Bennito L. Kelty

Former President Barack Obama took a brutal swipe at President Donald Trump's taste in decor, and critics of the president couldn't get enough.

Obama appeared in Cleveland on Saturday to support Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. During his speech to a packed crowd, Obama mocked the gold trim and accents Trump has added to the White House since returning to office. "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory," Obama said. "It's gold everywhere."

The video clips of the jab quickly spread across social media, where Trump critics cheered the former president's delivery....

Former Republican strategist Tim Miller had a blistering response for Elon Musk after the billionaire posted an ominous message aimed at him and his colleagues.

Miller responded on a Saturday episode of "Bulwark Takes" after Musk replied to a clip from the hosts' recent live show in Atlanta by writing, "If they want to live by the sword, that is how they will die too."

The clip, posted by an account Miller described as a MAGA meme page, showed his colleague Jonathan V. Last arguing that people don't loathe Musk enough and calling for him to face congressional subpoenas next year. "However mad you are about Elon Musk, it's not enough," Last told the crowd. "Justice is coming."...

A political group claiming to rally Democrats behind a Republican Senate candidate drew an embarrassingly thin crowd panned by critics.

Photos from a Saturday rally held by the super PAC formerly called "Democrats for Mike Rogers" showed a mostly empty parking lot with only a handful of people scattered across the cracked pavement. The Bulwark's Joe Perticone shared the images on X, writing that a source sent them while the event was "happening now."

The pictures show a few folding chairs sitting largely unused near a colorful mural, a television camera perched on a tripod and a microphone lying on the ground. At least one of the people visible appears to be running the camera....

Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign has quietly reworked its explosive attack ad against Democrat Amy Acton, cutting a line that didn't hold up.

The new 30-second cut featuring Acton's estranged mother, Donna Arthur, drops her claim that Acton never lived in a tent, journalist David Weigel pointed out on X. What's left is Arthur accusing her daughter of lying about Ramaswamy "with no specifics," Weigel wrote.

The edit follows a report from ad tracker Medium Buying that the campaign told some TV stations Friday to switch to all 30-second spots starting that night. Ohio reporter Karen Kasler later confirmed the shorter version was running. The original ran a full minute....

A veteran Trump adversary heading into federal court to fight the administration's latest election push thinks he knows what's really rattling the president.

Norm Eisen, co-founder of Democracy Defenders Fund and a former House Judiciary Committee special counsel during Trump's first impeachment, wrote in The Contrarian on Saturday that record early turnout may explain what he called the Justice Department's election "freakout" in courts.

"What is causing this freakout in the courts? Perhaps it's early-voting numbers," Eisen asked....