Trump injecting ‘real poison’ into the midterms puts GOP ‘in a weird spot’: analyst

  President Donald Trump is facing a huge problem in November, The Bulwark’s Sam Stein told MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire on “The Moment” Wednesday. The problem, he noted, is compounded by Trump’s inability to course-correct in a simple way that most candidates facing a huge backlash for their party would. The president is currently demanding … Read more

John Thune drops hammer on Trump’s push to rewrite Senate rules: ‘Facts don’t change’

  Senate Majority Leader John Thune issued a reality check to President Donald Trump on Monday, as the president continues to demand that senators rewrite their own rules. Trump has been demanding several changes to force his agenda through, including the elimination of the legislative filibuster, which has been a consistent obstacle to his SAVE … Read more

Kash Patel personally put The Atlantic ‘on notice’ over drinking claims: court docs

  FBI Director Kash Patel was behind threats made to stop claims about his drinking habits from becoming public, newly released documents reveal. Attorney Jesse Binnall sent a letter to The Atlantic hours before it published the story on April 17, 2026, demanding the outlet not publish. The Atlantic published anyway. Three days later, Patel … Read more

‘We’re going to have chaos’: Expert sounds the alarm after Trump DOJ’s election appeal

  President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice may be angling for a quiet victory at the Supreme Court with its latest bombshell move, according to one expert. Elie Honig, CNN’s senior legal analyst and a former federal prosecutor, sounded the alarm on Monday’s broadcast of “The Lead” after the DOJ appealed a lower court order … Read more

Trump’s Reflecting Pool vandalism story in tatters after damning witness testimony

  The Trump administration’s prosecution of an Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is already falling apart. According to NBC News, a witness before the grand jury in the case against David “Davey” Hearn “testified that the area was already damaged and would have required repairs regardless,” citing what lawyers continue … Read more

Trump’s strange parental boast draws startling comparison from MS NOW panel: ‘Weird stuff’

  President Donald Trump made an eye-popping boast at his Michigan rally on Monday — and it left a panel on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight” flabbergasted. “We’re 99 days away, and he’s all over the place,” said anchor Luke Russert, speaking to Media Matters chief Angelo Carusone. He then played a clip of Trump speaking … Read more

‘Admission of weakness’: Trump’s major war confession earns scathing rebuke from WSJ

  The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board expressed fury that the Trump administration projected a major vulnerability to Iran in the middle of wartime. New leaked reports indicate the White House was just briefed that the military is running out of critical missile supplies — a sign that even the current, tenuous war position … Read more