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President Donald Trump wants the Jeffrey Epstein scandal to go away — but according to Republican senators, that is not going to happen.“Republican senators are putting pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to release all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that mention President Trump’s name, warning the issue won’t go away until there is full transparency,” reported The Hill on Thursday.The Republican senators are particularly concerned that Trump’s failure to fully comply with the Epstein File Transparency Act, whic

Former FBI agent Michael Feinberg told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace the difficulty President Donald Trump has in outright overthrowing state elections in November is no reason to dismiss the possibly of him using the federal government to tamper his way into a victory for himself or his political party.“I think people are giving themselves a false sense of comfort by saying it would be too difficult for him to steal the election. ‘You would have to do a lot in a lot of states, in a lot of cities, and it's just too complicated.’ He doesn't need to steal it. He needs to throw it into confusion,” said Feinberg, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in a fellow

President Donald Trump is exacerbating public distrust in him because of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, reported an expert journalist — and he continues to only make things worse for himself.“The American people don’t need any help being suspicious about the government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein,” reported CNN’s Aaron Blake. “But the Trump administration keeps giving them more reason to be anyway.”Blake ticked off various missteps, most prominently Trump not publishing dozens of FBI witness interviews including “three related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of se

Intelligencer writer Ed Kilgore says “virtually every Republican political strategist agrees that the economy, and particularly the cost of living, will be the dominant issue in the 2026 midterms.”Too bad MAGA isn’t letting the Republican Party go there.“Convincing swing voters that [President] Donald Trump is decisively bringing back the best-ever economy and lowering the price of essential goods and services — which he promised to do a thousand times during his 2024 campaign — is the key to the Republican Party’s hopes of defying the od

Legal and voting rights experts are sounding the alarm after a Washington Post bombshell report revealed that President Donald Trump — who has been insisting on federalizing voting and has issued an executive order to pressure states to require proof of citizenship for voter registration — is now being urged by activists to sign an executive order

A former Trump official has returned home to infuriate her Republican friends, reports the New York Times.Sarah Huckabee Sanders was President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary in his first term. She has since gone home to become the first woman governor of Arkansas. This year, however, the GOP leader is cutting a swath of bitterness through her fellow Republicans in the legislature. A handful of Republican state senators are blocking Sanders’ push to build the state’s largest prison. They complain about the project’s $825 million cost and th

President Donald Trump is reportedly threatening Netflix to fire Susan Rice, a former UN ambassador under President Barack Obama, or else “pay the consequences.”“President Donald Trump is not the sort of old-fashioned Republican who believes businesses should operate unfettered from government interference,” reported The Week. “Instead, he is now telling Netflix to fire a prominent board member who once worked for the Obama administration.”Trump is upset at Rice because, when talking about Netflix’s attempt to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) over a competing b

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer appears to be changing his tune on Howard Lutnick, now suggesting that it is "very possible" he might subpoena him after the Trump Commerce Secretary allegedly lied before Congress about the extent of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Just two we

President Donald Trump is doomed in the upcoming midterm elections, says an ex-Republican congressman — and the reason may surprise you.“This is the biggest reason why Trump and Republicans in November are gonna get their a—- handed to them” in the midterms, former Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois said on his Substack on Thursday. “I've been saying this for a year now. One word: cruelty.”Elaborating on how Trump’s immigration policies come across as so cruel that they will turn off independent voters, Walsh described Trump’s abuse of immigrants as “abject, raw, n----, wide open cruelty” in the name of an “ugly, extreme, dark, hateful, unconstitutional, un-Am

MS NOW editor and writer Zeeshan Aleem says there’s a reason President Donald Trump and his persistent defense secretary can’t let Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) speak in peace without retaliation.Trump was gravely injured by the decorated veteran’s decision to participate in a video with five other Democratic lawmakers reminding service members of their duty to disobey illegal orders. So much so that Trump’s defense secretary