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Trump's DOJ declined to prosecute '10 co-conspirators': Epstein documents

President Donald Trump's first-term Department of Justice declined to prosecute 10 of Jeffrey Epstein's "co-conspirators," according to files released this week.

On Tuesday, attorney Aaron Parnas pointed out that the revelation was from "by far the most important document released overnight."

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'Would you like me to leave?' Trump floats ditching White House for TV hosting gig

President Donald Trump floated the idea of ditching the Oval Office Tuesday to instead pursue a career as a television host, asking his followers whether they supported the idea of an abrupt career change.

Whether serious or in jest, Trump made the remarks after announcing that he would be hosting the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony scheduled for Tuesday evening, which he said he’d be doing “at the request of the board, and just about everybody else in America.”

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'It was for prostitutes': FBI fielded explosive tip about Trump party at Mar-a-Lago

One of the documents briefly disclosed by the Department of Justice contains an FBI tip related to a party allegedly hosted more than two decades ago by President Donald Trump that featured prostitutes.

An unidentified female told the FBI in in October 2020 that she had information about a "Jeffrey Epstein party" in 2000, according to a partially redacted summary of the tip — which has not been verified as accurate — that was included in a new batch of files posted online Monday night, but then removed several hours later.

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Nobel Prize winner frets that Trump's sent economy into chaos: 'Nobody knows what's next'

A Nobel Prize winner has suggested "nobody knows what's next" for the economy under Donald Trump's administration.

The president has struggled to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, prompting Paul Krugman to point out that the economy under Trump is hard to pin down. Writing in his Substack newsletter, the award-winning economist claimed the Trump tariff policy had made businesses across the country "reluctant to make commitments" for fear the economy could massively change again.

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Morning Joe brutally mimics a slow-witted JD Vance claiming to be 'fooled' by media

A MS NOW segment of JD Vance’s increasingly higher profile as he apparently makes a bid to claim the MAGA mantle from Donald Trump took a humorous turn Tuesday when it was brought up that Vance once used to equate the president with Hitler.

That was when co-host Joe Scarborough mimicked Vance’s voice, making him sound mentally diminished.

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'This terrifies me!' CNN's Maria Cardona freaks out that Trump might deport her

CNN's Maria Cardona lost patience with a conservative panelist's efforts to justify the detention and deportations of U.S. citizens as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

The panelists were discussing the case of Dulce Consuelo Díaz Morales, a Baltimore mother in ICE custody whose attorney says was born in the United States, but Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance argued that mistaken deportations were to be expected in a massive operation she deems necessary, citing two examples of women who were slain by undocumented migrants.

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Morning Joe goes scorched earth on 'ridiculous' Bari Weiss after viewing spiked CBS story

CBS News head Bari Weiss’s decision to “spike” a “60 Minutes’ segment detailing the horrific treatment of migrants sent by President Donald Trump’s administration to a brutal maximum security prison in El Salvador looks even worse now that the video clip was leaked online.

On Tuesday morning, the hosts of “Morning Joe” revealed that they had watched it and were incredulous that it was considered incomplete and needing more work, as Weiss later complained in a memo to CBS staffers.

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'Hold up': MAGA ally's Trump defense halted as she butchers victim's name live on CNN

CNN's Audie Cornish put an end to a conservative panelist's efforts to exonerate President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The Department of Justice disclosed another batch of documents related to a sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, with the president's name mentioned frequently, but Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance insisted to "CNN This Morning" that Trump had nothing to fear from the contents of those files.

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'Directly implicates Trump': DOJ releases — then pulls — 'bombshell' Epstein letter online

The Justice Department released a letter allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein Monday that it then quickly removed from its website — and its contents, some critics say, “directly implicates" President Donald Trump.

The letter was postmarked “just days after Epstein died” in 2019, according to the progressive media company MeidasTouch. It was addressed to Larry Nassar, the convicted serial sex offender who was sentenced to 60 years in prison for abusing hundreds of children and young women.

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Trump's latest Epstein scramble hit head-on by Morning Joe: 'Who's he trying to protect?'

Remarks made by President Donald Trump on Monday when asked about the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files raised eyebrows on MS NOW Tuesday.

On “Morning Joe,” the co-hosts ran a clip of the president, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, stating, “They’re asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein. I thought that was finished.

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Prison chiefs planned to put Epstein in cell with fanatic who 'found light in Trump': file

Prosecutors considered placing sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a cell with a Donald Trump superfan who was convicted of mailing pipe bombs to the president's enemies, according to newly released documents.

The Justice Department posted online thousands more files Monday evening related to the government’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice in sex trafficking. The Washington Post managed to download the full set before they were taken down without explanation.

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'Terrified little boy' Trump's ego projects stem from childhood neglect: family member

The renaming of the Kennedy Center is an attempt by the president to "fill a void" left by an unhappy childhood, his niece claimed.

Psychologist Mary Trump believes the president's desire to put his name onto the memorial building is a sign he was not loved enough — and "never will be." Speaking to The Daily Beast, Mary Trump said the president is "constantly trying to fill a void that cannot be filled," and it's because of how Trump was treated during his youth.

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Trump 'pipe dream' destined to impose 'killing spree' on MAGA faithful: analysis

President Donald Trump's policies are set to hurt his own followers more than anybody else, a New York Times columnist warned Tuesday.

Thomas B. Edsall wrote, "The Trump Administration (has) adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breathe. President Trump’s attacks on the regulation of toxic chemicals in the air and water, on strong vaccination policies, on rules restricting power plant pollution are part and parcel of what amounts to a killing spree cloaked as deregulation."

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