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Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about President Donald Trump, revealed in an interview on Thursday that the lawsuit he filed against the First Lady could blow up in Trump's face.

Wolff sued First Lady Melania Trump on Wednesday, accusing her of trying to prevent him from reporting on her ties with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Melania Trump previously threatened Wolff with a $1 billion lawsuit because of claims he made during an episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast."

President Donald Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, just committed her "biggest unforced error" yet, according to one Democratic analyst,.

Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen said on Thursday during a new episode of his eponymous podcast that Leavitt made the error during her daily press briefing. In response to a question about other planned renovations at the White House, Leavitt claimed that the "ballroom is really the president's main priority."

A New York Times investigative reporter flagged what he described as a "very unusual" arrangement in President Donald Trump's latest pardon during an interview on Thursday on CNN.

Eric Lipton joined CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC 360" on Thursday to discuss Trump's pardon of Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, who was convicted on money laundering charges. Binance paid a $4.3 billion settlement for financing terrorist activities for Hamas and Al-Qaeda. Zhao also pleaded guilty to the same charges as his company and paid a $50 million fine.

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon made a stunning prediction about President Donald Trump's chances of running again in 2028 during an interview with The Economist on Thursday.

Bannon, who hosts the MAGA podcast "The War Room," said during the interview that Trump is an "instrument of divine will" and that the country needs him to be president for "at least one more term." Trump has made passing remarks about running again in 2028, but some have speculated that he won't run because of his old age.

Two Democratic analysts were stunned on Thursday after President Donald Trump announced his latest pardon.

Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange who was convicted of failing to create adequate anti-money laundering protections on his exchange. Binance paid a $4.3 billion fine, and Zhao paid an additional $50 million settlement. He had served four months in jail before being pardoned, Reuters reported.

The cost of President Donald Trump's ballroom addition to the White House has gone up, from its original stated price of $200 million to nearly double that, the president admitted while speaking to reporters on Thursday.

"Have you raised the full $300 million needed to fund your ballroom, and how much specifically are you donating to this construction?" asked a reporter.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) angrily snapped at a MAGA reporter on Thursday after they asked him about Democratic "pet projects" that are allegedly included in the continuing resolution to reopen the government.

Lindell TV reporter Allison Steinberg asked Jeffries about certain foreign spending programs during a press conference on the government shutdown. Jeffries became visibly flustered as Steinberg asked about alleged programs like spending $13.4 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe and $3.9 million for LGBTQ democracy grants in the Balkans.

President Donald Trump is infuriating cattle ranchers across the United States after he complained that they should lower beef prices and that he might import foreign meat to bring prices down.

"The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don't understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil," Trump yelled at ranchers on Truth Social.

Former White House official Marc Short bashed President Donald Trump's ballroom project, which included the complete demolition of the East Wing, during an interview on CNN on Thursday.

Short, the chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, discussed the project on CNN's "The Arena with Kasie Hunt." Short argued that the White House likely prefers that the media continue to focus on the story because of all the other problems the administration is dealing with, such as the tenuous peace deal in the Middle East and Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Calling the North Carolina Republican Party’s new congressional district map “surgical racism with surgical precision,” Bishop William J. Barber II of Repairers of the Breach was in Raleigh Thursday, announcing a lawsuit challenging the redistricting effort—pledging that the state’s voters will “challenge gerrymandering in the courts, in the streets, and at the ballot box.”

“This is a direct attack on the state’s Black Belt district and marginalized communities,” said Barber at a news conference announcing the legal challenge, a day after the state House of Representatives approved the new map in a party-line vote.

President Donald Trump said he pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a billionaire who boosted a crypto company owned by the Trump family, because "a lot of people" said he was innocent.

During a Thursday Oval Office event, a reporter asked whether Zhao's pardon had anything to do with his family's World Liberty Financial crypto venture.