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Trump chooses former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker as NATO ambassador

Donald Trump says he has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has repeatedly expressed skepticism about.

Democrat senator cautions Trump against efforts to drop proposed TikTok ban

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, is counseling President-elect Trump to drop his plan to save TikTok from a looming federal ban on operating in the U.S.

Sen. Rick Scott lobbies for Lara Trump to fill expected Senate vacancy

Sen. Rick Scott of Florida thinks his home-state Gov. Ron DeSantis will select Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, to fill the seat left by Sen. Marco Rubio, who is set to become secretary of state.

Trump team condemns Wolff’s book, calls new Epstein allegations ‘fiction’

President-elect Donald Trump's team issued a strongly worded statement Wednesday denying allegations made by author and journalist Michael Wolff that Mr. Trump had stronger ties to the late billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than had previously been reported.

Welfare recipients, criminals allowed to sponsor illegal immigrants under Biden ‘parole’ program

Sex traffickers may be using a Biden administration "parole" program to sneak illegal immigrant women into the U.S., the House Judiciary Committee is revealing Wednesday in an explosive new report exposing fraud in one of Homeland Security's marquee border operations.

Trump should not replicate pre-9/11 Saudi mistakes with Turkey

President-elect Donald Trump condemned Biden administration plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 bombings, and two of his co-defendants that would enable them to escape the death penalty. Only when the families reacted with outrage did Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin backtrack. It may be too late. Earlier this month, a military […]

Trump should let the clock run out on TikTok

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the Oval Office, following a historic victory and a series of strong foreign policy appointments, his agenda includes an unusual surprise: “save TikTok.” The popular video-based social media platform currently faces the prospect of a ban in the United States. Whether the new administration can deliver on this promise […]

Why I’m cautiously optimistic about Trump’s deportations

Buck Sexton was kind enough to have me on his show on Tuesday to talk about my new book, Sex and the Citizen, President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, and Trump’s plans for mass deportations. The whole 25-minute segment is worth watching, but I did want to revisit why I am cautiously optimistic that deportations will […]

The curious case of defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth

President-elect Donald Trump may have made a mistake in choosing Fox News personality Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. However, the nomination merits an open mind. Hegseth is a problematic choice. He isn’t as ludicrous or insulting a selection as former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general, former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for […]

Nate Silver says Biden should resign

Pollster Nate Silver said President Biden should resign, in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday. “Is there any particular reason to assume Biden is competent to be president right now? It's a very difficult job,” Silver said in his post. “It's a dangerous world. Extremely high-stakes decisions in Ukraine. He should resign...

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