Trump eyes outlandish lawsuit against the Fed’s Powell, alleging ‘incompetence’
“We’re going to probably bring a lawsuit against him,” the president said, referring to an unlikely civil suit against the Federal Reserve chairman.
Trump wastes little time embracing Putin’s latest dubious claim
Russia claimed that Ukraine targeted Putin’s private home with a drone attack. Ukraine strenuously denied it. Trump accepted Putin’s story as true anyway.
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Is that really Rachel?
What is the deal with these YouTube accounts full of fake A.I. of Rachel Maddow’s voice talking about Russia and Ukraine (mostly)?
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The White House needs a new line on the bruises on Trump’s hands
Given the president’s unfortunate record, he hasn’t exactly earned the benefit of the doubt on questions of medical transparency.
After a pitiful year, Speaker Johnson keeps pushing the same weird boast
The House GOP leader keeps emphasizing Congress’ recent “productivity,” pointing to one of his party’s most obvious failures.
Trump confirms U.S. strike in Venezuela in the clumsiest possible way
Did the president boast about a foreign strike that didn’t happen, or did he disclose a strike he wasn’t supposed to talk about? Now we know the answer.
Trump ends the year the way he started it: Vouching for Putin’s interest in ‘peace’
The pièce de résistance came when the American president declared, in apparent seriousness, “Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.”
After Trump claimed to care about church-state separation, his team drops the pretense
The week before Christmas, the president asked, “What ever happened to separation of church and state?” It was a question better directed at his own team.
Trump administration to target paychecks of student loan borrowers who are in default
Evidently, when the president told student loan borrowers to expect “action” from his administration, this is what he and his team had in mind.
Why it matters that Howard Lutnick is flunking the basics on economic growth
Either the commerce secretary is confused about rudimentary economic details, or he’s doing an excellent imitation of someone who’s alarmingly ignorant.
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