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🔵 Trump Disavows Supporters
Citizen Frank
July 16, 2025
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 16.
President Trump on Wednesday bashed “PAST supporters” for their focus on what he called the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” amid ongoing scrutiny of his administration’s handling of evidence in the notorious Epstein’s case.
Trump has urged his supporters, many of whom were rocked by his administration’s conclusion that there was no evidence the disgraced financier was murdered or kept a “client list,” to walk away from the controversy.
Trump, speaking from the Oval Office Wednesday, described Republicans criticizing him and Attorney General Pam Bondi for overpromising and underdelivering on the federal government’s files on the Epstein investigations as “stupid.”
Hours after President Donald Trump told a room full of Republican lawmakers that he will fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, he denied plans to do that.
“We’re not planning on doing it,” he said Wednesday at the White House. “I don’t rule out anything,” he added, “but I think it’s highly unlikely, unless he has to leave for fraud.”
At a meeting Tuesday evening in the Oval Office, Trump had asked a group of House Republicans if they thought he should fire Powell. After receiving support for the move, the president said he would follow through, according to a senior White House official.
Rasmussen Reports chief pollster Mark Mitchell joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Tuesday.
During his discussion with host Steve Bannon, Mitchell warned that President Trump’s approval rating is one point away from his lowest net approval ever. This all has to do with the Epstein gaslighting. The American public is not buying it.
Mark Mitchell: I just want to start at a high level and say Donald Trump came in with really great approval numbers. He’s brought a lot of foreign investment back to the United States. He just signed his signature legislation less than two weeks ago, and it’s the summer. The Democrats are imploding. He took out the Iranian nuclear weapons program, which was insanely popular.
Vice President JD Vance once again cast the tiebreaking vote to advance the bill to codify the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts in the narrowly divided Senate (50-50).
Republicans lost three votes, as they sided with the 45 Democrats and two independents to try to stop the bill from moving on to debate, and potentially, a final vote as early as Wednesday.
Long voting against President Donald Trump’s urgings, Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined with Democrats in voting against the Senate taking up the measure.
The Trump administration said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles.
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced the decision in a statement.
Roughly 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines had been deployed. It wasn’t immediately clear how long the rest would stay in the region. The troops were tasked with protecting federal buildings and guarding immigration agents as they carry out arrests.
Only this week are further contents of a July 4 phone call between Presidents Trump and Zelensky being revealed, but it comes amid accusations of fake news and taking statements out of context.
“Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? … Can you hit St Petersburg too?” – that’s reportedly what Trump posed to the Ukrianian leader in their July 4th call, which came the day following the president had a disappointing call Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky responded: “Absolutely. We can if you give us the weapons.” All of this is according to a report in Financial Times, which the White House is now pushing back against. The FT presented the exchange as indicative of a new US approach of quietly encouraging Ukraine’s military to strike Moscow and other targets deeper inside Russia.
Former President Barack and first lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday addressed for the first time together the divorce rumors circulating on social media about their decades-long marriage.
The couple laughed off the rumors in a joint interview with Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s older brother.
“Wait, you guys like each other?” Robinson joked on his podcast IMO, prompting his sister to reply, “That’s from the rumor mill. It’s my husband, y’all.”
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