- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Epstein Files Include Drawing of Nude Woman Trump Sent to Late Sex Trafficker For His Birthday, WSJ Reports
The Wall Street Journal published its highly anticipated story on the relationship between President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, and Trump is already threatening to sue.
- Lauren Lewis @ The Daily Beast: MAGA Melts Down Over Trump’s Epstein Letter Nightmare
Republicans have gone into total meltdown over allegations that President Donald Trump sent a spicy letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a drawing of a nude woman.
- Charisma Madarang @ Rolling Stone: Trump Claims He ‘Never Wrote a Picture in My Life.’ He Actually Drew Plenty of Them
The president denied a Wall Street Journal report alleging he had sent a salacious birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: The weird reason Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Trump has a ‘90% approval rating’
Why does the House speaker think the president’s approval rating is “skyrocketing”? Because from his perspective, Democrats literally don’t count.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: A coin toss made a Christian Nationalist mayor of Monroe, NC. It's been a disaster.
Robert Burns won a coin flip to become mayor—and he's turned a neutral office into a pulpit for his right-wing religion.
- Samantha Cole @ 404 Media: White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers
John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.
- Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: Faith as a Weapon: Inside America’s Theocratic Vanguard
On January 6, 2021, Christian flags, wooden crosses, and “Jesus Saves” signs mingled with pro-Trump banners as insurrectionists, inspired by a buzzing undercurrent of religion and outrage, reacted with violence and stormed the U.S. Capitol.
