Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. We will be back at it on Wednesday. In the meantime, here are the latest developments:
Donald Trump ended a visit to his golf resorts in Scotland, where he once again repeated his bizarre boast that he “predicted” the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum during a visit to the courses that summer which, in fact, began the day after the vote
Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he broke with Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender he socialized with for more than a decade, after he “stole” young, female spa attendants away from Mar-a-Lago, including Virginia Giuffre, who became one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers.
A Republican-led congressional committee rejected the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s demand that she be granted immunity before agreeing to testify about Epstein to Congress.
Trump expressed sympathy for “kids that are starving” in Gaza, but repeated the debunked Israeli talking point that Hamas is to stealing aid, and endorsed the chaotic system of aid distribution run by Israel with US support that has cost 1,000 Palestinians their lives.
The Senate voted 50-49 to confirm Emil Bove, a former defense attorney for Trump to a lifetime seat on a federal appeals court, despite claims by whistleblowers that he advocated for ignoring court orders.
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Senate confirms Emil Bove as federal appeals court judge, one step closer to supreme court
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove, a top justice department official and former defense attorney for Donald Trump, to a lifetime seat on a federal appeals court, despite claims by whistleblowers that he advocated for ignoring court orders.
The vote broke nearly along party lines, with 50 Republican senators voting for his confirmation to a seat on the third circuit court of appeals overseeing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the US Virgin Islands.
All Democrats opposed his nomination along with Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Tennessee senator Bill Hagerty missed the vote.
Bove’s nomination for the lifetime position has faced strident opposition from Democrats, after Erez Reuveni, a former justice department official who was fired from his post, alleged that during his time at the justice department, Bove told lawyers that they “would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such court order” blocking efforts to remove immigrants to El Salvador. In testimony before the committee last month, Bove denied the accusation, and Reuveni later provided text messages that supported his claim.
