The latest character to enter the revolving door of President Donald Trump's federal staff is a well-known antagonist of transgender Americans. Andrew Bailey, former Missouri attorney general, has been appointed a co-deputy director of the FBI. The current official in the role, Dan Bongino, came under fire for his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse case, triggering rumors about his potential future-or lack thereof-at the bureau. This comes as legal attacks on gender-affirming care for trans people heat up at the Department of Justice.
Screenshot Attorney General Pam Bondi has won the power struggle over FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino amid blowback over the DOJ's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein probe, a new report reveals. According to a CNN piece by Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Kristen Holmes, unnamed Trump administration officials say the attorney general's recent appointment of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to serve as co-deputy director of the FBI alongside Bongino is a sign that Bondi came out on top of the feud.
Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent a formal demand letter to Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta regarding biased and factually inaccurate responses produced by the companies' artificial intelligence chatbots.
The rise in inflation in May introduces some further uncertainty into the near-term outlook for businesses prices, adding that they need to squeeze out inflation.