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What Happened Today – December 12, 2025

Donald Trump with multiple women in redacted photo released by House Democrats from Jeffrey Epstein estate

Donald Trump poses with women whose faces were redacted by House Oversight Committee staff in one of 89 photos released Friday from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. (House Oversight Committee Democrats)

Trump spent years claiming Biden weaponized the Justice Department. Then he promised to do it himself. Then he won. At UCLA, DOJ political appointees ordered career lawyers to “find” evidence of antisemitism within one month to justify a lawsuit they’d already decided to file. Multiple attorneys left before they could be asked to sign. On … Read more