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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) flouted Donald Trump's endorsement of embattled House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Monday.

The Kentucky Republican announced last week that he would not support Johnson's re-election bid as speaker as other GOP lawmakers indicated they were on the fence. He made it clear that he was unswayed by Trump's endorsement Monday of the Louisiana Republican as "a good, hard work­ing, re­li­gious man."

Right-wing agitator Laura Loomer warned her MAGA followers that billionaire Elon Musk was using President-elect Donald Trump to "establish a monarchy" in the United States.

During a Monday interview on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Loomer complained she had been demonetized on the X social media platform after criticizing Musk's use of H-1B immigrant visas.

President-elect Donald Trump's controversial top adviser on border security has come under scrutiny for a new reason, reported Rolling Stone — the suspicion that he could personally be profiting from his access to the president.

Homeland Strategic Consulting LLC, "advertises its ability to get its clients work with the federal government. The firm says on its website: 'We have a proven track record of opening doors and bringing successful relationships to our clients, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of federal contracts to private companies.'"

The Washington Post over the weekend reported that some people who voted for President-elect Donald Trump are worried that their own government benefits could be on the chopping block now that he's heading back to the White House.

MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown has noticed a good deal of schadenfreude about these reports from Trump critics — but he's urging people on the left to resist the temptation to relish MAGA fans' misery.

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon doubled down on his battle against billionaire Elon Musk over the use of immigrant visas that Bannon claims take jobs away from Americans.

After Musk defended H-1B visas last week, Bannon returned to his War Room podcast on Monday to attack the billionaire on behalf of his MAGA followers.

A Truth Social post by President-elect Donald Trump's Truth Social post in which he endorsemed Mike Johnson as Speaker took a major dig at Vice President Kamala Harris' failed campaign.

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that President Joe Biden believes that he could have defeated Trump if he had stayed in the race — and the incoming president appears to agree that Biden would have run a different kind of campaign.

A three-judge panel has upheld the ruling that awarded E. Jean Carroll $5 million from President-elect Donald Trump. Two days prior, Trump shared a meme saying she should go to jail.

The ruling came from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Manhattan-based court upheld all of the original ruling. Trump's lawyers had "not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings. Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial," the judges wrote.

President-elect Donald Trump offered his official endorsement for reelecting Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a Monday post on his Truth Social platform, Trump praised his presidential victory and attacked Democrats before endorsing Johnson.

Trump 2024 adviser Corey Lewandowski insisted that Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) would retain the speaker's gavel because it came down to a "one-person decision" by President-elect Donald Trump.

"I think it's very simple. Mike Johnson's gonna be the next speaker of the house. I believe that Donald Trump is going to support him as a next speaker of the House," Lewandowski told Fox News on Monday, dismissing Republican members of Congress who oppose Johnson.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has slapped down President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to throw out a jury verdict that found he defamed and sexually abused journalist E. Jean Carroll.

In the ruling, the court not only affirmed the jury's verdict against Trump but also chided him for not putting forth anything close to sufficient evidence that would make the court even consider overturning it.

One of Carter's strongest legacies could be methodically torn down during the administration of President-elect Donald Trump, a Slate writer warned.

In a column originally penned earlier this year — and recirculated Monday after the former president's death — court watcher Mark Joseph Stern described a shakeup of the judiciary as a centerpiece of Carter's work. He claimed that would struggle to survive Trump.

Signs that Donald Trump may not abandon a key policy of President Joe Biden's involving Big Tech are leaving progressives "cautiously optimistic," according to a new report.

It involves his stance on antitrust policies, a set of regulations designed to promote fair competition in the marketplace.

President-elect Donald Trump's social media ravings about seizing Greenland and the Panama Canal have left Russian propagandists "delighted," according to a new report from The Daily Beast's Julia Davis.

Davis, who regularly monitors and translates Russian state television news broadcast, brings word that Kremlin insiders see Trump's belligerence toward American allies as a positive sign that he isn't opposed to Russia's own attempted war of conquest in neighboring Ukraine.