Sen. Eric Schmitt’s (R-MO) effort to place former special counsel Jack Smith in Atlanta amid the Fani Willis controversy hit a snag on Tuesday when Smith said the basketball game he remembered attending featured Caitlin Clark in Maryland, not a supposed NBA game in the Peach State. The exchange during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s under-oath […]
A witness to Charlie Kirk’s assassination sued podcaster Candace Owens on Monday for suggesting he was involved in the Utah killing. Washington State native Robert Hild became “a target for verbal attack” and death threats by Owens’s followers over her conspiracy theories about the Turning Point USA founder’s September 2025 death, his lawyers said in […]
Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. Today, we bring you up to speed with James Talarico’s fundraising swing through New York, and we wonder what exactly is going on with the counterterrorism operation in the U.K. James Talarico’s New York fundraising […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) grilled former special counsel Jack Smith during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his relationship to higher-ups in the Biden administration and his subpoenaing of congressional phone records on Tuesday. Kennedy pressed Smith multiple times on his personal feelings about former President Joe Biden and his conversations with former […]
Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher said Republicans need to work on their messaging leading up to the midterm elections and focus on cost-of-living improvements. “I think all the messaging has to be about, ‘Guess what? If you have a child, you have that Trump account set up with $1,000,’” Doescher said Monday on […]
President Donald Trump launched America.gov, a new AI website designed to streamline the public’s interaction with the federal government and also signed an executive order directing every federal government agency to make all of their public-facing services integrate directly with America.gov immediately. “One of the most revolutionary product launches of all time,” Trump said Tuesday […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said ABC is “begging to have their license pulled” after The View co-host Ana Navarro encouraged Floridians to vote against Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL). “Pay attention to that race and go vote because it’s going to matter, and we can actually knock this woman out. There’s a great guy […]
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Monday night blocked a bipartisan effort to prevent the Trump administration from demolishing the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts without congressional approval. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) attempted to pass the Protecting Presidential Memorials Act, a bill he co-led with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), by unanimous consent. The […]
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed sought to peel away a coalition of health-conscious voters from his Republican rival on Tuesday, as the candidate’s campaign seeks to make gains in the final weeks of one of the country’s closest races. El Sayed is attempting to keep the Michigan seat blue, as GOP nominee Mike […]
Former special counsel Jack Smith will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee starting at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. JACK SMITH DEPUTY ADVOCATED ‘REPEALING’ CONGRESSIONAL PROTECTIONS PRIOR TO JAN. 6 This is Smith’s first live testimony before upper chamber Republicans. Judiciary Republicans are hearing from Smith as part of their review into the previous investigations into […]
