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Ex-Trump official snaps at GOP hearing that may 'set a trap' for president: 'Come on now'

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.”

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Comer says it's 'very possible' Trump cabinet member may be brought to testify on Epstein

A member of President Donald Trump's cabinet could be brought in to testify before Congress about his relationship with deceased convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) was speaking with reporters in Chappaqua, New York, just before the deposition of former Secretary of State and former First lady Hillary Clinton, when a reporter asked if Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick would be asked to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

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New swing state Trump polling is making 'Democrats jump for joy': data analyst

President Donald Trump is constitutionally prohibited from serving a third term in the White House, but new polling shows he would have a hard time winning two key states he picked up just over a year ago.

The 79-year-old president won both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on his way to re-election in 2024, but CNN's Harry Enten said his unpopularity in those key battleground states could cost Republicans their congressional majorities this fall.

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DHS accused of lying about 'missing person' to snatch student in illegal 'smash and grab'

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.

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'Frustrated' GOP Senate leader admits Trump's voter bill is dead — and lashes out at House

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has reportedly hit a frustration point and rejected the "talking filibuster" — signaling that President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act no longer has a path forward.

Thune has faced growing pressure from Trump, House and Senate conservative leaders and MAGA influencers to push the legislation forward using the maneuver, but as of Wednesday Thune has publicly said there is no way for Republicans to pass the GOP-backed bill requiring ID and proof of citizenship to vote, according to Punchbowl News. Multiple sources have also said that Thune has shared private frustration with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republicans who have continued to press the "talking filibuster."

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'Everyone is stunned' as nude teen pics left unredacted for weeks in Epstein files horror

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.

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Eyebrows raised by Trump's 'truly strange' disappearing act after new Epstein bombshell

Asked how the White House is dealing with reports that multiple documented interviews with a woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump are missing from the notorious Epstein files, MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire noted an oddity in the president’s schedule on Wednesday.

With a new cloud hovering over the presidency, Lemire told his colleagues on “Morning Joe,” that “There's been frustration all along with how this has been handled. And that's sort of counterintuitive, because so much of what the DOJ is doing is at the direction, at least unspoken direction, perhaps, of the White House. But the president has said to people close to him in the last few months that he's been soured on how Attorney General Bondi has handled this. And then we see Bondi try to do a course correction to protect him, and that only seems to make it worse.”

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Ex-GOP aide predicts 'perfect storm' for Dems to capture 'white whale' state in midterms

Former Republican strategist turned anti-Trump crusader Kurt Bardella flagged an opening for Democrats in Texas — a place they have tried to compete for decades but has always been out of their reach.

This comes as Democratic primary turnout surges in the state, driven by a competitive contest between Dallas-area Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and Austin-area state Rep. James Talarico — and as the GOP primary descends into anarchy.

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'Desperate' Trump knows he just threw 'last hurrah' before midterms blowout: analysis

Donald Trump may know time is up for his power with a potential midterm election blowout looming, a political analyst has claimed.

Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist, believes Trump understands he is close to the end of holding a majority in the Senate, and that he may be hindered heavily by the results of the November elections. Speaking to Greg Sargent of The New Republic, Rosenberg summarized Trump's State of the Union address as a chance to see the president struggling to figure out his next steps.

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GOP State of the Union guest under fire after vowing to 'expose' a 'Jewish invasion'

A right-wing YouTuber whose work has been hyped by Vice President JD Vance has been called out as an example of the Republican Party's "Nazi problem."

Conservative activist Nick Shirley's investigation into alleged Somali fraud helped inspire President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota – which led to the fatal shootings of two Americans by federal agents – and earned him an invitation to the State of the Union address by Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN), but fellow right-wing influencer Laura Loomer highlighted an antisemitic remark he posted online in response to another post.

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'Bestiality is on the table': MAGA network sounds 'End Times' alarm over 2014 headline

The hosts of the pro-MAGA network Real America's Voice warned that the End Times could be on the horizon because of a 2014 New York Times opinion piece describing pedophilia as a "disorder."

"Elon Musk is just one of many now out there slamming the Times, the New York Times, for an op-ed they published, look at this," co-host David Brody began. "It framed pedophilia as a psychological disorder rather than a crime."

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Republicans accidentally crafted the perfect bill to tank their own election odds: analyst

President Donald Trump and the GOP are pushing as hard as they can to pass a nationwide voter restriction bill, something all but guaranteed to fail if they can't muster the votes to change Senate rules. Their bill, the SAVE America Act, would establish strict voter ID requirements nationwide, add new proof-of-citizenship rules to voter registration, and require state voter rolls to be run through a Department of Homeland Security system notorious for falsely flagging citizens as noncitizens.

Trump himself has boasted that the Republican Party will "never lose" again if the bill passes. But in reality, wrote Marc Novicoff for The Atlantic, it might have the opposite effect: the bill's requirements are so strict it would likely prevent more Republicans than Democrats from voting.

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Todd Blanche tied to new missing Trump-Epstein sex assault interviews: 'Such a cover-up'

During a MS NOW segment on the missing Jeffrey Epstein files documents that have cast a larger and growing cloud over Donald Trump’s ties to the convicted sex trafficker, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche became a central figure of discussion.

At the center of the latest revelation over what is, and isn't, in the Epstein files, are multiple interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago when she was approximately 13 that are nowhere to be found despite being listed on an evidence log provided to the attorneys representing Ghislaine Maxwell.

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