Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements. Awards and Professional Memberships Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association
The Maine House majority leader is vowing to counter any move by the Republican governor of Nebraska that would give Trump the state’s lone split electoral college vote.
Trump looked worn out, worn down, and broken as he left court ranting about various things in America that aren’t really happening.
Trump’s regular falling asleep in court was pointed out by the Biden campaign which pointed out that the ex-president is feeble and tired.
President Biden put the pressure on Trump, as he told Howard Stern that he is willing to debate the ex-president.
President Biden has responded to The New York Times complaining about not getting an interview with him by giving Howard Stern an exclusive interview.
Low energy Trump has returned to court as he is taking a deep sleep nap as his lawyer cross examines David Pecker.
Trump made a massive mistake as he tried to change the subject from David Pecker’s testimony by calling the racist attack in Charlottesville nothing.
Trump’s effort to get a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll case wasn’t just rejected by Judge Kaplan. It was crushed.
Donald Trump has been complaining that he can’t campaign due to the criminal trial, but when the court was out of session, the ex-president was playing golf.
Trump’s lawyer made outlandish claims of broad and comprehensive presidential immunity that liberal and conservative justices seemed not to buy.
The RNC’s Chief Election Integrity Counsel, Christina Bobb, has been indicted for her role in the Arizona fake elector scheme.
Seven Trump allies and lawyers were indicted along with all of the fake electors for the 2020 coup plot to overturn the Arizona election results.
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) reviewed the numbers and showed that Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to win Pennsylvania.
President Biden took down Trump and said that when the ex-president injected bleach, it missed his vein and went to his hair.
A new poll from Quinnipiac University reveals that the vast majority of Americans following Trump’s trial, believe he did something illegal or wrong, and if he is convicted, it will wreck his chances.
Michigan prosecutors consider Donald Trump a co-conspirator in the GOP plot to use false electors to overturn the 2020 election.
The Pennsylvania presidential primary didn’t have any contested contests, but Trump managed to lose nearly 17% of the vote to Nikki Haley, who dropped out and never campaigned in the state.
President Biden blasted Trump for taking away reproductive freedom as the former president/criminal defendant complained about being cold in court.
Trump broke down over the gag order and ranted about how cold the courtroom is, the gag order itself, and Joe Biden.
Trump is angry that no one is showing up to support him at his criminal, and today just one MAGA protester showed up for the ex-president.
A new Marist Poll confirms what other polling has shown over the last few weeks. Donald Trump is in free fall, and losing support all over the place.
Jon Stewart delivered a reality check to the media who are overcovering every little detail of the Trump hush money trial.
Newly unsealed prosecution exhibits reveal that a former Trump White House aide, who had daily access to the now ex-president and the Oval Office, flipped and cooperated with the FBI.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was in the courtroom where she described Trump as looking annoyed, old, and miserable in court.
After court wrapped up for the day, Trump stepped to the microphone outside the courthouse and dug his own grave.
Prosecutors said in court that they have a barrage of emails and phone calls to support their allegation that Trump entered into an illegal hush money conspiracy.
Neal Katyal said that prosecutors in Manhattan aren’t looking to fine Trump as much as they want Judge Merchan to warn him that more gag order violations could mean jail.
Kevin McCarthy is trying to rehab his image but his lies were so outrageous that even Fox News corrected him.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) did hold anything back as he called his fellow House Republicans like Matt Gaetz and Bob Good scumbags.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker will be the first witness for the prosecution at Trump’s hush money trial.
New polling from NBC News shows that RFK Jr. significantly cuts into Donald Trump’s support with Republican voters.
The Save America PAC has spent nearly $6o million on Trump’s legal bills, but the PAC is virtually broke, so Trump’s free ride might be over.
Trump claimed on Saturday that the Founders wanted him to have immunity, but Alexander Hamilton wrote the opposite in The Federalist Papers.
It took months, but the Putin GOP was finally defeated in the House as the body passed a package of aid to Ukraine.
Speaker Mike Johnson may keep his job with Democratic votes, but his opponents signaled that they won’t stop trying to get rid of him.
Maybe he was still groggy from napping all day, but Donald Trump walked away when asked if he still supports Mike Johnson.
Trump and his lawyers are now trying to get the judge to block ex-White House staffers from testifying against him in Manhattan.
Donald Trump spoke to the media on Friday morning without awareness of what he was saying, stating that he was not allowed to talk to the media.
A senior official at Turning Point Action has resigned after allegedly committing election fraud by forging voter signatures on paperwork. The Washington Post reported: State Rep. Austin Smith (R) — who was senior director at Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA — was accused by a Democratic activist of…
Trump thought that he would never stand trial and now that reality is setting in, he is not taking it well.
The jury has been sworn in at Trump’s hush money trial, as arguments could begin on Monday.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is telling reporters that he wants to delay the vote on aid to Ukraine for as long as possible.
A new large sample poll of youth voters shows Biden leading Trump by double digits among registered and likely youth voters, with the President’s lead skyrocketing if Trump is criminally convicted.
Trump floated the bizarre claim that Democrats are going to rig his Manhattan criminal trial jury.
Trump is now demanding that Republican candidates and committees that use his name and likeness for fundraising give him at least a 5% cut of the proceeds. Politico reported: “Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all…
The Senate has voted that the first article of impeachment against DHS Secretary Mayorkas is unconstitutional because it doesn’t contain a high crime or misdemeanor.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said that Ukraine aid, which he is opposed to, is going to pass, but he is not on board with booting Mike Johnson yet.
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) bluntly confronted Chair James Comer (R-KY) and demanded to know what crime he is going to impeach Biden for.
Speaker Mike Johnson is moving forward with a package of four bills, including aid to Ukraine, that the House will try to pass on Saturday.
Auditors for the state of Arkansas reported that laws may have been broken when a podium was purchased for more than $19,000 for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife was involved in the Trump plot to overturn the 2020, minimized the 1/6 insurrection during SCOTUS arguments.
At a campaign event in Scranton, PA, President Biden joked about Trump’s sinking Truth Social stock.
At his criminal trial, ex-president Donald Trump again fell asleep during the proceedings.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are promising to bring the motion to vacate against Mike Johnson which means the Speaker will need Democratic votes to keep his job.
Rachel Maddow dove into Trump’s corruption of the DOJ, and how that delayed the New York hush money charges.
Stephen Colbert managed to work a joke about Trump’s racism and the KKK into his monologue.
Jon Stewart took down Trump after day one of the hush money trial with a joke that highlighted the ex-president’s assaults on America.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow blasted Trump and called him “buffoonish” for falling asleep during his criminal trial.
Judge Merchan has moved up the hearing for Trump’s potential violations of the gag order to April 23.
Donald Trump is reportedly not responding to notes from his lawyer, and falling asleep at his criminal trial.
Reality has finally arrived for Trump and the Republican Party as a majority of voters think the ex-president committed serious crimes.
Prosecutors are seeking to have Trump held in contempt for violating the gag order by attacking witnesses Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen.
Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, said that there is no doubt that Trump will be incarcerated if he is convicted in Manhattan.
Trump illegally interfered in US Middle East policy in violation of the Logan Act by reposting a threat to Iran.
There is a crisis between Iran and Israel in the Middle East, but Trump is melting down over his Manhattan criminal trial.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that Sen. J.D. Vance has one of the dumbest ideas on Ukraine in the Senate.
At one point, Donald Trump spoke something that wasn’t words as his mind trailed off during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.
While it is important to not take polls seriously at this time, the latest New York Times Poll shows momentum growing for President Biden.
In uniform Marines were at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser, which means that either they were fake or illegally attending a political event in uniform.
Trump is coming unglued as his criminal trial starts on Monday, as he violated the gag order by attacking witness Michael Cohen.
Donald Trump yelled about the criminal cases and the value of Mar-a-Lago while trying to dodge and spin abortion questions in a horrible press conference.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene owns stock in Trump’s declining media company, and when asked, she wouldn’t say what has happened to her stock.
Speaker Mike Johnson refused to answer when asked if he was going to talk to Trump about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate.
Trump and Mike Johnson will introduce a bill to prevent non-citizens from voting even though it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote.
The potential witness list for the prosecution in the Trump hush money case is a total nightmare for the defendant ex-president.
As Trump and Republicans fumble for an answer on abortion, President Biden has launched a seven-figure media blitz in Arizona to vow to fight for the rights of women.
Trump is in a panic and accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith of intimidating Judge Aileen Cannon. He appears worried that Cannon may be tossed off the classified documents case.
A poll of 63 battleground House districts found that abortion edged out immigration as a dealbreaker issue for voters.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell showed that Republicans have a history of lying about abortion, and don’t mean anything they say on the issue.
The Biden administration is taking new action to close the gun show loophole and fight gun crime.
Stephen Colbert pointed out all of Trump’s flip-flops on abortion and pointed out that the ex-president seems to have no idea how abortion works.
For the third time in three days an appeals court has rejected Trump’s request for a stay in his hush money criminal trial.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained to Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) that the founders were the original illegal immigrants to America.
President Biden said at a press conference that the leader of the House must allow a vote on Ukraine aid now, which only puts more pressure on Mike Johnson.
Trump showed that he will never be a leader by suggesting that Arizona should clean up the reproductive rights crisis that he caused.
House Republicans are enraged at another Speaker, so if Marjorie Taylor Greene goes through with her motion to vacate, Mike Johnson is probably done.
With his criminal trial less than a week away, Stephen Colbert mocked Trump’s efforts to delay the case.
At an event, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) ousted him because he wouldn’t dismiss the ethics complaint about Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old girl.
Former Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti said from prison that he expects Donald Trump to be convicted in Manhattan because he can’t get a fair trial.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a reliable Republican bellwether, and his refusal to talk about the Arizona abortion ban signals Republican panic.
After the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the state’s 1864 abortion ban, Senate candidate Kari Lake said she opposed the ban, but she was lying.
Senate Democrats will dispose of Mayorkas impeachment trial in a matter of a few hours on Thursday with little opposition from Republicans.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that it is serious that top Republicans were using Russian propaganda to try to impeach President Biden.
Stephen Colbert mocked Fox News’s coverage where they tried to mix the eclipse with the border.
Rachel Maddow asked a question that will probably also have to be answered in court. What did Trump do to deserve such a generous bond?
An appeals court saw through Trump’s latest attempt to postpone his hush money criminal trial that begins next week.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) lost it after DOJ rejected his request for the Biden/Hur interview audio.
As Trump flails around on the abortion issue, President Joe Biden has a clear message for America as he defines the former president.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is the co-sponsor of the bill to codify Roe, and he called out Trump’s abortion spin.
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver did an updated episode on the death penalty in the US where he perfectly summed up what is wrong with red state Republicans in Alabama.
