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Trump-endorsed candidate's staffer hit with assault allegation by GOP lawmaker's team

Rep. Nancy Mace's campaign lodged an assault allegation against an ally of her Donald Trump-endorsed rival

The president endorsed South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in the state's gubernatorial race against Mace, whose "war room" X account shared a video clip claiming a member of the lieutenant governor's finance committee had violently attacked one of the congresswoman's supporters.

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Blanche hit with major Epstein accusation as he's accused of witness tampering

A Democratic lawmaker hurled a major allegation at Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday, one they said amounted to “witness tampering” in the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Blanche was nominated by President Donald Trump on Monday to serve as permanent attorney general, and during an appearance on CNN, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) was asked whether Blanche’s handling of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) release of Epstein-related files would help or hurt his chances at being confirmed by the Senate.

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Jim Jordan tells Fox News Trump just threw GOP victory in doubt: 'It's a standoff'

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan went on Fox News to warn that a key national security law is heading toward expiration Friday — and acknowledged that his own side may not be able to stop it.

FISA Section 702, which Jordan described as responsible for more than 50 percent of the nation's most sensitive intelligence, is set to expire this week. Democrats are blocking reauthorization unless President Trump removes Bill Pulte from his role as Acting Director of National Intelligence. Jordan admitted to host Maria Bartiromo the two sides are at an impasse.

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Rape-accused Barron Trump pal gushes about Russia's 'masculine men' on Kremlin TV

Andrew Tate is facing rape charges in two countries, free to travel only because the White House intervened on his behalf — and this week he used that freedom to lavish praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin's Russia before a Kremlin-backed audience.

"If you have patriotic masculine men, you're gonna protect Russia," Andrew Tate told RT's Sanchez Effect in an interview that aired Monday. Russia, he continued, "is a very patriotic nation, and they don't fear having a masculine population…"

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Morning Joe panelists aghast at Trump's 'worrisome' new lies: 'Really sucks for democracy'

Panelists on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump's latest election fraud lies.

The president had proclaimed that GOP candidates in the Los Angeles mayoral race, including former reality TV star Spencer Pratt, have been "cheated" after losing last week's primary election, and "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski was aghast that House Speaker Mike Johnson and other high-ranking Republicans are going along with his claims.

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CNN flags uncanny resemblance as Trump loses to Biden on issue he relentlessly attacked

President Donald Trump relentlessly attacked former President Joe Biden for having “virtually drained” the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) ahead of the 2022 midterms, but on Tuesday, CNN’s Matt Egan noted that “this week,” the SPR is poised to reach its lowest levels in well over four decades.

“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve down by another eight million barrels last week, total of 66 million barrels have been released from the SPR since the [Iran] war started, and you might recall that four years ago, then-candidate Trump, he really blasted President Biden for aggressively draining the SPR ahead of those midterm elections in 2022,” said CNN’s Matt Egan.

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'Oh my god!' CNN panel detonates as Trump-loving Republican called 'liar' to his face

A Trump megadonor got demolished on live television Monday night after demanding the country trust his voter fraud claims — then refusing to cite a single source to back them up.

Hal Lambert, a Republican megadonor and regular on CNN's "NewsNight," clashed with CNN commentator Charles Blow and anchor Abby Phillip over President Donald Trump's long-debunked claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

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Remarkable omission discovered in Trump shooter's forensic report: investigative reporter

The toxicology report performed on Thomas Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania ahead of the 2024 election, includes three glaring omissions, investigative journalist Ken Silva revealed on Monday, omissions that may hold answers to lingering questions, he said.

“The biggest question I have is about this toxicology report which I obtained,” Silva said in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that aired Monday.

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'Did he fall asleep?' Morning Joe host calls out Trump for napping at NBA game

President Donald Trump was spotted dozing during Monday night's NBA Finals game after disrupting the arrival of thousands of fans and even commuters outside the event.

The 79-year-old president's attendance necessitated enhanced security throughout New York City, and ticket holders waited in line for hours to get inside Madison Square Garden and watch parties were canceled outside the arena, but Trump was spotted nodding off as the New York Knicks saw their 13-game postseason win streak snapped by the San Antonio Spurs.

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Trump ridiculed for insisting he wasn't booed by NBA Finals crowd: 'Sure Donald'

President Donald Trump faced another round of jeers after insisting that he was not booed during a performance of the National Anthem at Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

The 79-year-old became the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game Monday night at the Madison Square Garden, where his hometown crowd booed him lustily before the New York Knicks lost their first game in the postseason, but Trump afterward insisted he heard only cheers when his face was shown on the screen inside the arena.

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JD Vance throws own White House under the bus with shocking admission

The White House vehemently denied a report last Friday about a heightened counterintelligence threat, but on Monday night, Vice President JD Vance appeared to undercut that denial with a blatant but indirect admission.

On Friday, NBC News reported that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat level on Israel to “critical” – its “highest level” – amid concerns that the Middle East nation was “ramping up its spying on the U.S.” The White House dismissed the report as entirely “false,” and claimed the source of the information – two U.S. officials and one former official – did not “have any knowledge of what’s going on.”

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Rubio notified as 'Sleepy Don' Trump mocked for appearing to sleep at NBA Finals

President Donald Trump made a high-profile appearance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on Monday — and video quickly spread appearing to show him nodding off courtside, prompting a California congressman to loop in the Secretary of State.

Rep. Ted Lieu tagged Marco Rubio directly, writing simply: "cc: @SecRubio" — and attaching the viral clip. That's because, at a recent grilling before lawmakers, Rubio denied ever seeing the president sleeping in public.

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Insiders outraged after Trump makes his 'worst appointment' ever: expert

National security professionals inside the Trump administration are outraged after President Donald Trump made one of the worst appointments in his political tenure, according to one expert.

David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, said on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Monday that insiders he's spoken with were shocked when Trump appointed Bill Pulte, the administration's former mortgage chief, as the next Director of National Intelligence. Rothkopf said his sources were outraged by Pulte's willingness to do what Trump tells him and his lack of experience in the role, which is defined by federal law.

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