🗞️DOJ meets again with Ghislaine Maxwell

July 25th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, met with Ghislaine Maxwell for a second consecutive day in Florida, the Department of Justice has said they will share additional information about what they have learned at the “appropriate time”…Maxwell’s attorney said following the meeting that “the truth will come out” and Maxwell was granted limited immunity while speaking with the Deputy AG

• Last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that former President, Bill Clinton, had also sent a letter to Jeffery Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003…it is worth noting that though both Trump and Clinton supposedly wrote and sent letters to Epstein it does not make them guilty of any crimes or wrongdoing, it merely demonstrates that they both had a relationship with Epstein…more information needs to be released in order to determine the extent of involvement for anyone who may have been committed crimes with Epstein

• President Trump has suggested that his administration is considering issuing tariff rebate checks to some Americans, funded by the revenue the government has collected from tariffs on imported goods (over $100 billion in the first half of 2025 alone)… Trump mentioned that these rebates would likely be targeted at people "of a certain income level" as a way to compensate for possible higher prices caused by tariffs and provide a small economic stimulus

• Former Republican Rep., George Santos, has surrendered himself to authorities and began serving his 87-month (7 years and 3 months) federal prison sentence…Santos pled guilty to felony wire fraud and aggravated identity theft related to his 2020 campaign finances and other fraudulent activities

• The FCC has approved the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media, allowing the $8 billion deal to proceed and granting license transfers for CBS stations to the new ownership…read more here

• U.S. Treasury Department has recently begun accepting payments via Venmo and PayPal from citizens who want to donate money to help reduce the national debt, which currently stands at about $37 trillion

• Meta will stop selling and showing political ads in the European Union starting in October 2025…Meta has said that the EU's new Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) law is "unworkable”

• 94% of the job gains in June came from healthcare/social assistance and state/local governments, per Indeed

• DOW up .47% / S&P up .40%

• The S&P 500 has closed out the week at another record high

• Ceasefire talks between Israel, Hamas, and the U.S. recently collapsed after the U.S. and Israel withdrew their negotiators, citing Hamas’s lack of coordination and unwillingness to sincerely negotiate…read more about it here

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