Maurene Comey, the federal prosecutor who handled the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was fired today from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York by the Justice Department, according to ABC News. The reason for Comey’s firing was not immediately clear. Comey’s …
Read More »How Texas Bullied Big Banks Into Dropping Their Climate Commitments
Speaking to a private gathering of conservative operatives and fossil fuel advocates in January, a top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gave “the inside story” about how his office bullied Wells Fargo, one of America’s biggest banks, into dropping out of a global initiative to reduce carbon emissions. …
Read More »Jeffrey Epstein Hired Private Investigators to Intimidate FBI Agents: Officials
Multiple federal law enforcement officials who spoke to Rolling Stone on the condition of anonymity say that Jeffrey Epstein hired private investigators to follow, intimidate, and surveil FBI special agents investigating allegations that he paid underage women for sex. The FBI declined Rolling Stone’s request for comment. These new allegations …
Read More »Gavin Newsom Calls Trump a 'Son of a B-tch'
About a month after National Guard troops and federal officerson horseback descended on MacArthur Park, where children at a summer day camp were reportedly present, CaliforniaGov.Gavin Newsom slammed Donald Trump for deploying the U.S. military to Los Angeles. “They’re sitting there on horses with American flags, running through soccer fields, …
Read More »Inside the Grassroots Fight Against Trump's Deportation Machine
O n the morning of June 7, a California State Assemblyman named José Luis Solache Jr. posted a video to his Instagram account of a phalanx of Customs and Border Patrol vehicles congregated across the street from a Home Depot in Paramount, California, a small city in Los Angeles County …
Read More »House Republicans Block Release of Epstein Files
In a late night vote at the Capitol on Monday, House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to unseal documents related to the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans have long stoked conspiracies about the disgraced financier’s death, voted against the resolution in the heat of a MAGA civil …
Read More »What Trump Has Said About Jeffrey Epstein Over the Years
Donald Trump hasn’t exactly done a great job handling the backlash to the Justice Department’s memo announcing that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and there is no high-profile “client list.” The president lashed out at a reporter who asked about the memo, before posting a bizarre rant on Truth Social in …
Read More »'I Made Every Single' Decision: Biden Fires Back at Trump Over Clemency Autopen Use
Former President Joe Biden fired back at President Donald Trump and others in the GOP who have claimed his staff’s use of an autopen was done without his knowledge while granting pardons and clemency toward the end of his term. “They’re liars. They know it,” he said in an interview …
Read More »Pam Bondi Fires Top DOJ Ethics Adviser
Attorney General Pam Bondi — who has been purging the Justice Department of anyone tied to the Jan. 6 prosecutions as well as the prosecutions of President Donald Trump — fired the lawyer personally advising her and the department’s thousands of employees on ethics, Bloomberg reported Sunday. Joseph Tirrell, who …
Read More »Trump Horns in on Chelsea's FIFA Club World Cup Celebration
Chelsea won the FIFA Club World Cup final against Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday, 3-0, which has nothing to do with President Donald Trump, but that didn’t stop the spotlight-loving former reality TV star from trying to steal some of their shine by staying onstage for the winning celebration. “Wait, wait, …
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