Is (Jane Doe) for me': DOJ, FBI urged to investigate Leon Botstein as potential Epstein co-conspirator
A House committee alleges newly reviewed Epstein files raise questions about the former Bard College president's interactions with a young woman Epstein trafficked. Botstein resigned all Bard-affiliated positions in response.
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Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections
This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.
For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so, raising yet more alarm over the administration's rapid erosion of free and fair elections in the U.S.
President Donald Trump has declined to invite the OSCE to witness the elections, which the group has done for every federal election since 2002.
The U.S. joins only Russia and Belarus in rejecting the OSCE's election monitoring.
He's the rotten apple that fell a zillion miles from the tree.