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Although Devine declared the Epstein furore to be “overblown” in July, she nonetheless felt the subject to be sufficiently worthy of coverage more than two months later as to warrant confronting the commerce secretary about it in an interview.

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“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.”

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“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,” Patel said, adding that ICE officers had still arrested Ruiz and claiming that Dugan had "created increased danger to the public."

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I am not sure why Goldstein feels passionately enough about the subject to be this bootlickingly wrong about it in public.

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As reported by The Associated Press, the newsletter that first broke the story, Status, and the New York Times both cited unnamed sources who identified the reporting subject to be Kennedy, who dropped out of the presidential race in August.

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