David Shuster shows up to this week’s Amped Up angry, and it takes about ninety seconds to see why. Trump is calling into Fox & Friends and cursing on air because Iran declined to honor his bombing “pause”—what Cliff calls the water-break theory of war. Meanwhile, at the Justice Department, acting attorney general Todd Blanche—the man who slipped under oath and called himself “Donald Trump’s personal attorney”—finally met with the Epstein survivors after months of refusing, then told them mid-meeting to “get to the point.” Zero prosecutions have come out of the files. Big chunks of them still haven’t been released. And among the senators who would have to vote on confirming him: Susan Collins, the same one who put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.
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