Eric Deters, a former Kentucky congressional candidate and longtime ally of President Trump, has emerged in the national spotlight after an explosive report revealed his alleged text exchanges with Kimberly Guilfoyle, U.S. ambassador to Greece, over her credit card debt. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Guilfoyle, ex-wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)… Source link
Donald Trump has spent his political life treating the press as a prop. Friendly outlets are the audience he performs for, while hostile ones are the villains he performs against. But the president has never had to confront a prop that has stopped cooperating. It’s why he has spent several days raging at nearly every corner of the media, including the one network he has long treated as his own. Increasingly obsessed with controlling the image of his political decline rather than reckoning with reality, Trump has set out on a campaign of intimidation as his usual spectacle starts to finally fizzle out following more than a decade of domination. But browbeating Fox News and continuing to sideline CNN and POLITICO cannot conceal what is there in plain sight: shrinking crowds and falling poll numbers. Over a whirlwind weekend of rallies across Alabama, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, the cracks in the MAGA facade became impossible to ignore. Trump has always treated crowd size at his rallies as a proxy for legitimacy and domination. In his …
“We’ve almost done it to ourselves,” Erika says of the social media petri dish that has allowed misinformation to flourish. “But when tables are turned and people are doing it to you, you see things completely different.” Initially, she says she tried to preempt potential criticism. The night that Charlie died, she remembers sitting in her Salt Lake City hotel room thinking about the only thing she had to wear on Air Force Two the next day: a Proclaim T-shirt with the phrase “Heaven is my home” printed across the front and “I’m just here recruiting” on the back. “The last thing I need is…people reading into the fact heaven is my home,” she recalls thinking. So the next morning she had a Turning Point staff member go to Alo Yoga to buy plain black clothes for her and several others, including one young woman who’d vomited on herself from the trauma. “And it went viral,” Erika says. “Suddenly I’d gone on a shopping spree the day after Charlie was murdered.” From there, it seemed, …
How hard is it to enjoy your husband’s company? According to content made for Christian conservative women, the heaviest cross they may bear is learning to feel affection for their spouses — or at least fake it well enough to buy some peace at home. That’s what I learned perusing the growing field of influencers offering would-be tradwives advice on how to make MAGA marriages work. “Normalize liking your husband,” reads a T-shirt sold by Savanna Stone, a 21-year-old self-proclaimed marriage expert who has been selling content preaching marital submission with the backing of shady far-right funders. At first blush, that may seem like a trifling concept. But, as Stone makes clear in her video content, her definition of liking or even loving a husband is both laborious and ascetic to an extreme. “Submission isn’t earned, it is given through the covenant of marriage,” Stone argued in one video. If a husband makes bad decisions, she said, it’s his wife’s fault because she isn’t submitting enough to give him the “confidence” to “take on the …
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit has been taunted by viewers at home over his botched makeup. Herbstreit is on hand for the highly anticipated Texas-Tennessee college football matchup, taking place at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville. After his College GameDay appearance on the network Saturday morning, Herbstreit was reporting from inside the stadium ahead of kickoff when fans noted his uneven makeup job. “Someone tell Kirk Herbstreit make up personnel to do a better job,” one person wrote on X as another said, “Kirk HERBSTREIT looks like he has a clown face on today.” “Kirk herbstreit needs to take his ass …
It wasn’t long after Braden Peters, better known as “Clavicular,” was arrested on suspicion of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family’s home in Massachusetts that his fellow MAGA influencers started complaining that he was the real victim. “Now we live in a climate where a 19-year-old can’t even sleep with a 16-year-old with a little alcohol involved. Absolutely insane,” said Nick Fuentes, the popular white nationalist podcaster, ignoring the fact that it has long been considered rape to have sex with someone unconscious and unable to consent, as alleged by the criminal complaint against Peters. Others floated conspiracy theories accusing the mysterious “they” of trying to “control” Clavicular, or claiming he is besieged with “women trying to ruin his life with rumors.” Brian Atlas of the “Whatever” podcast posted a video of the alleged victim drinking with Peters, as if it were exonerating evidence instead of bolstering the criminal case against him. Clavicular himself has been accusing the girl of fabricating her claims to get revenge for being rejected by him, an accusation echoed online by …
President Donald Trump’s flagship super PAC grew its $400 million-plus war chest again in August, even as Republican candidates press him to put more of it to work with six weeks to go before the 2026 midterm election. MAGA Inc. ended August with about $415.8 million in cash after modest spending, more than $12 million above the $403.5 million it held at the beginning of the month, according to a Federal Election Commission filing posted late Sunday. The super PAC took in more than twice as much as it spent in August, reporting raising about $23.7 million while spending $11.4 million. Among those replenishing its coffers were cryptocurrency billionaires Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who contributed $10 million combined; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who gave $2 million; and venture capital firm Trousdale Ventures CEO Phillip Sarofim, who gave $1 million. That left MAGA Inc.’s cash pile still growing just days before Trump said on Sept. 4 he planned to deploy $400 million to $500 million from MAGA Inc. to help Republicans in November. Yet, more than …
Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or reach them securely on Signal at mollytaft.76. Molly McCann Sanders has a lot in common with many of the other women who helped Donald Trump win a second term as president. A pro-life Catholic who lives in Texas, she has staunchly conservative opinions on immigration and a fierce hatred of eminent domain—the practice of the government taking private property for public use. Sanders, the president of the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, which was started by Phyllis Schlafly, also describes herself as “a crunchy MAHA mom”—and says she’s been paying particular attention to data centers. “I’m alarmed by the idea that these data centers can move in and pollute,” she tells me. “I’m not a data center expert. I’m not a tech expert. But I’m suspicious and wary, and want to …
President Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., poured an additional $5 million into the Texas Senate race, according to a new Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing published Saturday. The funds were earmarked for Del Ray Media LLC, a Virginia-based political media company, for TV and digital advertising against the Democratic nominee in this race, Texas state… Source link
President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, Sept. 9, 2026. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images After sitting on a $403 million war chest for months, President Donald Trump’s flagship super PAC has finally opened the spending floodgates. The rapid deployment of Make America Great Again Inc.’s cash is reshaping some of the tightest congressional races ahead of the 2026 midterm election. For Republicans, the cavalry couldn’t come soon enough. GOP candidates spent months wondering when Trump’s massive coffer would come to their aid as Democratic opponents outraised them, sentiment soured on the economy and an expanding number of competitive Senate races pushed the party onto the defensive. But with fewer than seven weeks until Election Day, the question is how much value Trump’s allies can wring from such an enormous sum, with some of the best advertising space already reserved and the most valuable voters being bombarded from every direction. “They can still effectively use that …
