Editor's note: West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Aug. 3, 2017, that he's switching his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, and introduced President Donald Trump at a rally in Huntington, West Virginia. In this profile from December, Melissa Quinn captures some reasons why. As results rolled in on election night, most political consultants and…
Former President Donald Trump called the Georgia charges against him a “travesty of justice” and "election interference" after getting his mug shot taken Thursday evening at an Atlanta-area jail, where he and allies face charges of conspiracy in trying to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators were named…
House conservatives can picture a place for themselves in President-elect Donald Trump’s world, but it’s not so black and white. In one sense, conservatives say, they can be natural allies to Trump who will be a “bridge” to Republican leadership, and the White House, in order to pass contested legislation. But conservatives also promise to…
The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a long-awaited report released Tuesday that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, affirming the findings of other investigations into an alleged Trump-Kremlin conspiracy. The Intelligence Committee's report, which clocks in at 966 pages, also offers a scathing assessment…
President-elect Donald Trump’s win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania was always right in front of you if you were objectively listening to the concerns of the people and the data showing the most important, but misread trend of all: The Republican Party had now become the party of work. In interview after interview, waitresses, welders,…
President Joe Biden’s fitness to stand trial and his fitness to serve as president are not comparable standards, the forensic psychiatrist who led the movement to oust Donald Trump from the presidency via the 25th Amendment contends. Dr. Bandy X. Lee, who edited “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts…
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised Thursday evening to hold Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accountable for his role in indicting former President Donald Trump. "Alvin Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our Presidential election," McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement Thursday. "As he routinely frees violent criminals to terrorize the…
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to sign a slew of executive order on his first day in office, including multiple that pertain to securing America’s southern border with Mexico. “I think people are going to be pleased with the executive orders he is going to sign,” Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, told “The Daily Signal…
President-elect Donald Trump is considering removing mainstream media journalists from the White House press briefing room, according to his son. Donald Trump Jr. told Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles on Monday that the elder Trump may reorganize the White House press briefing room’s seating arrangement to sideline mainstream media outlets and give credentials to…
NOVI, Michigan—Concerns about the economy, religious freedom, and border security are driving unlikely Michigan voters to the polls to vote Republican for the first time. One of the most hotly contested swing states, with its 15 Electoral College votes, Michigan may determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Members of Naomi Steury’s Amish community in…
Editor's note: House Democrats' drive to impeach President Donald Trump sparks some strong sentiments from The Daily Signal's audience. Here's a sampling.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I just read Katrina Trinko’s podcast interview with Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakovsky on House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, and found it to be very enlightening (“Impeachment Evidence…
Fact-checking sounds innocuous enough. After all, as the late Senate Democrat Patrick Moynihan reportedly once said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” But Twitter just showed that fact-checking can also be weaponized, used in a way that promotes one side’s ideology over another. The tech giant, which has been…
Chris Stirewalt is the politics editor for Fox News Channel and author of the new book "Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists." He also writes the daily Fox News Halftime Report and co-hosts a popular podcast with Dana Perino, “Perino and Stirewalt: I'll Tell You What." An edited transcript is…
The abject narcissism of the insular Left is startling. They apparently believe the American public is amnesiac enough to forget what leftists once did, now that they’re doing the utter opposite. And they assume we are to discount their hypocrisy and self-absorption simply because they self-identify as erudite and moral, and assume their opponents are…
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump squared off on Thursday night in the first of two scheduled debates of the 2024 presidential campaign. CNN hosted the debate, which took place in Atlanta. The network declared that the first presidential debate would be held without a live audience, but would include two commercial breaks—the…
Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a storm of executive orders, a great many of which have been halted or blocked—not by the now-Republican-controlled Congress, but by federal district courts. According to numbers compiled by the Harvard Law Review, U.S. district courts have issued more sweeping injunctions against…
Democrats have been promising oversight of the Trump administration for months if they get a House majority—and now they will have the numbers to investigate the president’s business interests, tax returns, possible Russian ties, and other matters. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who will be House Judiciary Committee chairman when the new majority takes control in…
He fired off an abundance of name-calling and otherwise memorable tweets. He routinely made assertions on cable news shows without evidence. Because of his authority, his words often went unchallenged. Now John Brennan, the former Central Intelligence Agency director and current commentator for NBC News and MSNBC, has backtracked partially on his self-assured predictions that…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Reuters)—The U.S. Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former President Bill Clinton. The release was intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress…
President Donald Trump called a Democrat-controlled House committee’s subpoena of his tax and financial records “ridiculous” on Wednesday, two days after his lawyers sued to block the compulsory request. Legal experts predict the matter will end up as a separation-of-powers case before the Supreme Court. The question likely would contrast a congressionally enacted statute making…