December 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM EST
Trump's own agencies are pointing fingers at each other to blame for arrest flubs

Two federal agencies under President Donald Trump are pointing fingers at each other after another major arrest flub. The Miami Herald's David Goodhue broke a story this week of a U.S. citizen being pulled from a car and detained. The woman was driving her boyfriend's car, and since he is an undocumented immigrant, they were after him.

December 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM EST
Did Trump inadvertently pardon the J6 pipe bomber?

CNN reports Brian Cole Jr., the suspect arrested in the nearly five-year investigation into who planted two viable pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the January 6, 2021 attack, was a supporter of President Donald Trump and a believer in his election conspiracy theories. And now, some critics are wondering whether his involvement in activities related to the insurrection grant him a pardon. On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, Trump issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that effectively pardoned nearly all of the approximately 1,600 people charged or convicted for offenses related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM EST
Trump DOJ asks judge to jail Jan. 6 defendant after being caught near top Democrat's home

One pardoned January 6 defendant has attracted the attention of President Donald Trump's Department of Justice after he was seen in the vicinity of a high-ranking congressional Democrat's home. Politico reported Thursday that 37 year-old Taylor Taranto, who received a pardon from Trump on the first day of his second term along with the other roughly 1,500 participants in the January 6, 2021 insurrection, was recently caught wandering the neighborhood of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols to have Taranto incarcerated.

December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM EST
'79 year-old kid': Joe Rogan mocks Trump's 'ridiculous' texting style

Podcaster Joe Rogan recently revealed that President Donald Trump often sends him text messages out of the blue, and ridiculed his style as childish. That's according to a Thursday article in The Daily Beast, which reported that Rogan said the president texts like a "79 year-old kid" while interviewing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on his podcast. He further described him as "an odd guy."

December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM EST
Trump DOJ 'failed' to clear 'low bar' in convincing grand jury to re-indict New York AG

Despite President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) promising to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), a Virginia grand jury has declined to return an indictment. CNN reported Thursday that despite a judge dismissing the criminal charges against James just 10 days ago, the DOJ's latest attempt to re-indict New York's top law enforcement official has failed. Prosecutors have been attempting to indict James on charges of mortgage fraud after Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue James and other political opponents.

December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM EST
Ex-JAG officer reveals how Trump's Pentagon officials breached 'red line you cannot cross'

One retired Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) officer says officials in President Donald Trump's Pentagon may have been aware they were breaking international law when carrying out a controversial strike in September. During a Thursday interview with CNN, Dan Maurer -- a 22-year U.S. Army veteran who served as a military attorney -- broke down how legal experts within the Department of Defense regularly advise top commanders of sensitive missions before a strike is carried out. He explained that the process is particularly relevant given the recent closed-door testimony of Admiral Frank M. Bradley, who led the September 2, 2025 operation in which two survivors of a boat strike in the Caribbean Sea were killed in a secondary strike.

December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM EST
'Throwing Americans aside': Trump ripped for focus on ballroom while cost of living spikes

The White House reportedly will be submitting plans for President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom to a federal planning commission later this month, after the East Wing of the White House has already been demolished and as the president replaces the project's top architect. "The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will dwarf the White House itself, at nearly double the size, and President Donald Trump has said it will accommodate 999 people," the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM EST
Fox host admits layoffs under Trump at highest point in decades

Layoffs in the United States have surpassed 1.1 million in 2025, according to a new report. And even one Fox Business host who is typically in President Donald Trump's corner is taking notice of the dire economic picture heading into 2026. During a Thursday segment on Fox Business, Maria Bartiromo - who Trump was reportedly considering naming as his running mate in 2024 -- read the details of the report aloud on her show, and remarked to panelist John Lonski that she had previously pressed Trump about the impact of new technology on jobs.

December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM EST
Top House Republican caught on hot mic criticizing GOP colleague

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was recently heard discussing California's mid-decade redistricting plans -- which included criticism of one of his Republican colleagues for running against an incumbent GOP member of Congress. Spectrum News reporter Cassie Semyon posted the clip of Issa's remarks to X on Thursday, in which he's heard speaking to someone whose face is not shown about the upcoming Republican primary in California's newly redrawn 40th Congressional District. That race pits Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) against Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) due to new district lines imposed by California's Prop 50, which voters overwhelmingly approved in November.

December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM EST
Republicans 'making fools of themselves' as reality threatens to 'shove them out of power'

John Harwood says the Republican Party's current opposition to popular "Obamacare" subsidies for millions of Americans is on track with the party's stubborn grip on the wrong side of arguments throughout history. "They said Washington lacked the competence to run [the Social Security System], that the nation couldn't afford it, that it would impoverish the working class," Harwood tells Zeteo. "A 'cruel hoax,' declared the Republican Party's leader."

December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM EST
Trump-era 'brain drain' pushing core agency into deep crisis

After President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, his administration aggressively downsized a long list of federal government agencies with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its then-leader, Tesla/SpaceX/X.com head Elon Musk. Trump claimed that his goal was reducing "waste, fraud and abuse," but critics of the Trump Administration/DOGE cuts argued that they were robbing the agencies of crucial personnel they need in order to function properly -- from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to the National Weather Service (NWS) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM EST
Trump ally 'gave away the game' by ignoring request for public Jack Smith testimony

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) "prefers secrecy to sunlight" when it comes to his probe of former counsel Jack Smith, writes MS NOW's Steve Benen. House Republicans, led by Jordan, subpoenaed Smith for a closed-door deposition on December 17, 2025, as part of their oversight investigation into his probes into President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents.