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      Trump news at a glance: Dan Bongino ‘wants to go back to his show’ says president, as deputy FBI director resigns

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      Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned podcaster, will step down in January. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 17 December at a glanceThe FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, confirmed on Wednesday that he is stepping down in January.In a statement posted on social media, Bongino thanked Donald Trump, FBI director Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi, the attorney general he reportedly clashed with over her decision not to release files from the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading… More

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      Fani Willis defends Trump prosecution at contentious Georgia hearing

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      Fulton county DA hits back at Republican opponents who investigated her over relationship with special prosecutorFulton county district attorney Fani Willis testified on Wednesday at a combative Georgia state senate committee about her prosecution of Donald Trump for election interference.The state senate created the special committee in early 2024 to investigate Willis after the revelation that she had a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor in the Trump case, which ultimately derailed the prosecution of the now-re-elected president. Continue reading… More

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      Congress member who faces charges for visiting ICE facility says Trump is ‘using me as an example’

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      The New Jersey Democrat was charged with interfering with an immigration arrest while conducting her oversight dutiesThis year marked the start of LaMonica McIver’s first full term as a member of Congress. Rather than a year spent learning the ropes of her new job, the New Jersey Democrat spent much of it fighting against federal criminal charges she sees as political retribution.On 19 May, McIver was charged with interfering with an arrest outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey earlier that month. Continue reading… More

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      These migrants grow the US’s Christmas trees. Trump’s wage cuts may keep them away

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      Legal temporary farm workers also worry about the H-2A visa program and Trump’s anti-immigration regimeThis article is a collaboration between the Guardian and Enlace Latino NC, an independent bilingual publication. Read this article in Spanish.On a cold December afternoon, about 10 workers load the season’s final Christmas trees onto a truck at Wolf Creek Tree Farm and Nursery in Cullowhee, North Carolina. Nearby, another group takes a break, warming up around a barrel fire. More workers are out in the fields, a half-hour’s drive up further into the mountains. Continue reading… More

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      Trump’s $10bn attack on the BBC doesn’t have to make sense. In his absurd world, he has already won | Jane Martinson

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      The legal action has made news and it will do damage. A potential disaster for the corporation and the UK, but a good day’s work for this presidentLove Actually may be a terrible movie, but it provides one speech that’s hard not to wish into reality this Christmas. Keir Starmer, the actual, nonfictional UK prime minister, needs to channel the one played by Hugh Grant – and stand up to an absurd US president now bullying the BBC with a $10bn lawsuit.Just imagine for one moment that Starmer decided to make Donald Trump’s claim against the BBC the final straw for a special relationship that is increasingly special only in a bad way. That would not be outlandish, for not only has Trump taken aim against a British broadcaster, but earlier this week it seemed that his promise of an AI “prosperity deal” (bought, let’s not forget, with gurning invites to Windsor Castle) is set to evaporate. As the fictional Love Actually PM once said: “A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend … Since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward I will be prepared to be much stronger.”Jane Martinson is professor of financial journalism at City St George’s and a member of the board of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group. She writes in a personal capacityDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading… More

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      From ‘odd’ Musk to ‘painful’ tariffs: key takeaways from interviews with Trump’s chief of staff

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      Susie Wiles has spoken to Vanity Fair magazine in a series of 11 interviews that she has since dismissed as a ‘hit piece’The president’s chief of staff Susie Wiles has given her own, unvarnished thoughts about Donald Trump’s administration, in a series of interviews published by Vanity Fair magazine, revealing details and opinions that presidential aides usually save for memoirs long after they have left power.From calling out attorney general Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, to criticising Elon Musk over the dismantling the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Wiles has offered an unusually candid look inside the White House, after maintaining a low profile for much of Trump’s term. Continue reading… More

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      Ilhan Omar on Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans – podcast

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      The congresswoman told David Smith about how it feels to be targeted by the world’s most powerful man. But why has Donald Trump gone after her and the Somali community?The congresswoman Ilhan Omar is no stranger to political attacks: she is a woman, she is a Democrat, she is black and she is an immigrant. All of which have made her a perfect target for the US president, Donald Trump. But even so, what happened last week felt different.David Smith, the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, was among those watching Trump’s televised speech in Pennsylvania last week. He was shocked to see Trump revive a conspiracy theory about Omar marrying her brother to become a US citizen, and to hear him mock the hijab she wears. Continue reading… More

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      Trump’s chief of staff suggests real goal of US boat strikes is to topple Venezuela’s Maduro – as it happened

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      This blog has now closed. Read our latest story hereWiles also said she had told Donald Trump that his second term was not supposed to be a retribution tour.“We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over,” she said in an interview in March.I mean, people could think it does look vindictive. I can’t tell you why you shouldn’t think that.I don’t think he [Trump] wakes up thinking about retribution. But when there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities. Continue reading… More