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'Lock her up!' Pam Bondi ripped as 'compulsive liar' as 'missing' Epstein footage emerges

Billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found to have died by suicide in a jail cell on August 10, 2019. But in recent weeks, conspiracy theorists have been focusing on a minute of security camera footage that was reportedly missing.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed the footage was taped over. But according to The Guardian's Richard Luscombe, that footage has been found — thus contradicting Bondi's claim.

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'Couldn't be dumber!' Analysts torch Trump for sacrificing key US partner over bruised ego

Two Democratic analysts slammed President Donald Trump on Wednesday for sacrificing the U.S.'s relationship with India for a personal grievance.

Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security advisor during the Obama administration, joined Tommy Vietor on a new episode of the podcast "Pod Save America" on YouTube to discuss Trump's approach to foreign policy. Rhodes noted that more than 20 countries gathered in China recently with the express purpose of "humiliating" Trump.

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'Struck by the cruelty': Civil rights lawyer blasts Trump's treatment of Epstein survivors

Civil rights attorney Nancy Erika Smith tore into President Donald Trump and his Justice Department on Wednesday evening, blasting them for their mistreatment of the survivors who came forward in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.

As Trump has found himself in a mounting political crisis over his lack of transparency about the case files he promised to release, he has dismissed the case and the survivors' testimony as "irrelevant."

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'Doughy' Ted Cruz mercilessly mocked after hurling 'fat joke'

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was mocked on Wednesday after he attempted to body shame Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker during an interview on Newsmax.

In the interview, Cruz called Pritzker a "disgusting, racist bigot" because he stood up to Trump's threats to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois. He also said that he didn't "want to get in between J.B. Pritzker and the Domino's Pizza line," referring to Pritzker's weight.

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'Recipe for disaster’: Health experts terrified Florida just unleashed a wave of disease

In a decision that has terrified medical professionals, Florida's surgeon general announced Wednesday that he would seek to end all childhood vaccine requirements in the state, which he compared to "slavery."

Currently, Florida requires children to be immunized against deadly diseases like measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio, and hepatitis to attend public school.

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'We must obstruct!' House lawmakers warn Trump just made a 'dangerous' signal

Following President Donald Trump's declaration that "we're going on" with a deployment of federal agents to Chicago, the nation's third-largest city and a frequent target of fearmongering by the president, Rep. Delia Ramirez led Democratic lawmakers in condemning the White House's threat to militarize federal troops in cities across the country.

Trump's persistent, baseless claims that large cities like Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles are facing violent crime waves are part of an attempt, suggested Ramirez (D-Ill.), to distract from the fact that his administration and Republicans in Congress are slashing funding that millions of people rely on.

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'That coward attacked me!' MTG flips out at Trump aide after 'hostile act' threat

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) flipped out during an interview with Eric Bolling of Real America's Voice on Wednesday over the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

On Tuesday, an anonymous administration official said the White House deemed a petition circulating in the House of Representatives to force the release of the Epstein files a "hostile act" toward the president. Greene speculated the statement likely came from one of President Donald Trump's closest advisors, although she said she doesn't know who released the statement.

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Michigan Senate hopeful touts endorsement that didn't exist: 'Came out of left field'

In an embarrassing moment for her Senate campaign, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) briefly touted the endorsement of a county official who says the endorsement never happened.

According to The Detroit News, Stevens, who is seeking the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Gary Peters, "incorrectly claimed in a social media post Monday that she had won the endorsement of Berrien County Commissioner Chokwe Pitchford. The post was later deleted from online by the campaign. But Pitchford said he felt the need to publicly disassociate himself from Stevens' campaign, posting a message on the website X to clarify that he'd never communicated with Stevens' team about even the possibility of an endorsement."

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'It’s criminal!' Experts aghast at Trump's 'repugnant' strike on alleged drug boat

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is acknowledging that the United States, on orders from President Donald Trump, executed a military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug cartel’s boat loaded with “poison,” and says the U.S. will continue to do so.

“Instead of interdicting it, on the president’s orders, we blew it up,” Rubio told reporters, according to The Washington Post’s John Hudson. “And it’ll happen again.”

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GOP strategist chides Florida's 'foolish' new plan for vaccines on CNN

A GOP strategist on Wednesday chided Florida's new plan for vaccines during an interview on CNN.

T.W. Arrighi, the former press secretary for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, joined CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" to discuss the Trump administration's approach to vaccines and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handling of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Retired Green Beret thrown out of Senate hearing after shouting at lawmakers

Retired Green Beret Anthony Aguilar was escorted from the U.S. Senate while yelling that the country was complicit in genocide.

The Drop Site News substack posted the video on social media, noting that Aguilar is perhaps most known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation subcontractor who was fired after he was accused of creating "a hostile work environment" and was “disruptive and confrontational."

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'Immediate expulsion!' MAGA turns on Marjorie Taylor Greene over Trump 'smear'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) faced significant pushback from her own party after appearing at an event some described as an "effort to smear Trump."

Greene spoke at a Wednesday news conference organized by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) to discuss the Epstein Files Transparency Bill, legislation that seeks to force the White House to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein files in its possession. The Trump administration has thus far refused to release most of the information, as the president has attempted to distance himself from the Epstein saga.

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JB Pritzker and Ted Cruz trade scathing insults as Trump threatens Chicago

As President Donald Trump continues to threaten federal military action in Chicago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) traded attacks in public.

Pritzker, the billionaire heir of the Hyatt hotel fortune and a progressive politician in his second term as governor, has taken the gloves off in recent speeches, warning the president to back off his threats, attacking Trump's "slipping mental faculties," and telling him, "do not come" to Chicago.

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