Epstein bungling overshadows a pretty good week: White House Report Card

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This week’s White House Report Card should have grades of ‘A’ and ‘B’ in it. President Donald Trump scored a major AI deal for Pennsylvania, saw inflation flatten, won new support from NATO, delivered on a promise to defund public radio and TV with a $9 billion recissions bill, signed the first-ever cryptocurrency act into law, and struck a “righteous blow” against fentanyl dealers.

But the confusion and mishandling of releasing evidence in the Jeffrey Epstein pedo case, his back and forth on firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and his doctor note about suffering from chronic venous insufficiency clouded the achievements.

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