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Attorney General Pam Bondi clammed up during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday after being pressed on an alleged order given to FBI agents in an apparent attempt to shield President Donald Trump from being exposed for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

A whistleblower contacted the office of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) back in July to allege that FBI agents tasked with reviewing files related to Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was known to socialize with powerful figures, including Trump – were instructed to “flag” any files that bore mention of Trump.

Attorney General Pam Bondi told a Democratic senator she would not answer any of his questions about FBI agents being told to flag any records about President Donald Trump in files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) noted that Bondi had claimed on Fox News that she was in possession of the "Epstein client list," but later stated that it didn't exist.

As part of her opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi paused, laughed and smirked when describing judicial efforts to rein in the Donald Trump administration.

After being introduced by Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bondi listed off accomplishments during her tenure before closing by mentioning lawsuits filed against the administration, which she seemed to find amusing.

The threats and bullying that Donald Trump has successfully used against major law firms, educational institutions and media empires are increasingly falling flat when it comes to mayors of major cities, according to a report Tuesday.

According to a report from the Washington Post, no matter how the president blusters and menaces big city mayors, with a few exceptions, most of them are refusing to look the other way as ICE agents invade their communities and snatch suspected undocumented immigrants off the streets.

While the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk last month launched a flurry of conspiracy theories, an explosive new claim made Monday by one of Kirk’s former associates has sparked a civil war among the MAGA right.

“Charlie was done with Israel bullying him, and I am now going to present to you proof of what I am saying,” said far-right influencer Candace Owens on Monday. “This is an actual group chat which happened two days before Charlie Kirk was assassinated.”

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal filed by convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, but President Donald Trump propped open the door to pardoning her Monday.

Trump was asked Monday whether he would consider freeing Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in grooming and abusing underage girls with the late Jeffrey Epstein. The president claimed ignorance of the matter but added that he would discuss her case with the Department of Justice – which stuck out to Republican strategist Lee Carter as a bit convoluted.

President Donald Trump fired off at former Justice Department attorney Jack Smith Tuesday following reports that he had monitored the communications of Republican lawmakers during his investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

“Deranged Jack Smith got caught with his hand in the cookie jar,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “A real sleazebag!!!”

Chinese national Xinyue Lou is on trial this week, facing criminal charges for conspiracy after being accused of illegally funneling money to President Donald Trump for his 2020 re-election bid.

According to a Tuesday report from The New York Times, he did so in part for a photo with Trump — and was ultimately denied the opportunity because he was “not American.”

Hours before Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a former high-ranking Department of Justice official accused her of implementing a “Trump-first approach” to running the DOJ.

In a column for MSNBC, Anthony Coley, who previously headed the DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs, accused the former Florida attorney general, who has long-time ties to the president, of implementing a "no-holds-barred, anything-for-Trump playbook has left the Justice Department in chaos.”

President Donald Trump mused about his eternal fate again during a news conference at the White House.

The 79-year-old president was asked about a new “America Prays” initiative by the White House that will mark next year's semiquincentennial by “inviting America’s great religious communities to pray for our nation and for our people."

When a group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors spoke out last month on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, a speech by one of them seemed to grab the headlines with her announcement that they could compile their own list of the late sex offender's clients if the government would not release their names.

Lisa Phillips, who says she endured years of abuse by Epstein and others in his sex trafficking network, ended her brief remarks Sept. 3 with an announcement that capped off a dramatic afternoon, as Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) pushed for the release of the investigation records, reported CNN.

Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated that some of the political initiatives of his second term are running into legal roadblocks — particularly as some of his judicial appointees are the ones running interference.

According to a report from Politico’s Kyle Cheney, Trump’s selections to the Supreme Court, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, have been reliably siding with him on a series of short-term wins via the so-called “shadow docket,” but he continues to suffer setbacks from district judges he nominated to the bench — including one he put in place recently.

A leaked White House draft memo suggests that the Trump administration is actively considering stiffing as many as 750,000 federal workers and denying them compensation while furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to an Axios report published Tuesday.

As many as 750,000 federal workers are projected to be furloughed for every day of the shutdown – now in its seventh day – according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.