses…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Tirades on Econ Go Awry as GOP Panics: “Disaster!”
Sargent: You wrote in your piece that Trump is uniquely vulnerable here for other reasons as well. First, he campaigned as a populist. And second, his right-wing populist policies are what are playing the big role. in making the crisis worse for working people. Can you explain that argument? Shapiro: Sure. There are really two…
Read MoreAll Trump Wants for Christmas is a “Triumphal Arc”
Trump’s “triumphal arc” (yes, “arc”) is the latest construction project on his list, which also includes the 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom he’s tearing down the East Wing of the White House for, and his Rose Garden renovation, in which he paved paradise and put up a parking lot—sorry, a “club.” “I put Vince in charge…
Read MoreMAGA and Silicon Valley Are Battling for Influence in the White House
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday intended to stop states from regulating AI—an idea that had received a lot of pushback from members of his base. The order didn’t emerge out of a vacuum, of course. MAGA Republicans and Silicon Valley leaders have been locked in a battle for influence over the White…
Read MoreTrump’s Support Is Declining Among MAGA Base: Poll
President Donald Trump’s support is starting to waver, even among his staunchest supporters, a new poll shows. Don’t get it twisted—Trump’s approval rating among adults has been in the red for months, and is still falling, with now close to 60 percent of Americans saying they disapprove of the president. But according to an NBC…
Read MoreTrump Scraps Abolition Coins, Features Himself Instead
On Thursday, Indiana lawmakers voted down Trump’s midcycle redistricting push, choosing to keep election maps the same rather than gerrymander them to Republicans’ advantage. For weeks leading up to the vote, the president had been bullying the Hoosier state’s lawmakers in an attempt to shore up support. After the vote, Trump turned his fury on…
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