Three former aides to President Obama railed against President Biden for "lying" and making his defenders "look like they're full of s---" by pardoning his son Hunter after previously saying he would not do so. Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor, who were often referred to as the "Obama bros" during their tenure in the White House, discussed the ramifications of Biden's pardon of his son, on their "Pod Save America" podcast on Tuesday.

The federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s tax case issued a sharp rebuke of President Biden’s claims his son was unfairly prosecuted in new court filings Tuesday night.   U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi said that President Biden’s statement announcing a full and unconditional pardon of his son stands “in tension with the case record” in Hunter Biden’s California proceedings.  President Biden asserted in the statement that “no reasonable person who looks at the facts...

President-elect Donald Trump is considering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a possible replacement for Pete Hegseth, his pick to run the Pentagon, according to people familiar with the discussions, amid Republican senators’ concerns over mounting allegations about the former Fox News host’s personal life.

Chad Chronister, the Florida sheriff tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Tuesday he would not seek the post, the second Trump pick to abandon his bid to serve in the Republican administration.

Tucker Carlson has returned to Moscow to interview Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, while warning that Joe Biden is driving the US “ever closer” to all-out nuclear war with Russia. Appearing in front of the Kremlin in a video posted on X on Wednesday morning, the former Fox News host said that the Biden’s administration’s policy towards Russia had reached its “apogee” in the weeks since Donald Trump’s election.

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by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning: With the 2024 election in the rearview mirror and Donald Trump set to take office on January 20, 2025, what will his second term mean for America? Let’s review the good, the bad and the ugly to prepare you for what’s coming: The Good Trump will pursue a twenty-first-century version […]