Topline A documentary film crew captured former Vice President Mike Pence’s somewhat opaque reaction (“Excellent,” he says, but with restraint) to seeing a draft Congressional resolution calling for h...
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Feds Reportedly Search Trump DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark’s Home
Topline Federal law enforcement agents on Wednesday searched the home of Trump-era Department of Justice lawyer Jeffrey Clark, whose push to pursue shaky voter fraud claims following the 2020 election...
Biden Proposes Title IX Overhaul—Reversing Trump-Era Rules—–On Legislation’s 50th Anniversary
Topline The Biden administration proposed sweeping changes to Title IX Thursday—increasing protections for LGBTQ students and victims of sexual misconduct and revoking Trump-era restrictions advocates...
Revelations Show Trump Immigration Policy Was Supposed To Be Harsher
A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the … [+] U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were...
Jan. 6 Panel Delays Hearings Amid New Evidence—Including Tapes Of Trump Family
Topline The House January 6 committee will delay the final hearings of its investigation into the Capitol riot and Trump Administration until next month, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday, as t...
Trump Slams Gun Control Bill—But Senate Republicans Likely To Pass It Anyway
Topline Former President Donald Trump blasted top Senate Republicans on Wednesday for backing a bipartisan gun control bill, but it appears nearly a third of GOP senators could break with the ex-presi...
Who Is Shaye Moss? Former Elections Worker And Jan. 6 Witness Received Death Threats After Trump Campaign Conspiracy
Topline Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who was scheduled to testify Tuesday at a hearing of the House January 6 committee, rose to prominence after she and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who she counted ballots wit...
Trump-Endorsed Katie Britt Defeats ‘MAGA Mo’ Brooks In Alabama GOP Senate Runoff
Topline Former GOP political staffer Katie Britt will be the Republican nominee for Alabama’s open Senate seat, the Associated Press projected Tuesday, easily defeating Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), a Trum...
Arizona Speaker Says Trump Lied That He Backed Fraud Claims
Topline Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) testified to the January 6 committee a statement that former President Donald Trump sent out Tuesday claiming Bowers told him “the election was rigged,” ...
Georgia’s Raffensperger—Who Trump Pushed To ‘Find’ Votes— Headlining Next Jan. 6 Committee Hearing
Topline Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), who became well-known for thwarting former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, will t...
Former Trump Advisor Peter Navarro Pleads Not Guilty To Contempt Of Congress Charges
Topline Peter Navarro pleaded not guilty Friday to two charges of contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with a House committee’s investigation of the Capitol attack of January 6, 2021, ac...
Trump Advisor Eastman Asked For Pardon After Riot
Topline Right-wing legal scholar John Eastman, who backed former President Donald Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 election, was among a group that asked for pardons after rioters stormed the...
Pence Team ‘Shocked And Disappointed’ When Trump Claimed VP Agreed He Could Overturn Election
Topline Former Vice President Mike Pence’s legal team was stunned about a statement former President Donald Trump put out the day before the January 6 riot, according to Pence’s chief of s...
Pence Told Trump ‘Many Times’ He Couldn’t Overturn Election Results, Staffer Says
Topline Former President Donald Trump was repeatedly advised before the January 6 riot that a plan for Vice President Mike Pence to somehow block the certification of the 2020 presidential election re...
South Carolina Republican Who Voted To Impeach Trump Loses Primary In Mixed Night For Candidates Backed By Ex-President
Topline A Trump-backed candidate defeated incumbent Rep. Tom Rice—one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach the former president last year—in the Republican party’s Congressional primaries in So...
White House Attorney Told Trump’s Legal Advisor To Get ‘Great F’ing Criminal Defense Lawyer’ After Jan. 6
Topline A former White House lawyer fed up with Trump legal advisor John Eastman’s push to overturn the results of the 2020 election advised Eastman to “get a great f’ing criminal de...
S.C. Republicans Who Blamed Trump For Capitol Riot Face Off Against His Endorsed Challengers
Topline South Carolina Republican Reps. Tom Rice and Nancy Mace, who broke from former President Donald Trump following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, will face steep primary opposition Tuesday fro...
Can Trump Be Charged As Result Of The Jan. 6 Committee Investigation? Here’s What To Know
Topline The House January 6 Committee has started making a public case against former President Donald Trump and his allies in a series of hearings, arguing the former president “oversaw and coordinat...
Jan. 6 Hearing Shows Rioters Repeating Trump’s Baseless Election Claims — Even As Former White House Lawyer Called Allegations ‘Nuts’
Topline The House Select Committee investigating the riot at the Capitol used its second hearing on Monday to show how former President Donald Trump ignored advice from top aides and officials that hi...
The Real Reason Behind Higher Oil And Gasoline Prices
(From R) Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak, … [+] Kuwait’s Oil Minister Essam al-Marzouk and OPEC Secretary General Moham...
Trump’s Former Campaign Manager Will Publicly Testify To Jan. 6 Committee Monday
Topline Former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien will testify at the House January 6 committee’s second public hearing Monday, days after committee members used their first b...
Trump, Saudis Join Forces To Stick It To The PGA
Illustration by Philip Smith for Forbes; Photos by Don Emmert/Getty Images, Julio Cortez/AP, Oisin Keniry/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images With LIV Golf, the former president returns to ...
Inflation Soars To Highest Level In 40 Years As Recession Risk Rises
Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Billboard on the cruelties of inflation.. (Photo by: Photographer … [+] name/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Bure...
Riot Defendants Say Trump ‘Asked’ Them To Storm Capitol
Topline The January 6 committee closed out its first primetime hearing Thursday with a video montage of convicted and alleged rioters claiming former President Donald Trump “asked” them to go to the C...
Trump To Testify July 15 In New York Fraud Investigation
Topline Former President Donald Trump and his two oldest adult children are set to testify starting July 15 in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ (D) probe into allegations of financial fr...
Trump-Backed Senate Candidate Blake Masters Baselessly Suggests Jan. 6 Rioters Were FBI Agents, Report Says
Topline Blake Masters—a controversial Trump-endorsed candidate in Arizona’s GOP Senate primary—suggested in March that many people at the January 6 Capitol riot may have worked for the FBI, according ...
Trump Attorney Ordered To Turn Over More Emails To January 6 Committee—Including Possible Evidence Of A Crime
Topline Attorney John Eastman, who worked with former President Donald Trump on his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, has to turn over more than 150 documents to the House January 6 Committee by...
Lawmakers Investigating What Happened To Foreign Gifts Given To Trump Administration
Topline Democratic lawmakers have opened a probe into whether the Trump Administration properly tracked the gifts it received from foreign governments, following reports that Trump-era gift records ar...
Trump Reportedly Pressured Secret Service To Plan Route For Him To Accompany Supporters On March To Capitol On Jan. 6
Topline Then-President Donald Trump pressured the Secret Service for two weeks to come up with a plan for him to join his supporters on a march toward the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the Washington Po...
People Living In Pro-Trump Counties More Likely To Die From Covid, Study Finds
Topline People living in counties that voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election were more likely to die from Covid-19 than those living in counties that voted Democrat, according to a study ...