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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) has already aroused controversy for his closeness to President Donald Trump and allegedly harassing poor patients when he was a doctor. Now a conservative newspaper is adding a new controversy to his list — supporting a supposedly "left-wing, tax-and-spend" policy. "No politician wants to campaign on promises of difficult Social Security reforms," The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote on Thursday . "Even so, the Republican surrender on the old-age entitlement that’s gathering steam is something else. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas is the latest to call for a giant tax increase even without any policy reform." The Journal added, "Mr. Marshall, the Republican incumbent, is in a tight Senate race with a centrist-presenting Democratic challenger, and Social Security inevitably came up in debate this week. Senators elected this year will be in office when the old-age program’s trust fund runs out in 2032, which will trig...

Economic journalist and author Hamish McRae reports that Wall Street is not so secretly praying for President Donald Trump to get toppled. “Big money here in America will welcome it if Donald Trump is roughed up by voters in the US midterm elections, now less than two weeks away,” said McRae, who pointed out that news is focused on the size of Trump and Republicans’ drubbing and not its economic benefit to financial markets. “The prospects here are almost certainly good – good for the U.S. of course, but on balance good for the rest of us too,” said McRae, citing two reasons. Financial markets, he pointed out, almost always do well after the midterms. Sounds nuts, but share prices “almost always rise in the year that follows.” “The basic answer seems to be that historically the party in control of the White House loses seats in Congress, and that curbs the power of the president. The result is dubbed gridlock – a time when it’s impossible to pass substantial legislation – but busines...

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper managed to maintain his composure Wednesday night as newsroom editors served up an excruciating supercut of President Donald Trump professing his fawning love of the male physique. “Erstwhile Manhattanite and derriere aficionado, President Donald J. Trump, whose approval rating, according to a new CNN poll, is currently at a bouncy 32 percent, thanks to all his political junk in the trunk, is once again making sure voters know that, as far as he's concerned, Ohio junior senator Jon Husted is an unmitigated smoke show,” said Cooper, who then set unloaded his first clip. “I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. Nothing. I always preceded by saying ‘nothing wrong.’ But it's never been my thing, to be honest with you. But I looked at his --- and then I looked at his legs, and I said, his --- is like. It's like a pile of muscle.” “Just to be clear, that was l...

President Donald Trump has added $2 trillion to America's budget deficit in 2026 , swelling the ballooning debt to $40 trillion. Even as economists continue to express alarm about the daunting math , a top economist argued on Wednesday that the deeper issue is in fact Trump himself. People do not trust him because of things like him running up the deficit, and that impacts the economy. "How they evaluate the job the government is doing on economic policy," Dr. Justin Wolfers , a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings and the Peterson Institute and a University of Michigan professor of economics and public policy, wrote on Wednesday regarding American voters. "You can see why this might matter: If policy is good, you might be optimistic about your economic future. If it’s bad, you’re likely more pessimistic." Wolfers described a phenomenon which he dubbed "America’s confidence in our economic managers. To turn it into a single number, take the share of peo...

An appointee of President Donald Trump — who once recused himself from overseeing Trump’s controversial slush fund because he’d planned to tap it for himself — is headed out, sources tell Bloomberg Law . “The Justice Department’s top Capitol Hill liaison, Patrick Davis, is stepping down ahead of an anticipated rush of congressional oversight if Democrats win control of at least one chamber,” reports Bloomberg Law. “Davis, a seasoned Republican investigator in both the Senate and House, will resign at the end of October — one year after he was sworn in to lead DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs, said three people familiar with the matter. Davis initially served as acting chief of the office starting on the first day of Trump’s second term, but he later became a top Justice Department official who made news after plotting to make bank on Trump’s controversial "anti-weaponization" fund. His plan raised alarms at the agency, as he was set to be involved in the communication s...

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board panned President Donald Trump’s emerging alliances with hostile nations China and Russia against U.S. allies. “It’s hard to know what President Trump is up to at any one moment because he operates so much on tactical impulse. But he has long coveted grand bargains with Russia and China, and that may be his motivation now as he hardens his hostility to Ukraine and Europe and courts a Yalta 2 summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping,” the board opined. The WSJ was quick to point out that the Yalta analogy doesn’t even apply because the original team of the first Yalta summit, Stalin and Churchill were U.S. allies in 1945. But the trio do resemble Trump’s plan in the way they seek to “ carve up the globe ,” according to the WSJ, and that is “the danger with what Mr. Trump says he’s open to now.” “As we wrote before the 2024 election, this was one of our main fears for his second term,” said the board, pointing out that Putin has floated a meetin...

The president is demented . It's why he lashed out at a reporter today in the Oval Office. Donald Trump said: "Quiet. Quiet ! What's wrong with you? Are you a sick person?" It's also why he acts like there is no future. With the prospect looming over him of a US Congress controlled by the Democrats, Donald Trump is behaving like time is running out. In the last week, he has lifted sanctions on Russian oil, sabotaged Ukraine, and "waived" news laws designed to punish Vladimir Putin. The devil gets his due. And the due date has come.That might sound like a good thing, but a demented, futureless president is dangerous. Consider that right now, before the midterms, Trump has the incentive to end the war against Iran. Prices are extortionate. The solution is restoring the flow of oil. But there may be no such incentive after November. As Cole Bucy and Nate Swanson wrote in Foreign Policy last month, Trump "may no longer feel burdened to pretend to be ...

President Donald Trump is getting away with flirty comments that would have tanked a Democratic leader like President Barack Obama, according to a prominent lawyer and critic of the president. After reviewing in detail his appreciation of the male physiques of Republicans like Ohio Sen. Jon Husted, Georgia Rep. Mike Collins and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson, George Conway pointed out the president is avoiding questions about his sexual orientation because of a partisan double standard. "Let’s stop for a second," Conway told Republican consultant Rick Wilson . "Let’s just stop in here for a second. This is the... He did this twice this week, where he’s talking about... He’s in Ohio... And he’s talking about Senator Husted’s a - -. And, you know, he’s on top of all the like, oh, good looking guy. You know, he talked about Arnold Palmer’s wanger in the 24th. Talk to me. Talk to me." Wilson responded, "I think one thing you’re seeing here, Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump has attempted to unilaterally rename Lake Ontario into "Lake America" and the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." He lacks the legal authority to do either of these things, just as he cannot rename a state on a whim — although he is now attempting to do just that. And even many of his own supporters are turning on him over it. "New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Monday. "We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America! The name would add great value and prestige to the State! Home Values and Incomes would rise, and you would be even prouder while saluting our beautiful American Flag! Maybe even the Crooked Elections, that New Mexico is known for, would become honest again!" The right-wing website The Daily Caller used Trump's statement to point out the soaring costs of the war in Iran. "BTW, the national average price of diesel hi...

Trump officials are scrambling for lawyers as they prepare for an ‘avalanche’ of congressional investigations if the Democrats take control of each chamber in November, according to The Wall Street Journal . According to the report, cabinet secretaries and mid-level staffers are contacting law firms in fear of Democrats looking into pay-to-play pardons for the Kennedy Center renovations and the secret and suspicious financing behind Donald Trump Jr’s wedding. “The calls started sporadically in June and have picked up in frequency since then,” Judd Stone, co-founder of the Texas-based law firm Stone Hilton, told the Journal . With conflict-of-interest rules, the same firm won’t be able to represent multiple officials, which has led to senior administration figures scrambling to quickly secure the top attorneys before their colleagues do, per the lawyer. Although the DOJ can defend the administration figures, some of them feel more comfortable with lawyers who are obligated to protect...

Overnight, Judge Ana Reyes denied President Donald Trump's motion to remove her from overseeing the East Potomac golf course case. On Sunday, after Trump posted a Truth Social comment about the work he intends to do after removing all the historic cherry blossom trees, an emergency conversation took place. That sparked an immediate The government argued that Judge Reyes showed bias against Trump and was overly emotional after she shredded the administration for defying her court orders. Reyes had said that she trusted the government to do the right thing and follow her ruling over the golf course as the case worked its way through the system. That only lasted a few months before it was discovered that the Department of the Interior tore down over 500 trees on the small island in the middle of the Potomac River. Trump falsely claimed the trees were "diseased." Reyes' filing was brutal, taking on each accusation by the Trump administration one by one. "For mont...

The true nature of President Donald Trump's unusually close relationship with his young personal aide, Natalie Harp, has been the subject of much rampant speculation, and now, a doctor has shared a new theory about her role in Trump's life, related to his declining health . Adam James is a licensed physical therapist with years of experience working in the home healthcare sector, giving him extensive up-close knowledge of patients dealing with physical and cognitive decline. He is also a prolific online content creator, better known by the handle "Epistemic Crisis," who has used his professional insights to try to explain the issues that Trump is dealing with and suggest where his condition might be heading next. On Sunday, he was interviewed in a new video from former Democratic strategist turned progressive political commentator, Keith Edwards. He argued that Harp's role in Trump's inner circle, despite the media frenzy , remains underreported, and pressed...

Over the next three weeks, Colorado voters will get to vote on an amendment to their constitution giving one single industry the ability to largely prevent any regulation of itself or its pollution. Amendment 82 says that the state would establish a “right” for the natural gas industry to sell its products. It’ll be the only industry in any state to have a state constitutional right assigned to it. Things like pollution controls to protect air and water that might reduce consumption would violate that right. So would local communities trying to limit or ban gas wells or pipelines. Even during a dry fire time, an effort to ban gas-fueled camp stoves and outdoor grills or lights would be a violation. The amendment is being pushed by a dark money group called Advance Colorado; the original donors behind it are hidden, but it’s not hard to guess. And if it passes in Colorado, expect similar amendments and laws to pop up in every state in the union. This is, frankly, nuts. Instead of incr...

Trump’s Epstein Ballroom is increasingly looking like another giant bribe quid pro quo machine. The Washington Post got their hands on a secret internal spreadsheet Trump and his people were using to track “donors” and it’s a doozie. Even JP Morgan’s JP Dimon wouldn’t go near it because of the “risk,” but plenty of others did. FCC Chair Brendan Carr had opened an investigation into EchoStar until it’s Charles Ergan kicked in $25 million; the entire thing was dropped once the checks cleared. A Rocket subsidiary coughed up a $10 million check just three weeks after federal regulators allowed its acquisition of Mr. Cooper. Around the time Salesforce kicked in big-time, the Pentagon handed them a $5.6 billion contract. Isabela Herrera’s banker father was indicted on bribery charges that got knocked down to a misdemeanor shortly before her $2.5 million donation. (Remember, six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled that if bribes are paid after a favor or contract is done, it...

President Donald Trump's White House is once again embroiled in chaos after the abrupt departure of his new press secretary , and now, his one-time biographer has predicted the "inevitable" next firing from the administration. Within the span of a work week, right-wing commentator Katie Zacharia made her debut as White House press secretary in a disastrously bad briefing , was caught out for false claims about being a lawyer and was pushed out of the office after just five days. The whole affair exposed a new storm of chaos underway within the White House, with subsequent reports suggesting that Trump hired Zacharia without input from Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and might now be looking to replace Wiles herself . Michael Wolff is a longtime author and reporter, best known for his extensive coverage of Trump's political career, including a handful of books about his hectic first term. In the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, he and co-host Joanna Coles discu...

An attorney from President Donald Trump’s first presidential administration shared his remarkably dim view of the current crew, particularly in the five-day dismissal of Trump’s latest press secretary. Former Trump attorney Ty Cobb laid low the current administration and its inept crew on CNN’s “ out Front with Erin Burnett ,” while lamenting that it appeared only the women in the Trump administration suffered for their mistakes. “[Katie Zacharia] met the she met the key qualification, of course, having filled her [video] pieces on TV with adulation and praise for the president,” said Cobb. “She met the obsessively loyal idolater standard, which is the essential standard for Trump hires. And of course, she's blond, sort of, like creepy Karoline [Leavitt] and Natalie Harp. But Trump also thought she was a lawyer and he was a little surprised when she wasn’t.” He corrected Trump’s claim that Zacharia was “treated unfairly” by the media. “She hasn't been treated unfairly by the b...

Politico reports a federal appeals court panel sounded “deeply skeptical” Friday about President Donald Trump’s bid to invalidate a Watergate-era law that governs presidential records — one that formed the base of the criminal charges he faced for stealing classified documents . “Two judges on the D.C. Circuit panel sharply questioned Justice Department attorney John Bailey about the administration’s assertion that the Presidential Records Act, a federal law intended to ensure that presidential papers are retained by the government, is unconstitutional. That position, legal experts warn, gives Trump leeway to destroy or refuse to turn over White House records from his current term. On Friday, judges Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard said the administration’s far-reaching argument that presidents own taxpayer-funded official papers could “lead to absurd and even dangerous results.” “Can the president then offer on eBay to sell them, all of our national security secrets to the high...

MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace reached her limit after hearing the slew of manosphere , high-testosterone nonsense now peppering the administration of President Donald Trump and his helpers. Pentagon Reporter Priya Sridhar and other reporters had spent a good 10 minutes pounding Wallace’s ear Friday night with MAGA-podcaster-grade “medical announcements” pressed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other members of the Trump administration within the last two years. This includes a n ew high testosterone or “high T” policy, the removal of vaccine requirements, including those for diseases known to strike U.S. soldiers on patrol in other nations. But among the policies proponents of the administration are considering for the military are unnecessary nicotine infusions as a way to boost testosterone and mental clarity — another theory praised by the MAGA online community against doctors’ advice. “They're going to start handing out cigs? I want some of those. I'm going to ne...