Day: February 3, 2026
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CBS News scrambles as new contributor’s Epstein email connections surface in latest DOJ files
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Metropolitan Police launched a criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson over alleged Jeffrey Epstein connections and misconduct claims.
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‘Couldn’t find her reservation’: Trump hilariously roasts Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren in private dinner
President Donald Trump delivered another hilarious one-liner during a private dinner, this time aimed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Trump has repeatedly trolled the Massachusetts Democrat, namely for claiming she had Native American ancestry, plaguing her political prospects in 2020. Warren even went so far as to list her Native American heritage in university records, but she was quickly mocked when she revealed her actual genetic profile.
‘She “couldn’t find her reservation.”’
Warren released her DNA results in an attempt to combat ridicule, only to reveal that her Native American ancestry went back roughly 6-10 generations, equating to about 1/64th to 1/1,024th Native American.
The scandal quickly became the subject of mockery, with Warren later apologizing to the Cherokee Nation.
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Years later, the controversy remains a hilarious memory for many Americans, including Trump, who has made several references to it since.
Most famously, Trump branded Warren with the nickname “Pocahontas” in reference to the negligible Native American ancestry she made a focal point of her academic and political career.
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His trolling streak has only continued, with Trump referencing the classic nickname during a recent black-tie dinner. In addition to reviving the “Pocahontas” nickname, Trump joked about Warren’s absence from the dinner.
Warren was set to attend the dinner alongside other lawmakers, but Trump noted that she “couldn’t find her reservation.”
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DOJ demotes Trump’s top weaponization lawyer loved by MAGA
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the charge against government weaponization has reportedly been demoted from his role within the Department of Justice.
Ed Martin was initially recruited to serve as U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., but was later reassigned as the DOJ’s weaponization chief. Now, after nine months on the job, several media outlets have reported that Martin’s role has been narrowed but that he will continue serving as the U.S. pardon attorney.
His demotion may have been due to an ongoing feud with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“President Trump appointed Ed Martin as pardon attorney, and Ed continues to a great job in that role,” a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement.
Martin’s claim to fame came after the 2020 election, when he became a vocal defender of Trump and the January 6 protesters, many of whom he represented as an attorney.
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Martin’s brief time serving as interim U.S. attorney was focused on forwarding Trump’s agenda, kneecapping prosecutors who harshly punished January 6 protesters, and advocating for the Department of Government Efficiency.
Although Martin was popular with the MAGA base, he was a tough sell for the Senate. President Trump eventually pulled his nomination in May 2025.
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In the midst of Martin’s role change, reports suggested that his demotion may have been due to an ongoing feud with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, clashing with his staff over his “lack of productivity” and his “controversial social media posts,” according to CBS News.
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‘Lawless activism’: Foreign-born Biden judge strikes again, protects Haitians from removal
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration’s immigration policy and helped the U.N. secure asylum for so-called refugees — obliged her fellow immigration activists on Monday, blocking the revocation of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status.
That status, which Haitian migrants have enjoyed since January 2010 and over 352,000 Haitian migrants enjoy today, was set to expire on Tuesday. Without Reyes’ intervention, the Trump administration would have been able to immediately repatriate many of those Haitians who have strained citizen resources and displaced American labor in cities such as Springfield, Ohio.
‘Temporary means temporary.’
Reyes, a Uruguayan native, claimed, however, that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not only violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause when terminating the TPS designation for Haiti but had likely done so “because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
Much of Reyes’ Monday ruling in the class-action lawsuit reads like a piece of immigration activist agitprop.
In addition to characterizing Haitian TPS holders as valuable contributors to American society and some class members’ removal back to Haiti as “devastating because they have no meaningful ties to the country,” Reyes questioned why it was necessary to let the status expire now:
Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our health care system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things — in the public interest is not one of them.
The foreign-born judge suggested further that while the Trump administration “contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative,” the State Department has issued travel advisories to Americans warning of the threats of kidnapping, crime, and civil unrest in the third-world nation.
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Noem determined last year after reviewing country conditions and consulting with the appropriate government agencies that the island nation no longer met the conditions for a TPS designation.
Reyes, the same judge who tried unsuccessfully last year to torpedo the War Department’s ban on transvestites in the military, makes no secret of her animus toward the American-born DHS secretary throughout her ruling, using her conclusion, for instance, to cast Noem as a cold-hearted ignoramus.
“Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side — or at least has ignored them,” wrote the Biden judge. “Does not have the law on her side — or at least has ignored it.”
Reyes’ fellow activists celebrated her ruling.
“This was the right decision. There is no evidence that the Trump administration took the time to make a clear-eyed assessment of the risks these families would face back in Haiti before moving to revoke TPS,” Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, said in a statement obtained by GBH News. “On the contrary, the revocation appears to have been driven by racial animus and political ideology.”
“We can breathe for a little bit,” Rose-Thamar Joseph, operations director of the Haitian Support Center in migrant-overwhelmed Springfield, Ohio, told the Associated Press.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in response to the ruling, “Supreme Court, here we come.”
“This is lawless activism that we will be vindicated on,” continued McLaughlin. “Haiti’s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades.”
“Temporary means temporary, and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench,” added McLaughlin.
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Jeffrey Epstein was BANNED from Xbox Live — for harassing other gamers
Whatever the scope of Bill Gates’ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Microsoft seemingly had at least a few reasons to ban the shadowy financier and sex abuser from its gaming platform.
Although Epstein was first convicted of sexual abuse crimes in 2008, it appears he had several more years of gaming left in him.
‘”Severe, repeated, and/or excessive” mistreatment of his peers.’
While most were likely gearing up for the Christmas season at the time, Epstein may have been hitting Microsoft’s online gaming platform Xbox Live hard around the holidays. It was Thursday, December 19, 2013, when Epstein got an email from the service that informed him he was getting permanently banned. The document has been made available by the Department of Justice.
The email to Epstein was labeled a “Notice of permanent enforcement action” for “Harassment, threats, and/or abuse” from xlcm@microsoft.com, which has been noted online as Xbox’s official policy and enforcement team.
The ban came as a result of “severe, repeated, and/or excessive” mistreatment of his peers, the email said. It also provided a list of Epstein’s possible conduct that could have initiated the ban:
- Threats of death, harm, property damage, or any other act of violence or vandalism
- Verbal abuse or profanity directed at other players
- Griefing
- Extortion or manipulation
- Libel, defamation, or slander
- Display or transmission of personally identifiable information, such as name, address, phone number, or IP address
- Stalking
But that wasn’t all.
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That same day, Epstein received another email to his connected account, jeevacation@gmail.com; the sender has been redacted.
This email informed him that he had been permanently suspended from Xbox Live due to the New York Attorney General’s partnership with Microsoft, which prohibits the service from having “New York registered sex offenders” on its platform.
This was done to “minimize the risk to others, particularly children,” the email stated.
While Epstein was already a registered sex offender years prior, it seems that he did not join the Xbox platform until 2012.
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This is evidenced by a 2012 “Welcome to Xbox LIVE” email he received, which was also made available by the DOJ.
Other video game-related emails include Epstein asking his assistant Lesley Groff if he has “an Xbox 360 Kinect?” in 2014, and there is another email from 2016 that talks about setting up an Xbox One that was purchased as a gift.
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