President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez, who’s under investigation for potential insider trading, has been put on administrative leave “without pay,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.
President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez, who’s under investigation for potential insider trading, has been put on administrative leave “without pay,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.
President Donald Trump in a primetime speech on Thursday alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, though declassified documents his administration released largely discuss vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to say whether charges would be filed related to President Donald Trump’s primetime speech Thursday night when asked about it by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
During an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. John Fetterman bluntly warned that he would leave the Democratic Party if it adopts an anti-Israel policy — one of his most direct threats yet amid the first-term Pennsylvanian’s intensifying battle with progressives over the direction of their party.
Former Department of Justice Lawyer Elizabeth Oyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee that two days after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he fired her for refusing to restore firearm rights for a convicted domestic abuser and friend of President Trump. Oyer says she was pressured to go along with it, but she refused and was fired from her job.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he wanted Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein before he would vote in favor of his nomination. His comments came after Dani Bensky, a Jeffrey Epstein survivor, told the committee that she and other crime victims have never heard from Blanche about meeting with them directly.
CNN’s Jake Tapper explains why Democratic senators keep pressing Trump nominees to say who won the 2020 election, and why the question matters as Trump prepares to address the issue again.
