Ex-Biden Official Breaks Down How Trump Has 'Taken Their Bait'
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Trump's "over the top" reaction to a brewing controversy is not having the desired effect, the former White House official explained.
Former White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Monday on CNN that President Donald Trump has taken the “bait” of Democrats. (Watch the video below.)
A video issued by six congressional Democrats who served in the armed forces or in intelligence urged service members to disobey “illegal orders,” prompting a meltdown from Trump and his allies.
The president appeared to wildly threaten to have them executed but walked back those remarks and said they should be in jail. On Monday, the Pentagon announced an investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), one of the video makers, for a video deemed “despicable, reckless and false” by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Concerns are festering over Trump’s legally challenged deployment of forces to blue cities, in what he claims is a crime purge, and the administration’s deadly sea strikes on suspected drug runners.
On “The Arena with Kasie Hunt,” Bedingfield, an instrumental figure in President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, said Trump was playing into the hands of his opponents.
“It’s become quite a messy and toxic situation,” a Eurovision expert said.
The Duke of Sussex jabbed the president during a Hallmark-inspired comedy bit with host Stephen Colbert.
The illustrated image is... something.
“These are serious charges, and that’s the reason we’re going to have special oversight,” said Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The network's senior medical analyst put an inventive twist on the president's drowsy appearance during his Cabinet meeting.
Many blasted the House minority leader's reaction to Trump pardoning a Democrat who was indicted on charges of bribery and acting as a foreign agent.
The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike.
In a deal with federal prosecutors entered Tuesday, former Florissant Officer Julian Alcala pleaded guilty to 20 counts of willfully depriving someone of their right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
The initial findings ramp up the pressure on the former Fox News Channel host after lawmakers had called for the independent inquiry into his use of the commercially available app.
Perry had been taking the drug legally as a treatment for depression. But his regular doctor wouldn't prescribe it in the amounts he wanted.
The former secretary of state called the shift towards getting news from social media content a “serious problem” for democracy.
The complaint names U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as being responsible for the killing of fisherman Alejandro Carranza Medina.
A Planned Parenthood spokesperson said the judge "again recognized the 'defund' law for what it is: unconstitutional and dangerous."