Supreme court clears way for Trump to gut education department – as it happened

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With Trump's headache not showing any signs of going away, Politico learned that an ally supportive of the Trump DOJ's handling of the Epstein case, has pitched senior White House officials on the idea of Bondi and deputy attorney general Todd Blanche doing an all-questions-addressed news conference in an attempt to exhaust the press and put the story to bed."

Maga influencer and far-right activist Laura Loomer also told Politico on Sunday that there should be a special counsel appointed to do an independent investigation of the handling of the Epstein files so that people can feel like this issue is being investigated, and perhaps take it out of [Pam Bondi's] hands, because I don't think that she has been transparent or done a good job handling this issue".