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President Donald Trump defended one of his officials who is receiving criticism over a leaked call he had with a Russian official about the latest peace deal for the war in Ukraine, according to a new report.

During a call on October 14, Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff told a Russian official that calling Trump would help "smooth over" negotiations concerning the end of the war, the Wall Street Journal reported. Bloomberg News published a transcript of the call on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threw his “Complete and Total” support behind Republican Matt Van Epps, a Tennessee congressional candidate facing a complaint that accuses him of "misleading voters" by appearing in uniform in a recent campaign ad.

In a post to his Truth Social platform Tuesday evening, Trump urged “all America First Patriots in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, who haven’t voted yet, to please GET OUT AND VOTE for MAGA Warrior Matt Van Epps” ahead of Wednesday’s final day of early in-person voting.

A newly surfaced Justice Department memo is revealing a sharp break between the Trump administration’s private legal rationale for the series of deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean and the public explanation President Donald Trump has repeatedly offered.

According to sources familiar with a classified Office of Legal Counsel opinion, the administration has been framing the missile strikes against drug cartels as acts of collective self-defense on behalf of U.S. allies such as Mexico and Colombia, the Guardian reported Tuesday, citing three people with direct knowledge of the internal discussions.

A Ukrainian lawmaker bashed President Donald Trump's proposal to end the country's four-year war with Russia during a new interview on Tuesday.

The Trump administration recently laid out a 28-point peace plan for Russia's war in Ukraine, a plan that some experts say appears to have been written by Russian authorities. The initial plan included language requiring Ukraine to cede land to Russia and significantly reduce the size of its army. Even though the plan has undergone significant revisions since then, it will still be a "major issue" for the Ukrainian people to deal with, according to Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko.

Newly released emails obtained by Bloomberg on Tuesday provide a rare look inside the FBI’s handling of the vast Jeffrey Epstein files, revealing how agents and FOIA personnel meticulously reviewed the redacted records earlier this year.

The documents, released to Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold via Freedom of Information Act requests, shed light on what the bureau has called the “Epstein Transparency Project” – including the striking number of manhours it took agents to comb through files.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) lashed out at Trump administration adviser Steve Witkoff on Tuesday, accusing him of undermining Secretary of State Marco Rubio by going behind his back to help Russia in peace talks over Ukraine.

Fitzpatrick's accusation follows reporting from Bloomberg News that Witkoff advised Russian officials on how to sell President Donald Trump on their own plan for resolving the war that was initiated when Russia invaded Ukraine on a pretense of securing the eastern regions for ethnic Russian separatists propped up by Kremlin money.

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) raised eyebrows on Fox Business Tuesday when she endorsed a U.S. invasion of Venezuela — but then she took it a step further, telling anchor David Asman, with no evidence, that Venezuela is "giving uranium" to hostile foreign powers and terrorist groups.

"This is going to be a very major success story, not only for [the Venezuelan people], but for us," said Salazar. "And I salute President Trump for having the fortitude, the courage, the political vision to be doing this. Because [Nicolas] Maduro is the head of a transnational criminal organization. Maduro is not the legitimate president of the country, so we're not invading a sovereign country that has a free and fair elected democratic president. No. This guy is a thug."

Former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols delivered a blistering assessment of President Donald in an interview Tuesday, arguing that the president's latest attacks on Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to defy illegal orders have nothing to do with national security – and everything to do with Trump’s character.

Nichols said Tuesday on MS NOW that Trump is “intimidated by anyone who exhibits any kind of virtue, any kind of commitment to selfless service, any kind of loyalty to something bigger than themselves.” He went on to tell “Deadline: White House” host Nicolle Wallace that Trump, “as a narcissist,” is psychologically incapable of understanding why people act from principle rather than personal gain.