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Emails reveal MAGA celeb's plan to visit Epstein: 'Will stay on the island'

Documents released by the Department of Justice showed the inner workings of how one close ally of President Donald Trump planned to help rehabilitate the image of Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted of sex crimes.

The recently released documents showed how MAGA influencer Steve Bannon's relationship grew closer with Epstein up until just days before he was arrested again for sex trafficking.

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'Failure to comply': Judge loses patience with Trump for not returning slavery exhibit

A federal judge appeared to lose her patience after President Donald Trump's administration did not follow an order to return a slavery exhibit to a Philadelphia museum.

In her order on Monday, Judge Cynthia Rufe invoked George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" to order the return of a slavery exhibit to the museum on the site of former President George Washington's home in Philadelphia.

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'Tough place to be': Trump team scrambles to cook up a message on key issue

President Donald Trump is pivoting to health care as a central midterm strategy despite the issue's catastrophic history for Republicans, hoping popular drug-pricing measures can overcome deep skepticism and boost his political standing.

Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair and pollster Tony Fabrizio have bluntly told Republicans they have no other choice, reported CNN, because Democrats will attack relentlessly on health care and affordability, so they're hoping to seize the offensive first.

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Pam Bondi's 'incredibly stupid' outburst continues to haunt Trump: MS NOW host

Using the Thursday arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on charges of misconduct in public office, most likely over his involvement with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, MS NOW personality Mika Brzezinski did not hesitate to bring up the many failures of Attorney General Pam Bondi at a time when the White House would like the scandal to go away.

Earlier, with an assist from co-host Joe Scarborough, accusing the Donald Trump appointee of a cover-up, since the Department of Justice was handed the notorious Epstein files months ago, “Morning Joe’s” Brzezinski claimed the focus on the president has only increased after Bondi's House Judiciary Committee hearing meltdown a week ago.

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Trump gives Hamas 'a lot of credit' for digging up dead bodies of hostages they murdered

President Donald Trump argued that Hamas deserved "a lot of credit" for digging up the dead bodies of their victims.

During the first Board of Peace meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Trump noted that "every last remaining hostage, both living and dead, has been returned back home" from Gaza.

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Ex-prince's Epstein arrest spurs attacks on Trump team: 'They could be arrested'

The arrest of Britain's Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of King Charles III, set off shockwaves on both sides of the Atlantic, and many Americans noted the irony of a member of the royal family suffering consequences for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The former prince was stripped of his royal titles in October and forced to vacate his home earlier this month in the wake of the widening Epstein scandal, and Thames Valley police took him into custody Thursday morning on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

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Trump admits he hoped to get paid for 'Board of Peace': 'Could always use extra cash'

President Donald Trump opened his first Board of Peace meeting by admitting he expected to be personally paid.

Speaking on Thursday from the recently-named Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace, the president insisted that world leaders, such as Pope Leo XIII, would eventually accept his invitation to join the group.

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Trump latest 'triumph' is really just a spotlight on a major failure: analysis

A political coup for Donald Trump has come back to bite him after it highlighted just how poor the president is at clear messaging.

Though the foreign policy win will see China back away from its involvement in the Panama Canal, the action itself will do little to win the Republican Party, or the president, much in the way of political gains at home. Trump had pushed for action to be taken against China at the start of his second term. Panamanian courts have since ruled that China's claim to ports in the Panama Canal is unconstitutional.

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Dem gov baits Trump after being banned from White House dinner: 'Getting under their skin'

An amused Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) taunted Donald Trump on Thursday morning for running scared of him by singling him and Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) out for exclusion from a black-tie dinner on Saturday, where governors from both sides of the aisle are being welcomed with open arms.

The nation’s governors are headed to Washington, DC, this weekend for the National Governors Association’s (NGA) winter meeting and the White House will be holding a soirée for them — with the exception of Polis and Moore.

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Pam Bondi accused of cover-up after ex-Prince Andrew arrest on Epstein involvement

Reacting to the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the United Kingdom, presumably over his involvement with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough went on an extended rant aimed at Attorney General Pam Bondi for her inaction after having the Epstein files for months.

With King Charles throwing his support behind British law enforcement after the arrest of his younger brother, co-host Joe Scarborough exclaimed, “I mean, imagine what's in those documents that are being held by Pam Bondi, who wouldn't even turn around and look at the women who said they're victims, wouldn't even look at them? Do we trust Pam Bondi to give Americans information that would be negative to Republicans, to her boss, to other people in the administration?”

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'Wheels coming off' for Trump as courts 'spit out' his DOJ revenge cases: MS NOW

The harsh reality that Donald Trump’s campaign to get his critics charged and jailed has failed is sinking in at the White House after US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has stepped away from a possible prosecution of six Congressional Democrats.

Following a segment with the New York Times’ Michael Schmidt on Pirro’s latest failure to obtain an indictment, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said that court losses are starting to mount up now after an approximately six-month period of easy administration wins.

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'Emboldened' Trump could leave himself 'politically exposed' with new war plan: analysis

Donald Trump may find himself dealing with fallout his administration cannot handle should one act in office go wrong.

The president is, according to CNN analyst Stephen Collinson, feeling bold after his team's actions in Venezuela, and though it may not have gone well for Trump in Greenland, his weight in world politics has not diminished. Collinson believes the president could risk it all in the lead-up to the midterms with a move against Iran that, if it goes wrong, could be a political disaster for Trump.

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Gavin Newsom drags Trump for unfulfilled financial promise: 'Where's the check?'

Gavin Newsom's Press Office has called out Donald Trump's administration for failing to pay out on a dividend they promised nearly a year ago.

The DOGE dividend featured in planning documents written up during Elon Musk's time in government, with the Department of Government Efficiency hoping to cut so much in-house expenditure that they could go on to give some money to taxpayers. This never came to be, though the team behind the Governor of California has not forgotten.

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