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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made it clear to the press that if Donald Trump fired him, he wouldn't leave. While that could force a head-to-head conflict, Powell could also keep Trump in check.

Experts told Politico they think Powell could control Trump. That's something that no other person has accomplished, according to former Homeland Security adviser Olivia Troye — and even Trump himself.

As the country prepares for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, intelligence officials past and present are bracing for a more specific threat: the president-elect’s revenge plot against “deep state” federal employees whom he views as “insufficiently loyal,” according to a new report which lays out three possible scenarios for Trump’s payback.

The former president has long made his dislike of intelligence officials and other federal employees known, and his belief “that malevolent bureaucrats had sabotaged his campaign and were bent on undermining his presidency” still exists, according to a new report in the Atlantic. The publication noted that Trump even ramped up his rhetoric on the topic during this year's campaign, vowing to “demolish the deep state” and weed out government employees he sees as “dishonest.”

The judge presiding over the criminal election subversion case against Donald Trump allies is facing accusations of anti-Trump bias, according to a report.

Judge Bruce Cohen urged white male colleagues to condemn GOP attacks on Kamala Harris’ race and gender, Politico reported, and characterized the current political climate as resisting the Nazis.

A former deputy press secretary for Donald Trump jabbed Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) over her lack of experience in Homeland Security, the department she will take over for the Trump administration.

Noem — who has been plagued by scandals in South Dakota for years — is headed to Washington as she takes over a key piece of the federal government. Her selection has faced scrutiny, with the government watchdog group Accountable.us blasting her as "extreme and untrustworthy with zero national security credentials."

With Donald Trump appointing Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) as national security adviser — and possibly appointing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of state, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will be tasked with selecting replacements.

Politico reports the president-elect is "triggering a major shakeup" in the Sunshine State by giving DeSantis "a powerful opportunity to shape his legacy and potentially set up his political future" following his failed presidential bid earlier this year.

Details of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against Donald Trump could be lost to the public if special counsel Jack Smith doesn't act, warned former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance in an analysis for MSNBC.

This comes as Smith, who was behind both federal criminal cases against Trump, looks to wind them down in accordance with the Justice Department's longstanding guidance against prosecuting a sitting president.

Donald Trump's presidential transition team is drafting an executive order that would allow him to purge military leaders, according to a report.

They're thinking of calling it the "warrior board," which would have retired senior military personnel who can sort through people they believe should be removed from the armed forces, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy flummoxed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by suggesting that President Joe Biden's Tuesday meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris would be an "awkward" situation.

Doocy made the remark during Tuesday's White House briefing.

Most people ignore the relentless string of text messages from political candidates and PACs throughout the election cycle, or perhaps give on one or two occasions and forget about it. But some people, often elderly, become pressured into giving thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars that they can't afford, reported the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.

"By around noon on a recent day, Sandra, 88, said she’d already received 125 text messages asking for donations to a campaign. More often than not, she ends up sending some money to the cause," reported Gabrielle LeMarr LeMee.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said "a lot of election fraud" was to blame after Republicans failed to secure a sizable majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

During a Tuesday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Greene noted that control of the House had not been determined at that time.

Some members of the Republican Party are growing concerned about the post-election moves they're seeing Donald Trump making as he staffs his next administration not with experts but with political loyalists, according to a report Tuesday.

According to Politico, the list of appointees is seen by some as skipping experts for political loyalists, including Gov. Kristi Noem (R-ND), who will be taking over the Department of Homeland Security. The nonpartisan group Accountable.US said Noem has no experience on the topic.

Sources close to Melania Trump “don’t expect her to be full-time” in Washington D.C. as they say the former first lady will buck tradition and decline a meeting with First Lady Jill Biden on Wednesday, CNN’s Kristen Holmes reports.

Holmes spoke of the decision on CNN Tuesday, telling host Pamela Brown the former first lady informed the White House and Donald Trump’s team that “she had a prior engagement related to her book,” “Melania,” which was released on Oct. 8.

The CNN reporter floated the possibility of Melania Trump “[changing] her mind” about Wednesday’s slated meeting at the White House, noting there are people in her husband’s orbit “that really wanted her to go.”

According to Holmes, “part of the reason” the former first lady attended Rosalynn Carter’s funeral was “because she did not want the media narrative that she was not attending.”