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Ghislanine Maxwell’s Texas prison, dubbed “Club Fed,” has reportedly upped security after taking in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficker.

Maxwell, a disgraced British socialite who was a close associate of Epstein’s for years, is serving a 20-year sentence for her part in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor girls with the late wealthy financier.

Maxwell was recently moved from a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum security prison in southeast Texas called Federal Prison Camp Bryan.

FPC Bryan has increased security measures in response to Maxwell’s transfer, NBC News reported Wednesday, citing a senior law enforcement official.

Two prison employees told the outlet members of the federal Bureau of Prisons’ Special Operations Response Team have been positioned outside FPC Bryan’s front entrance since the weekend.

The special ops crew is there to check people’s IDs and wave them through, the employees reportedly said.

President Donald Trump called a secret meeting Vice President JD Vance was reportedly hosting with top officials over how to handle the situation surrounding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “total bulls**t.”

Vance denied there was ever a meeting planned.

President Donald Trump took a call with his old foe, Andrew Cuomo, as he considers intervening in New York City’s mayoral race to thwart Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani, according to a new report.

Trump and the former New York governor, who is running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani, talked about the competitive race in a call made in recent weeks, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing people briefed on the matter.

It’s unclear what exactly was discussed in the call or when it exactly happened.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi told The Independent, “The Governor and the President have not spoken in some time. As far as I know, they have not discussed the race.”

Immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens have long expected that they won’t be deported from the country while going through the process of obtaining a green card.

But new guidance from Donald Trump’s administration explicitly states that immigrants seeking lawful residence through marriage can be deported, a policy that also applies to immigrants with pending requests.

Immigration authorities can begin removal proceedings for immigrants who lack legal status and applied to become a lawful permanent resident through a citizen spouse, according to guidance from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued this month.

The policy also applies to immigrants with pending green cards through other citizen family members.

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MAGA extremist Laura Loomer recently testified in her $150 million defamation lawsuit against Bill Maher that the HBO star’s joke about her sleeping with Donald Trump ended up costing her a position at the White House because of the “media frenzy” it created.

Justin Baragona has the story.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett has mocked President Donald Trump’s praise of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly his personal lawyer.

The Texas Democrat made the comments on CNN’s The Source with anchor Kaitlan Collins, who asked about Trump’s remarks from a news conference earlier in the day, in which he praised Blanche for the work he is doing on the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Crockett said she doesn’t trust Blanche the same way the president seems to trust him.

“[Trump] talked about how great [Blanche] is, but the last time I checked, [Blanche] lost that case for the president in New York,” Crockett said. “So, there was definitely a group of jurors who didn’t believe he was this great, incredible attorney to be trusted.”

Crockett was referring to Trump’s state case, where he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. Blanche and the District Attorney of New Jersey, Alina Habba, were Trump’s criminal defense team during the trial.

As deputy attorney general, Blanche has most recently played the part of mediator between the Trump administration and disgraced Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Blanche has met with Maxwell and her attorney twice in Tallahassee, where she was serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking underage girls for Epstein.

There has been much speculation that their conversations likely revolved around any damaging information Maxwell may have had about Trump. It is reported that Maxwell told Blanche that she never saw Trump do anything of concern with his friend, Epstein.

The Trump administration pressed for the release of a highly classified document concerning Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, following an intense internal dispute over its secrecy. The struggle concluded in late July when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unveiled a minimally redacted version of the report, sources familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

Gabbard, with the explicit approval of President Donald Trump, reportedly overruled objections from the CIA and other intelligence agencies. These agencies had argued that more of the document should remain classified to safeguard U.S. spy agencies’ sources and methods, as stated by individuals who spoke anonymously due to the sensitivity of the issue.

The 32-year-old has courted controversy as a right-wing online provocateur, making statements in support of white nationalism, using anti-Islam rhetoric, and spreading conspiracy theories, including on 9/11.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking underage girls to her late accomplice, Epstein.

She was recently transferred to a low-security prison camp after the meeting with Blanche.

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