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As President Donald Trump continues his various plans to meddle in the 2026 midterm elections, a new report reveals that his controversial midterms convention is taking place in spite of deep reservations from his own party — and pretty much entirely because of Trump's say-so. "'The president called me two nights before Thanksgiving last fall and he said, ‘Mike, we gotta do a midterm convention,’' Speaker Mike Johnson said,'" reported The New York Times' Annie Karni, Reid J. Epstein and Luke Broadwater on Sunday . “And I said, ‘That’s not a thing.’ And he said, ‘Make it a thing.’ OK. So we’re gonna do a midterm convention.” The journalists earlier wrote that, despite Trump having hundreds of millions in the coffers presumably to spend on local races, he has not used it so far. "And as they brace for the final costly weeks of their campaigns, he has yet to dole out hardly any of the nearly $1 billion he says his political action committee has raised,...

What must Tyrant Trump be thinking about his opponents’ feeble, weak, cowardly responses to his daily torrent of serious, impeachable offenses? Even his egomaniacal narcissism cannot fully explain his amazing good luck. Start with the House’s two impeachments of Donald Trump, while Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was Speaker, in 2019 and 2021. The first was over Trump’s trying to bribe or extort Ukraine into going after Hunter Biden—an investor and Board member of a Ukrainian business. Pelosi knew there was no chance of getting the required two-thirds vote required for Senate conviction, but went for the House vote anyway. At the same time, Pelosi declined to pursue numerous other “slam dunk” kitchen table impeachable offenses we and others presented to her. (See Congressional Record , December 18, 2019). In 2021, after the January 6 Trump-incited violent insurrection involving attack on the Capitol and Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, Pelosi did the same thing: impeached Trump i...

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are engaged in "political malpractice on an epic scale," according to one conservative commentator , who torched the president for saddling GOP candidates with his toxic baggage at the worst possible time. Charlie Sykes is a veteran conservative commentator and journalist, who has emerged in the last decade as a vocal opponent of Trump and his MAGA agenda. He appeared as a guest on the latest episode of the "Fast Politics" podcast with host Molly Jong-Fast, where, among other topics, they discussed Trump's unprecedented decision to force the GOP into holding a midterm convention, a practice traditionally reserved for presidential election years. As the event approaches, reports have emerged that GOP lawmakers and candidates have grown frustrated with the convention, criticizing it as a waste of valuable resources ahead of a crucial election and for making Trump the center of attention at a time when voters are growing inc...

Professor and former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich worked himself into a frenzy Friday evening , worrying that President Donald Trump is too mentally muddled to be making international economic decisions without meticulous guidance. Speaking with MS NOW anchor Jonathan Capehart, Reich fretted that Trump’s recent decisions in escalating a trade war with U.S. long-time economic ally Canada suggested something was clicking correctly in his head anymore. “He doesn't understand [trade] at all,” Reich raged, referencing the extreme backlash the U.S. is facing due to Trump’s tariff war. “I'm afraid he's an economic illiterate. Even somebody who has taken one week of economics, even somebody who has not taken economics, who has just simply observed the world, understands that trade is, generally speaking, a good thing. There's something called comparative advantage. We get the benefits of Canada’s forests, Canada's aluminum, Canada's this, Canada’s that...

It was quick, but here it is. The New York Times reports The Tetris Company, which owns the rights to the classic video game, denounced a Trump administration produced Tetris clone that has the player blocking people from crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. “Build the Wall, the White House version of Tetris, urges the player to ‘protect the border from the incoming horde,’ which is rhetoric that President Trump and members of his administration often use about immigrants,” according to the Times. “The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall,’” the company said in a statement, adding that “at Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community.” With a dark warning, the Tetris Company added: “P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously.” The White House rolled out the website Thursday featuring classic arcade-styl...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Ty Cobb was a member of President Donald Trump’s first administration legal team, so he feels he speaks with some familiarity when describing his old employer. This does not mean his familiarity is in any way flattering, however. While speaking with news journalist and podcaster Jim Acosta on Friday , Cobb actually had plenty to say about Trump’s character. He also had much to say about how badly that character is abusing a U.S. government system that was never designed to deal with an overtly corrupt cad. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts recently sided with progressives on the court in calling what Trump was trying to do with building a ballroom “probably illegal.” But even though Cobb mostly agreed that the National Trust for Historic Preservation did not have standing in trying to prevent Trump from building his controversial ballroom and charging taxpayers for the construction, he could see why Roberts probably wa...

President Donald Trump has retained an iron grip on the Republican Party despite the more than two dozen sexual misconduct accusations against him , as well as at least one report of sexual misconduct allegedly facilitated by the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein . He was even adjudicated to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. Now it appears that at least one other Republican politician is hoping that if Trump could politically get away with his proved and alleged sexual misconduct, he too can be forgiven. Yet a prominent local columnist does not want him to pull this off. "Maybe we all missed the fine print in State Rep. Fabián Basabe’s 2025 video promise to resign if sexual harassment allegations against him ever proved true. But almost two months after a civil jury in July appeared to do exactly that, Basabe is back to say (essentially): That didn’t count," wrote Miami New Times staffer B. Scott McLendon on Thursday . He added, "A former legislative aide an...