Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Sunday that Democrats are considering various avenues of recourse after the Trump administration released a trove of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that included heavy redactions. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said members of his party are…
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that all material featuring President Trump in files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be released. “The White House has said that President Trump is included in the files. Can you guarantee that every mention and every photo of President Trump in the Epstein files will…
The White House threatened to withhold federal funding to the Smithsonian if the prestigious museum system does not submit additional documentation for the Trump administration’s sweeping content review. In a Thursday letter to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch, Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley and White House budget director Russell Vought outlined the material they said…
Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters that this weekend’s ongoing peace talks in Florida are constructive, amid the Trump administration’s latest push to strike a deal to end the war with Ukraine. “The discussions are proceeding constructively. They began earlier and will continue today, and will also continue tomorrow,” Dmitriev said Saturday in Miami. Dmitriev…
The overall consensus was that Vance’s claim… didn’t add up.
Democrats say they’ve finally found their footing. And the Democratic National Committee (DNC) says it agrees. Democrats are winning again. So why would they put out an autopsy report that talks about how they lost? The party, says DNC Chair Ken Martin, needs to move forward, not look back. That’s the position Democrats find themselves in…
“We released all the files, and I come out looking, frankly, very good,” the show’s POTUS impersonator bragged besides an almost entirely black-out excerpt.
Some Republican lawmakers are rebelling, and opinion polls show a growing number of voters are unhappy.
Fox News host Jesse Watters on Saturday said President Trump once compared his Twitter account to former President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Watters spoke at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix when he recalled a visit to the White House during Trump’s first term. Trump went with Watters to the Lincoln Bedroom, where…
The penny received a “funeral” on Saturday, attended by mourners and Abraham Lincoln impersonators outside the Lincoln Memorial, after the U.S. Mint discontinued the coin last month. Hundreds attended the event, many dressed in black or wearing Victorian-style attire. Mourners placed pennies into either caskets on display or made a wish as they threw pennies…
Trump’s longtime ally, Rep. Elise Stefanik, announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign for governor and will not seek reelection to Congress.
The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman argued that Democrats shouldn’t complain about the president adding his name to the performing arts center. That sparked discussion.
At least 16 files on the Justice Department’s (DOJ) webpage containing files on Jeffrey Epstein, including a photo featuring two pictures of President Trump, were found to have disappeared from the department’s website as of Saturday, The Associated Press reported. DOJ has not said why these files were removed from its website. The Hill has…
“It’s kind of disappointing to see that our own Department of Justice is trying to continue to gaslight us,” said the brother of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe President Trump’s social media post and subsequent comments about the killing of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were “inappropriate,” according to a new YouGov poll released Friday. “YouGov showed Americans Trump’s post — as well as social media posts about Reiner by several other politicians from…
President Donald Trump had a lot to say about the first lady’s underwear drawer.
President Trump on Saturday evening endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for governor of New York, one day after Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) surprisingly exited the race and announced she would not seek reelection to Congress. Trump did not mention Stefanik in his Saturday post on Truth Social endorsing Blakeman. “Bruce is MAGA all the…
The Justice Department did not say why the files were removed or whether their disappearance was intentional.
The battle over health care subsidies, tensions with Venezuela and the Department of Justice’s partial release of its Jeffrey Epstein files will take center stage Sunday on the weekly political talk shows. Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) will join “The Hill Sunday” with Chris Stirewalt to discuss the latest on all of these issues. Four…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Saturday released more files, documents and photos connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a day after the deadline for releasing all of the files. DOJ on Friday released thousands of its documents, but came under criticism from Democrats and Republicans in Congress for not complying with a law…
U.S. personnel seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday as President Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The seizure of the vessel, which took place in international waters, was led by the Coast Guard and assisted by the U.S. military, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary…
A photo in the latest batch of Justice Department files related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein showed a table drawer with photos of Trump inside. Now the file is gone.
UFC fighter Sean Strickland said Friday that he will not participate in the White House fight next year, citing the Trump administration’s controversy around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I think I’d wanna do the White House… if there was some kind of inclusion for fans,” Strickland told video streamer Adin Ross and…
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday warned against making early endorsements in the 2028 presidential race, pushing the GOP to seek a competitive primary instead. “I think it’s very important that the Republican party have a competitive primary,” McEnany, who served at the end of President Trump’s first term, told Fox New’s…
The House Oversight Committee member also mentioned contempt charges in his comments about Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche.