Trump Corruption

“Let me just tell you that I have today the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had. I have today the highest poll numbers of any Republican president ever. We haven’t even checked the Democrats, but that’s what I was just told. And they like the job that we’re doing. They like the job that Elon’s doing. He’s doing something that …

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge in Maryland on Friday temporarily blocked key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government and corporate America. U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson granted a preliminary injunction, blocking portions of Trump’s orders to cancel federal contracts concerning DEI and make government contractors …

The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency while the lawyer’s challenge to his firing moves forward. But the court’s brief, unsigned order indicated that it may soon return to the issue, noting that a trial judge’s temporary restraining order is set …

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump said he is weighing a move that would absorb the US Postal Service, an independent agency, into the Department of Commerce, a sweeping change that comes as his administration looks to overhaul the US federal government. Asked about a move to shift the agency into the Commerce Department, Trump said the idea he is …

The Hill reports: In remarks Friday afternoon, Trump repeated the false claim that two female Olympic boxers were transgender and touted a recent order meant to ban trans athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, including at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He asked Maine Gov. Janet Mills, who attended Friday’s event, whether she would direct her …

Newsweek reports: A Republican group is hoping to rally support to change the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to seek a third term. The “Third Term Project” presented its proposals at the CPAC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Thursday. Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced a House joint resolution in …

The Hill reports: Mass firings are set to hit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “imminently,” a source with knowledge told The Hill. The person, who asked to speak anonymously due to fear of reprisal, said the agency had not yet been subjected to the steep cuts announced elsewhere due to the then-pending confirmation of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. …

The Bulwark reports: The Department of Energy spent this week trying to contain the fallout from its DOGE-directed firing and rehiring of a brace of nuclear safety officials by painting them as non-critical staff who “held primarily administrative and clerical roles.” But this wasn’t close to true, current and recently retired NNSA employees tell The Bulwark. In fact, one of …

The New York Times reports: The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket company had been accused of discriminating against people based on their citizenship status. In an unopposed motion filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Justice Department said it intended …

Gizmodo reports: Elon Musk is not happy with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking program that adds notes to correct misinformation on his social media platform X. And the billionaire says he’s now going to “fix” Community Notes so that it agrees with him, claiming without evidence that it’s being manipulated by governments and the media. Why is Musk upset? It …

“Scott Bessent actually went there and was treated rather rudely, because essentially, they told him no and Zelensky was sleeping and unavailable to meet him. He traveled many hours on the train, which is a dangerous trip, and we’re talking about the secretary of the Treasury. He went there to get a document signed, and when he got there, he …

The Independent reports: Despite promises on the campaign trail that his administration would not touch Social Security, and claiming that his Democratic rivals are the ones trying to end it, Trump and the world’s wealthiest man and his allies are trying to justify cuts to Social Security and federal health programs Medicare and Medicaid to come up with Musk’s target …

Politico reports: Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia vowed Thursday that he would not be “silenced” after receiving a letter from the Department of Justice demanding he explain remarks critical of Elon Musk. In a post on X, Garcia shared the letter he received from Ed Martin [photo], the top federal prosecutor in Washington, who has repeatedly threatened to investigate President Donald …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil. Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of …

Reuters reports: The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt President Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C. federal court is temporary while …

The New York Times reports: President Donald Trump phoned Team USA on Thursday morning to express his support ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game against Canada, after he had already stoked simmering political tensions that morning in a post to his Truth Social account in which he once again referred to Canada as the “Fifty First State” and …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The Presidio Trust, a federal agency charged with running and protecting the historic San Francisco park, should be “eliminated” because it is “unnecessary,” according to an executive order issued by the White House on Wednesday night. The order calls for cutting all federal funding to the Presidio Trust that is not legally necessary. The order, titled …

NBC News reports: A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Wednesday declined the Justice Department’s request to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, setting up a potential emergency application to the Supreme Court. Legal experts have said Trump’s order conflicted with the Fourteenth Amendment, which extends American citizenship to anyone …

“We’ve also required that all federal employees must once again show up to work. It’s a new phenomenon, you know, since COVID showed up, to work in person like the rest of us. So, I mean, it doesn’t work when you don’t show up. “And I see companies now are all going back to it. They’re all going back. It’s …

Yahoo Sports reports: Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested on Tuesday while protesting during a city council meeting in Huntington Beach, California. Kluwe, 43, was protesting the city’s approval of a public library plaque that was designed to use words to spell out “MAGA.” “’MAGA’ is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, ‘MAGA’ is explicitly a Nazi movement,” …