What Happened Today - 5 Feb 2026
What Happened Today – 5 Feb 2026
Trump’s interview on ABC Last Night
Trump’s take on the Clinton’s Testifying
UK Meltdown on Epstein
DOJ Under Fire for releasing victim names
MAGA Mike and the Pope
Liar Liar Pants on Fire – Bessent
Fulton County Election Files Update
Trump’s Prayer Breakfast Remarks
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Trump’s interview on ABC Last Night
That ABC sit‑down was classic Trump chaos: a wall of nonsense, a few moments where he actually got cornered on live TV, and a public split between his die‑hard cult and everyone else wondering how this guy is president again. He tried to bulldoze through the interview with the usual schtick—grievances, self‑pity, and alternate reality data—but ABC actually pushed back harder than he’s used to, which is why he got so visibly rattled.
He leaned hard into his fantasy version of the economy, bragging that America’s never been richer and acting like inflation is basically gone, even though recent fact checks have already nailed him for wildly exaggerating how good things are and pretending prices are lower than they really are. When the interviewer challenged him with actual numbers, he dodged, changed the subject, or tried to steamroll, but you could see the cracks—he doesn’t have new answers, just the same “best economy ever, everybody says so” line that’s already been shredded by economists and fact‑checkers.
On immigration, he tried to suddenly sound “softer,” talking about using a gentler touch while still being “tough,” which is rich coming from the guy whose whole brand is cruelty at the border. The moment the ABC reporter pushed him on what that actually means in practice—numbers, policies, who gets deported versus who gets to stay—he slipped right back into fear‑mongering and lies about invasions and crime that have been debunked over and over. It was basically: pretend moderation in one sentence, then go right back to the same nativist garbage in the next.
He also dragged out his greatest hits on the 2020 election and “fraud,” insisting yet again that there was massive cheating and that he “found a lot of fraud,” even though there have been no credible referrals or evidence to back any of that up. ABC actually pressed him on the legal side—no real cases, no proof—and he just kept repeating himself, like if he says it enough times it magically becomes true. That was one of the spots where the fact‑checkers pounced immediately afterward, because this is the same lie he’s been leaning on for years and it still collapses the second you look at the record.
One of the most telling parts was how personally hostile he got toward the interviewer, snapping that he doesn’t trust him and taking shots at ABC as “one of the worst,” which tracks with his whole campaign to paint the press as the enemy. It wasn’t just thin skin; it was him signaling again that anyone who challenges him—even with basic follow‑up questions—is out to get him, which is exactly the kind of rhetoric journalists have been warning about when they talk about how he uses power and intimidation.
Public reaction broke right down the usual lines: his base cheered that he “owned” ABC and fought the “fake news,” while everyone outside the MAGA bubble saw an unhinged guy lying about the economy, immigration, and his own record in real time. Clips of him getting fact‑checked mid‑interview and getting snippy with the journalist lit up social media, with critics calling it embarrassing and dangerous, and his supporters spinning it as proof he’s the only one “telling it like it is.” It didn’t win him any new fans; it just amplified exactly who he is for the millionth time—still lying, still aggrieved, and still convinced that truth is whatever comes out of his mouth in the moment.
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Trump’s take on the Clinton’s Testifying
Trump is doing his usual “I’m not mad, I’m actually fine” routine about the Clintons testifying, but you can tell this whole thing is under his skin. Out loud, he’s putting on this fake, almost nostalgic respect act—calling it “a shame,” saying he’s “bothered” that people are “going after Bill Clinton,” and even complimenting Hillary as a “smart woman” who was good in debates, which is absolutely not how he talks when he’s relaxed and in control. That over-the-top “oh, I actually like them” tone is classic Trump damage control: he knows if this Epstein testimony train keeps rolling, his own name and his own Epstein ties stay in the headlines, so he’s trying to look above it all while quietly begging the universe to move on.
For his base, he’s trying to spin this like some mix of “witch hunt creep” and “sad historical moment,” basically signaling: look, even the Clintons are being dragged by the system, it’s all unfair, we’ve gone too far. That framing lets MAGA world hold two thoughts at once—hate the Clintons, but also be mad that Congress is hauling them in—because it feeds their bigger narrative that the government and the process are broken and out of control. He keeps downplaying the whole Epstein document saga and acting like it’s time to “move on,” which is exactly what you say when you’re terrified of what could still come out but you can’t admit that you’re terrified.
Could this be the crack in the dam? It absolutely could be, depending on how aggressive Democrats get now that Republicans opened this door. Democrats are already saying out loud that if the GOP is going to drag a former president and first lady in over Epstein, they’re ready to haul Trump and his whole crew in under the same precedent, which means this stunt might boomerang straight back into his lap. The fact that the Clintons finally caved and agreed to filmed, transcribed depositions tells you how serious this has gotten—February 26 and 27 are circled on everybody’s calendar now—and if anything new, ugly, or contradictory comes out under oath, the pressure to put Trump under the same lights is only going to spike.
So no, he’s not screaming into a microphone about it, but this is his “quiet freakout” mode: weirdly nice about old rivals, calling the whole thing “unfortunate,” and pushing hard to normalize the idea that we should just stop digging. He’s trying to keep his base focused on vague grievance instead of the very specific reality that Congress is now establishing a playbook for subpoenaing ex-presidents over Epstein—and his name is never far from that conversation, no matter how much he pretends he’s just a concerned bystander.
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UK Meltdown on Epstein
The UK is absolutely melting down over this latest Epstein document dump—it’s hitting the royals, the government, and the so‑called “respectable” elite all at once, and everybody’s scrambling. You’ve got more than 3 million new documents out there, and suddenly old rumors are now receipts: former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson are back under the microscope, with fresh emails and images showing their ties to Epstein went on longer and were closer than they ever admitted, even after he was a convicted sex offender.
On top of that, Peter Mandelson is blowing up into a full‑blown political scandal—this isn’t just “he knew Epstein,” it’s “why the hell did this guy still get handed one of the most sensitive jobs in government when people already knew enough to be worried.” Starmer’s out here apologizing to Epstein’s victims and basically saying Mandelson lied to his face and “betrayed” the country and Parliament, while the opposition is calling BS and demanding every email, briefing, and back‑channel about his ambassador appointment gets dragged into the light.
Parliament is heated—question time has basically turned into an Epstein accountability brawl, with Tories, Labour MPs, and even some of Starmer’s own people furious and talking about “horror,” “repulsion,” and the government hiding behind “national security” to keep the most embarrassing stuff buried. There’s talk of a “Humble Address” to force document release, Starmer hinting Mandelson shouldn’t keep his title in the Lords, and police now looking at whether he leaked intel to Epstein, which is wild territory for someone who used to be treated as an untouchable grandee.
The bigger picture is, this isn’t some little side scandal anymore—it’s hitting the monarchy, shaking the political class, and dragging Europe’s elite into the muck in a way they can’t spin as “old news.” You’ve got royals issuing rare, embarrassed statements, a prime minister apologizing to abuse victims on camera, and a whole establishment suddenly terrified of what’s still sitting in those files—and that’s exactly why this feels less like a brushfire and more like the start of something that could burn a lot of very powerful people.
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Melania Turns a Hostage Reunion Into a Cringe Movie Promo
The Melania “thing” with the former Israeli‑American hostages was a mess—what should’ve been a straight, solemn moment turned into an awkward infomercial for her vanity project, and people clocked it instantly. She had Aviva and Keith Siegel at the White House, both of them talking about the horror of being held by Hamas and thanking her and Trump for helping get them home, and in the middle of that she casually drops that their first emotional meeting is “documented on film” and “available in my movie, ‘Melania,’” like she’s doing product placement during someone’s trauma recap.
That’s where it went south fast—reporters immediately started asking if she was using an official White House event with freed hostages to shill a $40 million Amazon documentary, and instead of just owning it or reading the room, she did the icy “this is not promotion” routine and insisted they were only there because the couple “wanted to thank” her. Ethics folks and hostage advocates are already saying out loud what everyone else was thinking: using the White House backdrop and the suffering of hostages to juice a personal payday is gross, even if it’s technically legal, and it fits perfectly with the whole Trump family pattern of turning public service into a side hustle.
On top of that, the movie she’s pushing is getting roasted as propaganda and tone‑deaf as hell, especially with critics pointing out how she’s styling herself as some kind of soulful immigrant underdog and quiet savior while her husband’s administration is out here doing ICE raids and brutal immigration crackdowns. So you end up with this surreal scene: two people describing captivity and thanking her for hope, Melania talking about how it’s all captured beautifully in her film, and the wider public watching like, “Of course she turned hostages into content.”
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DOJ Under Fire for releasing victim names
The DOJ absolutely stepped in it with this latest Epstein dump—they did the one thing they swore over and over they wouldn’t do: they exposed victims instead of protecting them. In this big “transparency” release of 3‑plus million pages, they screwed up the redactions so badly that victims’ real names, addresses, phone numbers, even deeply personal statements to the FBI showed up in searchable files, while a lot of the powerful enablers’ details were conveniently blacked out.
Survivors and their lawyers went nuclear fast, telling judges this was an “unfolding emergency,” saying nearly 100 victims got outed and some are already getting harassed and threatened now that their names are plastered all over the internet. You’ve got women who never went public suddenly finding reporters at their door and their abusers potentially seeing exactly who talked, and all of it because DOJ couldn’t be bothered to run a basic name search before hitting upload like they promised.
Now DOJ is in full damage‑control mode—yanking “several thousand” documents off the site, admitting “mistakes were made,” cutting a last‑minute deal in court to avoid a public beatdown, and claiming they’re expediting fixes and only fully redacting victims, not men. But for the survivors, it just feels like the same old pattern: the system bends over backward to shield predators and insiders, then turns around and throws the people they were supposed to protect right back under the bus, and says “our bad” after the harm is already done.
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MAGA Mike and the Pope
The Mike Johnson vs. the Pope thing is a straight‑up nightmare optics‑wise for MAGA, because you’ve literally got the Speaker of the House trying to mansplain Christianity to the actual Pope over mass deportations. The Pope comes in with Matthew 25—“I was a stranger and you welcomed me”—and a clear moral line against Trump’s drag‑net, throw‑them‑all‑out immigration agenda, and Maga Mike’s response is basically, “Well actually, Your Holiness, borders are biblical, and God wants us to love the people inside the wall more than the ones outside.”
For the MAGA base, they’re mostly eating it up, because right‑wing influencers are blasting out clips of him saying “sovereign borders are biblical and good and right,” like he just owned the Vatican with a Bible study thread on X. They’re framing the Pope as some kind of woke globalist who doesn’t understand “real” Christianity, so in their world Johnson is the brave warrior standing up to a compromised church that’s too soft on migrants. It fits perfectly into the Christian nationalist fantasy that American Republicans, not Rome, are the true guardians of the faith, which is wild but totally on brand for this crowd.
Outside the MAGA bubble, though—especially among Catholics and a lot of other Christians worldwide—it’s landing like pure arrogance and heresy‑adjacent nonsense. You’ve got theologians, Catholic writers, and regular believers pointing out that the Pope has been consistent for years: dehumanizing migrants and mass deportation are incompatible with core Christian teaching, and turning the Bible into a border‑wall justification manual is exactly the “ideology over faith” garbage he’s been warning about. To them, Johnson looks less like a Christian leader and more like a politician weaponizing scripture to prop up Trump’s agenda—and picking a fight with the Pope just spotlights how twisted that project has become.
So no, this is not good for MAGA long‑term: every time they go toe‑to‑toe with the Pope on who actually represents Christian morality, they make it painfully obvious that their “faith” is welded to nationalism and cruelty first, Jesus second—if at all.
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Liar Liar Pants on Fire – Bessent
Bessent got caught red‑handed, and it was bad—like “did you forget we save emails now?” bad. He sat there in front of Congress and basically tried to rewrite his own history on tariffs, insisting he never said they were inflationary and now preaching the gospel of “tariffs don’t cause inflation,” all smug with his 150‑years‑of-data talking point.
Problem is, there’s an actual 2024 investor letter from his old fund where he literally wrote, word for word, “tariffs are inflationary” and warned they’d strengthen the dollar and hurt any so‑called industrial renaissance—and that receipts‑level contradiction is what turned this into a full public face‑plant. Once that letter resurfaced, he had to pivot to “oh, I was wrong then” and “I want to amend the record,” which is cute considering two minutes earlier he acted like he never said it and tried to dunk on Democrats for even asking.
Combine that with him downplaying how tariffs hit prices while the administration is out here promising fantasy $2,000 tariff checks that still don’t exist in anyone’s mailbox, and it just makes him look like another Trump flunky twisting economics in real time to fit whatever story they’re selling this week. The whole performance—snapping at Democrats, spinning tariffs as painless, and then getting exposed by his own past writing—just screams that he’s not some serious technocrat; he’s a politician in a banker suit, willing to say anything as long as it props up the MAGA narrative.
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Fulton County Election Files Update
Georgia (really Fulton County) is basically saying, “Hell no, give us our damn election back,” after the feds rolled in and scooped up the 2020 records like it was some Trump revenge fantasy come to life. The FBI, under Trump’s DOJ, hit the Fulton elections hub with a warrant and walked out with hundreds of boxes—ballots, voter rolls, tabulator tapes, ballot images, the whole 2020 paper trail from the county that’s been at the center of his Big Lie since day one.
Now Fulton County is in federal court basically arguing this was an overreach and a giant threat to election integrity, not some noble fraud investigation. They’re asking a judge to force the government to return roughly 650–700 boxes of original ballots and records, stop the feds from pawing through them while the case is pending, and unseal the affidavit that DOJ used to convince a judge to sign off on the raid in the first place.
Local officials are furious because they say there was no proper chain of custody, no clear explanation of why the originals had to be taken instead of copies, and no assurance that every single document has been tracked and protected. They’re openly tying this to Trump’s obsession with “proving” he didn’t lose Georgia—pointing out that every audit and court case already confirmed Biden’s win—and warning that if the federal government can just swoop in and grab ballots from a blue county on vague fraud claims, that’s not election security, that’s political interference.
So when you strip the legalese away, the fight is simple: Fulton County is trying to claw back control of its own 2020 election records and stop Trump’s people from turning them into props for another round of “stop the steal” theater.
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Trump’s Prayer Breakfast Remarks
The Prayer Breakfast speech was pure word salad—Trump wandering from “I probably deserve heaven” to calling a Republican a “moron” to trashing Democrats’ faith, all in a room that’s supposed to be about humility and prayer, not campaign rallies and grievance therapy. Instead of anything resembling a coherent spiritual message, he just free‑associated: bragging about showing up every year, joking that he’s “afraid not to be there” because he “needs all the help” he can get, then pivoting into his usual victim routine about how dark the years without him were and how great it is to have a “real” president at the Prayer Breakfast again.
He flat‑out lied when he said he doesn’t know “how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat,” as if millions of churchgoing Christians and clergy who vote blue just don’t exist or somehow don’t count as real believers. That line is garbage on its face—faith leaders across denominations have been loudly pushing back on his cruelty, especially on immigration and the poor, for years—but he pretends they’re all anti‑God just because they won’t bow to him. He also tried to clean up last year’s “maybe I won’t get into heaven” bit by saying it was only a joke and insisting he “probably should make it” because he’s done “a hell of a lot of good,” which is classic Trump: talk big about humility and forgiveness, then turn even heaven into a Yelp review of his own greatness.
Then he veered into straight pettiness, using a supposedly bipartisan religious event to call Rep. Thomas Massie a “moron” in front of the whole room, ranting that Massie would vote no even “if we achieved the greatest milestone in the history of religion.” That’s not just tacky, it’s another lie by implication: he’s selling this idea that his agenda is some holy mission being sabotaged by faithless enemies, when in reality Massie’s beef has been with Trump’s spending, surveillance, and power grabs—not with God. So yeah, what came out of his mouth this morning wasn’t a prayerful reflection; it was a rambling, ego‑drunk campaign stump dressed up as religion, with the usual mix of made‑up moral authority, made‑up enemies, and made‑up history about who really owns faith in this country.
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