Elon Musk has mocked Donald Trump’s declare that information associated to the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are “a hoax”.
“Wow, superb that Epstein ‘killed himself’ and Ghislaine is in federal jail for a hoax,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X in response to the US president’s try to deflect questions on Epstein and his confederate Ghislaine Maxwell, by casting doubt on the authenticity of the paperwork his justice division has refused to launch.
“He ought to simply launch the information and level out which half is the hoax,” Musk added.
Trump lashed out in opposition to his personal supporters on Wednesday, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive authorities inquiry into Epstein, the late intercourse offender. The US president additionally lambasted any Republicans who imagine there may be extra to be revealed in regards to the case as “silly” and “silly” folks.
Right here’s extra on this and different key US politics tales of the day:
Trump activates Maga ‘weaklings’ over Epstein case
The president accused his voters of falling for what he known as a “radical left” hoax by the opposition to discredit him over the Jeffrey Epstein case.
In a prolonged submit on his Fact Social web site, Trump mentioned: “Let these weaklings proceed ahead and do the Democrats work, don’t even take into consideration speaking of our unbelievable and unprecedented success, as a result of I don’t need their help any extra!”
Trump privately indicators he might quickly hearth Fed chair
The president Trump has privately indicated he’s on the verge of firing Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, rattling Wall Road and renewing questions over the US central financial institution’s independence.
He insisted publicly on Wednesday that it was “extremely unlikely” he would dismiss the Fed chair, after stories he had advised he would and proven a draft letter dismissing Powell to political allies.
US deports migrants to Eswatini regardless of troubling rights document
The US has flown 5 immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to the small African nation of Eswatini, an absolute monarchy with a troubling human rights document.
The transfer indicators that the US is once more ramping up so-called “third nation” deportations after the US supreme courtroom cleared the observe final month.
Trump’s Brazil tariffs ultimatum backfires on Bolsonaro
The US president’s announcement that Brazil could be hit with 50% tariffs till former president Jair Bolsonaro’s coup trial was dropped has backfired, as an alternative giving a lift to present president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Trump apparently anticipated his intervention to enhance the outlook for Bolsonaro, 70, who’s already banned from working in subsequent 12 months’s election. However per week on, the ploy appears to be reinvigorating Bolsonaro’s leftwing rivals, giving Lula a bounce within the polls and prompting a wave of public anger – largely centered on the Bolsonaro clan, who’ve spent years portraying themselves as flag-loving nationalists.
Columbia adopts antisemitism definition amid federal grants freeze
Columbia College has agreed to undertake a controversial definition of antisemitism because it pursues an settlement with the Trump administration aimed toward restoring $400m in federal authorities grants frozen over its alleged failure to guard Jewish college students.
Republicans begin vote-a-rama on invoice for $9bn public broadcasting and support cuts
Senate Republicans have moved to cross laws slashing as much as $9bn in funds Congress had earlier accredited for overseas support packages and public broadcasting, as a part of Trump’s marketing campaign of dramatic authorities spending cuts.
The GOP is racing to fulfill a Friday deadline mandated by legislation for the invoice to cross Congress, in any other case the Trump administration will probably be compelled to spend the cash.
What else occurred at this time:
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A bunch of 20 principally Democratic-led US states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday searching for to dam the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to guard in opposition to pure disasters.
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Democrats should set up urgently for the 2026 midterm elections and keep away from an “it might probably’t occur right here” mentality to cease Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover, a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said.
Catching up? Right here’s what occurred on 15 July 2025.
