December 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM EST
'I dont trust my government': Trump-voting Epstein survivor blasts his 'sloppy' DOJ

Another batch of investigation files around sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released on Monday afternoon, and one survivor is furious to see the way the Department of Justice is handling the release of the documents. Alongside the files, the Justice Department released a statement that appeared to defend President Donald Trump. "Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election," the DOJ statement read. "To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already."

December 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM EST
'Setback' for GOP leadership as next government shutdown looms large

It's been only a few weeks, and there might be another government shutdown on the horizon. MS NOW reporter Jack Fitzpatrick cautioned that both Republicans and Democrats appear to be fighting again over government funding.

December 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM EST
'Right to self-determination': Greenland leader shoots down Trump's latest power grab

During Donald Trump's first presidency, he was often described as an "isolationist" whose paleoconservative "America First" views were a major departure from hawkish GOP presidents like George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush. Yet Trump, at times, has taken an imperialistic turn during his second presidency -- from calling for Canada to become "the 51st state" to pushing for regime change with Venezuela to wanting the United States to acquire Greenland.

December 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM EST
Key Trump policy heading for 'inevitable court battles'

The Department of Energy's newest order, based on one of Donald Trump's long-running "obsessions," seems destined to fall flat as it runs into "inevitable court battles," according to an analysis from MS NOW. On Monday, the DOE announced that all leases for ongoing offshore wind energy construction projects were being paused. Energy Secretary Doug Burgum claimed this decision was "due to national security risks identified" by the Defense Department's "recently completed classified reports." All told, the move will suspend five projects on the East Coast that, if completed and brought online, could have produced clean energy for millions of homes.

December 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM EST
Trump asks if he should 'leave the presidency' to become a full-time TV host

President Donald Trump announced he will host the "Trump Kennedy Center" honors on Tuesday night, where he also floated an unexpected question. "At the request of the Board, and just about everybody else in America, I am hosting the event," the president wrote in the lighthearted post. Trump is the chairman of the board.

December 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM EST
An unexpected ally has assisted Trump in causing damage this year

Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can't appease a tyrant. David Ellison's CBS -- after gutting DEI policies there, appointing right-wing hack Kenneth R. Weinstein to a new "ombudsman" role, and making anti-"woke" opinion journalist Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News (despite her lack of experience in either broadcasting or newsrooms) -- yesterday removed a segment from "60 Minutes" featuring stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a "brutal" prison in El Salvador. Bari Weiss had demanded changes to the segment.

December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM EST
The reason we don't see ongoing coverage of Trump's reckless behavior

In light of the scandal at 60 Minutes , it bears repeating that the primary crisis facing American democracy is about information. There are just too many ways for the rich and powerful to control the truth. Over the weekend, news broke that the new head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, had spiked a highly revealing 60 Minutes investigation into the torture prison in El Salvador, where the president has sent deportees.

December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM EST
The one purpose behind Trump's misdirection on the Epstein files

When the legal deadline arrived for the Justice Department to release all its files on the late sexual predator and shady financier Jeffrey Epstein, the country awaited new and significant information about his crimes. Instead, we saw a blizzard of blacked-out documents -- and a strenuous campaign to smear former President Bill Clinton. The "evidence" Attorney General Pam Bondi chose to distribute only served to underline the basic and exculpatory facts regarding Clinton. Releasing a set of old photographs of Clinton in various scenes with Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, altered and stripped of any pertinent information about dates and locations, Bondi exposed her own rather obvious scheme to protect President Donald Trump.

December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM EST
Trump's 'childlike' plan for new ships named after him 'makes no sense': Navy expert

One longtime U.S. Navy expert is loudly denouncing President Donald Trump's plan to building new "Trump-class" Navy vessels carrying nuclear weapons. In a Monday essay for The Atlantic, Tom Nichols - a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College -- scoffed at Trump's announcement, and argued that the vessels he wants to build are already considered obsolete by modern military standards. He noted that neither Trump nor Navy Secretary John Phelan (an investor who has no experience in the Navy) appeared to understand what a 21st-century Navy truly needs.

December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM EST
'Wouldn't graduate middle school': Trump mocked for 'delusional' rant about drug prices

President Donald Trump once again repeated claims that his administration has lowered drug prices by hundreds and even thousands of percentage points -- despite such price reductions not being mathematically possible. During a Monday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said he was "bringing down drug prices, like, at a level that has not even been thought of." He then quoted figures that, if true, would mean drugmakers are paying Americans to take their products (as a price reduction of 100 percent would make the drug free).

December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM EST
Trump slammed after defending 'highly respected' people seen posing with Epstein

President Donald Trump spent several minutes during a recent press conference to defend people seen in photos alongside convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. While taking questions from reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday, Trump made efforts to defend people seen posing with Epstein in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) initial release of evidence from Epstein's two federal investigations. The files include both documents and photos that were included as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), which was cosponsored by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and passed Congress by a near-unanimous margin.

December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM EST
Republican behind Epstein law reveals 'backup plan' to get around Trump DOJ's redactions

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), the lead Republican behind the push for Epstein files disclosure, told the New York Post on Monday that he is considering a "viable backup plan" to get around the Department of Justice's (DOJ) significant redactions and publicly expose the notorious sex trafficker's accomplices. Massie co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) The bill, which passed in the House 427-1 and by unanimous consent in the Senate, required the DOJ to release all of its files pertaining to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein by Friday. As the day arrived, the DOJ said that not all files would be ready in time, which violated the law's 30-day statutory deadline. Many of the files were also found to be heavily redacted, revealing seemingly no information about unknown conspirators, reinforcing suspicions that powerful individuals were being protected. A photo featuring President Donald Trump was also pulled from the initial release, but was later added back after public outcry.