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Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL) called out the Trump administration for waiting until the week of the Christmas holiday to release files from the Jeffrey Epstein case — even though the documents were required to be shared with the public earlier.

"So you guys may be wondering why it is that they are releasing some of the Epstein files today, you know, Christmas Eve, and tomorrow, Christmas Eve. And I'll tell you a very simple reason, because this is like day one in politics stuff that you learn," Kinzinger explained on Tuesday. "When you want to bury bad news, when you don't want it to get much coverage or when you want it to get like as little coverage as possible, you dump it on a holiday."

The Supreme Court's decision blocking President Trump from deploying the National Guard into American cities has alarmed legal experts who fear the ruling may inadvertently create a pathway for the administration to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Trump and his aides have repeatedly suggested they would invoke the rarely used law, which would be politically unpopular but give him broad authority to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a footnote that the court's opinion "could cause the president to use the U.S. military more than the National Guard," reported CNN.

Lara Trump decried the Supreme Court's decision preventing her father-in-law from militarizing the streets of Chicago.

"I think it's such a shame, obviously," Trump told Fox News in a Christmas Eve interview. "You hate to see a ruling like this because our ICE officers around the country have seen an increase of a thousand percent in assaults on them."

The official social media account for the Department of Justice insulted a critic's intelligence in a Christmas Eve post.

The DOJ initially responded Tuesday afternoon to the widely followed "Pop Base" account on X to rebut its post claiming "a newly released Epstein document includes a letter that Jeffrey wrote to fellow sex offender Larry Nassar, alleging that Donald Trump 'shares [their] love of young nubile girls.'"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was accused of stealing a video of troops wearing Santa hats from a freelance reporter who covers the alt-right and focuses on exposing Nazis.

On Christmas Eve, Hegseth shared a video of National Guard troops dressed in Santa garb. The video did not include any attribution.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has hovered like a dark cloud over the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency, and a Republican strategist released a forecast on where the political fallout would land.

The president's longtime association with the late sex offender has periodically exploded into the foreground after backtracking on campaign promises to release investigative files about Epstein's trafficking network, and GOP strategist Malik Abdul told "CNN News Central" that Trump was largely to blame for the scandal's durability.

Donald Trump’s aggressive use of his presidential pardon powers has reached such a fevered pitch that some White House insiders are getting nervous about blowback that they are not prepared to push back on.

According to a deep dive from the Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Ballhaus, Josh Dawsey and C. Ryan Barber on the almost weekly presidential announcements of commutations and pardons flying out of the Oval Office, some of the high-profile cases were not vetted and flew under the radar of even some White House insiders.

A Republican strategist warned that President Donald Trump's seeming impunity did not carry over into a scandal that's threatening to consume his presidency.

The U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling before he won re-election emboldened Trump, GOP strategist Maura Gillespie told "CNN This Morning," and she said that had set the tone from the start of his second term.