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Epstein had Trump on speakerphone as 'undressed' 16 year old massaged him: FBI memo

A woman told the FBI that in the early 2000s, when she was 16 years old, she had given a massage to Jeffrey Epstein at his New York home while the disgraced financier “was on a speakerphone call with Donald Trump” — just moments before being sexually assaulted, according to a newly released FBI memo.

First reported by the Daily Mail, the revelation comes from a transcript of a 2020 FBI interview released by the Justice Department last week as part of its publication of 50,000 new files related to Epstein. In the interview, the woman, whose name is redacted, told an FBI agent and analyst that she had been recruited by Epstein when she was a junior in high school.

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'Clear signal of defiance' shows Trump attacks are backfiring: analyst

The appointment of a new ayatollah shortly after the death of Ali Khamenei highlights a major shortcoming in Donald Trump's plot for Iranian regime change, an analyst wrote Tuesday.

Despite the president's team carrying out a series of strikes against the Middle Eastern country earlier this month, the only changes made so far, according to CNN analyst Stephen Collinson, are beneficial to Iran. Trump may have succeeded in removing the country's former head, but his replacement, Collinson believes, is far worse for the US and the current administration.

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Trump ally dubbed 'homicidal maniac' as MAGA civil war explodes

Megyn Kelly launched a full-on attack at President Donald Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) over his escalating calls for U.S. military involvement in foreign conflicts. Kelly, an outspoken opponent of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, characterized Graham as a warmonger promoting dangerous foreign policy.

Graham has made several aggressive statements across media appearances in recent days. During an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, he called for direct U.S. intervention in Cuba and urged President Trump to join Israel in attacking the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. Speaking to Sean Hannity on Monday, Graham told other Middle Eastern nations to intensify military efforts, stating they needed to "up your game." He also criticized Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for opposing Iran attacks, telling Spain it had "lost your way" and calling for the U.S. to withdraw its military air base from the country.

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Kimmel warns Trump's devised new plot to bury woes — and it's 'most dangerous of all'

Jimmy Kimmel blasted Donald Trump late Monday for using an election bill to distract from his administration's failures.

The president hopes to push a restrictive election bill through Congress in time for the midterm elections, though he faces strong opposition from the Democratic Party and even members of the Republican Party. Should the bill be passed into law, mail-in votes would be restricted, and voter ID would be mandatory before a person could cast their vote.

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Senate Republicans split over Trump’s ‘No. 1 priority’ in Congress

Senate Republicans are increasingly divided over how – or whether – to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping elections overhaul, a measure he has called his “No. 1 priority.”

The fate of the proposed SAVE America Act grew murkier Monday as GOP senators clashed over the strategy needed to overcome Democratic opposition in the closely divided chamber, NBC News reported.

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Trump is holding key endorsement hostage as GOP primary heats up: report

President Donald Trump is delaying a pivotal endorsement in the Texas Republican Senate primary as he seeks to pressure GOP lawmakers to pass his high-priority voting restrictions legislation, according to a new report in Politico.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and MAGA firebrand Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, are both vying for Trump’s backing in the race – especially after last week’s razor-thin primary election results propelled them into a runoff.

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Trump ally Tina Peters suddenly ‘has remorse’ as governor weighs clemency

A lawyer for imprisoned election denier Tina Peters suggested Monday that his client may now regret her actions – a notable departure from years of insisting she did nothing wrong.

Peters, a former Colorado county clerk and ally of President Donald Trump, is serving a nine-year prison sentence for election-related crimes that prosecutors said were carried out to support election denial claims following the 2020 election.

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'Stark raving mad': Firestorm as raging Trump 'threatens to destroy Iran as a nation'

President Donald Trump's dark warning to Iran on Truth Social late Monday shocked observers.

Trump threatened military retaliation if the country interferes with oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Trump threatens Iran with 'death, fire, and fury' if oil flow disrupted

Donald Trump posted a stark warning to Iran on Truth Social Monday evening, threatening military retaliation if the country interferes with oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

"If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far," Trump wrote in the post.

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GOP chair laments Trump’s Iran war driving costs so high farmers now ‘losing money’

A top Republican senator is warning that farmers are already feeling the financial squeeze from rising energy prices tied to the U.S. military conflict with Iran.

Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, said Monday that farmers, a key constituency for President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, will soon need additional federal aid as costs for gasoline, diesel, and fertilizer surge.

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Trump’s bogus Iran nuke claim hit with brutal fact check

Experts are pushing back on recent claims by President Donald Trump that Iran was just weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon before the United States military action late last month.

Trump has said in recent days that Iran would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks if the U.S. had not launched aerial strikes. But reporting from NBC News and statements from nuclear experts suggest the president’s timeline "is not true."

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'Crazy pills': Internet in disbelief watching Trump's 'double speak' on Iran war

President Donald Trump baffled the internet Monday afternoon with conflicting new remarks on whether the war in Iran was ending or just beginning.

Trump took questions about the war, in which he was asked to clarify why he said Monday the war was "very complete" while Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said it was "just the beginning."

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Republicans 'express real alarm' as Trump's Iran fallout poised to backfire on them

Rising energy prices tied to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran are threatening to derail Republicans’ strategy for the upcoming midterm elections, raising fears inside the GOP that the economic fallout could overshadow their campaign message on affordability.

That’s according to Politico, which reported Monday that spikes in oil and gasoline prices could wipe out some of the financial gains Americans saw from the sweeping tax cuts Republicans passed last year – a key argument GOP lawmakers hoped to sell to voters.

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