The Note: Congressional Intrigue

President-elect Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and its pollster for “brazen election interference” in publishing a survey the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris with a surprising lead of three percentage points in the state. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Register’s parent Gannett Co. on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit as meritless and said it would vigorously defend its First Amendment rights. The lawsuit continues the President-elect’s campaign against media outlets he feels have wronged him.

“Trump donor Andrew McKenna is a leading contender for secretary of the Air Force,” Politico reports. “McKenna, a private pilot who heads a small Washington advisory and investment firm, would be the latest of Trump’s picks to take on a top job at the Pentagon without significant experience inside the building.”

New York Times: “After his lies and expulsion from Congress, and before his sentencing in February, George Santos chases the limelight with a party and a podcast.”

Peter Hamby: “The first big showdown for Democrats will likely take place in the Senate, where a battery of Trump’s controversial cabinet nominees are set to face confirmation hearings. A new poll from Echelon Insights, in partnership with Puck, suggests that Democrats have an opportunity to drive a wedge between the American public and Trump on the subject of his more outré picks: Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, Kash Patel for FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and Robert F.

In a recent interview with Time magazine, Donald Trump walked back his campaign promise to lower grocery prices. "Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard," Trump told Time, admitting to what many of us knew months ago. On Thursday, Trump offered up a perplexing story about “an old woman” buying three apples at a grocery store and taking “one of the apples back to the refrigerator” because the price was too high.

Fox News's Sean Hannity was joined by Rachel Campos-Duffy and Jason fucking Chaffetz to address the central issues that Americans are facing this holiday season: Gov. Tim Walz's Christmas tree. And they threw in some tampon jokes, too. It bothers conservatives that Walz signed a bill requiring public schools to provide menstrual products — including pads and tampons — to students in 4th through 12th grade.