The second Trump administration has been buttoned up when compared to its chaotic 2016 vintage.
During President Donald Trump‘s first administration, power plays between White House aides routinely spilled out into the press, with reporters sometimes being used to advance personal, political, and policy agendas within the West Wing that was more ideologically divided than his second term.
The internal politicking of Trump’s second administration hadn’t really reared its head in 2025, but those tactics are finally starting to emerge, particularly after the second fatal shooting of an anti-ICE protester in Minneapolis last weekend — nine months before this year’s all-important midterm elections.
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The White House has downplayed the leaks, telling the Washington Examiner, “there’s nothing the fake news loves more than leakers who have no idea
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