In September 2018, as allegations of sexual misconduct against Brett M. Kavanaugh threatened his confirmation to the Supreme Court, President Trump vowed that the FBI would have “free rein” to vet the claims. Trump said the FBI was “talking to everybody” and added on social media: “I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, […]Read More

DORAL, Fla. — Former president Donald Trump on Monday suggested that Democrats have embraced antisemitism in a way Republicans have not, even as he has a long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropes and criticizing Jewish Democrats. “The anti-Jewish hatred has returned even here in America, in our streets, our media and our college campuses, […]Read More

After taking over the Democratic ticket, picking a running mate, staging a convention and turning in a strong debate performance, Vice President Kamala Harris is now embracing potentially the riskiest test of a presidential campaign — the day-to-day grind of unscripted interviews. This week alone, Harris is appearing on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” a Univision […]Read More

There are two theories that allies of Donald Trump promote to assert that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate. The first is that rampant fraud — maybe with mail-in ballots, maybe from voting machines, maybe both, maybe something else — resulted in Joe Biden earning more votes nationally and in the states he flipped from […]Read More

A Nevada politician was found guilty of taking money meant for a memorial honoring a police officer killed in the line of duty and spending it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Michele Fiore, a Republican justice of the peace and former Las Vegas City Council member, […]Read More

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to require doctors in Texas to perform certain emergency abortions when the procedure would conflict with the state’s strict abortion ban. The justices left in place a lower-court ruling that rejected the Biden administration’s claim that federal law requires access to emergency abortion care even in states that restrict […]Read More

The Republican Party in the Trump era has overwhelmingly embraced an all’s-fair-in-love-and-war approach to politics. That’s evidenced by the fire hose of misinformation flowing from Donald Trump and his allies late in the 2024 campaign. It’s one thing to deploy this approach on a candidate’s positions or qualifications; it’s another to do it when it […]Read More

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is not interested in talking about the 2020 election. “See, this is the game that is always played by mainstream media with leading Republicans. It’s a gotcha game,” Johnson said in response to a question on the subject from ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. “You want us to litigate […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump has long espoused a worldview in which genes are the determinative factor in someone’s life. In 1988, for example, he told Oprah Winfrey that success requires luck — and that “you have to be born lucky in the sense that you have to have the right genes.” In a 1990 interview, […]Read More

Donald Trump suggested Monday that people in the country illegally who have committed crimes have “bad genes,” the latest example of rhetoric by the former president that dehumanizes immigrants and disparages them in racial terms. Trump made the comment during an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt while criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on […]Read More