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President Donald Trump has been gearing up to interfere in the 2026 midterm elections — but he could hit a brick wall, Jim Saksa wrote for the liberal voting rights news outlet Democracy Docket, because of the ineptitude of his own legal team.

"With Trump’s poll numbers at record lows, democracy advocates and Democrats are preparing for the White House to use a range of tactics to prevent a fair election — from sending federal law enforcement to the polls to seize mail ballots, to declaring a state of emergency to allow for a full takeover of the voting process," said the report. "These nightmare scenarios can’t be ruled out and pose a clear threat to U.S. democracy. But experts say it’s more likely — all but certain, in fact — that Trump will use the DOJ to try to rehash the same kind of legal challenges he made in 2020, which led to more than 60 courtroom losses."

A MAGA Republican in Colorado received a brutal fact-check on Wednesday over a claim he made about human trafficking in the state.

Scott Bottoms, a Republican candidate for Colorado Governor, said during an interview on a local conservative radio show called "The Jeff and Bill Show" that he has called about 20 nonprofits in the state to get help investigating an alleged human trafficking ring being run out of the state capitol. Bottoms also claimed that the organizations refused to help him, even though he had "pretty good evidence," and said that some of them had tried to shake him down for a six-figure payment before they investigated.

Olympic hockey gold medalist Jeremy Swayman said he regretted laughing after President Donald Trump joked about possibly not inviting the women's hockey champions to the White House.

Following their gold-medal victory over Canada this week, Trump spoke by phone with the men's team.

President Donald Trump spent part of Wednesday posting endorsements on Truth Social, focusing on primary challengers to Indiana state legislators who defied his command to redistrict the state last year — but he didn't seem to realize one of the challengers he endorsed isn't running anymore.

"Bluffton City Councilman Blake Fiechter, a True America First Patriot, is running against 'RINO' State Senator Travis Holdman, in Indiana’s 19th Senate District who, for whatever reason, voted against Redistricting in Indiana, in a District that I won by 39 points, which puts the United States Congress in jeopardy," wrote Trump. "Holdman and his RINO friends made Indiana, a State I love and have been very good to, the only State in the Country that essentially said they don’t care about what happens in the United States Congress."

Someone inside President Donald Trump's team pulled off a slick bait-and-switch at Tuesday's State of the Union, according to Amanda Marcotte's latest analysis in Slate.

Marcotte wrote on Wednesday that the president's staff apparently came to the realization of the consequences of giving Americans a peek into an unfettered Trump.

Despite being disbarred, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has offered to represent members of the NYPD who were on the receiving end of a snowball fight started by residents.

During an interview on Wednesday, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson alleged to Giuliani that the people throwing snowballs at the officers after a recent storm were guilty of "attempted murder."

A high-profile MAGA influencer on X with hundreds of thousands of followers has been exposed as being secretly run by a White House staffer.

According to Wired, "To its audience, Johnny MAGA looked like an independent voice, another outraged supporter in the MAGA media ecosystem. The account regularly boosts Trump’s Truth Social posts and goes to bat for the administration, attacking Democrats like California governor Gavin Newsom."

The Federal Reserve board has quietly appointed a prominent Wall Street lawyer and lobbyist as the central bank’s director of supervision and regulation, a move that one critic said was worse than “putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.”

“This is like appointing a lifelong arsonist as a fire chief,” Dennis Kelleher, president and CEO of Better Markets, said in response to the Fed’s decision to put Randall Guynn in a position to regulate the industry he has long represented.