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Today in Politics, Bulletin 317. 2/27/26 Ron Filipkowski Feb 27 ∙ …  James Comer  lied about the deposition of  Bill Clinton  to the media regarding what the former president said about Trump’s relationship with  Jeffrey Epstein : “President Clinton went on to say that President Trump has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved. And he meant with Epstein.” …  Oversight Dems  immediately issued a statement calling out Comer for his lies: “Let's be clear: today, President Clinton raised more questions about the relationship between Trump and Epstein - specifically with regards to the reason their relationship ended. Claims that President Clinton fully exonerated Trump are wrong and a mischaracterization.” … “In fact, President Clinton confirmed that he knew Trump and Epstein had a close relationship and said Trump reported having ‘great times’ with Epstein. The full transcript, unedited, should be released immediately.” … Rep.  ...

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The Truth Dies with Him Another voice didn’t tow the Trump line Dan Rather and Team Steady Mar 18 Credit: Getty Images In another sad-but-true-to-form attempt by Donald Trump to silence the truth, he’s gutted a federal agency that broadcasts news around the world — because it wasn’t pro-Trump news or Fox propaganda, but pro-democracy journalism that provides information to parts of the globe where a free press is threatened or nonexistent. He signed an executive order on Friday evening that effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for Global Media. It is an umbrella organization for federally funded news outlets like Voice of America, which collectively reach 420 million people, in 100 countries, in 63 languages. USAGM’s programming can be read, seen, or heard in dictatorships such as Cuba, China, Russia, and Afghanistan, though not always easily. In North Korea in 2020, a fisherman was executed for secretly listening to Radio Free Asia while at sea. By Monday, 1,000 journalists ...

  View in browser   BY  ELANA SCHOR House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in 2021. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images MCCARTHY’S MATH   — He hasn’t claimed the speaker’s gavel yet, but House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is already yoked to two brutal political narratives. They’re both prematurely baked — and they’re distracting his critics from what’s really at stake in the next Congress. The first premature assumption about McCarthy is that he’s somehow not savvy enough to lead the House GOP if it wins the majority in November. Demeaning his erudition is a popular pursuit in Washington ( practiced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi  herself), as if book-smarts have ever been a must-flaunt accessory in the party of  college C-student Ronald Reagan .    Yet even beyond that portrait of McCarthy as an intellectual lightweight, critics say he’s failed in his own efforts to clear his conference of conservative gadflies who could prove ungovernable in a future majority. ...