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Despite calling it a Democrat ‘hoax,’ President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Transparency Act Wednesday night after it passed in Congress
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President Donald Trump announced he has signed the bill to force the Justice Department to release all of its files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days.
Trump made the declaration in a Truth Social post Wednesday night in which he continued to insist the whole affair was a Democrat “hoax.”
“Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories,” he complained.
After the House voted 427-1 to approve the Epstein Transparency Act Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer requested unanimous consent to immediately pass it upon arrival in the upper chamber, which was granted.
Trump’s base has come close to tearing itself apart over the scandal, with right-wing broadcasters Alex Jones and Joe Rogan warning of a “MAGA civil war.”
On Thursday morning, Trump lashed out at a group of Democratic lawmakers who, in a recent video, called for American service members to uphold their oaths to the Constitution.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump accused Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, as well as several House Democrats, of having engaged in “seditious behavior at the highest level.” He called them “traitors to our country” who should be “arrested and put on trial.”
Several former presidents and vice presidents shuffled into Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning for Dick Cheney’s funeral.
Video footage shows former Presidents Joe Biden and George W. Bush and former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris, Al Gore and Mike Pence seated inside alongside one another. Some lawmakers are also in attendance, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited, according to Axios.
Vice President JD Vance, speaking at a Breitbart News event, expressed strong criticism of the U.S. health care system — and said he open to working with Democrats to fix it.
“The American people get crap health care, and they pay way too much for it,” Vance said. “This system is broken.”
“The Democrats broke it, but who cares,” he added. “We’re willing to work together.”
This is the video from Democrat veterans which prompted Donald Trump to call for their arrests.
At a Breitbart News event on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance was asked about a report that he and President Donald Trump were not invited to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral.
“First of all, my condolences go to Dick Cheney and his family,” Vance said. “Obviously there are some political disagreements there.”
He didn’t say whether or not he had received an invite to Cheney’s funeral, which is being held today at the Washington National Cathedral.
The US economy added 119,000 jobs in September, but unemployment ticked up to 4.4 percent, according to a two-months late report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The report for September came late after the longest government shutdown in history began on Oct. 1., which came before the first Friday of the month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics historically releases the nonfarm payroll employment numbers. The government reopened last week.
Eric Garcia reports…
President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at a group of House Democrats who called for American service members to uphold their oaths to the Constitution.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump accused Senators Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Kelly of Arizona, plus Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, New Hampshire Representative Maggie Goodlander and Pennsylvania Representatives Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan had engaged in “seditious behavior at the highest level” and called the senators and representatives — all of whom are military veterans — “traitors to our country” who should be “arrested and put on trial.”
Andrew Feinburg reports….
The president’s history of insulting women is long and depressing, but it has been his handling of the Epstein files that has alienated some of his most devoted MAGA supporters.
How poignant then, that it is women who have forced his hand and could even oversee his downfall, writes Katie Rosseinsky.
Republican lawmakers have warned President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi that withholding any documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case “would add fuel to the fire.”
The warning comes as Trump caved to pressure and signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act Wednesday evening, while Bondi fumbled her way through questions on how the Justice Department would proceed now that it has 30 days to release the files.
“You can adjust for whatever investigations are going on but if you do a blanket hold, I think that they’re going to have a lot of people angry,” GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina told The Hill.
“I think they would do well to figure how to release as much as possible and then have a very well-articulated reason for that which they can’t,” he said of the Justice Department. “It would add fuel to the fire if they don’t produce something meaningful.”
Andrew Feinburg reports….
President Donald Trump was not invited to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral, a source with knowledge of the matter told Axios.
The service, set to take place at Washington National Cathedral today, will be attended by several former presidents.
Cheney, who died earlier this month, publicly criticized Trump in a 2022 campaign ad for his daughter Liz Cheney, then a Wyoming congresswoman.
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