Today in One Sentence. Rep. Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democrats for “threatening” Republicans with investigations after winning control of Congress in the midterms; Trump acknowledged that his deportation policy was “too tough” and hurt Republicans in the midterm elections; Trump suggested without evidence that the voting machines in the midterms were rigged nearly a week after saying he was “absolutely willing” to accept that Democrats won control of the House and Senate; the FBI is looking into Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected Chinese spy; the Supreme Court allowed construction of Trump’s border wall in Texas’s Big Bend region; Trump said he was “only kidding” about offering UFC CEO Dana White the White House press secretary job; and Biden accused Trump of leading an insurrection and said his actions on Jan. 6 “should follow him to his grave.”.

1/ Rep. Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, forcing the Republican-controlled House to act in the next two legislative days. Massie accused Hegseth of “knowingly execut[ing] and implement[ing] unlawful orders” by waging the Iran war without congressional authorization and continuing it after Congress directed Trump to end the conflict or seek approval. Massie also accused Hegseth of ordering unlawful strikes on suspected drug boats and directing the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries endorsed the impeachment effort, while several Republicans are reportedly considering whether to support it. Speaker Mike Johnson, however, called it a “cheap trick” and said impeaching Hegseth amid the Iran war abroad “would be a terrible, terrible look.” If the House impeaches Hegseth, removing him would require a two-thirds Senate vote. Hegseth, meanwhile, dismissed the effort as a “sham” and insisted, “We’re not worried about that.” Trump, nevertheless, pledged to stand by Hegseth even if he is impeached. (Associated Press / New York Times / Politico / NBC News / Washington Post / ABC News / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / CBS News / Axios / CNBC)

2/ Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democrats for “threatening” Republicans with investigations after winning control of Congress in the midterms. He accused Democrats of “extortion at the highest level,” claiming without evidence that they threatened Republican donors with imprisonment and administration officials with impeachment. “I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!” Trump wrote, adding that the “EXTORTIONISTS” should be imprisoned. Democrats are expected to use their new congressional oversight powers to investigate the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files, tariffs, and immigration policies. (Bloomberg / Politico / ABC News / The Hill / Fox News / Mediaite)

3/ Trump acknowledged that his deportation policy was “too tough” and hurt Republicans in the midterm elections. “I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs,” Trump said, referring to immigrants who only entered the country illegally. Exit polls showed that 58% of voters thought the administration’s immigration actions had gone too far. Nevertheless, Trump said he’d “love to do something on immigration” with Democrats. Hours later, however, Trump named Stephen Miller, the architect of his deportation crackdown, to replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. (CBS News / New York Times / Washington Post / Bloomberg / NBC News / Associated Press / ABC News / Wall Street Journal / CBS News)

  • 📌 Last Week in WTF: Trump named Stephen Miller his new White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles. Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff and the architect of his mass-deportation campaign, takes over Monday. Wiles, the first woman to hold the job and Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, will move to Trump’s political operation. When asked why he replaced her, Trump said that “Sometimes in life you have to make moves.” Miller helped develop Trump’s family-separation policy and the 2017 travel ban during Trump’s first term, and has overseen his second term’s immigration crackdown. About six in 10 midterm voters said the administration’s immigration enforcement had gone too far, and some Republicans blamed Miller for the Republicans’ midterm losses. After immigration agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, Miller called one of them a “domestic terrorist” and later blamed the comment on bad information from Customs and Border Protection. Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, who is set to lead the House Oversight Committee, vowed to investigate Miller and warned: “Stephen Miller should lawyer up.”

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4/ Trump suggested without evidence that the voting machines in the midterms were rigged nearly a week after saying he was “absolutely willing” to accept that Democrats won control of the House and Senate. “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump posted on social media. “How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!” Polls, however, had forecast widespread Democratic victories and, on average, underestimated the size of the sweep. (New York Times / Politico / Washington Post / CNBC / The Hill)

5/ Trump said the FBI was looking into Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected Chinese spy. He offered no details other than that the FBI was “looking into it in terms of something else.” Nvidia’s board also launched an independent investigation after he admitted to being “unfaithful to my wife.” A classified memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly cited intelligence that China’s Ministry of State Security had recruited Alice Huang, a former executive at Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, to gather intelligence on Jensen Huang to influence Nvidia into making its most advanced chips available to China. Megaspeed has bought more than $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips since June 2024, and U.S. authorities have investigated whether it’s helped Chinese companies obtain chips in violation of export restrictions. Before the memo circulated, however, Trump announced in December 2025 that Nvidia could sell H200 chips to approved Chinese customers following months of lobbying by Jensen Huang. The Commerce Department also eased its export licensing rules in January 2026. Trump was also reportedly briefed about the intelligence roughly a year ago, but chose not to act. When asked when he first learned of the intelligence, Trump acknowledged that it “could have been mentioned,” but it “didn’t make much of an impact on me.” Nvidia’s board maintained it had “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised,” and Huang will remain CEO during the investigation. (Associated Press / CNBC / Politico / NBC News / Bloomberg / New York Times / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / Axios / CBS News)

6/ The Supreme Court allowed construction of Trump’s border wall in Texas’s Big Bend region. The order lifts a federal judge’s injunction, allowing work to resume inside Big Bend National Park while a lawsuit challenging the administration’s three waivers that allowed the government to skirt environmental and conservation laws. In an unsigned opinion, the court said federal law “reflects a clear preference for expeditious border construction” over other interests, and that the government’s interest “outweighs any aesthetic, recreational, and environmental harm.” (New York Times / Washington Post / Associated Press / Bloomberg / NBC News / CNN)

7/ Trump said he was “only kidding” about offering UFC CEO Dana White the White House press secretary job. In a Saturday social media post, Trump urged White to take the job and bring UFC fighters to “defend us against the Lunatic Left.” He also shared a cartoon video showing White ordering UFC fighters to attack reporters in the White House briefing room. “You would have thought that people would have said he’s having a good time,” Trump said. “I will tell you I was only kidding.” White, meanwhile, said he would meet with Trump today. Trump confirmed the meeting, but said White was coming “for other reasons.” The press secretary job has been open since Katie Zacharia left in October after five days, following Karoline Leavitt’s resignation in August. (Wall Street Journal / Washington Post / New York Times / Associated Press / Bloomberg / CBS News / CNN)

8/ Biden accused Trump of leading an insurrection and said his actions on Jan. 6 “should follow him to his grave.” In an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Biden condemned Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, writing that those who attacked law-enforcement officers “didn’t deserve pardons” and “deserved prison terms.” “They came armed to stop the official certification of a legitimate election,” he wrote. “You don’t get to turn a blind eye to cops being punched, speared, sprayed, and brutalized and call yourself a friend of law enforcement.” House Democrats plan to move a plaque honoring the officers who defended the Capitol from a basement hallway to a more prominent location when they take the majority in January. The White House, meanwhile, called Biden “the worst president in American history.” (Associated Press / The Atlantic / NBC News / ABC News / Politico)