David Gardner

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Leigh McManus

Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is fighting for his political life and insists he “won’t blink” amid speculation he’s in the firing line over a second Signal scandal. Hegseth defended himself in a Fox News interview Tuesday after new details emerged about his alleged misuse of the messaging app.

4 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Corbin Bolies

Mark Zuckerberg thought he’d done everything in his power to make the government’s antitrust case against Meta go away. He’d paid $1 million into Donald Trump’s inaugural fund. He’d settled a lawsuit the president launched over being blackballed by Facebook for a whopping $25 million. He sat in Trump’s box at the inauguration and shuttled between the White House and Mar-a-Lago to ingratiate himself with his new friend. And what did he get for all his trouble?

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Leigh McManus |Erkki Forster

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went on an Oval Office tirade about why a father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador should not be returned to the United States. Invited to talk by Donald Trump, Miller launched into an attack on the American media, saying it was “arrogant” to claim the administration should tell El Salvador how to treat its own citizens.

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Nandika Chatterjee

Donald Trump has told his Cabinet that Elon Musk will be stepping down from DOGE in the next few weeks, according to a new report. The Tesla billionaire will be taking a backseat role as an adviser and moving back to take control of his ailing businesses, reports Politico. The Daily Beast has confirmed that Musk has told friends he will be leaving his White House roles. The news comes after the billionaire’s humiliating role in the disastrous state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin.

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Paul Henderson |David Gardner

For more than 30 years, Johanna van Haarlem had been dreaming of the moment she'd be reunited with the son she'd last seen as a baby. And now, incredibly, the International Red Cross had tracked him down. They'd already had an exchange of letters, in which Johanna had expressed her enduring love and sent him photos of herself. She was hoping to travel to London from her home in the Netherlands to see him at Christmas, she said.