Our most recent book is The Comeback: The 2024 Elections and American Politics. The second Trump administration has been full of ominous developments.The DHS killing of a disarmed man is among the worst.
Journalist Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents on Thursday night following backlash over his coverage of an anti-ICE protest in a Minnesota church, his lawyer said Friday morning.
Why it matters: The former CNN anchor's arrest comes after a magistrate judge rejected the DOJ's initial attempt to bring a case against him last week, citing insufficient evidence that he violated any law.
His charges were not immediately known.Lemon was targeted by conservative influencers and politicians after interviewing protesters, congregants and a pastor during the protest earlier this month....
Zoom out: Georgia Fort, an independent journalist, was also arrested for her coverage at the church protest, she announced during a livestream."It's hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when you can be arrested for being a member of the press," Fort said.
The president of the United States says, “ARREST OBAMA NOW!” May I ask you: To whom is he speaking? Is it a command? Does anyone care? pic.twitter.com/d2xKgIAKlZ
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) January 30, 2026
Josh Dawsey, Dustin Volz and Sadie Gurman at WSJ:
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has spent months investigating the results of the 2020 election that Donald Trump lost, according to White House officials, a role that took her to a related FBI search of an election center in Georgia on Wednesday.
Gabbard is leading the administration’s effort to re-examine the election and look for potential crimes, a priority for the president, the officials said.
The national intelligence director is usually focused on ensuring the president has the best intelligence available to make national-security decisions. Gabbard has been sidelined from some of those deliberations, including the Venezuela operation earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
She has begun studying information about voting machines, analyzed data from swing states and pursued theories that President Trump has promoted to claim the 2020 election was unfairly taken from him, the officials said, particularly on foreign government interference.
She has regularly briefed Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles about her inquiry in recent months along with others involved in the investigation. Those include senior Justice Department officials, Trump’s outside ally and lawyer Cleta Mitchell and Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who pushed claims in 2020 that the election was stolen and joined the administration as a special government employee.
