• Pritzker: Not Sure if Biden Should Debate Trump Who 'Lies and Lies and Lies'

    Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that he was concerned about a presidential debate because former President Donald Trump "lies and lies and lies." | Clips

  • How Mike Johnson Is Taming Trump and His Party — Against All Odds

    Mike Johnson Taming Trump and His Party -- Against All Odds (Second column, 11th story, link) Related stories:How Republicans castrated themselves Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron

  • Hayes Dismisses Johnson As 'Angry' For Columbia Press Conference

    MSNBC’s Chris Hayes reacted to the latest developments at Columbia University and campuses around the country on Wednesday’s edition of All In by seeking to provide cover to the protestors by claiming they are simply “anti-war” and that all the anti-Semitism is from off-campus “trolls.” As for the GOP response, he dismissed Speaker Mike Johnson as “angry.” Coming out of a commercial, Hayes declared that “Fresh off the passage of those foreign aid bills that President Biden signed today,...

  • Hayes Dismisses Johnson As 'Angry' For Columbia Press Conference

    MSNBC’s Chris Hayes reacted to the latest developments at Columbia University and campuses around the country on Wednesday’s edition of All In by seeking to provide cover to the protestors by claiming they are simply “anti-war” and that all the anti-Semitism is from off-campus “trolls.” As for the GOP response, he dismissed Speaker Mike Johnson as “angry.” Coming out of a commercial, Hayes declared that “Fresh off the passage of those foreign aid bills that President Biden signed today,...

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    Trump doubles down on Mike Johnson after foreign aid vote

    Former President Trump reiterated his support for Mike Johnson as the House

  • Mike Johnson shores up relationship with Trump as ouster threat looms

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is working to stay in the good graces of former President Donald Trump as he attempts to defuse a possible rebellion by his right flank in the House. Trump has repeatedly voiced support for Johnson as hard-liners, upset by a series of deals Johnson cut in the last month, weigh whether […]

  • Nancy Pelosi slams Liz Truss and Boris Johnson over Trump comments

    Earlier this month, shortly before the first of Trump’s four criminal trials began, Truss claimed that the “world was safer” when Trump was in office.

  • Letters to the Editor: Speaker Mike Johnson is finally putting country before Trump

    To the editor: In a remarkable moment of clarity, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) seemed to realize his choice was between dooming GOP control of the House in the 2024 elections by maintaining legislative paralysis, or dooming Donald Trump's candidacy by resolving the issues on which Trump has claimed the big problems can't be solved until he is back in office. ("The House passes billions in aid for Ukraine and Israel after months of struggle," April 20) Johnson did this with a courageous and...

  • 'Just a criminal': Rep. Jasmine Crockett scorches Trump after GOP claims 'weaponization'

    Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) blasted Republicans Tuesday for blaming President Joe Biden and Democrats for America's problems while ignoring former President Donald Trump's role.During a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Crockett noted that her Republican colleagues had complained about the national debt."Long story short, $8 trillion was added under the Trump administration," Crockett jabbed. "And so I think that it is important that we focus on...

  • 'Trump is lying': Analyst claims ex-president exhibited 'contempt' in press conference

    On Thursday, former President Donald Trump approached a gaggle of reporters with a wad of news clippings and proceeded to thumb through them to suggest they prove he's being persecuted (not prosecuted) in his historic criminal hush money trial. A body language and emotional intelligence expert noted the unspoken things Trump is expressing while going on a rambling speech about his purported unfair treatment. "These are all stories from legal experts saying how this is not a case," Trump said,...

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    Even Trump's had enough of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust Mike Johnson

    The Capitol Hill chroniclers at Punchbowl News made a proclamation Monday morning: “The winner of this Congress? Joe Biden.” It’s a remarkable statement, considering Democrats only hold the majority in the Senate. But the “burn it down caucus” in the House GOP has achieved the impossible. They have torched their own congressional majority, leaving themselves a one-seat governing majority in the House of Representatives. How? Republicans are running for the exits at an alarming clip. Rep. Ken...

  • Trump asks why Europe isn’t giving Ukraine more aid as Johnson presses forward

    Former President Trump questioned why European nations weren’t providing more support to Ukraine, but stopped short of weighing in on a foreign aid package proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R