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A key aide to deceased financier and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein revealed she helped put him in touch with President Donald Trump, Politico reported on Tuesday — though she denied this happened while he was actually president.

The aide, former secretary Lesley Groff, "is on Capitol Hill to speak to the Oversight committee as part of its ongoing Epstein investigation," said the report. Although Trump has denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein and claimed to have severed ties with him years ago when he got wind of his abuse of children, "Democrats have repeatedly questioned whether the administration has worked to cover up evidence of a continued relationship" — a claim the timeline provides some evidence for.

The private company that operates the sole immigration detention center in Colorado sued state officials Monday over a new law that requires frequent health and safety inspections at the site.

The GEO Group, which operates the 1,530-bed federal detention center in Aurora, filed the lawsuit in Denver-based federal court on Monday against Attorney General Phil Weiser, two officials with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Kerry Weidenback, the executive director of the Adams County Health Department. The company claims that the new law, House Bill 26-1276, “imposes direct burdens and requirements on facilities used in immigration operations” and runs against federal authority.

While two U.S. Army soldiers were fighting to survive after their Apache helicopter went down near the coast of Oman, President Donald Trump chose to board Marine One — headed to the NBA Finals.

According to U.S. Central Command, two crew members from a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache were rescued at 7:33 p.m. ET on June 8 — "within approximately two hours" of the helicopter going down, placing the crash around 5:33 p.m. ET. White House communications staffer Margo Martin posted video of Trump boarding Marine One in Bedminster, New Jersey, at 6:57 p.m. — meaning he departed before that, while the rescue was actively underway.

An angry letter from a retiring Republican senator has kicked off a new round of handwringing inside the Senate Republican caucus.

According to Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who has grown increasingly alienated from his own party in recent years, fired off an angry 15-page letter to the caucus, in response to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) going scorched earth on the members of his party who aren't trying to blow up Senate rules to pass President Donald Trump's voter restriction bill, the SAVE America Act.

Religious conservative activist Alveda King came to a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday as a Republican star witness. She left rattled — and firing back at a Texas Democrat who questioned whether she has any right to her famous last name.

The confrontation erupted at a GOP-called hearing targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — already unraveling before Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) got the microphone. King, a Fox News contributor and chair of the America First Policy Institute's Center for the American Dream, had moments earlier shouted — according to Raw Story reporting — "Stop killing the babies and cutting the penises off!" derailing a Democratic colleague's questioning entirely.

Republican lawmakers, Trump administration officials and industry lobbyists are quietly pushing for Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) to become the next Labor secretary — but the effort is running into resistance from the White House.

Nearly 20 people familiar with the behind-the-scenes campaign told Politico that Moore has become the subject of an organized lobbying effort, and that the freshman congressman has privately expressed interest in the role, but the White House is signaling support for the man already in the job.

President Donald Trump made his way to his home city of New York Monday to attend the NBA Finals game only to be met with thunderous boos by basketball fans, which, according to a former senior Trump administration official, genuinely upsets him.

“Getting booed in public really gets to him,” said the ex-senior Trump official, speaking with Zeteo for its report Tuesday on the condition of anonymity. “When I worked with him, he would sometimes call me to complain about it, sometimes when I was trying to go to bed.”

A Texas Republican went after the wrong congresswoman Tuesday — and got schooled on the spot.

The mix-up unfolded at a House Judiciary Committee hearing already careening off the rails. GOP witness Alveda King — niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and a Fox News contributor — had just derailed Democratic questioning by shouting "Stop killing the babies and cutting the penises off!"

Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor predicted Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s “self-serving agenda” may soon trigger a GOP Senate revolt, one that could potentially sink his future nominees for the remainder of his term.

“I hear a sound coming from the Republican side of the aisle,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published on his Substack. “It’s not exactly the sound of ‘the resistance,’ but it’s at least worth calling ‘the reluctance.’ There’s a growing unease among Republican senators about Trump’s self-serving agenda.”