#anthony-scaramucci

#anthony-scaramucci

I don't normally waste my time reading editorial pages because I don't care what about six guys sitting in a skyscraper have to say about anything. The fact of the matter is this: we wouldn't be where we are today but for the fact that this president did something no president has done in half a century.

Fox News has cut a deal with Kalshi, allowing the prediction market to have paid product placement on the network, which is the largest news channel in the US.

Look, investors didn't get what they wanted to hear last night. I think that it was pretty straightforward that there were a lot of people buying stocks, betting that this was going to be the official wind-down. Not more bombing.

Scarborough pointed out that this was a problem across the board in the Pentagon and beyond as he pivoted to Blanche. Blanche, a former defense lawyer for Trump, had given a striking answer at a Tuesday presser when asked whether he wanted the AG role permanently, saying it would be an honor but that if reassigned, he would tell the president: Thank you very much. I love you, sir.

Grenell, long known for his hyper-aggressive confrontations with journalists and political rivals on Twitter and then X, served as US ambassador to Germany and then acting director of national intelligence during Trump's first term. He was appointed despite no prior arts experience. Grenell was a central player in Trump's push to dramatically overhaul the Kennedy Center following the president's return to office.

On Monday, one week after six U.S. soldiers were killed by a drone strike in Kuwait, the Trump brothers announced they are backing a company called Powerus, which makes drones to operate in "high-risk environments," such as a war or whatever euphemisms lawmakers are using for Donald Trump's attack on Iran this week.

I did not ask for this job. I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting [attorney general], that's an honor.

Mamdani's office later confirmed the mayor pitched a proposal to secure $21bn in federal grants to make good on a central promise to create more citywide affordable housing. This would include the construction of a deck over the busy rail yard in Sunnyside, Queens to build 12,000 housing units. The president appeared enthusiastic, according to the mayor's chief spokesperson.

Dutta tells Axios: "I don't think people should change their investment plans around Warsh. The Fed is bigger than any one person. At the margin, Warsh represents a bit of uncertainty." One concern is that Warsh will cut interest rates now to appease Trump even if lower rates aren't warranted, which could result in the need for increases later on.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at Wednesday's briefing alongside Gen. Dan Caine, accused the American press of covering U.S. service member deaths in Iran for one reason only: to make the president look bad. The comment landed like a grenade in a briefing room that was already a stage with One America News Network and The Daily Wire called on first, and the BBC only summoned, per CNN's Brian Stelter, because Hegseth apparently liked anchor Tom Batemans tie.

In autumn 2024, when it had become clear that he'd likely win back the White House in about six weeks, Donald Trump and his friend Steve Witkoff founded a crypto business called World Liberty Financial (WLF), McCarthy wrote. WLF was (and remains) an ideal vehicle for leveraging political power in search of financial gain. He added, a crypto business whether in tokens, currency, or other iterations is an ideal way to disguise political payoffs as financial transactions.

During his testimony, Lutnick explained that he and his family stopped by the island while they were vacationing by boat. He claimed they stayed on the island for approximately an hour to have lunch. Lutnick previously claimed his interactions with Epstein were kept to a minimum and that he stopped associating with him in 2005 three years before he was convicted on prostitution charges involving a minor.

Investors reacted emphatically to President Trump's insistence that he won't back down on his plan to take over Greenland: They hate it. The S&P 500 fell 2% yesterday, even though 81% of its companies have beaten their Q4 earnings expectations so far. The dollar fell off a cliff, losing nearly 1% of its value against a basket of foreign currencies. U.S. bond prices weakened modestly. Gold, the safe-haven investment, hit yet another new record high.

The president shared the 62-second video on Thursday, just before midnight, which pushes a conspiracy about manipulated vote-counting machines but concludes by cutting to an AI clip that shows the faces of the Obamas superimposed on apes' bodies for roughly a second, accompanied by the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The video carries a watermark linked to a pro-Trump account on X with tens of thousands of followers.

It should only be one. If there's one fraudulent, unsupported indictment that's brought for personal reasons, political reasons in which the facts are distorted and the law is abused, that alone should be impeachable. The multitude of cases we've had now certainly provides a wealth of evidence that could be used to impeach Pam Bondi. I think, you know, it's probably difficult to extend, you know, her performance and the illegal and unconstitutional, unethical way that she's managed the Justice Department all the way to the president.

Is this a pullback? Cain asked Trump. I don't think it's a pullback. It's a little bit of a change. Everybody in this room that has a business, you know, you make little changes. You know, Bovino is very good, but he's a pretty out there kind of a guy. And in some cases that's good. Maybe it wasn't good here, Trump said.

Playacting for journalists standing in an unruly huddle just off camera, Trump asked questions of the oilmen, wondering how soon they could suck the ground under Venezuela dry. "And you're very much set up for the heavy oil, right?" he asked at one point. There was an implicit cruelty behind the exercise. He wanted the cameras to see him place Venezuela on the table like a celebratory goose and start slicing.

I thought it was awfully quick for him to be criticizing. We've had numerous conversations. We get along great. I thought it was quick to be criticized. I thought he'd wait at least a month,