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MAGA influencer's viral Somali fraud claims shot down by CBS News fact check

Despite a right-leaning change in management at CBS News, the network disputed claims made by MAGA influencer Nick Shirley about alleged fraud at Somali daycare facilities in Minnesota.

Shirley's video investigation, which was viewed tens of millions of times on YouTube and X, suggested that the facilities were taking funds from the government without caring for children.

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'Bondi's all panicking': Alex Jones threatens to surround White House with 5,000 people

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones threatened to surround the White House with 5,000 people to convince President Donald Trump to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel and replace them with people who will indict members of the so-called deep state.

During his Tuesday broadcast, Jones claimed sources had told him that Bondi feared being fired by the president.

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Trump insiders 'registered their displeasure' over bribery probe into Trump's border czar

Expanding on her bombshell report that Donald Trump’s foot-dragging on administration appointments led to Tom Homan being elevated to border czar despite being caught up in a bribery investigation, MS NOW’s Carol Leonnig reported on-air that FBI Director Kash Patel and now-federal Judge Emil Bove were not happy about the situation.

Leonnig reported Tuesday that Homan was caught dead to rights in an FBI bribery sting accepting $50,000 after a former associate told undercover agents the former Border Patrol official was open to payoffs.

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Trump insider rages at 'degenerate bigot' Megyn Kelly: 'The queen of the modern Klan'

Conservative host Mark Levin, an occasional adviser to President Donald Trump, lashed out at Megyn Kelly as "the queen of the modern Klan."

After Kelly entertained conspiracy theories that Jews could have played a role in Charlie Kirk's assassination, Levin blasted the former Fox News host on Tuesday.

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'Bad Bunny has higher approval': MAGA influencers fret over Trump's polls

Pro-MAGA hosts Gina Loudon, Emily Finn, and Brian Glenn pointed out that President Donald Trump has a lower approval rating than that of the musical artist Bad Bunny.

During a Tuesday segment on Real America's Voice, the hosts noted that Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and most members of Congress had low approval ratings.

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Lara Trump on Venezuelan land strikes: 'This is what the American people voted for'

Fox News host Lara Trump defended his father-in-law's latest decision to blow up Venezuelan boat loading facilities by insisting strikes on foreign territory were "what the American people voted for."

After President Donald Trump confirmed the strike on a Venezuelan port, Lara Trump spoke Tuesday with "Fox & Friends" co-host Lawrence Jones about the attack.

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‘I like this idea!’ Lara Trump endorses call for mandatory military service

Lara Trump got fully behind the idea of imposing at least one year of mandatory military service for every American during an appearance Tuesday on Fox News, comparing it favorably to Israel’s own conscription policy.

“You look at Israel, every Israeli citizen has to dedicate themselves to serving their country,” said the president's daughter in law, who was co-hosting “Fox & Friends.”

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Trump's border czar skipped background check – so bribery probe went unnoticed

The Department of Justice tried to warn Donald Trump's transition team in the days before his inauguration that one of the president-elect's allies was not suitable for a senior government position, but those detailed and specific concerns were apparently ignored.

A small group of career DOJ lawyers felt an urgency to notify the transition team that Tom Homan, who often campaigned with Trump and publicly boasted that he would lead his mass deportation campaign, was the subject of an ongoing bribery investigation, and MS NOW reported that a top official received that warning.

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GOP lawmakers panicked they 'can't count' on 'out-of-touch' Trump: report

Donald Trump’s obsession with all things Donald Trump has Republican Party lawmakers realizing that they can expect little to no help from the White House with the midterm election looming and GOP fortunes collapsing along with the president’s polling numbers.

Using a column from former White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove penned for the Wall Street Journal as a leaping-off point, MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire claimed he is hearing from GOP lawmakers that they feel that their fears are being ignored.

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'Big issue': Analysts reveal Trump's true intentions behind focus on Minnesota fraud

President Donald Trump is not being honest about his intentions for focusing his attention on social services fraud committed in Minnesota.

The fraud cases gained renewed attention over the weekend after a right-wing influencer named Nick Shirley posted a video on X that claimed to find $110 million in child care fraud committed by Somalians in Minnesota. Trump and several MAGA voices have focused intently on the cases, using them to attack Trump's political foes like Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat.

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'He's the living worst': Stephen Miller hit with blistering takedown from GOP strategist

Republican strategist Sarah Longwell laid into President Donald Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller in a podcast episode with The Bulwark's Tim Miller published on Monday, following his bizarre anti-immigrant rant on Boxing Day, in which he proclaimed on X, "Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world."

This was a profoundly ludicrous remark, the two commentators agreed, because Sinatra and Martin both came from Italian immigrant families — but it also demonstrates how hyper-fixated Trump's top adviser is on his racist obsession.

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'Big problem': Strategist warns Trump's 'Marie Antoinette' style could backfire on GOP

Anyone casually familiar with President Donald Trump knows that he has a particular affinity for the finer things in life, from gold ornamentation to luxury properties. But those gaudy style choices could come back to haunt the GOP during next year's midterms, according to one analyst.

During the 2024 campaign, Trump promised voters that he would fix the economic issues that his predecessor allegedly caused. However, the economy has added few jobs during his first term in office, and inflation remains sticky partly because of the president's tariff regime.

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'Gravely concerned': Top lawmaker sounds off on Trump's major foreign policy claim

A top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee sounded off during an interview on CNN over President Donald Trump's latest comments about the war between Israel and Hamas.

Trump held a press conference on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Trump's Florida abode, Mar-a-Lago, where Trump expressed optimism about moving on to the second phase of the alleged peace deal between the two forces.

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