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‘I can’t answer that’: Epstein survivor struggles to answer if Trump knew of ‘arrangement’ at Mar-a-Lago

As the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation await President Donald Trump‘s consequential signature of a bill passed by Congress to compel the full release of FBI files related to his years-long sex crimes, some are speaking out. One of those survivors, Sharlene Rochard, shared that when Epstein was abusing her as a teenager, she would often attend parties at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida. “There were a lot of model parties at the Mar-a-Lago. […]

todayNovember 19, 2025 2

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Africa knew Trump’s ‘America First’ pledge meant it might be last. Then came the freeze on aid

Four days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing almost all U.S. foreign aid, an email landed in Claris Madhuku’s inbox in rural Zimbabwe. Stop all activities immediately, it said. The message confirmed Madhuku’s fears that Trump’s return to office might affect his organization’s efforts to save African girls from child marriages. Many Africans had known that Trump’s “America First” outlook meant their continent was likely to be last among his priorities. But they hadn’t expected the abrupt halt to foreign aid from the world’s […]

todayFebruary 3, 2025

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Tara Setmayer on leaving the GOP and supporting Kamala Harris: ‘The Republican Party I knew is dead’

Tara Setmayer knew when it was time to leave the Republican Party. “The final straw for me was when I actually formally left the party the day after the 2020 election when Donald Trump refused to concede the election and made all those wild accusations from the East Wing of the White House,” Setmayer, a longtime political commentator who is now an Independent, tells theGrio. “That was not a redline for [Republicans]. They let him get away with the election […]

todaySeptember 9, 2024 2