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The New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow was correct when he said Donald Trump was involved in as many as 60 “catch and kill” operations during the 2016 presidential election in which Trump first won power, former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said.

“I never actually added them up, but I wouldn't dispute what Ronan is saying,” Cohen told the Court of History podcast. “Every day, there was another story.”

Cohen said some stories that never saw the light of day concerned Trump and his third wife, Melania, while others concerned schemes such as Trump University or alleged connections to organized crime....

The answer to Project 2025, the infamous 920-page conservative leadership blueprint, is to be found in less than 200 pages, a historian, preservationist and independent congressional candidate turned author insists.

Mike Bedenbaugh is the author of Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses for the Future of America, a new book in which he outlines his plan for a “Project 2026”: an alternative to the governmental makeover compiled by the Heritage Foundation before the 2024 election and then pursued by Donald Trump in power, seeking to decimate the federal workforce.

“Project 2026, this is what we need to aim for, to push back … in the midterms of next year,” Bedenbaugh told Raw Story. ...

Jonathan Karl, chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week for ABC News, is also the author of four books on Donald Trump and his seismic impact on American politics.

First, Front Row at the Trump Show covered the first Trump presidency from a viewpoint built on Karl’s experience of reporting on Trump before he entered politics, in his years as a New York businessman and gossip column staple.

Next, Betrayal and Tired of Winning dealt with Trump’s defeat in 2020, his incitement of the January 6 insurrection, and criminal and civil court cases which seemed set to knock him out of public life, even send him to prison....

Five-year-old Luz spent 72 days separated from her father, Julio Rodriguez, after they were detained at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018.

Escaping extortion and violence in Guatemala, Julio was detained in Texas while Luz was sent to a shelter in New York. Eventually, they reunited in Atlanta and joined family in Massachusetts.

Melanie Hernandez left Guatemala in the middle of the night in 2019 with her 14-year-old son, Lucas, fleeing an abusive husband. She left behind an adult daughter and five-year-old son with severe heart disease. Melanie spent several days away from Lucas when detainees were separated by gender at the U.S. border....

WASHINGTON – In a posthumously published memoir, the Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre makes an impassioned plea for the release of all files and records related to the late financier and sex offender who abused young girls and facilitated abuse by powerful men.

“I hope for a world in which predators are punished, not protected; victims are treated with compassion, not shamed; and powerful people face the same consequences as anyone else,” Roberts Giuffre writes.

“I yearn, too, for a world in which perpetrators face more shame than their victims do and where anyone who's been trafficked can confront their abusers when they are ready, no matter how much time has passed. ...

At a state dinner in December 2022, Jill Biden surprised French President Emmanuel Macron, former U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi — and her own husband Joe Biden — when she firmly indicated the then 80-year-old U.S. President would run for another four-year term, a new book says.

Joe Biden looked “like he didn't understand,” another guest is quoted as saying, adding that they rescued the awkward moment by hastily proposing a toast to “four more years” which the president and first lady joined.

The striking vignette is included in Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, a book by Alex Thompson of Axios and Jake Tapper of CNN which will be published next week. Raw Story obtained a copy....