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Kristi Noem quietly removed from Trump envoy role amid admin reshuffling: reportKristi Noem is no longer serving in the diplomatic role President Donald Trump gave her after removing her as Homeland Security secretary, CBS News reported Thursday. Her designation as a special envoy for the Shield of the Americas expired last month, a State Department official told the network. She remains in the MAGA administration, working on the…
Chaos engulfs Education Dept over Trump’s ‘cartoon’ student loans plan: reportThe Trump administration’s rush to spin off the Education Department’s student loan office has thrown the agency into chaos, with one official involved in the planning dismissing the effort as “basically just a cartoon,” The Washington Sun reported Thursday. Current and former officials told The Sun the department is taking a chaotic approach that is…
‘Something is up’: Ex-GOP operative alarmed as shady Trump deal points to Ukraine blackoutFormer Republican strategist Tim Miller says several recent developments, taken together, suggest closer coordination among President Trump, Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin heading into the midterms. He stressed he isn’t alleging a plot or speculating beyond what he sees — but that the timing of everything is suspicious. On a podcast for The Bulwark ,…
Trump operatives caught torching his ‘Golden Goose’ in misleading attack mailer: reportPresident Donald Trump's own political operation is quietly attacking Democrats over an industry the president has spent months hyping as a windfall. No Going Back PAC, an offshoot of Trump's super PAC MAGA Inc ., sent out a mailer targeting Jamie Ager, the Democrat running in North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, for being "open to large AI data…
Trump officials’ ‘bad weather’ excuse threatens to blow scandal wide open: ex-DHS officialA former Trump administration official says a flimsy excuse from U.S. officials could crack open a new scandal over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia. In a Thursday column , Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in Trump’s first term, argued that a string of events over the past week amounts to…
GOP analyst comes unglued over nonsensical Trump 'blood money' plan: 'Nefarious!'A GOP analyst came unglued on CNN on Thursday while discussing President Donald Trump's plan to send "blood money" to Russia in exchange for a little diesel fuel. Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, told CNN's Boris Sanchez that Trump's plan to import Russian diesel fuel in an attempt to offset high costs ahead of the…
Trump aide’s firm quietly pocketed millions from crypto giant his law now governs: WSJA Trump White House crypto adviser's family business quietly collected millions from a company with everything riding on the law he was shepherding. Bo Hines , who led the Trump administration's push for the Genius Act stablecoin law, kept a one-third stake in his consulting firm Nxum while Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, steered millions…