{"id":164202,"date":"2026-02-14T04:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164202\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:19:08","slug":"trump-is-totally-unbothered-by-el-paso-airspace-closing-for-a-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164202\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Totally Unbothered by El Paso Airspace Closing for a Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Husted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=wexner%2C+les&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2008&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2010&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2012&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2014&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2016&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2018&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2020&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2022&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2026&amp;min_date=01%2F01%2F2007&amp;max_date=12%2F31%2F2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accepted $3,500<\/a> from Wexner as recently as July\u2014only two months before he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1191\/vote_119_1_00512.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voted to block<\/a> the release of the Epstein files, according to campaign finance records <a href=\"https:\/\/tiffinohio.net\/posts\/husted-took-donations-from-epstein-co-conspirator-les-wexner-then-voted-to-block-file-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reviewed by TiffinOhio<\/a>. In November, Husted, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2025\/05\/from-traditional-conservative-to-trump-sycophant-jon-husteds-political-metamorphosis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">steady MAGA sycophant<\/a>, again <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiodems.org\/jon-husted-once-again-refuses-to-support-releasing-epstein-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voiced opposition<\/a> to releasing files. But days later, the Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed through the Senate by unanimous consent. <\/p>\n<p>Husted wasn\u2019t the only one who accepted money from the Wexner: The billionaire doled out more than $250,000 in donations to Republican candidates in the past year, especially ones in his home state of Ohio, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/republicans\/ohio-lawmakers-donations-jeffrey-epstein-associate-les-wexner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NOTUS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Wexner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=wexner%2C+les&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2008&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2010&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2012&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2014&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2016&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2018&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2020&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2022&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2026&amp;min_date=01%2F01%2F2007&amp;max_date=12%2F31%2F2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gave $3,500<\/a> to Senator Bernie Moreno, and a month later, the Republican senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/maga-senator-hit-brutal-fact-143004807.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGYs85jmjRQ8plkAzZRLyJSYi2GBfbk3CaeKddWNvjkPEefIM9HFWsEQu1vYOyntiueYHY89L2Cyleb2cCBD8E6zvdFqDETo1wZ263Azsa4lEh4DhKFLCPy_NZQaFLMyHdDIzwOLcEH6DubhroARTxfgYVc27FqBokses6q7rafY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">claimed<\/a> that the frenzy to release the Epstein files was being \u201cfueled\u201d by the media and Democrats\u2014despite mounting calls from members of his own party to release the documents. In September, he joined Husted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1191\/vote_119_1_00512.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">voting against<\/a> the files\u2019 release, before ultimately agreeing to support the Epstein Files Transparency Act\u2019s passage in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Husted accepted $3,500 from Wexner as recently as July\u2014only two months before he voted to block the release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-164202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}