GOP’s James Comer unveils the latest in a series of anti-Biden duds
James Comer spent the last Congress trying and failing to uncover a Biden scandal. This year, the Republican Oversight Committee...
Steve Benen
Trump’s brazen efforts to politicize the U.S. military go from bad to worse
Speaking to U.S. troops in Japan, Donald Trump made fresh efforts to politicize the military and target a bedrock principle...
National polling shows Trump’s support among Hispanic voters collapsing
Donald Trump's favorability among Hispanic voters hasn’t been this low since 2019, and there’s no reason to assume levels have...
Trump acknowledges recent MRI but hedges on why doctors ordered it
After conceding that he recently had an MRI, Donald Trump failed to disclose why his doctors ordered one, despite his...
The problem(s) with Trump embracing funds from a donor to help pay military salaries
If the story about one of Donald Trump's pals paying for military salaries is true, it’s a problem in ways...
Trump adds Chris Wray and Merrick Garland to his growing list of prosecution targets
Donald Trump now wants to see the Justice Department prosecute Chris Wray, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, and Lisa Monaco.
Trump on the legality of his deadly boat strikes: ‘I think we’re just gonna kill people’
Donald Trump has embraced a model in which he can order deadly military strikes against civilians, at times and locations...
Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without
The more Donald Trump favors red states over blue states in disaster relief funding, the harder it is to defend...
As inflation lingers, Trump’s false claims about having ‘solved’ the problem look worse
Donald Trump keeps insisting that he’s successfully “defeated,” “cured” and “solved” inflation. CPI data, however, keeps getting in the way.
President Bystander stumped when asked about pardon he signed hours earlier
On Thursday morning, Donald Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date. In the afternoon, he couldn’t explain...
