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President Donald Trump erupted at The Wall Street Journal's editorial board recently for having written about the president having "declared premature victory” with regards to the U.S. war against Iran. But an hour later, he appeared to undercut his own argument, prompting the Journal's editorial board to thank him for "vindicating” its...
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The Trump administration's account of an incident on Saturday involving two U.S. Navy destroyers near the Strait of Hormuz appeared to be undercut Sunday as Iranian state media released footage contradicting claims made by the Department of Defense.On Saturday, U.S. Central Command claimed that two U.S. Navy destroyers had successfully "transited...
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In Kodiak Island's remote villages off southwest deep red Alaska's coast, mail arrives by plane, taking at least two days to reach the archipelago's hub — if frequent storms haven't grounded air traffic. This common Alaskan challenge explains why the state permits ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted for up to 10 days afterward,...
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A new CBS News poll published Sunday found that Trump has suffered an unprecedented collapse in support among what has historically been his single-strongest voter base, leaving critics stunned.Conducted between April 8 and 10, the CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a "nationally representative sample” of 2,387 adults, and found that among...
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The past terrifying week has caused me to wonder: How did America ever get to a point where one man, backed by the military might of the United States, could credibly threaten death to an entire civilization?I'm also wondering how 19 super-rich American households could have added $1.8 trillion to their wealth in just the last 24 months — roughly...
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President Donald Trump reignited his feud with music legend Bruce Springsteen on Sunday with a sharp dig at the musician's physical appearance."Bruce Springsteen prior to plastic surgery???” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, alongside a photograph of an individual presumed to be Springsteen, and clearly produced by...
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President Donald Trump was pressed by Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday about the surging costs sparked by his administration's war against Iran — a line of questioning that the president responded to by pivoting to past market achievements."The blockade in the Strait [of Hormuz], the opening up of [oil] capacity in the United States, is this...
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Retired US Army General Wesley Clark warned Sunday that Iran has desired war with the U.S. for decades — and Trump's stumbling may have given it superiority in the conflict.As the war enters its seventh week, face-to-face negotiations in Pakistan failed to reach agreement Saturday night. With American forces remaining deployed and Iran on...
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There is an old American idiom for a group so collectively inept they couldn't organize a one-car parade, as another axiom goes. We call them the Three Stooges. They were a legendary comedy trio famous for their chaotic, physical slapstick and for being a cultural shorthand for lovable but total incompetence.After watching JD Vance (Mo), Steve...
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When pressed recently on reports that Iran may charge tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said he was considering partnering with Tehran on charging for access to the critical shipping waterway — a remark that CNN's Fareed Zakaria warned might be an indicator of the United States' eventual collapse in the...
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While Vice President JD Vance delivered "bad news" about failed Iran negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday — plunging the Iran war into uncertainty days after the threat of nuclear annihilation — the White House focused on President Donald Trump's upcoming 80th birthday celebration. An official White House account posted UFC fighter...
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As the Liberals gear up for three federal byelections on Monday that could deliver them a majority government, House leader Steven MacKinnon says the government will "continue that impulse of working across party lines" even if it's not required to co-operate to pass legislation.
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On a recent Wednesday at the Capitol, while seven reality television stars visited to lobby for increased HIV and AIDS research funding, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky publicly confronted Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma in a stately hearing room.In front of cameras and other lawmakers, Paul challenged Mullin to repeat an...
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Rep. Andy Harris presents a striking contradiction in American politics. On Capitol Hill, the Maryland Republican stands as one of President Donald Trump's most steadfast advocates for aggressive immigration enforcement. But on the shore of Maryland, Politico reported, he is celebrated as a champion for securing foreign labor that sustains the...
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Donald Trump's administration abruptly fired two judges after they refused to rubber-stamp his demands that two international students be deported for protesting Israel's treatment of Palestine.The firings represented the latest phase of the White House's effort to reshape the country's immigration courts. The administration has now dismissed...
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Vice President JD Vance left Pakistan empty-handed Sunday after 21 hours of "intensive talks” with Iranian officials in a failed attempt to negotiate an end to the U.S. war against Iran — and journalist and professor Adam Cochran suspects the doomed peace talks went exactly as planned.President Donald Trump assigned Vance to lead negotiations...
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President Donald Trump issued a major directive Sunday to the U.S. Navy to target vessels of any nation that comply with Iran's demand for tolls to transit the Strait of Hormuz."I have instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth...
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The New York Times' editorial board laid into Donald Trump Sunday, hammering his war in Iran as significantly weakening American power and influence.And it said the last few weeks have made the president's "glaring incompetence" crystal clear.The editors broke down Trump's recent failings into a handful of major hits to U.S. national interests."We...
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A former model who's flown on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet and has close ties to President Donald Trump's orbit warned late Saturday that "the truth will come out” after reportedly threatening to "tear down the entire system” by revealing insider knowledge.That woman is Amanda Ungaro, a former Brazilian model, former ambassador to the United...
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Melania and Donald Trump were mauled as Saturday Night Live unleashed a battering on last week's speech which reached levels so brutal even the show's live audience groaned.The comedy show's cold opening laid into Melania's surprise statement denying any connection to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that came from out of the blue...
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This election season's message is painfully simple — Democrats must show up as the adults and run as the parent and grandparent ready to deal with what remains of this adolescent mess. Perhaps it will feel familiar to many, a rush to arrive and survey the damage, knowing someone has to take over, organize, and clean. It will not be the...
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The internet was stunned on Saturday night after Vice President JD Vance announced that talks had failed between Iran and the United States — all while President Donald Trump and his family attended a UFC event in Miami. Trump walked into the arena to a largely cheering crowd, though many booed while Kid Rock blared, just as Vance had publicly...
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President Donald Trump was booed while entering a UFC event on Saturday night with his family walking behind him, just as news broke that negotiations between the United States and Iran had failed.While many in the crowd cheered the president, there were audible boos mixed in with the reception.Vice President JD Vance announced the negotiations had...
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The internet was mocking MAGA followers over how they could respond to a potential loss for Hungary's authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, a far-right symbol. Orbán has served four consecutive terms as prime minister in the Eastern European country since 2010 and MAGA was looking to the Sunday election as a signal of what could happen...
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Vice President JD Vance delivered an update about negotiations with Iran as reporters pressed him about why the talks were stalled — and what might come next.Vance spoke from Islamabad, Pakistan, early Sunday local time, thanking the leaders of the country for bringing the trilateral negotiations together between the U.S. and Iranian delegations....
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First lady Melania Trump made a serious miscalculation when she denied a relationship with late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, which has backfired, a columnist explained on Saturday. The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi described how Melania Trump's move has now led to "a nightmare of her own...
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Alan Rusbridger, columnist and former editor of The Guardian, explained how the moment of reckoning has arrived — it's time to be honest that President Donald Trump's mental state is declining. In a column published Saturday for The Independent, Rusbridger detailed the major changes in Trump's mental health, including his rambling and confusing...
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MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly slammed First lady Melania Trump's denial of a relationship with late convicted child sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Kelly was responding to the bombshell comments this week and posed several questions during her podcast on Friday "The Megyn Kelly Show," Radar reported. "Why did she do this?" Kelly asked....
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California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was facing calls to step out of the competitive race and lost the last of his 21 endorsements from his Democratic congressional colleagues after sexual misconduct and assault allegations surfaced, according to reports on Saturday. Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) rescinded her support for...
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Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane insisted it was time for President Donald Trump to end the stalemate over the closed Strait of Hormuz and drop a serious ultimatum, according to reports on Saturday. Keane told "Cats & Cosby" radio show hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby the United States should prevent Iran's oil-carrying ships from heading to...
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A Kennedy Center attorney had plans to book his own dad rock band to the Washington, D.C. performing arts center but those dreams got cut short, according to reports on Saturday. Elliot Berke, the general counsel for the Kennedy Center, attempted to book his cover band called the DePlorables at the location's jazz-themed Speakeasy, three sources...
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The construction of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom was temporarily allowed by a federal appeals court on Saturday, according to reports. The 2-1 decision was made by a three-judge panel for the U.S. circuit court in Washington, D.C., NBC News reported. It allows construction to move ahead as the Trump administration has challenged a...
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President Donald Trump was irritated on Saturday after a reporter asked him about the ongoing Iran negotiations over reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump spoke with reporters before leaving the White House to head to Joint Base Andrews, snapping at a female NBC News reporter who asked about the stalemate."Why do you say that? You don't know...
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OK, so that Melania Trump thing on Thursday was just downright bizarre.I mean, complaining about all of the "lies” being told about her in the press from her exposure in the Epstein Files? Thanks, Madame First Lady, but literally no one was talking about your friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell – at least not until you called...
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Talks between the U.S. and Iranian teams reached the 15-hour mark on Saturday and were likely to continue on Sunday, according to The New York Times. IRNA, Iran's state news agency, and two senior Iranian officials apparently confirmed the negotiations had hit a deadlock. "The Strait of Hormuz remains a sticking point in the talks, with the U.S....
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Author and Trump biographer Michael Wolff said that Melania Trump's statements this week revealed more questions about how she entered the United States and her early days in New York City. During a podcast conversation with co-host Joanna Coles, Wolff described how the first lady has threatened to file a $1 billion defamation lawsuit against him,...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney relied on a message of national unity to rally a crowd of thousands of supporters ahead of three closely watched byelections that could secure his Liberals a majority government, keeping them in power for the next three years.
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Authorities were sharing more information on Saturday after a man wielding a machete was shot and killed after stabbing three people at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, according to reports. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the suspect stabbed a 65-year-old man, a 70-year-old woman and an 84-year-old man at the major...
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While the Defense Department (DoD) claimed on Saturday that two U.S. Navy destroyers had successfully "transited the Strait of Hormuz” without incident, multiple reports suggested that the two ships were "forced to turn back” after receiving threats from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), leading some critics to accuse the Trump...
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) spoke out on Saturday against special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner taking part in Middle East diplomatic efforts amid the ongoing Iran war, The Hill reported. Witkoff and Kushner were among diplomats and leaders meeting for trilateral talks discussing how to end the ongoing...
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President Donald Trump's top economic adviser boasted on Fox Business Thursday that the government had slashed more than 300,000 "high-paying” jobs from the federal payroll during the president's first year back in office.Asked by anchor Maria Bartiromo about the administration's efforts to cut government spending, National Economic Council...
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Asia One News reporter Anas Mallick shared photos Saturday of the venue where U.S. and Iranian officials are negotiating a potential end to the war, and observers couldn't help but note its similarities to corporate marketing events."Why did they make the place where people are trying to stop World War III look like a crypto convention,” asked...
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office announced on Saturday that it's launched an investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) after multiple women have accused the gubernatorial candidate of sexual misconduct, and in one instance, sexual assault, CNN reported."We urge survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our...
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U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, Montana's junior senator, made an emergency landing in a field near Ennis on Friday as the Madison County Sheriff's Office reports that he and another passenger were unharmed.The privately-operated plane made the emergency landing in a field near the town of Ennis in Montana's southwest area of the state. The Sheriff's Office...
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Texas House Democrats who staged a walkout in August over a new congressional map gerrymandered in favor of Republicans will be charged over $8,000 apiece in penalties, a GOP-led panel decided Friday.Democrats avoided the Capitol for two weeks in August to protest the new congressional map that Texas Republicans redrew, at the request of President...
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Veteran columnist Maureen Dowd unloaded on First Lady Melania Trump Saturday over her "mysterious” statement this week regarding Jeffrey Epstein, during which, the first lady called on Epstein survivors to be allowed to testify before Congress."The first lady called on Congress 'to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a...
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President Donald Trump had his second outburst of the day Saturday over the media's coverage of his administration's ongoing war against Iran, an outburst that comes as a U.S. delegation meets with Iranian officials in Pakistan to negotiate a potential end to the conflict."The Fake News Media is CRAZY, or just plain CORRUPT!” Trump wrote on his...
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Major unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and citizen groups like Indivisible and Public Citizen are calling for a national May Day strike. It's a powerful idea, building off of a Minnesota day this past January where people didn't go to work or school, didn't shop, and didn't otherwise participate in...
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On the same day that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that inflation spiked at its fastest monthly rate in four years, the Trump administration unveiled renderings of President Donald Trump's proposed gold-covered 250-foot-tall arch to be built at Memorial Circle in Washington, DC.The renderings, which were produced by architecture firm...
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A U.S. Navy destroyer headed towards the Strait of Hormuz was issued an imminent threat by Iran on Saturday amid the fragile two-week ceasefire tentatively agreed to between Washington and Tehran, the Hindustan Times reported."Any US military vessel crossing the Hormuz Strait will be attacked within 30 minutes,” reads a warning directed at the...
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Palestinian-American academic Bishara Bahbah – the chair of a group once known as "Arab Americans for Trump” – hammered President Donald Trump on Saturday over the U.S. war against Iran, which he argued was launched at the behest of Israel."I believe that the president was played. Early on during the war, the president had admitted publicly...
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President Donald Trump praised "Allah” – the Arabic word for God – for the second time in recent weeks Saturday morning in a lengthy rant about the current state of the U.S. war against Iran, complaining about media coverage of the conflict and the United States' failure to achieve its stated war objectives."The Fake News Media has lost total...
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President Donald Trump lashed out at Virginia Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger early morning Saturday after having attended a fundraising event at the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, claiming to be "embarrassed” at the "destruction" of Virginia and other Democrat-led states."This went from a thriving and powerful place, one envied by all,...
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A long-serving U.S. attorney and chief federal prosecutor for the state of New Mexico was exposed Friday for their previously undisclosed ties with Jeffrey Epstein, ties that veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez suggested could explain why a prominent Epstein survivor's report about sexual abuse went unanswered.That former federal prosecutor...
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon baffled historians on Friday after highlighting civil rights icon Ida B. Wells in a social media post using an image created with generative artificial intelligence, an image experts decried as "historically inaccurate,” The Washington Post reported Saturday."The use of AI to pull together infographics about...
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In Pakistan beginnen offiziell die Gespräche zwischen den USA und dem Iran. Während Kanzler Friedrich Merz von einem „ersten Lichtblick" spricht, bleibt die Lage hochexplosiv. Hinter der fragilen Waffenruhe steht ein komplexes Machtgefüge: Kann die NATO die Straße von Hormuz sichern? Und welche Rolle spielt Israel, das seine Angriffe im...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Friday night forcefully denied allegations of sexual misconduct and assault, calling the claims that have rocked his gubernatorial campaign "absolutely false” in his first public response since the accusations surfaced."A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations, and I thought it was important...
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Science educator Bill Nye came out swinging at President Donald Trump on Friday, blasting his administration's proposed cuts to NASA as "surprising, illogical and very troubling” in a scathing new opinion piece.Writing for MSNOW in the wake of the historic return of the Artemis II crew – the first mission to the moon since 1972 – Nye argued...
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Vice President JD Vance is increasingly finding himself "walking on eggshells” around President Donald Trump as he takes on a central role in high-stakes negotiations to end the Iran conflict, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.The Journal reported Friday that Vance – long viewed as an anti-interventionist voice within the...
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An investigative journalist was in disbelief Friday as President Donald Trump's Medicare chief was caught using wildly inflated numbers to attack a Democratic state — then his own agency admitted the figures were bogus.A new analysis from investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler flagged that The Associated Press caught Mehmet Oz, head of the...
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Two recently released surveys revealed a significant drop in Americans' self-reported wellbeing as the Trump administration launches illegal and deadly military conflicts and plunges the global economy into chaos.On Friday, the University of Michigan issued its monthly Survey of Consumers, which showed that consumer sentiment in the US hit an...
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Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a former cardiologist to Vice President Dick Cheney, urged President Donald Trump to undergo a medical evaluation following disturbing social media posts. Reiner cited Trump's week of threatening to destroy Iran's entire civilization, followed by posting a graphic video of a woman being beaten to death by a Haitian immigrant....
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President Donald Trump inadvertently made a damning admission about himself in his latest tirade against the far-right commentators who have turned against the MAGA movement over the Iran war, Greg Sargent wrote for The New Republic on Friday.Specifically, Trump took aim at Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist webcaster who has become increasingly...
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A war launched by President Donald Trump to weaken Iran may instead reshape his own political legacy – and hand a high-stakes dilemma to Vice President JD Vance, according to a new analysis in The Atlantic. In an opinion piece published Friday, foreign policy expert Karim Sadjadpour said while Trump "went to war intending to break Iran's...
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Friends,Trump gas — like Trump shoes, Trump cologne, the Trump Bible, Trump shoes, Trump NFTs, Trump crypto, Trump resorts, and Trump University — is turning out to be a ripoff.The average cost of gas tracked by the AAA was $4.17 a gallon yesterday. The station at the end of my street is selling it for over $5 now. If you drive a Mini-Cooper,...
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Former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg suggested Melania Trump's surprise address denying Epstein connections was an attempt to preempt damaging revelations. Speaking on MS NOW, Aronberg identified journalist Michael Wolff as the key figure linking Melania to Epstein through photographs with Trump, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell....
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