White House ‘systems failed’ with Comey firing, but Trump pushed the buttons  —  In deciding to abruptly fire FBI Director James B. Comey, President Trump characteristically let himself be guided by his own instincts — fueled by his creeping anger and sense of victimhood about a probe …

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 …

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 Comey Debacle  —  Rather than rationalizing and enabling the president's behavior, conservatives need to convince Trump that he's his own worst enemy.  —  EDITOR'S NOTE:  —  The following is Jonah Goldberg's weekly “news"letter, the G-File.  Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.

Trump at Liberty University Bashes ‘Critics’ in First Commencement Address  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. — President Donald Trump wasn't in Washington, but the politics the nation's capital embodies wasn't far from his mind after a week of uproar engulfing his administration.

The Autocrat's Language  —  Donald Trump has an instinct for doing violence to language.  Using words to lie destroys language.  Using words to cover up lies, however subtly, destroys language.  Validating incomprehensible drivel with polite reaction also destroys language.

The Election Is Over, but Trump Can't Seem to Get Past It  —  WASHINGTON — In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election.

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 …

‘Accidental hero’ halts ransomware attack and warns: this is not over  —  Expert who stopped spread of attack by activating software's ‘kill switch’ says criminals will ‘change the code and start again’  —  The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack …

Why working class Americans voted with their middle finger  —  MORE FROM: … 'We're voting with our middle finger," a Trump supporter in South Carolina told a reporter last fall.  No doubt.  —  Many a liberal observer saw the Trump vote as a rageful taunt aimed at racial and sexual minorities.

Democratic Rep.: ‘Very strong case’ for obstruction of justice against Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Rep. Jerrold Nadler said in an interview Friday that President Donald Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey and subsequent tweet that Comey “better hope” their conversations weren't taped add up to a …

Comey's firing is a gift to the FBI … Let's cut right to the chase: James Comey should have been fired immediately following his disastrous press briefing last July, in which he candidly laid out the case against Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of classified information and then refused to recommend charges.

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