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Newsweek: Donald Trump fumes at Rose Garden work, yells, “Who did this?”

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President Donald Trump has published footage he said showed a “stupid” subcontractor damaging limestone in the White House’s newly reworked Rose Garden.

Why It Matters

Trump has remolded chunks of the White House to his taste since returning to office at the start of the year, decking out the Oval Office and announcing the construction of a new ballroom to the tune of $200 million.

Work finished on paving over the previously grassy lawn of the Rose Garden in recent weeks, and Trump was spotted surveying the progress of renovation work on the space from the White House roof as he shouted down to talk with journalists earlier this month.

Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in March that the grass area “doesn’t work” for press conferences, but “gorgeous stone” would work better for one of the White House’s most iconic spots.

What To Know

Trump said on Saturday said he had noticed “a huge gash in the limestone” stretching more than 25 yards three days earlier while “admiring the stonework.”

“It was deep and nasty! I started yelling, ‘Who did this, and I want to find out now!’ —And I didn’t say this in a nice manner,” Trump said in a post to his Truth Social platform.

The president said security cameras had captured footage of a subcontractor using a broken steel cart that was “rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone.”

“We caught them, cold,” Trump said, adding he would replace the broken stone, charge the contractor for the damage and bar the construction worker from the White House.

The Rose Garden stretches back to Ellen Wilson, the wife of Woodrow Wilson, but was overhauled under President John F. Kennedy while he and his wife, Jackie Kennedy, resided in the White House. The roses that gave the space its name remain.

“I think that both Kennedys would be startled, and not in a good way, since they were apparently grass lovers and it is such a dramatic change,” Professor Katherine Jellison, a historian at Ohio University, told British newspaper The Telegraph.

Trump said he had opted for “the most beautiful marble and stone available anywhere” for the paving over of the Rose Garden.

The new design has for months drawn overt comparisons to Trump’s Florida gold club and resort, Mar-a-Lago. White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the yellow umbrellas on the Rose Garden patio were bought from the same vendor that provided those for Mar-a-Lago.

What People Are Saying

President Donald Trump said on Truth Social on Saturday: “The Rose Garden is completed, and far more beautiful than anyone ever had in mind when it was conceived of, decades ago.”

What Happens Next

It is not clear how quickly the crack in the stone will be repaired.

Things like that happen when a dumb-assed megalomaniac orders walkways & driveways constructed out of soft porous rock such as limestone. Suck it up & own it, Bubba!

Donald Trump fumes at Rose Garden work, yells, “Who did this?”
The president was not happy after spotting a “huge gash” stretching 25 yards in the new limestone covering the previously grassy lawn.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rose-garden-renovation-patio-limestone-cracked-2122289

Mediaite: The 5 Wildest Moments From Laura Loomer’s Rollercoaster Bill Maher Defamation Case Deposition

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Laura Loomer recently sat for a deposition pertaining to her defamation lawsuit against HBO’s Bill Maher, who suggested Loomer might be having an affair with President Donald Trump in September of last year after Loomer accompanied Trump to his one and only presidential debate with Kamala Harris.

It went how you might expect.

LOOMER WAS OFFERED A JOB BY DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF IN 2023

According to Loomer, a self-styled white nationalist who has celebrated the drowning deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Trump himself tried to hire her to work on his campaign back in 2023.

“I was actually told that I was going to be working for President Trump when he hired me in his office in March of 2023 during a private meeting with him and Susie Wiles at Mar-a-Lago. And this was during the primary. And President Trump had actually instructed Susie to onboard me to do research, and — research — yeah — research for — and perhaps assist with communications
as well, in the primary,” explained Loomer, who said a New York Times story about her ended up sinking her chances of landing a job with the campaign. “And the president was very impressed by just how well-versed I was. And he was very impressed by my reporting and my understanding of political affairs. And so he said that he wanted to hire me on the spot, even though it was not a job interview.”

…AND THEN AGAIN IN 2024

After being asked if she had ever been offered a job by Trump or members of his staff again, Loomer answered in the affirmative, recalling that Trump had told her “You’re coming to D.C. with me” and that she “had conversations with Susie Wiles that I would have a position at the White House after the election if — if President Trump won.”

“I was promised a position multiple times, not just by President Trump, but also, by Susie Wiles,” she asserted.

LOOMER FORESAW A LUCRATIVE MEDIA CAREER AFTER SERVING TRUMP

After serving Trump in the White House, Loomer believed she would be well set-up to enjoy a cushy, lucrative media career — perhaps on TV.

Check out this exchange between Loomer and HBO lawyer Katherine Bolger:

BOLGER: So other than your claim that the reporting about your response to Mr. Maher stopped you from traveling on the airplane and you say getting a job in administration, is there any other financial damage that was caused by Bill Maher reporting?

LOOMER: As I said before, I would have been paid much more than I was making previously. And who knows what I could have parlayed having that on my resume into in the future. There are people that go on who work for administrations who get to go work at boards. There’s people that get to have foundations. They get to go work in future administrations. They get to, you know, get paid for speaking engagements once they leave their official role with the federal government. You don’t know. You know, there’s people that write books. They — there’s people that get to go become Fox News contributors. They become contributors on mainstream media. Look at — look at somebody like Jen Psaki or Karine Jean-Pierre, for example. You know, they both have shows. Karine Jean-Pierre just announced a book deal today. So when you work for an administration, once the person is out of office, or once you’re done with your job, you know, that could parlay into a lot of speculative opportunities

BOLGER: Speculative opportunities —

LOOMER: It’s not speculative. It’s — it — it really is — it’s compounding, is what it is. It’s compounding damages. It’s punitive damages.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE AND ARBY’S

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Loomer recently reignited their feud, which began last September when Loomer suggested that the White House would “smell like curry” if Harris defeated Trump in a post on X.

“This is appalling and extremely racist. It does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA. This does not represent President Trump. This type of behavior should not be tolerated ever,” declared Greene in a quote tweet of Loomer.

Loomer responded by mocking Greene for her infidelity and referencing “the Arby’s in your pants.” That led to the following discussion between her and Bolger in their deposition:

BOLGER: Can you explain to me what it means to say to her that “the Arby’s in her pants”?

LARRY KLAYMAN, LAURA LOOMER’S ATTORNEY: Objection. Relevancy.

BOLGER: Answer the question.

LOOMER: Arby’s sells roast beef.

BOLGER: Right. Can you tell me what — why you were talking about “the Arby’s in her pants”?

LOOMER: Well, it’s just a — an expression.

BOLGER: What is the expression trying to convey?

LOOMER: It conveys the reason why she got a divorce by her own admission.

BOLGER: Because she had roast beef in her pants?

LOOMER: Yeah.

BOLGER: She’d put roast beef in her pants; that’s what you’re trying to say there? You’re literally saying she put Arby’s in her pants?

LOOMER: I’m saying she literally — it’s so ridiculous. I’m saying she literally put Arby’s in her pants. Yes.

KLAYMAN: Objection. Relevancy.

It went on like that for some time.

‘YOU’RE A COWARD’

At one point, Bolger attempted to get Loomer to admit that she was talking about Harris’s vagina when she tweeted that Harris had an “infested snatch,” but Loomer refused, causing Bolger to blow up on her:

BOLGER: You wrote a sentence saying she had an “infested snatch”; what is your basis?

LOOMER: I don’t know what I was referring to, honestly. I could be referring to Kamala Harris, herself.

BOLGER: What? Of course, you’re referring to Kamala Harris.

LOOMER: Yeah. I’m talking about Kamala Harris herself.

BOLGER: You’re talking about her body; you’re talking about her vagina?

LOOMER: No. I’m just talking about Kamala Harris.

BOLGER: Well, a snatch is a vagina; isn’t it?

LOOMER: It’s up for interpretation.

…

BOLGER: You wrote — stop talking. You wrote a tweet that says that Kamala Harris had an “infested snatch.” Now, be the First Amendment warrior you claim to be and admit that you were saying that the vice president of the United States had an infested vagina. Admit it. Because that’s what you were doing, and everybody knows it.

KLAYMAN: Let’s say it.

LOOMER: This is coercion. You just told me to stop talking. I’m not going to talk. I’m not going to be coerced. You’re — you’re asking me to say something —

BOLGER: God. You’re a coward.

LOOMER: that isn’t true. I’m not a coward.

BOLGER: You’re a coward; you won’t even admit to what you did.

LOOMER: I’m not a coward. I’m just not going to be —

BOLGER: Ms. First Amendment warrior won’t admit it.

— —

The 5 Wildest Moments From Laura Loomer’s Rollercoaster Bill Maher Defamation Case Deposition
Laura Loomer recently sat for a deposition pertaining to her defamation lawsuit against HBO’s Bill Maher — it went how you might expect.
The 5 Wildest Moments From Laura Loomer’s Rollercoaster Bill Maher Defamation Case Deposition

The Atlantic: The President’s Police State

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Trump is delivering the authoritarian government his party once warned about.

For years, prominent voices on the right argued that Democrats were enacting a police state. They labeled everything—a report on homegrown extremism, IRS investigations into nonprofits—a sign of impending authoritarianism. Measures taken by state governments to combat the spread of COVID? Tyranny. An FBI search of Mar-a-Lago? The weaponization of law enforcement.

Now that a president is actually sending federal troops and officers out into the streets of the nation’s cities, however, the right is in lockstep behind him. This morning, Donald Trump announced that he was declaring a crime emergency, temporarily seizing control of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department and deploying the D.C. National Guard to the nation’s capital.

“This is liberation day in D.C.,” Trump said. Nothing says liberation like deploying hundreds of uniformed soldiers against the wishes of the local elected government. District residents have made clear that they would prefer greater autonomy, including congressional representation, and they have three times voted overwhelmingly against Trump. His response is not just to flex power but to treat the District of Columbia as the president’s personal fiefdom.

Trump’s move is based on out-of-date statistics. It places two officials without municipal policing experience in positions of power over federalization and the MPD, and seems unlikely to significantly affect crime rates. What the White House hopes it might achieve, Politicoreports, is “a quick, visually friendly PR win.” Trump needs that after more than a month of trying and failing to change the subject from his onetime friend Jeffrey Epstein.

But what this PR stunt could also do is create precedent for Trump to send armed forces out into American streets whenever he declares a spurious state of emergency. Some of Trump’s supporters don’t seem to mind that fact: “Trump has the opportunity to do a Bukele-style crackdown on DC crime,” Christopher Rufo, the influential conservative personality, posted on X, referring to Nayib Bukele, the Trump ally who is president of El Salvador. “Question is whether he has the will, and whether the public the stomach. Big test: Can he reduce crime faster than the Left advances a counternarrative about ‘authoritarianism’? If yes, he wins. Speed matters.”

Rufo seems to view everything in terms of a political battle to be won via narratives; the term authoritarianism appears to mean nothing to him, and maybe it never meant anything to others on the right who assailed Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Democratic governors. It does have a real meaning, though, and Bukele is its poster boy. Despite the constitution having banned it, he ran for a second term in office; his party then changed the constitution to allow “indefinite” reelection. Lawmakers in his party also brazenly removed supreme-court justices, and his government has forced journalists into exile and locked up tens of thousands of people without due process. This is apparently the America that Chris Rufo wants.

To justify the crackdown, Trump has cited an alleged carjacking attempt that police records say injured the former DOGE employee Edward “Big Balls” Coristine. But MPD has already arrested two Maryland 15-year-olds for unarmed carjacking. That’s good news. Carjacking is a serious crime and should be punished. But Trump has used the incident to claim that violent crime is skyrocketing in Washington. This is, put simply, nonsense. During a press conference today, Trump cited murder statistics from 2023, and said that carjackings had “more than tripled” over the past five years. He didn’t use more recent numbers because they show that these crimes are down significantly in Washington. Murder dropped 32 percent from 2023 to 2024, robberies 39 percent, and armed carjackings 53 percent. This is in line with a broad national reduction in crime. MPD’s preliminary data indicate that violent crime is down another 26 percent so far this year compared with the same timeframe in 2024, though as the crime-statistics analyst Jeff Asher writes, this drop is probably overstated.

Trump’s descriptions of Washington as a lawless hellscape bear little resemblance to what most residents experience. Not only is D.C. not “one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World,” as Trump claims, but his prescription seems unlikely to help. He said he is appointing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, to help lead the federalization effort and MPD, but neither has any experience with municipal policing. They have not said what they will do differently. If the administration deploys its forces to high-profile areas such as the National Mall, they won’t have much impact on violent crime, because that’s not where it happens; if they go to less central areas with higher crime rates, they won’t get the PR boost they seek, because tourists and news cameras aren’t there.

Throughout his two presidencies, Trump has treated the military as a prop for making statements about which issues he cares about—and which he doesn’t. He deployed the D.C. National Guard during protests after the murder of George Floyd in summer 2020. Earlier this summer, he federalized the California National Guard and sent Marines to Los Angeles to assist with immigration enforcement, but they were sent home when it became clear that they had nothing to do there. Yet according to testimony before the January 6 panel, Trump did not deploy the D.C. National Guard when an armed mob was sacking the U.S. Capitol in 2021 to try to help Trump hold on to power.

Good policing is important because citizens deserve the right to live in safety. Recent drops in crime in Washington are good news because the district’s residents should be able to feel safe. But Trump’s militarization of the city, his seizure of local police, and his lies about crime in Washington do the opposite: They are a way to make people feel unsafe, and either quiet residents’ dissent or make them support new presidential power grabs. Many of Trump’s defenders are angry when he’s called an authoritarian, but not when he acts as one.

The President’s Police State
Trump is delivering the authoritarian government his party once warned about.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/08/trump-national-guard-dc/683839

Raw Story: Trump may have accidentally ‘admitted knowledge of a grotesque crime’: legal expert

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A legal expert was taken aback Thursday night after watching President Donald Trump admit he knew of a “grotesque crime” when he talked about his falling out with Jeffrey Epstein.

Ryan Goodman, founding co-editor-in-chief of the legal and policy website Just Security, joined Erin Burnett on CNN’s “OutFront” to weigh in on Trump’s shocking remarks regarding his relationship with Epstein, who died in prison while awaiting trial on sex trafficking allegations.

Burnett noted the White House has offered multiple explanations about the falling out, including over a real estate deal. Trump, however, has instead said their friendship blew up because Epstein hired his spa workers — a claim that, she said, “doesn’t add up, because the hiring-away was two years before Trump was continuing to say wonderful things about Epstein—and seven years before he kicked him out of the club.

“Now they’re saying, and Trump has used this word before, that Epstein was a ‘creep,’ and that the White House says, quote, ‘Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club for being a creep to his female employees.’ I mean, does any of this add up legally?

Goodman was floored by the remarks.

“So I think they’ve gotten themselves in more trouble by these references, that the reason for it was that he was a creep or that he was a creep to the —

“It’s hard to say he’s a creep if you said you didn’t know what he was doing,” Burnett interjected.

“Exactly,” replied Goodman. “So if he kicked him out because of sexual predation toward the employees, then it means he had knowledge.”

Goodman said Trump’s timeline “doesn’t make sense.” A Trump Organization attorney has said Epstein was booted from Mar-a-Lago in 2007 due to an arrest a year earlier in Florida. Now, the White House is claiming he took that action over what he knew.

“A year after the arrest for pedophilia. Seven years after Virginia Giuffre is hired—is stolen—seven years after that?” asked Burnett.

“Seven years after that. So it’s not a good look for them, at the least. And that’s about, in some sense, moral culpability, not legal culpability. There would have to be more for that. But it does seem as though he’s admitting to knowledge of a grotesque crime against minors. That’s the problem.”

When Burnett asked whether any recourse is possible for Trump over what he knew at the time, Goodman poured cold water on the idea.

“If it’s just knowledge, there’s only one situation in which there would actually be legal obligations. And that’s if somebody is a mandatory reporter. But to be a mandatory reporter, they’d have to be like a schoolteacher or a medical doctor,” he said.

“Not a rich friend?” Burnett clarified.

“No, not just a friend or anything like that. And that would also be under state law. And there would probably also be a statute of limitations problem for that particular offense. But otherwise, that would chalk up to moral culpability.”

Trump may have accidentally ‘admitted knowledge of a grotesque crime’: legal expert

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2673797390

Raw Story: ‘Bad situation’: Expert warns Trump in legal jeopardy with ‘significant’ Epstein admission

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A legal expert warned President Donald Trump on Tuesday that he may have put himself in legal jeopardy by admitting he knew one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.

Trump told reporters earlier on Tuesday that Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre from him when she was employed at Mar-a-Lago. That claim could backfire on Trump because it shows that he knew one of the central victims in the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, according to Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University.

Goodman pointed to Maxwell’s 2022 sentencing, where the judge enhanced her sentence to 20 years because of Giuffre’s testimony.

“It’s that much of a significant statement,” Goodman told Erin Burnett on CNN’s “OutFront.” “If he had said he was aware of it from the court documents, then he’s ok in that regard. But I think that’s a very potentially bad situation for him to be in.”

Trump has fiercely tried to distance himself from the Epstein files saga, which has consumed his presidency for the last three weeks. However, his attempts appear to be falling short.

For example, multiple outlets have published previously unreported ties between the two men. The Wall Street Journal published a letter that Trump allegedly sent to Epstein for his 50th birthday. The New York Times has published details from one of Epstein’s accusers, and CNN has published previously unseen photos of the two men together at different events in the 1990s.

Trump’s comments come at a time when Maxwell has agreed to testify before Congress. Trump’s Justice Department has met with Maxwell and her lawyer multiple times, and some experts have suggested that Trump may pardon Maxwell in exchange for damaging testimony against Trump’s political rivals.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673782213

Mediaite: Trump Snaps ‘Be Quiet!’ At CNN’s Kaitlan Collins When Confronted About New Epstein Bombshell

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President Donald Trump snapped at CNN Senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins when she confronted him about the new Jeffrey Epstein bombshell he dropped on Air Force One minutes earlier.

While Trump was dogged by questions about his currently dead sex criminal onetime pal Epstein throughout his trip to Scotland, the ride home turned out to be the most revealing.

On Tuesday, Trump emerged into the press cabin to take questions for about half an hour, during which he slowly tricked his way through revelations about his split with Epstein that crescendoed with the bombshell that deceased Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was among the Mar-a-Lago staffers Epstein “stole” from the spa at Mar-a-Lago:

REPORTER: Mr. President, did — did one of those stolen, you know, persons, did that include Virginia Giuffre?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t know. I think she worked at the spa. I think so. I think that was one of the people, yes. He — he stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know. None whatsoever.

After the plane landed and Trump returned to the White House, Collins led a brief scrum on the colonnade that included a confrontation over the Giuffre revelation.

When Collins asked if the “stealing” of young women from the spas raised “alarm bells” for him at the time, Trump snapped “Be quiet!”

Undeterred, Collins continued to press Trump as he walked away:

CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAITLAN COLLINS: Mr. President, you said earlier that Jeffrey Epstein was stealing young women. You said Jeffrey Epstine was stealing women from your spa. Did that raise alarm bells for you?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Be quiet!

CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAITLAN COLLINS: Did that raise alarm bells for you?

…

CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAITLAN COLLINS: Ghislaine Maxwell says she’ll only testify if you pardon her or she gets immunity–.

Trump Snaps ‘Be Quiet!’ At CNN’s Kaitlan Collins When Confronted About New Epstein Bombshell
President Donald Trump snapped at CNN Senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins when she confronted him about the new Jeffrey Epstein bombshell.
Trump Snaps ‘Be Quiet!’ At CNN’s Kaitlan Collins When Confronted About New Epstein Bombshell

Daily Beast: Epstein Victim Twice Urged FBI to Investigate Trump

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The disgraced financier’s former employee recalled an alleged incident in which Trump stared at her bare legs.

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s first accuser says she warned the Federal Bureau of Investigation on two occasions to look into Donald Trump’s conduct as an associate of the disgraced sex offender.

In an interview with The New York Times, Maria Farmer, who in 1996 was the first to report Epstein’s sexual offenses, recalled a 1995 encounter with Trump after she was summoned to see Epstein at his luxurious Manhattan offices.

Farmer, who was preparing to do some work for Epstein, said she was wearing running shorts when she turned up at the building to find Trump in a suit. Farmer told the Times that she started feeling scared as Trump allegedly stared at her bare legs, but Epstein came into the room and broke the tension. Farmer said Epstein reportedly said to Trump, “No, no. She’s not here for you.”

The incident left Farmer shaken, with her alleging that she could hear Trump tell Epstein in the other room that he thought she was a teenager, the Times reported.

The next year, Farmer told the FBI that she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and his alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence, and warned that the two had “committed multiple serious sex crimes” against her and other girls, including her then-15-year-old sister, Annie.

Although Farmer, now in her mid-fifties, said she has not seen Trump engage in any inappropriate behavior and has had no other uncomfortable encounters with the MAGA figurehead, the incident was enough for her to tell the FBI to look into the people in Epstein’s orbit, including Trump.

According to Farmer, she was alarmed by what she saw working at Epstein’s mansion, including his pursuit of young girls and using them to gain favor with prominent people, including the likes of Alan Dershowitz and former President Bill Clinton.

Farmer also spoke to the Sixth Precinct of the New York Police Department in 1996, police records show, the Times reported.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung denied Farmer’s claims in a statement, saying, “The president was never in his office.” He added, “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep.”

Farmer filed a lawsuit against the federal government on May 29 on the grounds that it failed to protect her and other victims of Epstein and Maxwell. Farmer said she warned of Epstein’s associates again in a 2006 FBI interview, but nothing came of it, the Times reported.

Epstein was indicted in 2006, later pleading guilty to two felony charges, including soliciting a minor. Then in 2019, he was charged again and accused of trafficking dozens of girls as young as 14 years old. He was found dead in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, in what was said to have been a suicide.

As Trump looks to bury his alleged connections to Epstein in the press—filing a $10 billion lawsuit over a Wall Street Journal report on a lewd drawing he allegedly sent Epstein for his 50th birthday—Farmer’s testimony has picked up new steam as MAGA demands that the Trump administration unseal all Epstein files.

Previously, Trump referred to Epstein as a “terrific guy” in a 2002 New York magazine article, with one of Epstein’s exes also describing Trump as Epstein’s “bro.”

Yet in a lengthy Truth Social post on July 16, Trump ripped some of his followers for believing what he called the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years,” he wrote. “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support any more!”

Epstein Victim Twice Named Trump to Law Enforcement
The disgraced financier’s former employee recalled an alleged incident in which Trump stared at her bare legs.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-victim-twice-named-trump-to-law-enforcement

Daily Beast: Stephanopoulos Slams Trump and Family’s ‘Brazen Corruption’

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The star anchor hammered the president for exploiting the highest office in the land for “billions of dollars.”

George Stephanopoulos came out swinging against President Donald Trump and his family during the opening remarks of his This Week broadcast on Sunday.

Stephanopoulos alleged that the Trump clan has exploited the highest office in the land to generate “billions of dollars” in deals.

“The scale is staggering,” the ABC host said. “President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors.”

Stephanopoulos Slams Trump and Family’s ‘Brazen Corruption’
The star anchor hammered the president for exploiting the highest office in the land for “billions of dollars.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/abcs-george-stephanopoulos-slams-donald-trump-and-familys-brazen-corruption

Talking Points Memo: Trump Stonewalls Federal Judges In New Round Of Brazen Defiance

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A Constitutional Clash In Three Acts

In three closely watched anti-immigration cases, the Trump administration continued its slo-mo constitutional defiance of the judicial branch …

Act I: Non-Responsiveness

Act II: Delay Shenanigans

Act III: Misdirection And Mischaracterization

Read the article for the details:

Trump Stonewalls Federal Judges In New Round Of Brazen Defiance
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This…

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-stonewalls-federal-judges-in-new-round-of-brazen-defiance

Alternet: ‘Heavily vetted’: No ‘Bush-era Republicans’ welcome in Trump Jr.’s new MAGA safe space

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President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., is opening a new exclusive club in Washington D.C. And he’s making it clear that only a certain kind of Republican is welcome.

The Daily Beast reported Monday that the new club, which will be called “Executive Branch,” is tailor-made for the MAGA crowd — and its founders are making it clear that traditional conservatives and journalists will be barred from entering. David Sacks, who the Beast described as Trump’s “crypto czar,” told the New York Times he wants to make sure that the type of conservatives who frequent other GOP-oriented D.C. clubs will be turned away at the door.

“To the extent there are Republican clubs, they tend to be like more Bush-era Republicans as opposed to Trump-era Republicans,” Sacks said. “So we wanted to create something new, hipper, and Trump-aligned.”

‘Heavily vetted’: No ‘Bush-era Republicans’ welcome in Trump Jr.’s new MAGA safe space

https://www.alternet.org/trump-maga-safe-space