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Trump’s Inner Circle Takes Its Biggest Hit Yet With Latest White House Exit
The president’s close advisor becomes the latest woman to leave his core team.
Donald Trump’s administration has been rocked by the departure of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt months before the midterm elections.
How Ghislaine Maxwell Fooled Trump's New AG With Ease
A forgotten 1989 newspaper clipping exposes the lie Todd Blanche completely missed, The Swamp reveals.
In this week’s booze from the ooze:
MAGA Barbie Hits Back at Claims She Kept Trump Awake
Today in The Swamp: Wednesday, August 12
It didn’t take long for viewers watching Donald Trump in the Oval Office this week to come up with a reason why a woman standing behind him kept patting her stomach.
Trump’s Moral Vacuum Reveals the True Character of the Bone Spurs President
The president was willing to sacrifice the lives of Americans to save his own skin.
Has it really come to this? A scared old man and his Pentagon bully cowering in a catering truck, knowing they could be sending friends and colleagues into...
Lying Trump Left Americans as Sitting Ducks to Save His Own Skin
Today in The Swamp: Tuesday, August 11
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
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Welcome to The Swamp, an indispensable guide to what’s really happening in D.C. We're taking you inside the White House, the chambers of Congress, and the restaurants, clubs, and bars where the real deals are done. Subscribe!
Independent. Irreverent. Intelligent. The Daily Beast delivers award-winning original reporting, fact-informed analysis, and sharp opinion in the arena of politics, pop culture, and power.
David Gardner is the Daily Beast's D.C. Bureau Chief. An author of five books, he has worked as an editor at Newsweek and for the Daily Mail as a crime writer and senior foreign correspondent, traveling the world on assignment for the newspaper.
I write about the rising stars of MAGA and the manosphere for the Daily Beast. My reporting takes you inside the parties and power plays shaping the right’s next generation. Invite me to your parties: [email protected]
Farrah Tomazin is the Daily Beast's Political Correspondent, covering the White House, Congress & elections. She is a former investigative reporter, political editor and North America Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald & The Melbourne Age.
Sarah Ewall-Wice is a Political Reporter for The Daily Beast. Previously a reporter at the Daily Mail, she covered the White House, Capitol Hill, and was on the road with the Kamala Harris campaign. She also worked at CBS News.
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