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Former Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera was overjoyed that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) dropped out of contention to serve as Donald Trump's next attorney general, he told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Friday.

"I first want to get your thoughts on Gaetz," said Keilar. "Are you surprised that Trump didn't end up going to the mat politically for him?"

President Elect-Donald Trump is reportedly expected to offer a businesswoman and former U.S. Senator from Georgia the job of Agriculture secretary, CNN reported Friday.

Trump was expected to meet with Kelly Loeffler at Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, according to the report.

Senate Democrats are under massive pressure to fight Donald Trump as he prepares for his second term — and they are coalescing around a strategy to do so, reported Carl Hulse for The New York Times.

Specifically, they have realized Trump is damaging the GOP with his most controversial Cabinet nominations, and they can simply sit back and let Republicans fight over what their incoming president is doing.

Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has been a Donald Trump ally for many years. And he supported him in the 2024 presidential race.

But according to The New Yorker and the Daily Beast, White has grown fed up with politics.

Interviews with Donald Trump's voters reveal a dark truth about the "mandate" his supporters say the president-elect has been granted, a new report reveals.

The truth, according to Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer, is that the mandate doesn't exist — but may be acted upon anyway.

Donald Trump hasn't been sworn into office yet, but his ally Elon Musk is already getting started working for a government agency that hasn't yet been created.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the "Department of Government Efficiency" co-director is tweeting out the names and personal details of federal employees, leading to some of his more than 205 million followers to "launch blistering critiques of ordinary" workers.

Donald Trump is heading into his second term with a substantially different attitude than he did with the first, journalists who have covered his presidency told Politico on Friday.

The general consensus of four reporters who have studied him, wrote Michael Kruse, is that "Trump is Trump, always has been, always will be — fractious, breakneck, unscripted — but after Jan. 6, two failed assassination attempts and an array of prosecutions (and convictions) didn’t stop him from getting reelected by a larger margin than the first time he won, he has, they say, a different sort of confidence and nerve."

In a Friday post on X, Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt angrily railed against the New York Times and Politico for reporting that the president-elect's margin of victory had decreased in the vote count since Election Day.

Leavitt tweeted, "New Fake News Narrative Alert!…. The fake news is trying to minimize President Trump's massive and historic victory to try to delegitimize his mandate before he even takes the Oath of Office again."

The decision to stay sentencing in president-elect Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial has spurred cries of justice denied on the left — and cheers of celebration on the MAGA right.

New York Justice Juan Merchan on Friday postponed indefinitely a sentencing hearing initially scheduled for Nov. 26 — and in doing so triggered an uproar over Trump's ability to circumvent the usual course of the law.

Just because Donald Trump won re-election doesn't mean his legal problems will go up in a puff of smoke with a big assist from the conservative Supreme Court.

The president-elect was granted a lifeline by the court on July 1st, when Chief Justice John Roberts penned a 6-3 opinion that granted the former president with blanket immunity if whatever he does is within his constitutional duty.

New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan has issued an indefinite delay in the sentencing of Donald Trump, who was found guilty in a criminal trial and convicted on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, in the so-called "hush money" case. In response, incoming Trump White House communications director Steven Cheung issued a statement whitewashing Trump's record.

Trump's attorneys have asked for the case to be dismissed, or for the judge to overturn the verdict, ABC News reports, adding: "If Judge Merchan tosses the conviction, he could order a new trial -- which would be delayed for at least four years until Trump leaves office -- or dismiss the indictment altogether."

Betting markets are less confident that Donald Trump will get all of his Cabinet nominees confirmed after Matt Gaetz dropped out of the running for attorney general.

The Florida Republican withdrew from consideration after Republican senators spoke out against his nomination over sex trafficking allegations, and CNN's Harry Enten said the betting markets have reduced the odds that Pete Hegseth and other Trump nominee's will make it through Senate confirmation.

Moments after New York State Judge Juan Merchan postponed President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing hearing on felony fraud convictions, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin argued it contained key information.

Sitting down with host Ana Cabrera on Friday, Rubin explained a deep read of the filing revealed some clues where the case might be going.

"What is your read on this new motion or filing from the judge? " the MSNBC host asked.