An adviser to the real-estate mogul and reality TV star circulated a cryptic
advisory Wednesday night that The Donald will make “a major announcement” early
Thursday afternoon local time at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in
Las Vegas. “The announcement will pertain to the presidential race,” Trump
adviser Michael Cohen wrote in an email.

Will he run? Or will be endorse? And if he endorses, who would he pick? Mr.
Trump could throw his weight behind an insurgent — Newt Gingrich
or Rick Santorum. Or he could go with the
establishment pick — Mitt Romney. Given his back-and-forth with
Ron Paul, it seems unlikely he’d back the Texas congressman. Or
maybe he, too, will sound a Herman Cain-esque endorsement of
“the people.”

Mr. Trump loves to keep people guessing — and elbowing his way into the
headlines. Perhaps the best question, if he’s not throwing his hat in the ring,
is whether the candidate who receives his endorsement actually wants his
backing.

“I have no idea what The Donald is going to do,” Mr. Gingrich said. “He is
always interesting, and I don’t know of anybody who does a better job of getting
attention by announcing that he will presently announce something.”

Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously denied a  "cover-up" by the Justice Department over "Operation Fast and Furious," telling  a House panel investigating the botched gun-running program that he has nothing  to hide and suggesting the probe is a "political" effort to embarrass the  administration.

"There's no attempt at any kind of cover-up," Holder  told lawmakers well into a hearing about whether he had been forthright in  responding to requests of the House Oversight and Government Relations Committee  led by Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

One morning last February, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker called his staff into his office. “Guys,” he warned, “it’s going to be a tough week.” Walker had recently sent a letter to state employees proposing steps—ranging from restricting collective bargaining to requiring workers to start contributing to their own pension accounts—to eliminate the state’s $3.6 billion deficit. That day in February was when Walker would announce his plan publicly.

It turned out to be a tough year. The state immediately erupted into a national spectacle, with tens of thousands of citizens, led by Wisconsin’s public-employee unions, seizing control of the capitol for weeks to protest the reforms. By early March, the crowds grew as big as 100,000, police estimated. Protesters set up encampments in the statehouse, openly drinking and engaging in drug use beneath the marble dome. Democratic state senators fled Wisconsin to prevent a vote on Walker’s plan. Eventually, the Senate did manage to pass the reforms, which survived a legal challenge and became law in July. Add a comment