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US Attorney for Washington Jeanine Pirro is desperately positioning herself as a contender for Attorney General, but her track record of prosecutorial failures is a serious liability — and Trump has noticed.

Pirro remains a "dark-horse candidate in MAGA circles to succeed Pam Bondi as the next attorney general," but her prospects are severely hampered by a pattern of high-profile legal defeats, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

A massive MAGA backlash slammed President Donald Trump Monday after he posted an image depicting himself as a Jesus Christ-like figure on social media, sparking outrage from his own supporters and demands the "blasphemous" image be immediately erased.

“It’s more than blasphemy. It’s an Antichrist spirit,” wrote former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a social media post on X to her more than 1.7 million followers.

Pope Leo XIV brushed off personal attacks by President Donald Trump over his pointed criticism of the war in Iran.

The 79-year-old president responded to the 70-year-old pontiff's calls for peace by taking credit for his rise to the papacy and lambasting Leo as “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy" Sunday night.

California Republicans refused to endorse President Donald Trump's pick for governor Sunday in a "stark rebuke" from the party's rank-and-file in the nation's most populous state, Politico reported.

The activists' departure from Trump — choosing not to endorse despite the president's backing of former Fox News host Steve Hilton — reflected escalating GOP concerns about midterm prospects, particularly in critical California House battlegrounds.

Political analysts and observers mocked President Donald Trump on Sunday night after he issued a lengthy diatribe against Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo has sharply criticized the Trump administration's immigration policies and its war with Iran. Those criticisms seem to have gotten under Trump's skin, as he raged at the "weak" Pope for his handling of "crime" and "foreign policy" in a new post on Truth Social.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) suspended his campaign for California Governor on Sunday as he battles allegations of sexual assault and rape.

"I am suspending my campaign for Governor," Swalwell wrote in a statement on X. "To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s."

President Donald Trump raged at Pope Leo XIV in a Truth Social post on Sunday night after the Pope criticized the president.

Pope Leo has been an outspoken critic of Trump's war with Iran, and called the president's threat to destroy the Iranian civilization "truly unacceptable." The Pope has also rebuked the president's immigration policies.

An election lawyer shared a stark warning about President Donald Trump's Department of Justice as the department's losses in court continue to pile up.

Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney and founder of Democracy Docket, said during a new episode of the "Democracy Watch" podcast with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen that the Trump DOJ is becoming "desperate" as efforts to sway the 2026 midterms come up short in court after court. Elias said his firm has defeated the Trump administration in four of the 30 cases the DOJ is currently defending.

A political expert floated a new theory about what could have prompted first lady Melania Trump to deliver her "really bizarre" statement about disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein last week.

Allison Gill, owner of MSW Media and host of "The Daily Beans" podcast, said during a new episode on Sunday that Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, may have played a role in forcing Trump to make her statement. Gill argued that Maxwell has sought to maintain leverage over the Trump administration as she pursues a pardon, and may have used some of the tricks up her sleeve to "blackmail" Melania Trump.

President Donald Trump just revealed "what keeps him up at night" after dangling pardons for all of his administration officials, according to one expert.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump has promised to sign mass pardons for administration officials before leaving office. Michael Popok, a lawyer and host of the "Legal AF" podcast, said in a new episode on Sunday that the report shows Trump is clearly aware that he is running a "criminal enterprise" out of the White House and that he fears being prosecuted by a future Democratic Department of Justice more than anything else at this point in his second administration.

President Donald Trump's latest effort to settle the war with Iran proves that he is "the most powerful idiot in the history of the world," according to one columnist.

David Rothkopf, a columnist at The Daily Beast, argued in a new column on Sunday that Trump's decision to impose a retaliatory blockade on the Strait of Hormuz showed the president is operating with the "strategic acumen of a four-year-old in a fight on a pre-school playground."

First lady Melania Trump's niece-in-law, Mary Trump, bashed her aunt's "cruel" comments about her relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein during a new podcast interview on Sunday.

Last Thursday, Melania Trump held a seemingly impromptu press conference at the White House, where she denied ever having a relationship with Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. Her comments came at a suspicious time for her husband's administration, which is trying to navigate an unseemly war with Iran and avoid discussing its poor handling of the release of the Epstein files.

Fans of President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement were dismayed on Sunday after one of their European allies suffered a stinging election defeat.

Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán conceded defeat to the opposition leader Péter Magyar on Sunday, ending his 16 years in power as Hungary's Prime Minister. Magyar's Tisza party is expected to take a supermajority in the country's legislature, and his victory was hailed as a relief to many across the U.S. and Europe.