April 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM EDT
GOP senator's pro-Hegseth tweet mocked with photo of him 'hiding behind a chair' on Jan. 6

Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is fighting to stay in his role in the midst of another texting-related scandal. And one Senate Republican's social media post defending him is being met with mockery and ridicule. Hegseth is now being accused of including his wife and his attorney in a text message containing highly sensitive attack plans that were sent using his own personal device, rather than a secure government phone. The scandal has resulted in a call from within the House Republican Conference for President Donald Trump to fire Hegseth, though Trump has so far stood by the former part-time weekend Fox News host.

April 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM EDT
'I like how everybody is shouting at me': Byron Donalds melts down at town hall hecklers

A recent town hall meeting by U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds' (R-Fla.) appeared just as fiery as that of other Republicans. Groans began as Donalds explained how South African centibillionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was "going through every agency and they're examining any contracts or lack of efficiencies in spending federal dollars," forcing him to ask the crowd "are you going to allow me to answer the question?"

April 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM EDT
'Hypocrisy doesn't bother them': George Conway buries Hegseth over latest texting scandal

Conservative attorney and activist George Conway marveled that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has to be told not to include his spouse and friends in top secret military correspondence. "It is just absolutely crazy. " Do you need the memo? Do you need to see the memo, 'don't text war plans to your friends?'" Conway demanded of MSNBC host Michael Steele while discussing Hegseth's second notable blunder sharing classified discussions.

April 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM EDT
Megyn Kelly unleashes on Pope Francis just one day after his death

Pope Francis -- who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- died on Monday. While most Catholics around the world mourned the pontiff in prayer and reflection on his legacy, SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly used her first episode after his death to attack the late bishop of Rome. The Daily Beast reported Monday that Kelly -- who was a Fox News commentator and NBC host before her pivot to podcasting -- was particularly critical of Francis' progressive legacy when it came to immigration and poverty. She accused the pope of moving the Catholic Church "in a leftward direction" when it came to his compassion for immigrants. Just one day before he died, Francis used his Easter address to call out hostility toward immigrants. The address came just after Vice President JD Vance visited the Vatican on Easter Sunday.

April 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM EDT
'The Empire is a white supremacist organization': Star Wars show to take on Trump 2.0

Premiering this week, the second and final season of Star Wars streaming show Andor seems destined to be one of the pop culture defining moments of the second Trump presidency. Andor, which began airing in 2022, tells the story of the early days of the Rebel Alliance before the adventures of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. The series is the most politically articulate of the Star Wars franchise.

April 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM EDT
'Desperate': Ex-White House staffer rips Miller for saying J6ers were denied 'due process'

Andrew Bates, former White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary in former President Joe Biden's administration, called out one of President Donald Trump's top advisors for saying that those sentenced for storming the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, did not receive "due process." "The most corrupt administration in U.S. history is getting even more desperate," Bates wrote on the social platform X on Monday in response to a post by White House advisor Stephen Miller saying that the system was rigged against Jan 6. rioters.

April 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM EDT
'I don't know about that man': GOP lawmaker slammed for calling Black congressman a slur

A clip from a podcast did not go over well on social media as commenters dragged U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) for calling U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) "boy." "Gosh dang it, boy. Put that - He does not need that cane. That cane is a prop. I swear it's not real," Harshbarger said in the clip first posted by Heartland Signal on X. "And I'm wondering, one of my colleagues said unscrew the gold part off of it and see if there's a gun in there. I don't know about that man. He's just Weird Al."

April 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM EDT
'Brainwashed': Columnist tears into 'gullible' Trump voters who bought into 'obvious lies'

After nearly 100 days into President Donald Trump's second term, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky is wondering who were the "gullible" people buying the lies before November. "How many times did Trump say he'd end [the Ukraine] war on the first day of his presidency?" Tomasky asks. "It had to have been hundreds. I saw a lot of those clips on cable news over the weekend ". He did not mean it figuratively. You know, in the way people will say, 'I'll change that from day one,' and you know they don't literally mean day one, but they do mean fast. But that isn't what Trump said. He meant it literally. He used the phrase" in 24 hours" many, many times. So, I ask you: Who really believed that?"

April 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM EDT
'We're in it': Economist gives 3 reasons US is 'jumping into recession'

The ongoing slide in financial markets is now prompting one economist to declare that the United States is already in a recession, according to several key indicators. Typically, an economy is only considered to be in a recession after two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The last time that happened was during the Covid-19 pandemic and the shock it caused in mass layoffs, business closures and the total meltdown of the global supply chain. But during a Monday appearance on CNBC, Neil Dutta -- who is the head of economics at Renaissance Macro Research (RenMac) -- told "Squawk on the Street" anchor Sarah Eisen that there were several telling signs that the U.S. economy was already in negative territory.

April 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM EDT
'Cannot protect her own bag': Noem viciously mocked after purse is stolen in DC restaurant

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem was mocked on social media Monday after CNN reported that her purse carrying $3,000 was stolen in a restaurant in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night. CNN analyst Jeffrey Gold wrote on the social platform X, "Who carries $3,000 in cash, except criminals?"

April 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM EDT
'Moment of national emergency': WI insider details game plan for fighting Trump

Wisconsin, along with Pennsylvania and Michigan, was once considered part of the Democratic Party's "Blue Wall" in presidential elections. But Donald Trump, in 2016, became the first Republican to carry Wisconsin in a presidential race since Ronald Reagan in 1984 -- and he won Wisconsin again in 2024 after losing it to Joe Biden in 2020. Wisconsin -- which has a GOP senator (Ron Johnson) and a Democratic senator (Tammy Baldwin) -- is, like Pennsylvania and Michigan, neither reliably Democratic nor reliably Republican. Democrats celebrated when liberal Justice-elect Susan Crawford defeated the Elon Musk-backed Brad Schimel in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race by roughly 10 percent on April 1, but during the race, they took nothing for granted.

April 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM EDT
'Mafia Boss': Legal experts sound alarm as Trump White House 'sabotages itself with unbridled hostility'

Legal analysts have raised concerns about President Donald Trump's continuing conflict with the judiciary, warning that the administration's disregard for judges is steering the country toward a constitutional crisis. The Free Press spoke with a number of legal commentators for an article published Sunday, and many questioned the administration's move to defy the Supreme Court over the wrongful deportation of a Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to a notorious prison in El Salvador.