Someone should ask Bessent if he's giving any rent relief to the farmers to whom he leases his land.

The Foundation has some non-insane Republicans on its Board of Trustees. I would be surprised if they don't insist on a public correction.

Calling this "chess" is Marshall's way of saying he has no idea why Trump is doing this.

The Communist Party! This is what Southern racists said about the leaders of the civil rights movement. What a tool.

Besides the sheer tackiness of this is the fact that Trump is forging ahead without any input from the government agencies tasked with the job of historic preservation. He forgets that he's a renter, not an owner, of the White House.

It's admirable that she is working to accomplish this. Good for her. But "incredible"? No, it's a typical MAGA overstatement. Melania's had one or more conversations with Putin on this, supposedly. This is in line with the tradition of 1st ladies having a public interest project to focus on.

The article cites 2 anonymous sources "familiar" with the matter. Is this Bondi trying to insulate herself from accusations of unethical conduct?

Well, Giuliani and, I suspect, Powell have no meaningful net worth that would have funded a significant settlement, so settling with them just saves Dominion attorney fees. I don't know what OneAmerica's status is, but maybe Dominion got what could be gotten.

He's actually not saying that circumscission is a cause of or linked to autism. He's claiming that those children (who are all males, by the way) are given Tylenol and that's the cause. Of course, if that were true, then there would be a higher incidence in boys than girls.

Why a future vote? Why not an agreement now? And would a future vote be subject to the filibuster rules, in which case this is a sham.

We all saw this coming. Anyone who didn't has no business being a political pundit or voicing an opinion about Trump.

If there was a legal justification, she would have offered it. The takeaway from her refusal to answer is that either they did not ask for legal advice or they received advice that it was illegal.

Smearing Whitehouse because he got a campaign contribution for a friend of Epstein is about as lame a smear as it gets.

Her reply is misleading. True, no crime had yet been committed but his taking the money indicated that he might take more when in office, and that would be a crime. That's why the FBI wanted to keep the investigation open.

I have to say that if 50% of arrests are "collateral" (meaning not the legit targets of law enforcement), then something is seriously wrong with ICE's tactics.

Another instance of blackmail.

As I understand it, there were 2 meetings: the first was recorded & he supposedly discussed the $50k, the 2nd was the payment. Was that 2nd meeting recorded? If so, a normal Administration would be pushing Homan out the door now.

These are things which should be in his daily security briefing--which he doesn't take.

Guy at the corner seat at the local bar with an opinion on everything.

I assume that they have affiliation agreements with ABC which are up for renewal at some point. Surely, ABC can find other local stations in those markets to replace Sinclair when the time comes.

Really, that's how he wants to preview Trump's speech? Our President,on the world stage, embarassing himself (and thus our country) in front of the world's leaders.

It's clumsily stated, but "actual malice" the legal term does include actual malice as the complaint describes it. (It also includes reckless disregard for the truth.) I started to read the complaint but had to stop--it's idealization of Trump is cringeworthy. I look forward to the depositions 1/2

Trump is out of control, threatening reporters who ask questions he doesn't like.

It's hard to understand why Patel would be more at risk of being fired at this point than RFK JR or Hegseth. Any of these firings would be seen as a Trump failure of judgment. Of course, if Patel is fired, he'll be given an ambassadorship.

Aside from the unconstitutionality & stupidity of Mollie's post, good luck trying to find that many conservatives qualified to be professors.

To be blunt, the first recession caused single-handedly by a President of the United States.

So instead of tweeting, why doesn't he actually do something--an apology to SKorea, do something for the people that ICE rounded up, mend fences, rein in Stephen Miller. This is Trump's Administration; he should try to actually run it.

To a teenager growing up in Utah, a "leftist" could be someone who had a Jewish friend or someone who didn't like the Mormon church.

Highlighting the difference between a public figure's private life and public life.

When he says, "Just saying..." is he trying to establish deniability when someone accuses him of advocating stoning gay people? I think he wanted to have it both ways. (Of course the Bible says lots of things no one in their right mind here would condone.)

The article doesn't mention it, but in addition to their hyper-partisanship, obsession with social media views and desire to satisfy Trump, these people are incompetent, with no idea how to perform their jobs and oversee the FBI.

Need we add that high school students in deep red communities aren't the best judges of what makes someone a "leftist".

He's pursuing an economic policy that probably every knowledgeable person in his Administration knows is disastrous, but they continue to ennable this and lie for him. Are they trying to convince him to change course? Or are they too afraid?

The implication of what he's saying is that, even if you haven't broken the law, the Trump Administration is going to take away your money and power. This is authoritarian/fascist stuff.

I suspect this assumes more rationality than is warranted. Thus far, the messages left by this guy are incoherent and, along with the act itself, reflect a disordered mind. More likely that he's yelling out to the world without any thought as to the nature of the comms system that picks it up.

Stealing the thunder from those who actually did the work to find this guy. Trump is incapable of not stealing the credit.

Miller is a seriously disturbed person. And he's inciting violence, straight from the White House.

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

By my count, Patel has now claimed that two "subjects" (does he mean "suspects"?) have been captured and thus successfully ended the manhunt. It's embarrassing.

This is why we have NATO.

Here's what I think is happening in Poland. Thank you all for being patient. Gifted. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

So why did they make this claim in the first place? What was their evidence for it? Or were they just making it up? I suspect the latter.

let's not forget that that moment has occured a number of times this year and Trump didn't rise to the occasion then. And is unlikely to do so now.

The media should collect and publish the names of those legislative affairs aides who are helping this cover up.

Good for him, good for them, but this also exposes the hypocrisy of the anti-DEI movement. 66-year old guy taking the place of a younger person, for what is essentially a trivial interest. Of course, he's a white guy so no one's going to claim favoritism.

Look, government shutdowns inevitably hurt a lot of people. The Democrats have long been burdened with a sense of responsility to prevent that from happening. It's hard to make that call. Republicans on the other hand, and Trump in particular, don't care.

Another admission that sending the military in isn't about crime, it's about immigration actions.

Dersh may feel he's been unfairly victimized by some of his neighbors in the Vineyard & that his legal defense of Trump in the 1st Administration was misunderstood by a lot of Democrats but nothing excuses his abandonment of liberal principles in order to support the GOP.

Unlike many of the jobs worked by undocumented immigrants that American citizens won't take, these seem to be factory jobs that would have been taken by citizens. I'm not willing to condemn the Administration on this without first learning more about why all these SKs were working there.