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White House 'money laundering operation' exposed by ex-DOJ pardon attorney: 'Shady'After records revealed the donors behind President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, former Justice Department pardon attorney Liz Oyer called the project “basically a money laundering operation.” Oyer made the charge Thursday in a YouTube video reacting to a Washington Post investigation published that morning. The Post obtained an internal…
Fact-checkers wreck Trump's 'phony' inflation claims from all angles: 'He's misstating'President Donald Trump is citing precise inflation numbers on the campaign trail that CNN’s Daniel Dale says can’t be squared with the data, and the White House hasn’t said where they came from. At a Tuesday rally in Alaska , Trump said inflation had been “1.7” over the last three months and that former President Joe Biden had “real inflation of 19…
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…
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…
Trump voters scold president to start ‘taking care of the people in your country’: NYTSome voters who sent President Donald Trump back to the White House have a pointed message for him ahead of the midterms . Grocery shoppers who backed Trump in 2024 told The New York Times for a Wednesday report that rising prices have left several of them frustrated, with a retired nurse in Maine telling the president, "you should be taking care of the…
Trump admin just revealed the best evidence GOP is ‘probably in for a drubbing’: analysisPresident Donald Trump’s economic agenda is coming back to bite him as voters face rising prices and paychecks that aren’t keeping up, according to a new Slate analysis . Politics writer Ian Prasad Philbrick argued Wednesday that booming stocks and relatively low unemployment offer little comfort to Americans more concerned about affording groceries,…