Trump’s Reflecting Pool Debacle Deepens With New Charges

RFK Jr. 's DOJ WeaponizaTrumpMisconduct Triggers Threat To Over 100 Cases

A veteran federal prosecutor's grand jury misconduct is so pervasive that the Justice Department now expects to review more than 100 cases she handled going back to 2007. A court filing in the Northern District of Illinois names the case that started it all: the collapsed prosecution of the Broadview Six. News reports identify the lead prosecutor as Sheri Mecklenburg, a nearly two-decade veteran of the Justice Department whose conduct before a grand jury unraveled a high-profile case against six Democratic officials and activists arrested for protesting outside a Chicago Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz deportation campaign. Prosecutors made three attempts to indict the protesters on a rare felony conspiracy charge. read more

CA Dem Robert Garcia's Trump Election Fraud Claims Exposed As Pure Baloney

CA Dem Robert Garcia's Trump Election Fraud Claims Exposed As Pure Baloney

How an AI-Fueled Government Scam Kept a Man in Fear for 10 Weeks

A fake arrest warrant. Forged government documents. Daily video calls with impostors. Here's how an AI-fueled scam unraveled one man's retirement and cost him a quarter of a million dollars.

Federal judge dismisses Justice Department lawsuit seeking detailed Maryland voter data

The Trump administration's attempts to obtain state-level voter data have suffered yet another legal blow.

The Reflecting Pool Story Has Gotten Too Profoundly Stupid to Ignore

The reflecting pool is the kind of pointless political argument that the Trump admin so effectively turns into a never-ending embarrassment.

Trump’s Reflecting Pool fiasco is no longer just a laughing matter

The president’s desperate attempts to blame “vandals” deserve mockery, but arrests over the weekend are another abuse of federal power. The post Trump’s Reflecting Pool fiasco is no longer just a laughing matter appeared first on MS NOW.

The Reflecting Pool Arrests Are an Attempt to Cover Up Trump’s Corruption

Trump is demanding arrests of people who witness the failure of his reflecting pool project. That distracts from the failure, sure, but it also covers up the corruption behind that failure. The post The Reflecting Pool Arrests Are an Attempt to Cover Up Trump’s Corruption appeared first on emptywheel.

Tim Walz’s jab at Trump over Reflecting Pool draws fraud scandal backlash: 'Sit this one out'

Gov. Tim Walz's viral jab at Trump over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool cleanup drew conservative blowback pointing to Minnesota's fraud scandal.

$37B Leak: Florida Lawmakers New Bill Forces Nationwide Crackdown On Medicaid Waste, Fraud

A new legislative push in Washington is targeting billions of dollars in improper government spending by tightening rules on how states track Medicaid funds. Senate Committee on Aging Chairman Rick Scott and U.S. Representative Gus Bilirakis introduced the Medicaid RAC Improvement Act of 2026, a bicameral bill designed to force all states to participate in [] 37B Leak: Florida Lawmakers New Bill Forces Nationwide Crackdown On Medicaid Waste, Fraud

Why Trump’s Slimy Humiliation Is Driving Him Mad: Biographer

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s obsession with his disastrous Reflecting Pool renovation is unraveling him—and alarming White House aides as he exhibits possible signs of dementia, his biographer Michael Wolff says. Trump is presently enraged over his failed 14 million updates to the Reflecting Pool, as chunks of “American flag blue” paint are peeling off the bottom, and algae continues to bloom. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Former Democrat FL Governor Candidate Andrew Gillum Faces Drug Charges After Alabama Arrest

He faces charges of possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana. The post Former Democrat FL Governor Candidate Andrew Gillum Faces Drug Charges After Alabama Arrest first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

Trump Admin Flags Billions in Medicare Claims as Fraud Crackdown Intensifies

The Trump administration says a dramatic increase in Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants has led to a nationwide fraud crackdown that is blocking millions of dollars in suspicious billing. According to Fox

We’re Talking About “Hypocrisy” All Wrong

Pick any Trump-imposed crisis over the last year, and you’ll find prominent Democrats decrying the president’s actions with an all-too-familiar word. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump’s “hypocrisy knows no bounds” after he pardoned fraudsters while throwing “baseless allegations” of “massive fraud” at the Golden State. It was “beyond hypocritical,” California Sen. Alex Padilla said, []

Trump publicly declares he wants a threesome with his sons

Might be time for another cognitive test. Donald Trump made a bizarre joke about having a “threesome” with his sons while discussing the Medal of Honor. On Wednesday, the president visited the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, where he delivered a speech that included several wild comments. This included one moment when he []

Dem Senator faces federal probe...

Dem Senator faces federal probe... (First column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:'Campaign spending'...

Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms

President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “My fear is that this is going to embolden Republicans to double down on their efforts to try to get rid of mail voting, including the SAVE America Act, Trump’s sweeping voter suppression bill, which he seems desperate to go to any lengths to try to pass,” says Berman, who also comments on the court’s decision to strike down a federal law limiting campaign spending.

‘Cluster F*ck’: Trump’s Dramatic Feud With Senate Republicans Boils Over

'Cluster F*ck': Trump's Dramatic Feud With Senate Republicans Boils Over

Aux Etats-Unis, la Cour suprême censure la Maison Blanche et confirme le droit du sol pour les enfants de sans-papiers

Après son dispositif de tarifs douaniers réciproques, censuré en février, Donald Trump essuie une deuxième déconvenue majeure devant la plus haute instance judiciaire du pays. Il s’agissait d’une mesu ...

Peter Navarro seeks ‘precedent for years to come’ with renewed contempt fight

President Donald Trump‘s former trade adviser Peter Navarro is pressing ahead with a challenge to his criminal contempt of Congress conviction even though the Trump administration has abandoned the government’s defense of the case, arguing the appeal could establish a lasting precedent on executive privilege. The renewed legal push comes with new counsel. Abhishek Kambli, []

5 Costly Mistakes That Can Trigger Medicare Surcharges — And How to Avoid Paying Thousands More Than You Should

5 Costly Mistakes That Can Trigger Medicare Surcharges — And How to Avoid Paying Thousands More Than You Should

US Supreme Court blocks White House effort to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented migrants

After his reciprocal tariff policy was struck down in February, Donald Trump has suffered yet another major setback before the nation's highest court. The policy in question was a flagship of his anti-immigration agenda.

Trump Having Tungsten Threesome With His Two Beautiful Sons

Rounding up the week's Trump financial corruption, fraud, crime, and grifting stories.

Tim Walz’s jab at Trump over Reflecting Pool draws fraud scandal backlash: ‘Sit this one out’

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s viral jab at President Donald Trump over the troubled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool cleanup drew swift blowback from critics online, who pointed to the massive fraud scandal that unfolded in Minnesota under Walz’s watch. “Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who []

JD Vance Says Watergate Would Be '12-Hour News Story' Today

US Vice President JD Vance says it is crazy that the Watergate scandal brought down Richard Nixon's presidency, arguing that the political spying affair would dominate headlines for no more than a...

Five-Card Dud: Trump Gloats As George Conway Gambles Away Millions in Crowded NY Dem Primary Loss

Five-Card Dud: Trump Gloats As George Conway Gambles Away Millions in Crowded NY Dem Primary Loss

From an indictment to an alleged affair, Ken Paxton’s controversies hang over his Senate bid

For most of the 11 years that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has held statewide office, scandals have followed him. And for just as long, political opponents have used his various legal troubles as campaign ammunition against Paxton in elections. Those challengers have described the state’s top civil lawyer as a thief and a crook, [] The post From an indictment to an alleged affair, Ken Paxton’s controversies hang over his Senate bid appeared first on San Antonio Current.

Trump admin uncovers 7,100% surge in Medicare transplant claims

The Trump administration revealed new figures that show a drastic 7,100 spike in Medicare claims for tissue and organ transplants in just six years as the task force led by Vice President JD Vance continues to crack down on fraud across the country. The staggering increase in claims occurred between 2019 and 2025, surging from 200 million []...Click to read more

Analysis: These two new economic numbers blew a hole in Trump’s rosy narrative

Two new pieces of economic data, one released Thursday and one released Friday, blew another hole in President Donald Trump’s triumphant narrative about the effects of his tariffs. The figures released early Thursday showed Trump had wildly overstated the impact of the tariffs on the trade deficit. The figures released early Friday showed he also The post Analysis: These two new economic numbers blew a hole in Trump’s rosy narrative appeared first on Egypt Independent.

The Cost of Failure — Vietnam War vs. Iran War

You ever been in a situation where you think, Welp, this eventually HAS to improve”- but it doesn't? If you're a United States Citizen, that would be our experience in the present moment. While Trump carries on about his Magnificent Reflecting Pool (literally tempting me to rename him Don-Cissus for the fleeting remainder of his soon-to-be-truncated duration in office) some of us gaze into our crystal balls which convey only increasing tragedy.

Supposed Republican Mike DeWine Just Vetoed a Wildly Popular Bill

Supposed Republican Mike DeWine Just Vetoed a Wildly Popular Bill

Texas Senate Reviews Foreign Surrogacy Amid Birthright Citizenship Debate

Earlier this year, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced the 2026 interim legislative charges, directing lawmakers to examine the exploitation of surrogacy and review the unethical and foreign interests operating within Texas’ surrogacy and fertility industries. On Wednesday, the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services heard testimony on foreign nationals contracting with Texas...