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The Trump Department of Justice reportedly has removed thousands of documents from its Friday dump of millions of pages of Epstein files.Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney reported on Monday that the DOJ told “the court that it has taken down ‘several thousands’ of documents from the Epstein Files website after victim privacy concerns were raised.” In its message to two U.S District Court judges, the DOJ wrote: “The Depart

President Donald Trump on Monday was once again reminded that he lost Minnesota — three times.Trump spoke to his former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Monday morning on the latter's online streaming show, which Bongino launched after hastily leaving the bureau in January. Trump was Bongino's first guest. Speaking with Bongino, Trump mused about his desire to federalize elections in blue states. “These people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally,” Trump said to Bongino. “And it’s amazing the Republicans aren’t tougher on it. The Republicans should say, ‘We w

A battle between two high-ranking officials within President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) is now ending with one of them headed for the exits.That's according to a Monday article in CNN, which reported that Ed Martin – who was once tapped as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — is preparing to leave the DOJ in the coming weeks. This is apparently the doing of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who CNN said "made moves to significantly limit Martin’s ability to wield power."Martin is currently the DOJ's pardon attorney, whose motto when screening potential candida

A former Trump White House official claimed in a Monday Fox News appearance that a family member's screening of First Lady Melania Trump's documentary was packed enough to be "standing room only," a claim that was swiftly questioned and mocked by critics.The film, simply titled, Melania, arrived in theaters under a shadow of controversy, with many observers accusing Amazon of buying the project for $40 million, an outlandishly high amount for any documentary, in an effort to bribe and curry favor with Donald Trump. Others lambasted the glossy and celebratory film as an attempt to distract from the ugliness of Trump's political agenda.

Supporters of President Donald Trump eager to buy one of his branded smartphones will now have to wait a little longer.The Daily Beast reported Monday that the official release of Trump's gold smartphone — dubbed the T1 — has now been pushed back to March. This marks the third delay that customers have had to endure since the phones were first announced in June of 2025.Initially, customers were told that the $499 smartphone (which required a $100 down payment to pre-order) would be ready by August of 2025. Then, Trump Mobile annou

President Donald Trump called into the podcast of his former Deputy FBI Director, Dan Bongino, and said that Republicans should “nationalize” the voting process, especially in fifteen “crooked” states, while insisting that undocumented immigrants are voting in America.Saying that there are “millions and millions” of undocumented immigrants and “we have to get them out,” Trump warned that “if Republicans don’t get them out, you will never win another election as a Republican.”He claimed that undocumented immigrants are told, “Oh, well, you can vote, you can do whatever you want.”“It’s crazy,” he added. “I mean, it’s crazy how you can get these people to vote, and if we don’t get them out, Republicans will never win another election.”He went on to say tha

CNN host Boris Sanchez clashed with one of President Donald Trump's former government attorneys on Monday, who was quick on allegations but thin on evidence. Chad Mizelle, former acting general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security, alleged that the Trump Justice Department would begin acting on findings from its "working group" investigating President Joe Biden's administration. CNN reporter Paula Reid said that Trump recently "admonished Justice Department officials for not delivering on more of these kinds of investigations."Mizelle rattled off some of the "findings" he said have been uncovered, including matters related to former special counsel Jack Smith and allegations about John Bolton's book published during the first Trump term. Mizelle also argued that the Trump administration would not

Democrats pulled off a major upset when, on Saturday, January 31, their nominee, Taylor Rehmet, enjoyed a 14 percent victory in a special election for a Texas State Senate seat in the Ft. Worth suburbs. Donald Trump carried that district by 17 percent in the 2024 presidential election, but his endorsement couldn't save the GOP nominee, Leigh Wambsganss, from a double-digit loss. Trump is trying to distance himself from the outcome of that race. But MS NOW's Steve Benen, in a Februa

CNN is reporting that the real reason President Donald Trump announced the two-year renovation project for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is more about upcoming shows than about the project itself. Host Dana Bash announced on her show Monday that there wouldn't be much programming to announce for Trump's newly renamed theater. Several actors, singers, bands, composers, comedians and other performers are withdrawing from show commitments because they don't support Trump. After Trump

President Donald Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for $10 billion in response to the leaking of his tax returns in 2020. The leak, reported by the New York Times, showed that he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and, before that, paid no federal income taxes at all in ten out of 15 years. The New Republic's Timothy Noah takes a close look at the lawsuit in an