The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back with a wild series of baseless legal challenges and protests that culminated in an assault on the U.S. Capitol. Since then, he has openly talked about his desire to cancel the upcoming midterms including declaring that “we shouldn’t even have an election.” And, after returning to office for his second term last year, Trump and his allies have made real efforts to target voting infrastructure by taking control of influential election offices, attempting to seize and purge voter rolls, and raiding Fulton County, Georgia’s election hub based on debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Continue reading “EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats”Trump DOJ Indicts Comey Over That Seashell Photo
The Justice Department has indicted former FBI Director James Comey again after its initial attempts to prosecute the man who is high on President Trump’s retribution list were tossed out by a judge. The new indictment that the DOJ has secured against Comey — whom Trump has had beef with ever since his first term when he fired him as FBI director because he did not like that the FBI was investigating his campaign’s ties to Russian interference in the 2016 election — is related to a social media post Comey made.
Continue reading “Trump DOJ Indicts Comey Over That Seashell Photo”New Comey Charges Are Just More Evidence of Trump’s Collapse
You can see this new indictment of James Comey as an outrage. And it is — it’s a wantonly illegitimate act and abuse of power. I see it as more and clearer evidence of his crashing out and collapse, more direct and absurd lashing out at people on his grudge list while he is unable, unwilling to or lacks the mental wherewithal to right his own political ship.
Continue reading “New Comey Charges Are Just More Evidence of Trump’s Collapse”Trump’s Motte-and-Bailey Presidency
It’s difficult to imagine anything more perverse, authoritarian, diseased or corrupt than the immediate push to back President Trump’s “ballroom” as a response to security failures revealed in the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner. It involves so many overlapping bad ideas, bad motives and even bad people that it requires a some organization and staging to cover them all.
Let’s dive in.
First, despite the chorus of claims, this was not in any sense a security failure. It was a success. A man rushed a security perimeter inside the Washington Hilton — far from the actual festivities and protectees — and he was stopped. Initial reports suggested the gunman was stopped just before or even while entering the ballroom. Neither is true. He was on a different floor. The point of Secret Service security is not to prevent every violent incident but any that endanger the President or other protectees.
Continue reading “Trump’s Motte-and-Bailey Presidency”Is Trump Now Personally Dictating DOJ’s Filings?
Vanity Ballroom Jumps the Shark
I’ve spent years now warning of the dangers of Donald Trump taking over the Department of Justice, and yet I feel like I’m stuck in the denial stage of grief.
What I initially envisioned — Trump obliterating the Chinese wall between the White House and DOJ and putting undue pressure on DOJ leadership to do his corrupt bidding — certainly came to pass but now seems quaint.
If you can get away with that, Trump reasoned, why not run the Justice Department out of the White House. So he proceeded to check that box.
Once you cross the line of running the DOJ out of the White House, then who really needs DOJ leaders other than as figureheads. And if they’re only figureheads, then why not dictate to them the exact words to use in their legal filings on your behalf.
That seems to be the line we crossed last night with a new filing in the vanity ballroom case that reads like a Trump Truth Social post or one of those interminable digressions in his two-hour campaign speeches.
For context, the plaintiff challenging the legality of demolishing the East Wing of the White House and constructing a ballroom-bunker without approval from Congress using corruption-prone private donations is the do-good National Trust for Historic Preservation, an exemplary organization.
The Trump-dictated filing, which Chris Geidner was all over last night when it was first filed, begins by calling the the National Trust’s name “FAKE” in all caps, declares it “very bad for our Country,” and accuses it of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly called TDS”:
It goes on like this for two pages, much of it devoted to leveraging Saturday night’s assassination attempt into a new justification for the ballroom, before turning to anything that purports to be actual legal arguments.
The filing is over the signature of the No. 3 official at DOJ, Stanley Woodward, who was a Trump world criminal defense attorney before Trump II, who had not previously appeared in the ballroom case. It is extraordinary for the associate attorney general to get involved directly in a case, but this isn’t the first time. He’s also personally defending Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim.
Clearly, the thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents Dinner has catalyzed Trump’s pre-existing obsession with the ballroom. Woodward does what he can to integrate Trump’s bombast into the staid confines of a legal filing, but fails miserably.
One tell of Trump’s contributions: exclamation points. They pop up three times, and bear the unmistakeable Trump tone:
- “It is all one highly integrated unit!”
- “What he did on Saturday night could not have taken place in this new and highly secure facility!”
- “Congress has never dictated or tampered with the zoning, permitting, or architectural aspects of any Project, especially one being given FREE OF CHARGE AS A GIFT TO THE COUNTRY!”
All caps are the other Trumpian giveaway:
- “FAKE”
- “STANDING”
- “FREE OF CHARGE AS A GIFT TO THE COUNTRY!”
- “DONALD J. TRUMP”
- “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”
After giving over the introduction of the filing to Trump, Woodward seems to have given him the conclusion, too:
As Geidner puts it: “It was yet another dark, embarrassing moment for DOJ — one that summed up the destruction that Trump and his sycophants have unleashed on the institution.”
Just a reminder that the issue here isn’t the grotesqueness of the monstrosity Trump wants to build or the safety and security of the head of state. It’s the constitutional allocation of the spending power to Congress, and the related issue that the president doesn’t own the White House or any other federal property. He is merely a caretaker, at most.
Quote of the Day
Garrett Graff, on the ballroom-bunker mentality:
I do think a major reason that White House construction and renovations should unfold with the assent and understanding of Congress and through the appropriations system is so that Congress as a separate-and-equal branch has a check-and-balance in just how extensive the fortifications of the White House end up being. Strong enough to sustain a hostile attack? Absolutely! Strong enough to withstand the end of democracy? Absolutely not.
IMPORTANT
Read Steve Vladeck to understand why the Supreme Court’s summary reversal yesterday of a three-judge panel’s ruling on Texas’ congressional district map was so important.
(One note, because it may not be obvious to lay readers: Unlike most cases seeking Supreme Court intervention, appeals from three-judge redistricting panels skip the intermediate circuits courts of appeals and go straight to the Supreme Court, which must consider them.)
Trump DOJ Watch
Lawfare reviewed dozens of hours of media appearances by new “grand conspiracy” prosecutor Joseph diGenova. Their conclusion, in summary: He has spent years accusing President Trump’s perceived enemies of crimes, attacking their character and even demanding their imprisonment — all of which casts real doubt on his ability to act as an independent or impartial prosecutor.
Jan. 6 Never Ends
HuffPo: “All 40 of his nominees to lifetime federal judgeships so far have given misleading or false responses to questions about the 2020 election in the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
Another Mike Flynn Settlement
Anna Bower: The Trump administration has agreed to a second settlement with former national security adviser and Trump ally Michael Flynn.
A Friendly Public Service Announcement
This is the kind of “news you can use” that I share with loved ones (and did this morning), so I’ll end today with a gentle nudge on your personal cybersecurity:
The gist: “If there was ever a time to finally take your cybersecurity practices seriously, it’s now.”
The action items: “Use strong passwords that are unique across every site, preferably through a trusted password manager. Better yet, when a site offers a passkey, take it. A passkey lets you sign in with your face or fingerprint — no typed password that could be stolen by phishing. For accounts without passkeys, use an authenticator app for two-factor authentication, not text messages. Always keep all your software up to date, and uninstall unnecessary apps.”
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GOP Officials Push Hard to Sell Trump’s Ballroom as ‘Solution’ to Political Violence
The Ballroom to Save America
As reporters on Saturday night were waiting for President Donald Trump to give a press conference from the briefing room following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack, a unified message began percolating online among elected Republicans and other influential right-wingers: This is why we need the ballroom.
And once the press briefing got underway, Trump made his pitch: “I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House,” he said. “It’s actually a larger room and it’s a much more secure — it’s got — it’s drone proof. It’s bulletproof glass.”
As the week begins, congressional Republicans are trying really, really hard to sell the White House ballroom as a “solution” to rising political violence and the everyday occurrence of gun violence.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) — who was present at the Saturday night dinner and was quickly evacuated — spent Monday morning on Fox News acting as the marketing team for the ballroom.
“The ballroom will be a solution for this because it’ll be on the most secure compound in the world,” Johnson said during an interview on Fox. “It won’t have hotel rooms above it and it’ll have seven-inch-thick glass, for example, on the windows so it’ll be a very safe environment to do events like this. We need a place … and the president keeps pointing it out.”
Trump began planning the construction of a large ballroom at the White House complex when he took office last year. Workers undertook the work of demolishing the East Wing of the building in October 2025 to start construction. The project has faced outrage and legal challenges. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued an order halting construction and finding that, if Trump wants his ballroom, Congress will have to approve it.
“The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!” Leon wrote in the colorful, exclamation point-strewn ruling. “[B]allroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion,” he concluded.
In the wake of what the Department of Justice has said was an attempt on the president’s life, Republicans see the moment to do just that.
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) chimed in on Monday, saying “a ballroom is imperative.”
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) on Sunday said he is “filing the ‘Build the Ballroom Act’ to create explicit statutory authority for a White House Ballroom.” Meanwhile, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) announced her team is working “to draft legislation ensuring the White House Ballroom is completed.”
“I don’t believe congressional approval is required for the project, but if it’ll keep activist judges on the sideline, so be it,” Boebert said in a Sunday social media post.
Across the Capitol building, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — who at times can be a thorn in the side of the Republican agenda — said he would be “dropping a bill tomorrow.”
“Let’s build the Ballroom,” Paul said.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went even a step further, saying the ballroom is necessary and “critical for our national security.”
“The White House ballroom project is not just a fun project for President Trump — like you will read in the media,” Leavitt said on Monday. “It is actually critical for our national security that a larger, secure building on this complex … is built to accommodate not only large amounts of guests, but also the president, the vice president, members of the Cabinet, the line of secession in this country should be able to gather freely in safety, without the fear of threats or political violence. And the White House ballroom will provide that.”
A stand-alone ballroom bill would likely need some support from Democrats in the Senate in order to pass it. But congressional Republicans are also reportedly discussing greenlighting the ballroom construction in their reconciliation bill, which would only require a simple majority vote in both chambers.
— Emine Yücel
The One Sentence That Sums Up The White House’s Hyperbolic Response To The WHCD Gunman
In the days since a gunman targeted the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night, President Trump and his allies have used the incident to go after political rivals, college students, the media, and even late night television comedian Jimmy Kimmel. As we’ve noted, Trump has also argued the attempted shooting shows why he needs his controversial White House ballroom.
The suspected gunman, who was charged with multiple accounts on Monday including attempted assassination of the president, allegedly distributed an anti-Trump manifesto to family members prior to the incident where he described the president as “a pedophile, rapist, and traitor.” Because of this, the White House has attempted to cast the incident — and a larger violent climate — as a result of opposition to the president.
Of course, that effort to politicize the incident ignores Trump’s own heated rhetoric and the many incidents of right-wing violence in recent years. And the effort to connect the gunman to the need for the ballroom does not address the fact the new space would likely not accommodate the annual dinner or the many serious questions about how that project is being built and financed.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emphasized both the criticism of the president’s opponents and the ballroom pitch in her briefing on Monday. And her remarks included one comment that underscored just how exaggerated the Trump administration’s hyperpoliticized response to the shooting has been.
“Nobody in recent years has faced more bullets and more violence than President Trump,” Leavitt said.
While Trump has indeed dealt with other assassination attempts, the idea he has been under fire more than any other person would almost certainly be news to troops in warzones or victims of the mass shootings that have become such a regular feature of American life. Later on in the briefing, Leavitt also said Trump has dealt with “unprecedented adversity and challenges” as she used this hyped up depiction of victimhood to blast his rivals.
“This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators, yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party and even some in the media,” Leavitt said. “This hateful, and constant, and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment.”
Leavitt specifically cited people who describe Trump as a “fascist” and a “threat to democracy.” Rather than acknowledging these are legitimate critiques provoked by the president’s own behavior, Leavitt described the characterizations as the product of a “left-wing cult of hatred against the president.”
In addition to inspiring a ballroom pitch and a new line of attack against his critics, the incident at the dinner has pushed the White House to review security measures. Leavitt said officials would be meeting to discuss protocols some time this week. As she discussed those plans, Leavitt made one more comment that was, perhaps, unintentionally revelatory and provided a window into the administration’s true focus: It’s all about Trump and his needs.
“The American people should be assured there is no higher priority for the president and his staff than the president’s safety,” Leavitt said.
— Hunter Walker
More Details on What Happened
The alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, was charged with three counts during an arraignment Monday: one count of attempting to assassinate the president, and two federal gun crimes — transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
An affidavit written by a federal law enforcement officer and released Monday afternoon provides an official account of what unfolded at the security perimeter Saturday night.
At approximately 8:40 p.m., ALLEN approached a security checkpoint on the
Terrace Level of the hotel leading to the location of the dinner. ALLEN approached and ran through the magnetometer holding a long gun. As he did so, U.S. Secret Service personnel assigned to the checkpoint heard a loud gunshot. U.S. Secret Service Officer V.G. was shot once in the chest; Officer V.G. was wearing a ballistic vest at the time.Officer V.G. drew his service weapon and fired multiple times at ALLEN, who fell
to the ground and suffered minor injuries but was not shot. ALLEN was subsequently arrested.At the time of his arrest, ALLEN was in possession of a 12-gauge pump action
shotgun and a Rock Island Armory 1911 .38 caliber pistol on his person.
The affidavit included a note that you may have seen published online Sunday and which law enforcement says Allen sent to his family minutes before the attack. It was emailed in a .txt file, the affidavit says, and explains the attack and it’s goals in a strikingly casual tone.
The affidavit did not, however, include the note in full:
— John Light
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Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, With a ‘MAGA Girlfriend’ by His Side — Theodore Schleifer and Kate Conger, New York Times
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RFK Jr. & White House Appear At Odds Over Attempts To Rein Him In — Timothy Geigner, TechDirt
Beijing Is Using Influencers to Burnish Its Image: “Chinamaxxing” has become an online phenomenon. — Cooper Lund, Foreign Policy
Crashing Out: Is Trump Torching the GOP?
One of my great meta-journalistic interests is to observe the moments when more or less obvious political realities enter D.C. conventional wisdom. They’re not strongly overlapping Venn diagrams. They often diverge pretty dramatically. I noticed one of those moments Saturday when Axios published this piece entitled “Term-limited Trump mortgages GOP’s future.” The headline mostly speaks for itself. President Trump won’t face voters again. So he’s increasingly indifferent to his political standing or perhaps more specifically unwilling to shift from or limit unpopular policies. It’s true that there are big consequences for Trump in the midterm elections. But even in the biggest blowout election Democrats aren’t going to gain supermajorities that would allow them to pass veto-proof legislation or remove Trump from office. Given the scale of High Court corruption, investigations will amount to trench warfare.
Continue reading “Crashing Out: Is Trump Torching the GOP?”Senate Dems Accuse Admin of ‘Impoundment’ Over USAID Funds
As the Trump administration puts the finishing touches on its plans to bury the remains of USAID, it’s running into a final problem.
Continue reading “Senate Dems Accuse Admin of ‘Impoundment’ Over USAID Funds”Judge Skeptical of Corrupt IRS Settlement with Trump
When Everyone Is on the Same Side
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of Miami expressed skepticism on Friday that President Trump and the IRS he oversees are sufficiently adverse to give her subject matter jurisdiction over his $10 billion claim for the leak of his personal tax information.
To put it more plainly, if there’s not a true controversy between adverse parties, there’s no case here. To add to the irony, it’s Trump’s robust application of the unitary executive theory that is causing him trouble.
Here’s the key footnote in her order:
![2 President Trump has issued multiple executive orders which shape the relationship of
the agencies of the executive branch to his presidency. For example, “[n]o employee of
the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the
law . . . that contravenes the President[’s] . . . opinion on a matter of law, including but not
limited to . . . positions advanced in litigation[.]” Exec. Order No. 14215, § 7. One such
employee of the executive branch, the Attorney General, has a statutory obligation to
defend the IRS when it is hailed into court, but then is ostensibly required by executive
mandate to adhere to the President’s opinion on a matter of law in such a case. This
raises questions over whether the Parties here are truly antagonistic to each other.](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/irs-settlement.jpg?w=804)
Williams ordered more briefing from the parties on the adverseness issue.
With everything that happened this weekend, I didn’t want this new roadblock to a potentially massive looting of the Treasury to get overlooked.
The Corruption: Meme Coin Edition
President Trump made a quick trip to Mar-a-Lago to hawk his meme coin at a Saturday luncheon before returning to D.C. for the ill-fated White House Correspondents Dinner that night.
Putting the Toothpaste Back in the Tube
All that needs to be said — and much that doesn’t – has already been uttered about the attempted massacre of the nation’s leaders Saturday night
The pervasiveness of political violence will be a hallmark of the Trump era. Full stop.
While there is no one cause, Trump himself is dazzled by violence. He instigates it. He enables it. He revels in it.
Combine his fetishization of violence with our combustible politics and a civilian population absolutely awash in firearms, and historians won’t be puzzling over the why for long.
I take some consolation that previous periods of political violence in America, most recently the 1960s-70s, have ebbed and we’ve been able to return to a more peaceable baseline.
Security Theater
Lots of arm-chair quarterbacking about the security protocols for the Saturday night event, most of it misplaced. For a cold-eyed assessment, Garrett Graff has you covered.
SPLC Indictment Gets Worse and Worse
The closer you look at the Trump DOJ’s bogus indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the worse it gets:
- Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman: “This is, above all, a deeply dishonest indictment—politically motivated, intellectually bankrupt, and designed to leave a lasting false impression in the minds of people who will never look past the headline …”
- Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann: The Poverty of the DOJ Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center
- Hats off to reporter Phil Williams, who observes that right-wing extremists are not buying the Trump administration’s claim that the SPLC was funding extremism.
Pirro Ends Sham Investigation of Fed
D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Friday that she has ended her retributive probe of the Federal Reserve and Chairman Jay Powell, instead referring the matter to the inspector general for the Federal Reserve.
It’s not clear how much this is a permanent retreat by the administration versus a tactical sidestepping of Sen. Thom Tillis’ hold on the nomination of Kevin Warsh to succeed Powell. In response, Tillis did withdraw his hold, which should clear the way for Warsh’s Senate confirmation.
Mass Deportation Watch
- In a ruling on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access at the border.
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday cleared the way for Texas to enforce its own controversial anti-immigration law, but delayed the effective date of its ruling until May 15.
- Many of the newly hired 140 immigration judges — replacing insufficiently harsh judges already purged by Trump administration — lack immigration law experience and are receiving less training than previous judges, the WaPo reports.
Lawless Boat Strike No. 53
Two people were killed Friday in a U.S. strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific, raising the death toll to at least 182 in Trump’s lawless campaign.
Lawless Boat Strike No. 54
Just two days later, three more people were killed Sunday in the eastern Pacific in the seventh U.S. strike this month against alleged drug-smuggling boats, bringing the death toll to at least 185 since the campaign began last summer.
Mexico: CIA Not Authorized to Participate In Anti-Drug Ops
The Mexican government said Saturday that two CIA agents killed in a car crash last weekend after the raid of a drug lab were not authorized to participate in operations in Mexico. In related news, the Ministry of Security said one of the U.S. agents entered Mexico as a visitor while the other entered with a diplomatic passport.
The Purges: NSF Edition
On Friday afternoon, President Trump purported to fire all of the members of the independent National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, the funding engine for much of U.S. public scientific research.
2026 Ephemera
All four Black Republicans in the House are leaving Congress after their terms end.
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Tillis Ends Blockade of Trump’s Fed Chair Nom After DOJ Drops Powell Investigation
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said Sunday he will drop his blockade and get onboard to confirm Kevin Warsh’s nomination to chair the Federal Reserve after the Justice Department dropped an investigation into current central bank chief Jerome Powell.
“I have been clear from the start: the U.S. Attorney’s Office criminal investigation into Chair Powell was a serious threat to the Fed’s independence, and it needed to end before I could support Kevin Warsh’s confirmation,” Tillis said in a social media statement Sunday.
The sham investigation came out of the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia, run by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, and stemmed from costs associated with renovations of Federal Reserve buildings.
Pirro in a statement posted Friday on X said she’d directed her office to close its investigation into Powell because the Inspector General for the Federal Reserve would be handling any inquiries into alleged overrun costs.
Tillis, a member of the Senate Banking Committee which approves Federal Reserve nominees, mounted his blockade of any Trump Fed pick after the administration launched the bogus criminal investigation into Powell as first reported in early January. With a 13-11 split, Tillis’ refusal to vote for Warsh made the senator the deciding vote and halted Trump’s bid to replace Powell.
The Republican senator, who is set to retire when his term ends this year, has spoken out strongly against the investigation. The Justice Department issued subpoenas against Powell, which a federal judge rejected in a scathing opinion, saying the administration had presented zero evidence against the Fed chair. Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for D.C. went farther, finding the investigation was designed to “harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the President or to resign.”
Warsh came before the Banking Committee for a nomination hearing last week. During the hearing, Tillis spent all of his time explaining why the renovation costs, which had grown to $2.5 billion, were not the result of any criminal behavior. Tillis then took the opportunity to give Trump an off-ramp to end the investigation without having too much egg on his face.
“Big DOJ didn’t know about it,” Tillis said of the investigation. “The president didn’t know about it. Let’s get rid of this investigation so I can support your confirmation.”
“I take the Department of Justice at its word: the investigation is closed, and any appeal of Judge Boasberg’s ruling will be with respect to legal principles and not for the purpose of reissuing subpoenas,” Tillis said in his Sunday statement. “Only a criminal referral from the inspector general would cause a reopening of the investigation.”
The Justice Department’s word might not be all that reassuring. In her statement dropping the investigation, Pirro warned that her office could reopen a criminal investigation depending on what the Inspector General investigation reveals.
“Note well, however, that I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so,” Pirro said.
With Tillis out of the way, the Senate Banking Committee is expected to vote and advance Warsh’s nomination to the Senate floor on Wednesday.