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Woman Arrested After Traveling To D.C. While Threatening To Assassinate Trump

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An Indiana woman has been arrested after threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump.

On Monday,ย U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Nathalie Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested in the District of Columbia on Saturday in connection with making a series of threats on social media in which she threatened to kill President Trump.

โ€œHi everyone, itโ€™s Judge Jeanine. I just wanted to let you know here from the United States Attorneyโ€™s Office in D.C. that an individual by the name ofย Nathalie Rose Jonesย is now in custody, charged with two federal crimes for knowingly and willfully threatening to take the life of the President of the United States,โ€ย Pirroย said in a clip she released on social media.

โ€œShe did come from New York to Washington, D.C. and she has been threatening and calling for the removal of the president and even worse as she got to D.C. Her threats were on Facebook and Instagram and she continued to call the president a terrorist and was working to have him eliminated. She is now in custody. She will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Make no mistake about that,โ€ Pirro said with a hint of a smile.

On Facebook between August 6 and August 15,  โ€œNath.Jonesโ€ allegedly continued to post threatening comments about President Trump. In an August 6 post directed at the FBI, Nath.Jones wrote that โ€œI am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present.โ€

            On August 14, in a post directed to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Nath Jones allegedly wrote โ€œplease arrange the arrest and removal ceremony of POTUS Trump as a terrorist on the American People from 10-2pm at the White House on Saturday, August 16th, 2025.โ€

            On August 15, the U.S. Secret Service conducted a voluntary interview with Jones, during which she stated the President was a โ€œterroristโ€ and a โ€œnazi,โ€ that if she had the opportunity, she would take the Presidentโ€™s life and would kill him at โ€œthe compoundโ€ if she had to, that she had a โ€œbladed object,โ€ which she said was the weapon she would use to โ€œcarry out her mission of killingโ€ the president, and that she wanted to โ€œavenge all the lives lost during the Covid-19 pandemic,โ€ which she atrributed to President Trumpโ€™s administration and its position on vaccinations.

            On August 16, Jones joined a protest demonstration that started at Dupont Circle, and circumnavigated the White House complex. Following the march, the U.S. Secret Service interviewed Jones for a second time, during which she admitted that she had made threats towards President Trump during her interview the previous day. She denied having any present desire to harm the President of the United States. Law enforcement arrested her and she confirmed that she was the owner of the Facebook user account โ€œNath Jonesโ€ and that she had posted the threatening statements.

Pirro, who was best known in recent years for her hot takes on The Five, is now the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Her office also put out a statement on the arrest, which read, โ€œNathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested in the District of Columbia on Saturday, August 16, and charged in connection with making a series of threats on social media in which she threatened to kill President Trump, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.โ€

โ€œJones was charged in a complaint in U.S. District Court with threatening to take the life of, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, and transmitting in interstate commerce communications containing threats to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another,โ€ added the statement.

House Democrats Release Emails Linking Epstein and Trump in Ongoing Oversight Probe

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released a new batch of emails connected to Jeffrey Epstein that reference President Donald Trump.

The correspondence, which includes messages between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and author Michael Wolff, was reportedly obtained from Epsteinโ€™s estate as part of an ongoing congressional review of more than 23,000 documents.

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In a 2011 email to Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Mr. Trump โ€œspent hours at my houseโ€ with one of Epsteinโ€™s alleged victims, whose name was redacted. โ€œI want you to realize that that dog that hasnโ€™t barked is Trump. [Victim 1] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned,โ€ Epstein wrote. Maxwell responded, โ€œI have been thinking about thatโ€ฆโ€

Another message, dated January 31, 2019, appears to show Epstein corresponding with Wolff about Mr. Trump and Mar-a-Lago. โ€œTrump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop,โ€ Epstein wrote.

A third exchange between Epstein and Wolff, dated December 15, 2015, discusses how then-candidate Trump might respond to media questions about his connection to Epstein. Wolff wrote, โ€œI hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with youโ€”either on air or in scrum afterwards.โ€ Epstein replied, โ€œif we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?โ€ Wolff responded, โ€œI think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasnโ€™t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency… Of course, it is possible that, when asked, heโ€™ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.โ€

Mr. Trump announced his first presidential campaign in June 2015. Wolff later wrote Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, published in 2018.

Epstein and Mr. Trump were social acquaintances in New York and Florida from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. The President has said he cut ties with Epstein in 2004, long before Epsteinโ€™s 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges. Mr. Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing.

Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan federal jail in 2019 while awaiting trial. Maxwell was later convicted of conspiring in Epsteinโ€™s sex trafficking operation and is serving a 20-year sentence.

Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said in a statement that the Justice Department should release its full Epstein files โ€œimmediately.โ€

He added, โ€œThe more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President.โ€

The email release coincides with a broader congressional push for transparency in the Epstein case. Lawmakers are reviewing materials from Epsteinโ€™s estate and have sought information from former officials, including past attorneys general and FBI directors. The committee has also questioned Alex Acosta, the former U.S. attorney who oversaw Epsteinโ€™s controversial plea deal in Florida and later served as Labor Secretary under Mr. Trump. Acosta resigned in 2019 amid scrutiny over his handling of the Epstein case.

The House returned to session Wednesday for the first time since mid-September, with Democrats expected to advance a discharge petition to compel the Justice Department to make public its Epstein investigation files. A vote on the measure is not expected until next month.

Newsweek Editor Receives Backlash For Calling For Tucker Carlson Should Be โ€˜Neutralizedโ€™

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Newsweek senior editor-at-large Josh Hammer came under fire Wednesday after publishing a column that some critics mischaracterized as calling for harm against Tucker Carlson โ€” an accusation Hammer says is rooted in bad faith and deliberate misinterpretation.

In his Daily Mail piece, Hammer criticized Carlson for his recent interview with controversial commentator Nick Fuentes, arguing that Carlsonโ€™s platforming of Fuentesโ€™ โ€œrepugnant beliefsโ€ undermines what Hammer described as โ€œthe forces of civilizational sanity on the MAGA Right.โ€

The line that drew the most attention, however, came at the end of the article:

โ€œThe fox is now comfortably ensconced in the hen house. And unless the fox is neutralized, the victim could be the entire extant GOP coalition itself.โ€

Critics โ€” many of them fellow conservatives โ€” quickly pounced on the word โ€œneutralizedโ€, accusing Hammer of reckless rhetoric, particularly in light of recent violence targeting right-leaning public figures.

Conservative Figures Sound the Alarm Over Dangerous Climate

Among those voicing concern was The Blaze host Jason Whitlock, who called the phrasing โ€œirresponsible,โ€ noting that the statement came just weeks after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. โ€œJosh Hammer calls for Tucker Carlson to be neutralized,โ€ Whitlock wrote on X. โ€œThis is a Keith Olbermann-style Twitter post, not something that should be published by a news outlet. We just witnessed the assassination of Charlie Kirk. This is irresponsible by the Daily Mail.โ€

The article was also condemned by Kirkโ€™s former friendย Candace Owens, whoย wrote, โ€œI cannot believe the @DailyMail allowed this to be published.โ€

Whitlockโ€™s remarks reflect a growing anxiety across conservative media as political violence against the right has intensified. In addition to the shocking murder of Kirk, former President Donald Trump has survived multiple assassination attempts โ€” including a rally shooting this summer that left several attendees wounded. Other conservative officials and commentators have faced threats, doxxing campaigns, and physical harassment in recent months.

Republicans argue that these attacks are part of a broader cultural and political escalation โ€” one amplified by a media ecosystem that downplays or outright ignores violence directed at conservatives, while eagerly condemning right-wing rhetoric as โ€œdangerous.โ€

Hammer Pushes Back: โ€œQuit Lyingโ€

In response to the online backlash, Hammer took to social media to clarify his meaning and denounce what he described as willful misrepresentation.

โ€œOne has to be truly stupid or willfully disingenuous (or both, as the case may be) to think that โ€˜neutralizedโ€™ here means anything other than its most common usages,โ€ he wrote. โ€œQuit lying.โ€

He later posted a screenshot of a dictionary definition of โ€œneutralize,โ€ which reads: โ€œTo make (something) ineffective; counteract; nullify.โ€ Hammer emphasized that his critique of Carlson was political โ€” not personal โ€” and that he was calling for Carlsonโ€™s influence to be curtailed, not for violence of any kind.

Trump Administration Moves To Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia – To Uganda

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New court filings reveal that the Trump administration is threatening to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda โ€” a move his attorneys describe as coercive. Abrego, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year, declined a plea deal tied to human smuggling charges. In response, prosecutors withdrew an offer that would have allowed him to enter Costa Rica โ€” a safe, Spanish-speaking country where he’d face no detention after serving time โ€” and instead pursued deportation to Uganda.

His attorneys argue immigration authorities are essentially offering a forced choice: accept guilt and a path to Costa Rica, or refuse and risk being sent to Uganda, where his safety โ€” and legal protections โ€” are uncertain at best.

As The Hill reports:

Federal prosecutors on Thursday offered Abrego Garcia the option to โ€œlive freelyโ€ with refugee or residency status in Costa Rica after serving prison time forย federal human smuggling chargesย in exchange for a guilty plea, per his lawyers in the Saturday filings.

Abrego Garcia, who wasย mistakenly deportedย to a notorious prison in his native El Salvador, declined the offer on Fridayย to instead returnย to his family in Maryland. He had been imprisoned in a Tennessee jail.

After his return to Maryland, Abrego Garciaโ€™s attorneys were notified later in the day that he must report to an Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore on Monday โ€” and that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intends to deport him to Uganda.

โ€œThe only thing that happened between Thursdayโ€”Costa Ricaโ€”and Fridayโ€”Ugandaโ€” was Mr. Abregoโ€™s exercise of his legal entitlement to release under the Bail Reform Act and the Fifth Amendmentโ€ฆ,โ€ Abrego Garciaโ€™s defense team wrote.

Saturday’s revelations mark a significant escalation, as Uganda recently entered into a U.S. agreement to accept third-country deporteesโ€” but explicitly excluding individuals with criminal records or unaccompanied minors. Abregoโ€™s legal team contends that his criminal charges make such deportation both inappropriate and potentially dangerous.

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Trump Rival Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) announced Sunday that he is suspending his campaign for governor of California, just over 48 hours after multiple reports surfaced alleging sexual assault and misconduct involving a former aide and other women.

โ€œI am suspending my campaign for Governor,โ€ Swalwell wrote in a post on the social platform X. โ€œTo my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment Iโ€™ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made โ€” but thatโ€™s my fight, not a campaignโ€™s.โ€

The San Francisco Chronicle first reported Friday that Swalwell allegedly sexually assaulted a former aide in 2019 and 2024, incidents in which the woman was said to be too intoxicated to give consent. CNN later reported that four women had accused Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including one who alleged rape.

Swalwell forcefully denied the claims.

โ€œThey are absolutely false. They did not happen,โ€ Swalwell said in a video posted on X on Friday. โ€œThey have never happened, and I will fight them with everything that I have. They also come on the eve of an election where I have been the frontrunner candidate for governor in California.โ€

His attorney has also sent cease-and-desist letters to several of the accusers, according to CNN.

Despite those denials, political support for Swalwell unraveled rapidly. Within hours of the initial reports, his campaign co-chairs โ€” Reps. Adam Gray (D-Calif.) and Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) โ€” publicly urged him to exit the race. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a longtime power broker in California politics, also called for him to drop out and said the allegations should be โ€œappropriately investigated with full transparency and accountability.โ€

An unsigned letter from members of Swalwellโ€™s congressional office and campaign described the allegations as โ€œabhorrent, beneath the dignity of those serving in public office and betrays the trust of all Californians,โ€ according to Politico.

Calls for his resignation from Congress have also grown, spanning both parties.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she plans to file a motion to expel Swalwell from the House. Expulsion would require a two-thirds vote, meaning significant Democratic support would be necessary. Some Democrats have already indicated they would back such a move if Swalwell does not step down.

Separate investigations may further complicate his situation. The Department of Homeland Security said Sunday it is probing allegations that Swalwell illegally employed a nanny, while Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Braggโ€™s office confirmed it is reviewing the sexual assault claims.

Before the allegations emerged, Swalwell had been widely viewed as a leading contender in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He had secured endorsements from major groups, including the California Teachers Association and the California Medical Association โ€” both of which have since rescinded their support.

โ€œCTAโ€™s democratically elected board has voted unanimously to rescind our endorsement of Representative Eric Swalwell in his campaign for Governor of California. We withdraw all support,โ€ the California Teachers Association wrote on X.

The race is now far more uncertain. Democratic strategists say candidates such as billionaire Tom Steyer and former Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) could gain traction as voters reassess their options ahead of the June 2 primary.

Swalwellโ€™s political downfall marks a dramatic turn for a congressman who rose to national prominence as one of former President Donald Trumpโ€™s most outspoken critics. A frequent presence on cable news, Swalwell served as an impeachment manager during Trumpโ€™s first Senate trial and was a vocal advocate for investigations into Trumpโ€™s conduct and associates.

The two have traded barbs for years, with Trump repeatedly targeting Swalwell in speeches and on social media, often mocking him personally and politically. Swalwell, in turn, built a national profile by positioning himself as a leading Democratic counterweight to Trump, including during his brief and unsuccessful 2020 presidential campaign.

Musk Trolls Trump Over Epstein Case As Feud Escalates

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Dรฉtente is over…

Elon Musk reignited his very public, and very messy, feud with President Donald Trump, announcing plans to launch a third major political party just hours after Trump signed the $3.3 trillion One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law.

But Musk didnโ€™t stop there.

By early Monday, the billionaire tech mogul was back to openly mocking the president following new reporting on the Department of Justiceโ€™s investigation into Jeffrey Epsteinโ€™s death.

On X, the platform he owns, Musk posted a meme titled โ€œThe Official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter.โ€ The image read โ€œ0,โ€ with Musk captioning it:

โ€œWhatโ€™s the time? Oh look, itโ€™s no-one-has-been-arrested-oโ€™clock again โ€ฆโ€

The DOJ and FBI concluded their joint probe into the disgraced financier’s 2019 death, reaffirming the official narrative that the child sex offender died by suicide and that thereโ€™s no evidence of a blackmail scheme or a so-called โ€œclient list.โ€ The two-page memo, first reported by Axios late Sunday, noted that no further arrests are expected.

According to the memo, surveillance footage revealed no unauthorized access to Epsteinโ€™s cell, aligning with the medical examinerโ€™s determination of suicide. The administration is also releasing footage showing no movement in Epsteinโ€™s section of the jail the night of his death.

But millions remain skeptical.

Dr. Michael Baden โ€” a former New York City chief medical examiner hired by Epsteinโ€™s brother โ€” disputes the ruling. Baden said several fractures in Epsteinโ€™s neck, including to the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage, were โ€œextremely unusualโ€ in suicide cases and more consistent with homicide. He also said he had never seen injuries like Epsteinโ€™s in his 50 years of investigating prison deaths.

Despite that, the DOJ insists the matter is closed.

Musk himself added to the speculation last month, claiming in a now-deleted tweet that Trump was implicated in the Epstein files.

โ€œ[Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,โ€ Musk wrote.

He followed with: โ€œMark this post for the future. The truth will come out.โ€

Trump has vigorously denied any involvement with Epstein’s nefarious activities, insisting, โ€œI was never on Epsteinโ€™s Plane, or at his โ€˜stupidโ€™ Island.โ€

Responding to Muskโ€™s Epstein files claim, the president reposted a statement from Epsteinโ€™s former lawyer David Schoen, who insisted Epstein had โ€œno information to hurt President Trump.โ€

While Trumpโ€™s name does appear in Epsteinโ€™s flight logs, no documented evidence of impropriety has emerged. Trump has acknowledged a past friendship with Epstein, which he says ended in the mid-2000s.

Unlike last monthโ€™s spat, Trump hit back immediately at his former ally.

In a post Sunday, the president called Muskโ€™s behavior โ€œoff the rails,โ€ accusing him of becoming a โ€œTRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks.โ€ He slammed third parties as agents of โ€œComplete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOSโ€ and said the U.S. system isnโ€™t built to accommodate them.

โ€œWe have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds!โ€ Trump wrote.

Trump turned up the heat over the weekend, threatening to revoke Musk’s government contracts โ€” a bold strike at the heart of his rivalโ€™s wallet.

So far, Ghislaine Maxwell remains the only person convicted in connection with Epsteinโ€™s sex trafficking operation. She is currently serving a 20-year sentence.

Cuban Regime Finally Loses a Longtime Fugitive: Joanne โ€œAssataโ€ Shakur Dies in Havana

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Havana, Cuba โ€” On September 25, 2025, Cubaโ€™s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Joanne Deborah Byron โ€” better known by her aliases Joanne Chesimard and Assata Shakur โ€” died in Havana at the age of 78 due to health complications and the rigors of old age.

This news brings to a close a decades-long saga in which a convicted murderer escaped justice, was shielded by a hostile foreign regime, and became a symbol for radical causes.


A Fugitiveโ€™s Origin: From Violent Crime to Escape to Cuba

In 1977, Chesimard was convicted on multiple serious charges including first-degree murder, armed robbery, and other felonies after a 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that left State Trooper Werner Foerster dead.

She escaped prison in 1979, spent years underground, and resurfaced in 1984 under asylum in Cuba โ€” a regime that refused U.S. extradition requests.

For decades, the United States and New Jersey authorities pushed Cuba to hand her over. She carried the dubious distinction of being the first woman ever placed on the FBIโ€™s Most Wanted Terrorists list, with a $1 million reward for her capture.


A Death Without Accountability

Her passing in Havana presents a bitter irony: after decades of immunity facilitated by a foreign government, she dies free โ€” far from the prison cell where she was supposed to serve life in the U.S.

New Jersey officials immediately expressed outrage. They reiterated that justice was never fully served for Trooper Foersterโ€™s family.

Cubaโ€™s complicity in harboring Chesimard has long been roundly condemned by American leaders. Senator Marco Rubio recently denounced Havana for providing โ€œa safe haven for terrorists and criminals, including fugitives from the United States.โ€

What She Represented โ€” and What the U.S. Must Learn

For defenders of law and order, her story is a cautionary tale of diplomatic failure and ideological double standards.

  • Rule of Law Must Be Absolute: A convicted cop killer escaping and living with impunity is a stain on the integrity of the justice system.
  • Foreign Regimes Should Not Shield Criminals: Cubaโ€™s refusal to extradite Chesimard fashioned her into a political symbol, rather than merely a criminal. That sets a dangerous precedent.
  • Consistency in Foreign Policy Matters: If the U.S. does not forcefully demand accountability from regimes that shelter fugitives, it weakens its moral and strategic footing.

Now that she has died abroad, the question of bringing her remains home may arise. But more importantly, the memory of Trooper Foerster โ€” his sacrifice and service โ€” must remain central. And the mission remains: to hold foreign governments accountable when they interfere with American justice.

Ex-Federal Prosecutor Indicted For Stealing Copies Of Unreleased Jack Smith Report

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A former federal prosecutor has been indicted after allegedly taking copies of a still-unreleased volume of former special counsel Jack Smithโ€™s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump โ€” and allegedly disguising the files with names like โ€œChocolate_Cake_Recipe.pdf.โ€

The case is raising fresh questions surrounding the highly controversial legal effort against Trump and how officials involved in the process handled sensitive government materials.

Federal prosecutors charged former Justice Department official Carmen Lineberger, 62, with four counts tied to allegedly stealing and concealing government records. During a court appearance Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, Lineberger pleaded not guilty and was released on her own recognizance.

According to the indictment, Lineberger โ€” formerly the managing assistant U.S. attorney in Fort Pierce, Florida โ€” received a restricted copy of a volume of Smithโ€™s report last year and allegedly forwarded it, along with internal Justice Department communications, to personal Hotmail and Gmail accounts.

Prosecutors claim she attempted to conceal the transfer by changing file names to appear harmless, including โ€œChocolate_Cake_Recipe.pdfโ€ and โ€œBundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf.โ€

The indictment, however, does not allege why Lineberger moved the files to personal accounts, nor does it accuse her of leaking the materials publicly. Court records also do not specify what other internal DOJ records may have been transferred alongside the Smith report.

If convicted on all charges โ€” including obstruction of justice, concealing government records, and two misdemeanor theft counts โ€” Lineberger faces a maximum sentence of up to 25 years in prison, though actual sentences in federal cases are often significantly shorter under sentencing guidelines.

The report at the center of the controversy remains largely hidden from public view.

The volume reportedly focuses on Smithโ€™s investigation into classified documents found at Trumpโ€™s Mar-a-Lago residence after he left office. That investigation became one of Smithโ€™s two major prosecutions against Trump during the 2024 election cycle.

Smith, appointed as special counsel in late 2022, led the federal governmentโ€™s aggressive legal campaign against Trump. Beyond the Mar-a-Lago documents case, he also spearheaded the federal election interference prosecution tied to Trumpโ€™s challenges to the 2020 election results.

Trump repeatedly blasted Smith as politically motivated and accused the Biden-era Justice Department of weaponizing federal law enforcement against him. His supporters argued that prosecutors were applying legal standards differently to Trump than to political allies and opponents.

The classified documents case eventually suffered major setbacks after Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Smithโ€™s appointment as special counsel violated constitutional requirements, throwing the future of the prosecution into uncertainty. Cannon also barred public release of the report volume involved in the current Lineberger case.

Now, the strange allegations involving hidden โ€œcake recipeโ€ file names are creating another unexpected chapter in the long-running legal and political saga surrounding Smithโ€™s investigations of Trump.

Hunter Biden Issues Blistering Response To $1 Billion Lawsuit Threat

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First Lady Melania Trump participates in the Senate Spouses Luncheon at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 21,2025. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

Things are about to get ugly…

First Lady Melania Trump is threatening to sue former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, for $1 billion over “defamatoryโ€ claims linking her toย late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Melaniaโ€™s attorneyย Alejandro Brito demanded that Biden “immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump,” which were contained in a video interview with Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan and posted to Youtube in early August.ย 

Read the full letter:

“Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer,” Brito wrote.

In the video interview, titled “Hunter Biden Returns” video earlier in August, the former first son claimed “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep.” 

Biden also claimed that “Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, and thatโ€™s how Melania and the first lady and the President met.”

“If you do not comply with the above by August 7, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. EST, Mrs. Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce her legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for over $1 Billion Dollars in damages,” Brito wrote. “You are on notice.”

A source close to the matter told Fox News that Biden did not comply with the requests by the set deadline.ย 

After Fox News published the piece, however, Melania Trump got Bidenโ€™s reply addressing the attorneyโ€™s letter when Callaghan posted a further interview with him to YouTube on Thursday.

Callaghan, holding up a copy at the interviewโ€™s opening, declared: โ€œThe day of presidential litigation has arrived!โ€

โ€œWeโ€™re here, maybe, to give you the platform to apologize to the first lady for your statements that you made about her possible connection to Jeffrey Epstein,โ€ the host said to Biden.

โ€œF*ck that! Thatโ€™s not going to happen,โ€ Biden laughed.

Defending his comments as citation, Biden continued:

First of all is that, what I said was what I have heard and seen reported and written, primarily from Michael Wolff but also dating back all the way to 2019 when theย New York Timesย โ€“ I thinkย Annie Carneyย and andย Maggie Habermanย โ€“ reported that sources said that Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be the person to introduce Donald Trump to Melania at that time.

Biden added that he would not bow down to pressure or lawsuit threats: โ€œI also think theyโ€™re bullies and they think that a billion dollars is going to scare me.โ€

I have this to say to them: If they want to sit down for a deposition and clarify the the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein, if the president and the First Lady want to do that and all of the known associates around them at the time of whatever time that they met, Iโ€™m more than happy to provide them the platform to be able to do it.

The letter comes after the Daily Beast pulled the article detailing allegations by journalist Wolff that Melania Trump was introduced to her husband Donald Trump via a modeling agent connected to Epstein, after a challenge from the first ladyโ€™s lawyers.

“Editorโ€™s Note. After this story was published, The Beast received a letter from First Lady Melania Trumpโ€™s attorney challenging the headline and framing of the article. After reviewing the matter, the Beast has taken down the article and apologizes for any confusion or misunderstanding,” The Daily Beast posted in place of the article. The url for the article appears to have been amended to remove the original headline and now reads: thedailybeast.com/epstein-this-story-has-been-removed.

It also comes after famed Democrat strategist James Carville apologized to the first lady after repeating the same claim.ย 

Carville opened his latest episode of theย Politics War Room podcastย with a legal note.ย 

“In last week’s podcast episode, we spoke with Judd Legum,” he said. “After the episode, we received a letter from Melania Trump’s lawyer. He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from that episode and a couple of comments I made about the first lady. We took a look at what they complained about, and we took down the video and edited out those comments from the episode. I also take back these statements and apologize.”

An aide to the first lady, Nick Clemens, toldย Fox Newsย in a statement, “First Lady Melania Trumpโ€™s attorneys are actively ensuring immediate retractions and apologies by those who spread malicious, defamatory falsehoods. The true account of how the First Lady met President Trump is in her best-selling book, โ€˜Melania.โ€™” ย 

Pam Bondi Fires Jeffrey Epstein Prosecutor

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On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi firedย Maurene Comey, a prosecutor with the Southern District of New York who had prosecuted deceased financier and child sex traffickerย Jeffrey Epsteinย andย Ghislaine Maxwell.

Comey, a senior trial counsel, is the daughter of former FBI Directorย James Comey, whom Trump fired in 2017.

โ€œThe reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment,โ€ Politico said. โ€œComey, who had worked in the U.S. attorneyโ€™s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.โ€

Maurene Comey worked at the SDNY for almost a decade.

Maurene Comeyโ€™s termination at the DOJ comes amid an investigation into her father, who posted an image of seashells on a beach arranged to sayย  โ€œ86 47.โ€ Though โ€œ86โ€ is restaurant industry lingo for refusing service to a patron or kicking them out of an establishment, many conservatives insisted Comey was calling for the presidentโ€™s death. Last week, The New York Times reported that the Secret Service hadย trackedย the former FBI director after the incident.

The Justice Department last week released a memo concluding there was no evidence suggesting the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender kept a โ€œclient listโ€ to blackmail high-profile individuals. The memo also found no evidence to suggest foul play in Epsteinโ€™s death, which had previously been ruled a suicide.

The memo spurred fierce backlash from many Trump supporters, who had long called on the government to release material on Epstein that they argue would expose wrongdoing at the highest level of elite circles.

Trump has brushed aside calls to reveal more information about the Epstein case and has shown increasing frustration when asked about it over the past week.

โ€œYou mentioned past supporters when you were talking about the Epstein issue. Does that mean that youโ€™re effectively disowning any supporters who are now callingโ€”โ€ a reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

Trump cut off the question and added, โ€œIโ€™ve lost a lot of faith in certain people, yeah, Iโ€™ve lost. Because they got duped by the Democrats.โ€

In a lengthy social media post, which included references to the presidentโ€™s previous claims about the 2017 Russian election interference probe, Trump blamed Democrats for creating what he called a โ€œscamโ€ and โ€œhoax.โ€

โ€œScams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at โ€“ Itโ€™s all they have โ€“ They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates,โ€ Trump said. He added, โ€œTheir new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this โ€˜bullshit,โ€™ hook, line, and sinker. They havenโ€™t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.โ€