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Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows would comply with the subpoena he received from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 incident at the Capitol because he did not want to go to prison. Anchor Nicolle Wallace…

Newly released audio of a reporter’s interview in March with former President Donald Trump brings into focus just how much resentment Trump felt over Mike Pence’s refusal to help him overturn the 2020 election. The interview was conducted by ABC News’s Jonathan Karl for his forthcoming book, “Betrayal,” which examines…

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IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Chris Hayes: The 13 Republicans who Donald Trump called out the other night, who just voted for roads and bridges, broadband internet, and clean water—that means they are “traitors.” And for Congressman Fred Upton of…

The congressional attempt to expose any direct role that Donald Trump and his top associates played in the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol is intensifying. This week, the House select committee investigating the attack issued subpoenas to sixteen former senior Trump Administration and campaign officials, including the former…

Republicans — reshaped, controlled and defined by Donald Trump since 2015 — are slowly but surely charting a post-Trump ideology and platform. Why it matters: Other than conservative courts, toughness on immigration and hostility toward modern liberalism, it's been impossible to specify the core and connective ideology of Republicans under Trump.   Now, Republicans are…

Donald Trump and senior members of his administration turned the federal government into a sprawling, taxpayer-funded political machine in violation of U.S. law, a top watchdog says. Why it matters: The Trump administration's flagrant disregard for checks on government-backed politicking dealt significant damage to federal ethics safeguards, the Office of…

Omar El Akkad won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel What Strange Paradise, at a gala in Toronto, on Nov. 8.Chris Young/The Canadian Press Former Globe and Mail journalist Omar El Akkad has won the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for What Strange Paradise, his second novel. “I was…

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack sent subpoenas on Monday to six allies and advisers of former President Donald Trump who sought to overturn the election results and promote false election fraud claims, including John Eastman and Michael Flynn. Eastman reportedly advised Trump that then-Vice President Mike…

For most of Virginia’s gubernatorial race this year, Democrat Terry McAuliffe had a simple strategy for dealing with his Republican opponent, private equity baron Glenn Youngkin: Make the election a referendum on Donald Trump. With polls tightening in the lead-up to last Tuesday’s election, McAuliffe turned up the heat, calling…