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Author Michael Wolfe has concluded that first lady Melania Trump isn't living in Florida or Washington, D.C., but is instead pursuing personal business opportunities away from her husband.

The writer told The Daily Beast's "Inside Trump's Head" podcast that the 55-year-old's relationship with President Donald Trump is “remote at best," and he has discovered, while trying to serve her with a lawsuit, that she most likely lives in New York City.

"Where does she live?” asked Wolff, who is suing Melania Trump over her threat of legal action to stop reporting on her alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. “They are either going to have to prove that they live in Florida or accept the fact that she lives in New York.”

Melania Trump has avoided being served with a copy of the lawsuit and has sought to move the case to federal court, and he believes that she's building her brand in her husband's hometown.

"A residence is a place where you actually live, where you spend your time, where your connections are, where you have built a life, where your heart is," Wolff said, "and in fact, she has said over and over again — and does in Melania, the movie — that New York is where her heart is.”

While she and the president apparently no longer live together, Wolff said she still leverages his position to boost her business.

“One of the things that we’ve also been looking at is that she is basically starting a new business life in New York City, and it is a way to exploit her relationship with the president of the United States while actually distancing herself from the president of the United States,” Wolff said. “So, building a kind of ‘Melania brand’ company — I suppose that’s what it is — is a way for her to gain financial independence and also geographic independence from the president of the United States.”

She's had her own apartment in Trump Tower for several years, according to the author, and he said the building's concierge confirmed last week she lived there but refused to accept service of the papers.

“The two apartments look completely dissimilar,” Wolff said. “His is that Rococo Trump and hers is kind of sleek, minimalist Melania.”

The inmate who Jeffrey Epstein claimed had attempted to kill him in their cell was busted with a cell phone a few days before the sex offender arrived at the New York City detention center.

A Bureau of Prisons memo released as part of the massive trove of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice details an incident four days before Epstein's arrival in which the former police officer was accused of having a cell phone at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

"On July 2, 2019, inmate Tartaglione, Nicholas; Reg. No. 78514-054 was found in possession of a cell phone," the memo states. "The following telephone numbers were found in the history of the telephone," but all 17 numbers were redacted in the document released by the DOJ.

Reporting at the time indicated that corrections staff at the Manhattan detention center caught Tartaglione, a former police officer who was awaiting trial in the killing of four men in Orange County, but he told staff that his cell mate at the time had tossed the phone to him as officers approached.

Federal prosecutors said they intended to seek a search warrant to investigate the contents of the mini phone, which was only capable of making voice calls, and have the device handed over to the FBI.

Epstein was placed in a cell with Tartaglione, a muscular retired police officer-turned-drug dealer, after his July 6, 2019, arrival, and the disgraced financier 17 days later told officers that his cellmate had shown him a newspaper article that placed his net worth at $77 billion and that he believed the ex-cop was trying to extort money from him.

The following night, July 23, 2019, Tartaglione told jail staff he found Epstein slumped on the floor with fabric around his neck, and once Epstein became alert he claimed his cellmate had tried to kill him, which he later walked back and said he couldn't remember what had happened.

Tartaglione has long insisted he did not try to kill Epstein, but also believes that the accused sex trafficker was deliberately exposed to violence behind bars to prevent him from standing trial.

“I clearly was not protected on purpose, nor was Epstein," Tartaglione wrote in a 2025 pardon petition. "I truly believe that the government wanted both Epstein and me dead,” Tartaglione wrote.

Epstein was placed on suicide watch for about a day after that incident but that status was downgraded to psychological observation, although he insisted he was not suicidal and did not feel hopeless, and he was assigned a new cellmate, Efrain Reyes, on July 30, 2019 – but that arrangement lasted only nine days until Reyes was transferred.

That night, on Aug. 9, 2019, Epstein had the cell to himself, and a corrections officer found him the following morning on the floor, unresponsive and cold to the touch.

The White House is preparing to reshuffle the deck around Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reassure nervous Republicans the controversial public health official won't ruin their election chances.

President Donald Trump's top advisers are preparing a midterm push that will focus heavily on health policy, including a popular healthy eating initiative and the “most favored nation” drug pricing deals negotiated by Medicare chief Chris Klomp, who will be promoted to chief counselor and Kennedy's chief of staff, reported CNN.

"Klomp, who has played a central role in negotiating and promoting the drug price deals that Trump has touted as a top accomplishment, has drawn praise at HHS and among top Trump aides for his management expertise and public messaging skills," CNN reported. "The moves also represent an effort to keep closer tabs on Kennedy and an HHS leadership that has struggled at times to coordinate with its own agencies and the White House, frustrating senior Trump officials and generating dayslong controversies."

The moves, which are aimed at restructuring Kennedy's top ranks, will add John Brooks, currently deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as senior counselor in charge of CMS-related issues, while two senior Food and Drug Administration officials, Grace Graham and Kyle Diamantas, will take on senior counselor roles managing FDA-related issues fpr HHS, and current HHS chief of staff Matt Buckham will move to a senior counselor role.

“I am proud to elevate battle-tested, principled leaders onto my immediate team — individuals with the courage and experience to help us move faster and further as we work to Make America Health Again,” Kennedy said in a statement.

His leadership, which has been roiled by firings and rehirings amid internal clashes, and penchant for controversial remarks – such as his comment this week about snorting cocaine from toilets seats – raised concerns among Republicans as they approach November's elections.

"Kennedy has also pressed ahead on a major overhaul of the nation’s vaccine system — a top priority for the longtime vaccine skeptic that has raised concerns among Republicans that it could damage the party politically ahead of the midterms," CNN reported.

The surprise closure this week of the airspace over El Paso, Texas, has exposed a "strained relations" between two key departments in President Donald Trump's administration, according to a report.

The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly restricted all civilian aircraft Wednesday around Fort Bliss, which is immediately adjacent to El Paso International Airport, but reversed the order hours later. CNN's Pete Muntean reported on the conflicting statements coming from government officials.

"All of our reporting really underscores this breakdown in communication between every federal agency involved here," Muntean said. "What's clear from key government officials is that the FAA's decision to halt flights around El Paso caught parts of the Trump administration off guard, and now there's this intense blame game unfolding inside the White House. Remember, this all centers on a counter-drone system in use near the border. The technology uses what's called a high-energy laser, and that laser uses concentrated heat to disable drones."

Sources told the aviation correspondent that FAA officials were concerned about the system's deployment at Fort Bliss and its potential harm to civilian flights landing and departing there.

"Two senior administration officials tell CNN that the White House was furious with the FAA for shutting down the airspace, one top official telling us that FAA Administrator Brian Bedford decided to close the airspace without alerting the White House, Pentagon or Homeland Security officials," Muntean said.

"But other parts of the administration are pointing fingers in the other direction, questioning why Homeland Security and the Pentagon were using this laser without fully coordinating with the FAA. There's also pretty big disagreement about who knew what and who knew when. One source disputes that the White House was kept in the dark, saying that the National Security Council senior staff there and Homeland Security council senior staff were told in advance that a temporary flight restriction was coming."

"The bottom line here, I know it sounds like a mess," he added. "This really has sparked major tension inside the Trump administration about who bears responsibility for all this, who the catalyst was. None of the agencies involved here have responded to our request for comment.

"You also have to set this against the backdrop of really strained relations since last year's deadly midair collision over the Potomac River involving that commercial jet and an Army helicopter, and just yesterday, NTSB chair Jennifer Holliday told a Senate committee that the lack of coordination between the military and the FAA had been what she called, quote, 'astounding.'"

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The abrupt closure of the airspace over El Paso, Texas, has set off "chaos" and "finger-pointing" at the highest levels of President Donald Trump's administration.

The Federal Aviation Agency announced Wednesday the airspace would be closed for 10 days, only to reverse the decision about eight hours later, and reports have since emerged that the shutdown was enacted because Customs and Border Patrol had been testing a high-energy laser at nearby Fort Bliss against suspected foreign drones that turned out to be party balloons.

"This set off a scramble across the entire administration," reported CNN's Kevin Liptak. "When the FAA put this restriction in place on Wednesday, including here at the White House, where officials told us they were left totally in the dark, they essentially found out about it in real time as it was happening. They had to quickly call the FAA to reverse course, which, of course, they did, but not before an enormous amount of confusion, worry and frankly, a lot of embarrassment inside the administration, and it has led to this blame game."

"Now you know, at the White House, the blame is being laid squarely on the FAA for not alerting them to what they were planning to do," he continued. "A lot of that blame was being heaped on the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, whose agency houses the FAA, but we're getting pushback from other parts of the administration. One official put it to us as it's baffling that White House officials are upset with Duffy for protecting the airspace and not the folks who launched the laser, and, of course, the laser is this high energy counter-drone laser that the Pentagon has been testing. They had loaned it to Customs and Border Protection, who were testing it in remote areas that is eventually what led the FAA to close this airspace."

Officials from the FAA and the Pentagon had been scheduled to meet Feb. 20 to discuss the technology, which poses a potential hazard to civilian aircraft.

"The FAA wanted assurances that it wouldn't interfere with commercial aviation, but when the Pentagon went ahead and began testing it before then, that's when they shut down the airspace," Liptak said. "So a lot of blame going around, very complex web of a finger-pointing. I think it also underscores what has become quite a contentious relationship between the Pentagon and the FAA. It had already really been on the rocks since that plane crash last year, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight and left 67 people dead near Ronald Reagan Airport."

"All of this of course, leading to furious reaction from a representatives in El Paso," he added. "The Democrat, [Rep.] Veronica Escobar, wrote on social media, quote, 'This was the result of incompetence at the highest levels of the administration.'"

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Panelists on "CNN This Morning" burst into laughter when host Audie Cornish brought up a startling response by Attorney General Pam Bondi during her contentious congressional hearing.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) asked the attorney general Wednesday how many of Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators she had indicted, which set off an eruption from her, and Bondi loudly changed the subject when he and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) attempted to redirect her.

“The DOW is over 50,000 dollars," Bondi fumed. "I don’t know why you’re laughing. You’re a great stock trader, as I hear, Raskin."

Cornish brought up that exchange Friday morning in the context of President Donald Trump's economic record.

"I want to talk about the price of Trump's prosperity, which is turning out to come at a cost to Americans because we have been paying the tariffs, not foreign countries," Cornish said. "That's according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which finds we paid a whopping 90 percent of import taxes last year. It cost U.S. households an average tax increase of about $1,000. The National Bureau of Economic Research and CBO had similar numbers. I wanted to talk about this because there was this kind of head scratching moment in the Pam Bondi hearings, where I think it was Jerry Nadler was trying to ask her question about the things she was there for, something legal, and the Epstein files."

She played a video clip of Bondi's outburst, and New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Vox podcaster Noel King started laughing.

"Why are you laughing?" Cornish said.

"Because she's head of the Justice Department," Garcia-Navarro replied, shrugging.

"So the internet responded hilariously," Cornish continued. "There were people that are like, 'Oh, your girl is cheating on you, say why are we talking about this? The Dow.' One joke hit me where it was like, 'My rent is late, but what about the Dow? Why are we talking about this?'"

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem capriciously fired a pilot for an exceedingly petty reason but was forced to immediately reinstate him so she could fly home.

The Wall Street Journal took a deep dive into the chaos and dysfunction inside the Department of Homeland Security, where multiple sources complained on and off the record about Noem and her top adviser and purported romantic partner Corey Lewandowski.

"Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department," the newspaper reported.

"The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter," the report added. "DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million. DHS has previously used other planes through the Coast Guard or other agencies for the secretary’s use."

Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior staffers, demand polygraph tests for employees they don't trust and routinely fire employees for dubious reasons – such as one incident where Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to sources familiar with that incident.

"In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident," the Journal reported. "The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home."

A DHS spokeswoman did not comment directly on that incident but told the newspaper Noem has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.”

Lewandowski, who was Trump’s first campaign manager in the 2016 election, was passed over as Noem's chief of staff due to his alleged relationship with her, which the president continues to bring up, but has been working as a special government employee well beyond the statutory 130-day limit and has an outsize presence in the department.

"In an incident last year that rankled some senior staff at the agency, Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun, according to people familiar with his push," the Journal reported. "Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training."

Lewandowski passed over a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official for the top job in that agency after he declined to issue him a badge and gun, and an ICE lawyer was demoted and moved to the Federal Emergency Management Agency after he also declined to sign off.

"Lewandowski eventually persuaded other lawyers to sign off," the Journal reported. "The ICE director’s autopen was used to sign the paperwork, the people said."

Turning Point USA has allegedly been purging staffers who bought into conspiracy theories about co-founder Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Aubrey Laitsch, a communications staffer for the right-wing activist group, posted a video claiming that she was called into a meeting last month and summarily fired. The Bulwark reported that she's not the only staffer cut loose for their apparent belief that Turning Point USA was involved in Kirk's murder.

“I just have a gut feeling that I was terminated from Turning Point because I am questioning the narrative of what happened to my role model and CEO, Charlie Kirk, on the day of his assassination,” Laitsch said in the video.

Conspiracy theories about the 31-year-old Kirk's assassination have grown in popularity on the right after influencer Candace Owens, a former TPUSA employee, spread claims that his killing was an inside job. Laitsch said she's not the only employee who buys into the idea.

"It’s hard to say if these firings are being driven by the (very sensible) disapproval of staff talking about their company killing its founder, or paranoia about Owens having credible information about internal TPUSA activities — or both," The Bulwark reported.

"But clearly, someone within the organization is leaking to Owens. Just this year, the highly controversial podcaster posted videos of Erika Kirk on internal videochats in the wake of Kirk’s assassination that were interpreted on the online right as insufficiently mournful."

Owens was served a cease-and-desist order from TPUSA last month, but she continues to suggest on her YouTube show that Kirk's 37-year-old widow, who took over the group after his fatal shooting, was involved in his death.

"On her Tuesday show, Owens quipped that, if Erika Kirk had been killed instead of Charlie — and if Charlie then acted as Erika Kirk is acting now in the wake of his assassination — he would be on trial for his wife’s murder," The Bulwark reported.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is filing a personal injury lawsuit against her hometown over a trip-and-fall incident.

The top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia filed a $250,000 injury lawsuit against the city of Rye, New York, and ConEdison over a fall she alleges occurred in 2025, reported CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane.

"Ms. Pirro tripped and fell over a large wooden block embedded in and protruding from under a steel plate covering the DPW 3919 excavation in the roadway, which constituted a hazardous, defective, dangerous and unsafe condition," states the lawsuit, which lists her husband Albert Pirro as attorney.

The suit blames ConEdison's construction and excavation activities for creating the hazard and faults Rye, which had contracted the work, for failing to enforce its own safety requirements for the project, and the complaints holds both the utility and the city responsible for the former Fox News host's injuries.

"As a result of defendants’ negligence, Ms. Pirro sustained serious personal injuries, including but not limited to bruises and contusions to the head, eye, face, and shoulder areas," the lawsuit states. "Ms. Pirro was confined to bed, required medical attention and treatment, has suffered, and continues to experience pain and suffering, inconvenience, loss of enjoyment of life, and economic damages."

President Donald Trump denounced one of his purported golfing buddies who's being credited with steering U.S. efforts to revive Venezuela's oil industry.

The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night that energy magnate Harry Sargeant III, who the paper described as a 68-year-old former Top Gun pilot and sometimes Trump golfing partner, was perhaps the only American businessman with ties to the U.S. president and recently deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

"Sargeant is now in position to be the latest of the president’s allies to reap a windfall based on his second-term policies and actions," the Journal reported.

"Trump is pressing U.S. firms to move in fast as his aides work to loosen the sanctions restrictions that were imposed on Venezuela during his first administration," the report added. "Many U.S. companies are nonetheless proceeding cautiously, wary of investing huge sums until the country’s politics are stabilized and a legal framework is in place for foreign companies ... Sargeant, though, isn’t waiting. He met in person last week in Caracas with Maduro’s longtime deputy and economic manager Delcy Rodriguez, to discuss plans to get his businesses up and running."

The 79-year-old Trump denied the Journal's claims about Sargeant's efforts in Venezuela since U.S. forces removed Maduro and handed him over to U.S. law enforcement to stand trial on narcoterrorism and firearms charges.

"Relations between Venezuela and the United States have been, to put it mildly, extraordinary!" Trump posted Thursday morning on Truth Social. "We are dealing very well with President Delcy Rodriguez, and her Representatives. Oil is starting to flow, and large amounts of money, unseen for many years, will soon be greatly helping the people of Venezuela. Marco Rubio, and all of our Representatives, are doing a fantastic job, but we speak only for ourselves, and don’t want there to be any confusion or misrepresentation."

"There is a story about a man named Harry Sargeant III in The Wall Street Journal," the president added. "He has no authority, in any way, shape, or form, to act on behalf of the United States of America, nor does anyone else that is not approved by the State Department. Without this approval, no one is authorized to represent our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP."

CNN's Kevin Liptak revealed the White House was unimpressed with Attorney General Pam Bondi's fiery performance before the House Judiciary Committee.

President Donald Trump's attorney general lashed out at Democrats, hurling insults and highlighting various crimes back in their home districts that she pulled from a tabbed binder, and refused to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, but CNN's senior White House correspondent revealed what he's hearing about her from insiders.

"It was almost a Trumpian appearance from the attorney general," Liptak told "CNN News Central," "and I think that particular aspect of it will probably have gone over fairly well. But, listen, the White House has made no secret that it is less than thrilled at how the attorney general has handled the Epstein matter. You know, Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, who is ostensibly one of Pam Bondi's friends, said that she had whiffed the entire thing, which I think sort of embodies how the West Wing has viewed this generally, and so when she went out into that hearing room to engage in this really sort of bitter theatrical appearance, I think it did reflect an attorney general very much under fire for how she's handling all of this."

"You know, she came armed with these personalized insults for anyone who asked about anything she didn't want to talk about, which was virtually anything having to do with Jeffrey Epstein," Liptak added. "She really shrugged off questions from Democrats about why none of Epstein's co-conspirators had been indicted. She blamed that on the Biden administration. She refused to apologize to Epstein's victims, who were sitting in the very room where she was, for how some of these files had been redacted or not redacted, as the case may be showing to the general public some of the victims names and faces. That was the line of questioning from [Rep.] Thomas Massie (R-KY), who was kind of the only Republican in the room to ask her about any of this."

Bondi lashed out when Massie challenged her on billionaire Les Wexner's name being redacted, calling the Kentucky Republican a “failed politician” who suffered from “Trump derangement syndrome," and Liptak noticed that GOP lawmakers were unwilling to touch the topic or defend the attorney general.

"So Massie was really the only Republican to bring this matter up," Liptak said. "It was interesting to see how his fellow Republicans handled all of this they really tried to steer this hearing away from the Epstein matter. They really didn't make any attempt to defend how Bondi had handled all of this. At the end of the day, this is really kind of a matter of her own making. Remember some months ago, she said that the Epstein files were sitting on her desk, and a lot of ways she still contending with that statement."

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The controversial Department of Government Efficiency is no longer operating as a centralized agency, but some Republicans are still trying to carry out its budget-slashing work in the face of some resistance from party leadership.

DOGE efforts have stalled out dramatically since Elon Musk left his perch in the White House, leaving some conservative budget hawks frustrated as Republicans have passed only one bill enacting $9 billion in cuts – a fraction of the $2 trillion promised by the tech billionaire and Donald Trump donor, reported CNN.

“Leadership doesn’t care because they have Democrats to vote on the bill to pass them. They’re not paying attention to conservatives,” said Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), one of the 21 House Republicans to vote against the latest government funding deal.

Fiscally conservative Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called himself “the only DOGE-voting congressman left" and said he wasn't surprised that DOGE efforts have fizzled.

“I never really believed they were sincere to start with,” he said.

Instead of pursuing aggressive rescissions packages as House Speaker Mike Johnson promised, the administration has shifted tactics by targeting specific Democratic-led states with fraud allegations rather than pursuing sweeping budget cuts, and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) questioned his own appointment to head the congressional subcommittee focused on DOGE.

“They put me on there to die,” Burchett told CNN. “They don’t like that I call them out.”

The Tennessee Republican threatened to introduce legislation and “publicly embarrass” lawmakers who stand in the way, but he conceded that fellow Republicans don't want to make the cuts he believes are necessary.

“You can’t win but I’m going to fight it because I think it is worth it, I honestly do," Burchett said. "I think we will lose our country if we’re not careful with all this nonsense, $40 trillion in debt. When does it stop? Democrats spend it on woke garbage and we spend it on a military that we don’t need."

Meanwhile, moderate Republicans quietly celebrate Musk's departure, citing demoralizing impacts on federal workers and damage to GOP-worker relationships.

"A year ago, you had young people coming into federal agencies telling people you're gone," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). "We're not seeing that level of chaos and controversy. Thank goodness."

GOP Senator Thom Tillis identified a fundamental flaw: DOGE lacked institutional scaffolding to survive beyond Musk's involvement. Without sustainable structures, the movement collapsed once political will faded.

The result is a significant defeat for fiscal conservatives who viewed Trump's return as their best opportunity for transformative federal downsizing. Instead, they face a party leadership prioritizing political survival over ideological commitments, leaving ambitious cost-cutting goals abandoned before 2026 midterms.

“In some respects, I’m sad that DOGE wasn’t more successful," said one GOP lawmaker, granted anonymity to speak freely. "I’m a little irritated at Elon. We are driving towards bankruptcy. Clearly a more efficient government is part of the solution. But Elon’s approach was just not serious enough to get us the progress we need. It’s really unfortunate. I think it sets us back on the search for efficiency seeking quite a way."

A Democratic lawmaker confirmed the Department of Justice is essentially peering over lawmakers' shoulders as they search through the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files.

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) appeared Thursday on "CNN This Morning," where she discussed the previous day's contentious hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi and the binder she brought with her that showed the search history for lawmakers who pored through the Justice Department's case files on the late sex offender.

"So I believe that they're surveilling all of us," Kamlager-Dove said. "They want to know what kinds of questions we have. The reality is the American people are concerned about this callous and reckless release of the Epstein files, which has also been incomplete."

"I'm going there today, I am sure they're going to be watching what I'm searching," the congresswoman added. "When you log in, you go in, you go to a computer, you have to log in. You have to put in your information as a congressperson, and there are DOJ staff there in the room. So we know we're being watched, but we are trying to find the files that the American people are saying, how come this was redacted? How come this wasn't? Why are you covering up names of pedophiles and predators and then releasing the names of young survivors?"

Host Audie Cornish asked what was the significance of the Trump administration's interest in their search history.

"Do you think this is indicative of the administration's paranoia surrounding the Epstein files?" Cornish asked. "I mean, they spent so much money, so many hours trying to get [President Donald] Trump scrubbed out of them, trying to get his friends scrubbed out of them. Now you're getting to see them unredacted. Do you think they're tracking you so they can try to stay ahead of like, oh, she saw about this person, she saw about that person, to kind of you know, deal with that."

Kamlager-Dove agreed, and she said the president's position on the investigative files about his former friend had changed dramatically since he won re-election.

"I mean, this man ran on a platform of, you know, releasing the entire Epstein files," she said. "He gets into office, he doesn't want to talk about it at all. You know, he's in the files, he's not in the files, he knew Epstein, he didn't know Epstein, right? All of the numbers are inconsistent with regards to how many times he's in the files or not."

"Isn't it interesting that they have allowed congresspeople to go to read and look at the files two days before the woman was supposed to show up at our committee, because she knew we were going to ask about the Epstein files? Kamlager-Dove added. "So I do think they're trying to play catch-up with the American people, but they're not sharing the truth with the American people."

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