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Just days before he will be sworn into office, President-elect Donald Trump is alleging the FBI has been engaging in "corruption," after learning the Bureau has shut down its "DEI Office," officially the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The FBI has a lengthy, ongoing investigation into the January 6, 2021 insurrection and attack on the U.S. Capitol. It also conducted an intensive investigation into Trump's removal and refusal to return classified documents, including top secret national security materials, and executed a lawful search warrant on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and residence to retrieve some of those documents.

"We demand that the FBI preserve and retain all records, documents, and information on the now closing DEI Office—Never should have been opened and, if it was, should have closed long ago. Why is it that they’re closing one day before the Inauguration of a new Administration? The reason is, CORRUPTION!" Trump alleged, offering no proof or evidence, in a social media post Thursday evening.

Former Vice President Mike Pence may no longer be President-elect Donald Trump's right-hand man, but he's not quite done with politics yet.

That's according to a Wednesday article in Politico, which reported that Pence's organization, Advancing American Freedom (AAF), is waging a campaign aimed at Republican senators urging them to reject one of Trump's high-profile Cabinet picks.

On the campaign trail last year, candidate Donald Trump, time after time, not only suggested he could swiftly bring an end to Russia's unlawful war against Ukraine, but at times even insisted he could—and would—do it before being sworn into office. But with Inauguration Day fast approaching, President-elect Donald Trump has washed his hands of a peace settlement, instead declaring that any resolution is now entirely in the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I would fix that within 24 hours, and if I win, before I get into the office, I will have that war settled. 100% sure," Trump said on Fox News in March 2024, HuffPost reported.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's vetting of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's highly controversial nominee to head the U.S. Department of Defense, an $842 billion entity that employs more than 2.8 million people, was "insufficient," Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee warned at the start of his confirmation hearing Tuesday.

The FBI's report on Hegseth was made available only to the Chairman and the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, not the rank-and-file Senators on the Committee. Ranking Member Reed asked that the report be made available to the entire committee, but the Republican Chairman, Roger Wicker, refused.

"Hillbilly Elegy" author JD Vance was once a scathing critic of Donald Trump, but by time he ran for the U.S. Senate via Ohio in 2022, he had given himself an ultra-MAGA makeover and become a forceful Trump defender. That defense played a role in Trump's decision to make Vance his running mate in 2024.

But now, the vice-president-elect is drawing angry criticism from some MAGA Republicans for saying he favors pardons for some but not all of the January 6, 2021 rioters.

House Republicans, especially the California delegation, are facing sharp criticism after spending portions of the weekend with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence. They reportedly discussed ways to take the unprecedented approach of tying passage of relief funds—for the Golden State's historic wildfire disaster—to raising the debt ceiling, as the fires continue to burn and the death toll rises to 24 people.

"Of the nearly two dozen House Republicans who attended the Sunday dinner at Mar-a-Lago, where this option was discussed, several are caucus leaders and appropriators with major influence in upcoming budget reconciliation and government funding negotiations," Politico reports. "Trump also discussed the wildfires Saturday night with a group of House Republicans from California, New York and New Jersey."

During Donald Trump's first term as president, Paul Manafort was among the many Trump allies who faced criminal charges. The veteran GOP operative was sentenced to 47 months in prison in 2019 after being found guilty on multiple charges of tax fraud and bank fraud, but in 2020, Trump granted him a presidential pardon.

Manafort has a long history of lobbying for extreme far-right figures in Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world. And in 2025, according to the Daily Beast's Sean Craig, Manafort and "his team" have been offering their "services" to the far right in Ukraine and France (including a "billionaire backer of" National Front leader Marine Le Pen).

Throughout Donald Trump's campaign for reelection, he made his plan to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.

Three sources familiar with the president-elect's plans recently spoke with Rolling Stone senior political reporter Aswan Suesaeng about the MAGA administration's strategy to implement the operation.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office in just over a week, many Americans are attempting to minimize their own financial burden by purchasing foreign-made goods before his proposed tariffs go into effect.

The Guardian reported that U.S. residents who have been planning to buy goods that could be subjected to the tariffs have been acting preemptively to buy what they need before prices surge. The collectively worry among consumers isn't unwarranted, since large retailers like Walmart have already warned that any new tariff duties would be passed along to customers. This has led to Americans planning on making large purchases in the future to quickly revise their timelines.

Tech CEOs have lined up to show fealty to President-elect Donald Trump by showering his inaugural committee with $1 million donations. But their obeisance isn't convincing some of Trump's diehard supporters.

The Washington Post reported Saturday on the tech industry's about-face from almost unilaterally backing Democrats to giving large sums to Trump. Silicon Valley cornerstones like Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Threads), Google, Amazon and others have all lined up to pay respects to the incoming administration with seven-figure donations despite only giving a fraction of that amount to President Joe Biden's inauguration.

Republicans are increasingly worried about the political blowback if Donald Trump carries through with the policies his base demands, according to a new report.

The president-elect promised to enact historically sweeping mass deportations during his campaign, and Republicans are trying to figure out the logistics of such an operation and wondering whether it will hurt them politically, reported NOTUS.

MAGA lawyer Mike Davis took his menacing threats against officials involved in the many investigations and prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump a step further Monday when he warned Judge Juan Merchan that he too could face legal consequences.

Davis said during an interview on the right-wing Benny Johnson Show that the New York judge should prepare for a probe of possible conspiracy against rights violations for his decisions while presiding over Trump’s fraud trial that resulted in 34 felony convictions.