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Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Transcript: Trump Fury at Epstein Mess Explodes as Allies Openly Panic

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Get to Know the Name Jay Clayton—Our Fate May Depend on His Honesty

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Michael Tomasky

SNAP Is Back, but Trust Is Broken

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Grace Segers

The Beast in Me Epitomizes “Trough TV”

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Phillip Maciak

The President Targets Seth Meyers in Latest Attack on Late Night

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Robert Mccoy

Trump Turned DHS Into a “Department of Deportation”: Report

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Alexia Underwood

Trump Melts Down Over Failed Redistricting Effort in Indiana

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Robert Mccoy

GOP Senator Speaks in Riddles Instead of Answering RFK Jr. Question

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Robert Mccoy

Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Clears Up the “Bubba” Mystery—Sort of

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Robert Mccoy

Protesters Slam Trump’s Newest Crackdown on Democrat-led City

Protesters Slam Trump’s Newest Crackdown on Democrat-led City

Residents of Charlotte, North Carolina, are rallying in opposition to the invasion of their city by federal immigration enforcement agents under...

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Robert Mccoy

MTG Says She Still Supports Trump—Despite Vicious Feud

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Alexia Underwood

In Shocking Move, Trump Re-Pardons Far-Right Militia Member

In Shocking Move, Trump Re-Pardons Far-Right Militia Member

After pardoning a far-right militia member for his role in the Capitol riot, President Donald Trump gave him another pardon for an unrelated...

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Robert Mccoy

There Are Two U.S. Senates—and Only One Knows How to Get What It Wants

There Are Two U.S. Senates—and Only One Knows How to Get What It Wants

The United States Senate: Can’t live with it, can’t burn it down (or so my lawyers caution me). Recently, I’ve had cause to ruminate on the upper...

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Jason Linkins

Epstein Survivors Weigh in On Brutal MTG-Trump Feud: Report

Epstein Survivors Weigh in On Brutal MTG-Trump Feud: Report

As President Donald Trump and Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s feud over Jeffrey Epstein boils over, survivors of the late sex...

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Robert Mccoy

The U.S. Might Be About to Enter a New Conflict—but Trump Won’t Say

The U.S. Might Be About to Enter a New Conflict—but Trump Won’t Say

After days of deliberations with high-ranking officials, President Donald Trump thinks he may have come to a decision about a major foreign policy...

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Alexia Underwood

Trump Shares Ludicrous Epstein Files Conspiracy Theory

Trump Shares Ludicrous Epstein Files Conspiracy Theory

President Donald Trump thinks it’s possible that, some time in the past year or so, his political enemies planted damaging information about him in...

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Robert Mccoy

Trump Quietly Backtracks on Disastrous Grocery Tariffs

Trump Quietly Backtracks on Disastrous Grocery Tariffs

President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’...

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Robert Mccoy

“Lunatic”: Trump Loses It and Unleashes Barrage of Insults at MTG

“Lunatic”: Trump Loses It and Unleashes Barrage of Insults at MTG

Donald Trump’s feud with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene continued Saturday, as the president unveiled two new disparaging nicknames for the...

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Robert Mccoy

Trump Stuns Reporters With Bizarre Comment About His MRI

Trump Stuns Reporters With Bizarre Comment About His MRI

President Donald Trump made a baffling comment after receiving an MRI, calling into question his grasp of basic medical treatment—or what he could...

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Alexia Underwood

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Fires Four People After Whistleblower Leak

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Fires Four People After Whistleblower Leak

Several prison employees at the facility holding Ghislaine Maxwell have been fired since internal whistleblowers revealed the extent of the child...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Shorter Megyn Kelly: F*cking 15-Year-Olds Isn’t So Bad. F*ck You.

Shorter Megyn Kelly: F*cking 15-Year-Olds Isn’t So Bad. F*ck You.

Even before the spit hit the fan this week regarding her unhinged screed about “barely legal” underage rape survivors, veteran news actress Megyn...

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Joe Lapointe

“Be Brave”: Epstein Victims Beg Congress to Release the Files

“Be Brave”: Epstein Victims Beg Congress to Release the Files

Jeffrey Epstein’s victims are pleading with Congress to release the Epstein files. In a haunting letter, the family members of deceased abuse...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s USDA Fires Worker for Talking About Importance of Food Stamps

Trump’s USDA Fires Worker for Talking About Importance of Food Stamps

Ellen Mei, a program specialist at USDA, was one of the thousands of federal employees who were furloughed during the record 43-day pause. But her...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

JD Vance Accidentally Undermines Trump’s Biggest Brag

JD Vance Accidentally Undermines Trump’s Biggest Brag

Even Donald Trump’s right-hand man thinks that the economy is messed up. In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity Thursday, Vice President JD...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Plans to Use Travel Ban for Chilling New Immigration Rule

Trump Plans to Use Travel Ban for Chilling New Immigration Rule

The Trump administration is planning to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards and other benefits if they are from any of the countries...

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Hafiz Rashid

The One Move That Tells Us How Crazy-Panicked Trump Is About Epstein

The One Move That Tells Us How Crazy-Panicked Trump Is About Epstein

The key thing about Donald Trump’s presidency, when you examine it alongside the history of every other Oval Office occupant, is that to understand...

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Michael Tomasky

ICE Almost Deports Native American Woman

ICE Almost Deports Native American Woman

The Trump administration tried to deport a Native American woman. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of the Arizona Salt River Pima-Maricopa...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fresh Epstein Bombshell Should Unnerve Trump

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fresh Epstein Bombshell Should Unnerve Trump

President Trump is angrily urging Republicans not to join Democrats in pushing for release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. But all of a sudden, with...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Epstein Bomb as Trump Spirals

Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Epstein Bomb as Trump Spirals

T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 14 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...

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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

Trump Gives Failed Nominee With Self-Admitted “Nazi Streak” a New Job

Trump Gives Failed Nominee With Self-Admitted “Nazi Streak” a New Job

If you thought sending horrific, racist texts was enough to get you shunned from political service, think again! President Donald Trump wants Paul...

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Edith Olmsted

Trump Is About to Chicken Out on His Signature Policy

Trump Is About to Chicken Out on His Signature Policy

It took eight months, but it seems that the Trump administration has finally figured out that you can’t really grow bananas in the United States....

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Edith Olmsted

Neil Gorsuch’s Lonely Quest to Fix Indian Law

Neil Gorsuch’s Lonely Quest to Fix Indian Law

The Supreme Court has done great damage to the nation’s constitutional order in recent years. So it is almost a relief to be able to write about...

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Matt Ford

Epstein Gave Bannon Advice on How to Help Trump—and Brett Kavanaugh

Epstein Gave Bannon Advice on How to Help Trump—and Brett Kavanaugh

Steve Bannon was receiving advice from Jeffrey Epstein as Bannon defended President Trump in media appearances in 2018, text messages released by...

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Hafiz Rashid

Trump Boat Bombings Darken as Secret Memo Reveals Holes in Legal Case

Trump Boat Bombings Darken as Secret Memo Reveals Holes in Legal Case

Ever since President Trump started bombing alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean Sea while refusing to provide even minimal factual...

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Greg Sargent

Justice Department Prepares to Pay Trump Ally Michael Flynn Millions

Justice Department Prepares to Pay Trump Ally Michael Flynn Millions

Michael Flynn is seeking restitution from the government to the tune of $50 million. Donald Trump’s onetime national security adviser is now...

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Hafiz Rashid

21 Democrats Call on Congress to Recognize Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

21 Democrats Call on Congress to Recognize Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

On Friday, Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress put forth a resolution to recognize “the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza,”...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Secret DOJ Memo Claims Chemical Weapon Threat From “Drug Boats”

Secret DOJ Memo Claims Chemical Weapon Threat From “Drug Boats”

Trump’s White House is naming fentanyl as a chemical weapon to justify the indiscriminate “drug boat” bombings it’s been carrying out in the...

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Malcolm Ferguson

The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great

The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great

In Democratic circles, a new doom narrative has emerged: Young Americans, especially white men, are being red-pilled into racial animosity,...

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Adam Bonica, Jake Grumbach

The Shutdown’s Over. Trump May Still Cut Food Stamps.

The Shutdown’s Over. Trump May Still Cut Food Stamps.

The government shutdown is over, for now. But the administration’s fight against food assistance might just be beginning. Ever since the Trump...

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Melody Schreiber

The Broadway Allure of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon

The Broadway Allure of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon

Sad songs, it has been said, say so much. (They are also, as fans of Mr. Show already know, nature’s onions , but I digress.) The lyrics of Lorenz...

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Adam Nayman

Yet Another Red State Kills Trump’s Redistricting Dreams

Yet Another Red State Kills Trump’s Redistricting Dreams

Republicans in a red state have failed to initiate their pro-Trump gerrymandering efforts for the second time this month. On Friday, Indiana’s...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Kash Patel Let His Stooges Skip Key Step in Getting Security Clearance

Kash Patel Let His Stooges Skip Key Step in Getting Security Clearance

Kash Patel allowed a radio host conspiracy theorist to fill the number two spot at the FBI without first passing a polygraph test. Deputy Director...

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Edith Olmsted

Epstein Said He Lost Bet With Trump and Sent Truck Full of Baby Food

Epstein Said He Lost Bet With Trump and Sent Truck Full of Baby Food

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were apparently so close that the billionaire child sex offender once paid the now-president a hefty bet.   Emails...

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Hafiz Rashid

CBP Head Finally Leaves Chicago—and Issues Dark Warning of What’s Next

CBP Head Finally Leaves Chicago—and Issues Dark Warning of What’s Next

Border Protection commander Gregory Bovino has finally left Chicago, after a federal judge said he’d lied about using excessive force to target...

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Edith Olmsted

Ex-UVA President Accuses MAGA Governor of Forcing Him Out for Trump

Ex-UVA President Accuses MAGA Governor of Forcing Him Out for Trump

The recently ousted leader of the University of Virginia released a tell-all memo Friday on the DEI feud with Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin...

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump Melts Down Over Epstein Chaos in Truth Social Rant

Trump Melts Down Over Epstein Chaos in Truth Social Rant

In a Friday post, the president has ordered the DOJ to jump into an investigation of Democrats in the Epstein emails, threatening us all with a...

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Edith Olmsted

Internet Erupts Over Mark Epstein Email on Trump, Putin, and “Bubba”

Internet Erupts Over Mark Epstein Email on Trump, Putin, and “Bubba”

Jeffrey Epstein’s email correspondence, released by the House Oversight Committee this week, implicates many powerful people, particularly...

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Hafiz Rashid

MTG Accuses Trump of Ignoring “Common Sense” on Epstein

MTG Accuses Trump of Ignoring “Common Sense” on Epstein

MAGA Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene called fully releasing the Epstein files “the easiest thing in the world,” while accusing President...

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Malcolm Ferguson

Trump Goes After His Next Political Enemy: Eric Swalwell

Trump Goes After His Next Political Enemy: Eric Swalwell

Donald Trump appears to be targeting his next political adversary: Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell. Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal...

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Hafiz Rashid