A left-wing billionaire gave $100,000 towards an online misinformation campaign that mimicked Russian interference operations — but if you only get your news from CNN, then you have no idea that happened. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, an early investor in Facebook, was behind a six-figure misinformation campaign that involved falsely linking Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore […]

President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 re-election, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president’s campaign into a single entity. It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party: Traditionally, a presidential re-election committee has worked in tandem with the national […]

Without President Donald Trump to worry about, a bipartisan deal would likely sail through Congress to fund the government ahead of the holidays. But with Trump fueling the border wall brinkmanship, everyone in the Capitol has basically stopped talking. The House and Senate left town Thursday with no strategy to avert a partial government shutdown […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday engaged in an extraordinary argument with Democratic congressional leaders over government funding, threatening a partial shutdown if his demands for border wall money are not met. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security,” Trump told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., […]

Author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, who says he’s being threatened with indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in the Trump-Russia probe, filed a federal lawsuit Sunday night accusing Mueller of constitutional violations and leaking grand jury secrets. Corsi’s new suit against Mueller also accuses the special prosecutor of trying to badger him into giving false […]