Politics

Donald Trump was arrested in Georgia, and unlike his past bookings, this time there’s a mugshot. As images of the former president and his 18 co-defendants’ bookings at the Fulton County Jail become public, a bizarre trend has emerged amongst his most sycophantic followers — fake “solidarity” mugshots. Chief amongst …

Donald Trump returned to X, formerly known as Twitter, for the first time since January 2021 to post what is surely to become the defining image of his political career — his mugshot. The former president surrendered to authorities in Fulton County Georgia on Thursday to be booked on charges …

Shortly after submitting to his fourth arrest this year, Trump called up his backup right-wing propaganda machine Newsmax to discuss the experience of jail. “What was the experience like today in jail?” host Greg Kelly asked on Thursday. “Terrible experience,” Trump responded. “I came in, I was treated very nicely, …

Prosecutors in Arizona are “aggressively” ramping up their criminal probe into the 2020 fake electors plot aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power. They’re not just looking at the fake electors, though. Rudy Giuliani is also now high on their list. Two sources with knowledge of the matter tell …

Vivek Ramaswamy presents himself as a man for this political moment — a 38-year-old entrepreneur without the baggage of a politician, who is not a “SuperPAC puppet” (as he calls Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis) and can tell the truth. But faced with an unexpected question about climate change at the …

The first GOP presidential primary debate is lacking star power with Donald Trump opting to sit down for an interview with Tucker Carlson instead of joining his rivals onstage. Fox News tried to fill the void by kicking off the event with a few questions about rising country music star …

It’s debate night for the Republican presidential hopefuls, but their leading candidate can’t be bothered. Instead of heading to Milwaukee to face his rivals, Donald Trump stayed at his resort in Bedminster, New Jersey and sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson that aired exclusively on Twitter — at …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came to Wednesday’s GOP debate with a story to tell about “a lady in Florida named Penny” who “survived multiple abortion attempts.” “She was left discarded in a pan,” DeSantis said. “Fortunately, her grandmother saved her and brought her to a different hospital.” To DeSantis, the …

When debate moderator Bret Baier asked a stage of 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls to raise their hands if they would support their absent rival Donald Trump’s nomination even if he was convicted in one of the many court cases he’s currently facing, all but two of the eight candidates present …

Ron DeSantis may be leading the Republicans he shared the debate stage with on Wednesday night, but he had just as much — if not more — at stake than any of them. Once upon a time, the Florida governor had high hopes to dethrone Donald Trump atop the GOP, …