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Donald Trump has posted a bizarre AI video of former president Barack Obama being arrested and thrown in jail.

Trump, still mired in controversy over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, posted the TikTok clip on his Truth Social platform on Sunday in which the Democrat is seen declaring in a rally speech that “no one is above the law.”

He is then seen being handcuffed by law enforcement during an Oval Office sitdown with a grinning Trump, created using real footage of the two men meeting at the White House in November 2016 when the Republican was president-elect and Obama about to leave office.

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A Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public’s appetite for new revelations about the financier’s crimes, former federal prosecutors say.

Attorney Sarah Krissoff, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan from 2008 to 2021, called the request in the prosecutions of Epstein and Maxwell “a distraction.”

“The president is trying to present himself as if he’s doing something here and it really is nothing,” Krissoff told the Associated Press.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche made the request Friday, asking judges to unseal transcripts from grand jury proceedings that resulted in indictments against Epstein and Maxwell.

The request came as the Trump administration continues to face backlash after a recent Department of Justice and FBI memo stated that there was no evidence that the disgraced financier, who socialised with royalty and celebrities and was accused of running a large network of underage girls for sex, had a “client list.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has pressed the Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, claiming the convicted sex offender and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t act alone.

DeSantis, who ordered a state investigation into Epstein’s case in August 2019, told Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade on Sunday evening that “there were obviously other people involved” but still “no one’s been brought to justice.”

“If you want to talk about what happened at that island, New York City, all these things, that is all federal,” the governor added. “So, what I would say is just release it and let people see.”

President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal after the newspaper published the president’s alleged birthday card to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – but what will he have to prove to win the case?

The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court on Friday names the paper’s owners, including right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch, as well as the paper’s parent companies, Dow Jones and News Corp, and two Wall Street Journal reporters, claiming they defamed Trump.

Weeks after the White House attempted to dismiss the so-called Epstein files as a Democratic “hoax,” the Journal published Trump’s alleged 50th birthday card message to Epstein. The 2003 note was described as including a sexually suggestive drawing and a birthday wish that read: “may every day be another wonderful secret.”

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President Trump brushed off criticism over his administration’s handling of the Epstein case, instead boasting that he revived the U.S. from “DEAD” to the “hottest” country in the world within his first six months in office.

The U.S. talk show host has revealed that she and her wife Portia de Rossi moved to Britain because they happened to be visiting the Cotswolds when the Republican’s victory over Kamala Harris was confirmed last November.

“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here,’” she said.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar compared Donald Trump’s attempt to pin the Epstein fallout on Democrats to Astronomer CEO Andy Byron blaming a cameraman for filming the viral Coldplay kiss-cam incident.

The 65-year-old Democrat pushed back at the assertion that her party was to blame on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning.

“The president blaming Democrats for this disaster, Jake, is like that CEO that got caught on camera blaming Coldplay,” Klobuchar told Jake Tapper.

“OK, like this is his making. He was president when Epstein got indicted for these charges and went to prison. He was president when Epstein committed suicide.”

A former attorney for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein says his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, should be granted immunity so she can testify about his crimes.

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Epstein’s ex-lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Maxwell “absolutely” should testify as she was most closely involved with Epstein.

“She knows everything. I mean, she is everything,” Dershowitz said.

“She was the one who arranged all the trips and travel of all the people who went to the island, who went to the house and went to the place in New Mexico, who went to his place in Paris,” Dershowitz said of Maxwell.

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