A top Trump official is claiming Russia “was provoked” into invading Ukraine, repeating talking points used by President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The war didn’t need to happen,” U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “It was provoked. …
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Last summer, Donald Trump gushed to Elon Musk about the billionaire’s propensity for firing people. “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump said in a conversation with Musk on X, formerly Twitter. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have spent the first month of the president’s second administration systematically dismantling the federal government. Trump has been issuing a flurry of ostensibly illegal executive orders aimed at consolidating power in the White House, while Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have …
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President Donald Trump met with the National Governors Association at the White House on Friday, where he had a terse confrontation with Maine’s Democratic Governor Janet Mills over his efforts to bar transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports. Earlier this month, the Maine Principals Association (MPA) said it would …
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Lara Trump may be part of the most powerful political family in the United States, but the president’s daughter-in-law and former Republican National Committee chair has ambitions elsewhere: music stardom. On Friday, she released her latest single, a masterclass in insipid vocal fry pop slop titled “No Days Off.” Performed …
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Not even your mail is exempt from Donald Trump‘s wholesale power grab. The president is expected to fire the Governance Board of the United States Postal Service (USPS), and absorb the independent agency into the Department of Commerce. According to The Washington Post, which first reported the plans, the takeover …
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The Democratic National Committee filed a brief in the 9th Circuit Court on Thursday challenging the Republican National Committee’s efforts to tank mail-in voting legislation in Nevada. In July, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the RNC, President Donald Trump, and Nevada Republicans attempting to bar the state …
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You don’t need a degree in rocket science to know that Elon Musk’s ego is as fragile as a Tesla in sub-zero temperatures. On Thursday, the billionaire’s temper was on full display after he blew up at an astronaut and former SpaceX pilot who called him out on an obvious …
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Senate Republicans have confirmed Kash Patel — a MAGA conspiracy theorist sympathetic to QAnon who has signaled a thirst for retribution against Donald Trump’s political enemies —as the new FBI Director. Patel was confirmed in a 51-49 vote Thursday afternoon, with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joining …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s administration has been firing federal workers en masse, pausing and shuttering whole federal agencies, and furiously hunting for examples of waste, fraud, and abuse that they can show their supporters to prove all the destruction is necessary and good. At the same time, Trump’s Department …
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