Manafort's Lawyers Ask Judge For Leniency

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who has toed the line recently with Donald Trump and the president-elect’s incoming administration, will attend Monday’s inauguration ceremony, his office confirmed Sunday. “As chair of the National Governors Association, I’m leading a national bipartisan group of America’s governors to attend the Presidential inauguration,” Polis said in a Sunday statement.

Donald Trump had a lot working against his 2024 candidacy. During his first presidency, he was impeached twice—the second time for inciting the violent mob that stormed the US Capitol. In the years since, he was found liable for sexual abuse and faced charges in four criminal cases. He was found guilty on 34 felony counts in one of those cases, though he has managed to escape trial in the other three. That long list of scandals made Trump’s second White House win confounding to many progressives.

ABC News host Jonathan Karl challenged MAGA influencer Steve Bannon on President-elect Donald Trump's apparent focus on billionaires after promising to look after "the forgotten men and women." During an interview on ABC's This Week program, Karl noted that Trump had recently met with tech oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. "So what do you make of the fact that sitting there with him, I guess now we're inside, but you're gonna see the three richest Americans ever?" Karl said of Trump's upcoming inauguration.

Brandon Williams is known to us at C&L as a lying hothead. That alone should disqualify him from the job of overseeing nukes. But the one-term former congressman also has virtually no qualifications for the job – except for the one President-Unelect Musk and fake-populist-puppet Donald Trump seem to care about most: Williams is a very wealthy tech bro.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaxxing nut bag adulterer who kept roadkill in his freezer, is Donald's choice to lead the nation’s health agencies. When thousands of Americans were dying, and others sheltered at home at the height of the pandemic in 2021, RFK Jr. filed a petition with the F.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a fiscal hawk, agreed to support President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan "no matter what the cost." During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker noted that mass deportations could cost the American taxpayer "trillions" of dollars. "He told me in a previous phone call, there is no price tag for his mass deportation plan," Welker said of Trump.