The Daily Herold: Feb. 26, 2025 - FBI Honeypots, Trump’s Budget Fight & the AP’s White House Ban

Jon Herold breaks down the FBI’s secret off-the-books honeypot operation, launched under James Comey to infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign. With Kash Patel and Dan Bongino now leading the FBI, the agency is finally investigating its own corruption. Who were the undercover agents, and who fell for the trap?

Meanwhile, Trump’s budget resolution is getting misrepresented by Congress, with GOP reps claiming taxes on tips and Social Security are gone...except they aren’t. Jon exposes what the bill actually does, including a $4.8 trillion increase in spending that nobody wants to talk about.

Also in this episode: The Associated Press gets banned from the White House, the DOJ stalls the Epstein file release, and Elon Musk’s email purge forces government employees to prove they actually exist. Plus, Trump trolls the world with Trump Gaza, and Joy Reid loses it over getting fired. The narrative war is heating up