Jasmine Crockett walked into CNN confident in her narrative and walked out confronted by documentation that shredded her claims about Jeffrey Epstein donations on the House floor. Public FEC records, mismatched timelines, and live on-air fact checks exposed contradictions she could not defend. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani then triggered his own firestorm with tax and public safety positions that collided head-on with decisions from his own governor and warnings from law enforcement. Federal prosecutors pushed the day into overdrive when they charged Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick with steering FEMA money through personal and campaign accounts.