Rachel Maddow's Blog, page 72
July 25, 2025
George Santos reports to prison for 7-year fraud sentence after flurry of morbid messages
“I’m not built for this,” the former Republican representative told Tucker Carlson in an interview earlier this month.
Justice Department plays it fast and loose to keep Alina Habba in prosecutor’s office
Alina Habba's disastrous tenure as a federal prosecutor appeared to be over — until Donald Trump and Pam Bondi came up with a scheme to keep her in place.
The White House lashes out at ‘South Park,’ signaling Trump’s weakness
The more Donald Trump and his White House team are rattled by satire, comedians and cartoons, the more they appear weak and pathetic.
Trump struggles with facts as Fed Chair Jerome Powell corrects him in real time
Donald Trump is rarely fact-checked by his own appointees on camera. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell did it anyway.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon stoke fury over Trump’s AI plans
Donald Trump’s “action plan” for artificial intelligence — his proposals for the country’s AI-driven future — is exposing fault lines in MAGA world, as some of his most vocal supporters fret over an increasingly technocratic agenda
July 24, 2025
BREAKING: WSJ: Epstein’s 2003 birthday album listed Trump, Clinton, Leon Black as ‘friends’
New reporting from The Wall Street Journal offers fresh details about the book Ghislaine Maxwell compiled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, which contained a letter signed by Donald Trump, framed by the outline of a naked woman. The Journal now reveals additional letters in the book, including messages from former President Bill Clinton, Wall Street billionaire Leon Black, fashion designer Vera Wang, and media executive Mort Zuckerman. That’s all according to documents reviewed by
Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissent from Supreme Court voting rights order
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented Thursday from the court’s decision to halt an outlier federal appeals court ruling that would have further limited the Voting Rights Act
Nicolle Wallace: ‘Jerome Powell failed to be humiliated by Donald Trump’
Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News White House Correspondent and Glenn Thrush, New York Times Justice Department Reporter joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Fed Chair Jerome Powell standing up to President Donald Trump as he tried to make up lies in real-time in front of him on camera.
How the Supreme Court's 'ruling for the ages' could impact Trump's Obama witch hunt
Chief Justice John Roberts said immunity protected presidents. But it won't protect former President Obama from the Trump administration, at least not yet.
After helping GOP-led Texas, Trump admin denies FEMA aid to another Democratic-led state
Donald Trump’s administration has denied Maryland’s request for FEMA aid to deal with the fallout of devastating floods in May, continuing the administration’s disturbing trend of denying disaster aid to states led by Democrats.
