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Late-night giant Stephen Colbert took a fresh dig at Donald Trump Monday, just days after having his show canceled in what is widely believed to be retribution for previous criticism.

The “Late Show” host mocked Trump’s dealings with the European Union while in Scotland over the weekend, claiming one leader knew exactly how to play the president.

Jeffrey Epstein's former accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, appears to have concocted a plan to get herself out of jail, according to reports.

But one analyst suggests that the plan could backfire spectacularly if Maxwell isn't careful to avoid some traps she seems to be setting for herself.

Lawyers with the liberal watchdog group Democracy Defenders Fund are using a surprise tactic against the Trump administration to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to a new report.

Norm Eisen, a former Obama White House ethics chief and DDF co-founder, told The Daily Beast on Monday that the group has already filed a sweeping Freedom of Information Act request. While the Department of Justice probably anticipated that request, Eisen suggested that the government gave DDF an ace to play.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow spent Monday evening describing how Republicans used North Carolina as a "testing ground" for underhanded tactics to strip power from elected Democrats, following the announcement that former Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) will run for Senate, bolstering Democrats' candidate roster for the 2026 midterms.

"This man has been through some things, some things that qualify him, perhaps uniquely, for this moment in Washington," said Maddow. "He has served in North Carolina. He has not served in Washington. But he brings an experience, a level of political experience to Washington. If he wins this race, which is, again, perhaps uniquely suited to this moment."

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, appeared on Fox News on Monday to sell President Donald Trump's tariff regime, including the new "monster deal" the administration struck with the European Union — but he made an admission that accidentally contradicted his own defense of the plan.

"The European Union is going to pay 15 percent, and they sell us $600 billion worth of goods," Lutnick told Fox's Bret Baier. "That's $90 billion for America, and they agreed for the first time ever to cut all their tariffs, cut their barriers, and let American businesses and farmers and ranchers and fishermen finally sell into the European Union, massive market. This is huge for America."

Former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori told MSNBC's Ari Melber that Emil Bove, former President Donald Trump's Justice Department loyalist tapped for a lifetime appellate court nomination, barely even denied the disqualifying allegations that he pushed DOJ officials to defy federal court orders.

Senate Republicans have advanced Bove's nomination at a breakneck pace despite a stream of whistleblowers emerging to allege his unethical behavior, including a new one just this week.

Liberal comedian Bill Maher left MAGA influencers stunned Monday as he said he was wrong about President Donald Trump's tariffs and that he's "got to own it."

Maher made the remark on his "Club Random" podcast during a chat with liberal podcaster Bryan Tyler Cohen.

Liberal comedian Bill Maher laid into Whoopi Goldberg on Monday after "The View" host sparked controversy by comparing the lives of Black Americans as essentially the same to women living under Iran’s dictatorship.

During a heated panel last month, "The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications official, argued that conditions in Iran aren't comparable to life in the United States. Goldberg disagreed, insisting that Black Americans have similar fears about safety and discrimination. Goldberg suggested “it is the same” between the United States and Iran, and said “there’s no way I can make you understand it.”

President Donald Trump may not be telling the whole truth about the jet he received from the Qataris, according to analysts.

Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that it will cost about $1 billion to refurbish the "free" jet that Trump received. However, focusing solely on the cost itself is the wrong way to analyze the deal, according to Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, two of the hosts of Pod Save America.

Washington Post reporter Emily Davies is on the ground in Scotland with President Donald Trump, and her latest reporting reveals that the GOP leader is furious that the scandal around Jeffrey Epstein's documents will never die.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Monday, Davies said Trump is "growing increasingly frustrated that this issue won't go away."

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) faced backlash online after announcing his Senate candidacy with an advertisement that contained a glaring typo.

In a message posted to X on Sunday, Collins said he was "ready to put the hammer down and get it done." The post included an ad that misspelled the name of Collins' state: "Georiga."

David Schoen, a lawyer who represented President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, blamed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for refusing to drop a scandal concerning his former clients.

During a Monday interview on Newsmax, host Katrina Szish asked Schoen about Trump's ongoing Epstein scandal.

Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Epstein's crimes, met with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche in late July — fueling speculation of a possible reduction in her sentence or even a full pardon from President Donald Trump. At the same time, Maxwell's attorneys are appealing her conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court in the hope of getting the conviction overturned.

During a Monday morning appearance on CNN, legal analyst Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, told host Wolf Blitzer that it is "unlikely but not impossible" that the high court "takes this case."