Politics

Donald Trump and his former attorney general, Bill Barr, have been trading public barbs as Barr turns on his ex-boss, calling Trump a “consummate narcissist” who will “put his own interests, his own ego above everything else.” Barr was on Face the Nation just a week after Trump called him …

When it comes to seeing twice-impeached, twice-indicted Donald Trump in a prison uniform if he is convicted in his classified documents case, a slim majority of American voters are squeamish about the idea. Fifty-three percent of respondents to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll said they would support a Trump pardon to …

Donald Trump‘s former secretary of defense, Mark Esper, thinks that the ex-president should not be in charge of the country’s most closely-held information, considering he was storing classified documents at his resort, as alleged in a federal indictment filed earlier this month. When State of the Union host Jake Tapper …

Former Vice President Mike Pence claimed that in the waning days of the Trump administration, he “hoped” that Trump would eventually “come around” and accept the results of his loss in the 2020 election. “I always hoped [Trump] would come around. … No one who puts himself over the Constitution …

Immediately after his arrest on Tuesday, Trump stopped by a Cuban restaurant in Miami. “Food for everyone!” Trump is said to have yelled after arriving at the restaurant for an impromptu campaign visit shortly after pleading not guilty to 37 criminal counts leveled against him by the Justice Department. He …

A coalition of white supremacist is plotting to disrupt the Juneteenth holiday weekend by plastering communities with hate leaflets, promoting a rancid documentary about a supposed “white genocide.” But these neo-Nazis are also concerned that their intimidation may go unnoticed — and are calling on supporters to pose as concerned …

The Fox News employee responsible for the controversial “Wannabe Dictator” chyron about President Joe Biden has parted ways with the network. On Tuesday, during a segment about Biden’s speech following Donald Trump’s latest arrest, Fox News briefly flashed a chyron that read, in all caps, “Wannabe Dictator Speaks at the …

Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst-turned-whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers and helped reveal the political deceptions underpinning the brutal expansion of the Vietnam War, died Friday in his California home. He was 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to a statement by Ellsberg’s family. In early March, Ellsberg …

That you should never meet your heroes, as they are bound to disappoint you, has become such conventional wisdom that it requires no author to affirm it. In a 2020 satirical New Yorker article, Alex Witt attributed the proverb to the faceless “they” (“They say, ‘Never meet your heroes,’ ” …

Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted a request Friday for a protective order “against the dissemination of discovery materials and the sensitive information that they contain,” in relation to the Justice Department’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump. The order would directly prevent Trump from disclosing evidence and materials shared …