SINCERETALK

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and foreign policy adviser, real estate developer Jared Kushner, has always aroused controversy, from making money during his government globetrekking and trying to build a controversial resort in Albania to initially failing to be approved for a national security clearance . Now it appears Kushner is trying to develop a large financial stake in the world’s most popular sporting league — and the president himself stands to benefit. “Thrive is looking to build a globally diversified investor base by relying on sovereign wealth funds, along with other blue-chip institutions from Europe, Asia and Latin America,” reported Politico’s Sophia Cai and Ben Johansen on Tuesday . “Already, Jared Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, has drawn congressional scrutiny for raising billions of dollars from foreign sovereign wealth funds, including those controlled by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The Kushner brothers operate separate b...

In President Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to rig the 2026 midterm elections , he has done everything from target Republicans who refuse to go along with him to delivering a controversial speech claiming to have proof of election fraud that was widely derided by both sides . Now a Georgia official who Trump targeted for political destruction has written an editorial for a prominent state publication denouncing the president’s claims — while carefully avoiding mentioning him directly. “In an era when confidence in elections is too often shaped by partisan rhetoric rather than proven results, Georgia has taken a different approach: Build the nation’s gold standard for election administration and prove its success at every election,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wrote for the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Tuesday. “The recently completed statewide primary and runoff are the latest examples. Millions of Georgians cast their ballots, votes were reported promptly, post...

Lawyers trying to mount a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk and America PAC, a super PAC he funded to support President Donald Trump and other conservatives, say the defendants aren’t cooperating in turning over key documents. “We’re getting the run-around,” said attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who is based in Massachusetts. “We’ve been delayed in getting discovery.” The cases against Musk and America PAC stem from a promise to pay $47 for every successful referral of a registered swing state voter to sign a petition in favor of “free speech and the right to bear arms.” The amount was later raised to $100 per signature. “Easy money,” Musk posted on the social media site X, which he owns, in October 2024. One proposed class action case was brought by an anonymous plaintiff who says, while working as an hourly canvasser for America PAC, he was encouraged to refer people to sign the petition for additional pay. The plaintiff, listed as John Doe, says he’s owed more than $20,000 and ...

“Two years ago our country was dead. Today we are the hottest country in the world. America is respected like it's never been respected before…. Our stock markets are at their highest point of all time..” The American public has gotten so used to Donald Trump’s bizarre hyperbolic rhetoric that we usually don’t pause to try to understand what it means. By bizarre I mean his apparently compulsive need to constantly speak in[ glittering generalities, meaningless hyperbole, and superlatives. It’s closer to what George Orwell called “Duckspeak” than normal speech [In 1984, Big Brother mandated a language that was English, but was also mindless, repetitive, with hardly any conscious thought]. And as Trump tells it, in such instances he is always the hero of the story. There is hardly a speech in which Trump does not use phrases like “the likes of which nobody’s ever seen before,” “Numbers we’ve never seen,” or “Like nobody ever thought possible.” One news agency reported that he had us...

We have been subject to the sociopath for a year and a half — 18 months of the most loathsome, least competent, and most corrupt person ever to be president of the United States. We’ve watched him take a meat-axe to every major institution of our democracy, draw the nation into a never-ending war, establish a murderous domestic police state, reject renewable energy in favor of the dirtiest possible fossil fuels, make billions off his presidency, and cause most Americans to become poorer and less economically secure. But here’s the good news. The sleeping giant of America is finally awakening. Trump’s poll numbers are plummeting. They’re now at record lows. Even many Republicans have had enough. Progressives are winning election after election around the country. The sleeping giant has always remained asleep until some venality becomes so noxious, some acts so disrespectful of the common good, some brutalities so noisy, that the giant has no choice but to awaken — blinking both eyes an...

President Donald Trump remains trapped in a stalemate over the war in Iran, and as one prominent conservative commentator noted recently, he has been left "genuinely shocked" in the face of an enemy he cannot simply pay off . Charlie Sykes is a notable anti-Trump conservative, best known for helping co-found The Bulwark, for which he also previously served as editor-at-large. In the latest edition of the "Fast Politics" podcast, Sykes spoke with host and fellow commentator Molly Jong-Fast about the deteriorating state of Trump's war , and why his fundamental flaws make him uniquely ill-suited to ending it peacefully. Iniitially, Sykes noted the absurdity of how often Trump and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have declared that the operation in Iran has been a sweeping success, with Iran left in shambles and the U.S. good to leave soon. Despite all of those claims, however, Trump still finds himself in a "widening, escalating war that he can't f...