Politics

Trump eases pressure on Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh as inflation tops 4%

2 hours agoCenter

President Donald Trump's economic advisers are giving Warsh space as the new Fed chairman on interest rates as the president repeats calls to cut.

Read Full Story at Source

Compare Perspectives

Found 8 stories

Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information

US news | The Guardian

25 minutes ago

Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information

Ex-national security adviser turned Trump critic could face prison for sharing classified information with relativesUS politics live – latest updatesJohn Bolton, the former US national security adviser who became an arch-enemy of Donald Trump after serving under him and then being fired, pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of mishandling classified information that could result in him going to prison.Bolton admitted the charge, as widely anticipated, in an appearance at a federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, in a plea deal designed to produce a lesser sentence by reducing the seriousness of the accusations against him. Continue reading...

Center Left

Read →

Ex-Trump official John Bolton pleads guilty to 1 of 18 counts in classified docs indictment

Latest Political News on Fox News

1 hour ago

Ex-Trump official John Bolton pleads guilty to 1 of 18 counts in classified docs indictment

As expected, former National Security Advisor John Bolton pleaded guilty to retaining classified documents and his sentencing is set for October.

Right

Read →

John Bolton, Former Trump Adviser, Pleads Guilty in Classified Information Case

NYT > U.S. > Politics

1 hour ago

John Bolton, Former Trump Adviser, Pleads Guilty in Classified Information Case

Mr. Bolton admitted to mishandling classified information and could face time in prison, in an inquiry that spanned the Trump and Biden administrations.

Center Left

Read →

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty in classified information case – US politics live

US news | The Guardian

1 hour ago

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty in classified information case – US politics live

Bolton pleads guilty to charges that he unlawfully retained sensitive national security information in agreement that includes $2.25m fineSign up for the Breaking News US emailAs we’ve been reporting, the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool will have to be drained again. Donald Trump has blamed vandalism for the failure to keep the water “American flag blue”. But what if this small body of water is proof that the president can’t outrun the truth?In the latest edition of our Politics Weekly America podcast, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Arwa Mahdawi about why this project, which has cost the taxpayer millions of dollars, is proving to be such an embarrassing failure for a man obsessed with image. Continue reading...

Center Left

Read →

Fed-up Republican blurts quiet part out loud as Trump 'yells election fraud'

Raw Story

1 hour ago

Fed-up Republican blurts quiet part out loud as Trump 'yells election fraud'

A Republican lawmaker upended the rationale for President Donald Trump's legislative obsession.The 80-year-old president is demanding congressional Republicans pass his SAVE America Act to prevent widespread election fraud, which he continues to insist cost him the presidency in 2020, but Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called those claims absurd."I think it's a distraction from our real problems," Massie said. "I think it's ironic that we control the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."Massie lost his Republican primary race last month to the Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein after the congressman angered the president for successfully pushing for the release of the Department of Justice files on Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious sex offender and longtime Trump friend.Trump abruptly canceled a scheduled signing of bipartisan legislation intended to bring down housing costs, and he repeated his demand that he would not sign anything until Congress approves the SAVE America Act, which critics say would disenfranchise millions of voters.

Far Left

Read →

John Bolton, former Trump national security adviser, pleads guilty in classified documents case

NPR Topics: News

1 hour ago

John Bolton, former Trump national security adviser, pleads guilty in classified documents case

Bolton pleaded guilty to one count of retaining national defense information while he was a national security adviser during President Trump's first term, saying: "And I am sorry for it."

Center

Read →

'Stonewalled': Trump hitting a brick wall with his latest obsession

Alternet.org

1 hour ago

'Stonewalled': Trump hitting a brick wall with his latest obsession

President Donald Trump continues to double down on his voter fraud fixation, repeating the widely debunked claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him and pressuring the U.S. Senate to pass the SAVE America Act as soon as possible — even if it means ditching the Senate filibuster. But according to Axios reporter Brittany Gibson, Trump's voter fraud claims are not serving him or fellow Republicans well."President Trump's voter fraud crusade is crashing into the limits of his power ahead of November's midterm elections," Gibson explains in Axios. "Why it matters: Trump has made cracking down on alleged mass voter fraud a priority, but his election-related executive orders are stalled in court and his legislative fix is stuck in the Senate…. Senate Republicans have defied Trump on the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote."Gibson continues, "Trump has retaliated by threatening not to sign any legislation without it. But Senate Republicans insist they don't have the votes to pass it, even if they tried to gut their own rules in the process."The Axios reporter emphasizes that resistance to his voter fraud obsession is coming not only from GOP lawmakers, but also, from federal courts that have "stonewalled" him."A D.C. court, on Monday, blocked Trump's expansion of the SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) database — to scan local voter files for noncitizens," Gibson reports. "The new database created a centralized list that includes data on U.S. citizens, not just immigrants. Another district court in Boston ruled, on Wednesday, against the implementation of one of Trump's first executive orders demanding a citizenship verification at registration. "Gibson adds, "The administration is expected to appeal. This could eventually escalate the cases to the Supreme Court, which recently ruled in Trump's favor on immigration policy-related cases."Trump's "defeats" in court, according to Gibson, "have raised the stakes for passing the SAVE America Act" — which he is describing as a "national emergency." "Instances of voter fraud are rare, but searching for cases has become a priority for the executive branch," Gibson reports. "ICE agents and attorneys have been querying local election officials for specific voter files for 'ongoing cases.' They've obtained voter files in Webb County in Texas and Forsyth County in North Carolina. The Homeland Security Department installed election integrity activist Heather Honey, best known for questioning elections and voter rolls accuracy in Pennsylvania and Arizona, as a deputy assistant secretary. The Department of Justice is also suing multiple states to gain access to their voter rolls."

Left

Read →

Trump should force Congress to pass the SAVE America Act — now

Blaze Media

2 hours ago

Trump should force Congress to pass the SAVE America Act — now

I have been adamant throughout our months of Iran coverage that President Trump needs to turn his attention back home and start using his domestic political leverage to address our problems here.So watching him threaten not to sign the housing bill Congress just passed unless lawmakers also pass the SAVE America Act is music to my ears.We live in an era of survival. The enemy is an unrelenting demonic construct, and my conscience tells me without ambiguity that it must be defeated before we are.Demanding election integrity is exactly the sort of fight Trump should pick. The housing bill is already divisive within the MAGA base, so the president risks little political capital by holding it up. If anything, he is postponing an internal coalition fight he will eventually need to have while using his leverage to improve his overall bargaining position.This maneuver should not be necessary. Trump’s own party controls Congress for the time being. But we have to live in the world as it is. And in the world as it is, John Thune (R-S.D.) still sucks.If Trump vetoes a housing bill that does not include the SAVE Act, I would wager the odds are roughly 50-50 that Congress overrides him. In a strange way, that might not be the worst outcome. An override could provoke Trump to get Hulk-mad on the domestic front, which is exactly where we need his attention from now through the midterms and beyond.I do not see a real loss here for the president unless he caves.He cannot pick this fight now and fail to follow through. This is a game of chicken. As “The Hunt for Red October” taught us, the hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch.It is also almost America’s 250th birthday. Asking Congress to protect one of the people’s birthrights — free and fair elections — seems modest enough. It is one of the main reasons we are celebrating at all.Good thing, then, that “The Art of the Deal” has always been Trump’s favorite hill to die on. He is a subject-matter expert in leverage-based negotiation. This is his game.Get busy living or get busy dying.The meter is running not only on Trump’s presidency but on the fate of the entire nation. New York, for example, continues to be handed over to Islamic socialists.Three Democratic congressional district primaries just went exactly the way socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) wanted them to go as he turns the Big Apple into his own private Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, too many of the Republicans we regularly vote for have no interest in reading the signs of the times, assuming they are capable of reading them at all.That is why voters turned to Trump in the first place. It is also why he is almost all they have to rely on right now.What kind of political party needs to be leveraged into passing legislation that would make it easier for that party to win elections — and that an overwhelming majority of the people want passed?RELATED: America turns 250 with a broken heart Matthew Hatcher/AFP/Getty ImagesHow politically brain-dead does that sound when you say it out loud?But that is the GOP for you.Decades of such institutional stupidity have made our politics more existentially binary than ever. We are out of options other than making the best use of what we have. It is Team GOP or bust.I desperately dislike being in that position. In fact, I have spent much of my career trying to avoid such a fate. But again, we have to live in the world as it is.You may have deep theological or philosophical disagreements with members of your government that, in another era, would not be reconcilable. But that is not the era we inhabit.We live in an era of survival. The enemy is an unrelenting demonic construct, and my conscience tells me without ambiguity that it must be defeated before we are.Two worldviews enter. One must leave. That is the only playbook before the GOP, whether the party understands it or not. Our team is on the field.One way or another, I plan to win.

Right

Read →