Our-must read newsletter reveals what one senator says about documents revealing Trump friend Leon Black’s Epstein ties.

President Donald Trump is countering criticism of the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, accusing former government officials including Barack Obama,

After being asked how he knows the Jeffrey Epstein list is a hoax, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats and said some “foolish Republicans fall into the net.”

There was no specific reason given for Maurene Comey's firing from the US attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, according to a person who spoke to the Associated Press.

However, what Trump neglected to mention in his post is that the country most closely associated with the tastier Coke is one of his most frequent scapegoats: Mexico. “Mexican Coke” is made with real sugar, a distinction which has been maintained by an ongoing trade war over sugar between the U.S. and Mexico that predates Trump’s tariff tantrums.

Sigrid McCawley, a managing partner for Boies Schiller Flexner, discusses the bipartisan push to release the Epstein files, reaffirming her belief that Jeffrey Epstein did not act alone.

The rhetoric marks a dramatic escalation for the Republican president, who has broken with some of his most loyal backers on issues in the past, but never with such fervor.