The least successful House speaker in history—the only one to be ousted—is taking time out of his revenge agenda to take a stab at rewriting history to somehow make himself the hero. That includes a Georgetown University event called “How Strong Is Our Democracy? With Kevin McCarthy.” Politico reports that despite that title, at “a time when both Democrats and Republicans—for very different reasons—warn that ‘democracy is on the ballot’ in 2024, he didn’t seem to have that level of concern about...
Two senior leaders of the D.C. guard at the time of the Capitol attack painted a picture of the boost that never came, according to transcripts reviewed by POLITICO.
House lawmakers this week will hear from whistleblowers who say they have information about why the National Guard’s response to the Capitol riot was severely delayed.
The stepson of Siggy Flicker was arrested in NYC on five misdemeanor charges. Tyler Campanella had been seen at the Capitol during January 6 in social media photos Flicker posted to her social media pages, according to the FBI. Trump-lover Flicker appeared on two seasons of the beloved Bravo series
Woodside Energy has doubled down on its response to climate change with a warning to investors about eroding value with any drastic changes to investment plans. “We are being honest about the energy transition,” Woodside chair Richard Goyder said in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday that was issued on the ASX. In response to […]
After two days of jury selection in his first criminal trial, Donald Trump is expressing some confusion about the selection process. He complained Wednesday on Truth Social that he thought that "STRIKES were supposed to be 'unlimited' when we were picking our jury? I was then told we only had 10, not nearly enough when we were purposely given the 2nd Worst Venue in the Country." Putting aside the offbeat capitalization and venue grousing, let’s clear up the rules that anyone sitting in a...
We've been repeatedly told the problem with Trump is that his administration was nonstop chaos — but you have to be an ignoramus or a journalist to believe that political affairs under Biden haven't become far more chaotic.
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Six months after being stripped of his gavel, and four months after leaving Capitol Hill altogether, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has no interest in fading from public view. On the contrary, the California Republican appears quite eager to maintain a high public profile. In February, for example, McCarthy appeared on Fox Business to condemn special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Donald Trump. A month later, McCarthy appeared on CBS and pretended that Republican Rep. Marjorie...
Kevin McCarthy is having a grand old time. He's traveling the country giving six-figure speeches, playing pundit and elder statesman on TV, holding forth at high-brow political forums and, not least, plotting vengeance against those behind his unceremonious ouster as House speaker. Eight Republican lawmakers joined 208 Democrats in toppling the former Bakersfield congressman, the first time in history a House leader has been voted out. Rather than hang on, McCarthy left office at the end of...
Ex-adviser Stephen Miller bizarrely claims his old boss ‘changed American fashion’