Explore The Lever’s coverage of the 45th, and soon-to-be 47th, president of the United States.
The two Michigan GOP legislators summoned to the White House on Friday have been bankrolled by the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who would lose her job if Trump is removed from office.
Republicans are following a clear plan to try to overturn the election results, just like they did in 2000. And once again, Democrats are not sounding a loud enough alarm.
Trump’s corruption illustrates the kleptocratic system created by a judiciary that would become even worse with Amy Barrett on the Supreme Court.
Trump and the GOP pretend they love law enforcement -- but they eliminated the cops that protect us from the world’s most dangerous and powerful criminals.
The bipartisan ideology of “looking forward as opposed to looking backwards” is here again -- it is designed to block efforts to hold Trump and his cronies accountable for their incompetence & malice.
Traumatized a generation ago, party leaders' default setting during a crisis is fear-driven acquiescence.