Donald Trump

NY Times -  President Trump came under pressure this week when Congress released a trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, in which the convicted sex offender mentioned his ties to Trump. The president emphatically denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and insisted that anyone suggesting otherwise was perpetuating a “hoax.”

Today, however, Trump demanded that the Justice Department begin an investigation into several other people mentioned in the emails, including former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and the venture capitalist and megadonor Reid Hoffman. Notably, he singled out only Democrats, and his own name was nowhere to be seen.

 Independent UK -  Donald Trump has claimed that London is so dangerous that "people are being stabbed in the ass" as he continued to criticize the city's mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan.

The US president has previously described Sir Sadiq as a "terrible mayor" and made an unfounded claim that Sir Sadiq wants to impose sharia law in London. Sir Sadiq responded by dubbing Mr Trump “racist, sexist, misogynistic,” and “Islamophobic."

"My mother loved London... That was a different London than you have today. Today you have people being stabbed in the ass or worse," Mr Trump claimed in a GB News interview.

Axios -  President Trump pulled his support for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) yesterday, ending a years-long alliance after weeks of Greene publicly breaking with her party, Axios' Kate Santaliz and Alex Isenstadt write.

Greene was once considered one of Trump's fiercest allies and a MAGA brand ambassador. But Trump accused her of veering "too far to the left" and said he'd back a primary challenger "if the right person runs."

Greene has taken positions in recent weeks that have puzzled Republicans, and irritated Trump.

•     She's said her party has "no plan" when it comes to health care.
•     She was one of four Republicans to sign a discharge petition to release the Epstein files, against Trump's wishes.
•     In an interview with Axios last month, she slammed Trump's second-term agenda as "America Last." MORE

NY Times -  On Sunday, Trump granted sweeping pardons to 77 people who helped him attempt to subvert the 2020 election. Last week, Trump pardoned Glen Casada, the Republican former speaker of the Tennessee House, and Casada’s former chief of staff, Cade Cothren. Both men had been convicted of charges including wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

In the same set of pardons, Trump also pardoned Robert Harshbarger Jr., the husband of Diana Harshbarger, a Republican representative from Tennessee. As our newsroom reported, Robert had pleaded guilty to “health care fraud and distributing a misbranded drug, in this case kidney medications, some of which came from China, that were not approved for the purpose by the Food and Drug Administration.”

This is just a partial list of the most notorious and unjustifiable pardons of Trump’s second term so far. MORE