Trump's biggest actual success was as an entertainer. Hegeseth is a TV news guy. Of course a public firing squad execution broadcast live sounds good to them.
For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country.
The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system.
Trump is facing pressure on multiple fronts to end his highly unpopular and illegal war of choice. The open question is how far he will go and how much danger he will inflict on the rest of the world.
People familiar with Hegseth’s thinking believe he is considering a run for president or some other office after his time in the Trump administration ends.
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests.
Trump boasts about billions from Venezuelan oil, but lawmakers are still fighting to learn where the money is, who controls it, and who’s getting paid.
“The Constitution is clear. Every person living in the United States, regardless of immigration status, must be counted in the Census,” New York Attorney General Letitia James.
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot.