Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese

At noon yesterday, Donald Trump walked toward the wreath-laying ceremony, slapping his right hand against his thigh with almost every step. As he stood at attention with his hand raised in salute, he wobbled back and forth, unable to hold still. He looked exhausted, unsteady, and vacant. But today was Memorial Day, and the President of the United States was standing before the families of the fallen. He did not need to be eloquent. He only needed to be solemn and to give one sacred day the se...

After abruptly clearing his weekend travel schedule and missing his own son's wedding, the President of the United States has once again locked himself away inside the White House. And while much of the country remains focused on his continued threats of war, a story was published this morning that every major news outlet in America should be covering as breaking news. The Trump administration has begun quietly and deliberately scrubbing prosecution records tied to the January 6th insurrectio...

Last night at 11:35, after thirty-three years of The Late Show on CBS and eleven years of Colbert behind that desk at the Ed Sullivan Theatre, the lights went down for the last time. After years of personal obsession with silencing voices that speak truthfully about him, the President of the United States was successful in removing a comedian from the air. This will be remembered in the history books as one of the darkest modern assaults on the First Amendment and a deeply dangerous escalatio...

Yesterday, we saw what Representative Don Beyer called "the largest single act of grand larceny in American history." The full scope of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit settlement is now clear. Not only will he have a deep pot of money to pay past and future loyalists who carry out his dirty work, he also arranged for the IRS to be forever barred from pursuing any past tax claims against him, his sons, his businesses, and every trust and affiliated company tied to the family. And the corruption go...

In between golfing at his course in Virginia and relaxing inside the White House, Donald Trump spent hour after hour on Sunday posting bizarre and deeply disturbing content on social media. His increasingly erratic posts included pictures of him walking beside a shackled alien, fake images of himself in a spaceship launching nuclear weapons from above the planet, and a grotesque image of a deceased President Biden floating in sewage. This is how the President of the United States spent his Su...

Trump is reportedly pursuing a $1.7 billion settlement fund that could send taxpayer money to January 6 defendants, Trump allies, and even entities associated with Trump himself, all through a commission with little transparency and no public list of recipients. At the same time, he used the word treason against New York Times reporter David Sanger for asking a basic question about war and foreign policy. This is not ordinary corruption. It is a warning about how authoritarian power rewards...

The New York Times reported that the Justice Department, run by the President's former personal defense attorney Todd Blanche, is in active internal discussions about whether to settle the President's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. A settlement that would effectively give the man who runs the executive branch a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer payout, with his own former personal lawyer signing the check. And one of the options on the table is for the IRS to drop all audits of Donald Trump...

At 10:01 in the morning, Donald Trump sat directly in front of a carefully staged group of women to speak about maternal healthcare. But just 11 minutes into the nearly hour-long event, his eyes slowly started to close, his breathing grew heavier, his head began dipping forward in small, uneven nods, and he appeared to completely fall asleep. And it happened more than once. As videos and photos spread, the White House rapid response account responded to a Reuters journalist who simply posted ...

Donald Trump made another appearance at one of his golf courses in Virginia, and something immediately felt off. His tie was missing. His shirt was unbuttoned and unevenly opened at the neck. His hair was disheveled. His eyes were heavy, and the dark bruises on both his hands were still visible. Before he ever arrived, he had spent nearly six straight hours online posting a nonstop stream of fake war images, propaganda, and bizarre fantasy memes. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a c...

Donald Trump's East Wing ballroom project has quietly ballooned from a promised $200 million "privately funded" renovation to a potential $1.4 billion taxpayer-funded construction project, with a hidden underground bunker featuring missile-resistant steel, drone-proof roofing, bomb shelters, and an underground hospital beneath it. After repeatedly promising "zero taxpayer dollars," Trump is now calling it "a small deal" while simultaneously cutting biodefense research, slashing NIH funding, a...

With children carefully placed beside him in the Oval Office, the President of the United States used what was supposed to be a celebration of the restored Presidential Fitness Award to comment on a little girl's body, ask a boy if he could beat him in a fight, describe Iranian protesters being shot between the eyes, and repeatedly steer the conversation toward dominance and violence. The event revealed something far more troubling than bad behavior. It exposed a framework where children are ...

This weekend exposed the coordinated assault on three pillars of American democracy happening simultaneously. Trump vanished from a golf course Saturday for an unscheduled "dentist visit" with no details, no physician statement, and no transparency, raising fresh questions about his declining health. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, and within hours, Republican states began redrawing maps and canceling elections already underway. Louisiana suspended its House primary...

Donald Trump returned to the public stage today for the first time since the Washington D.C. shooting, delivering a nearly 90-minute speech at The Villages in Florida that revealed a man who has stopped pretending to have limits. He dragged himself across the stage, struggled to summon energy, and then spent the next hour and a half insulting the very people who came to support him, launching into racist fabrications about a sitting congresswoman, mocking seniors as "old guys," berating his o...