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Former Republican and MAGA trooper Joe Walsh says President Donald Trump is very much a buffoon — but now he’s a dangerous buffoon. “Trump's an idiot. He's a very stupid person, and we're used to it. We're used to him giving a speech. We're used to him at his rallies where damn near nothing he says makes any kind of sense, because he is an idiot. But he's the President of the United States,” said Walsh on his Tuesday podcast . “It's a little bit high,” said Trump speaking at a Nebraska rally about rising gas prices and inflation. “It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles . Let them take out San Diego . This is a very small price to pay. And it's going to be over very soon.” Trump’s statement has sparked outrage for that quote, but the former Chicago congressman said did more than misspeak. “The point he was trying to make was ‘we can't let them take ou...

A major investigation published by The New York Times reveals deep structural disruptions within the U.S. Justice Department. Sweeping changes and career-staff departures have left the agency short-handed , prompting administrators to fill critical legal roles with far-right activists, online conspiracy theorists, and candidates carrying histories that traditionally would have barred them from federal positions. “A former prosecutor forced off a high-profile murder case for peeking at the defense team’s strategy documents. A onetime gambling executive who promoted conspiracy theories about the Las Vegas massacre in 2017. A Florida activist who once served 20 days in jail for hacking a local elections system,” reports the Times. “They are among the 130 lawyers who have recently joined the Justice Department’s short-staffed civil rights division as the Trump administration has struggled to fill the depleted ranks of a unit that was once a magnet for legal talent.” According to the Time...

If you claim to love or otherwise care about the health and future of the United States, you have a civic and moral obligation to read President Trump’s full 75-minute, 11,000-word interview with Time magazine journalists Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs, published last Thursday. Do not rely on a summary, something paraphrased or translated by the media — or even the account of a trusted journalist or other public voice. Do not assume that you have heard this all before. “What is new about this? I know exactly what Trump is going to say because I have been hearing it for years….” is neither adequate nor reasonable. And please do not surrender to the excuse: “I am burned out, exhausted, and just want the midterms to get here so that Trump will be a lame duck in a few weeks.” To do any of this is to abdicate your responsibilities. Read Trump’s interview in its entirety . Sit with it. Process it. Then consider what you are really seeing and what it all means . Here is a window into the ...

Voters from many different walks of life took a chance on President Donald Trump in 2024, and according to a new piece from MS NOW , his second presidency has badly failed one key group that put "the greatest hope" for their future in him. Writing for the network on Monday morning, author and reporter Paul Waldman exposed "the unmanly truth" about the Trump administration, citing the most recent federal jobs report as proof that "Americans continue to fall behind on affording the necessities of life." He further suggested that the almost apocalyptically bad poll numbers for Trump and the GOP might be explained by the acute disappointment of one particular group that broke for him in a big way in 2024. "To look at President Donald Trump’s poll ratings, one would think we’re in the middle of an outright depression, not just a mediocre economy that isn’t providing the kind of security and opportunity people want," Waldman wrote. "That may be...

President Donald Trump's immigration policies have often found themselves in the crosshairs of America's legal system . Now a judge appointed by Trump himself has blasted federal agents for arresting people even when they are not undocumented immigrants and then claiming to have misidentified them. "Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming 'mistaken identity,'" reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Monday on X . He quoted Brown as saying, "ICE agents falsified official records." In his decision, Brown condemned ICE's overall approach to enforcing the law. "In countless ICE habeas petitions involving individuals detained for civil — not criminal — proceedings, respondents advised judges of this court that various petitioners had been jailed due to misidentification: officers erroneously identified the petitioner as a 'target' of...

President Donald Trump, 80. had another late-night accident after referring to Brazil as India. According to Trump, he believes that American elections are fraudulent because Brazil can get results faster than the U.S. First, Trump flubbed his own data point, claiming that India had an election with 125 million people. It has since been deleted after Indian news sites caught the flub, the Daily Beast observed . India is a country of nearly 1.5 billion people. If only 125 million people voted in India, that would be a shockingly low number as they typically have about 900 million to 1 billion voters cast a ballot, France 24 reported after their previous election . "Trump's reference appeared to be to Brazil, which held the first round of its presidential election on Sunday. Brazil recorded more than 125 million valid votes, according to the country's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), and the results were released progressively after voting ended at 5 pm," wrote The New...