2024 Elections

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (OK) argued that a House Ethics Committee report about alleged sexual misconduct on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) should absolutely be released before President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general is confirmed.

Mullin made the comment on Sunday's Meet the Press program after host Kristen Welker recalled that the senator had accused Gaetz of admitting to sexual misconduct and abusing drugs on the House floor.

CNN host Jake Tapper called out House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) Christian faith after the influential Republican lawmaker tried to scuttle a sexual misconduct investigation into attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz.

During a Sunday interview on CNN, Tapper noted that Gaetz had faced a House Ethics Committee investigation "over numerous allegations, including one that he had sex with a 17-year-old."

Donald Trump has made clear that for his second term in the White House, he plans to only appoint those who have proven their loyalty to him.

From choosing conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health & Human Services, to selecting Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary — according to Politico — many GOP lawmakers fully back the president-elect’s picks.

According to a former Donald Trump White House official, anyone believing the president-elect will allow GOP lawmakers to block any of his cabinet nominees will be sorely surprised.

In an analysis of how Trump is pressing forward with a slate of highly controversial cabinet nominees, the New York Times' Peter Baker wrote that political observers are stunned by his plan to follow through on his promise to "shatter the institutions of Washington as no incoming president has in his lifetime."

This week "Saturday Night Live" kicked off by taking shots at Donald Trump's wild menagerie of cabinet choices, bringing back longtime SNL guest and host Alec Baldwin as a gravelly-voiced RFK Jr.

The cold open started with Donald Trump, portrayed by cast member James Austin Johnson, sitting down with Dana Carvey's President Joe Biden as they exchanged pleasantries in the White House.

That, in turn, led Trump to boast, "I am very vastly picking the most epic cabinet of all time. They are some of the most dynamic, free-thinking, animal killing, sexually criminal, medically crazy people in the country.”

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He then added, "We’ve got Elon and Gaetz. That’s an alien vs. predator.”

A disturbing Rep. Matt Gaetz, played by Sarah Sherman, made an appearance, telling Trump and Biden, "I’m going to do a great job. If anyone tries to break the law, I’ll tell them what I told my eyebrows — freeze!" adding, "Of course I had to resign from Congress because the confirmation process comes at the busiest time of the year for me: girls volleyball season.”

Baldwin, who earlier this SNL season portrayed Brett Baier of Fox News , entered and announced, "Americans need to someone to teach them how to be healthy, someone like me: a 70-year-old man with movie star looks and a worm in his brain.”

Referencing reports that RFK Jr. left a dead bear cub carcass in Central Park and once took a chainsaw to a dead whale, Baldwin stated, "I just wish people would take my appointment more seriously. Alright, I gotta go. I got a dead dolphin in my car. I think I might saw it in half and dump it in Central Park.”

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Donald Trump is struggling with a "crucial" decision involving his transition, a Washington Post reporter said on Saturday.

Economics reporter Jeff Stein took to social media over the weekend to spill about the details of what he called a "protracted standoff" involving a potential Trump team nominee.

Political and legal experts spoke out Saturday after it was reported that Donald Trump's transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officials to see if they could be court-martialed.

NBC News dropped the exclusive report over the weekend, saying the Trump team is "considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan."

A lot of people have voiced concern about Donald Trump's decision to nominate to his new administration people who want to destroy the departments to which they would be assigned, but they are missing the point, a Republican strategist said on Saturday.

Speaking on MSNBC over the weekend, Republican strategist Susan del Percio, who has a history of working with Republican candidates and in Rudy Giuliani's administration, was asked about the former and incoming president's political appointments of Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, and others to his new administration.

Donald Trump's Florida golf resort has become a hot spot for those attempting to influence the next administration, and that includes Chinese spies, according to the State Attorney for Palm Beach County.

Local prosecutor Dave Aronberg appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss people trying to get close to the former and incoming president, including Sylvester Stallone.