Donald Chump already has enough problems, but leave it to him to splash in the gutter over something new to show just how trashy he truly is. Robert Mueller passed away. Nikki McCann Ramirez (ROLLING STONE) reports:
Donald Trump celebrated the death of Robert Mueller on Saturday, writing that he was "glad" the former FBI director and special counsel who investigated the president's 2016 campaign had died.
"Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!" Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social shortly after MS Now broke the news that the 81-year-old former FBI Director had died.
Mueller was 81. June 14th, Chump turns 80. Don't know that his gleeful cackle should have taken place for that reason but there's also the fact that he occupies the office of President of the United States and that's not acceptable behavior from one of our presidents.
Zachary Leeman (MEDIAITE) notes:
MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian also called out Trump over his post, highlighting Mueller’s military service.
“In an era when many young men—including President Trump—were trying to avoid serving in Vietnam, Mueller not only volunteered for the Marines after graduating from Princeton—he spent a year waiting for an injured knee to heal so he could serve,” he wrote. “I have always found that be the most compelling fact about him.”
It's disgusting to watch the President of the United States make such remarks. It's below the dignity of the office. Katie Herchenroeder (MOTHER JONES) observes:
Trump, who was harsh toward people who posted critically about the late Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination, has shown no such restraint in his own posts involving people recently deceased, including the Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who was slain by his own son in December.
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Adam Kinzinger, the former Republican congressman from Illinois who invoked Trump’s ire by sitting on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, posted on social media calling Trump “an abhorant [sic] piece of Human garbage.”
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat and Marine Corps combat veteran running for Senate, posted on X and Bluesky, calling the president’s post “disgusting.”
And Jennifer Bowers Bahney (MEDIAITE) notes:
On MS NOW Saturday, former White House attorney Ty Cobb, who counseled Trump on his responses to the Mueller investigation, said Mueller’s “character should never be questioned.”
“What the president said today, of course, is petty, shameful, despicable, and undignified,” Cobb said. “Sadly, that is the president we have. But fortunately, in American history, we’ve had people like Bob Mueller, and hopefully our better angels like Bob can get us beyond the fascism that we’re experiencing at this moment.”
Chump's already struggling as his friendship with the late Jeffrey Epstein and the economy and that's before you bring in his war on Iran. Leigh Kimmins (DAILY BEAST) notes:
Angry war veterans slammed President Donald Trump’s “unnecessary” war in Iran, which, they say, is propped up by “lies.”
The president teamed up with Israel to launch the conflict on Feb. 28. Since then, thousands of people have died, including at least 13 U.S. service members, and a spiralling energy crisis has erupted. The conflict echoes the Iraq War, which began on March 20, 2003.
The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane, remains blocked, and other countries in the region are being drawn into the conflict. Worst of all, the Trump administration seems to be running out of ideas, with the promised early exit looking increasingly unlikely.
“The lack of a clear strategy or end state only undermines U.S. credibility globally,” Jason Dozier, Atlanta City Council Member and Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, told the Daily Beast. “As an Iraq War veteran, I’ve seen firsthand the costs of conflicts like this, and I had hoped those lessons would guide future decisions. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the case.”
Three weeks of disaster with no end in sight, no clear reason given for the war (none that's stuck), and clues that it's not going well, that's the Iran war that Chump joined Netanyahu in starting. Matt Spetalnick and Nandita Bose (REUTERS) explain:
President Donald Trump ends the third week of the Iran war confronting a crisis that seems to be slipping out of his hands: Global energy prices are surging, the United States stands isolated from allies and more troops are preparing to deploy despite his promise the war would be only a "short excursion."
A defensive Trump called other NATO countries "cowards" for refusing to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and insisted the campaign was unfolding according to plan. But his declaration on Friday that the battle "was Militarily WON" clashed with the reality of a defiant Iran that is choking off Gulf oil and gas supplies while launching missile strikes across the region.
Trump, who took office promising to keep the U.S. out of "stupid" military interventions, now appears to control neither the outcome nor the messaging of a conflict he helped to initiate. The lack of a clear exit strategy carries risks both for his presidential legacy and his party's political prospects as Republicans scramble to defend narrow majorities in Congress in the November midterm elections.
And the American people watch as this war of choice that was started in the middle of the night and announced by a video Chump posted to his Truth-Social cesspool continues. Despite Chump declareing it a victory several times already, the war continues. And he's sending troops in. He has no clue what he's doing. He has no idea how to end this war. He only knows how to destroy -- including destroying the US economy. Sam Stevenson (NEWSWEEK) reports:
A new national poll shows President Donald Trump’s approval rating collapsing among independent voters, marking his weakest showing with the political middle since returning to office in that particular series.
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Independent voters often decide close elections, and their sharp move away from Trump comes as the 2026 midterms approach.
At the same time, the Iran war and its knock-on effects on gas prices and everyday costs are keeping economic anxiety front and center for voters.
Also noting polling is Aaron Blake (CNN):
A new Reuters-Ipsos poll, for instance, shows 21% of Republicans disapprove of the war. (Americans overall disapprove 59%-37%.)
And a Yahoo News-YouGov poll conducted over the weekend showed not only did 17% of Republicans disapprove of Trump’s handling of Iran, but so did 24% of people who say they voted for him in 2024.
Now let's turn to Chump's dead friend Jeffrey Epstein. Alexander Willis (RAW STORY) reports:
In 2007, Ex-Trump official Alexander Acosta, then the top federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida, was pressed by his subordinate to pursue a 60-count indictment she had prepared against Jeffrey Epstein.
Acosta, according to a new report, dismissed the plan.
That subordinate was then-federal sex-crimes prosecutor Marie VillafaƱa, who Bloomberg reported Friday had “begged” Acosta – who would later go on to become President Donald Trump’s labor secretary during his first term – to “urgently” arrest Epstein, but to no avail.
“I’m having trouble understanding – given how long this case has been pending – what the rush is,” wrote Matthew Menchel, Acosta’s chief criminal prosecutor, in a 2007 email to VillafaƱa that was released recently by the Justice Department. “This is obviously a very significant case and [Acosta] wants to take his time making sure he is comfortable before proceeding.”
Acosta still can't explain why he negotiated the sweetheart deal he did with Epstein. In his first term as president, Chump worried more about his Epstein connections and how they might look. That's why, when Epstein got arrested in 2019 and Secretary of Labor Acosta was suddenly facing questions, Acosta suddenly resigned as Secretary of Labor. Contrast that with Chump in his second term and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik. Last fall, Lutnick went on Miranda Devine's podcast and announced that Epstein was a neighbor but that he and his wife broke off all communication with him after visiting his residence and the chills that they had while they were there.
Lutnick was a visionary or something. To hear him tell the tale.
But there are nursey rhymes with more truth in them than Lutnick's tale. As WIKIPEDIA notes:
In January 2026, newly released Epstein files showed extensive contact between Lutnick and Epstein over several years. A longtime Epstein aide reached out to Lutnick in November 2012 to arrange a meeting while Lutnick was in Saint Thomas; Lutnick, accompanied by his wife Allison and their four children, agreed to a lunch on December 23 on Epstein's private island. Emails showed Lutnick and his wife coordinating logistics, including where to dock their yacht at Little Saint James. The day after the scheduled meeting, BBC News reported that Lutnick "received an email from a redacted sender that said Epstein wanted to pass a message to him, which said: 'Nice seeing you'—suggesting that at least one visit did happen."[99] The two also had drinks together on another occasion in 2011 according to Epstein's schedule. In November 2015, Epstein received an invitation from Lutnick to a fundraiser at his financial firm for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. In 2017, the two men discussed plans about the construction of a building across the street from both of their homes. The next year, Epstein contributed to a philanthropic dinner hosted by Lutnick.[100][101]
When asked about the emails, Lutnick told The New York Times "I spent zero time with him" and hung up. A Commerce Department spokesman said Lutnick had "limited interactions" with Epstein "in the presence of his wife" and has never been accused of wrongdoing.[101] On February 10, 2026, Lutnick testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on his relationship with Epstein. Here, Lutnick admitted that in December 2012, four years after Epstein's conviction, Lutnick and his wife and children visited Little Saint James where they had lunch with Epstein.[102] The hearing led to bipartisan criticism, and calls for Lutnick's resignation.[103]
Of course, Lutnick's not the only one who lied in 2025 about his relationship with Epstein. Others would include, obviously, Donald Chump. In 2025, Chump announced he had kicked Epstein out of Margo Lard-Ass but that wasn't true as we've now discovered. Sarah K. Burris reports on the revelation this week that Chump has lied repeatedly about his relationship with Epstein and how Pam Bondi's Justice Dept tried to cover that up by redacting a document:
Under the law passed by Congress, the only redactions the Justice Department can make are the names of the survivors of Epstein's abuse. But Wilson has a copy of one document that was redacted by the DOJ and doesn't mention survivors. It mentions Trump.
Wilson said that he was given the document by Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who obtained the full copy from another source.
"In it, Trump's attorney at the time, Alan Garten, I believe, is the name, revealed a few small things," Wilson said. "One of which is that Trump never threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago."
Trump has said for years that he and Epstein got into a fight over a real estate matter. Then it was reported that Trump was actually mad that Epstein was taking girls from his country club to work for him. It isn't clear which one or if both are true, but Trump maintains that he and Epstein fell out and he banned the trafficker from Mar-a-Lago.
A more recent report cites Trump telling a local Palm Beach County police officer that he was grateful Epstein was finally arrested, saying, "everyone has known he's been doing this." It flagged Trump's continued denials that he never knew about Epstein's crimes.
Wilson said that Epstein was never a member of Mar-a-Lago and that Trump never threw him out.
"That even after that, he went to Epstein's home, flew on his plane," Wilson said. "This is material that the FBI and the Department of Justice have absolutely no reason to redact, and yet it is still redacted in their official version, even the one they will provide for members of Congress."
The lies just fly out of Chump's mouths. Henry Giardina (QUEERTY) notes:
In the interview notes, Tr*mp appears to confirm that not only was Epstein never a member of Mar-a-Lago, he was never expelled or asked to leave, which runs contrary to Tr*mp’s oft-repeated story about personally kicking out Epstein after he allegedly tried to recruit women from the spa into his own trafficking empire. In the same interview, Garten states that he spoke to the manager of Mar-A-Lago at the time, who confirms that Epstein was never asked to leave the property.
We know that Tr*mp and Epstein did fall out sometime in 2004, but the cause had nothing to do with Epstein’s creepy behavior. That would become Tr*mp’s story in after Epstein’s trial and conviction, but in reality, the two sparred over an oceanfront property bidding war that Tr*mp eventually won.
Again, it’s nothing we don’t know. Tr*mp lies, and he gets away with it consistently. But there’s another bombshell that could, in combination with this uncovered lie and what we know about the activity at Zorro Ranch, end up being impossible for congress to ignore.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, a longtime critic of Tr*mp, uncovered something else in the files that speaks to the DOJ’s massive cover-up. Wyden has been trying to read files from a past DEA probe into Epstein’s activity, and according to Wyden, Tr*mp apointee Todd Blanche, the current Deputy Attorney General, keeps mysteriously blocking him from access.
“By withholding this unclassified document from the U.S. Congress, you are covering up for pedophiles and obstructing my investigation into the financing of Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking organization,” Wyden wrote to Blanche in a recent public letter.
As with most of the unredacted bombshells we’ve seen, the reason certain files are still being black barred has nothing to do with protecting Epstein’s victims and everything to do with keeping Tr*mp’s million mentions out of the press.
Yesterday, Charlie Lankston (REALTORS.COM) reported:
The enormous New Hampshire estate where Jeffrey Epstein's right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested has finally found a buyer—nearly one year after hitting the market.
Maxwell, 64, was apprehended in July 2020 by FBI agents at the property in Bradford, where she is understood to have been in hiding for several months, after they tracked down her location using cell phone records.
[. . .]
Maxwell is never thought to have owned the property, which is registered to a limited liability company called Granite Realty. That LLC is understood to have close ties to Maxwell's alleged former partner, tech mogul Scott Borgerson, with whom she is said to have been hiding out when she was taken into custody..
Ghislaine Maxwell spoke to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July and was immediately moved to Club Fed -- a prison in Bryan, Texas that's for lower level offenders. At this prison, she has reign over the facilities. She can be alone with her visitors, she can do whatever she wants. One wonders what she really told Todd Blanche in order for him to give her such a cushy prison.
Todd Blanche, a lair supreme. Michael Ramsey (NEWS NATION) reports:
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday said he doesn’t know why FBI investigators did multiple interviews with a woman who claimed Donald Trump abused her in the 1980s before the matter apparently was dropped.
The woman’s accusations, which have been denied by the White House, drew notice earlier this year because they were indexed but missing from one of the Justice Department’s information dumps in the congressionally mandated release of the Epstein files.
FBI memos about the interviews with the accuser, conducted in 2019, were released after media inquiries. Blanche told “CUOMO” the inquiry predates his time at the Justice Department but suggested investigators “tested” the woman’s story, as part of the normal investigative process.
“These are trained men and women — FBI, some of them were state troopers — and they investigated,” Blanche said. “They made a decision at the time that there was nothing to move forward on.”
No, they didn't make that decision. In her fourth interview, Jane Doe stated that there would no point, that nothing would happen from this. She ended the talks with the FBI and the FBI stopped interviewing her. Chump was president at the time and she was right to believe that nothing would be done by the Justice Dept.
And, no, Blanche wasn't in the Justice Dept when that happened. He was in the Justice Dept when they released only the files on the first conversation that the FBI had with the woman who only mentioned Esptein in that conversation. They still can't convincinly answer for why they didn't release the other three interviews where the woman named Chump as someone who assaulted her.
Let's note one other item quickly, Nicole Charky-Chami (RAW STORY) notes:
Former modeling agent and longtime ally to President Donald Trump, Paolo Zampolli asked a top ICE official for help "to settle a personal score" and have the mother of his child deported during a custody battle, according to The New York Times.
Zampolli, a now presidential special envoy, introduced Trump to the president's now wife Melania.
He found out that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend, Amanda Ungaro, had arrested on charges of fraud at her work and in custody at a Miami jail — and last year talked to a top official at ICE, David Venturella, to see if she could be placed in ICE detention, citing that she was in the country illegally, The Times reported.
The two had been going through a custody battle over their teenage son and "now he saw an opportunity" to try and get him back, Friday's report stated.
A source familiar with Zampolli's communications and records acquired by The Times revealed that Ungaro was picked up from a Miami jail by ICE agents before she could make bail and later deported. Although this could have happened without her ex-boyfriend's involvement, it raises questions about how members of the Trump administration have used the federal government during Trump's second term to pursue personal vendettas.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray:
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the Department of Education’s announcement that it is inking yet another Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA) to illegally spin off core departmental responsibilities—this time with the Department of the Treasury as it relates to federal student aid programs.
“Instead of helping student borrowers get the support they need, Secretary McMahon is focused on illegally hollowing out the department she leads and creating new, harmful bureaucracy while she’s at it.
“Despite all this administration’s talk about creating efficiency, the fact is these agreements simply create pointless new red tape—while threatening basic services and support that students depend on every day. Are student borrowers eventually going to have to talk to two agencies to get the help they need? Will basic oversight and communication simply fall through the cracks? Is Secretary Bessent going to eventually administer the FAFSA? What is already falling through the cracks because this administration is more focused on dismantling the Department of Education than helping students? That’s what’s at stake and what this administration and Republicans must answer for.
“Republicans in Congress could have joined us to put an end to these illegal agreements in our most recent funding bill. Unfortunately, they chose not to. But we’ve got to all keep speaking up and pushing back so students get the help and support they are entitled to by law.”
Senator Murray has aggressively pushed back against Secretary McMahon’s efforts to dismantle the Department, including through the illegal use of IAAs, and she fought to insert ironclad language in the fiscal year 2026 funding bill for the Department that would bar Secretary McMahon’s use of IAAs to dismantle the Department—but Republicans refused to include new, binding language. The final agreement did, however, make clear there is no legal authority for the Department of Education to slough off core responsibilities through these agreements.
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