July 22, 2026 at 5:45 PM EDT
MAGA candidate begs voters not to investigate Trump's billionaire buddy

A staunch MAGA Republican is begging Michigan voters to elect him senator by arguing that if they do not, one of President Donald Trump's billionaire allies might be investigated for allegedly illegal actions costing millions of lives. In a fundraising appeal sent on Saturday and reported by the Detroit Metro Times on Wednesday, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) told voters that he would oppose any investigation of Trump's close ally and the world's richest man, X CEO Elon Musk. Rogers is the presumptive Republican nominee for that state's Senate race this year.

July 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM EDT
MAGA lawmaker forced to break with Trump when cornered by press

On Wednesday, when confronted with President Donald Trump's attempt to downplay the lethality of his war with Iran, MAGA-oriented Representative Pat Harrigan (R-NC) was forced to admit that he disagreed with the Commander in Chief after initially dancing around the truth. Harrigan was cornered by Spectrum News White House correspondent Reuben Jones, who first asked the lawmaker whether Trump was wrong when he claimed that Iran's military had been destroyed weeks ago.

July 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM EDT
Conservative lays waste to the 'death toll' of Trump's lies

Conservative CNN pundit SE Cupp had no patience to give for the cost of President Donald Trump's wasted campaign promises and the travesty of his deceit leading up to his 2024 election victory. Speaking on a Wednesday panel for "The Arena with Kasie Hunt," Cupp said the sheer lethalality of Trump's lies was a woeful betrayal of the neoconservative movement, which had already been reeling with the devastation of past Republican president's mendacity.

July 22, 2026 at 4:32 PM EDT
Trump decimated US international trust: military expert

There are already numerous signs that President Donald Trump has made America increasingly hated throughout the world, from the sour reception he received at the World Cup and military experts slamming his prosecution of the Iran War to reports that other countries no longer take him or his threats seriously. Yet according to a new commentary by an Army veteran, Trump has made it very difficult for America's own allies to trust the United States.

July 22, 2026 at 3:43 PM EDT
War brewing: Trump gathers fresh DOJ hounds to menace state officials

President Donald Trump is desperately searching for more staff who can help with his ongoing effort to target his foes. Bloomberg Law reported on Wednesday that the DOJ is quietly recruiting new prosecutors for a public corruption unit working inside the White House itself. Currently, the Justice Department has its own public corruption unit under the Public Integrity Section within the criminal division. It goes after elected and appointed public officials at all levels of government -- federal, state, and local -- who are suspected of criminal activity.

July 22, 2026 at 11:50 AM EDT
Ex-general warns Trump learning the hard way to 'never underestimate your enemy'

President Donald Trump is learning the hard way a lesson the military leaders know all too well, one retired lieutenant general wrote for The Bulwark: "never underestimate your enemy." Mark Hertling is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who previously served as the Commanding General for the United States Army Europe. On Wednesday, he published a new piece for The Bulwark, warning the Trump administration that "swagger is not a strategy."

July 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM EDT
MAGA hitting roadblocks in quest for total media domination: Nobel economist

MAGA Republicans and the Trump administration suffered a major setback when, on Monday, July 20, U.S. District Judge Araceli Mart?nez-Olgu?n blocked a Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery merger that, opponents of the deal say, would put President Donald Trump's allies in charge of CNN. The federal judge issued a 14-day restraining order, which liberal economist Paul Krugman is applauding as a positive development. Mart?nez-Olgu?n's restraining order doesn't kill the Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery merger altogether, but it does block it for two weeks.

July 22, 2026 at 11:26 AM EDT
Ex-congressman details signs Trump never plans on leaving the White House

President Donald Trump's highly publicized renovations to the White House are not just part of his obsession with remaking things in his own image, they are also a grim sign that he has no intention of actually leaving after his term ends, one former congressman argued for The Hill. In a new piece published Wednesday morning, a Democrat who served in the House from 2001 to 2017, said that Trump's efforts to sow doubt about election integrity is part of a larger scheme to create the pretense for contesting future results that do not go his way. This, the ex-lawmaker contended, very much includes the coming midterms, but also the 2028 presidential race, which goes hand-in-hand with his expanding "portfolio" of White House renovations.

July 22, 2026 at 11:22 AM EDT
Trump in 'politically impossible' bind as he finally loses most loyal supporters

MAGA has finally had it with President Donald Trump's Iran war, with just a third saying it is worth the economic costs -- a steep drop since May, when over half supported the commander-in-chief. This means that Trump is underwater with the one group that has remained loyal to him for a decade now. The poll, conducted by Politico , revealed a 13-point drop in just two months, and signaled that "the president's most die-hard supporters are starting to agree with the majority of Americans who have long opposed the U.S.' involvement in the war." What's more, the survey found that "37 percent of self-identified MAGA Trump voters say the U.S. should continue its involvement only if it doesn't increase costs, up from 29 percent who said the same in May ... Nearly 1 in 5 MAGA voters believe that the U.S. should end its war in Iran, regardless of the costs."

July 22, 2026 at 11:17 AM EDT
'You need a breather': Bill O'Reilly tells Trump he needs a 'month off' to 'relax'

Far-right ex-Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is telling President Donald Trump to take a month off to rest because he clearly needs it. The 80-year-old president has suffered some health problems during his first year in office. Swollen feet and legs, bruised hands, exhaustion, multiple doctor visits and frequent gaffes have led to questions about whether Trump can handle the high-stress job mentally and physically.

July 21, 2026 at 10:03 PM EDT
Humiliation as yet another Bondi bomb fizzles out: report

President Donald Trump's Justice Department continued its track record of humiliation defeats, this time over a special education classroom assistant in Minnesota who was detained while protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Former attorney general Pam Bondi was quick to post on X the arrest of protestors connected to Homeland Security in January, but on Tuesday Trump's own prosecutors in Minnesota surrendered charges against Christina Rank, who Bondi accused of attacking agents. The government lawyers themselves concluded they did not have enough evidence to proceed with a prosecution.

July 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM EDT
Panicking Trump facing 'a noose around his neck': expert

President Donald Trump is so concerned about Republicans losing control of Congress during the midterm elections that he has engaged in a number of measures to suppress votes, and he's delivered a Thursday speech justifying even further repressions. Yet as bad as Trump might fear things will become if Republicans are defeated, a journalist and Trump expert argued on Tuesday that his humiliations will in fact be even worse.