February 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM EST
Massie says Republicans who downplay Epstein files should be 'purged from our party'

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appeared to take several jabs at Republican Party leaders in a recent interview about the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents. In a Friday interview with Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie, Massie argued that most of his party was falling short in calling for transparency of Epstein's crimes and accountability for his victims. The Kentucky Republican didn't name names, but suggested elected officials vying to lead the party in the future would be viewed as cowards for their failure to lead on the Epstein issue.

February 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM EST
'Only downhill from here': Pollster reveals Trump's popularity now slipping even with MAGA

Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi argues numbers don'tt lie, and right now they're saying the president is sinking in popularity even with his own previously diehard supporters. MS NOW anchor Chris Hayes reported another brutal week of polling for President Donald Trump, with Trump rolling in at near-record lows in at least three different credible polls averaging between 39 percent and 36 percent. One particular YouGov poll even discovered more voters saying Joe Biden did a better job by a margin of six points.

February 13, 2026 at 8:46 PM EST
Kristi Noem's job 'no longer secure': White House official

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem may soon be headed for the exits, according to an unnamed official in President Donald Trump's White House. The Atlantic reported Friday that Noem may have already been on thin ice in the wake of multiple high-profile incidents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in which federal agents killed U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in broad daylight. Trump pulled out Gregory Bovino -- Noem's chosen face of Operation Metro Surge -- and replaced him with immigration advisor Tom Homan. Now, the Atlantic is reporting Trump is considering abandoning Noem altogether.

February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM EST
Trump's former White House lawyer lays out the case for his third impeachment

Ty Cobb, an attorney who served the White House under President Donald Trump's first administration, says Democrats have their articles of impeachment writing themselves after the 2026 elections. "With the president, you've got really extraordinary information out there: the $500 million bribe from the UAE in exchange for our ai chips, the $480 million plane from Qatar in exchange for an air force base and him parking his Venezuela oil revenue account in Qatar," Cobb told MS NOW anchor Ari Melber.

February 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM EST
Trump privately said GOP senator who criticized his Obama video was 'dead to him': report

President Donald Trump was outraged at multiple Senate Republicans' public criticism of a video posted to his Truth Social account last week, according to a new report. CNN reported Friday that Trump privately erupted when hearing that Sens. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) went to social media to criticize the video, which at one point depicted former First Couple Barack and Michelle Obama as primates. Unnamed sources confided to the network that Trump felt Scott calling the video racist was "out of line," per CNN.

February 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM EST
'You can't do that!' Trump reveals 'obvious' sign Noem and Lewandowski may be dating

President Donald Trump is reportedly not above gossiping about members of his own Cabinet. That's according to a Friday report in the New York Post, which cited several unnamed sources close to the president who say Trump believes Department og Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her top advisor, Corey Lewandowski (who is also Trump's one-time campaign manager) are secretly dating. Whether the two are actually in a relationship has not been confirmed, and the two are currently married to other people.

February 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM EST
'Keeps getting crazier': Joe Rogan says Epstein files look 'terrible' for Trump

Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan warned that the handling of the Epstein files "looks terrible" for President Donald Trump and his administration. "During Tuesday and Thursday's episodes, Rogan criticized redactions the Department of Justice made from the files," The Hill reported.

February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM EST
Trump accused of 'deliberately' defying federal judge's order over $16 billion dispute

Earlier in February, a federal judge ended President Donald Trump's attempted extortion of New York and New Jersey residents by demanding the Trump administration "unfreeze funding" for the sprawling $16 billion Gateway project. The White House had floated unlocking the Gateway money in exchange for Democrats' agreeing to rename Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump. But U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas halted that effort after New York and New Jersey attorneys general filed suit, arguing that the White House's order to withhold the funds was illegal and caused economic harm.

February 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM EST
Trump turns red state Republicans against their own governor

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt -- a Republican who also serves as chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) -- is losing the support of his fellow Oklahoma Republicans as they side with President Donald Trump in the president's public feud with him. At issue: Stitt is fighting Trump over the president's refusal to allow specific Democratic governors (Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado) to attend the NGA's annual White House meeting.

February 13, 2026 at 3:59 PM EST
'Serious federal offense': Ghislaine Maxwell may have opened herself to new charges

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex trafficker best known for being the right-hand woman of fellow convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein, may have committed immigration fraud, according to a report by the news editor at Migrant Insider. "Newly-examined court documents published by the Department of Justice show that Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors, appears to have provided false answers on her U.S. citizenship application in 2002, potentially exposing her to immigration fraud charges," wrote journalist Pablo Manriquez.

February 13, 2026 at 12:13 PM EST
Others pay the price for Epstein friendships -- while Trump gets away: columnist

Longtime journalist Ron Fournier highlighted the recent resignation of top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler, who was uncovered in the investigation files for trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Fournier highlighted the "friendly emails" using words like "sweetie" and calling the sex offender "Uncle Jeffrey."

February 13, 2026 at 12:04 PM EST
Trump's attorney general failed to protect him: Michael Cohen

President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said that the unwritten rule at the Trump Organization was that anyone working for the principal was there to protect him. Attorney General Pam Bondi may have yelled about his accomplishments, but Cohen said that she failed to protect him. Writing for his Substack on Friday, Cohen said that watching the hearing this week, he thought, "someone forgot the memo."