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News Wrap: Message Trump allegedly sent to Epstein released

Season 2025 Episode 251 | 6m 49s

In our news wrap Monday, House Democrats released a letter that Donald Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein for a 2003 birthday book, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to keep nearly five billion dollars in foreign aid frozen and a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that ordered President Trump to pay $83 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her.

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