Playbook: “Trump has ruminated about the Epstein fallout for weeks. ‘They’re going to accuse me of some funny business,’ he said recently in the Oval Office, according to a Republican close to the White House who personally heard the president make these comments. Trump again maintained his

RNC Chair Michael Whatley will run for Senate in North Carolina with Donald Trump’s blessing after the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, opted not to seek the seat, Politico reports.

“President Donald Trump suggested that he would not go below 15% as he sets so-called reciprocal tariff rates ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline, an indication that the floor for the increased levies was rising,” Bloomberg reports. Said Trump: “We’ll have a straight, simple tariff of anywhere between 15%

“The Jeffrey Epstein morass surrounding President Donald Trump is deepening amid growing defiance by some Republicans and despite the administration’s most inflammatory attempt yet at distraction,” CNN reports. “New reports Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that his name

Politico: “The revolt of House Republicans who favored releasing Epstein case documents surprised White House officials and multiple members of GOP leadership. Trump officials in particular, who are used to House Republicans rolling over to the president’s every whim, were especially stunned at the