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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, July 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM EDT Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted child sex trafficker, reportedly gave the Justice Department information on around 100 people during two days of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in a Tallahassee courthouse. David Markus, Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney, said after Friday's interview that he has not discussed a pardon with President Donald Trump or anyone in the administration, but noted Trump had earlier in the day reminded reporters he could grant one""even while maintaining he hasn't considered it. Markus told reporters he hoped Trump "exercises that power in the right and just way." July 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM EDT President Donald Trump continues to be dogged by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal even while visiting another continent. After landing on the tarmac in Scotland on Friday, Trump took questions from reporters -- many of whom wanted to know more about the ongoing controversy that has divided his base and put a halt to Congress' work schedule. While answering a question about whether he advised House Republican leadership to oppose resolutions to make the Epstein files public, Trump quickly shot down the reporter's question, and went on to blast the media for its refusal to stop covering "conspiracy theories." July 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM EDT Just hours after President Donald Trump appeared to leave the door open to granting clemency to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, her attorney said they are hopeful the President will issue a pardon. Trump claimed he hadn't even considered a pardon for Maxwell, the longtime associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender""but quickly added that he has every right to grant one. July 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM EDT More than a dozen Senate Republicans have co-signed a letter urging President Donald Trump's administration to release health research grant money their states are counting on to find cures for deadly diseases. According to a Friday report in Politico, the group of 14 senators has asked White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Russell Vought to end its freeze of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding. The letter -- which was chiefly written by Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) -- gently reminded Vought that the funding in question had already been approved by Congress, meaning that the administration's refusal to release the funding is illegal. July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM EDT Emil Bove -- who President Donald Trump has nominated to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals -- is now being accused by a second Department of Justice (DOJ) whistleblower of instructing employees to ignore the judiciary. HuffPost's Jennifer Bendery reported Friday that an unnamed whistleblower has since confirmed a previous whistleblower account that Bove, in his capacity as principal associate deputy attorney general (the 3rd most powerful official in the agency), instructed employees to defy a federal judge's orders. Earlier this month, Erez Reuveni publicly came forward as the DOJ employee behind the first whistleblower account alleging that Bove told staffers to say "f--- you" to the courts in response to an order prohibiting the deportation of immigrants to a notorious maximum security mega-prison in El Salvador. July 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM EDT Just before departing for a five-day trip to his golf properties in Scotland while the Epstein files scandal swirls around him, President Donald Trump left the door open to possibly issuing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein scandal has plagued the Trump administration for weeks, fueled by the President's refusal to release the government's files in the case""despite a campaign pledge to do so. Many believe the documents could contain the names of Epstein's clients. According to The New York Times, Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in May that his name appears in the files, though the context remains unclear and numerous individuals are mentioned, including in unverified or hearsay references. July 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM EDT Author Katherine Stewart says Vice President JD Vance is "polishing ideas from the far-right gutters with an Ivy League sheen," particularly when it comes to smearing a pretty face over the racist Great Replacement Theory. Stewart says President Donald Trump is expelling asylum seekers, abusing foreign visitors and deporting and incarcerating people who have never been accused of any crime. Meanwhile, Vance is in the wings, pushing a "thoughtful" version of the "Great Replacement Theory" that's sure to appease nativists who embrace the idea that immigration is part of a deliberate plot to destroy the U.S. by replacing "real" or "true" Americans with aliens. July 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM EDT On Friday morning, July 25, U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House before leaving for a trip to Scotland. Trump covered a lot of ground during the press conference, discussing everything from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation to U.S. economic policy. Here are five of the wildest moments from the presser. July 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM EDT As President Donald Trump departs for a five-day overseas trip to his golf courses in Scotland with "chaos swirling in Washington," his average approval ratings are underwater""even on inflation, the one issue CNN analyst Harry Enten says propelled him to victory. According to a CBS News/YouGov poll published Sunday, nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of inflation. That poll "also found that half of U.S. adults think the Trump administration's policies have made them 'financially worse off,' and 62 percent think the White House's policies have driven food and grocery costs up," The Hill reported. July 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM EDT 'Morning Joe' host Joe Scarborough spoke through laughter as he described President Donald Trump's Thursday attempt to "renew pressure on [Fed] chairman Jerome Powell" to retire. Trump arrived to tour renovations at the Federal Reserve's headquarters but ultimately got fact-checked by Powell in front of reporters. "So, we're taking a look and it looks like it's about $3.1 billion," Trump said of renovations costs. "It went up a little bit, or a lot, so the $2.7 [billion] is now 3.1 [billion]." July 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM EDT Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) -- who has consistently remained one of President Donald Trump's biggest supporters in Congress -- isn't a fan of his latest policy. In a lengthy Thursday night post to her congressional account on X, Greene came out swinging against Trump's latest executive order (EO) on artificial intelligence (AI). The Georgia Republican said she had "many concerns" about both the danger AI poses to the environment as well as Trump's position against states regulating it. July 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM EDT The New York Times on Thursday confirmed the Wall Street Journal's previous reporting that President Donald Trump contributed to a 50th birthday album for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 (several years before Epstein's first conviction). The paper also published a message Trump wrote to his longtime friend in a book. According to the Times ' David Enrich, Steve Eder, Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, a list of contributors to the birthday album include former Victoria's Secret owner Leslie H. Wexner, former Bear Stearns chairman and CEO Alan Greenberg and physicist Murray Gell-Mann in addition to Trump (Greenberg and Gell-Mann died in 2014 and 2019, respectively). Epstein's longtime partner and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell wrote a handwritten introductory letter to Epstein to accompany the album. |
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