Rep. Thomas Massie is gaining more Republican friends and allies as he pushes for releasing the Epstein files after having a falling with Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama have met for a substantive conversation exactly once: November 10, 2016, two days after Trump won his first election. It was Trump’s first time in the Oval Office.

The latest: U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg said today that unsealing grand jury testimony from Jeffrey Epstein’s case would violate grand jury secrecy guidelines. Background: President Donald Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the declassification of the testimony to appease disgruntled MAGA voters.

Trump is lashing out at Rupert Murdoch, the owner of The Wall Street Journal, saying he can't wait to fight him in court over the newspaper's decision to publish an article reporting that Trump wrote a lewd message to Epstein in 2003 as part of a birthday surprise for the disgraced financier.

Gen Z voters swung towards Mr Trump in last year’s election, even though support for Republican candidates tends to lag among younger voters, but this has collapsed in the months since.

July 2 -16: Trump’s approval rating stands at 40% in a Yahoo/YouGov poll of 1,597 U.S. adults conducted June 26-30 (margin of error 3.2), a four-point decrease from the groups’ March poll, while 56% disapprove.

Donald Trump’s bid to smother the uproar over accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein shows that he’s already achieved one goal his critics most feared from his second presidency.