Trump Does It…

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Remember, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009, way before Trump was even considering to be in office, under the Obama administration

TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney at the time was a guy named Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee.… pic.twitter.com/UBAe5NviYy

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2025

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Remember, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009, way before Trump was even considering to be in office, under the Obama administration

TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney at the time was a guy named Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor

MULLIN: Who was in office at the time?

TAPPER: George W Bush

MULLIN: No. 2009 was when the case came out, and Obama was in office at the time

TAPPER: Not true

...why can’t Markwayne?

Holy shit -- Markwayne Mullin insists later in the interview again that Obama oversaw actually oversaw the sweetheart deal with Epstein, even after Tapper (accurately) fact-checked him. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/hbR9msyHQs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2025

Maybe if he does it twice?

You know, they’d be better off arguing Epstein was prosecuted under GOP Administrations.

TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding.

RUSS VOUGHT: NIH is a program that if they were a company, their stock prices would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic by their gain of function research. You… pic.twitter.com/KM5FESqbbz

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2025

RUSS VOUGHT: NIH is a program that if they were a company, their stock prices would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic by their gain of function research. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at NIH.

Healthcare in America cares too much about non-white people. Russ Vought is going to fix that.

And Howard Lutnick has his finger on the pulse of America:

Lutnick dismisses rising inflation: "What happened a couple weeks ago? 2.6 percent inflation moved all the way to 2.7. Ohhoohoohoohoo!" pic.twitter.com/9M7J4eBpNV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 27, 2025