In his latest news release, former President Donald Trump said he’d accepted an invitation from Texas’ governor to visit the southern border. The trip seems aimed at calling attention to Trump’s contention that he left the Biden administration a highly secure border, only to have policeis reversed and progress on controlling immigration there undone in […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland is scrambling to contain the fallout of a widening Justice Department scandal as Democratic allies and the press express outrage over revelations that his agency secretly obtained records of lawmakers, reporters and dozens of others as it carried out aggressive leak investigations during the Trump presidency. Just three months on the […]
President Joe Biden’s administration will return more than $2 billion in funds allotted under his predecessor Donald Trump to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to the military and devote other remaining money to construction site cleanup, the White House budget office said on Friday. The move will return funds to 66 military projects […]
Senate Republicans on Friday blocked legislation to form a commission to probe the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Senators voted 54-35 on the House-passed bill, falling short of the 10 GOP votes needed to get it over an initial hurdle and marking the first successful filibuster by Republicans in the 117th Congress. GOP Sens. […]
Of the more than 3 million ballots cast in the 2020 election in Wisconsin, only 27 are potentially fraudulent, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Sixteen of the ballots in question had a UPS store as the mailing address rather than a residence as is required, the AP reported. The clerk sent the […]
Former President Trump’s legal woes are mounting with the news that state and local prosecutors in New York are conducting a joint criminal investigation into his company. It’s unclear exactly what charges the New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney are exploring, but the announcement signals an escalation in the offices’ investigations that […]
Former President Trump and House Democrats say they are near a deal that will settle issues involving congressional subpoenas of his financial records from Deutsche Bank, according to a Monday court filing. The two parties, according to the court filing, are “continuing to engage in negotiations to narrow or resolve their disputes and believe they […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday that he accepts the results of the 2020 election, and urged Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, to focus on the upcoming midterm where the party wants to win back control of Congress. “I accept the results of the election. … 2020 is over to me, I’m ready […]
The Republican who leads the Maricopa County, Ariz., elections department slammed former President Trump on Saturday, calling his comments on its 2020 election audit “unhinged.” “Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As […]
President Biden’s White House on Friday released visitor logs cataloguing 400 visits from the first 12 days of the administration. The White House had pledged to release the logs for transparency purposes, a practice that was jettisoned under the former Trump administration. Friday’s release is the first batch of logs made public under Biden and […]
Former President Donald Trump on Friday tore into President Biden for what he described as a “spiraling tsunami” at the border, just as the administration faces a spike in migrant families and unaccompanied children. “Our border is now totally out of control thanks to the disastrous leadership of Joe Biden,” Trump said in a lengthy […]
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has obtained former President Trump’s tax returns. A spokesman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (D) said Thursday that the office obtained the records on Monday. The development comes after the Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed an effort from Trump’s lawyers to shield the documents. CNN, which first reported […]
