Trump is empowering Putin, abandoning Ukraine, and preparing to bargain with dictators over the future of the world. The Republicans who could stop him are doing nothing.
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.