Debra J. Saunders
WASHINGTON — Embrace the chaos — that’s my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage. If you thought that the second time around President-elect Donald Trump was going to be more congenial toward our allies in…
WASHINGTON — Sunday night, President Joe Biden welcomed new Democratic members of Congress at the White House. By the time his remarks were over — he talked for just under a half-hour — there was little doubt that with two…
WASHINGTON — Why did President-elect Donald Trump pick then Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be the next attorney general back in November? Gaetz is no legal heavyweight. He’s never run an organization with thousands of workers, like the Department of…
WASHINGTON — “Decency. Decency. Decency,” President Joe Biden responded when a reporter asked him about late President Jimmy Carter’s legacy Sunday hours after the former president passed away. It was a self-serving summation on Biden’s part, as the barely-there chief…
The Wall Street Journal ran a story Thursday under the banner “How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge.” Tuesday’s New York Times story “A Weary Biden Heads For the Exit” told a similar tale, as departing…
WASHINGTON — The Des Moines Register headline read: “Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here’s how.” The poll ran three days before the 2024 election and gave Harris a three-point edge after tapping…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said so many things on the campaign trail that critics warned would hurt him in November. Yet he won the popular vote. Now, a little more than a month before Trump takes the oath of…
WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden issued an unconditional pardon for his son Hunter Biden earlier this month, he took another step in his long walk to placing his presidency on the bottom 10 percent list. The unusual blanket pardon…
WASHINGTON — “Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned,” Sen. Joni Ernst wrote in a report released Thursday that paints a dystopian picture of the federal workforce inside the vaunted…
