Leigh McManus

London

Senior reporter at the @dailystar, soon to be @thedailybeast. All views are mine, though. Not theirs. Mine. Story? Email: [email protected]

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CNBC Brutally Fact-Checks Trump’s Claim Tariffs Are Making the U.S. Rich

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus

CNBC has brutally fact-checked President Donald Trump’s claims that his tariffs are making the U.S. billions of dollars every day. The network spoke with officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who appeared to contradict Trump’s claims that his levies are having the desired effect.
Trump Uses Easter Prayer Service to Herald the Savior (Himself)

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus

Easter is coming up, but President Donald Trump thinks the savior is already here. The president used an Easter prayer service in the White House’s Blue Room Wednesday evening to roll off a list of his achievements, saying he has enjoyed “maybe the best three months ever for a president.”“With God’s grace over these past three months—and we have had a great three months; they say maybe the best three months ever for a president and an administration,” Trump said.
Trump Leads MAGA Meltdown Against Powell for Telling the Truth About His Tariffs

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Nandika Chatterjee |Julia Ornedo

President Trump erupted at the Federal Reserve chair on Thursday after the central bank boss warned that Trump’s tariffs will hurt the American economy. Jerome Powell, speaking at the Economic Club of Chicago on Wednesday, said “the level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated,” which will cause “higher inflation and slower growth.” U.S. stocks tumbled as Powell spoke.
Top Trump Official Claims Defending Due Process Is ‘Aiding’ Terrorists

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Janna Brancolini |Will Neal

A top Trump administration official said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.” Appearing on Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax, Donald Trump’s senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, suggested critics of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s incarceration in a Salvadoran megaprison might even be committing a federal crime. He said: “It’s not left and right, It’s not even Republican or Democrat.
Jimmy Kimmel Goes All In on Elon Musk’s ‘Harem of Baby Mamas’

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Boyle |Leigh McManus |Isabel van Brugen

Jimmy Kimmel seized the chance on Wednesday night to ridicule Elon Musk’s apparent quest to repopulate Silicon Valley with dozens of “mini-Musks.”The late-night host highlighted an investigative report that detailed the DOGE boss’s plan to father as many children as possible. ”The Wall Street Journal, of all places, published a bonkers account of Musk’s efforts to seed the world in his own image,“ Kimmel explained in his monologue.
Pete Hegseth’s Purge of Alleged Leakers Claims Another Victim

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Leigh McManus

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hunt for suspected leakers inside the Pentagon has claimed its third victim. Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was put on administrative leave Wednesday and escorted out of the building, according to a defense official and a person familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico.
Soccer Star Who Left MLS Under Cloud Dies in Fall From Balcony in China

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Isabel van Brugen |Nandika Chatterjee |Aazim Jafarey

THIRD DEGREEDonald Trump launched into a furious tirade against Harvard University after the college defied his demands for policy changes. After threatening to take away the college’s tax-exempt status over the refusal, Trump followed up with another blistering Truth Social post early Wednesday. “Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,’” Trump raged.
GOP Rep Struggles to Defend Trump Deporting U.S. Citizens

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies |Catherine Bouris |Leigh McManus

A GOP House member defended the Trump administration’s admittedly wrongful decision to send a Maryland immigrant to an El Salvador prison. But he couldn’t defend Donald Trump’s suggestion that U.S. citizens could be next. CNN anchor Pamela Brown pressed Republican congressman Rich McCormick to say whether Trump’s defiance of a Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a bridge too far.
He Offered Me $15m and Wanted 10 More Kids

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Isabel van Brugen

Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair has claimed that Elon Musk tried to buy her silence about their love child for $15 million—and told her he wanted a total of 10 babies with her. The pair had a baby in secret last year. But St. Clair decided in February 2025 to announce the baby to the world, saying she wanted to get ahead of a news story which would have revealed the child’s birth.
Trump Rages Against Harvard’s ‘Hate and Stupidity’ in Unhinged Rant

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus

Donald Trump launched into a furious tirade against Harvard University after the college defied his demands for policy changes. After threatening to take away the college’s tax-exempt status over the refusal, Trump followed up with another blistering Truth Social post early Wednesday. “Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,’” Trump raged.