released by the DOJ Friday, internet sleuths were quick to identify Ratner in an undated photograph with a shirtless man that appears to be Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout and owner of the international modeling agency MC2 Model Management, which has considerable financial backing from Epstein

the Trump administration differs from previous presidential administrations in a new interview on Zeteo News with journalist John Harwood. The interview occurred at a time when Trump's rhetoric had become increasingly dark around topics like immigration and citizenship.

and now handing to China our most valuable military-potential technology.
In other words, we’ve been betrayed by Donald Trump and the people around him in ways that would have made Benedict Arnold blush.

the past year has abandoned Ukraine to the tender mercies of the Butcher of Moscow.
At the same time, Trump’s building ties to Middle Eastern dictatorships, adopting Russia’s explicit worldview, trashing civil and human rights at home,

These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.
Trump has been pressuring Indiana to redraw its Congressional map to eliminate any Democrats holding seats in the state

“President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” wrote Heritage Action on X, adding:
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop.

over recent reports that Trump's military command ordered the illegal shooting of shipwreck survivors from a ship targeted as a suspected drug trafficking operation, and his pardoning of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández from a 45-year drug trafficking sentence.

You don’t expect it from the man running the Pentagon. They were unarmed. They were wounded. They were no threat to anyone. They were simply alive; inconveniently alive for a man who had allegedly already given the order that there be no survivors.

4. too much time looking for complicated motivations from ideology or psychology or blackmail. It’s money. It’s always money. They’re crooks. With immense power, but still crooks. Don’t overcomplicate things."

3. Former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, David Frum, called it a "devastating report on the real Trump-Russia deal: betray Ukraine in exchange for privileged business benefits for Trump insiders."Activist Garry Kasparov said, as happened with Putin, politicians and pundits spend

2. The Journal's piece ahead of the weekend, Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine, claims that, "The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board."