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CNN reports President Donald Trump’s own servicemembers appear to be hedging their bets against the United States in Trump’s war on Iran. Marshall Cohen, CNN senior reporter, spoke with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on Friday to discuss the revelation that roughly 150 Polymarket accounts appear to be U.S. military insiders, some with clear access to sensitive military information. The prediction site Polymarket outed dozens of accounts that showed signs of potential military insider trading to the Justice Department for investigation, a senior company official told CNN. The referrals pertained to accounts flagged by a watchdog group in a Thursday report . “That nonpartisan organization, the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, said it analyzed a massive trove of publicly available Polymarket data and found 152 accounts that profited about $8 million on war markets – including about the Iran war – and contained several hallmarks of insider activity,” reports CNN. Many of the accounts showed sig...

President Donald Trump has a history of being a very “unreliable partner,” says economist Justin Wolfers , so why would any other nation trust a nation under his control. “Suppose I told you I’d been married seven times, and that I’d cheated on all seven wives. And then I asked you to marry me anyway,” said Wolfers. “If I had breached that agreement with seven past spouses, I reckon you wouldn’t trust me to live up to it the eighth time. And so even as we might say the words ‘in sickness and in health’ at some flashy ceremony, I’m not sure it buys us anything.” That’s where we are with Canada, said Wolfers and Trump’s claims of being a better man and partner with our closest economic partner. Trump is currently threatening Canada with yet another 50 percent tariffs on a wide range of items, said Wolfers. “[This includes] — and this is the important — stuff that he had already agreed not to tariff as part of the USMCA, the free trade agreement that he negotiated with Canada,” Wolfers...

President Donald Trump told his former fixer and personal attorney, Michael Cohen , that he believes he would win in a record landslide if he ran for reelection, despite his low approval ratings. Washington observers find the claim to be risible. "If I were running today, I think I'd win by 25 points," Trump told Michael Cohen on the latter's radio show on Thursday . "I think we'd win by a lot. The economy has never been stronger." In response, former Republican attorney and ex-husband to Trump's first term counsel Kellyanne Conway, George Conway, posted on X , "Lmaoooooo." Similarly former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) , who used to support Trump, posted "Pathetic. Both of these guys." Meanwhile journalist Ben Jacobs wrote "No one is better at incisive interviews than @speechboy71." Since presidential popular votes were tabulated in 1824, only three presidents have won an election by a margin of roughly 25 points: Warren Hard...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper cut through packaged talking points spouted by U.S. Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) in a brutal Thursday interview . Tapper began the discussion with a request for Flood’s reaction to President Donald Trump’s dismal poll numbers and the apparent affect his unpopularity was having on individual GOP races up and down the ballot. To this, Flood launched into the passage of the Housing Affordability law, which he claimed increased building and construction hiring in his state. Flood was slipping into claims that his Nebraskan steel mill “couldn't be busier” when Tapper cut him off with a fact check. “Well, I mean, polls indicate that … voters overwhelmingly do not agree with your assessment of the economy. And I will note that that Housing Bill that you helped write to help people afford homes, President Trump didn't sign it. It became law without his signature ,” Tapper said, momentarily throwing the lawmaker. Trump had instead taken the bill hostage in an effort ...

President Donald Trump’s former attorney refused to repeat earlier testimony he made when called to task about Trump’s criminality. Cohen was the star witness in New York prosecutors’ 2024 hush money case against Trump involving illegal use of money to buy a sex worker’s silence. This made Trump the first ever former president to become a convicted felon when he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to keep word of his affair with Stormy Daniels from public view. Cohen later turned on his former boss, testifying that he lied and bullied for Trump during his years working for the Trump Organization. He even told reporters, among other things, that “there will never be another election again in America” if Trump is reelected. Now, after years of lobbing additional criticism at his former employer, Cohen is set to become a radio interviewer with a Trump interview packed up and ready to play. But Cohen ducked and ran for cover when CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked C...

British journalist and CNN business reporter Richard Quest minced no words while discussing the nation’s ballooning debt under President Donald Trump and Republicans. CNN anchor Jake Tapper reported on Wednesday that the U.S. national debt had crossed the $40 trillion mark. “That's a big deal, especially for you kids watching out there, because you're going to have to pay it off. It's a milestone that will currently impact every american, every business. And of course, the federal government,” said Tapper, ushering Quest to speak. “It’s very simple,” said Quest. “It costs more money for everybody to borrow. Why? Because the federal government borrowing money at these sort of rates. By the way, it's the highest rates for long for 30-year bonds since 2007. And what that means is everything else that's related to it, for example, mortgages are also costing more money. Give you an example. A year ago, a 30 year mortgage was 6.5. today it is 6.6. doesn't sound much...