Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnstein
Political scientist, contributing editor for the Atlantic, contributor to The Contrarian, cohost of the podcast Words Matter.
There go those goalposts
Being mentioned in the thousands of Epstein Files does not incriminate President Trump. If there was anything incriminating against President Trump in those files, Joe Biden would have released them.
Difficult to overstate just how racist Matt Walsh is being here, and how responsible Ben Shapiro is for this blatant racism - Elvira Salazar was born in Miami. She’s an American. She can’t ’go back to Cuba’. An insanely racist and bigoted and dishonest statement from Walsh.
"Get the hell out": Daily Wire's Matt Walsh tells Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar she’s “not American" and should "go back to Cuba." She was born in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. #BecauseMiami
This friendly back and forth between Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer and the deputy AG about the sex trafficking interview is pretty strange!
Looking forward to another productive day tomorrow. Ghislaine honestly answered every question that @DAGToddBlanche asked. And she will continue to do so. We are grateful that the government is trying to uncover the truth. They have never before spoken with her and we trust the…
You are utterly corrupt
The Fed is losing $100 billion a year. Now, it is blowing even more taxpayer money on out-of-control building renovations. Time for an internal review.
Someday, we’ll find out what turned Lindsey . It will not be pretty.
My god what do they have on you? @LindseyGrahamSC John McCain also rolling over in his grave, thinking about what the hell happened to you . JFC
My god what do they have on you? @LindseyGrahamSC John McCain also rolling over in his grave, thinking about what the hell happened to you . JFC
For the good of the country, Senator @JohnCornyn and I urge Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the extent to which former President Obama, his staff and administration officials manipulated the U.S. national security apparatus for a political…
Is there any legitimate law enforcement reason for DOJ to interview Ghislaine Maxwell now? Or is this just a prelude to some “exoneration” of Trump? nytimes.com/live/2025/07/2…
In perhaps the most baffling and most dark day in American intelligence History. The US Director of National Intelligence sourced fake intel from the GRUs Internet Research Agency during a press conference at the White House.
What an embarrassment to Kansas, the Senate and the country
these deranged clowns
Definitely do not share and repeat that widely
Please do not share this! It's vulgar and not at all funny and mocks our great President! I am sure he will sue them, but in the meantime, this sort of thing should not be encouraged. youtu.be/Afetnw70S04?si…
The feeling is mutual. Please read this article from my friend and brother Michael Fanone. open.substack.com/pub/ofthebrave…
BREAKING: Todd Blanche is prioritizing the sex trafficker instead of the victims. Shameless. This is what Alex Acosta did. And Blanche is doing it--perhaps bc he's in such a rush--as Trump's defense attorney.
Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.
Just re-reading some of the victims' statements about Epstein and Maxwell and what they did to them, pretty important to reground all this in that core truth!
All civilized countries should stop recognizing Russian passports. It's a terrorist state far more dangerous than ISIS. Would we recognize ISIS passports? Wealthy Russians hate Russia. Make them live in their own hell. Don't let them come to France or Italy or Greece. Kick them…
Apocalyptic scenes in Kharkiv as russia heavily bombs the second largest city in Ukraine. 1.4 million people live here - it’s a major European cosmopolitan city. It’s a war crime. russia should be viewed as an official terrorist state. All embassies shut down, all visas revoked.
No one humiliates Donald Trump better than Donald Trump.
Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion Powell: I’m not aware of that. Trump: It just came out Powell: You just added in a third building Trump: It’s a building that’s being built Powell: It was built five years ago.
Read this eloquent dissent from FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez.

He remains a cultIst. So do all of them. Collins and Murkowski‘s behavior is just performative. They vote no when it doesn’t make any difference.
What happened to unleashed Tom Tillis?
This is comedy
Remarkable moment between Trump and Powell.
This is a horror and Israel is to blame. There needs to be a ceasefire and Gaza flooded with food and water. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…