Trump Action Archive

Supporting reports

• Administration officials scheduled Epstein strategy meeting at Vice President's residence — Top administration officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel, were scheduled to meet at the Vice President's residence to coordinate the administration's Epstein strategy. Notably, President Trump was not included in the meeting. After news of the meeting leaked, a source told Reuters the meeting had been canceled.
• Administration officials coordinate Epstein strategy without Trump — Top administration officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Attorney General Pam Bondi, met to coordinate the administration's strategy regarding the Epstein case, notably without President Trump present.
• White House meets to discuss Epstein-Trump relationship response — After initially denying plans for a meeting, White House officials met late on August 7 to discuss responses to questions about the relationship between convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein and President Trump. Attendees included Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. The White House has been attempting to suppress public inquiry into the Epstein-Trump connection with limited success.
• White House meeting held to coordinate Epstein files strategy — Top Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel, met at the White House on Wednesday night to discuss strategy regarding the handling of Epstein-related documents and the administration's response to public pressure for full disclosure. The meeting was moved from Vance's official residence to the White House. Officials were weighing whether to release recorded audio from a DOJ interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and whether Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche should hold a press conference about his interviews with Maxwell.

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• Library of Congress Constitution website missing Article I sections — Reporters discovered that the online United States Constitution maintained by the Library of Congress was missing parts of Article I, which lays out the rights and duties of Congress. Missing sections included Congress's control over the District of Columbia, Congress's power to make laws, the promise that habeas corpus would not be suspended, the requirement that Congress appropriate all government spending, the prohibition on presidential acceptance of foreign gifts, and the specification that only Congress can levy tariffs. Officials attributed the deletions to "a coding error," and the missing sections were restored by the end of the day.
• Sections of US Constitution temporarily removed from government website — Sections of the US Constitution were temporarily removed from the Constitution Annotated website, which is maintained by the federal government. The missing sections included provisions like habeas corpus, which ensures the right for people to challenge their detention in court, and another that prohibits foreign emoluments for government officials. On Twitter, the Library of Congress blamed the removals on a "coding error," and the sections returned to the website later in the day.

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• Trump administration classified Air Force One renovation costs in nuclear modernization budget — The New York Times reported that the Trump administration used "inventive" techniques to classify the cost to renovate Trump's new Air Force One, which was gifted by Qatar, by slipping the total into a $934 million transfer of funds dedicated to modernizing the country's "ground-based nuclear missiles."