SHOT: Bombshell new evidence continues to emerge about Trump’s extensive and previously hidden relationship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, revealing a disturbing pattern of intimate social interactions spanning multiple decades…
CNN: Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now. In addition, footage from a 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion event in New York shows Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting together ahead of the runway event.
New York Times: In the swirl of money and sun-tanned women that was their Palm Beach-and-Manhattan set, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein spent nearly 15 years mingling side-by-side as public friends…Now, that story has entangled Mr. Trump himself in what amounts to one of the biggest controversies in his second White House stint. The conflict has come primarily from his own appointees, who, after months of promoting interest in the files, abruptly changed course and said that there was no secret Epstein client list and backed the official finding that Mr. Epstein had killed himself.
CHASER: …all while Mike Johnson and House Republicans abruptly ended the congressional session and fled Washington to avoid voting on releasing the full Epstein files, putting political protection of Trump over transparency and accountability to the American people.
New York Times: Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Tuesday that he was cutting short the week’s legislative business and sending the House home early for the summer on Wednesday to avoid having to hold votes on releasing files related to the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Washington Post: The move by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) will effectively avoid dealing with an issue — for now — that is causing worry and anger among rank-and-file Republicans after a decision by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department not to release the files, which stirred a furious backlash among the MAGA base — and from lawmakers’ GOP constituents. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), a key Trump ally who has criticized the administration on this issue, said “the call volume on Epstein” to her congressional and district offices “has almost been 100 percent.”