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'Would keep me up at night’: Ex-prosecutor slams Trump’s latest gambit

The Trump administration's decision to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell for testimony should be viewed with skepticism, according to one former federal prosecutor.

Trump has sought a way out of the mess created by the Jeffrey Epstein saga for more than two weeks. The administration's latest attempts include subpoenaing Maxwell, Epstein's former associate, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Epstein sex traffic young girls across the country.

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'Court would laugh you out’: Trump dared to make good on Obama 'treason' claim

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) called President Donald Trump out for his latest allegations that President Barack Obama committed treason.

Trump was speaking in the Oval Office on Tuesday with the president of the Philippines when he suddenly went off on a tangent about the "Russia hoax," which he said was invented by Obama as an excuse to spy on him.

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Trump’s embattled ex-lawyer inches closer to lifetime judgeship after key Senate vote

A highly controversial judicial nomination cleared a significant hurdle Tuesday afternoon, as Senate Republicans voted to proceed with his nomination.

Emil Bove was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, a federal appeals court covering Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The nomination was made by President Donald Trump in May.

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GOP senator freezes mid-sentence forcing Fox host to cut interview short

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) appeared to freeze during an interview with Fox Business' Larry Kudlow.

The conversation had turned to President Donald Trump's mass deportation programs when Kennedy commented, "Everybody else thinks.... Everybody else ...." and he stopped speaking, licking his lips before the camera cut from Kennedy.

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GOP chair’s Biden subpoena turned against him on CNN over Epstein silence

CNN's Kasie Hunt pressed House Ways and Means Committee chair Jason Smith (R-MO) Tuesday on using his subpoena powers to light the fuse on the Jeffrey Epstein files instead of waiting an entire month until lawmakers are back from August recess.

Smith maintained that Americans don't care about the Epstein issue enough for him to take extraordinary steps to release the information.

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'Run away!' Mike Johnson's 'Monty Python' style exit mocked by CNN conservative

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was ruthlessly mocked Tuesday by CNN analyst Scott Jennings — a former GOP campaign strategist and usually one of President Donald Trump's most faithful supporters on the network — comparing his decision to shut down the House rather than take a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files to King Arthur and his knights from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" running away from danger.

"Is this going to work?" asked anchor Kasie Hunt. "Is Mike Johnson's attempt to get out of dodge going to help defuse all this for the president?"

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Trump book boom goes bust as sales plummet in second term

Americans appear to be growing tired of reading about President Donald Trump as new data shows sales for books about the president have fallen dramatically during Trump’s second term when compared to his first, Politico reported.

“[Trump] is so familiar to everyone by now, and people are less shocked by new revelations because it enforces their own ideas about who he is or they just don’t care,” an author of a recent Trump book told Politico Tuesday.

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Trump's spy chief accused of using position to 'sabotage our own government'

President Donald Trump's intelligence chief no longer seems to be working in the best interest of America, according to one analyst.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was one of Trump's most controversial cabinet picks. Not only does she have no direct intelligence experience, but she has also held clandestine meetings with former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, publicly supported people who leaked classified military information, and has ties to shady religious groups.

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Karoline Leavitt 'not sure' if Trump told Johnson to close Congress early over Epstein

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said she was "not sure" if President Donald Trump or anyone in his administration communicated with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) before a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents was scuttled by canceling the final day of Congress before summer break.

Although the House was scheduled to hold votes on Thursday, Johnson moved to cut the week short as many members indicated that they would push to force the Trump administration to release files on the convicted sex offender.

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Trump dumps renowned international organization for being 'at odds' with 'America First'

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce explained Tuesday that the United States has withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, because it's not "aligned with" President Donald Trump's "America first" values.

By definition, UNESCO "promotes cooperation in education, science, culture and communication to foster peace worldwide," not strictly to meet American objectives.

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Trump’s ‘feral cunning’ kicking in — because he knows he’s in danger: Ex-GOP strategist

Former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson couldn't help but notice that President Donald Trump is acting differently lately, and he thinks he knows why.

Speaking with a panel of political analysts on Tuesday, MSNBC host Katy Tur remarked that she was trying to understand Trump's motivation around the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal.

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‘Emotionally destroyed’: Calls grow to free reporter held 5 weeks after ICE arrest

Press freedom and immigrants' rights advocates are calling for the release of an Atlanta journalist from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after he was arrested last month while filming an anti-Trump protest.

Mario Guevara, a native of El Salvador, has lived in the United States legally for more than two decades, where he became renowned as one of the Atlanta area's most trusted immigration reporters.

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Obama fires back after Trump accuses him of ‘treason’ in 'bizarre' post

Former President Barack Obama has responded to President Donald Trump's allegations that he invented Russian intrusion in the 2016 election.

Trump and his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, both allege that there was no Russian hacking of the election. There were never allegations that Russians hacked voting machines; rather, the allegations were that content farms backed by Russia supported Trump's 2016 election.

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