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President Donald Trump made a sudden reversal over the weekend and threw his support behind a procedural vote to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and CNN's Harry Enten found a simple explanation for his shift.

The president was unable to stop Republican lawmakers from voting on a House measure to compel the Justice Department to release evidence of Epstein's sex trafficking network, and the data analyst told to "CNN News Central" that polling shows why Trump was unable to make the scandal go away.

Prior to the House of Representatives voting on a bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, one survivor of the sexual predator took a moment to address Donald Trump — and warn him that he needs to make good on making sure all the files are released.

Following addresses by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Tom Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Haley Robson took the microphone and stated, “I want to relay this message to you: I am traumatized, I am not stupid. I am traumatized, not stupid.”

Donald Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan was given a losing hand when she was assigned to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey — and things have gone from bad to worse for her, according to legal analyst.

Halligan, a civil attorney with no prosecutorial experience, was chosen by Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi to push the Comey case forward after her predecessor, now ex-U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert of the Virginia’s Eastern District, refused to prosecute.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein that have never spoken publicly before will speak Tuesday during a press conference in Washington, D.C., and just hours ahead of a landmark vote in the House that could force the Justice Department to release all of its files on Epstein.

The presser is spearheaded by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). Khanna announced the presser last week during an appearance on “Breaking Points,” where he revealed that Epstein survivors “who have not spoken out before” would be featured at the press event.

CNN's Audie Cornish noticed a Democratic congressman's reaction to President Donald Trump floating a proposal to send out dividend checks funded by tariff revenues — and her comment teed up an unflattering comparison.

The president told reporters Monday that Americans might expect to see $2,000 dividend checks "next year sometime," although economists have expressed skepticism about nearly every aspect of the proposal and warned the payments would likely spike inflation again. Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) laughed as video of Trump's remarks played on "CNN This Morning."

As part of a discussion about the House of Representatives’ vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files on Tuesday, Donald Trump was warned things will take a turn for the worse — and Democrats and the press are not his biggest problem going forward.

Discussing the upcoming vote on MS NOW’s ”Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough made fun of Republican lawmakers who have been calling the notorious files part of a “hoax” before, and are now saying they will vote to make them public.

President Donald Trump abruptly reversed his opposition to releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, and CNN's Maria Cardona believes he's only "faking" support for a congressional vote on the matter.

Trump has been unable to turn the page on the long-simmering scandal involving the late sex offender — a longtime friend of his — and House Republicans have refused to bow to his pressure campaign to vote against a procedural motion compelling the Department of Justice to release federal records on his trafficking network.

A legal expert was stunned by President Donald Trump's latest "jaw-dropping" court loss on Monday.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, joined progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on a podcast episode on Monday to discuss an order from a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia for Trump's DOJ to turn over tapes from the grand jury room to the defense counsel for former FBI Director James Comey. The Trump administration is prosecuting Comey on two counts of obstruction of justice and making false statements to Congress.

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Friday after being asked about Jeffrey Epstein, hurling an insult at her and refusing to answer her question about efforts to release files on the disgraced financier.

“If there’s nothing incriminating in the files, sir, why not?” a Bloomberg reporter could be heard asking Trump aboard Air Force One in a video released by the White House before being cutoff by Trump.

President Donald Trump's months of opposition to releasing the full Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files have collapsed, MS NOW anchor and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said on Monday, as Trump tries to now insist he was in favor of the release all along — and it is actually bad news for Democrats.

"The dam is starting to break in the U.S. Senate ahead of tomorrow's House vote to release the Epstein files," said Steele. "New tonight, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a staunch Trump ally, says he'll vote to release the files, telling NBC News that Democrats have, quote, 'been yelling about it. Let's just shut them up.' Well, that announcement comes on the heels of Trump's supporting the House vote tomorrow to release the files. Here's what Trump said today, including a new promise to sign the bill into law if it passes the Senate."

A former White House lawyer was stunned by alleged "misconduct" by President Donald Trump's lawyers at the Department of Justice in their prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.

On Monday, a federal judge determined that the Trump administration's lawyers misrepresented the law and potentially misled grand jury members while seeking their indictment of Comey. The former FBI director was charged in September with two counts of obstruction of justice and lying to Congress. The judge said the DOJ's errors could "imperil" their prosecution, Politico reported.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on CNN on Monday that President Donald Trump was enthusiastically in favor of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking files, despite his weekslong efforts to keep them under wraps — and anchor Erin Burnett had to cut her off as she blamed former President Joe Biden and the media for the Epstein victims being silenced.

"I'm glad that the president is on board with everyone voting to release the Epstein files," said Mace. "This is huge and historic. We could have done this under President Biden, but Democrats chose not to do that ... And the thing that I'm really frustrated with, with the media right now is that they want to focus on President Trump, and they're not telling the stories of these women who risked it all their careers, their livelihood, their futures to come forward. The courage that it took. Those are the stories we should be telling right now, not the clickbait of what Trump said or he said, she said. I want to hear their stories, because getting this kind of justice, getting this kind of thing, this evidence to come out, voting on it, it's never happened before."

A former federal prosecutor slammed FBI Director Kash Patel for putting the safety of all Americans at risk in his latest security scandal.

On Monday, reporting revealed that Patel had assigned an FBI detail to provide security for his country music singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins. The assignment follows other reporting that indicates Patel used an FBI airplane to visit his girlfriend in Nashville and attend a UFC fight.