Trump Was Greeted at Las Vegas’s Airport by Disgraced Casino Owner Steve Wynn
AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta When President Donald Trump exited Air Force One at the start of his Saturday trip to Las Vegas, he was greeted on the tarmac by former casino executive Steve Wynn, a longtime business rival and friend who was a major fundraiser for the president during the 2016 campaign. Wynn has kept a…
Trump Meets with Megadonor Sheldon Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition
Trump smiles and points at Sheldon Adelson before his speech. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump appeared in Nevada on Saturday afternoon, addressing the conservative Republican Jewish Coalition, where he mocked Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first two female Muslim Americans to…
Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Federal authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and Trump administration associates, according to a sealed search warrant obtained by ProPublica. Agents were…
Election Watchdog Hits Jeb Bush’s Super-PAC With Massive Fine for Taking Money From Foreign Nationals
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Federal Election Commission has hit Right to Rise USA, the super-PAC that backed Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid, with a record fine for accepting a seven-figure donation from a company owned by Chinese nationals who were in business with Bush’s brother, Neil,…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Had the Perfect Response to People Who Think She’s a “Pretty Idiot”
Dan Herrick/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) doesn’t mince words. In an interview published Sunday in The New Yorker, the 29-year-old congresswoman took aim at her critics, whose attacks, she says, are rising to the level of “ravenous hysteria.” What has made her such a target,…
The New Chief Campaign Finance Regulator Has a Plan to Make Her Agency Matter for the First Time in Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ellen Weintraub, the sole Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, just became chairwoman of the agency in January and she’s already trying to shake things up at her “dysfunctional” agency. The FEC chairmanship, which rotates among the commissioners each year, is mostly a ceremonial…