🗞️Trump pardons Democratic Congressman

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December 3rd, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• President Trump has given a full and unconditional pardon to Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife Imelda, who faced federal charges of accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-owned energy company and a Mexican bank...Trump claimed the Biden administration weaponized the DOJ against Cuellar for criticizing open-border policies and this now allows the congressman to avoid trial and continue serving without legal jeopardy

• House Democrats on the Oversight Committee released never-before-seen photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein's island home showing bedrooms, bathrooms, a dental chair room with masks on walls, a pool, library, and a phone…view them here

• Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District special election…read more here 

• Snopes reported that the claim that the FBI spent nearly $1 million in overtime pay to redact Epstein files is true, confirming via Freedom Of Information Act documents that the agency paid at least $851,244 for 934 agents to process and redact materials during the week of March 17th-22nd, as part of the "Epstein Transparency Project"

• A Pentagon inspector general report released today said that Defense/War Secretary, Pete Hegseth, violated regulations and risked U.S. personnel safety by sharing sensitive details via unauthorized Signal chats on his personal device

• Fanatics has launched a prediction market platform called Fanatics Markets which allows users to trade event contracts on sports, finance, economics, politics, and later crypto, stocks, tech, and music

• Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google and Amazon, is preparing for a potential IPO as early as 2026, having hired law firm Wilson Sonsini and begun preliminary discussions with investment banks

• More than 1.5 million bags of shredded cheese manufactured by Great Lakes Cheese Co. and sold at major retailers including Walmart, Target, Aldi, and Publix have been recalled due to potential contamination with metal fragments…the recall covers products sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico, including various types and brands of shredded mozzarella, Italian-style blends, and pizza-style cheese, with consumers advised to discard or return the products for a refund

• U.S. ADP private payrolls report showed that private employers lost 32,000 jobs in November, economists had expected that there would be roughly a 10,000-job gain

• October’s U.S. housing market had an estimated 36.8% more home sellers than buyers which is the widest gap since 2013

• DOW up .86% / S&P up .30%

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