Posting on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump said Florida Sen. Joe Gruters, from Sarasota, “will do a wonderful job” as the chairman of the Republican Party. Gruters, 48, confirmed in a text message that he wants the job.

President Donald Trump is backing Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters to chair the Republican National Committee and replace Michael Whatley as he runs for Senate in North Carolina. Trump announced his support Thursday in a Truth Social post about Whatley, who is expected to publicly announce his Senate candidacy in the coming days.

A judge on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida, though a similar request for the work of a different grand jury is pending in New York.

The administration has a separate pending effort to release Epstein-related grand jury transcripts in New York.

In response to a public clamor for more information about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, the Trump administration has asked federal courts to unseal grand jury transcripts.While seeking the files’ release allows President Donald Trump to claim that he has nothing to hide about the late,