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Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Signal scandal that won't die.

A new report from The Washington Post on Wednesday revealed that the document Hegseth copied into a Signal chat was marked "SECRET." It refutes his ongoing claim that nothing in the chat, which included a journalist, contained any classified information. Hegseth has the power to declassify the information, but doing so would be an admission that it was classified in the first place.

President Donald Trump received a brutal fact-check from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday during a tour of the renovated Federal Reserve headquarters.

Trump claimed that the total cost of the project had soared from $2.7 billion to $3.1 billion, a figure that surprised Powell. Trump then handed Powell a paper that purported to show where the cost overrun occurred. In response, Powell told Trump that his numbers were wrong.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) took to the Senate floor on Thursday, where he confessed that he wants to give the president "cover" on Jeffrey Epstein.

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) submitted a list of demands that Democrats want for the release of files related to the Epstein investigation.

A former official who worked with Attorney General Pam Bondi in Florida predicted that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would strike a "hidden pardon" deal with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

As Blanche was reportedly meeting with Maxwell on Thursday, Bondi's former border czar, Dave Aronberg, called the move "extraordinary."

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer is meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, outside of her federal prison on Thursday — and one legal analyst is warning he could get played.

Speaking to MSNBC as now-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was in a Florida federal courthouse, Lisa Rubin said that Blanche is far from an expert on the case.

President Donald Trump's former communications director said on Thursday that she can't fathom how he "botched" the public relations around his latest scandal.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that he was included in the documents around the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Meanwhile, ABC News released a video of an Epstein deposition in which he confirms he "socialized" with Trump.

Things got heated during a press conference led by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Thursday after the event was disrupted by an individual asking about the state’s new migrant prison Alligator Alcatraz, while also labeling the governor as a “pedophile” for supporting President Donald Trump.

Speaking at a presser near Tampa, Florida, DeSantis was in the middle of reminiscing about WrestleMania III, the 1987 professional wrestling event hosted by the World Wrestling Federation, amid the news of Hulk Hogan’s death when an attendee shouted a question about Alligator Alcatraz.

MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk lamented that the world will be "toxically feminine" following the death of wrestling entertainer Hulk Hogan at 71.

"He was an icon for so many young men in this country and in a world now that is just so toxically feminine, we're losing an outwardly masculine, fun, magnanimous, cheerful, and joyful icon that so many young men looked up to," Kirk said on his Thursday podcast. "His catchphrase was great in the '80s. It was very Americana. Train, say your prayers, and eat your vitamins. That's good advice for young men."

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may go from hero to zero in Donald Trump's eyes as a "rift" grows within the House GOP caucus over the Jeffrey Epstein files and Republicans side with Democrats in demanding transparency.

Johnson chalked up a big win with the president by guiding the megabill Trump demanded through the House, and basked in the glory for days before the Department of Justice announced that the files on the accused pedophile would not be released.

After some of Trump's biggest MAGA supporters spiraled into open revolt, far-right lawmakers like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) joined them — with more to follow as the Wall Street Journal dropped two bombshell reports on the relationship between the president and Epstein.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Anna Cabrera, Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman claimed Johnson may now suffer the same fate as two other Republican House speakers faced when they couldn't keep their GOP colleagues in line.

"There's a big rift right between Johnson and members of his party. How, help us understand that rift?" the MSNBC host asked.

"If it was only Massie, it would be one thing," Sherman replied. "But the bigger problem for Trump is that it's some of his allies. [GOP Rep.] Brian Jack of Georgia, who worked for Donald Trump in the White House in the last administration, is a close ally of the president, voted for a deposition or a subpoena yesterday that would take the documents from the Justice Department, turn over those documents."

"If it were just Massie, this wouldn't be a problem," he repeated. "It's much more than Massie and, as for the speaker, I don't know what kind of problems Johnson is going to have. Trump has turned on basically every other speaker who has worked with him, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, in various ways, and he hasn't turned on Johnson yet"

"But again, this is a why, in my view and I think in the House Republican leadership's view, this is a problem that the White House has not given a lot of cover for Republicans on," he added. "I mean, they're just part of the problem. The rift is at least being exacerbated by the White House and their inability to give any political cover to the story."

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Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) pressed Christopher Fox, an assistant to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, about why information was released smearing former President Barack Obama on the same day as President Donald Trump was reported to be in Jeffrey Epstein's case files.

During a Thursday confirmation hearing, Slotkin asked Fox why the Trump administration had waited years to claim Obama was part of a "treasonous conspiracy" and "years-long coup."

A right-wing broadcaster trotted out a new narrative before President Donald Trump's deputy attorney general goes to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator in prison.

Newsmax host Greg Kelly suggested that Ghislaine Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison term for convictions on sex trafficking and other crimes, might actually be a victim of Epstein, who was described as her accomplice during trial testimony, ahead of her meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, reported Media Matters.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested that Republicans might push for a lighter sentence for convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell if they agreed with her upcoming testimony.

On Wednesday, Burchett was asked if he trusted Maxwell after House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) issued a subpoena for her to sit for a deposition related to Jeffrey Epstein.