Trump Presidency News

The Jan. 6 committee dropped its subpoena of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. “In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, wrote in a letter to Trump’s attorney, CNN reported. “Therefore, through this letter,…

Team Trump sometimes has compared former President Donald Trump’s current quest for a non-sequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids. Cleveland remains our only elected president (1884) to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later in 1892. Yet Trump seems determined instead…

In the aftermath of the Republican Party’s recent midterm elections debacle, Right-liberal sharks are circling. These devoted acolytes of what a prominent 2019 First Things manifesto called the American Right’s “dead consensus” think they see blood in the water. Indeed, the “dead consensus” Praetorian Guard has apparently decided that now is the time for a…

Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been restored to him. The former president’s Twitter account is one of several high-profile ones to be resurrected following entrepreneur Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. “I think [with] Musk getting in and seeing what was happening behind the scenes, he realized pretty quickly that the content moderation…

During Donald Trump’s presidency, The Washington Post kept a running tally of his alleged lies and/or misleading statements. But when Joe Biden became president, the Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, announced an end to the database operation. “Maintaining the Trump database over four years required about 400 additional eight-hour days over four years beyond our regular…

By now, everyone who follows politics should recognize that the liberal media will deliberately ignore embarrassing gaffes by President Joe Biden, especially if they suggest he’s not mentally sharp enough to be the president. Biden asking, “Where’s Jackie?” about a congresswoman killed in a car crash two months ago was a TV black hole: nothing…

The Biden administration has turned what should be the most transparent of government agencies, the National Archives and Records Administration, into one of the least transparent agencies—rivaling even the FBI.   Established in 1934, the National Archives has a mission to identify, protect, preserve, and make publicly available all historically valuable records.   But the…

When Rep. Liz Cheney was picked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as vice chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, the Wyoming Republican launched one of her biggest lies. Cheney said she took the job to ensure the committee would achieve its goal of conducting a “nonpartisan, professional, and thorough investigation” of the Jan….

People who adopt a more modernist take on Christianity lean heavily on the Gospel of Matthew, insisting believers should not be quick to judge others, lest they be judged. But the evangelical Christians promoted by The Washington Post aggressively judge Christians who decided to vote for Donald Trump. Post columnist Michael Gerson, a former chief…

Federal employees’ unions decried the Trump administration for its executive orders aimed at improving accountability and integrity within the federal workforce. The American Federation of Government Employees—the largest federal workers union—said the Trump administration’s policies would “cripple,” “purge,” and “dismantle” the federal workforce. But as is often the case, the views of union elites often…