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President Donald Trump has increasingly taken to proclaiming the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case controversy a "hoax" planted by Democrats — but Attorney General Pam Bondi and her associates just told a court that wasn't the case at all.

According to The Daily Beast, a late-night Justice Department filing signed by Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pressed the case to a Manhattan-based judge why the grand jury documents from the Epstein case should be unsealed — and in doing so made a statement contradicting Trump's dismissals.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday he won't reduce interest rates largely due to President Donald Trump's trade war.

“Higher tariffs have begun to show through more clearly to prices of some goods, but their overall effects on economic activity and inflation remain to be seen,” Powell said.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump faced ridicule for his response to a question from a pro-MAGA reporter. The person claimed that FBI Director Kash Patel found "burn bags" used in the Russia investigation.

Trump didn't understand what he meant. The reporter tried to explain "bags full of ..." But Trump interrupted, saying, "Oh, I thought you said appointed a man named Burn Bag."

A confused President Donald Trump railed about Democrats and Russiagate before apparently veering off course and rambling about what appeared to be the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that's filled the headlines for more than a week.

During a White House bill signing event on Wednesday, a reporter noted that FBI Director Kash Patel claimed to have found "burn bags" with documents about the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may already be looking for what comes next in his career after leaving his Fox News gig to become defense secretary, where he has become a constant source of controversy, likely has the White House aggravated with him, according to a former GOP lawmaker

During an appearance on MSNBC, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) claimed he got the impression that Hegseth's possible plan to make a jump and run for office in Tennessee seems to have caught Donald Trump's White House by surprise.

Speaking with MSNBC host Anna Cabrera, Dent said that Hegseth has a history of making moves without notifying the administration.

"Given all the drama of his first six months in the current job, what do you make of this new reporting that he's thought about jumping out of the Pentagon into the political realm?" the ex-GOP lawmaker was asked.

"But he is in a job that is expressly nonpartisan and the fact that there's discussions about him running for office really suggests that he's behaving in a partisan manner," Dent first suggested.

"So this is not a story he wants out there and, frankly, I would have to think that the White House can't be too thrilled about this either, given all the drama, you know, from Signalgate, to his challenge with some of the promotions at the Pentagon to losing a lot of his key staff," he added.

"He's got all sorts of problems over there and now that this story is out, I'm wondering if the White House is blindsided by this, just as they were blindsided by his decision to withhold funding to Ukraine, only to be overruled by the White House," he suggested.

Asked by the host if this is an "off-ramp" for the White House to rid itself of the problematic defense secretary, he said, "Absolutely.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) reacted after Texas Republicans revealed a new congressional map that would likely replace five Democratic lawmakers with Republicans.

On Friday, state Rep. Todd Hunter (R) unveiled the map targeting Democrats in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and South Texas.

Media advocacy organization Free Press on Tuesday unveiled an index that documents and rates major media organizations' reactions to the coercive demands being made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

As Free Press explained in a press release, its Media Capitulation Index tracks actions being taken by 35 major media conglomerates who are facing pressure from Trump and his allies to curb critical reporting and commentary on his administration.

President Donald Trump erupted at CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins as she questioned his bombshell allegation that Jeffrey Epstein had "stolen" women from his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The confrontation unfolded after Trump made the stunning claim aboard Air Force One while returning from Scotland Tuesday, specifically naming Virginia Giuffre—one of Epstein's most prominent victims—as someone the disgraced financier had allegedly taken from his resort's spa.

A Democrat lawmaker shamed President Donald Trump over remarks about one of his former employees who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein — and he said the comments revealed that he knows more about the convicted sex abuser than he has admitted.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) appeared Wednesday morning on "CNN News Central," where host Kate Bolduan asked him about Trump's "evolving explanation" for his falling out with the disgraced financier. On Tuesday, Trump claimed that Epstein "stole" then-teenage Mar-a-Lago employee Virginia Giuffre from him .

Donald Trump’s controversial pick for a lifetime judge appointment, Emil Bove was strikingly normal — until he fell under the president's spell, a journalist noted Wednesday.

The Atlantic writer Quinta Jurecic was referencing Emil Bove, who was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday.

A Senate committee devolved into chaos after the president and vice president were added to Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) bill to prevent stock trading by certain elected officials.

During a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), a co-sponsor of the bill, suggested he had changed his mind in light of the changes that would impact President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.