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Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to the nation’s capital and forcing a federal law enforcement takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department is not only terrorizing residents and workers, it’s also harming local businesses. Washington, D.C., restaurants are experiencing significant drops in reservations, and bars are seeing fewer customers.

Online reservations for D.C. restaurants plunged more than 25 percent in the days immediately after Trump announced the takeover of D.C. police for the first time in the country’s history, according to OpenTable data, Wusa 9’s Jordan Fischer reported.

National Guard troops that President Donald Trump has sent to Washington, D.C., “may be armed” a White House official told CBS News on Saturday, a departure from a previous statement.

Officials said earlier this week that the troops would not be armed, and that weapons would not be in their vehicles, either. “Weapons are available if needed but will remain in the armory,” the Army said in a press release on Thursday.

On Saturday, the Trump administration changed course, according to reports.

“The National Guard is not making arrests...

Alec Baldwin reacted with alarm to President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department and his deployment of troops to the city — saying they are examples of Trump’s “insane moves” to “deflect from his inadequacy.”

“This idea of federalizing the D.C. police department, it’s of such grave concern to me,” Baldwin said in a TikTok video posted Thursday.

The White House on Thursday said it would install an “emergency commissioner” overseeing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and revoked policies that limited officers’ cooperation with federal immigration enforcement officials. On Friday, the attorney general of D.C. sued the Trump administration over the “unlawful” moves.

In the TikTok video, Baldwin wondered what the D.C. police situation would presage. “What’s gonna happen next? Is Trump going to federalize the New York City Police Department?” he said. “What’s after that? Chicago, L.

A new directive signed last week by President Donald Trump gives the Pentagon authorization to use military force against Latin American drug cartels designated as terrorist organizations, according to administration sources.

A U.S. official familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone certain details regarding the Trump-signed directive, which was first reported by The New York Times. Other knowledgeable sources, working in or close to this iteration of the Trump White House, say that unless Mexico gives Trump what he wants, this administration is serious about attacking its neighbor to the south.

The Justice Department has fired one of its own and charged him with felony assault after he threw a sub sandwich at a federal officer.

A video of Sean Charles Dunn throwing a sandwich at the chest of an officer amid President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington, D.C., went viral earlier this week. Dunn, at point blank range, hurled the sandwich at the officers chest before attempting to sprint away. Dunn reportedly told cops: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.”

Former Fox News Host turned U.

The Trump administration appears to have hit another dead end in its desperate efforts to provide some semblance of closure in the years-long saga of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York denied the Justice Department’s order to unseal grand jury records related to the prosecution of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex trafficking charges. Not only that, Engelmayer blasted the very premise of the motion, suggesting...

On Monday, a federal judge denied a request from the Trump administration to unseal grand jury materials used to charge late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, on the basis that there is nothing in the grand jury record that would provide further information on the case.

On July 18, Attorney General Pam Bondi petitioned for the release amid the ongoing controversy over the Epstein case.

Justice Department lawyers argued in court filings that the Maxwell case warranted the release of the typically sealed grand jury transcripts and exhibits, a request that New York Judge Paul Engelmayer denied.

Englemayer, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, wrote, “The government’s invocation of special circumstances, however, fails at the threshold.”

“Its entire premise — that the Maxwell grand jury materials would bring to light meaningful new information about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s crimes, or the Government’s investigation into them — is demonstrably false.

President Donald Trump is taking unprecedented action in Washington, D.C., and it’s already sparking major controversy.

The President of the United States announced on Monday (August 11) that he is taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploying the National Guard to patrol the streets. He also said Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department will now oversee the city’s police force.

“Today we’re formally declaring a public safety emergency,” Trump said during a press conference, via People. “It’s embarrassing for me to be up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once-beautiful capital was.”

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Trump said the National Guard will begin patrolling immediately and that other military forces could be deployed “if needed.” He has frequently cited homelessness and crime as reasons to “clean up” D.C., even though local data shows violent crime...

Updated: Donald Trump said Monday that he was deploying the National Guard in Washington, D.C. and placing the city’s Metropolitan Police under federal control.

Portraying the capital city as a crime-ridden hellhole, Trump told reporters that the city “is becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness.”

“We’re taking our capital back,” Trump said.

Attorney General Pam Bondi will oversee the city’s police department. She was present along with Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host, FBI director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

While there is a crime problem in D.C., and while stats are meaningless to victims, the rate actual fell last year, per the Metropolitan Police, with violent crime down 26%. Back in April, Ed Martin, then serving as Trump’s acting U.S. attorney in the district, trumpeted the decrease.

Trump also has announced efforts to clean...

If you believe J.D. Vance, Donald Trump wants “full transparency” when it comes to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case. Of course, if that were true, we’d know what the Epstein files say about the president and others who were close with the billionaire who trafficked underage girls.

Instead, the administration — through Vance — is trying to distract Americans from focusing on Trump’s relationship with Epstein and is instead pointing the finger at “left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires.”

Jd Vance: "We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot...

Mr. Pratt goes to Washington, indeed.

On Aug. 4, reality star Spencer Pratt touched down in the nation’s capital for a three-day trip to meet with a slew of top federal officials including Attorney General Pam Bondi about the catastrophic fires that ravaged Los Angeles in January.

The visit marks an escalation in his battle with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that began last month. “The Hills” star, whose Pacific Palisades home and his parents’ residence were destroyed in the deadly blazes that also tore through Malibu and Altadena, has publicly accused the governor and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of mismanagement and negligence via viral TikTok videos that he first launched in July. Now, he’s going for the jugular.

“I’m literally their worst nightmare because I have nothing to lose, and all I’m ever gonna do is just post actual facts,” Pratt tells Variety in an exclusive interview.

In the lead-up to the 2024 election, a network of hundreds of bots created by anonymous persons shared posts on X that sowed distrust in Kamala Harris and called for Republicans to unite behind Donald Trump. After Trump’s victory and return to office, the bots began to lavish praise on figures in his administration, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

A Maga influence campaign made up of fake social media accounts is not particularly unusual, nor are concerns about inauthentic digital activity in general.

Would Dave Franco embody Luigi Mangione onscreen? It’s a question a lot of people online having been asking since Mangione was arrested and charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year.

Franco responded to the speculation during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live!, saying he’s “open” to the possibility. A fan asked Franco if he would want to play Mangione in a biopic if it was offered to him and, after initially hesitating, the actor agreed.

“How do I answer this?” Franco responded. “No one has approached me about it yet,...

The House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas to a number of the U.S.’s top political leaders, including Bill Clinton, for testimony about the case surrounding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) issued the deposition subpoenas on Tuesday, August 5.

The committee has subpoenaed Clinton and Hillary Clinton, as well as former attorneys general Pam Bondi, Alberto Gonzales, Bill Barr, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland and Jeff Sessions, and former FBI Directors Robert Mueller and James Comey, “for testimony related to horrific crimes perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein.”

This quest for more testimonies relating to Epstein follows the media’s fury at Donald Trump’s unfulfilled promise to release DOJ and FBI files about Epstein. Last month, the DOJ faced furious backlash upon the announcement that, following a review of Epstein’s case, no additional information would be released...

Americans are overwhelmingly skeptical of Donald Trump’s handling of information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. In a new UMass Amherst national poll, 70 percent of respondents said Trump is not handling the Epstein case well, while only 18 percent said he is.

Among respondents who were aware of Epstein, the deceased billionaire and convicted sex offender, 63 percent agreed that the Trump administration “is hiding important information” about the case. Of those who said the administration is hiding information, a staggering 81 percent blamed Trump for it. Others in Trump’s orbit also received blame,...

President Donald Trump’s administration is investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led two criminal investigations into Trump during the Biden administration, on the supposed basis that Smith’s actions may have been politically motivated.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is reportedly investigating Smith over a possible violation of the Hatch Act, a law that aims to make sure that federal workers are nonpartisan and avoid political activities. Smith investigated Trump over alleged his mishandling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, including...

Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a new federal prison in Texas and the woman behind convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be housed alongside two famous faces at the lower security lockup.

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 on charges related of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late financier and sentenced to 20 years in prison on sex trafficking and transportation of minors charges. She was serving her sentence in Florida until this week and is now at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The news of her transfer comes as the details and mysteries of the Epstein saga have come roaring back into the news after Attorney General Pam Bondi said earlier this month that no more files related to the Epstein sex trafficking investigation would be made public and that he didn’t maintain a “client list.”

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Jess Glynne is blasting the White House’s official X account for using her song in a video about Ice deportations.

The British singer took to social media to denounce a post made by Donald Trump’s White House amid the widespread deportations across the United States.

“This post honestly makes me sick,” Glynne wrote on Instagram. “My music is about love, unity, and spreading positivity — never about division or hate.”

The White House got on the viral social media trend using the “Jet2 holiday” sound that uses Glynne’s “Hold My Hand” song in the advert.

“When Ice books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation,” read the X post made by the White House. “Nothing beats it.”

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Since taking office for a second term earlier this year, Trump has made it a priority to enforce immigration law. The...

Donald Trump is seeking an expedited deposition of Rupert Murdoch as part of his defamation litigation against the media titan and the Wall Street Journal.

In a motion filed Monday in federal court in Miami, Trump’s legal team is seeking Murdoch’s deposition because of his age, 94, citing that he “has suffered from multiple health issues throughout his life, is believed to have suffered recent significant health scares, and is presumed to live in New York, New York. Taken together, these factors weigh heavily in determining that Murdoch would be unavailable for in-person testimony at trial.”

Trump sued the Journal, Murdoch, News Corp. and others earlier this month for $10 billion, claiming that he was defamed by the WSJ report on a letter in Trump’s name that was included in an album given to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. The letter, the Journal reported, “contains several lines...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to blame former President Barack Obama for Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, despite Obama not being president at the time.

Mullin made the comments while being interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. First, Tapper and Mullin debated over whether the attorney general has the ability to release documents related to the Epstein investigation, with Mullin insisting that only judges have the ability to make that information public and Tapper arguing that there is additional information that Attorney General Pam Bondi...

President Donald Trump on Friday denied that he was briefed on his name appearing in the case files of Jeffrey Epstein, seeming contradicting a recent report in the Wall Street Journal that he was.

After Air Force One landed in Scotland today, a reporter asked Trump, “Were you briefed on your name appearing in the Epstein files ever?”

“No, I was never briefed. No,” Trump said.

On Wednesday, the Journal, quoting unnamed senior administration officials, reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy informed Trump in May that his name was in the files, along with many other high-profile figures. The story noted that earlier this month, Trump also had denied being informed of his name being in the files. The White House’s communications director, Steven Cheung, told the Journal that the story was “fake news.”

The Justice Department announced this month that its review of the Epstein case was ending,...

The Wall Street Journal revealed on Wednesday that not only is Donald Trump named in files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the president was informed of that fact back in May. Seth Meyers wasn’t exactly shocked by that though, and guessed that Trump and his team weren’t either.

According to the report, during a meeting with the president in May, Attorney General Pam Bondi let him know his name was alongside “other high-profile figures” in the documents, and that even though the president was not the “focus” of them, she and her team did not plan on releasing more findings.

“You know the hardest part of that meeting was everyone having to pretend to be surprised,” Meyers joked during his “A Closer Look” segment, before acting out how he thought that reveal likely went.

“‘Mr. President, we have some shocking news. Your name is in the Epstein files,...

In August 2020, Amy Tripp, an astrologer who goes by @starheal on social media, tweeted to her tens of thousands of Twitter followers that Kamala Harris would be running for president in 2024, because of the politician’s Saturn return, which occurs when Saturn is once again in the position it was when a person was born. While guessing that a vice presidential candidate was going to run for president in the next election cycle was a pretty safe bet, four years later, Tripp surprised the world when she correctly predicted that...

The Late Show might be on borrowed time after CBS announced its cancelation last week, but in the meantime, Stephen Colbert is taking every last opportunity to roast President Donald Trump. On Wednesday’s (July 23) show, the late-night host informed his studio audience that just shortly before they began taping, The Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump back in May that his name is in the Epstein files. Colbert feigned mock shock, quipping, “But he said he hardly knew the guy!” Earlier this month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a statement claiming their investigation into the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein determined that there was “no incriminating ‘client list.'” Trump has long-claimed his name isn’t in any such files and called the entire situation a “witch hunt.” “You know how they say...

Stephen Colbert was gleeful as he discussed the revelation that Donald Trump was reportedly named in the Jeffrey Epstein files on The Late Show. During his monologue, the host commented on a report in The Wall Street Journal that alleged Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump his name was among many high-profile figures mentioned in the files during a meeting at the White House earlier this year.

“There’s been a lot of smoking guns in this case, but shortly before we taped this show, we got the smokiest yet...

Stephen Colbert was extra cheerful on Wednesday night’s episode of The Late Show because he learned President Donald Trump was reportedly named in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

During his opening monologue, the host brought up the Wall Street Journal‘s latest report, which alleges that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump his name was among many high-profile figures mentioned in the files of Epstein’s sex-trafficking investigation before the Justice Department announced it would not be releasing the files publicly earlier this month.

“There’s been a lot of smoking guns in this case, but shortly before we taped this show, we got the smokiest yet — because the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that back in May, Attorney General Pam Bondi informed the president that his name was in the Epstein files,” Colbert said, before jokingly acting surprised by the revelation. “What! ‘But he said he hardly knew the guy!

President Donald Trump was told by Attorney General Pam Bondi that his name appeared multiple times in Department of Justice documents about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal.

The meeting, which reportedly occurred in May, happened “weeks before” the Department of Justice said earlier this month that they would not release the highly coveted Epstein files, despite earlier promises made by the Attorney General and others in Trump‘s camp until very recently.

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According to the report, the President was told “many other high-profile figures were also named” in the Epstein files, and that the “files contained what officials felt was unverified hearsay about many people, including Trump, who had socialized with Epstein in the past.”

Being mentioned in the Epstein records is not a sign of wrongdoing, the report noted.

The decision not to release...

The Justice Department told Donald Trump that his name appears in the government’s files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The president’s name appears in the files multiple times, according to senior administration officials who spoke to the Journal. Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump that his name appeared in the files during a meeting at the White House in May. She told him that several other notable figures appeared in the files, and that the files contained what they believed to be,...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) warned President Donald Trump that if the Department of Justice does not release more information about Jeffrey Epstein, then his supporters will stop backing him.

“If you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich, powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People,” Greene told Trump, who had close ties with Epstein, in an X post on Monday. “If not. The base will turn, and there’s no going back. Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.”

Greene’s post comes as the president directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek an order to unseal the grand jury transcripts in Epstein’s criminal case.

On July 11, the DOJ sought court approval for the public release, but it...

President Donald Trump appears to be growing increasingly desperate to turn the national conversation away from his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He spent the weekend suggesting prominent Democrats should be prosecuted over bogus right-wing conspiracy theories, and today he said it outright.

“Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.

Trump was asked which Democratic figures the Justice Department should target specifically in light of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent call for...

Maria Farmer twice reported Donald Trump’s connection with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI, shining light on how the president may be mentioned in the Epstein files held by the Justice Department.

Farmer, who worked for Epstein and recently spoke to The New York Times, first went to law enforcement in 1996 to tell them that Epstein and his longtime partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, sexually assaulted her. At the time, Farmer said, she had recently learned that her sister, then a teenager, had a disturbing interaction at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.

On the morning of May 2, 2025, supporters of Washington Senate Bill 5375 were ushered through the massive concrete arches and up the grand staircases of the Washington state Capitol — the veins of Alaskan Tokeen marble guiding them past oil portraits and century-old busts — to the governor’s conference room on the second floor.

Inside, amid the dark wood paneling and gleaming seal of the state, Bob Ferguson, Washington’s new governor and former attorney general, addressed the small crowd of advocates, lawmakers, and child-abuse survivors who had gathered behind him.

“I’m...

Donald Trump is sick of fielding questions about Jeffrey Epstein. But his efforts to quash lingering interest in the case of the late sex offender by downplaying it as some kind of “hoax” perpetrated by political enemies including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have failed to satisfy Maga diehards who want the White House to release bombshell materials implicating powerful elites in Epstein’s crimes, or evidence that he was killed in his jail cell in 2019 to protect those same people.

It’s a crisis of the administration’s own making.

Update: Just over a day after the top prosecutor in the Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein cases was unceremoniously fired by Donald Trump’s Justice Department, Maurene Comey had a warning for America.

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” the now former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement about the despotic shift occurring under the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host’s latest White House regime. “Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”

While never mentioning Potus by name, the daughter of longtime Trump foil and former FBI Director James Comey made it very clear what her verdict was on her pink slipping – justice in America is in big trouble.

Read Comey’s full statement of July 17 here:

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Updated, with additional Trump comment: Donald Trump said that he planned to sue Rupert Murdoch’s “ass off” after The Wall Street Journal published a story about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Journal reported earlier on Thursday on a birthday album that was given to Epstein in 2003, featured collected letters from some of his friends. Among the letters was one bearing Trump’s name that “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker,” the Journal reported, adding that a “pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.”

Informed of the letter, Trump denied writing it, and told the Journal that he would sue them if they went forward with the story.

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Stephen Colbert weighed in on the conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein on the Wednesday, July 16, episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. To kick off his monologue, he said, “I don’t know what you all are talking about, but everybody I talk to is talking about what Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about. So let’s talk about it.” He, of course, was referring to “the conspiracy surrounding” Epstein following the recent claim made by Attorney General Pam Bondi that the “Epstein Files” don’t actually exist. Epstein died in prison by apparent suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial. Colbert pointed out, “For years before [Trump] was re-elected and recently since [the Republicans] all got in office, a bunch of high-ranking people in Trump’s administration have kept promising to release the files surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, his mysterious clients, and his suspicious death, but now, recently, for reasons that I legally cannot think of,...

It was a week from hell that nearly broke Donald Trump’s administration. By the time it was over, the president had sustained more blowback and political damage for his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files than he did for bombing Iran last month.

“The week was a big kick in the balls,” a senior administration official bluntly notes. “It was a lot to deal with, and there were many emotions.”

The end is nowhere in sight, as the president’s supporters — from Maga influencers and Republican politicians...

After nearly a decade of stoking conspiracy theories insisting that he was ordained to destroy a cabal of pedophiles in control of the nation, President Donald Trump would like everyone to shut up about Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and trafficker of underage girls who was known to pal around with high-profile figures — including Trump.

The extended Maga universe continues to shred itself over the Trump administration backtracking on promises to release documents and evidence related to the Epstein case. As House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other prominent...

Updated with additional Trump comments: Donald Trump again expressed his irritation over a split in his Maga base over his administration’s contention that there’s no there there when it comes to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a Truth Social post Wednesday, Trump wrote that the Epstein story has been orchestrated by Democrats. But figures in his administration, like FBI director Kash Patel, Vice President Jd Vance and Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, had pushed conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein before taking their administration posts.

Trump wrote on Truth Social, “The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the Fake and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 ‘Intelligence’ Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia, and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used...

House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans broke with the Trump administration’s decision to keep the lid shut on the government’s files investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Johnson called on the Department of Justice to release documents and information related to the probe into the disgraced financier, who was found dead in his jail cell in 2019, and said that Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to explain previous remarks she made on the issue. This is the first time Johnson, a close Trump ally, has spoken so publicly in opposition to the president.

President Donald Trump is now making some major claims.

The 79-year-old President of the United States said that the Justice Department’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were “made up” by former President Barack Obama, ex-fbi director James Comey and Joe Biden‘s administration.

Amid backlash from supporters demanding to know what’s in the files after the Justice Department and FBI claimed that there was no evidence of an Epstein “client list,” Trump was asked whether U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had told him that he was cited in the Epstein docs.

“No, no,” he said, adding that the Attorney General provided “us just a very quick briefing” in terms of “the credibility of the different things that they’ve seen.”

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“And I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey, they were made up by Obama,...

Kevin Spacey, who walked away from a cloud of sexual assault allegations and a surprising number of dead bodies with his freedom, if not his fortune, is calling for the release of “the Epstein files,” because oh that’s right, his name also appeared in the Epstein flight logs.

“Release the Epstein files,” Spacey posted on July 15th. “All of them. For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough.”

You might think this whole thing couldn’t get any more absurd, but we’re just getting started. The actor, who was fired from House of Cards and then spent years making in-character Christmas videos (remember “Let me be Frank?”) added in his online statement, “I hate to make this about me — but the media already has.”

To be clear, there’s probably nothing in the Epstein files that would incriminate Spacey — or really...

In a late night vote at the Capitol on Monday, House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to unseal documents related to the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans have long stoked conspiracies about the disgraced financier’s death, voted against the resolution in the heat of a Maga civil war over the Trump administration’s backtracking on the release of the files.

The House Rules Committee voted down a bid by Democrats to attach an amendment to the Genius Act — a controversial piece of cryptocurrency legislation currently making...

Kevin Spacey is calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, over a year after his name appeared alongside other major Hollywood stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Cate Blanchett in Epstein’s unsealed court documents. None of the stars mentioned in the court documents were accused of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking ring in any capacity. But speculation persisted on social media, especially about Spacey given the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

“Release the Epstein files. All of them,” Spacey wrote on X. “For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough. I hate to make this about me — but the media already has.”

Donald Trump ignited outrage this month after the FBI and the Department of Justice announced the Epstein files, a purported “client list” revealing those who engaged in Epstein’s crimes, do not exist. The news sparked widespread...

Jon Stewart said on the Monday night episode of “The Daily Show” that Maga is in “open revolt” against Donald Trump over his failure to deliver the long-awaited Jeffrey Epstein files. The FBI and the Department of Justice issued a statement earlier this month saying the Epstein files do not exist despite Pam Bondi, Trump’s attorney general, declaring in February that she had been given Epstein’s client list from the FBI. Bondi said at the time that “Americans have a right to know” about the files.

“MAGAworld, for the first time in memory, isn’t just slavishly acquiescing to Trump’s reality distortion field,” Stewart noted about the rare Maga backlash against Trump.

“The Daily Show” host provided video evidence of how Trump misled his supporters, throwing to clips of Jd Vance, Kash Patel and Bondi all talking about the Epstein files.

“These are all people who work...

Multiple federal law enforcement officials who spoke to Rolling Stone on the condition of anonymity say that Jeffrey Epstein hired private investigators to follow, intimidate, and surveil FBI special agents investigating allegations that he paid underage women for sex. The FBI declined Rolling Stone’s request for comment.

These new allegations about the pressure exerted on the FBI come after internal divisions in Donald Trump’s administration exploded into public view last week over its handling of files and information pertaining to the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker. Reports...

On the morning of Monday, July 14, Fox & Friends aired segments on a Texas dad who went viral for performing cheerleading stunts with his daughter, an interview with Donald Trump‘s granddaughter Kai about being a “normal kid,” and tips on reducing the risk of diabetes. One major news story was conspicuously absent: Jeffrey Epstein and the growing fallout over the Trump administration’s handling of the case. The previous week, an FBI memo was released that effectively brought the case to an inconclusive close. The report stated that the “systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list,'” and that there was “no credible evidence” Epstein had blackmailed prominent individuals. “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,” the memo concluded, essentially declaring there was nothing more to pursue in the Epstein case. Read the full memo here. The findings outraged many conservatives and loyal Trump supporters,...

Attorney General Pam Bondi — who has been purging the Justice Department of anyone tied to the Jan. 6 prosecutions as well as the prosecutions of President Donald Trump — fired the lawyer personally advising her and the department’s thousands of employees on ethics, Bloomberg reported Sunday.

Joseph Tirrell, who began his career in the Navy and spent almost two decades in the federal government, was fired Friday via a brief letter from Bondi, who gave no reason for the termination. The same day, Bondi fired 20 DOJ employees who were involved in prosecuting Trump.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social today to support Attorney General Pam Bondi while chastising his “so-called ‘friends’” in Maga for caring about Jeffrey Epstein, and making demands for her to release files related to Epstein, “a guy who never dies,” he wrote. The definitely dead mogul and convicted sex offender died while in prison in 2019.

“They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a Fantastic Job! We’re on one Team, Maga, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a Perfect Administration,...

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is reportedly considering resigning amid internal tensions within the Trump administration following the release of a controversial Department of Justice memo related to the Jeffrey Epstein case investigation.

Bongino, a former right-wing podcaster, frequently floated conspiracy theories about Epstein on his show. In 2022, he was banned by YouTube for spreading misinformation about Covid-19.

Bongino, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles were involved in a heated confrontation at the White House in a meeting earlier this week. The meeting centered on allegations that Bongino and Patel may have been behind a leak suggesting that the FBI wanted more information about the Epstein case to be made public, which the Justice Department refuted. While Bongino denied any involvement in the leak, he has not endorsed the DOJ’s public statement defending the review process.

The DOJ memo, released on Monday,...