The late night host also had an offer for the president.
“We’ve had hundreds and hundreds, if not, you know, closer to 1,000 threats,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told NBC News.
Ronny Chieng called out the president for pushing a not-so-polite post.
The “Late Night” host broke down what makes Trump’s Epstein claim so “impossible.”
The mayor-elect said he’ll focus on one of his core issues — and vowed to stand up for New Yorkers.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said she believes President Trump should “button it up” regarding his suggestion that six Democratic members of Congress should be imprisoned or even executed. Earlier Thursday, the president called the lawmakers “traitors” for urging active duty military members to disobey unlawful orders from his administration. “I would just call upon him…
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. government’s decision to designate Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization provides the Defense Department with “new options” to go after the alleged drug cartel, which officials alleged is headed by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Well, it brings a whole bunch of new options to the…
Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Dem leaders up in arms at Trump for touting death penalty for lawmakers House Democratic leaders hammered President Trump on Thursday after the president suggested a group of Democratic lawmakers should be executed for “seditious behavior”…
Democrats accused the Trump administration of again failing to meet its requirement to consult with Congress on plans for refugees as the White House pushes to cut admissions to the lowest level in the program’s history. President Trump in October announced the lowest-ever refugee cap of 7,500 refugees, just a fraction of the 125,000 cap…
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Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill on Thursday that he will support the repeal of sweeping sanctions on Syria but wants language that would impose penalties if the interim government in Damascus fails to meet certain conditions. President Trump is backing the repeal of the sanctions,…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) slammed President Trump for calling a group of Democratic lawmakers “traitors” on Thursday. “I strongly reject this dangerous rhetoric,” Fetterman wrote on the social platform X. “Do not threaten Members of Congress. Republican or Democrat. It’s deeply wrong with no exceptions—ever.” Earlier Thursday, the president suggested that six Democrats should be…
Virginia Giuffre’s brother was also being interviewed, and offered some insight into why some survivors hold back while speaking with the press.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken the unusual step of launching a probe into one of its own investigations, assembling a federal grand jury in Maryland to review the mortgage fraud allegations made against Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). The probe raises questions for two top allies of President Trump: Ed Martin, who has been…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Thursday he did not agree with President Trump’s suggestion that a group of Democratic lawmakers be locked up or punished by death after they urged military service members to resist unlawful orders. Thune decried the comments made by the group of Democrats, all of whom served as military…
Comedian Jon Stewart went after President Trump and tech leaders over a visit this week with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “Jon, what do you think about all of the CEOs attending the White House dinner for MBS [Mohammed bin Salman]?” Brittany Mehmedovic, Stewart’s producer, asked on his “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart”…
One federal employee said in a court filing that they “cannot in good conscience pretend to agree with President Trump’s policies.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that the United States has assured his country’s “qualitative advantage” in the Middle East despite the President Trump’s plan to sell F-35 advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. The sale concerned Israeli and some U.S. officials about whether it could destabilize Israel’s so-called qualitative military edge (QME),…
The president’s preoccupation with the afterlife continues and his “transactional” theology is on display.
She also blamed reporters for “frustrating” the president.
A senior adviser to former President Biden slammed the Democratic Party for its “betrayal” of the leader during the 2024 campaign. “There have been three people who ran against Donald Trump, Joe Biden was the only one who ever beat him. I thought what happened in the party was disloyal, I thought it was an…
A former aide to President Trump during his first term said Thursday the White House needs to fix its economic messaging or risk significant Republican losses next November. “The White House needs to course correct its messaging asap or they will lose the midterms,” Caroline Sunshine said on the social platform X. The 30-year-old former…
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Thursday some Democrats’ names are likely to appear in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) documents on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein but brushed off the impending implication for when the documents are released. “So what?” Murphy told CNN anchor John Berman when asked if the names of Democrats could be…
The Republican ex-congresswoman said that while Dick Cheney was a powerful member of the GOP, he would never place party over country.
Cheney, who served as vice president under the presidency of George W. Bush, “died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.”