Author: Max Rego

Commentator Stephen A. Smith slammed Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) this week for urging service members to disobey illegal orders from the Trump administration.  Smith, while criticizing President Trump’s rhetoric toward Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers who released a video calling for active-duty military and intelligence personnel to ignore unlawful orders last week, said the…

A federal appeals court upheld nearly $1 million in penalties against President Trump and Alina Habba for filing “frivolous” lawsuits against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), former FBI Director James Comey and others. William Pryor Jr., the chief judge for the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote on Wednesday that the president…

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) believes Special Envoy Steve Witkoff instructing a Russian official on how to suggest a peace plan to President Trump is a “major problem.” The transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call between Witkoff and Yuri Ushakov, a foreign policy aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday….

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Tuesday that Special Envoy Steve Witkoff “cannot be trusted” to lead negotiations between the administration, Russia and Ukraine. “For those who oppose the Russian invasion and want to see Ukraine prevail as a sovereign & democratic country, it is clear that Witkoff fully favors the Russians,” said Bacon, a staunch…

Republican Sens. John Curtis (Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) backed fellow Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), amid a Pentagon probe into “serious allegations of misconduct” against the senator after he and five other Democratic lawmakers told service members to disobey illegal orders from the Trump administration. Curtis said Tuesday afternoon on the social platform X that…

President Trump said Tuesday that Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will likely meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week, as the administration looks to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. “I think so,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on whether Witkoff will meet with the Russian leader. Witkoff last…

Vice President Vance said Sunday that six Democratic lawmakers violated the law by telling service members to disobey illegal orders. “If the president hasn’t issued illegal orders, then members of Congress telling the military to defy the president is by definition illegal,” Vance said on the social platform X.  Earlier this week, Democratic Sens. Elissa…

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) said he has received “very disturbing” threats in the wake of President Trump saying he and other Democratic lawmakers committed sedition after calling on service members to disobey illegal orders.  “We’re going to take these seriously, but it’s very disturbing stuff,” Crow told host Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”…

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said she believes President Trump should “button it up” regarding his suggestion that six Democratic members of Congress should be imprisoned or even executed. Earlier Thursday, the president called the lawmakers “traitors” for urging active duty military members to disobey unlawful orders from his administration. “I would just call upon him…

The nomination hearing for Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has been postponed. A spokesperson for the committee, chaired by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a medical doctor, told The Hill Thursday that the hearing was postponed due to Means going into labor. Last week, the committee said that Means would appear before it virtually, calling in from Kilauea, Hawaii. CNN reported that Means was initially set to appear before the committee two days after her due date. The Hill has reached out to the committee for…