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'There are more documents to come': Top Dem lawmaker taunts Trump on Epstein scandal

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) took to CNN Tuesday to reveal that Monday’s bombshell drop of Jeffrey Epstein files was only the beginning — and taunted President Donald Trump that there would be many “more documents to come.”

“We're starting to get a better picture of what's going on, what happened with Jeffrey Epstein,” said Subramanyam, a member of the House Oversight Committee which was responsible for getting the recent batch of Epstein files released.

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Mike Johnson admits behind closed doors he's waiting for Trump to tell him what to do

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said behind closed doors this week that he is waiting on President Donald Trump to give the House GOP caucus marching orders on how to proceed with spending bills, Politico reported on Tuesday.

"In particular, appropriators are waiting on 'anomaly' requests from President Donald Trump’s budget aides, Johnson said, according to three people in the room who were granted anonymity to describe the private remarks," said the report. "Anomaly" requests refer to anything that would be changed from last year's spending levels and "that would need to be embedded in a stopgap measure to address current spending needs."

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'A ridiculous thing to say!' Tom Homan loses it on MSNBC over 'disappearing' immigrants

Donald Trump’s “border czar’ Tom Homan lost his temper on MSNBC on Tuesday morning after he was confronted about his masked agents snatching immigrants off the street without warrants and then fleeing with them in unmarked vehicles.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the tense interview took a turn for the chaotic when co-host Mika Brzezinski accused the Department of Homeland Security of ‘disappearing” immigrants, many of whom have committed no crimes, which set off the already argumentative Trump appointee.

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Judge dismisses charges against 15 Republicans for 2020 fake elector scheme

District Court Judge Kristen D. Simmons dismissed criminal charges against a group of people in Michigan who allegedly plotted to certify the 2020 presidential election for President Donald Trump after he lost to former President Joe Biden.

On Tuesday, Simmons said the 15 Republican defendants were "expressing their constitutional right to seek redress." The charges were first announced by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel over two years ago. The judge took nearly a year to make her decision.

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'Wow, that's big': Massive revision to job numbers fuels economy panic

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is out with more bad news about the economy — it turns out that the labor market was weakening even before President Donald Trump put the latest round of tariffs in place.

A new revision for the jobs numbers between April 2024 and March 2025, which includes much of former President Joe Biden's last year and the first two months of President Donald Trump's first year, shows 911,000 fewer jobs than initially estimated.

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GOP senator vows to 'lead opposition' to Trump's 'Dept of War' name change

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he would lead a Senate effort to block President Donald Trump from changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

“I think it sends a bad signal to the world," Paul told CNN's Manu Raju on Tuesday. "In a world with nuclear weapons, I think glorifying war… is not something I'm in favor of."

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'I don’t comment': Trump suddenly silent as reporter cold calls him over Epstein bombshell

President Donald Trump refused to address a birthday note that he reportedly wrote to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after House Democrats released it.

On Tuesday, NBC News contacted the president by phone to ask him about the message he allegedly sent for Epstein's 50th birthday. The note was written inside a doodle of a woman and included a reference to a "wonderful secret."

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Trump warned he will be deposed in Epstein case: 'Absolutely will be put under oath'

CNN senior legal analyst and attorney Elie Honig outlined what he said will be an outcome in the growing scandal over President Donald Trump’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday — and it could put the president in a very precarious spot.

Trump is under renewed scrutiny for his past ties with Epstein, the late financier and convicted child sex offender, after a House committee published new documents Monday revealing details of the pair's relationship, including a bawdy letter Trump allegedly sent Epstein in 2003.

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Trump’s 'ham-fisted' denials on Epstein torched: 'Inept even by his standards!'

Donald Trump has been no stranger to denying accusations levied against him, with the president having popularized the term "fake news" to dismiss negative press coverage, but his latest attempts to deflect on his past ties with Jeffrey Epstein have reached a new low “even by his standards,” a columnist noted Tuesday.

“Trump’s efforts to make the Jeffrey Epstein controversy go away have been ham-fisted and inept, even by his standards,” wrote Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte for her biweekly newsletter “Standing Room Only.”

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'They have secrets': Ex-US attorney hints Trump knows worse yet to come from Epstein docs

The stunning release of a photograph of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein holding a joke novelty check as payment for a woman at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate may be a precursor to even worse revelations about Trump and his former friend.

Appearing on MSNBC on Tuesday morning, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade claimed the photo, which has been described as “Epstein and a longtime Mar-a-Lago member joking about selling a 'fully depreciated' woman to Donald Trump for $22,500," is far more alarming than the actual birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote to his pal Epstein, which was also revealed on on Monday after being hinted at weeks ago.

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'Just saying': Trump family member gives devastating insight on Epstein card scandal

The niece of Donald Trump smashed his argument that his signature was forged on a lewd message sent to celebrate pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday.

Tthe House Oversight Committee released the complete 238-page volume of a birthday book compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell Monday, reigniting a scandal that has had Trump's camp reeling for weeks.

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'Quite the long game': MSNBC host blows up crux of Trump's Epstein denial

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire dumped cold water on the "hoax" denials of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal coming from President Donald Trump and his allies.

Trump had denied writing a suggestive birthday note decades ago to the late sex offender, and now that House Oversight Committee Democrats have obtained a copy, the president's allies are insisting his signature was forged as part of a years-long political hit campaign.

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'Nobody's ever done anything like this': New 'wildly illegal' Trump vote ploy sparks fear

A new initiative being driven by Donald Trump’s administration to meddle in elections is causing concern, according to a report from the New York Times.

Not content with twisting the arms of the Republican Party at the state level to redistrict in an effort to hold on to a slim GOP majority in the House, the White House is now compiling a first-ever national voter roll by demanding information from over 30 states — most of which have been resisting.

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