The FBI Is Investigating Joe Kent, Former Trump Official Who Resigned Over Iran

The FBI has opened an investigation into Joe Kent, the former Trump administration National Counterterrorism Center director who resigned from his position earlier this week in protest of the decision to go to war with Iran. According to reporting from Semafor, which cited four sources with knowledge of the inquiry, Kent is being investigated over allegations that he improperly leaked…
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Trump Admin Pursues an Unprecedented Legal Strategy to Target Border Crossers

Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported, according to his attorneys. But federal prosecutors would not let him go last spring without making him answer for another crime — one he had never heard of. Weeks earlier, President Donald Trump, to address what he called a national emergency, ordered a stretch of…
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Newspaper Confirms Some Details in Trump Accuser’s Epstein-Related Story to FBI

A news publication has verified some of the details included in a woman’s testimony to the FBI in 2019, in which she accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. The publication in question — Charleston, South Carolina-based The Post and Courier — was not able to verify the woman’s allegations against Trump. However, it was able to confirm details about her…
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DOJ Releases Epstein Files Memos Referencing Trump Sexual Assault Allegations

On Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released three previously withheld documents from the Epstein files that include accusations against President Donald Trump, who had a close friendship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The documents detail an FBI interview in 2019 with a woman who alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, when she was between the ages of…
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Department of Justice Drops Defense of Trump’s Orders Punishing Law Firms

Congressman Jamie Raskin said the US Department of Justice’s decision Monday to abandon its legal cases against law firms that refused to capitulate to President Donald Trump should serve as “a reminder that those who fight back against authoritarianism are winning.” The DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to dismiss its cases against law firms including Perkins…
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New Report Indicates Trump-Linked Epstein Records Kept Out of DOJ Database

Files relating to allegations of sexual abuse committed by President Donald Trump are being withheld or removed from the public database of files compiled by the Department of Justice (DOJ) relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Some of these files are related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. They include over 50 pages of an FBI interview with a woman who accused Trump of sexually…
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