President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at a White House press briefing on Monday, attacking Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) following the lawmaker’s submission of articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Massie is “a sick, sick guy. There’s something wrong with him, actually,” Trump said during the presser. “Now he’s after Pete Hegseth. He doesn’t like…
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President Donald Trump’s war on Iran is so unpopular that even a majority of Republicans say they want the incoming Democratic majority in Congress to end it, new polling finds, as emerging leader on the effort Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) vows to take action even sooner. According to Reuters/Ipsos polling released this week, 71 percent of Americans want the new Congress to pass…
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Stunning Republican losses in the midterms could spell the end of Pete Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense. From Vice President JD Vance to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), Hegseth’s own party is setting him up to take the fall for election losses blamed on the U.S. war with Iran. In a rambling post on X on November 4, Vance said the reason the GOP lost was “obvious to almost…
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) has filed multiple articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and is forcing a vote on the measure as soon as this week. Massie has leveled eight separate impeachment charges against Hegseth, accusing him of unlawful war or military actions in Iran, Yemen, and Venezuela; “ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties”…
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Documents show that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Hegseth, was paid to consult by a top D.C. firm whose clients include Lockheed Martin, marking a massive potential conflict of interest as Democrats prepare a potential impeachment inquiry into the embattled Pentagon chief. Politico first reported on Jennifer Hegseth’s work in 2025 for top consulting firm Watchtower…
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A senator who was briefed on President Donald Trump’s plans to launch intense strikes on Iran after the midterm elections has warned that the attacks are slated to be so horrific that they will lead to the “destruction” of the U.S.’s “commitment to the rule of law.” At an event hosted by the Middle East Institute on Wednesday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), a member of the Senate Foreign…
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