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Two top officials in President Donald Trump's administration are teasing "evidence" they have that will vindicate one of the biggest presidential scandals in history. Last month, President Donald Trump's officials promised that they had evidence of rampant fraud in the 2020 Georgia and Arizona elections. On Sunday, however, the same officials proclaimed that former President Richard Nixon was innocent and that the Watergate scandal was a "deep state hoax." According to pardon attorney Ed Martin , "We should mark the 54th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (a few days ago) by remembering this: it is the OG hoax with the pre-FISA CIA running wiretaps on domestic politicians. And then blaming the Nixon campaign. And Washington Post leading (not reporting)." Even the Encyclopedia Britannica makes it clear that there was no CIA involvement in the Watergate break-in. Rather, "Four of them formerly had been active in Central Intelligence Agency ...

In the past, U.S. President Donald Trump wasn't shy about voicing his total disdain for Camp David — making it clear that he found the presidential retreat in Frederick County, Maryland extremely boring. But Trump headed to Camp David over the weekend, and former GOP strategist Rick Wilson laid out some possible motivations in a "Fast Politics" video with liberal Molly Jong-Fast. Wilson told Jong-Fast, "Everyone is surprised that Donald Trump is at Camp David because the exact quote, before, was, 'I get f–– bored there in 30 minutes.' Trump does not like Camp David…. I think he's been there, in this administration, never. And I think he went once or twice in the previous (administration). So, this is either the second or third time that I can recall." The Never Trump conservative added, "What's curious about the whole thing, Molly…. There is a degree to which I am very curious." Wilson laid out some possible reasons why Trump ventured...

The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, passed in 2015, is a federal law that requires the President to submit any nuclear agreement with Iran to Congress, prevents the President from lifting statutory sanctions during a review period, and establishes ongoing congressional oversight. Several Republicans and Democrats have called on Trump to follow the law on the Iran MOU, but Trump plans to skip it after alienating voices he’d need to defend it. Trump’s personal thirst for revenge at home is hurting him on Iran. Congressmen he attacked in pursuit of personal retribution, and who lost their primaries as a result, have no Effs left to give and can now criticize him openly. Republican Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and John Cornyn of Texas represent precisely this threat, and they came out swinging at the MOU. Senator Cassidy called the deal "the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.” Cassidy noted that, “Iran's nuclear ambitions were...

Zeteo writers Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker say Trump is so desperate to finally be rid of the war he unilaterally began in February that he is wandering around the White House, bawling in panic that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is scheming to drag him back in. “He’s swearing a lot about it,” one close Trump adviser told Zeteo. Another Trump administration official said: “[R]ight now, he’s definitely madder at the Israelis than the Iranians.” The sources who’ve spoken to Trump over the past several days say Israel’s “continued attacks in Lebanon and Israeli leaders’ efforts to pressure the Americans into abandoning the memorandum of understanding with Iran have, in fact, further driven Trump in the opposite direction,” according to Zeteo, adding that “the president keeps venting to advisers how angry he is at Netanyahu and other political and media figures – in the U.S. and in Israel – for transparently trying to drag him back into war, or for suggesting that Trump is surre...

Excerpts from Regime Change , a book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, reveal President Donald Trump’s private residence is filled with damp carpets and junk food trash, reports Jezebel writer Wren Woodson. Donald and Melania Trump famously maintain separate bedrooms, but Trump’s quarters are exactly the mold-threatened mess-pile some critics might expect from a man who stays up all night snacking and posting demented rants on the social media. “As if the mold hazard weren’t enough, staffers also had to babysit the president’s late-night snacking habits,” wrote Woodson. Trump is a compulsive all-night social media crawler , as indicated by his outlandish, hours-long chain posts and his perpetual narcolepsy during meetings and press engagements — despite the fact that he himself often plans and sets the meetings before falling unconscious in them. The president’s late night binging is so regular that he even fell asleep after blocking traffic at the NB...

President Donald Trump was lauding his newly renovated but controversial luxury plane gifted him by the Qatari royal family on Friday. The president presented the plane as the new Air Force One, despite allegations of corruption surrounding the gift, and the fact that Trump treats the plane as a personal gift and has no plan to leave it in the possession of the president who replaces him. But he added that he intends to paint all of the planes in the fleet air force to look just like the new Qatari donation, making this just one more attempt by Trump to mark everything around him with his personal stamp or influence. However, John Heilemann, Chief Political Columnist for the media company Puck says there is a reason Trump is desperate to mark every taxpayer-funded thing around him as his personal [property. “He's obviously … into the notion of trying to build monuments to himself in various ways and to leave marks that he thinks will not be will not be able to go away, like to ki...

Bulwark writer Joe Perticone says President Donald Trump’s Senate supporters are regretting their off-kilter president and his drastic policy missteps, and they increasingly "want the clown show they’re performing in to end." “Just take a look at Trump’s disruptions of Senate business over the last few weeks,” wrote Perticone . “Trump supported reauthorization of FISA 702. He later demanded that FISA reauthorization be paired with the SAVE Act, an unrelated voter-suppression bill that has no chance of clearing the Senate. Trump tapped Bill Pulte to serve as interim Director of National Intelligence. Trump then nominated U.S. attorney Jay Clayton to be the permanent DNI in response to pushback he received on Pulte, including the prospect of FISA not being reauthorized.” Perticone added, “Trump directed Clayton not to testify before the Intelligence Committee and announced he was delaying his nomination to try to force the Senate to vote on the SAVE Act. Trump also signed the ...

MAGA news and propaganda sites have blossomed since President Donald Trump first descended his escalator and entered U.S. politics. But their success appears to still be inextricably connected to Trump — and they’re not doing well in Trump’s twilight months . The New York Sun reports news publications “built on harvesting clicks from MAGA supporters are fading as President Trump begins his final act in American politics,” and their web traffic “is falling across the board." “The trend is lending credence to the president’s prediction that the press will miss him when he’s gone, with those who advocate for his movement hardest hit,” reports the Sun, adding that an analysis by Similarweb found that a whopping 90 percent of the top right-wing sites saw drops in visits between May 2025 and May 2026. “Traffic to all of the top 20 sites monitored by TheRighting, which aggregates headlines from conservative outlets, saw double-digit declines,” said the Sun. “The Daily Wire, Blaze, an...

Federal workers for the U.S. Department of the Interior are being directed to wear pins promoting the president’s public-private partnership created to celebrate America’s 250th birthday — instead of the congressionally mandated group that was created to organize the events. According to Mother Jones , National Park Service employees have been ordered to wear the pins, under threat of “professional reprimands.” “When I asked if I would receive any disciplinary action if I chose not to wear the pin, I was told, ‘Yes,’” one person told Mother Jones. “I chose not to continue the conversation after that.” Mother Jones reports that the “establishment of Freedom 250 has allowed Trump to more easily plan events that double as campaign rallies, to privately raise funds from corporations seeking influence with the administration, and to avoid disclosing exactly how much all this is costing US taxpayers.” “Consequently,” says Mother Jones, “NPS employees say that wearing Freedom 250 pins a...

Law and Crime reports Pulitzer Prize board members are demanding a Florida judge either force President Donald Trump to respond to their discovery demands or to shut down his Russia probe lawsuit until after his second term ends. In 2022, the ever-litigious Trump sued 19 individual members of the Pulitzer Prize Board for defamation and conspiracy because the board refused to rescind the 2018 joint awards it gave to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 election. In 2024, Trump crowed premature victory when the judge overseeing the case denied the board’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit — but that dismissal was not a win. Pegg’s ruling did not even suggest the Pulitzer Board’s review of its award was flawed. Two years later, the president appears to have frozen up, having refused to produce “a single written response or document” related to discovery requested by the defendants. The Board argues that it’s gone out of its ...

After single-handedly launching a war against Iran and ballooning U.S. inflation a desperate President Donald Trump has flailed his way into a hasty Iran War agreement that is infuriating his once beholden team of right-wing allies and news media. MS NOW host Melissa Murray had more than enough video outrage to vent on Wednesday evening, pointing out that “top MAGA and Fox News figures are not being shy about weighing in.” “They're better off than they were before the hostilities began,” one former GOP lawmaker railed on Fox News. “I hate to say this in this deal. The biggest loser is the United States and India,” said “Bolling” host Eric Bolling. “I will say that the early returns do not look wildly promising at this point,” lamented MAGA influencer Ben Shapiro. “… Let's be very clear. This is the vice president's deal. It does not have support.” “America has given up all of its leverage in this situation,” wailed another Fox News panelist. “The regime has not changed,” ...

Zeteo reporters Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng say President Donald Trump is now having to admit humiliating defeat in the war he single-handedly launched against Iran, so now he is bitterly back to focusing on ramping up attacks on fellow Americans. "As [his] failed war in Iran allegedly nears its conclusion, as a humiliating and well-deserved defeat, our authoritarian president is pivoting back to his other unsuccessful war – his assault on Americans," writes Zeteo . “... Trump’s ICE operations are surging, and so are his garbage lawsuits against protesters … One Trump adviser even explicitly told us that it was ‘a good thing’ the president was seemingly trying to wind down his war in Iran, because ‘we need to focus on the terrorists here and the problems we have at home.’” This, they say, includes American citizens who dare to protest the administration’s policies, with the administration “getting back to bringing ridiculous criminal cases against anti-Trump protest...

President Donald Trump is hoping that his recent memorandum of understanding with Iran will end his voluntary war and allow prices to go down — but one political analyst says he should not get his hopes up. After noting that Trump's seeming end to the war in Iran could help gas prices gradually go down, “part of Trump’s problem is that in 2024 he promised not just relief from inflation but lower living costs in absolute terms,” wrote New York Magazine political columnist Ed Kilgore on Tuesday . “In a very real sense, his Make America Great Again brand had come to mean making the pre-pandemic economy, with which he was fortuitously associated, magically reappear. And that’s a very tall order, particularly in the limited time left before the midterms.” Kilgore added that voter perceptions of a negative economy seem to be baked in, and therefore he will need to prioritize addressing cost of living concerns if he is to have even a chance of improving his political fortunes. “Even if i...

President Donald Trump’s economic policies are not just as bad as the Gilded Age, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist . They surpass them. The Gilded Age was a period in American history from the late-19th century to the early-20th century marked by severe income inequality and political corruption. It also preceded one of the worst economic meltdowns in U.S. history. Yet this economist says the seeds of the Trump era are already worse. “Forbes did compile a list of the richest Americans,” economist Dr. Paul Krugman told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur on Tuesday. Going back to 1918, Krugman noted that “if you look at the five richest Americans then versus the 15 richest now, in both cases, that's about 1/100,000 of a percent of the population. You know, that's not the one percent. It's far, far beyond that. The top five now are substantially richer relative to the population at large, relative to the size of the economy than their counterparts were then.” For example, Spa...

While some of President Donald Trump’s supporters and critics are claiming he lost America’s war against Iran, one foreign policy expert says Trump is losing a different consequential geopolitical battle — namely, America’s rivalry with China. “An uneasy quiescence has come to define U.S.-Chinese relations during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term,” wrote Jonathan A. Czin of Foreign Affairs on Monday . “Although both governments are calling it ‘constructive strategic stability,’ U.S.-Chinese relations have been so tenuous and shallow, so lacking in ambition or any affirmative vision from either side, that it seems more apt to describe the current moment as a stalemate defined by ‘mutually assured disruption.’ Going forward, the crucial question for both sides will be who is making better use of this interregnum.” Czin went on to explain that the Chinese government sees the ongoing stalemate as a victory because China has positioned itself as America’s peer on the global stage....

Zeteo's political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng told Thor Benson that the president may not have the best track record using the "fake it until you make it" strategy. For the veteran journalist, Donald Trump's administration challenges are growing worse than his first term. Suebsaeng told Benson, "Things have changed since he was covering Trump's first term — and not for the better." "Not just illegality ... but the tolerance for scandal within the second Trump administration is somehow markedly greater than it was during the first four years," Suebsaeng continued. "And I am not someone who looks through rose-colored glasses [regarding] the first Trump presidency." While the first Trump White House was laughably corrupt and a political joke, there's a different situation evolving in which Democrats may not hold Republicans accountable if they can win the House and Senate. "It was one of the most bats—— eras of modern American p...

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Tonight, Trump is throwing an 80th birthday bash for himself (he says it’s in honor of the 250th birthday of the United States) with a “Freedom250” Ultimate Fighting Championship cage match on the South Lawn of the White House at 8 p.m. ET. It will be a bloody gladiator fight taking place inside a 600-ton, 154-feet-tall skeletal structure called “the Claw,” painted red, white and blue. Opponents will punch, kick, wrestle, choke, and use jiu-jitsu on each other until one of them is unconscious or verbally concedes, or a referee stops the fight because one is judged too damaged to absorb any more violence. This is a money-making operation for the UFC (which is offering special-access VIP packages for $1.5 million), for Trump buddy David Ellison’s Paramount (which will livestream it to you if you buy a subscription for $8.99 a month — see here ), for Crypto.com and Ram (which are sponsoring it), and for Trump (who’s deciding which of his billionaire friends and CEO buddies will be invit...

I just toured the opulent Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. I love beautiful homes as much as anyone, but this tour didn’t land as intended. To me, America’s largest private residence, one that took 1,000 laborers six years to build, is a testament to inherited wealth and inequality . The lavish indoor swimming pool was built at a time when most homes didn’t have plumbing. As I walked through the gardens and imported Italian tapestries, I couldn’t stop thinking about how the laborers who built the estates of Gilded Age scions lived in squalor themselves, and could barely afford to eat. The warning was also deafening: Trump and his corporate backers, pushing an economic regression most supporters can’t even recognize, are taking us back to that era. MAGA keeps buying the same robber-baron con job the working-class finally defeated over a century ago , even as they bear the brunt of it . Fast foward only a hundred years and we are watching the same well-planned, deliberate, and coor...