The president has privately criticized his attorney general as weak and ineffective in recent weeks.

President Donald Trump denied that he was involved in the Justice Department's decision to subpoena the Federal Reserve. Chair Jerome Powell said the Federal Reserve was being targeted for making decisions that “serve the public" rather than the president’s “preferences.

Last month, the Trump administration appealed the ruling, issued by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, voiding Ms. Halligan’s appointment as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Despite Judge Currie’s order, Ms. Halligan has continued to lay claim to that title, signing court papers as the district’s top prosecutor.

Leavitt is a frequent target of Trump’s lusty gags. Speaking to reporters after leaving Israel following the release of hostages as part of the Middle East ceasefire agreement in October last year, Trump swung from discussing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to land on Leavitt’s facial features.

Independents have leaned more Democratic over the past year, Gallup reported, even as their overall view of the party remains lukewarm.

House Republican introduces bill to make Greenland America's 51st state as President Donald Trump pushes for U.S. control of the strategic Danish Arctic territory.

The 79-year-old president and his son Eric Trump are both named in court filings detailing a toxic culture at the $350,000-a-year New Jersey club. Hadley, a Trump voter who was hired in February, is suing Trump National for sexual discrimination and harassment.

A federal judge in Washington State ruled Friday that Trump cannot enforce parts of an executive order he issued last year about how elections are run.

Trump's comments in a brief interview with NBC News came after Fed Chair Jerome Powell cited "the administration’s threats and ongoing pressure" to lower interest rates.