Christian Wilkins, the veteran defensive lineman who was released by the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday, reportedly kissed a teammate on the forehead, who took offense to it. 

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported the situation on Monday, adding that Wilkins’ incident with the teammate did not solely contribute to him being cut from the Raiders.

Wilkins is dealing with a Jones fracture in his left foot, which he suffered in October 2024. 

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The report states that the incident occurred in a team meeting room last week, with ESPN having one source say it was “playful.” However, the teammate in question did not view Wilkins’ interaction that way. 

A complaint was filed to the Raiders’ human resources department following the incident. 

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On the injury front, the Raiders are reportedly voiding the remaining $35.2 million left in guaranteed money on Wilkins’ contract due to how he treated his rehab assignment following the injury. Wilkins was released with the designation of terminated vested veteran, per Schefter. 

Wilkins has asked the NFL Players Association to file a grievance on his behalf due to the Raiders’ wanting to void his guaranteed money, and they did so on Thursday. 

Wilkins signed a four-year, $110 million deal, which included $84.75 million guaranteed, with Las Vegas in free agency last year. 

He was one of the league’s best defensive tackles with the Miami Dolphins, which included a career-high nine-sack season in 2023 before hitting free agency. Wilkins racked up 20.5 sacks and 355 combined tackles over 81 games with the Dolphins.

In five games before his injury in 2024, Wilkins tallied two sacks and 17 combined tackles for the Raiders. He required surgery for the Jones fracture, which ended his debut season in Las Vegas.

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CINCINNATI – A candidate for Cincinnati’s mayorship slammed city leadership Monday afternoon after a viral downtown beatdown that has reverberated across the nation. 

“People don’t even see the sense in calling 911 anymore,” said Cory Bowman, who is also Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother in addition to being a candidate for city mayor. 

Bowman placed second in a nonpartisan primary race in May. He will square off with incumbent Mayor Aftab Pureval in November. His thoughts on citizens seeing no sense in calling 911 came after Police Chief Teresa Theetge said in a press conference that only one person called police while the attack was ongoing. 

“That is unacceptable to not call the police,” she said during a Monday press conference. “Traffic was horrendous. People saw this. They were fighting in front of traffic. Why didn’t people call us?”

Bowman said that with police handcuffed by the current city leadership, he is not surprised by the events of early Saturday morning, which took place on the corner of Fourth and Elm Street outside a nightclub in the city’s downtown business district. 

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“There’s two aspects of it,” Bowman told Fox News Digital. “One, it’s a wake-up call. It’s a wake-up call that we’ve got to have better policy. We’ve got to be able to take immediate action to make sure that the residents and the businesses in our communities are safe. The nation is basically seeing what us in the city have already known to be true.” 

Despite the fact that the viral assault could stain his city’s reputation, Bowman said it’s important for the nation to see what’s really happening in cities, and that what happened in Cincinnati is a microcosm of what is happening in urban areas nationwide. 

“Now, I think this is important for the nation to see it, because the nation is seeing that multiple downtown areas in America are seeing failed policies ruin their cities,” he said. “And you’re seeing riots, you’re seen fights, you’re seeing crime rise, you’re seeing laws that aren’t enforced.”

He told Fox News Digital that crime in the city not only spikes during the summer months, but has increased over time as a whole, which he claims the local government and media deny.

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“Whenever May and June was rolling around, there was all these press conferences and all these statements from the media that was stating that crime is down, crime is down,” he said. 

“Well, the reality of it is that anybody that lived downtown knew that because of snow and because of rain, that maybe some things were being prolonged, but once the warmer months came about, the policies … not enforcing the law is actually going to allow just a free-for-all in the city,” he continued. 

Bowman said police officers are voicing their concerns to him about not being able to do their jobs, and he noted that the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) is understaffed to begin with. 

“And then what happens is that these police officers don’t see a point in actually booking the criminals, because there’s actually prosecutors in the city that have a revolving door mentality that the criminals go in, and then they’re released on the streets,” he said. 

“And so many of these officers don’t even book people because they know they’re just gonna be back on the street next week. So they sit in their cars, and they try to do the best they can. They have a heart for the city, but they’re being hindered by the policies that are in place.”

Ken Kober is a 25-year veteran of the Cincinnati Police Department. He echoed Bowman’s sentiments about the police department’s hands being tied, and told Fox News Digital that the beating is something that “as a society, we cannot accept.”

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“It’s just nothing more than a savage attack on a couple of people. I mean you see somebody that’s completely defenseless, trying to cover their head in their face, and they’re just being stomped on by multiple individuals,” Kober said. 

Kober was upset that the positives of the weekend, the Cincinnati Reds winning three home games and the storied Cincinnati Jazz Festival, were overshadowed by the vicious viral video. 

He, too, blamed local officials for increasing crime. 

“We have a problem with judges that don’t wanna hold people accountable, and when they know that there aren’t gonna to be any consequences for their actions is when people are gonna go out and we’re gonna see incidents like what happened Saturday morning,” he said. 

“I hope that the court system actually holds these people to the fullest extent of the law. It would be nice to see headlines six or eight months from now saying that these people were convicted, and they’re now gonna get the maximum sentence for whatever crime they’ve been convicted of.”

On Monday afternoon, CPD said it charged five people in connection with the incident. The names of the individuals were not released.

Cincinnati Chief of Police Teresa Theetge added that there were over 100 witnesses to the attack, and some even filmed it. However, only one call was placed to 911. 

Police sources told Fox News earlier in the day that they are working to identify at least eight more suspects. 

People with information are asked to call the Cincinnati Police Department or Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, allegedly told The Atlantic she was “shutting down” its profile of her after learning the author had reached out to other Democrats without telling her.

Staff writer Elaine Godfrey described in an article on Sunday that Crockett called her four days before the piece was published “to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first.”

“She was, she told me, ‘shutting down the profile and revoking all permissions,’” Godfrey wrote.

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Despite this assertion, the article was published and included comments from both Crockett and other Democratic figures.

Democrats quoted in the article included progressive strategist Max Burns, strategist James Carville, Texas state Rep. Toni Rose, and U.S. House Reps. Julie Johnson of Texas and Robert Garcia of California.

Godfrey added that she reached out to several other Democrats who “seemed uninterested” in commenting. 

“Thirteen of her colleagues on the Oversight and Judiciary committees, along with 20 other Democratic members I contacted for this story, either declined to talk with me on the record or didn’t respond to my interview requests,” Godfrey wrote. “Senior staffers for three Democratic members told me that some of Crockett’s colleagues see her as undisciplined but are reluctant to criticize her publicly.” 

Godfrey also added a comment from an anonymous staffer.

“She likes to talk,” the staffer said. “Is she a loose cannon? Sometimes. Does that cause headaches for other members? 100 percent.”

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Crockett reportedly hoping to shut down a piece because Godfrey reached out to other Democrats was roundly mocked by reporters for not understanding basic journalism.

“That is not how any of this works,” NBC News political reporter Sahil Kapur wrote.

Reporter Jim Stinson commented, “Rep. Jasmine Crockett believes she can shut down a journalism profile. That’s how dumb she is.”

“Dang. That usually works, too!” National Review senior writer Noah Rothman joked.

Crooked Media podcast host Jane Coaston wrote, “if you are being profiled someone is going to reach out to other people about your profile, that’s how profiles work.”

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In the same article, Crockett was critical of her fellow leftists, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt.

“The national ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour featuring Senator Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez is a good idea, Crockett said, but it ‘kind of makes people be like, Oh, it’s about them, right? Instead of the team,’” Godfrey wrote.

Fox News Digital reached out to Crockett’s office for comment.

The Senate confirmed its first nominee of the week ahead of what is expected to be a jam-packed schedule to ram through as many of President Donald Trump’s picks as possible.

David A. Wright, Trump’s pick to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a five-year term, was confirmed in the upper chamber on a 50 to 39 vote on Monday. It’s not Wright’s first time as chair of the commission, having first served in the role beginning in 2020.

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Trump had previously tapped Wright during his first term, and again selected him to lead the NRC earlier this year. His new term is set to end in 2030.

The NRC is an independent regulatory agency tasked with regulating commercial nuclear power plants, reactor licensing and renewal and other elements related to protecting public health and safety when it comes to nuclear energy. Wright’s confirmation comes on the heels of Trump’s announcement that the U.S. and European Union were entering a trade deal that would see the bloc purchase $750 billion of U.S. energy over the next three years. 

While the commission is independent from other arms of the government, Senate Democrats have balked at recent attempts to make the regulatory body, in their view, more partisan.

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Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order that demanded the agency consider making its safety standards less stringent, shortening the timelines for environmental reviews and a quadrupling of the nation’s nuclear power capacity by 2050: all part of the president’s quest to ensure America’s energy dominance. 

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., argued that over the last seven years that Wright has been a part of the commission, first as a commissioner beginning in 2018 and then as chair, he would fulfill the president’s wishes. 

“Achieving this will require experienced and highly qualified Commissioners who are empowered to lead the Agency through a period of high expectations,” she said in a statement. “Well, David Wright meets that mark.”

Then Trump fired a Democratic member of the commission last month, and a staffer from the president’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was reportedly detailed from the Department of Energy to the regulatory agency.  

That prompted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, to warn of a “hostile takeover” of the commission by the Energy Department.

The move hurt what began as bipartisan support for Wright’s nomination — Whitehouse initially backed him but changed his position.

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“I hoped to see Chairman Wright rise to the occasion, but circumstances right now at the NRC continue to deteriorate,” he said in a statement. “I cannot presently support his renomination.”

Still, Wright’s confirmation is a win for both Senate Republicans and the White House after Trump called on the Senate GOP to ram his nominees through blockades set up by Senate Democrats.

There are now over 140 pending “civilian” nominations for positions across the gauntlet of federal agencies, ambassadorships and judgeships. The Senate has moved at a blistering clip over the last six months to confirm nominees—they’ve clocked nearly 100 so far — the president has called on Senate Republicans to consider canceling the forthcoming August break to get more done. 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., warned that if his colleagues across the aisle continued to slow walk the process in the upper chamber for the slew of remaining “uncontroversial” nominees, or be prepared to stick around Washington. 

“Or they can rein in their reflexive anti-Trump sentiment and allow some of his rank-and-file nominees to proceed by unanimous consent or voice vote — just as Republicans did when the roles were reversed,” he said. “And I’d remind my colleagues about the dangerous and ugly precedent that they’re setting here. But the choice is theirs. But whether it’s the slow way or the fast way, we’re getting President Trump’s nominees confirmed.”

Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas were spotted among a sea of fans at the latest Oasis concert.

Cruise, 63, and his upcoming “Deeper” co-star, 37, caught the Gallagher brothers performing at London’s Wembley Stadium on Friday, July 25.

English producer DJ Goldie snapped a selfie with Cruise at the show, nearly 20 years after the band mocked the “Mission: Impossible” actor.

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Noel and Liam Gallagher embarked on a comeback tour earlier this month — a series of concerts marking the first time Oasis has performed together since the band broke up in 2009.

Cruise appeared to be loving every second of the performance as he smiled with the British DJ in a snap shared on Instagram.

His attendance proved there was no ill-will between the trio, more than 18 years after Liam and Noel mocked the “Top Gun: Maverick” star.

In an excerpt from the band’s 2007 documentary, “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down,” Liam and Noel admitted they weren’t fans of Cruise.

“Tom Cruise is a f—-ng midget,” Noel said, before continuing on, “He’s a little f—er, and he’s not been in one good film his entire career.”

“‘Cocktail’ is great,” Liam said about Tom’s classic 1988 romantic comedy, which also starred Elizabeth Shue. Still, Liam asserted, “I hate Tom Cruise.”

While some of the band argued that “Eyes Wide Shut” was a good Cruise film, Liam stood firm in his disdain. 

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“I hate Tom Cruise. Him and [then–pro soccer player] Michael Owen,” he said.

Shortly after the Cruise cursing was released, the “Jerry Maguire” actor reportedly confronted Liam at a hotel in Berlin.

While Cruise was in town to promote “Valkyrie,” the Daily Star reported that Tom and Liam “made polite conversation” regarding Gallagher’s disapproval. Cruise allegedly reminded the “Champagne Supernova” singer that he was still a fan of “Cocktail.”

The reported rift was far from his mind, though, this week as romance rumors continued to swirl between De Armas and Cruise.

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The pair — who will soon begin filming the supernatural thriller “Deeper” — sparked dating rumors earlier this year when they were spotted together in London.

They’ve since been seen together several times, including on her birthday in April and at David Beckham’s birthday party in May. 

De Armas admitted that it was “surreal” to hear kind words about her work from Cruise, ahead of their new film.

“It’s very special,” de Armas told Access Hollywood in May when asked about him raving about her role in the film. “It’s very surreal that an actor like him, like someone like him, likes the movie and my performance and my work, and we’re working together now so, yeah, it’s pretty, it’s really amazing.” 

In a photo and video captured by a bystander and shared on X of the April birthday stroll, Cruise walked next to de Armas with his hands behind his back and was holding what appeared to be an olive green dog leash with a pouch. The pair were accompanied by another woman as well as security guards.

The day before de Armas’ birthday, the “Ballerina” actress was photographed with Cruise as they disembarked a helicopter that was flown by the “Minority Report” star.

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On Feb. 13, the two were pictured walking through London’s Soho neighborhood as de Armas carried what appeared to be takeout bags of food from a restaurant. They stopped for photos with fans before leaving in a taxi together.

At least six people were shot Monday, and a police officer was killed when a suspected gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire inside a midtown Manhattan office building that houses the Blackstone investment firm and the headquarters of the NFL. 

Video taken by a FOX 5 NY employee showed several officers carrying a person, and other officers appeared to be tending to a person lying on the ground. The news outlet reported the number of people killed, citing law enforcement sources. 

Two police officers were shot, including the one who died, sources told Fox News. 

The gunman was armed with a rifle and first opened fire in the lobby of the building on 52nd Street and Park Avenue. He went to another floor and shot people there, sources told Fox News, before going up to the 33rd floor and shooting himself. 

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An NYPD officer working security at the building was one of the people shot, sources said. During the chaos, people inside the building were hiding on different floors, the kitchen and bathrooms. 

NYPD and Sheriff’s Department officers in protective gear were seen with guns drawn, Fox New York reported.

“New Yorkers: there is an active shooter investigation taking place in Midtown right now,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams wrote on X. “Please take proper safety precautions if you are in vicinity and do not go outside if you are near Park Avenue and East 51st Street.”

Officers were sweeping the building to see if a second shooter was present. 

The city’s emergency notification system told followers to expect traffic and mass transit disruptions. 

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said that FBI New York Field Office management personnel and agents were responding to provide support at the active crime scene.

Tulane basketball star Gregg Glenn III died in what the university called a “tragic accident” on Monday. 

Glenn was 22 years old. 

“It is with profound sadness that I reach out to you today,” vice president of student affairs Sarah Cunningham penned in a letter to the “Tulane Community.” “We have lost a cherished member of our university community, Gregg Glenn III, who died in a tragic accident this weekend. He was a talented student-athlete who enriched our lives with his spirit, dedication, and passion for both sports and academics.

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“Gregg was an outstanding athlete on our men’s basketball team and an individual who brought joy and light to those around him. His commitment to excellence inspired many of us.”

Cunningham’s announcement did not divulge details about the “tragic accident.”

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“The oldest of his siblings, Gregg was a Health & Wellness major from Pompano Beach, Florida. Known for his infectious personality, positive energy, and kindness, he brightened every room he entered. Well known in the South Florida area for his basketball prowess, he will be greatly missed by many.

“Let us remember Gregg not just for his achievements in sports, but for the kindness and warmth he shared with everyone. He will forever remain a part of our university family.”

Glenn was a product of Calvary Christian High School in Florida, where he rose to become a Division I prospect. 

He began his college basketball career at Michigan, where he played just four games his freshman year. 

Glenn would transfer to Tulane for the 2023-24 season, where he played primarily off the bench, averaging 3.6 points over 9.7 minutes per game. 

Last season, Glenn had a breakout year, starting all 34 games at forward. He averaged 10.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists. 

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The Department of Justice has filed an official complaint alleging misconduct by US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg. Fox News has reviewed the complaint which was written by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle and addressed to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Sri Srinivasan.

Fox News has learned that the complaint was written and filed at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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“The Department of Justice respectfully submits this complaint alleging misconduct by U.S. District Court Chief Judge James E. Boasberg for making improper public comments about President Donald J. Trump to the Chief Justice of the United States and other federal judges that have undermined the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary,” says Mr. Mizelle.

Judge Boasberg is presiding over a high-profile case involving the deportation of several migrants to El Salvador and has talked about holding DOJ lawyers in contempt because of his assertion that his order to turn airborne planes around was not followed. President Trump has also made critical comments about Judge Boasberg.

The complaint details two occasions on which Judge Boasberg made comments the Justice Department alleges undermine the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.

“On March 11, 2025, Judge Boasberg attended a session of the Judicial Conference of the United States, which exists to discuss administrative matters like budgets, security, and facilities. While there, Judge Boasberg attempted to improperly influence Chief Justice Roberts and roughly two dozen other federal judges by straying from the traditional topics to express his belief that the Trump Administration would “disregard rulings of federal courts” and trigger “a constitutional crisis.” Although his comments would be inappropriate even if they had some basis, they were even worse because Judge Boasberg had no basis—the Trump Administration has always complied with all court orders. Nor did Judge Boasberg identify any purported violations of court orders to justify his unprecedented predictions.”

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“Within days of those statements, Judge Boasberg began acting on his preconceived belief that the Trump Administration would not follow court orders. First, although he lacked authority to do so, he issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Government from removing violent Tren de Aragua terrorists, which the Supreme Court summarily vacated.

“Taken together, Judge Boasberg’s words and deeds violate Canons of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, and, erode public confidence in judicial neutrality, and warrant a formal investigation.” 

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The DOJ is asking Chief Judge Srinivasan to refer the complaint to a special investigative committee as an inquiry is essential to determine whether Judge Boasberg’s conduct constitutes “conduct prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts.” The complaint also asks that Judge Boasberg be taken off the case involving Venezuelan migrants who were deported to El Salvador, “to prevent further erosion of public confidence while the investigation proceeds.”

The case in question is J.G.G. v Trump.

This is the second time the Bondi DOJ has filed an official complaint against a federal judge. In late February, the DOJ filed a complaint about US District Judge Ana Reyes, concerning what the DOJ calls Judge Reyes’ “misconduct” during the proceedings in Nicolas Talbott et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al., which is a case brought by two LGBTQ groups challenging the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders barring transgender individuals from serving in the US military.

News of the complaint comes at a time when the Trump administration has excoriated dozens of so-called “activist” judges who have blocked or paused some of Trump’s sweeping executive orders from taking force in his second White House term.

Judge Boasberg in particular found himself at the center of Trump’s ire and attacks on so-called “activist” judges this year, following his March 15 temporary restraining order that sought to block Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport hundreds of Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador.

Boasberg had ordered all planes bound for El Salvador to be “immediately” returned to U.S. soil, which did not happen.

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His emergency order touched off a complex legal saga that ultimately spawned dozens of federal court challenges across the country – though the one brought before his court on March 15 was the very first – and later prompted the Supreme Court to rule, on two separate occasions, that the hurried removals had violated migrants’ due process protections under the U.S. Constitution.

Boasberg, as a result, emerged as the man at the center of the legal fallout. 

Trump administration officials have repeatedly excoriated Boasberg both for his order and his attempt to determine whether they acted in good faith to comply with his orders, and Trump himself has floated the idea that Boasberg could be impeached earlier this year – prompting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to issue a rare public warning. 

The complaint, focused on months-old behavior and allegations surrounding Judge Boasberg— first tapped as a judge by then-President George W. Bush in 2002, comes at a time when he could again have a say in a major class action case brought by lawyers representing the former CECOT migrants. 

Lawyers for the ACLU and others in the class asked Judge Boasberg earlier this month to reopen discovery in the case, citing allegations from a United Nations report regarding custodial status of migrants at CECOT, and the recent decision to remove the 252 migrants sent from the U.S. to El Salvador to Venezuela under the prisoner exchange.

Asked at a status hearing in court last week whether the Justice Department would comply with the court’s orders, DOJ lawyer Tiberius Davis said they would, “if it was a lawful order.”

They also said they would likely seek an appeal from a higher court.

In April, Judge Boasberg also ruled that the court had found “probable cause” to hold the Trump administration in contempt for failing to return the planes to U.S. soil, in accordance with his March 15 emergency order, and said the court had determined that the Trump administration demonstrated a “willful disregard” for his order.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stayed his original motion in April, and has yet to move on the matter.

Vice President JD Vance trashed the media on Monday for not asking prior presidential administrations why they weren’t being transparent with the Jeffrey Epstein case.

During an address in Canton, Ohio, touting President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, Vance replied to a question about whether Republicans were “protecting pedophiles” with how Trump has handled the Jeffrey Epstein case. Vance said Trump has been the most transparent president on the Epstein topic and slammed the mainstream media for only now applying new scrutiny to the story with the president in office.

“For four years under Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, the media didn’t give a damn about the Epstein files or about the Epstein case,” he said.

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Some Trump supporters and critics have accused the administration of conspiring to cover up the details of the sex trafficking case against the sexual predator after Trump’s DOJ and the FBI said earlier this month that there were no more major details to reveal about the Epstein case.

“This systemic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list,’” read a joint memo leaked to Axios. “There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.” 

The revelation shocked many MAGA Republicans and Trump supporters, who had for years believed that Epstein was at the heart of a child sex trafficking ring that involved blackmailing prominent figures worldwide.

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In Canton, Associated Press reporter Julie Carr Smyth asked Vance, “There are some protesters outside accusing the GOP of protecting pedophiles and were wondering what you think are the reasons the U.S. government should shield the client list of Epstein from the public and what you have to say about any relevance to that here today.”

Vance responded by saying that Trump has been transparent. 

“First of all, the president has been very clear, we’re not shielding anything. The president has directed the attorney general to release all credible information and frankly, to go and find additional credible information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. He’s been incredibly transparent about that stuff.”

“The president has been very clear he wants full transparency,” Vance added.

Following backlash to the DOJ and FBI Epstein memo, Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all “pertinent” transcripts on the case.   

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Vance then ripped the media’s newfound curiosity about the case during Trump’s second term.

“For 20 years, you had Obama and George W. Bush’s Department of Justice go easy on this guy. They didn’t fully investigate the case, they didn’t show any curiosity about the case and now Donald J. Trump is asking his Department of Justice to show full transparency, and somehow that’s a criticism of Donald J. Trump and not Barack Obama and George W. Bush.”

Vance advised the AP reporter and Trump critics, “If you want to criticize the people who aren’t showing full transparency, you ought to go after the administrations that went easy on Jeffrey Epstein, the administrations that concealed this case for 20 years, and the administrations that failed to show full transparency.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., on Monday, after he and other lawmakers tried to inspect a migrant detention facility, accusing the lawmaker of prioritizing the rights of criminal illegal immigrants over Americans. 

Van Hollen, a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s illegal immigration raids, was part of a Maryland congressional delegation that was denied entry to inspect a Baltimore U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility.

The lawmakers, which included Van Hollen and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, and U.S. Reps. Glenn Ivey, Johnny Olzewski Jr., Sarah Elfreth and Kweisi Mfume, staged a sit-in upon being denied entry. 

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“President Trump lied to the American people when he said the Trump administration was simply going to focus on the worst of the worst,” Van Hollen said outside the facility. 

In response to the sit-in, Noem posted the image of four unidentified illegal immigrants arrested for various crimes, including rape, possession of child pornography, sexual abuse of a minor and murder. 

“These are the monsters that @ChrisVanHollen is protecting over American victims,” she wrote on X. 

U.S. Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D, Md., who was part of Monday’s delegation, said they were denied entry despite following the legal requirements to enter. 

“Congress has a legal right to inspect ICE facilities,” he wrote on social media. “Amid reports of inhumane conditions, this refusal is alarming. We won’t stop fighting for accountability.”

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A post in response by the Department of Homeland Security accused the lawmaker of wanting a “photo op.”

“Congressman, if you need a photo op with the violent criminal illegal aliens you are protecting—schedule a TOUR,” the post states. “As for visits to detention facilities, requests should be made with sufficient time to prevent interference with the President’s Article II authority to oversee executive department functions—a week is sufficient to ensure no intrusion on the President’s constitutional authority. To protect the President’s Article II authority, any request to shorten that time must be approved by the Secretary.”

Van Hollen has come under heavy criticism for his advocacy for suspected gang member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

Van Hollen was the first of several Democratic lawmakers to fly to visit Abrego Garcia after he was deported to a high-security prison in his home country, El Salvador, in March.

Abrego Garcia, 29, has been returned to the U.S. and is facing charges in a sealed federal indictment in Tennessee for alleged conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain and unlawful transportation of illegal aliens.

Though many Democrats claim Abrego Garcia is an innocent man who was wrongly deported, the administration has pointed to considerable evidence that he is a member of the MS-13 gang. According to court records filed by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, he also allegedly physically abused her on multiple occasions.

“As I have repeatedly said, this is not about the man. It’s about his constitutional rights, and the rights of all,” Van Hollen told Fox News Digital in June about the case. “The administration will now have to make its case in the court of law, as it should have all along.”