February 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM EST
Kari Lake races away from reporters at CPAC

WASHINGTON -- Twice-failed Republican candidate Kari Lake fled from reporters asking questions after she trashed the media in her speech to CPAC. Lake took the stage on Friday and then went down "Radio Row," the row of media tables set up for interviews with conference attendees.

February 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM EST
'Caesar figure': MAGA die-hards pushing 3rd Trump term met with CPAC silence

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- It's not easy being king. Just ask President Donald Trump. Trump has persistently teased a third term for years now.

February 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM EST
'Fatally flawed': Legendary Iowa pollster smacks down Trump's 'outlandish' lawsuit

Even though he had already won the 2024 election, President Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and celebrated political pollster J. Ann Selzer in December over a poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly winning Iowa, claiming. Now, Selzer is fighting back. On Friday, New York Times reporter David Enrich tweeted excerpts of Selzer's new 33-page filing in the case, in which she argued Trump's lawsuit should be thrown out on First Amendment grounds. The pollster argued that the president's claim of her poll being "fake news" had no legal or factual basis.

February 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM EST
'Tax Elon!' Irate crowd shouts down GOP congressman during town hall in deep-red county

Even residents of a county President Donald Trump won by a significant margin are outraged by the Trump administration's slashing of public services -- and their Republican congressman's support of the cuts. The La Grande, Oregon-based Observer reported Friday that Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) was recently met by an angry crowd of constituents during a town hall at Eastern Oregon University. The outlet noted that the audience of several hundred people filled nearly all 435 seats in the McKenzie Theater, and more people filled the aisles and stood along the walls to hear their congressman.

February 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM EST
Billionaire predicts 'regime shift' after Trump policies prove to be 'negative for the economy'

One billionaire investor is predicting a sharp policy reversal from President Donald Trump's administration after his policies cause shock throughout the economy. CNBC reported Friday that Steve Cohen -- the billionaire hedge fund manager who owns the New York Mets baseball team -- is bearish on the economy in the wake of Trump's signature policies. He specifically mentioned Trump's mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, layoffs of thousands of federal workers due to budget cuts and the tariffs he imposed on goods imported from overseas.

February 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM EST
'Unacceptable misconduct': Trump DOJ files official complaint against Biden-appointed judge

One federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden is now under the microscope of President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ). CBS News reporter Jake Rosen tweeted Friday that the Trump DOJ is now filing an official complaint against Judge Ana Reyes, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The administration is arguing that Reyes displayed "hostile and egregious conduct" this week during oral arguments in the Talbott v. Trump case, in which transgender members of the military are alleging the administration's ban on trans service members is unconstitutional.

February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM EST
DEI exposes the myth of white male superiority -- and that's why they hate it

Trump and his white male supremacist buddies in government and rightwing media have been playing our legacy media and the American people for suckers. And it's working. "Big Balls" and his openly racist buddies at DOGE have been, according to reports in the media, scouring federal agencies for "illegal DEI" programs. Meanwhile, rightwing radio hosts are speculating whether the Delta Airlines crash in Toronto this week was the result of a female or Black "DEI hire" pilot flying the plane because Delta has refused to kill off its own DEI programs.

February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM EST
'I'm -- we are the federal law': Trump blasted for attack on Dem governor

Just 48 hours after declaring himself "king," President Donald Trump, in a highly public display, launched a verbal attack on Maine Democratic Governor Janet Mills over his stance on transgender girls in sports. He threatened to cut all federal funding -- literally defund the entire state -- and vowed to end her political career, in what is being called a "terse" exchange. "The president directly threatened Mills over the state's refusal to comply with a recent executive order that would bar transgender athletes from competing on women's sports teams," NBC affiliate NewsCenter Maine reports.

February 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM EST
'A lot of fear': Republicans a no show as Wisconsin farmers complain of Trump chaos

Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump's first month in office is having on their livelihoods. Madison-area U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Black Earth), state Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) and state Reps. Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) and Christian Phelps (D-Eau Claire) were in attendance.

February 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM EST
'Crying': Red state voter says 'forever Trumpers' are 'nervous' they may lose jobs to cuts

Even some of President Donald Trump's most loyal supporters are reportedly worried he may get rid of their jobs as his administration slashes federal budgets across the board. That's according to a West Virginia resident named Jeff who called into C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" on Friday. Jeff -- who identified himself as a Democrat who is a diabetic on Medicare -- initially called to talk about how the price of a 28-day supply of insulin increased from $6 to $80 between former President Joe Biden's administration and Trump's second term. But he also mentioned that some of his neighbors, who he described as "forever Trumpers," are "scared, crying [and] nervous" about the prospect of looming unemployment.

February 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM EST
Trump's USPS takeover plan a 'reckless power grab' endangering m"?ail-in voting: critics

President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans to take over the U.S. Postal Service, an independent agency that has its roots in the U.S. Constitution, and absorb it into the Commerce Department. Congress, not the executive branch, has primary control over the USPS, although the president nominates members of the USPS Board of Governors, who must receive Senate confirmation. Critics are calling it a "reckless power grab" and warning that it could disenfranchise the millions of Americans -- nearly half of all voters -- who vote by mail, and threatens to disrupt the lives of millions of Americans, especially seniors, veterans, and rural residents, who receive "about a billion shipments of prescription drugs" through the mail.

February 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM EST
Why Trump's economic policy will '100 percent' come 'back to bite him': expert

Americans are worried about the economy and President Donald Trump's policies are raising inflation despite his campaign promises, Rana Foroohar, CNN's global economic analyst, said Friday. "His policies from tariffs to limits on immigration, rounding up migrants, whether you like it or not, more immigration has been responsible for lower wage inflation, and just the general geopolitical stress and uncertainty is actually increasing risk premiums. It's raising inflation," she said.