2024 Elections

Donald Trump sought to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for remaking government during his re-election campaign, but he has already named at least four individuals associated with the plan to serve in his administration.

The president-elect has tapped Tom Homan as "border czar," John Ratliffe as CIA director, Brendan Carr as head of the Federal Communications Commission and Pete Hoekstra as ambassador to Canada, and all four are credited by name in the 920-page manifesto, and so is Russ Vought, whom he's likely to appoint to lead the White House budget office, reported the Washington Post.

Call it the Catch-2025.

President-elect Donald Trump's Republican loyalists were called out Wednesday by a frustrated Democrat over a paradox concealed within their promised purge of federal government professionals.

Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), chair of the House Ethics Committee, said there was no agreement on releasing a report about sexual misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general.

After a two-hour Ethics Committee meeting on Wednesday, Guest told reporters there "was not an agreement to release the report." The Republican chair would not say if the committee voted on the matter.

Republican lawmakers are laughing at President-elect Donald Trump and the "clown" he wants to see appointed the nation's top law enforcement officer, according to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

Swalwell on Wednesday scoffed at Trump's chosen attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and his attempts to bury a potentially damning Ethics committee report on accusations he had sex with a minor.

North Carolina Republican lawmakers have just a few weeks before a Democrat takes over the governor's mansion and the GOP loses its supermajority in the legislature — and they're being accused of trying to push through some last-minute changes that would weaken the incoming administration.

Taking to X on Wednesday, election law expert David Becker, who is the executive director of The Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the Republicans are "dropping some major structural and procedural changes to North Carolina elections in a 'hurricane relief' bill during the lame-duck session."

President-elect Donald Trump has a pressing problem that voters expect him to fix and his solutions will only exacerbate, a new political analysis contends.

Trump's popularity faces imminent peril in the form of a mounting housing crisis that his promised mass deportations, tax cuts and tariff demands will only worsen, Washington Post economics columnist Heather Long argued Wednesday.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) revealed this week that Republican senators had developed a plan to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's nominations, including former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as attorney general, before the new president is sworn in.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, Tuberville vowed to overcome the objections of Democrats despite sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

Two of Donald Trump's personal lawyers who were rewarded with plum appointments in the Department of Justice may be sidelined from dealing with the ongoing hush money trial overseen by Judge Juan Merchan.

Speaking with host Ana Cabrera, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained the ethical bind attorneys Todd Blanche, nominated to be Deputy Attorney General and Emil Bove, slated for Principal Associate Deputy AG, will find themselves in as they are poised to assume their new roles.

"Let's not forget Trump has tapped two of his defense attorneys in the hush money case, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, for senior roles in the Justice Department in his incoming administration. If this case does drag out, what impact could that have?" the MSNBC host asked.

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"I think it causes a conflict of interest for Todd Blanche and Emil Bove because, if for example Ana, they can continue to brief the issue about whether this case should exist into a future Trump presidency, if Todd Blanche and Emil Bove are then in the Department of Justice, the department itself will have an interest in getting involved in the case on behalf of the executive office of the president."

"There are interests for the office of the president that are different than the interests that Trump as an individual has," she added. "And Emil Bove and Todd Blanche having represented the president in his personal capacity will have that conflict and may have to even recuse themselves from the department's involvement in this case in the future."

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President-elect Donald Trump's decision to select a former Rose Bowl tight end embroiled in a masculine toilet scandal to represent the nation abroad was received with the all the decorum such an announcement could expect.

"UPDATE: Trump picks Matthew Whitaker for NATO ambassador," the news outlet Tennessee Holler told readers Wednesday. "You may remember him as the acting attorney general who was on the board of a company that boasted toilets for 'well-endowed men.'"

Andrew Cherkasky, an anti-woke former federal prosecutor, defended former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Defense secretary, by insisting that all department officials who support women in combat roles have to be fired.

During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, War Room host Steve Bannon asked Cherkasky what he would advise Hegseth to do on day one of his tenure.

Pro-MAGA TV host David Brody confronted Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) about providing "full transparency" after he claimed that releasing an ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the nominee for attorney general, would be "unethical."

During a Wednesday interview with Clyde, Brody noted that President-elect Donald Trump's nominations were "turning into The Apprentice."