2024 Elections

Before she even held his first official White House press conference, Donald Trump's latest press secretary is facing questions after a last-minute FEC filing on Thursday reportedly showed she had been hiding debt related to her failed run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022.

According to a report from Claire Heddles from NOTUS, 27-year-old Karoline Leavitt submitted revised campaign disclosure paperwork that shows she owes more than $300k that must be paid back due to campaign finance violations.

The report states that approximately $200,000 must be repaid to contributors who appear to have made donations far beyond legal limits, adding, "Those excessive contributions went unreported for years."

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According to the report, those 2022 illegal donations, by law, should have been returned within 60 days.

"Her congressional campaign committee amended 17 campaign finance reports on Thursday, noting that, over the course of three years, Leavitt took in a number of excessive contributions that she failed to report and has failed to pay back, essentially stiffing her donors," NOTUS is reporting, "The newly disclosed excessive donations essentially triples Leavitt’s campaign debt, bringing the total to $326,370 owed to vendors and contributors. (Leavitt had previously reported $105,605 in debt in a filing at the end of September 2024.)"

Using just two examples from Donald Trump's tsunami of executive orders since assuming office this week, a law professor suggested that both are flagrant violations of federal law and that tremendous damage will be done before the courts can unwind them.

In a column for the Bulwark, University of Baltimore Law School Professor Kim Wehle wrote that a complicit Supreme Court and an equally complicit GOP-controlled Congress have handed the newly-elected president the ability to do as he pleases with no restraints placed upon him.

Donald Trump's decision to issue a blanket pardon to all of the Jan. 6 rioters is not sitting well with some voters who handed him the keys to the Oval Office for a second time.

Following his swearing in, Axios is reporting that the president told his aides, "F--- it, release 'em all," thereby freeing everyone including what the conservative Wall Street Journal has labeled "cop beaters."

According to one columnist, Democrats have nothing to fear in the future with Donald Trump unable to run again in 2028 and, therefore, they should bedevil him at every turn and make the next four years unbearable for him.

In a column with the none-too-subtle headline of "Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat," Jason Linkins of The New Republic suggests heaping problems on the president-elect to the point where they "Wake him up early and keep him up late."

A decision by Donald Trump and his team to move his inaugural festivities indoors due to expected cold weather on Monday both infuriated and disappointed some of his visiting MAGA fans who voiced their complaints on MSNBC.

With the official proceedings being moved to the Capitol with its limited seating, four of the president's supporters got the bad news on the street with one man bluntly complaining, "I don't like it."

According to MSNBC's Chris Jansing, the expected weather on Monday will actually be warmer than MAGA fans have experienced at some of his rallies.

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Four men who are already in town to watch Trump's swearing in made their feelings about the change known on national TV.

'Well, I don't like it," stated one man wearing a black MAGA hat. "I mean, we came all the way to Washington from Oklahoma and, you know, now we're not going to get to see it?"

Speaking for himself and his friend wearing a knit Trump beanie he added, "We're like, we might as well have stayed at home and watched it on TV."

Another man complained, "It's actually something that we've been looking forward to for historical purposes and being a part of it that's once in a lifetime" as his companion agreed and added, "Absolutely."

"We made all the plans, all the arrangements to come up and be a part of this event and all of a sudden to hear that it's being moved indoors," he added as his friend chimed in with, "We're prepared for the weather –– it's not a problem."

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Educators and families in areas where Donald Trump's "America First" seemed to resonate the most could be hit with "catastrophic" cuts.

Tom Gambrel, the superintendent of Bell County, Kentucky, schools, joined most of his neighbors and cast his vote for Trump with his students in mind, but he told CNN that he hopes the president-elect doesn't carry through with his plan to cut federal education funding.

With a reported $250 million expected to flow into Donald Trump's inauguration coffers, with tech billionaires and business execs providing a substantial amount of the cash, Politico is reporting that much of it will end up being excess that the president-elect can do with as he pleases.

As Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein, Caitlin Oprysko and Irie Sentner are reporting, the U.S. government already funds much of the inaugural activities so, with a record haul, Trump may find himself with millions he can divert elsewhere and that has raised questions.

President-elect is reportedly urging Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to vie for the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.

The Washington Post first reported that Trump wanted Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) to appoint Ramaswamy to complete Vance's term in the Senate.

Gov. Jim Pillen (R-NE) ordered flags at the Nebraska Capitol to be flown at full staff on Inauguration Day even though they were supposed to be at half staff until the end of January due to the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

Pillen issued the order after a complaint from President-elect Donald Trump.

Business leaders are knuckling under Donald Trump's demands for cash, and the president-elect's team expects him to build up a $500 million war chest to exert his dominance over the Republican Party.

The former and impending president doesn't want to be seen as a lame duck after returning for a non-consecutive second term, even though he's constitutionally prohibited from running again, so he's stockpiling cash to help his GOP allies and punish anyone who steps out of line, reported Axios.