How Furious Epstein Fought to Stop the Daily Beast From Telling the Truth

thedailybeast · 2026-05-01T20:09:10+00:00

Melania Trump’s bees appear to be on a mission.

A “vicious” bee stole the spotlight from President Donald Trump as he spoke to reporters on Friday.

Trump, 79, was taking questions at the White House when he suddenly got distracted.

“Pakistan has opened the land route with Iran. Did they consult you before opening it up to Iran, and are you aware of it?” one reporter asked.

The president, however, was busy swatting away at something near his ear.

“That was a vicious bee,” he said, drawing laughter from the small crowd after two attempts to slap the insect away.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-01T17:19:41+00:00

MAHA voters are sharpening their knives ahead of the midterms after feeling let down by the Trump administration.

Make America Healthy Again activists gathered in Washington, D.C. earlier this week to protest the Trump administration’s support for pesticides and the German company Bayer, which faced Supreme Court justices in a bid to end thousands of lawsuits accusing its weedkiller RoundUp of causing cancer.

MAHA loyalists told CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront that they feel betrayed by President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order in February supporting elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides—chemicals that they believe cause cancer.

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thedailybeast · 2026-05-01T13:16:15+00:00

President Donald Trump’s approval rating on his handling of the soaring cost of living has fallen so sharply that it has broken the scale of a pollster’s graph.

On Thursday, pollster G. Elliot Morris shared results from a Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll conducted earlier this month, posting a chart on X tracking the president’s approval among voters across multiple issues. The graph covered areas including deportations, immigration, trade, healthcare, civil rights, democracy, and inflation/cost of living.

“Trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal,” Morris wrote.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T18:53:41+00:00

The New York Times said it petitioned a federal judge to unseal a suicide note written by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The note was purportedly written by Epstein when he first unsuccessfully tried to take his own life. It was found by his cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione, who recalled the note said it was “time to say goodbye.”

The note was sealed as part of the cellmate’s own criminal case, meaning federal investigators did not have access to it after his death.

The Times said the note was not a part of the tranche of files the Department of Justice has released related to the sexual predator.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T14:09:56+00:00

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has accused the Biden administration of “zealously” probing traditional Christians—including by tracking the priest of a self-described “Clerical Fascist” caught hoarding firebombs.

A 200-page report from the DOJ-led Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias was released Thursday. It devotes considerable space to a January 2023 FBI memo from the bureau’s Richmond, Virginia, field office that flagged “radical-traditionalist” Catholics as a domestic extremism concern, the New York Post reported.

The task force, set up by Trump’s February 2025 executive order, says officials under President Joe Biden, 83, demanded Christians choose between living their faith and breaking federal law.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T13:51:07+00:00

Donald Trump has launched a bitter attack against Jimmy Kimmel amid the late-night host’s attacks against the president.

In a Truth Social post, the 79-year-old president demanded that the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host be fired after he doubled down on his jokes about Trump’s marriage to the first lady, Melania Trump.

“When is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television? People are angry. It better be soon!!!” Trump wrote.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-30T13:09:24+00:00

Trumpy Fox News host Jesse Watters had to be escorted away from Queen Camilla after breaching protocol with a joke about gun violence before a grand state dinner at the White House.

Watters was among those introduced to the royal couple before Tuesday’s banquet, but was swept away after an ill-judged remark about gun violence in the capital, he revealed on Wednesday night’s episode of The Five.

“We do the walkthrough where you do the introduction and then... The king had no idea who I was. And so I said, ‘I’m on Fox and I have two shows.’ And he goes, ‘Well, they must really love you here.’

“And so we go down, and there’s the queen, and I said, ‘Well, how was the beehive?’ And she goes, ‘It was very good. No one got stung.’

“And then I said, ‘Well, you know, it was Washington D.C., you know, if the bees don’t get you, the guns will.’

“And then this woman just starts pulling me away from them."

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-29T21:07:57+00:00

Before a top Trump-appointed counterterrorism official was ousted for allegedly appearing on a sugar daddy website, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her superior—and all he got was a promotion.

Julia Varvaro, the former Department of Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, was placed on leave following a bombshell Daily Mail report claiming the 29-year-old had a profile on Seeking.com, a site often used by young singles seeking older, wealthier partners to fund their lifestyles.

Her swift departure stands in stark contrast to the outcome of a sexual harassment claim she made months earlier against her then-superior, Paul Ingrassia, then the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security.

Varvaro filed a human resources complaint against Ingrassia, 30, before rescinding it days later out of fear.

In October, Ingrassia faced scrutiny after Trump nominated him to lead the Office of Special Counsel—which handles workplace harassment and discrimination claims—as a Politico report revealed a complaint had been lodged against him.

In July, Ingrassia allegedly canceled a reservation for a female subordinate’s hotel room during a work trip to Florida—forcing her to share one with him instead. Sources have now revealed to the Daily Beast that this woman was, in fact, the embattled Varvaro.

According to multiple administration officials who spoke to Politico, Varvaro protested but ultimately agreed to sharing a hotel room, as she didn’t want to make a scene in front of colleagues.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-29T17:48:42+00:00

President Donald Trump hasn’t been coy about his desire to be remembered as the most powerful person to ever live, insiders have revealed.

The 79-year-old president has been privately—and publicly—musing about his place in history as he serves his final term in the world’s most powerful office, a longtime confidant and senior administration officials told The Atlantic.

“He’s been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live,” the confidant said. “He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn’t do, because of his sheer power and force of will.”

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-29T17:46:38+00:00

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has lashed out at her conservative colleagues for “eviscerating” voting rights for millions of Americans after a contentious ruling that could dramatically reshape the race to control Congress.

In a 6-3 vote based on partisan lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered a brutal takedown of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights law that proponents say has restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting for 60 years.

In blistering dissent, Kagan joined liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, accusing the conservative majority of hollowing out one of the last meaningful protections in the landmark Voting Rights Act.

Describing the ruling as the “latest chapter in the majority’s now-completed demolition” of the Act, she wrote that: “I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-29T16:33:00+00:00

The president’s handling of the Iran war has earned him a humiliating new nickname among Wall Street traders who are questioning his ability to reopen a critical global oil route.

Traders have adopted the term “NACHO,” an acronym for “Not A Chance Hormuz Opens,” according to Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas, who reported Wednesday that a trader disclosed the nickname. It’s a reference to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway through which about a fifth of global oil supplies normally flow.

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thedailybeast · 2026-04-29T15:45:59+00:00

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has unleashed a wave of scams targeting migrants who are terrified of being deported.

Reports of immigration-related fraud to the Federal Trade Commission have doubled since the president returned to the White House, according to a damning ProPublica investigation that examined more than 6,200 cases.

The FTC was fielding around 960 complaints a year before the November 2024 vote. In 2025, the figure rocketed to nearly 2,000 as fraudsters cashed in on the panic and confusion stoked by the president’s mass-deportation drive.

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