“President Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba Mildon stormed into the White House this month and set off an explosive, deeply personal battle by accusing another Trump ally of skimming money from a philanthropic donation,” the New York Times reports.

“The donation, she claimed, had been made by her husband, Turhan Mildon, a Turkish businessman she had met and married this year. But now it is Mr. Mildon who is coming under scrutiny in the United States and abroad.”

“After hearing out Mrs. Mildon’s account several weeks ago, Mr. Trump directed his aides to investigate her accusations against Richard Grenell, who had served as the president’s special envoy to Venezuela and president of the Kennedy Center. The result has been a soap opera-like showdown that has exposed both the intensity of behind-the-scenes feuding among Trump confidants as well as their efforts to profit from their affiliation with him.”

“The Department of Justice tells NewsNation it will not be appointing an independent special counsel to investigate the network of Jeffrey Epstein and possible ‘misconduct by public officials’ despite survivors’ call to action,” NewsNation reports.

“Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security,” CBS News reports.

“When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said, ‘no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis.'”

Said Blanche: “There’s not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding, we’re actually not withholding anything based upon national defense information.”

“But the contents of at least three documents in the massive tranche of files indicate classified information was included in files collected by the DOJ.”

Time: “A woman who had accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in 1993 described it to congressional staff as rape and said the interaction left her bleeding and bruised, according to a report released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee examining Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.”

“Beatrice Keul, a model and former Miss Switzerland, alleged to Judiciary Committee staff that she was raped by Trump in a Plaza Hotel suite in Manhattan when she was 24.”

“Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry resigned Friday from her position as a State Department press adviser following an altercation at a basketball game this week,” ABC News reports.

“McHenry was captured on camera appearing to throw a drink on someone during a Washington Wizards vs. Milwaukee Bucks NBA game on Wednesday.”

“Once Kimberly Guilfoyle saw the walls closing in on her tenure in Athens, she breathlessly sought a lifeline to save her ambassadorship,” the Daily Mail reports.

“Three powerful men sat atop her list of frenzied calls, according to two sources: U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Rupert Murdoch, the chairman emeritus of Fox News and owner of the Wall Street Journal.”

“The now ex-ambassador to Greece reportedly asked Hegseth and Barrack for moral support – and a personal pitch to President Donald Trump on her behalf.”

“President Trump has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations dropped on him Friday in the Oval Office:,” Axios reports.

“Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another one of his top advisers — former Kennedy Center leader Ric Grenell — failed to deposit a multimillion-dollar donation that her billionaire husband made to the center a year ago.”

“Grenell denied the accusations as ‘absurd’ and a ‘lie.'”

“Trump advisers had been wrangling to save Kimberly Guilfoyle’s job as U.S. ambassador to Greece before she was asked to resign Tuesday amid allegations of improper and possibly illegal conduct during her time in Athens,” the Daily Mail reports.

“Sources revealed cronies close to the president had been working behind the scenes to keep his former fiancé in the post – fearing she could return to the U.S. with an axe to grind and spill Trump family secrets.”

“Now, after Guilfoyle’s resignation, insiders claim she has kept a secret ‘burn book’ documenting the Trumps and is ready to burn her bridges with the family following her dramatic fall from grace.”

New York Post: Trump allies think Kimberly Guilfoyle’s “hope” for a pardon will keep her from lashing out.

“Kimberly Guilfoyle was scrambling to save her job,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“As damaging revelations piled up, President Trump’s ambassador to Greece started dialing up administration officials and people close to the president, playing down Wall Street Journal reporting that suggested she was using her position for personal gain.”

“Guilfoyle had been worried about her job since late last month, when the Journal revealed she had been promoting a Greek construction firm while working closely with the company’s top lobbyist. The ambassador began calling administration officials and prominent Trump supporters, often in the early hours in Athens, to ask for their backing.”

“When the Journal published a second investigation revealing text messages that showed she had solicited $100,000 from a Trump donor in the run-up to her confirmation hearing last year, Guilfoyle reached out to White House officials to say the text messages were AI generated.”