‘Looking Like a Liar or a Fool’: What It Means to Work for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has never shown any reluctance to sacrifice a surrogate to serve a short-term political need, so he apparently did not think twice this week about exposing a series of staff members to ridicule …

Gingrich urges Trump: ‘Close down the press room’  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is urging President Trump to follow through on his threat to cancel daily White House press briefings, accusing news media of being “dishonest opponents” of the president.  —  “What they ought …

Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right  —  They are called “must-runs,” and they arrive every day at television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group — short video segments that are centrally produced by the company.  Station managers around the country …

Hacking Attack has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain Fallout  —  Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain on Saturday raced to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they do not succeed, companies will lose their data unless they meet ransom demands.

Trump meltdown sets off GOP alarms over 2018 midterm  —  CORONADO, Calif. — With the White House in meltdown mode, top Republican Party officials and operatives gathered at a posh oceanside resort here and contemplated a 2018 midterm election that will test them in unimaginable ways.

A Top Trump Official Just Flunked The Jimmy Kimmel Test  —  It's fine to pay for sick kids, Mulvaney says, but diabetics are another story.  —  You've heard of the undeserving poor?  Get ready for the undeserving sick.  —  A top Trump administration official defended the American Health Care Act …

Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands  —  Dutch TV did what no American TV network dares, suggesting Trump's past includes illegal racketeering.  —  Donald Trump's business partners have included Russian oligarchs …

This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them  —  I would recognize a crisis if it were happening.  —  When the president seized me, stunned me with his venom and covered me with digestive fluid from his chelicerae, I was initially taken aback …

Dumbfounded, demoralized GOP publicly defends Trump  —  Elected Republican officials are publicly defending Trump but privately are dumbfounded, disgusted and demoralized by this turn of events.  —  We haven't had a single conversation with a top Republican that doesn't reflect this.

The New Yorker drew Comey being dragged off a plane.  The United passenger's lawyer critiqued it.  —  Thomas Demetrio is no art critic; he's the attorney for David Dao — whom you and probably the rest of the world saw dragged off a United Airlines flight last month.

Jason Chaffetz Has Been Telling House Republicans He Will Join Fox News  —  When House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz announced in April that he would not seek reelection, speculation reigned—did the powerful Utah Republican have his eyes on another office?

The Senate Starts to Look at Trump's Businesses  —  I spoke recently to a longtime business associate of Donald Trump's, and asked his thoughts about the various investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.  He laughed and said that there is no way Trump could have been part of such a conspiracy.

Candidates interview for FBI director post  —  Top Justice Department officials are scheduled to interview four candidates Saturday to serve as FBI director on a permanent basis, a source familiar with the process told POLITICO Friday night.  —  The four potential nominees set to be interviewed are …