Ron DeSantis‘ bid to unseat Donald Trump atop the Republican Party hasn’t been going well. The Florida governor had to “reboot” his campaign last week, firing a third of his staff. It’s been so bad, however, that donors want him to take it a step further and “clean house,” as …
Read More »Georgia Rejects Trump's Bid to Kill Meddling Probe. DA Says She's 'Ready to Go'
Donald Trump is widely expected to be indicted by Special Counsel Jack Smith on charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may be next in line. Willis, who has long been investigating meddling in Georgia’s election results, said over the weekend …
Read More »DeSantis Defends Tuberville's Freeze on Military Promotions
Ron DeSantis is doing CPR on his campaign, and there’s no Republican spin room quite like Fox News. Amid a discussion of campaign drama and tanking polling, the Florida governor, a Navy veteran, told Fox’s Bret Baier that he supported Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s freeze on military promotions — because pronouns …
Read More »Trump Calls Biden 'Dumb Son of a Bitch' at Pennsylvania Rally
Donald Trump arrived at Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pennsylvania for another rally on Saturday, a city that helped deliver his victory in 2016 and a critical swing state for 2024, while he faces new charges from the Department of Justice and the possibility of him being indicted for a …
Read More »Rebel, Kingmaker, and Accused War Criminal: The Last Confessions of an Afghan Warlord
I T’S PUSHING MIDNIGHT when my armored escort pulls up to a high-walled compound on the outskirts of Ankara, the Turkish capital. After more than a year and a half of waiting, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan’s most notorious and elusive warlord, has summoned me for an interview, his first since …
Read More »Trump PAC Wants Its Money Back As Legal Bills Pile Up
Save America, former President Donald Trump’s primary fundraising tool, requested a refund of $60 million it had given to another political action committee supporting the Republican’s 2024 White House bid, The New York Times reported late Saturday. Trump has been using Save America to pay for his legal bills, which …
Read More »Ramaswamy Dismisses Trump's Alleged Obstruction as Just a 'Process Crime'
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Sunday reacted to the new charges brought against Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago documents case by insisting that the “process crimes” Trump is accused of aren’t serious enough to warrant a conviction. On CNN State of the Union, Ramaswamy …
Read More »Trump Lawyer: He Could've Deleted Mar-a-Lago Tapes If He Really Wanted To
Former President Donald Trump has been charged with obstructing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago documents investigation by allegedly trying to get security footage deleted after authorities requested it. Yet according to Trump lawyer and spokesperson Alina Habba, there was no obstruction because it’s “common sense” that Trump could’ve easily had …
Read More »These Christian Nationalists Want to Stone Adulterers to Death
The podcast setup at first appears familiar: a pair of white dudes, mic’d up at a table, wrestling out loud with big ideas. But the conversation between the two men veers, without guardrails, into a dystopian vision of a Christian nationalist America, in which the laws of the Old Testament …
Read More »Vivek Ramaswamy Is On the Rise. So Are Christian Nationalist Attacks on His Religion
Vivek Ramaswamy is getting a hard look by Republicans willing to entertain alternatives to Donald Trump, especially as Ron DeSantis continues to flounder. The 37-year-old biotech entrepreneur has surged into third place in several national polls, ahead of prominent Republicans like Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Tim Scott. Ramaswamy is …
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