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Brandon Herrera, the Second Amendment advocate running against a GOP lawmaker facing affair allegations, called to "bring back smoking on airplanes."

During a Thursday interview, MAGA influencer Benny Johnson noted that Herrera could find himself with a seat on the Oversight Committee if he defeats Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) amid the affair scandal. The interview came as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying to the Oversight Committee about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The timing of Kash Patel’s decision to fire at least ten FBI agents, who were notable for their counterintelligence expertise, had little to do with their previous history investigating Donald Trump and more to do with the embattled FBI director attempting to get critical headlines about him to go away.

That is according to MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian, who reported on Thursday, that there is renewed grumbling at FBI headquarters about Patel who recently embarrassed the agency with his antics at the Winter Olympics where he was filmed partying with the US hockey team.

President Donald Trump's team executed a strategic bait-and-switch at Tuesday's State of the Union address, according to Slate analyst Amanda Marcotte. During the first hour, Trump embraced a positive tone and celebrated the men's hockey team, handed out medals, and made vague promises about housing and healthcare prices. But once the hour passed and casual viewers switched off their televisions the "real Trump" emerged, complaining about tariffs, sharing grievances about Democrats, and turning to "unvarnished racism" by blaming immigrants for crime. Marcotte noted Trump's approval ratings have collapsed to 37-39 percent, with only 32 percent of Americans believing he has the right priorities. She argued his team has mastered keeping extreme moments confined to late-night viewing, limiting exposure to mainstream audiences. However, Marcotte concluded that Trump's collapsing polls reflect real-world consequences of his incompetence that no manipulation can reverse.

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U.S. District Court Judge Zahid N. Quraishi blasted President Donald Trump's administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi's Department of Justice for the illegal detention of a 29-year-old immigrant who had been released into the United States in 2016.

According to Quraishi's ruling on Thursday, Diana Elizabeth Cartagena Hueso was first taken into custody in 2016 after crossing the border. She was released after she was "found to have a credible fear of returning to her home country, and was therefore referred for removal and asylum proceedings."

An anonymous 4Chan post announcing Jeffrey Epstein's death remains one of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries in the case.

At 8:16 a.m. on August 10, 2019, an anonymous user posted: "don't ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago from hanging, cardiac arrest. Screencap this," beating ABC News by 38 minutes — a significant head start suggesting the poster possessed real-time knowledge of events inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center, reported Business Insider.

A former Donald Trump appointee to the State Department expressed frustration over the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee forcing Hillary Clinton to give a deposition on her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that could end up backfiring on the president.

Sitting on panel on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,“ Republican Matthew Bartlett became animated when co-host Jonathan Lemire asked, “So talk to us about how you see today going and indeed weigh in on that notion here, that the Republicans may be inadvertently setting a trap in some ways for President Trump.”

Immigration agents working for the Department of Homeland Security were accused of lying to gain entry to a Columbia University dorm on the premise that they were looking for a "missing person."

In a statement on Thursday, Columbia President Claire Shipman said federal agents had detained a student at approximately 6:30 a.m.

The Department of Justice failed to take down more than a dozen problematic images released from the Jeffrey Epstein files, including nude photos and identifying details from passports and drivers licenses.

CNN worked with Israeli software firm Visual Layer to analyze tens of thousands of photos released by the DOJ and found more than 100 explicit photos that show what appears to be naked teenagers and other images that should have been redacted, and some of those lingered online for weeks.