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‘Real Housewives’ alum Kim Zolciak accuses estranged husband Kroy Biermann of cheating as divorce drags on
Kim Zolciak has accused her estranged husband, Kroy Biermann, of cheating on her during their 12-year marriage.
When asked what the final straw was that led her to file for divorce in 2023, Zolciak told Entertainment Tonight, "He cheated." The former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star got candid at Bravocon over the weekend about the status of her divorce from the former NFL player.
"No movement, no change, just constant antics," she told the outlet. "When I said I was filing for divorce, he said, I'm gonna publicly destroy you. And he told both my daughters that as well, and that's been his goal, and that's all he cares about. It hasn't worked yet."
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Zolciak said she's happier than ever at this point in her life and has even moved on with a new man, who is also going through a divorce.
"I'm sorry, I'm legally married and so is he," she told the outlet responding to the claims she's dating a married man. "So he's been going through a divorce for years as well."
"So I don't know. I guess I'm supposed to wait until I'm legally divorced, which I don't think Kroy will ever give me a divorce," she claimed.
Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Biermann for comment.
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Zolciak and Biermann both filed for divorce in May 2023. However, the two quickly called it off.
Biermann filed for divorce again just months later in August 2023. The former professional football player stated his 12-year marriage was "irretrievably broken" in documents obtained by Fox News Digital at the time.
The two share four children: Kroy, Kash, and twins Kaia and Kane. Biermann also adopted Zolciak's adult daughters from a previous relationship, Brielle and Ariana Zolciak-Biermann.
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Zolciak's daughter Ariana admitted she prays for everyone to move forward amid the contentious divorce.
"I feel like the only place we can turn now is to pray," she told Us Weekly at Bravocon. "I pray every night about it, and pray that God helps heal everybody, and they’re able to move forward and everything like that."
University of Wisconsin TPUSA member 'disgusted' with school after more violent anti-ICE imagery surfaces
More violent imagery depicting an ICE agent being shot was photographed on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus late last week.
The hand-drawn image, which was photographed hanging on a post, said, "The only good fascist is a dead one." The drawing depicts a man wearing sunglasses with a mask over his face and a hat on his head. The man's shirt says "ICE," and red blood streams out of his head.
The photograph was first shared with The Madison Federalist, an independent school newspaper.
Fox News Digital spoke with the student who photographed the image, who asked not to be named but is a board member of the school's Turning Point USA chapter.
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"It was in this area called Memorial Library, and my first reaction was, well, I'm in a university, so I wasn't too surprised," the student said. "I kind of felt disgusted, and I felt that it was a very harmful message to be sending to college kids, especially in a very, I guess, politically biased or politically charged university."
The student said he took a photo of the image before he ripped it off the post.
"I just felt really disgusted, and I felt almost threatened because it kind of shows how, you know, violence against people who are considered right-wingers are kind of normalized in this campus," the student said.
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The student told Fox News Digital that the political bias extends to the classroom.
"I feel like a lot of the professors—not all of the professors, but a lot of the professors—they paint right-wingers or conservative Christians or nationalists in a very, very bad light," he said. "And because of that, these types of rhetorics have almost become normalized even in my university classes."
He said he has experienced professors "justifying what Stalin and Mao did," and that violent rhetoric has become more normalized after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's September assassination.
"People celebrating [Kirk] dying wasn't, like, an anomaly in this campus," the student said. "So, I just think it's an amalgamation of years and years of, I guess, normalization of this type of violence against the right."
A similar image was discovered and photographed on campus earlier last week.
The image, which was spotted by a student and subsequently posted on X by the Wisconsin College Republicans, shows a figure wearing a vest that says "ICE" being shot in the head. Blood pours out behind the agent's head, creating a thought bubble.
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"Speak their language," the wording on the image says.
Below that, it says, "You can't vote away fascism."
Nick Jacobs, the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans and a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, also described an uptick in violent rhetoric since Kirk's murder at Utah Valley University.
"I mean, it's really bad," he told Fox News Digital after the first graphic image was photographed last week. "It's almost celebrated among students to write threatening things about college Republicans, about ICE agents, about Republicans."
"At my school recently, we did a chalk memorial for Charlie Kirk, and leftists wrote what was on the bullet casing an hour after we did it," he said.
Bullet casings recovered from alleged Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson were riddled with left-wing messaging, including the title of a popular Antifa song.
UW-Madison campus police confirmed that they are investigating both incidents.
The school did not return a request for comment.
Judge Boasberg to weigh Trump contempt in deportation case this week
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered lawyers for the Trump administration and for a class of deported Venezuelan migrants to come to court Wednesday to discuss the case's status and the long-stalled question of whether the administration willfully defied his earlier court order and acted in contempt.
The new updates, codified in a minute order on Monday, are almost certain to spark fresh ire from President Donald Trump and his allies in a major immigration fight that has stretched on for more than nine months.
At issue is the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime immigration law, to deport 252 Venezuelan migrants from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March.
Boasberg had issued an emergency order in March blocking the Trump administration’s use of the law to immediately deport migrants to a third country, and ordered officials to return any planes that had already left US soil.
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Despite his order, hundreds of migrants arrived in El Salvador hours later — where they remained until July, when they were removed again from CECOT to Venezuela as part of a broader prisoner exchange that involved the return of at least 10 Americans and permanent U.S. residents detained in Venezuela.
Trump officials have argued that the individuals removed were alleged members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. But lawyers for the ACLU and other groups representing the migrants have vehemently disputed that claim, citing several reports from major news outlets that separately concluded that just a handful of individuals deported under the 18th century law had serious criminal records.
The Alien Enemies Act has been used three times previously in U.S. history, and most recently during World War II.
Boasberg tried for months without success to obtain information about the individuals who were deported to CECOT, and to obtain information about who in the Trump administration had ordered the flights in violation of his temporary restraining order.
In April, Boasberg ruled that the court had found "probable cause" to move on criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for failing to return the migrants to U.S. soil, citing what he described as the administration's "willful disregard" of the court.
Boasberg's finding that the Trump administration likely acted in contempt of his March 15 emergency order had been halted for months, after a three-judge panel for the appeals court issued an emergency stay halting his order.
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In August, the judges ruled 2-1 to toss it completely. Their decision was appealed to all eleven judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the matter en banc.
On Friday, judges on the panel declined by an 8-3 vote to further review Boasberg's ruling, which in theory would have kept the lower court's ruling in place. They did not, as some of the judges explained, because the two majority judges for the panel had split in August over the reasons for tossing Boasberg's opinion.
Therefore, the court said, "the writ of mandamus issued by the panel has no ongoing practical or precedential effect."
The update from the en banc panel effectively clears the way for Boasberg to consider the contempt proceedings, giving him jurisdiction over the issue again for the first time in more than 200 days.
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Boasberg, for his part, quickly clarified that he intends to move on the contempt question imminently.
In a minute order issued Monday morning, Boasberg ordered lawyers for the Trump administration and the ACLU, who represent the deported class of Venezuelan migrants, to appear in court Wednesday for a previously scheduled motions hearing prepared to discuss case updates and next steps in the contempt inquiry.
The Trump administration has not provided, as of this writing, a list of the migrants sent to CECOT in March, or details of their immigration status in the U.S. prior to removal.
Boasberg's emergency order in March touched off a complex legal saga that ultimately spawned dozens of federal court challenges across the country – though the one brought before his court was the very first.
His role overseeing the case has also landed him squarely in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and the president himself, who has repeatedly excoriated Boasberg as an "activist judge."
Miss Israel says she's getting death threats after viral Miss Universe video controversy with Miss Palestine
Miss Israel Melanie Shiraz says she has been bombarded with death and rape threats after she claims a potentially edited video went viral showing her glaring at Miss Palestine during a Miss Universe competition.
The 27-year-old spoke about how the abuse began within hours of the video circulating online and as people began to think she had given Nadeen Ayoub a dirty look on stage during the pageant in Bangkok, Thailand.
"I don't know if that footage was edited or not, but it was definitely at least edited and cropped and clipped together in a way that made it look like I was the only one that was looking that way," she told Fox News Digital.
"My social media got swarmed with hate comments and just these clips from this video that looked like I was standing right next to her.
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"I first thought it was AI or something, then I realized that it just came from a different camera that had a very distorted perspective."
Shiraz maintained she expected that she would "get a lot of hate and heightened scrutiny just for being the representative from Israel, but this should not cause Hitler comments and not cause death threats."
"And that's exactly what I've been receiving," she said, before describing the harassment as graphic and disturbing.
"This has been to the point of, I want to rape and kill you or, I hope that you end up like one of the hostages that got raped and shot in the head," she said.
"I've gotten, ‘die you dirty Jew.’ I don't want to be too graphic, and it's jarring."
"I was hoping that I would be able to have a productive dialogue with Miss Palestine, maybe even take some photos together and show the world that we can be an example for peace," she added.
Shiraz, who studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed an MBA, previously worked in Israel’s tech sector and founded her own startup before entering pageantry.
"I realized that I am very passionate about advocacy," she said. "I got heavily involved in the Jewish community and Israel advocacy on campus, and it occurred to me that a cultural stage such as this one could give Israel a human voice and when we’re generally only seen through a political lens," she added.
The controversy in Bangkok also came after Ayoub posted several photos from the event online after a show.
"She had also posted eight photos in which I was visible in all of them," Shiraz recalled.
"They were obviously not good pictures of me, and ones where I was looking in that direction, or what seemed to be that direction.
"I had asked her to take it down, and she took down only one or two of the photos, but not all of them."
"During the competition I had realized that there was a specific cameraman that was centered right on her, and I was right behind her," she said. "I had also realized that that cameraman was only pointing at her, and therefore myself, and they seemed to have some kind of communication between them, which was striking to me."
Despite the abuse, Shiraz remains determined. "It is very, very tough to be Jewish and Israeli in this day and age, no matter what we do, we will get hate for it," she said.
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"It only reinforces to me that what I'm doing right now is important and that I shouldn't get distracted, just motivated."
The 74th Miss Universe competition, featuring 121 contestants, continues in Thailand, with the grand final set for Friday, Nov. 21.
"I'm very passionate about representing Israel and, after this competition, hope to pivot from my background to turn to advocating for Israel and for good causes into my life's work," she said. "I come out and put my best foot forward every day, and sometimes it feels like, no matter what I do, it just will not be sufficient, you know, to get me into certain people's hearts… But of course, it won't stop me from putting my best foot forward."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Miss Palestine for comment.
‘The View’ co-hosts praise Marjorie Taylor Greene after breaking with Trump, tell her ‘Welcome to the team’
The co-hosts of ABC’s "The View" praised Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Monday for her recent break with President Donald Trump and her apology for engaging in what she called "toxic politics."
During Monday's episode, the co-hosts sympathized with Greene – who said she had been harassed and threatened after Trump targeted her online – and welcomed her as a new member of the anti-Trump resistance.
"Welcome to the fight, Marjorie," co-host Joy Behar said.
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In an interview with CNN host Dana Bash on Sunday, Greene described receiving intimidating and threatening messages after Trump slammed her for criticizing him in recent weeks.
Trump called the lawmaker a "ranting lunatic" and accused her of becoming "left-wing" for appearing on "The View," according to a Friday night Truth Social post. He also said he’d support a 2026 primary challenge against her.
The president’s remarks came after Greene – once one of Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress – criticized Trump and GOP leaders for not ending the government shutdown sooner and called for the administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
While speaking to Bash, Greene also apologized for indulging in what she called "toxic politics" in the past.
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"I would like to say humbly, I‘m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It’s very bad for our country, and it’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, is that we – I’m only responsible for myself and my own words and actions, and I am committed, and I’ve been working on this a lot lately to put down the knives in politics," she said.
The co-hosts of "The View" appeared to welcome Greene’s new perspective on Monday. Though she questioned whether Greene’s shift was genuine, co-host Sunny Hostin praised her for the statement on "toxic politics."
"There may be something behind this. Maybe she wants to run for governor. Maybe she wants to run for Senate, but I give her credit for saying, ‘I took part in some of that toxicity and I apologize.’ That takes a pretty big person to do that. So I'm still on the fence about her, but I don't know."
Behar seemed even more open to having Greene join them as a Trump critic.
"I’m happy to have her," she said. "You know, did you ever see the movie ‘Casablanca?' Yes. Did you see that movie? At the end of the movie, Paul Henreid says to Humphrey Bogart, ‘Welcome to the fight. Now I know our side will win.’ And that's how I feel about her."
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Co-host Sara Haines praised Greene’s appeal for bringing back civility to American politics.
She said, "You should be able to have a beer with someone you disagree with at the end of the day… I believe that it has to come back."
Ana Navarro said the panel should be open to welcoming this new version of Greene, even if she had previously embraced partisan politics and conspiracy theories.
"I have said from the beginning that we should give her the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't mean we forget QAnon conspiracies. It doesn't mean we forget Jewish space lasers… It doesn't mean that we forget, you know, the way she acted at the State of the Union. It doesn't mean that we forget any of that, but it does mean that this is a new Marjorie Taylor Greene," Navarro said.
Greene's reps did not immediately reply to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Two men caught with 81 monkeys stuffed in bags and meth in wildlife smuggling ring, authorities say
Two men suspected of being part of an international wildlife smuggling ring were caught with 81 monkeys and methamphetamine in Thailand over the weekend near the country's border with Cambodia, authorities said.
Thai rangers stopped a vehicle on Friday in the Sa Kaeo province, where the monkeys were found stuffed into blue net bags.
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The two suspects allegedly admitted to being involved in a trafficking ring moving macaques from Thailand into Cambodia, the 12th Ranger Forces Regiment said in a Facebook post.
Authorities took possession of the unspecified amount of drugs and the monkeys.
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Thailand is a major transit point for wildlife smugglers, who often sell endangered animals for markets in China and parts of Southeast Asia.
In May 2025, a man was arrested in Thailand on suspicion of smuggling two baby orangutans into the country, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said at the time.
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The 47-year-old suspect was arrested at a gas station as he was allegedly preparing to hand the animals over to a buyer.
Michael J. Fox's family remains his superpower in ongoing Parkinson's disease battle
Michael J. Fox’s family has been his superpower throughout his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
The actor attended the "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s" event in New York City on Saturday, where he opened up about how his loved ones have remained devoted to him over the years.
With his wife, Tracy Pollan, the 64-year-old is the proud father of four: son Sam, 36, and daughters Aquinnah and Schuyler, 30, and Esmé, 24. Their unwavering love and support have given him the courage to embrace life with hope and resilience.
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"They’re so supportive and so great," Fox gushed to People magazine.
"All these people are friends of mine, family, and it's really great to see them, and I walk on the red carpet, surprised to see them, and I think, 'Well, why should I be surprised?'" he also shared about his longtime pals in attendance.
"They've always been there for me, and they continue to be there for me year after year," the "Back to the Future" star added.
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Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991 at age 29 after developing a tremor in his pinky finger while filming "Doc Hollywood." The tremor led to a consultation with a neurologist and the devastating diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson’s.
Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative brain disorder, affects the nervous system and mobility, according to the Mayo Clinic. Throughout his prolific acting career, Fox has found ways to work around his symptoms. The actor founded his nonprofit in 2000, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year.
People magazine reported that the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research is the largest nonprofit funding Parkinson’s research in the world. It has endowed more than $2.5 billion to advance understanding of the disease in hopes of finding a cure.
Pollan told the outlet at the event that their children are "just incredibly supportive" of Fox. The couple married in 1988.
"Michael is so optimistic, which is wonderful and really helps him, but it's really important to also understand that this is a huge challenge," the 65-year-old shared.
"It's very difficult for the family, for the caregivers and, obviously, for the patient. So, it's important to acknowledge that and acknowledge that it's not just all sorts of easy. It's not easy. It's hard for them, but they show up, and they're there for us."
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"Michael was diagnosed before the girls were born and very, very early in Sam's life, so it's kind of all they know," Pollan said. "And they're just incredibly supportive. They're very helpful to me. I lean on them a lot."
In October, Fox opened up about his future with the "mysterious" disease.
"There’s no timeline, there’s no series of stages that you go through — not in the same way that you would, say, with prostate cancer. It’s much more mysterious and enigmatic," Fox told The Times.
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"There are not many people who have had Parkinson’s for 35 years," Fox continued. "I’d like to just not wake up one day. That’d be really cool. I don’t want it to be dramatic. I don’t want to trip over furniture, smash my head."
A doctor once told him acting would help him cope with the disease’s symptoms, The Times reported.
"It was helpful, to a point," Fox said at the time. "And that’s [the point] where I break stuff. It’s absolutely incredible, the stuff I broke. In a three-year period, I broke my elbow, I broke my hand, I got a big infection in my hand, and I almost lost my finger."
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At one point, Fox lost the ability to play the guitar he now keeps beside his office desk.
"It’s terrible," he admitted. "I had all these little bones broken, and [they] got infected, and they had to cut the bones out because the bones got infected. I broke my other shoulder, had it replaced. I broke my cheekbone. I had a plate here. I’m missing something?"
"It has been just like a tragedy," he added.
"I take it easy now," Fox noted. "I don’t walk that much anymore. I can walk, but it’s not pretty and it’s a bit dangerous. So I just roll that into my life, you know — no pun intended."
Fox first gained fame for his role in "Family Ties." The actor received three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Alex P. Keaton in the sitcom. While filming "Family Ties," Fox landed the role of Marty McFly — one that would change the trajectory of his career.
"Back to the Future" gave Fox international fame. Fox attended a convention tied to the Robert Zemeckis-directed film a few years ago.
"I thought, well, I’ll do this for the fans," he told The Times. "I realized — no, it wasn’t for them, it was for me.
"I wanted to express my gratitude to them. They’ve given me so much, my life is so amazing. The disease sucks, but … people don’t feel sorry for me. They don’t think I’m pathetic. They see me as — well, I couldn’t tell you how they see me, but I sense that they see me as a positive force."
Fox hasn't given up acting all these years later. He will appear in the upcoming third season of Apple TV+'s "Shrinking," years after taking a step back from the big screen.
China military reaches 'war footing' with new missile silos and advanced AI warfare systems
China’s military buildup has reached what a new congressional report calls a "war footing," with hundreds of new missile silos and expanding nuclear capabilities that could erode America’s long-standing deterrence edge in the Indo-Pacific.
China has built roughly 350 new intercontinental missile silos and expanded its nuclear warhead stockpile by 20% in the past year, part of a sweeping military expansion that the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says could strain U.S. readiness to counter Chinese aggression.
The commission’s 2025 annual report to Congress says Beijing’s rapid nuclear buildup, combined with new artificial intelligence-driven warfare systems, is transforming the People’s Liberation Army into a force "capable of fighting and winning a war against the United States" — even without matching U.S. nuclear numbers.
According to the report, China has unveiled an AI-powered electronic warfare system capable of detecting and suppressing U.S. radar signals as far as Guam, the Marshall Islands and Alaska, and is now deploying 6G-based platforms across its armed forces.
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The report says China unveiled a new 6G-based electronic warfare platform in mid-2025, capable of coordinating radar jamming and signal interception across long distances. The system reportedly uses high-speed data links and artificial intelligence to synchronize attacks on U.S. and allied radar networks — a preview of what Beijing calls "intelligentized warfare."
At a military parade in Beijing this September, China for the first time displayed a full nuclear triad — missiles launchable from land, air and sea.
The commission warns these advances, paired with China’s political crackdown and economic leverage, could allow Beijing to act "quickly and decisively in a crisis," shortening the time the U.S. and its allies would have to respond to aggression.
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The commission is urging Congress to require the Pentagon to conduct a full audit of U.S. readiness to defend Taiwan, warning that Washington may no longer meet its legal obligations under the Taiwan Relations Act. The report calls for a classified and unclassified assessment of whether U.S. forces could "resist any resort to force or coercion" by China — even in a scenario where the United States is also facing simultaneous aggression from Russia, Iran or North Korea.
A war over Taiwan, the commission cautions, could wipe out up to 10% of global GDP — a shock on par with the 2008 financial crisis — and carry a "cataclysmic" risk of nuclear escalation and wider conflict in the Indo-Pacific.
China now holds around 600 nuclear warheads. The Pentagon has assessed China is aiming to own 1,000 by 2030.
The report further warns that China’s economic coercion is compounding the threat, pointing to Beijing’s dominance in foundational semiconductors, rare earth minerals, and printed circuit boards. It says these dependencies could leave the United States "reliant on its rival for the backbone of its modern economy and military."
Among 28 recommendations, the commission calls for Congress to bar Chinese-made components from U.S. power grids, create a unified economic statecraft agency to enforce export controls, and reaffirm diplomatic backing for Taiwan — including its partnership with the Vatican, one of Taiwan’s few remaining formal allies that Beijing has sought to isolate through church diplomacy.
"China’s rapid military and economic mobilization shortens U.S. warning timelines," the report concludes, warning that without a coordinated response, America’s deterrence posture "risks falling short" against Beijing’s expanding capabilities.
Epstein referenced Trump in private emails to Ghislaine Maxwell and others, new records show
The late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein discussed President Donald Trump in emails released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday.
The Democrats on the committee released three emails Wednesday that Epstein’s estate provided them — prompting Republicans to release their own stash of 20,000 pages of Epstein documents hours later, while the White House accused Democrats of seeking to distract from the government shutdown.
In response, Trump announced Friday that he would direct the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate Epstein’s relationship with those including former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration Larry Summers and others.
"This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats," Trump said in a Friday Truth Social post.
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Meanwhile, Clinton has denied that he ever visited Epstein’s island, and wrote in his 2024 memoir "Citizen" that he wished they’d never met. Clinton has not been accused of engaging in any sexual misconduct in connection to Epstein or his victims.
A spokesperson for Summers did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Included in the documents released Wednesday are emails between Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and correspondence with author Michael Wolff, former President Barack Obama's White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler, among others, where Epstein mentions Trump.
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. (VICTIM) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there," Epstein said in an email to Maxwell in April 2011, which was provided with other correspondence to the committee by Epstein’s estate in response to a subpoena request.
"I have been thinking about that…" Maxwell said in response.
The "VICTIM" mentioned in the emails is redacted, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to Fox News that it was a reference to Virginia Giuffre, who accused Epstein of facilitating sexual encounters between her and some of his influential friends, including the U.K.’s then-Prince Andrew.
Giuffre died by suicide in April, but said in her memoir that was completed prior to her death and released in October that she met Trump once at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and that he "couldn’t have been friendlier." She did not accuse Trump of any misconduct.
The emails released by both parties on the Oversight Committee lack context and are full of redactions.
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In another email from 2019, Epstein told Wolff that "of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop," referencing Trump. The president previously told reporters in July that he had prohibited Epstein from the president’s Florida Mar-a-Lago golf club because Epstein kept "taking people who worked for me."
Additionally, it's unclear from the exchange whether "girls" referred to minors or not.
In a separate exchange between Wolff and Epstein from 2015, the two discussed the possibility of CNN asking Trump about his relationship with Epstein.
"I think you should let him hang himself," Wolff said in an email to Epstein. "If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt."
Wolff is an author who has written four books about Trump's political career — including "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which was released in 2018 and pieced together an unflattering picture of Trump's early days in office during his first term. The White House at the time characterized it as "trashy tabloid fiction."
Hours after the initial Democrat release of documents, the Republicans on the committee unveiled their own document pile, which included emails from Epstein where he also discussed Trump.
Other email exchanges released Wednesday included correspondence between Epstein and Ruemmler, who is now the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Ruemmler shared a link to a New York Times opinion piece in August 2018, which detailed alleged hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump. Ruemmler said she thought Epstein would find the piece "interesting."
"I know how dirty donald is," Epstein emailed in response.
Trump was convicted in May 2024 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with the alleged hush-money payments. He continues to deny the affair and maintains his innocence, calling the case a politically motivated "witch hunt."
Ruemmler did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
In a separate 2017 email to Summers, Epstein said that while he's met some "very bad people," none have been "as bad as trump."
"Not one decent cell in his body.. so yes - dangerous," Epstein said.
Summers did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
While the documents themselves are authentic, Epstein’s statements in the emails remain unverified and uncorroborated. They do not allege wrongdoing by Trump; they only show Epstein referencing him. Trump has not faced formal accusations of misconduct tied to Epstein, and no law enforcement records connect Trump to Epstein’s crimes.
The White House shrugged off the release as a "distraction."
"These emails prove literally nothing," White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital. "Liberal outlets are desperately trying to use this Democrat distraction to talk about anything other than Democrats getting utterly defeated by President Trump in the shutdown fight."
Meanwhile, Trump also said in a Wednesday social media post that the Democrats were seeking to revive discussion on the Epstein case to distract from their role in the government shutdown.
EPSTEIN BOASTED HE BRIEFED RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT ON HOW TO HANDLE TRUMP IN NEWLY RELEASED EMAILS
"The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects," Trump said Wednesday. "Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap."
"There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!" Trump said.
Trump’s connections to Epstein have come under heightened scrutiny after Trump’s Justice Department and FBI announced it would not unseal investigation materials concerning Epstein, and that their investigation into the case had closed.
Additionally, the agencies said that they did not detect a list of sexual predators with ties to Epstein, and concluded there were no new people who could face charges.
Meanwhile, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Epstein associate Maxwell in Florida in July, and the Justice Department released transcripts from their interview. In the records, Maxwell claimed that she didn’t see Trump behave in an inappropriate manner.
"I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way," Maxwell said, according to the transcript the Justice Department released. "The President was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects."
Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on federal charges in 2019. Maxwell has been convicted on charges including sex trafficking of a minor and is serving a 20-year sentence.
Fox News' Patrick Ward and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Rapper Nicki Minaj and UN ambassador join voices against Christian persecution in Nigeria
In a collaboration no one saw coming, United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz and rapper Nicki Minaj are teaming up this week to spotlight Christian persecution in Nigeria.
Revealing himself as a fan of the ‘Super Bass’ singer, Waltz deemed Minaj "arguably the greatest female recording artist." Waltz said on X: "I'm grateful she's leveraging her massive platform to spotlight the atrocities against Christians in Nigeria, and I look forward to standing with her as we discuss the steps the President and his administration are taking to end the persecution of our Christian brothers and sisters."
Minaj replied: "Ambassador, I am so grateful to be entrusted with an opportunity of this magnitude. I do not take it for granted. It means more than you know. The Barbz & I will never stand down in the face of injustice. We’ve been given our influence by God. There must be a bigger purpose."
POPE LEO XIV CALLS OUT CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION AMID LATEST MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS IN AFRICAN NATION
The address, first reported by Time Magazine correspondent Eric Cortellessa, will take place on Tuesday in New York.
Years of bloodshed in Africa’s most populous nation has only recently garnered widespread attention in the U.S., with President Donald Trump threatening military action if the Nigerian government cannot get a handle on violent Islamist groups.
While the government disputes that Christians are specifically targeted — pointing out that non-religious and moderate Muslims have fallen victim too — Christian advocacy group Open Doors deems Nigeria the seventh most dangerous country in the world for Christians and says, "more Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined."
"Terrorists attack all who reject their murderous ideology — Muslims, Christians, and those of no faith alike," the office of the Nigerian presidency wrote on X.
The nation is home to 100 million Christians and various human rights groups claim that 50,000 have been killed since the beginning of a Boko Haram insurgency in 2009.
Numbers are difficult to verify, but the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law reports at least 52,000 Christians have been killed, some 18,500 abducted and unlikely to have survived, and 20,000 churches and Christian schools attacked between 2009 and 2023.
Trump this month designated Nigeria as a ‘country of particular concern’ - putting it among the likes of China, Iran, Russia and North Korea - and tasked Reps. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., and Tom Cole, R-Okla., with leading an investigation into what they call Christian "genocide."
In a video on Truth Social this month, Trump threatened to "do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about" and "go into that now-disgraced country guns-a-blazing."
Minaj has said that during hard financial times early in her music career, she considered giving up for a 9-to-5 but "faith" got her through.
"[Faith is] what's always got me through. My mother kept me in church when I was younger, so I never really strayed far from that in terms of my belief and my faith and my drive," she said in a discussion on Fuse TV with Matte Babbel.