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Mediaite reports Fox News liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov got a good dig in on MAGA enthusiasts who twice drooled over the photo of left-wing streamer Hasan Piker at the Republican midterm convention. Piker in his underclothes appeared not once but twice on the convention jumbotron, which pressed Tarlov to quip that the gathering amounted to “a bunch of betas standing around looking at a half-naked socialist.” The photo of the extremely underdressed Piker, pulled from the streamer’s Instagram, hit the arena’s massive jumbotron as part of a video montage targeting the political left on Wednesday, where it preceded Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. It was then shown again during the convention’s second night on Thursday, preceding speakers like Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Donald Trump Jr. Piker’s photo showed him posing for a mi...
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Trump dials up the panic as judge closes in on his Jan. 6 records

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New transcriptions from President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against BBC reveal how dangerously close the president is to having potentially hurtful information about his January 6 antics made public. The BBC has already admitted the piece incorrectly claimed Trump “made a direct call for violent action” during the January 6 riots. But the tax-funded company, which must be a good steward of British funding, is contesting the $10 billion that Trump is demanding. Additionally, new transcripts received by Law & Crime reports the judge over the case appears to be completely prepared to make Trump hand it over some potentially damning information. “The transcript of the proceedings revealed that [Chief U.S. District Judge James] Boasberg thought the BBC ‘made convincing arguments’ and has a ‘decent chance’ of getting what it seeks if those documents turn out to be ‘necessary,’” Law and Crime reports. To buttress its defense , BBC lawyer Maxwell Mishkin is leaning on the hard...
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Trump biographer says sun-downing Trump is really hating his 'long goodbye'

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A journalist and author with multiple inside sources into President Donald Trump's White House says Trump is unquestioningly fading into the background — and he must be furious. “It’s all about attention because A: he can’t resist the idea of it, and B: because the idea of someone else getting the attention is anathema to him,” said Trump biographer Michael Wolff , speaking to co-host Joanna Coles about Trump’s desperate bid to launch a “Trump-a-Palooza” in Dallas, as Wolff described it. “But I think there’s a longer-term strategy [behind the festival],” Wolff added. “Trump does not want the Republican Party to ever imagine life without him.” “Remember we are going into this other phase,” Wolff explained. “In a president’s second term, after the midterms, the president begins the ‘long goodbye.’ His possible successors come to the forefront. Okay, that’s not going to happen here, and you can see this convention’s announcement of that. ‘I am not going away. I am going to play this ...
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Floor collapses beneath Trump as MAGA implodes

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The MAGA base that helped build Republican power in the U.S. for the past decade appears to be showing signs of rupture, according to new surveys from UMassAmherst . The survey, conducted Aug. 21-26, has found a 9-percentage point drop among Republicans who identify with the MAGA movement since the last survey was conducted in March, reported the university, representing an extreme drop for such a short window of time. The most significant drop — 6 percentage points — was among those who reported only to be ‘somewhat’ identified as MAGA, but even those who ‘very much’ identified as MAGA fell 3 percentage points, according to surveys. "We find a decline in the number of Republicans identifying as MAGA, suggesting cracks in the movement’s foundation," said Tatishe Nteta, director of UMass Poll. MAGA is the name for President Donald Trump’s most loyal adherents who form the floor of approval keeping the president’s approval in the mid-thirties in national polls. So the polling...
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Trump denounced as he drags the GOP to a new low

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Conservative columnist Nick Catoggio makes no bones about what President Donald Trump is doing to the once proud and policy-driven Republican Party — only now he says there doesn’t appear to be an end to the depth Trump has dragged it. “Americans have stopped taking the president seriously about pretty much everything,” Catoggio told the Dispatch , referring to a poll published Thursday revealing that “trust in information from the federal government has declined since 2024, across issues ranging from the economy and health care to elections and politics.” “Already dismally small when Trump returned to office last year, the share of people who say they have ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a bit’ of confidence in what the feds tell them has since collapsed,” Catoggio said. In fact just 18 percent of respondents now say they have significant faith in what the government is telling them about inflation and the cost of living. And that, warned Catoggio, is the “ largest share that expressed su...
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'Impossible': Ex-GOP gov tears Trump apart for 'classic bait and switch'

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President Donald Trump has lost the support of a former Montana governor who is not only a Republican, but used to chair the Republican National Committee. "It's a classic bait and switch from Donald Trump," former Gov. Marc Racicot told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday. He was referring to Trump's promise to give $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress in November. "Typical — full of holes, and frankly, impossible to accomplish without congressional approval. You're talking about $1.4 trillion being added to the deficit. Of course Congress is going to be involved, especially when you have a request from the administration for $1.4 trillion of additional defense spending." He added, "They paid $1.4 trillion this year on the national debt. There's another trillion dollars of spending over appropriation levels. So they're spending money — he's spending money like a drunken sailor. And the f...
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Backfire: Trump’s buyback scheme flops as bond market panics

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After a week of trying to soften his own debt problems, President Donald Trump’s ploy to reduce inflation's impact has only intensified a selloff that pushed borrowing costs to multiyear highs, reports Bloomberg . Trying to staunch the nation’s ballooning long-term borrowing costs, Trump’s Treasury Department on Thursday purchased $5.19 billion of debt maturing in 10 to 20 years. But market investors scrutinized the purchases, reports Bloomberg. “That news took investors by surprise and temporarily helped long bonds rally, though they’ve since reversed those gains,” Bloomberg reported. Investors and analysts saw the move as “a reflection of the Trump administration’s unease over the rise in long-term borrowing costs with weeks to go before the November congressional election,” said Bloomberg, and the rise in Treasury yields has “sent U.S. mortgage rates climbing to the highest level in more than a year.” Worse, Thursday’s buyback resulted in disappointment among market participan...
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