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Over the holiday week, Donald Trump decided that his new campaign issue would be eliminating the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. As it turns out, Republicans aren't enthusiastic.

Trump explained that he's "seriously looking at alternatives" to the legislation, claiming the failure to repeal and replace it was "a low point for the Republican Party." The GOP held power in the House, Senate and White House at the time, but Trump still couldn't get it done.

Donald Trump is threatening to use his second term in office to attack Americans using the military.

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss appeared on MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber," guest hosted by Katie Phang, to elicit a stark warning.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has no plans to let off his blockade of Senate approvals of military promotions following the Thanksgiving holidays, as his own party grows increasingly angry with him. Even Fox News reporters begin to criticize him.

In fact, Tuberville told CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju on Monday, the military is on his side.

If he's booted from the House, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) could still lavish in some post-Congress perks.

The flailing politician facing a 23-count federal indictment for embezzling campaign coffers to purchase Botox injections and feed an OnlyFans account, and fibbing to Congress about his wealth, among other offenses, is all but awaiting for his peers to put him out to pasture.

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi is seriously concerned about the recent reporting that Donald Trump's White House was not vetting some people they were pardoning or commuting sentences for in the administration's final months.

A New York Times report by Michael Schmidt and others revealed that one of Trump's pardons was for a violent drug distributor named Jonathan Braun. The story walks through how Braun was able to leverage his family's relationship with Jared Kushner's family. The man had a history of violent threats and other concerning behavior that made for an unusual choice for a commutation.

A cannabis kingpin with a penchant for using brute force was one of the 237 people who received clemency from former President Donald Trump and ultimately became a loan shark. Then, his sudden prison release hindered a federal predatory lending investigation.

According to The New York Times, Staten Island native Jonathan Braun, 40, was freed on Jan. 20, 2021, in concert with then-White House senior aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner, after serving just two-and-a-half years of a 10-year prison stint for smuggling and selling $1.72 billion worth of marijuana in the US from 2007 to 2010.

Former President Donald Trump is testing out a new defense in the Georgia election racketeering case, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday: the First Amendment.

"In a filing on Monday in Fulton County Superior Court, Trump attorney Steven Sadow said the former president will challenge his indictment on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges by asserting his right to political speech and expressive conduct," reported David Wickert.

A legal analyst has been struck by the lack of names Donald Trump has on his witness list for the 2020 election and Jan. 6 trial in federal court.

Speaking to MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Monday, legal analysts Lisa Rubin and Andrew Weissmann talked about the list of potential witnesses who could step up to defend Trump in the case.

Director and actor Taika Waititi used his appearance on a recent podcast to dish on his experience working with Donald Trump on a 2012 NBC Super Bowl featurette entitled “Brotherhood of Man," The Daily Beast reported.

And he doesn't hold back on shaming the former president for his demands.

Judge Tanya Chutkan just shut down Donald Trump's latest conspiracy theory.

According to a court filing, Trump requested that prosecutors turn over "missing materials" from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

Former President Donald Trump's gag order in the New York civil fraud case should not have been lifted, argued Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman in an interview with Salon released on Monday — and furthermore, he is "confident" the appellate judge that ordered the pause on it "greatly regrets" that decision in light of subsequent events.

The order, which is now on hold and still being litigated, prohibited Trump from attacking certain court officers, including Allison Greenfield, the law clerk of Judge Arthur Engoron, who has been a persistent target of the former president's wrath.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Monday afternoon said he has spoken to U.S. Rep. George Santos, suggesting the embattled and indicted New York Republican might resign rather than face an impending expulsion vote he’s likely to lose.

But over the holiday weekend, Santos suggested he was not going to go without a fight, as he appeared to take a page out of another embattled Republican’s book: former U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn.