NEW -- As former FBI director James Comey fights the federal charges lodged against him, he appears to have an important, unexpected ally: Donald Trump's big mouth. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Donald Trump has anointed himself judge, jury and executioner of anyone he chooses to call a "narcoterrorist." Which has some legal experts worried: If he can summarily kill people on the high seas, what's stopping him from doing the same at home? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- When Trump gives this same unhinged, barely comprehensible speech at his rallies or his Cabinet meetings, he gets wild applause and praise. At the UN, he got mainly a perplexed silence. Weird, right? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump promised to make groceries cheaper. He promised to make electricity cheaper. But because of his trade war against the world, inflation is now running HIGHER than Biden's final year in office. So sure it's a "Golden Age" -- if you love higher prices. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW — Trump, who has fomented violence his entire political career, now claims that political violence is done mainly by “the left.” It’s not true. In fact, scientific research says the exact opposite. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- After years of spreading nutty conspiracy theories about other people's health, Trump now has to deal with his own. Rick Wilson: “It’s the apotheosis of karma for the man who pretended Hillary was on death’s door." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW — Trump’s “two weeks” nonsense is letting Vladimir Putin get away with murder. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Sure, Russia is slaughtering Ukrainians in their homes nightly, but Ukraine is damaging Russia's oil refineries! See? Both sides! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- All the adult supervision left, leaving Trump to go right back to making excuses and parroting the talking points of his great war criminal pal, Vladimir. It's Ukraine's fault they got invaded. It was disrespectful to ask to be in NATO. On and on. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW — Trump rolled out the red carpet for a vicious war criminal. And what did he get? Nothing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW — At this Alaska summit, the Russians have a trained KGB intelligence officer and ruthless war criminal. We have a guy who bankrupted casinos and thinks rain falling in Canada somehow flows to California. What could go wrong? www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

NEW -- Donald Trump’s child sex-trafficking pal Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be eligible for work release assignments outside the "Club Fed" she was transferred to after meeting with Trump’s former defense lawyer, now a top DOJ official. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Hugely successful press conference for Donald Trump this morning. Did not take a single question about his presence in the Epstein Files. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

ALSO NEW -- Trump is already hinting that he will demand that Ukraine cede territory to get a peace agreement with Russia, thereby rewarding Putin for his land grab and war crimes against civilians. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- I asked Trump why it took SEVEN years from the time Epstein started "stealing" the help from Mar-a-Lago to when he was finally kicked off the membership roll there. This was his answer: "I don't understand your question." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Well, at least this "fifteen hundred percent" nonsense maybe helps explain a couple of things. Like how he overpaid so much for the Plaza Hotel. Or how he bankrupted casinos. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump's economy in his first six months has produced fewer than half the number of jobs created in Biden's last six months. Trump's solution? Fire the head of the office that compiles the statistics. That ought to fix it. With @delaneyrules.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/july-j...

NEW -- Trump and his White House are taking his corruption to a brazen new level. This morning, White House employees helped him promote his participation in a marketing event at one of his Scotland golf resorts. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump supporters need to download and update their Why Trump Finally After 15 Years Of Being Best Buds Split With Epstein explanation: Turns out because Epstein was poaching Trump's employees from Mar-a-Lago. Yes, our president actually said this. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

NEW -- Donald Trump is on his way to Scotland to promote a new course at one of his golf resorts. American taxpayers are footing the $9.7 million -- at least -- travel and security bill so that he can make more money at his family business. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Donald Trump REALLY doesn't want to talk about his former pals, notorious child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. When he was asked about them today, he went on a 7 minute, 41 second tirade spewing 1,281 words -- about Obama. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump has been lying about Russia and 2016 since early 2017. Only now, he's got his Putin-sympathetic director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard helping him. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NOT REALLY NEW BUT WHATEVER — Remember back in 2017 Trump started lying about how Russia had not helped him win and it was all a hoax? Well, he’s still doing it. This time with the help of Putin-sympathetic Tulsi Gabbard. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- If you like a big and growing national debt, you should absolutely *love* Trump's new law, which will balloon it to 120 percent of the gross domestic product within a decade, higher than it was even during WWII. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump says his benefactor Vladimir Putin is killing "too many" people and so he is sending Ukraine more defensive weapons. Also he doesn't know who put a hold on sending them this most recent time. (HINT: Ask the guy sitting to your left.) www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- With the slashing of health care for poor people and extending tax cuts that disproportionately help the very rich out of the way, Trump can now turn his attention back to tanking the world economy with his Global War on Trade. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

STILL NEW TO YOU — Trump claimed that his new tax and spending bill fulfills a campaign promise by eliminating tax on social security. It does no such thing. That Big, Beautiful Lie and others from his victory speech last night: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW — Trump’s Pentagon explained about the weapons pause to Ukraine and guess what — it’s all Biden’s fault! www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

NEW COLUMN -- Remember that John Cleese sketch, "Don't mention the war!"? Well, it happened in real life this past week -- not about a war decades ago, but about Putin's murderous assault on Ukraine. Why? Because criticizing Putin might make Trump mad. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Sure, it involved a lot of humiliating, demeaning sucking up to Donald Trump -- even calling him "Daddy" at one point -- but it worked. Trump didn't threaten to withdraw from NATO, didn't blow everything up to defend his buddy Putin. So, success! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW — The latest installment in NATO’s campaign to keep Trump from blowing up the summit and hanging Ukraine out to dry: Donald, you’ve already won! Great job! www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Europe is seeing its largest war on the continent since 1945, but NATO is not planning to talk about it much at its meeting this week in The Hague. Why? Because it would upset Donald Trump, who has consistently sided with aggressor Vladimir Putin. www.huffpost.com/entry/nato-t...

NEW COLUMN — Trump’s bombing of Iran is nowhere near the most dangerous thing he is doing with the military. Not even close. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- What happens when the top officials in an administration who had to prove their loyalty by spreading the president's Big, Ridiculous Lie about the 2020 election contemplate entering a new Mideast war? We have a government of unreliable narrators. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Dozens of communities have been devastated by windstorms, tornadoes, flooding and wildfires since Jan. 20, killing nearly 100 Americans. Donald Trump has not visited a single one. He has, however, managed 40 days of golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump finally got a $45 million military parade for his birthday. It may not have been all he had been expecting. The crowds were underwhelmingly. Even he looked bored. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- For years Donald Trump envied his dictator pals like Putin, Kim and Xi for the parades they got to have, with tanks and missiles and thousands of saluting troops. Today he finally gets one of his own. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Trump is boasting that he renamed Fort Bragg after a treasonous Confederate general, as he promised. He did not. It’s unclear whether he’s just pandering to his racist fans of the Confederacy or if he truly does not understand it himself. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- SecDef Hegseth is asked in Congress what authority, precisely, Trump is using to put troops on the ground in Los Angeles. Hegseth says he doesn't know but is certain Trump has it. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...

NEW -- When Trump wanted his defense secretary to order soldiers to shoot Americans back in 2020, Mark Esper told him no. This time, Trump has a solid "yes" man in that job in Pete Hegseth. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW COLUMN — Is the sky green? Are lemons sweet? Does the existence of foreign criminals in the country constitute an “invasion” and a national “emergency?” Sadly for democracy, yes, if Donald Trump says so. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Donald Trump's self image as a Great Dealmaker and his obsession with plane size have not just led to soliciting a $400 million gift from Qatar. They have already left America with a severely degraded wartime command post for future presidents. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Yes, there absolutely was media malfeasance in our coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. No, it wasn't about Joe Biden being old. It was about how we normalized the hell out of a man who had already tried to end American democracy once. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Donald Trump is selling access to himself tonight to those who spent a total of $192 million to buy his souvenir crypto coin, which has an intrinsic value of exactly zero. No, you are not allowed to know the names of the attendees. Yes, it's as corrupt as it sounds.

NEW -- The first Trump constituency to be thrown under the bus: Retirees on Social Security. Trump promised "no taxes on Social Security." Instead he's backing a tax deduction for retirees -- which for most amounts to a cash benefit of less than $500. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Donald Trump Monday honored fallen police officers in the White House. Yes, the same Donald Trump who on his first day back in office freed hundreds of domestic terrorists who assaulted police on Jan. 6, in service of his coup attempt. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump's White House is hiding the vast majority of the transcripts of his remarks. Why? The White House won't say... But maybe reading the following might offer a clue: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW -- Trump retreats, declares victory. Again. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

NEW COLUMN — A “conflict of interest” is what Jimmy Carter avoided by putting his peanut farm in a blind trust. Donald Trump is using his position to enrich himself. That is the definition of corruption, and he is doing so openly, brazenly, cheerfully. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...