Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign, in His Own Menacing Words

Barbara Comstock, a Republican former congresswoman from Virginia, told us, “This is a very embittered man who I think very much wants to take these actions.” “Both this rhetoric and all G.O.P. plans announced for a second Trump term indicate clearly that retribution and institutional destruction outside the rule of law will prevail if he …

George Santos Reveals One Truth: It’s Easy to Abuse Campaign Finance Laws

In an April statement to The New York Times regarding a different matter, the F.E.C.’s chairwoman, Dara Lindenbaum, a Democrat, and its vice chairman, Sean J. Cooksey, a Republican, said: “We take this agency’s enforcement and transparency mission seriously, as do all of our colleagues. Without commenting on any specific case, Commissioners assess each enforcement …

Top Ramaswamy Aide Resigns to Join the Trump Campaign

Vivek Ramaswamy’s national political director is switching Republican teams and heading to former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign. The political director, Brian Swensen, has resigned and plans to join Mr. Trump’s re-election effort, a spokeswoman for Mr. Ramaswamy said on Wednesday. The news was first reported by The Messenger. The move came as Mr. Ramaswamy, …

Biden Campaign Aims to Weaponize Trump’s Threat to Obamacare

Very few events bring aides on President Biden’s re-election campaign more joy than when former President Donald J. Trump threatens to repeal popular Democratic policies. So when Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, wrote on social media over the holiday weekend that he was “seriously looking at alternatives” to the 13-year-old Affordable Care Act, and …