
What Devin Nunes reveals about Donald Trump's Republican Party
CNN
For a very long time, the best way to be someone in politics was to get elected to Congress -- and then climb your way up the seniority ranks until you became a chairman of a committee in the House or Senate.
Donald Trump changed a whole lot of things about politics over his four years in office -- and this arc for ambitious politicians is one of the big ones.
No longer is getting elected to Congress -- and serving in the House or Senate -- the gold standard of how to matter in Republican politics. Instead, political power is now judged by one's closeness to Trump.

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.











