Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died Saturday night at the age of 71, and absolutely nobody saw it coming. As originally reported by Trending Views, emergency responders were dispatched to his Capitol Hill residence after a report of possible cardiac arrest. Paramedics transported him by stretcher to an ambulance. His family confirmed his passing and asked for privacy.
The man was in Kyiv literally two days before he died, meeting with President Zelenskyy about ending the war in Ukraine. That was his tenth trip to Ukraine since Russia's invasion, for anyone keeping score at home. He was also scheduled to appear on Meet the Press the very next morning, which would have been his 64th appearance on that show. Sixty four. The man...
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We have a major problem with crime in our country and the worst part of it is the judges who won't lock up violent offenders.
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Miguel de la O should be locked up himself for ruling that a murderer was insane and didn't know what she was doing. That's BULLSH*T! She killed her own child! LOCK HER UP FOR LIFE NO MATTER WHAT!!!
Miami Herald reporting:
Florida’s attorney general said he is seeking to impeach a Miami judge after he found a mother who drowned her 1-year-old daughter in a bathtub not guilty by reason of insanity due to COVID-19-related psychosis.
James Uthmeier, in a Thursday post on X, referenced Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Miguel de la O’s ruling, saying his office “will be drafting...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune broke down in tears on the Senate floor Monday while paying tribute to the late Senator Lindsey Graham, and if you have ever seen John Thune speak publicly about anything, you know this man does not cry easily. The guy usually has the emotional range of a filing cabinet, which is what made the moment so striking.
As Trending Politics reported, the South Dakota Republican struggled to get through his remarks about his decades-long friendship with Graham, his voice cracking as he tried to wrap things up. He closed with five words that pretty much wrecked everyone watching: "We will laugh together again." Then he yielded the floor and walked off looking like a man who had just lost a brother.
Graham died...
Rosie O'Donnell, who famously packed up and moved to Ireland after Trump won in 2024, popped back onto American television screens Friday to deliver what can only be described as a medical diagnosis she is in no way qualified to give. Appearing on Jake Tapper's CNN program, O'Donnell predicted that Trump would die before his term ends in January 2029, claiming his cognitive decline is obvious to anyone paying attention, as Conservative Brief reported.
Nothing says "I moved to Ireland to get away from all this" quite like continuing to appear on American cable news to talk about the guy you moved to Ireland to get away from.
Tapper had asked O'Donnell if she planned to return to the U.S. once Trump leaves office. She responded by...
House Speaker Mike Johnson has decided that if the Senate won't eat its vegetables voluntarily, he's going to hide them inside the mashed potatoes. As Conservative Brief reported, Johnson unveiled a plan this week to merge the SAVE America Act with the National Defense Authorization Act, essentially duct-taping an election integrity bill to one of the few pieces of legislation Congress actually bothers to pass every year.
The whole situation kicked off because a group of hard-line House Republicans decided to grind legislative business to a halt until the Senate does something about the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and require voter identification at the polls...
Nothing says "out of an abundance of caution" quite like nearly 20 federal agents from multiple agencies descending on a dead senator's row house on Capitol Hill.
Less than 48 hours after Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening from an aortic dissection, FBI agents were spotted swarming his Washington, D.C., home on Monday, as Trending Politics reported. Video from the scene showed at least six men and two women decked out in FBI gear moving in and out of Graham's Capitol Hill residence. Because when a 71-year-old man dies of cardiovascular disease, you apparently send in enough agents to staff a small field office.
The choreography at the scene was something else. A man in a U.S. Marshals Service jacket exited the home, and then an...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided the International Criminal Court needed a refresher on how American sovereignty works, and boy did he deliver one. In a statement that reads like a politely worded eviction notice, Rubio made it crystal clear that the United States has zero interest in letting unelected foreign judges tell Americans what to do. As USA Journal reported, the Secretary of State went full founding father on the ICC and did not hold back.
"For 250 years, Americans have governed ourselves as a free and sovereign people," Rubio said. "We choose our own leaders. We determine our own laws. And when we're accused of a crime, we stand for judgment before a jury of our own peers."
That is about as diplomatic as telling...
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has appointed Darline Graham Nordone, the late Senator Lindsey Graham's sister, to fill his Senate seat on an interim basis. As Trending Politics reported, the announcement came at a 4 p.m. press conference on Sunday, one day after Graham passed away following a cardiac event Saturday evening.
McMaster said he called Nordone early Sunday morning to ask if she would serve, then ran the idea past President Trump, who reportedly endorsed it "wholeheartedly." And by "wholeheartedly" they apparently mean Trump was already on Truth Social making the recommendation before the governor even held his press conference. Classic.
"I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham's wonderful sister...
Senator Elissa Slotkin has strongly opposed the SAVE Act, arguing it is a vehicle for federal overreach designed to disenfranchise eligible voters and help Donald Trump win elections.
She has specifically criticized the bill's proof-of-citizenship requirements and warned against proposals to deploy armed federal officers to polling places.
So in other words, she is scared of Democrats losing elections because they won't be able to cheat anymore.
An unverified report making the rounds on Monday claims President Donald Trump is gearing up to declare Georgia's two Democratic senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, "illegitimate because of fraud." As Trending Politics reported, the claim comes from a "well-placed source in Georgia" and suggests the announcement could drop as soon as Monday evening. Neither the White House nor the president has confirmed any of it, which means we are currently in the political equivalent of seeing someone warming up in the bullpen but having no idea if they are actually going to pitch.
If the report pans out, it would be a significant escalation in the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to revisit the 2020 Georgia elections, a topic that has...
Lindsey Graham's final recorded words on this earth were a joke about his own workload, which is honestly the most Lindsey Graham thing imaginable. "I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization." He said it with a laugh. A few hours later, he was dead. As originally reported, the senator had just returned from his tenth trip to Ukraine since Russia's invasion when he started feeling unwell on a Saturday evening. An aide told him to go see a doctor. Graham said he wanted to wait until after his Sunday morning appearance on Meet the Press. His body said one thing. His calendar said another. The calendar won. That was the man in a nutshell.
Graham's final weeks were...
Los Angeles has been dumping nearly one billion dollars a year into its homelessness crisis, and Skid Row looks exactly the same as it did ten years ago. If you are wondering how that is mathematically possible, California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton recently took a walk through Skid Row and stumbled onto an answer that is somehow worse than garden variety government incompetence. As USA Journal reported, there is an organization called LA CAN, the Los Angeles Community Action Network, that has been filing lawsuit after lawsuit to block the city from clearing encampments, removing drug users from public sidewalks, and doing basically anything that might accidentally reduce the problem.
Their legal argument is a real piece...
If you ever wondered who is winning the war against American agriculture, the answer is basically everyone except the people actually growing your food. A new documentary from Turning Point USA's Frontlines series, as covered by Trending Politics, dives into the mess facing family farms along the southern border in New Mexico, and it paints a picture so bleak you might want to hug the next farmer you see.
The 17-minute film interviews multi-generational ranching and farming families in southern New Mexico who are getting squeezed from every conceivable direction: rising fertilizer costs, cheaper imports flooding in from Mexico, and (here's the fun part) drug cartels allegedly laundering money through legitimate agricultural businesses...
Senator Jim Banks just introduced a piece of legislation that basically amounts to reading a Supreme Court concurrence and saying "don't mind if I do." As USA Journal reported, Banks dropped the Citizenship Act on Monday, a bill that would define illegal aliens and birth tourists as "invaders" under federal law and strip automatic citizenship from their American-born children. The legal foundation? A concurrence written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh himself.
Here is the backstory. Last month the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara that birthright citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment. Five justices said the Amendment itself guarantees citizenship to children born here to parents who are unlawfully present. Kavanaugh was...
Imagine people in your area are defrauding the government for millions of dollars, stealing all that money from taxpayers, and all you want to do is arrest them and get your money back.
Then a Democrat comes along and says it's racist and bigoted to target the criminals because they're from Somalia or some other third world dumpster.
Sir, it's not racism, it's the law. The law does not care what you look like. The law should be followed by everyone, the same. Except if you're in Congress and you're inside trading on the stock market... that's when everyone looks the other way.
Other than that, arrest everyone who's stealing from taxpayers! Don't be stupid like this guy!
You know a politician was something special when Al Franken and Ted Cruz are both genuinely sad at the same time about the same guy. That is not a combination that occurs in nature. Yet as USA Journal noted, the tributes pouring in for Senator Lindsey Graham over the weekend painted a picture of a man who somehow managed to be personally beloved across every conceivable political divide. A man who could make a professional comedian admit he was funnier.
Al Franken, the actual Saturday Night Live alumnus, said explicitly that Graham was the funniest senator. Let that sink in. A guy from South Carolina who grew up in the back of a pool hall and bar was out-comedying the guy who literally wrote comedy for a living. That is either deeply...
Nothing says "productive civic engagement" quite like banging on a senator's door and chanting "Throw her out" because you are angry about a federal law enforcement operation that the senator had nothing to do with. But here we are in 2026, and that is exactly what happened in Biddeford, Maine.
As Trending Politics reported, a large group of anti-ICE protesters descended on Senator Susan Collins' office after a man was shot and killed during an ICE operation earlier that morning. The shooting took place shortly before 7:30 a.m. near the intersection of Pool and Hill streets in Biddeford. According to Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, a Biddeford resident, one person died at the scene.
ICE has stated that agents fired after the man...
Lindsey Graham's last recorded words were a joke about his own to-do list, and honestly, the man could not have scripted a more fitting exit if he had hired a Hollywood writer.
"I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization," Graham said Saturday evening, according to USA Journal. He delivered it as a punchline. He died a few hours later. The man's final breath was basically a legislative briefing with comedic timing.
Graham had just returned from Ukraine, his tenth trip since the Russian invasion, when he started feeling unwell Saturday evening. An aide told him to get to a doctor immediately. Graham's response? He wanted to wait until after his Sunday morning Meet...
Nothing says "Monday morning" quite like someone allegedly rolling up to the United States Capitol with a firearm and finding out that the security apparatus there is, in fact, not decorative.
U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man with a gun at the North Barricade of the Capitol Building on Monday morning, as Trending Politics reported. The arrest prompted authorities to shut down the area while officers investigated, and staffers received an alert telling them to stay away from the North Barricade until further notice. Capitol Police said the area would remain closed as the investigation continued.
Details about the suspect, the type of firearm, and what he was allegedly doing near the barricade were not immediately released. So we are...
Mitch McConnell's office finally released a photo, a statement, and a medical explanation on Sunday confirming that the 84-year-old senator is, in fact, still among the living. As USA Journal reported, the update came roughly four weeks after McConnell was hospitalized, which is approximately three weeks and six days longer than it should have taken to say "he fell, got pneumonia, took antibiotics, and is doing physical therapy."
The medical rundown is about as dramatic as a Tuesday afternoon at a Walgreens clinic. McConnell fell at home, sustained minor injuries, developed pneumonia during recovery, responded well to antibiotics, and has been doing physical therapy to reduce future fall risk. The attending physician confirmed no...
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