Mary Elizabeth Truss has become the shortest reigning prime minister in the history of the United Kingdom. After a disastrous six weeks in office, the Tory leader resigned this morning. Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister after defeating Rishi Sunak’s leadership challenge to lead the Conservative Party. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1583075053456998406 Sky News reports: In a statement read outside Downing Street, Ms Truss said: “I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability.”Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.”She said she was elected “with a mandate to change this”, adding: “We delivered on energy…
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Patrick Houck
Patrick Houck is an avid political enthusiast based out of the Washington, D.C. metro area. His expertise is in campaigns and the use of targeted messaging to persuade voters. When not combing through the latest news, you can find him enjoying the company of family and friends or pursuing his love of photography.
According to an exclusive report, prosecutors at the Justice Department believe they have enough evidence to charge former President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice following the raid at Mar-a-Lago. However, Bloomberg’s Chris Strohm reports that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is unlikely to proceed if there is nothing more than obstruction charges to build a case on. Moreover, Strohm’s reporting, which includes interviews with people with firsthand knowledge of the investigation, reveals that FBI agents are sharply divided over whether or not prosecuting Trump is the right call. Although agents don’t make that decision. Trump is likely to announce…
In a new interview, former Vice President Mike Pence defended the need to provide Ukraine with financial and material aid to repel its Russian invaders. The remarks contrasted somewhat with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who noted the importance of countering Russian aggression while also touching on the list of domestic crises worrying voters. McCarthy, the heavy favorite to become the next Speaker of the House if Republicans win a majority, expressed his views in an interview with Punchbowl News published Tuesday: “I think Ukraine is very important. I support making sure that we move forward to defeat Russia…
The Justice Department is recommending a six-month jail sentence for Steve Bannon for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. The recommendation is substantially harsher than the minimum sentence of one month. Prosecutors argue that Bannon deserves additional time for what they call a deliberate “bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt” to obstruct the work of the United States Congress. https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1581987667075792902 DOJ also requests the former White House advisor be fined $200,000. Bannon is set to be sentenced on Friday. The New York Times has more: Mr. Bannon “pursued a bad-faith strategy of defiance and…
Bill O’Reilly knows a thing or two about media savvy having reigned as the king of cable news for 13 years. O’Reilly is also an old friend of former President Donald Trump, having known him for decades. That well-documented camaraderie makes it somewhat surprising the Fox News legend slammed the former president recently. More specifically, O’Reilly took offense to Trump’s decision to be interviewed three times by New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman after “she slashed him for six years.” It should be noted O’Reilly was sympathetic to Trump in other ways. In the first clip below, he defends Trump…
If it wasn’t already clear, Tucker Carlson has had enough of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Fox News kingpin began last night’s monologue by going after the most liberal members of Congress, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for voting to send billions in military aid to Ukraine despite expressing some misgivings. (RELATED: Ex-Fox News Personality to Testify at Jan. 6 Hearings) He then directed his ire at the embattled Ukrainian president. WATCH: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1580741894921150467 The Daily Caller further reports: “Zelensky is now shaking down our cowardly Congress for more cash at the very moment our own economy, our own borders, are collapsing,” Carlson added.Carlson followed…
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump for his alleged role in the attack. The committee is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans: Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. As The Hill reports: The televised vote comes after the panel wavered for months on whether it would subpoena the bombastic former president, who has frequently criticized the investigation as a partisan witch hunt designed to hurt him politically.“He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan.…
According to The New York Times, the Jan. 6 select committee is planning to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, its most aggressive move against the former commander-in-chief thus far. A protracted legal battle is expected if the panel does summon Trump to testify under oath. https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1580632993621606400 Per The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to issue a subpoena to former President Donald J. Trump to question him about his role in events that led to the violence that consumed Congress, according to a person familiar with its…
A new poll commissioned by Clout Research shows Republican Christine Drazan leading Democrat Tina Kotek by 6% in Oregon’s closely-watched gubernatorial race. Independent candidate Betsy Johnson receives 11% support in the survey. In a recent interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Drazan said that Oregonians of all political stripes are done with “failed leadership,” and, unlike Kotek, she won’t make politically motivated decisions but act in the voters’ best interests. https://twitter.com/ChristineDrazan/status/1579839949066874880 Oregon hasn’t sent a Republican to the governor’s mansion in Salem since voters reelected Victor Atiyeh in 1982. The Daily Caller has more on the fallout from the latest…
The United States Supreme Court has handed Pennsylvania Republicans a victory less than a month before Election Day 2022. However, it hasn’t changed the attitude of Pennsylvania’s top elections official who says she won’t change her department’s instructions to county election boards. By a 7-2 majority, the high court threw out a ruling from the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed undated mail-in ballots to be counted in a Keystone State election. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would not have heard the case. The Third Circuit’s May ruling said that 257 mail-in ballots had…