President Trump demanded on Thursday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (R-MN) be investigated for “political crimes,” Mediaite reports
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Ex-Police Officer Tells GOP Lawmaker ‘Fuck Yourself’
As Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) attempted to place blame for the January 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Police officials and not on Donald Trump, former Washington, DC, police officer Michael Fanone — who was severely beaten by protestors that day — interrupted with a cough and a quick message, CNN reports.
Said Fanone: “Fuck yourself.”
Trump Blames Table for His Latest Bruise
“Photographs of fresh bruising on Donald Trump’s hand raised eyebrows on Thursday, but the 79-year-old president dismissed renewed speculation over his health, saying he had simply hit a table,” the South China Morning Post reports.
Said Trump: “I clipped it on the table. I would say, take aspirin if you like your heart, but don’t take aspirin if you don’t want to have a little bruising.”
U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization
“The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday, making good on an executive order that President Trump issued on his first day in office pledging to leave the international organization that coordinates global responses to public health threats,” the New York Times reports.
“While the United States is walking away from the organization, a senior official with the Department of Health and Human Services told reporters on Thursday that the Trump administration was considering some type of narrow, limited engagement with W.H.O. global networks that track infectious diseases, including influenza.”
House Passes Funding Bill Despite Revolt on ICE
“The House on Thursday passed legislation to fund a broad swath of the government including the Department of Homeland Security, narrowly mustering the votes amid a Democratic revolt over spending for Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the New York Times reports.
“The package, which also would fund the Pentagon and the health and transportation departments, rejects the deepest spending cuts that President Trump requested, including a 50 percent reduction to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health, which would instead receive a $415-million boost.”
“It also rejects Mr. Trump’s request for a $840 million increase in funding for ICE, leaving funding for the agency roughly flat.”
Pardoned Lawmaker Seeks Comeback in Florida
Former Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020 after pleading guilty to insider trading, is set to officially launch a campaign for Congress in Florida on Friday, NOTUS reports.
Greenland Talks Include Sovereign U.S. Bases
“Discussions to resolve the future of Greenland have focused in recent days on proposals to increase NATO’s presence in the Arctic, give America a sovereign claim to pockets of Greenland’s territory and block potentially hostile adversaries from mining the island’s minerals,” the New York Times reports.
“Those elements, described by eight senior Western security and diplomatic officials, offer the fullest picture yet of the contours of a potential Greenland compromise that President Trump announced on Wednesday without details. His move appeared to at least temporarily defuse an American-made trans-Atlantic crisis over the Danish territory.”
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Henry Cuellar’s Brother Indicted
Martin Cuellar — the Webb County sheriff in Texas and brother of recently pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) — was arrested in relation to a probe over alleged misuse of public resources and corruption involving pandemic-era cleaning contracts, 24Sight News reports.
Trump’s Coalition Comes Apart
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Klobuchar Files to Run for Minnesota Governor
Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Thursday took the first step toward a run for Minnesota governor by filing campaign paperwork, KTSP reports.
Musk to Make First Appearance at Davos
Elon Musk is going to the World Economic Forum in Davos for the first time, after years of trading barbs with the organizers of the annual gathering of plutocrats, Bloomberg reports.
Musk has in the past called the annual gathering of the world’s elite “boring” and slammed the WEF as a body that’s “increasingly becoming an unelected world government that the people never asked for and don’t want.”
A Referendum on Donald Trump
Charlie Cook: “There is little reason to believe that the November election will be anything but a referendum on President Trump. With the first anniversary of Trump’s second inauguration arriving Tuesday, we’ve seen a flurry of new polls in recent days. Trump’s job-approval averages sit at 42 percent in both the New York Times and the Silver Bulletin averages. The RealClearPolitics average has him 1 point higher, at 43 percent.”
“While things in politics can certainly change, rarely are there major directional shifts during the year of a midterm election; it’s more about degree than direction.”
House Democrats Clash Over the Clintons
Punchbowl News: “Some senior Democrats are still seething that so many of their rank-and-file colleagues backed a stunning bipartisan committee vote to advance resolutions holding Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt of Congress.”
“Democrats are privately saying the Clintons have a limited window to resolve their standoff with the Oversight Committee or they risk the contempt resolutions passing the House with bipartisan support. House Oversight Republicans haven’t heard yet from the Clintons’ legal team today.”
Trump Sues Jamie Dimon for $5 Billion
“President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon in a $5 billion lawsuit filed Thursday, accusing the financial institution of debanking him for political reasons,” Fox Business reports.
Judge Rejects Attempt to Charge Don Lemon
“A federal magistrate judge rejected the Justice Department’s initial attempt to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters who breached a Minnesota church over the weekend,” CNN reports.
Trump Budget Office Orders Review of Blue State Funding
“The Trump administration has ordered Cabinet agencies to review federal funding for a group of Democratic-controlled states, as the administration looks to cut off resources for ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions that refuse to collaborate with immigration enforcement authorities,” the Washington Post reports.
“The White House Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies except the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to report every grant, loan, contract, subcontract and ‘other monetary awards’ to a group of 13 states and Washington, D.C.”
Watching a Superpower Die By Suicide
Garrett Graff: “Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are watching in real-time as a superpower dies by suicide — an all-but unprecedented choice to self-immolate and torch the country’s remaining global trust and friendships.”
“The entire world order we built across eighty years, a never-before-seen geopolitical success that has been tended and fostered by Republican and Democratic administrations across a dozen presidencies, has been sacrificed this week on the altar of Donald Trump’s legacy-mad narcissism.”
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