July 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM EDT
'He's gonna flip': Critics predict Fetterman revolt after joining forces with a Republican

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is widely regarded as one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, frequently abandoning his party during key votes to align himself with President Donald Trump. Now some political analysts believe Fetterman may ditch the Democrats altogether.

July 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM EDT
MAGA man arrested for 'lewd acts' at a Trump rally blames Antifa -- to a puppet

MAGA is getting more and more weird, says the Bulwark crew of Tim Miller, Sam Stein and Will Sommer. But MAGA's talent for blaming others for their personal depravities remains unchanged. MAGA social media influencer Gian Rachtelli, 54, was charged with lewd, indecent and obscene acts on the National Mall, allegedly while dressed as Uncle Sam during an acrobatic performance at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, according to police documents.

July 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM EDT
Humiliation as Trump walks back key economic claim

President Donald Trump has consistently received staunch support from farmers, who remain among his most loyal constituents to this day. Yet they have taken economic hit after economic hit from his policies of mass deportations, unprecedented tariffs and a war against Iran that has raised prices on fertilizer and fuel. Now Trump must walk back what he claimed was one of his major achievements: a supposed rise in beef exports. After initially claiming through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that American been exports had risen by 500 percent from the previous week, to 126,062 metric tons, Trump is now reversing himself.

July 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM EDT
Disillusioned MAGA peppering deep-red state with anti-Trump billboards

President Donald Trump's political movement has been widely compared to a cult -- and now billboards in Tennessee are offering adherents a way out. "Having Doubts? You Are Not Alone," proclaims the advertisement for the website "Leaving MAGA" along Nashville's Interstate 40, according to a report by The Tennessean on Thursday. Its founder, Rich Logis, told the publication that he is trying to provide former Trump supporters -- like him -- with a safe space to leave the right-wing movement.

July 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM EDT
Republican governor thwarts his own pardon of indicted GOP ally

No sooner did news break last week that a New Orleans grand jury had indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, Gov. Jeff Landry got on social media and promised to pardon her. But now Baton Rouge, La. newspaper The Advocate says Landry may have loused up his own promise with his hard-on-crime anti-pardon policies.

July 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM EDT
White House goes ballistic on embarrassing MS NOW report

The New Republic reports an MS NOW journalist may have struck a nerve in the Trump administration after reporting that President Donald Trump ditched his new Qatari jet for security reasons. MS NOW's Carol Leonnig reported Wednesday evening that the president unexpectedly swapped his luxurious $400 million Qatari gift for his old Air Force One on his trip from the NATO summit in Turkey to the U.K. Leonnig and others argued this is likely due to concerns about the aircraft's defense systems. She noted the new Air Force One didn't have the necessary communications and defensive capabilities for "safe travel amid Iran hostilities."

July 9, 2026 at 5:39 PM EDT
Hunter Biden tears into infuriating MAGA double standard

President Donald Trump is allegedly benefiting from a double standard in which his health issues are not scrutinized as much as those of his Democratic predecessor -- at least, according to a child of that same former president. "I'm never gonna convince Jake Tapper that my father was perfectly capable of executing his charge as president of the United States the entire time he was president of The United States," Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, told journalist Tommy Christopher for a Substack interview for Jim Acosta in an interview published on Thursday. The younger Biden was referring to Trump's repeated gaffes and alleged signs of dementia, which became particularly prominent during his recent trip to Turkey.

July 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM EDT
Trump relying on advice from White House 'quacks': whistleblower

In a normal presidential administration, the kooks get corralled far away from the president's ear so they can do the least damage and annoy the minimum amount of serious people. But that was in other more responsible administrations, said Miles Taylor, President Donald Trump's first-term whistleblower. "In my two-and-a-half years inside the first Trump administration, I saw how ideas " traveled," Taylor wrote on his Defiance website. "In a normal administration, layers of lawyers and advisors weed out wacky notions before they get to the president. In Trump world, it happens the other way around. He 'mainlines' recommendations from quacks -- who go straight to him with their off-the-wall, unconstitutional, and impossible ideas -- then dumps them onto his advisors."

July 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM EDT
Trump official doing something unprecedented -and a former FBI agent says it's dangerous

President Donald Trump's beleaguered FBI director, Kash Patel, is doing something unprecedented through his personal use of government resources, according to a former special FBI agent. "The organization is going to be taken less seriously by the American public," former FBI staffer Michael Feinberg told MS NOW's Alicia Menendez on Thursday. "And that's just not a reputational harm. The FBI is only as successful as its ability to talk to people on the street, whether victims of crime, witnesses to horrific events, or even putative subjects themselves, and establish rapport and trust and know that the conversations and interactions are going to be taken with the utmost seriousness."

July 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM EDT
'We've lost our sense of shame': Trump insider blasts president's grifting

A former communications director for President Donald Trump is warning that the Republican leader and his supporters are shameless about one big issue. "Answer these questions: Are you allowed to insider trade in Congress?" Anthony Scaramucci, who worked for the president during his first term, posted on X on Thursday. "Can the president do his so-called businessman's deals? Is any of this actually legal?"

July 9, 2026 at 11:59 AM EDT
US naval commander dies as Trump declares ceasefire 'over'

On Tuesday, a U.S. naval commander who crashed in the Arabian Sea was declared dead. That very day, President Donald Trump was at the NATO summit in Turkey, casually announcing that the ceasefire with Iran was "over" with no mention of the costs of war being borne by Americans and people around the world. According to the New Republic , "The missing soldier was identified Tuesday as Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5 commanding officer Gabriel Edwards. He and three other soldiers were forced to emergency-land their helicopter in the Arabian Sea on July 1. While the others were rescued, Edwards was declared officially dead after 102 hours -- over four days -- of searching."

July 9, 2026 at 11:56 AM EDT
Trump family's fortunes tumble by $600m as company faces 'deep downturn'

Although Donald Trump once dismissed Bitcoin as a "scam" and argued that cryptocurrencies are "based on thin air," the U.S. president and his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are now all in for crypto -- from the Trump Family's World Liberty Financial to the American Bitcoin Corp., which Eric Trump co-founded. President Trump's net worth his way up, estimated to be $6.5 billion by Forbes. But according to Bloomberg News reporters Tom Maloney and Olga Kharif, problems with the American Bitcoin Corp. have decreased the Trump family's fortunes by $600 million.