June 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM EDT
'Destroyed their credibility': MAGA turns on Trump officials unable to prove conspiracies

Several senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration are now finding themselves in the crosshairs of Trump's MAGA base, who are upset with their inability to follow through on promises to get to the bottom of unproven conspiracy theories. According to a Sunday report in the New York Times, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino have all experienced MAGA's wrath on multiple occasions since they were confirmed to their positions. Bondi was lambasted for giving far-right, pro-Trump activists binders full of material that was teased as new revelations about the late convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein, only to disappoint them once it was found that there was no new information contained in those binders.

June 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM EDT
'Don't have a violin small enough': Critics mock DOGE staff worried about losing jobs

Since President Donald Trump and Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk began their public feud, staffers at Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are now wondering whether they themselves will still have jobs in the Trump administration. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that DOGE staffers across multiple federal agencies -- whose jobs have mostly consisted of singling out probationary federal workers for mass layoffs -- are now in fear of losing their own employment given their ties to Musk. According to the Journal , the White House is defending DOGE's mass firings, though one former staffer who previously worked for Musk's quasi-agency expressed fear that DOGE itself may soon crumble.

June 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM EDT
Republican rep. warns the GOP is following Trump 'off a cliff' -- and he won't go with them

One moderate Republican member of the House of Representatives is arguing that the GOP needs to stake out its own identity outside of being a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) defended his more frequent public opposition to Trump's agenda as simply "being on the right side" of history. A retired brigadier general in the Air Force, Bacon is likely to decide soon whether to run for a sixth term in Congress or retire when his current term expires.

June 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM EDT
Humiliated Trump targets California

What is our moral responsibility as citizens of the United States when the President of the United States moves to deploy thousands of American soldiers against us? Trump signed a memo late yesterday ordering 2,000 members of the National Guard to be deployed in Los Angeles County after federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive day.

June 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM EDT
How 'absurd' Trump's 'obsession with' Biden could pave the way for greater abuses

Four and one-half months after former President Joe Biden left the White House, President Donald Trump is calling for an investigation of Biden's use of the autopen -- which, Trump claims, was used to hide his "cognitive decline." In an article published by The Atlantic on June 7, attorney Paul Rosenzweig argues that this probe is not only "absurd" -- it is also dangerous because it could pave the way for Trump to expand his abuse of the legal system.

June 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM EDT
Pam Bondi covers up Trump's 'dumb moves' with made-for-TV 'stunt': Top Dems

WASHINGTON - Democrats on Capitol Hill are nervously laughing off President Donald Trump's so-called investigation into Joe Biden's use of an autopen. Prominent Democratic senators who spoke to Raw Story at the Capitol on Thursday dismissed the effort -- passed through executive order and giving Attorney General Pam Bondi authority to launch a criminal probe -- as a made-for TV "political stunt."

June 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM EDT
Outrage as 'disgraceful' Trump abruptly fires longtime official with 'no explanation'

On May 8, President Donald Trump fired Dr. Carla Hayden -- the first African-American women to head the Library of Congress -- via e-mail. And four days later, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would be taking over the position. Trump's critics argued that Blanche was picked for one reason: He's a staunch, unwavering Trump loyalist. Hayden discussed the firing during an early June interview with CBS News' Robert Costa.

June 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM EDT
Former Trump lawyer says MAGA 'knife-fighting' is about to get a lot uglier

When the relationship between President Donald Trump and Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk went sour, it did so very quickly. Trump and Musk stood side by side in the White House on Friday, May 30 when the president held a media event to thank Musk for his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And Trump told reporters that although Musk's work with DOGE had ended, he looked forward to working with him in the future.

June 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM EDT
Former Republican bashes Trump for 'spreading a conspiracy theory' to deceive his base

During Barack Obama's presidency, then-Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Illinois) was known for being a Tea Party firebrand. But the Never Trump conservative recently made a bombshell announcement: He joined the Democratic Party. This doesn't mean that Walsh is becoming liberal or progressive, but rather, reflects his view that Donald Trump's second presidency represents an existential threat to U.S. democracy -- and that liberals, progressives, conservatives and libertarians will have to work together, policy differences and all, in order to save the country from sliding into authoritarianism.

June 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM EDT
'I want them to stop': Why right-wing media is staying out of the Trump-Musk feud

When President Donald Trump and Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk turned against one another, it happened very quickly. On Friday, May 30, Trump held a White House media event to thank Musk for his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And he told reporters that even though Musk's work with DOGE was over, he looked forward to working with him in the future.

June 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT
Two unvaccinated babies die of whooping cough in KY as disease rise is predicted to continue

Two unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Friday. These two deaths in infants, whose mothers were also not vaccinated against pertussis, are the first whooping cough deaths in Kentucky since 2018, the department said.

June 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM EDT
Republicans axed the 'green new scam' -- but it's a huge benefit for red states

WASHINGTON -- Clean energy manufacturers and advocates say they're perplexed how the repeal of tax credits in President Donald Trump's "one big beautiful bill" will keep their domestic production lines humming across the United States, particularly in states that elected him to the Oval Office. While some Republicans have labeled the billions in tax credits a "green new scam," statistics reviewed by State Newsroom show the jobs and benefits would boost predominantly GOP-leaning states and congressional districts. Now the industry is already slowing amid Trump's back-and-forth tariff policy and mixed messaging on energy and manufacturing.