Month: July 2025

Another day, another chilling development in the fight against waste, fraud and abuse.  President Trump, who removed 17 inspectors general (including me) at the beginning of his term, continued his attack earlier this month by demoting the acting inspector general of the Department of Education — simply because she was doing her job.  That job…
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) said on Sunday that he has not yet decided whether to run for U.S. Senate in Texas in 2026. “I don’t know,” O’Rourke said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” when asked if he plans to run for Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) Senate seat, which is up…
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) called on his fellow Democrats to fight “fire with fire” as Republicans in his state move forward with an effort to alter Texas’s congressional lines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” O’Rourke said Democrats need to start playing the same game…
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U.S. special envoy for hostage affairs, Adam Boehler, called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele “a good friend” after he helped secure the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in Venezuela in exchange for the return of more than 250 Venezuelans that the U.S. had sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador. In an interview on CNN’s “State…
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) defended Democrats for jumping on Republican calls for the federal government to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, even though her party largely remained mum on the issue while former President Biden was in office. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, the Minnesota…
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NASA has had a difficult early summer, between a proposed budget that would eviscerate the space agency’s science programs and President Trump’s sudden withdrawal of billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman from the nomination to be administrator of NASA. Even so, there are signs that NASA’s fortunes may be looking up. The space agency has a new administrator —…
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“It’s like the Dollar Tree version of Versailles.”

Recent polling is painting a mixed picture for Democrats as they look to chart a path forward in the wake of their loss to President Trump in November. Trump’s approval rating remains comfortably underwater as he reaches the six-month mark back in office on Sunday. But while Democrats have scored some notable victories in high-profile…
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The Justice Department has been rocked by a wave of recent firings, a sign the administration is not done culling the ranks of career officials as it seeks to shape the department under a second Trump term.  Maurene Comey, a New York-based federal prosecutor and the daughter of the former FBI director, was fired Wednesday…
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Senators hoping for an August respite after several weeks of late-night votes may not be in luck, with President Trump asking Majority Leader Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) Saturday to cancel the chamber’s traditional late-summer recess in order to confirm his executive and judicial appointments. “Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories…
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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy bashed Stephen Colbert on Saturday, calling the late-night host “ungrateful” after Colbert’s show was axed by CBS in what the network claimed was a “financial decision.” “For these people, including like Colbert, to be like, ‘This isn’t really right and we’re blindsided’ — buddy, you’re losing 40 million dollars a…
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Influential figures in the MAGA realm who have pushed the administration to release more documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case are coming to President Trump’s defense after The Wall Street Journal reported that the commander-in-chief allegedly sent a lewd letter to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender over 20 years ago.  The Journal reported…
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Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, urged lawmakers to keep pushing for the release of the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files as the White House has attempted to tamp down on the issue. “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. We know that,” Garcia asserted on MSNBC Friday. “It’s time…
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The case of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein dominated headlines once again this week as President Trump has struggled to manage the fallout over an FBI and Department of Justice memo that pushed back on several conspiracy theories about the convicted sex offender. This is likely to be the focus of much of this week’s Sunday…
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged President Trump to negotiate a trade agreement this week as the U.S. has pursued increasingly aggressive action over the criminal prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president. “What we cannot have is President Trump forgetting that he was elected to govern the U.S. he was elected not…
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“They were best friends,” said former model Stacey Williams of Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump.

Navy Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the first female to serve as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy is being reassigned, the Defense Department announced Friday. Davids was instead tapped to serve as deputy chief of naval operations, plans, strategy and warfighting development, according to a press release. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte was…
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President Trump took a swing at ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Friday following CBS’s decision to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” suggesting he is “next” on the chopping block. “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social, a day after the…
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President Trump on Saturday said even if his administration releases all of the grand jury testimony in the case related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, it will not be enough to satisfy the “troublemakers and radical left lunatics.”  “I have asked the Justice Department to release all Grand Jury testimony with…
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Jason DeFord, the country singer known as Jelly Roll, was hyped up about President Trump’s proposal for the White House to host an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event on the South Lawn, saying earlier this week that it would be “awesome.” “Now, listen, I know this is causing a little bit of controversy, but for…
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Fallout continues to grow after an Israeli tank shell struck the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza on Thursday, drawing strong condemnation from international faith leaders. The shell killed three people, wounding 10 and damaging the building. Hundreds of Palestinians had been using the church compound for shelter and aid during the now 21-month war…
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President Trump is doubling down on the administration’s claim that U.S. military strikes “completely destroyed” Iran’s three nuclear sites last month, pushing back against a new assessment reportedly showing that only one of the three facilities was wrecked.   “All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to…
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper criticized CBS’s parent company over its recent decision to cancel “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” arguing that Paramount Global is in a “bend-the-knee phase” to President Trump.  “Obviously, President Trump has made no secret of his hatred of being mocked, specifically the jokes that people like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy…
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Russia, in the face of President Trump’s recent sanctions threat, attacked Ukraine with over 300 drones overnight, hammering the port city of Odesa. The attacks targeted about 10 regions in the war-torn nation late Friday, with Russia launching 344 drones, of which around 200 were Shahed drones and 45 missiles, according to Ukraine’s Air Force.…
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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice weighed in earlier this week on President Trump’s ultimatum on Russia, suggesting it is a “turning point” in peace efforts in the over three-year-long war in Ukraine. “This last week was a turning point,” she said Thursday during a panel moderated by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell at the Aspen Security…
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