Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper. After Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, inadvertently included The Atlantic ’s editor in chief in a group chat about military attack plans on the Signal messaging app, he found himself on very thin ice with his boss.

Now, in a new filing with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board — an independent agency devoted to protecting the rights of federal workers — Schleifer is pushing back against his firing, saying he was fired as part of a retribution campaign for his comments made before he was a federal prosecutor, the AP was first to report .

Both prosecutors received a one-sentence email stating they were dismissed on behalf of ... servants traditionally shielded from political purges. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said ...

Basil Smikle, Columbia University Professor and Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the latest episode of the weaponization of the Trump Justice Department with the DOJ opening an investigation into former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo,

President Trump said Mayor Adams came to the White House on Friday so the mayor could “thank” him in the wake of the dismissal of Adams’ federal corruption indictment, while

She also dismissed questions over whether the White House is concerned with the quality of care presidents get there. “The president had his physical recently. As you know, he had perfect results.

The White House has “weaponized” an accusation ... Abrego Garcia has turned her experience of domestic violence into “political theater” at her own expense. Abrego Garcia, whose detention ...

An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure.

There’s a growing fear the White House and Trump appointees are potentially destabilizing the U.S. intelligence community.