Welcome to Talking Fed's, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests

for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Littman. The stink from the Epstein scandal continues to expand

and continues to stick to Trump. The president's latest explanation of his relationship to the

infamous pedophile that Trump fell out with him because Epstein poached employees from Mar-a-Lago, including Virginia

Joy Free, for his trafficking operation. Unsurprisingly, that did nothing to quell speculation

that the files everyone is clamoring for contained salacious and even incriminating information

about Trump himself.

Adding to the stench, the administration moved Gillesand Maxwell to a club-fed-style

minimum security prison. Maxwell, Epstein's intimate friend, convicted accomplice, and

number one facilitator, got the new digs just days after

her bizarre sit-down with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Trump made fairly substantial progress on another front, his war on American universities.

As Brown and Columbia tried to buy peace for multimillion

dollar sums, word came that even Harvard, the heretofore poster child for resistance to Trump's

shakedown seemed poised to try to wave a white flag. Trump's arch loyalist, Emil Beauvais, who disgraced his office and showed contempt for the

judiciary, won his corrupt reward with a narrow confirmation to a court of appeals judgeship

as almost every Republican in the Senate averted their eyes to his glaring deficiencies.

But another handpicked Trump favorite,

Alina Haba, was caught up in a complicated showdown with the New Jersey District Court over the administration's attempt to install her as U.S. attorney. To chronicle Trump's latest efforts to

shake-free from the sticky impact of the

Epstein scandal and the fallout from the president's vicious hardball politics in Congress,

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