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Democrats are showing they’re ready to get dirty and hit President Trump where it hurts by stoking the Jeffrey Epstein controversy that’s severed his MAGA movement. The strategy strays from the official line coming from top Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.
Democrats in Congress want to force votes to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files. The party’s candidates are bringing up the Epstein case in campaign speeches. And at least one potential 2028 contender is fundraising off the furor.
The House left for its summer recess before lawmakers could hold a vote on releasing more files concerning Jeffrey Epstein and his clientele.
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Trump tried to float the revised – and ridiculous – conspiracy theory that the Epstein files were really crafted and created by Democrats.
The Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee tonight approved a motion by Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., to subpoena the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. The subcommittee also approved motion by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., to direct the chairman to subpoena the people listed previously.
The MAGA movement, united for years around the theory of elite impunity, is suddenly uncertain, fractured, and, in some quarters, mutinous.
The request from the justice department to interview Ghislaine Maxwell is just the latest attempt from the Trump administration to satisfy the loud clamour for more information about the Jeffrey Epstein case that is coming from the president’s own supporters.
Nearly six years after he died, Jeffrey Epstein is still at the center of controversy. Part of President Trump's political base is angry over the handling of the files from the investigation into Epstein's sex crimes and his death in a jail cell.
The latest development has, so far, created a rally-around-the-flag effect for the president, and allies hope that the loudest critics learned a “lesson.”
President Trump deflected questions about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein by lashing out at his perceived enemies.
Good Trouble' protesters in Dover and Portsmouth take on Trump over control of Dept. of Justice, Medicaid cuts, ICE actions, Epstein case and more.