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United States District Court
Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GAVIN NEWSOM, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al.,
Defendants.
Case No. 25-cv-04870-CRB

OPINION GRANTING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it passed the Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the use of the U.S. military to execute domestic law. Nearly 140 years later, Defendants—President Trump, Secretary of Defense Hegseth, and the Department of Defense—deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, ostensibly to quell a rebellion and ensure that federal immigration law was enforced. There were indeed protests in Los Angeles, and some individuals engaged in violence. Yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law.

Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles. In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

Almost three months after Defendants first deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles, 300 National Guard members remain stationed there. Moreover, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have stated their intention to call National Guard troops into federal service in other cities across the country—including Oakland and San Francisco, here in the Northern District of California—thus creating a national police force with the President as its chief. Because there is an ongoing risk that Defendants will act unlawfully and thereby injure Plaintiffs, Governor Newsom and the State of California, the Court ENJOINS Defendants from violating the Posse Comitatus Act as detailed below.

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Judge Rules Trump's Deployment Of Military To LA Is Illegal; Orders Him To STOP!
Glenn Kirschner
Sep 2, 2025

After a full trial, a federal judge in California ruled that Trump's grabbing control of the California National Guard and his deployment of the military to the streets of Los Angeles was illegal, and ordered him to stop violating the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that prohibits the military from enforcing civilian law.

As Politico reported, "Judge rules Trump can't act as national police chief."



Transcript

So friends, a federal judge in
California just ruled that Donald Trump
violated federal law when he sent troops
into the streets of Los Angeles.
Will Trump care? Will he obey the
court's order in the form of an
injunction to stop violating federal
law?
Let's talk about that because justice
matters.
Hey all, Glen Kersner here. So friends,
after a full trial on the legality of
Donald Trump taking control of the
California National Guard and in
addition deploying military forces to
the streets of LA, a federal judge just
ruled that Donald Trump violated the law
and ordered him to stop.
Let's start with the new reporting. This
from Politico
headline. Judge rules Trump can't act as
national police chief. The president
broke the law when he deployed troops to
Los Angeles. Judge Charles Brier ruled.
And that article begins, "A federal
judge has declared President Donald
Trump's use of military troops in Los
Angeles illegal, barring the Pentagon
from using National Guard members and
Marines from performing police functions
like arrests and crowd control." In a
52-page ruling, US District Judge
Charles Brier warned that Trump appears
intent on creating a national police
force with the president as its chief.
Trump build his deployment of troops to
Los Angeles starting in early June as a
way of bolstering immigration
enforcement efforts amid protests in the
city against the president's deportation
agenda. Though Trump has now withdrawn
all but 300 of those troops, he is
mulling sending troops to other major
cities such as Chicago. He has also
deployed the National Guard in
Washington DC under a separate legal
authority from the one he used in Los
Angeles. Judge Brier, a Clinton
appointee based in San Francisco,
concluded that Trump's LA deployment, an
operation overseen by Defense Secretary
Pete Hegsth, violated a longstanding law
meant to prevent domestic law
enforcement by the military. The Posi
Kamatus Act. The judge's decision
followed a 4-day trial last month that
included testimony from the Pentagon
officials overseeing the troop
deployment in Los Angeles. The Posi
Kamatus Act of 1878
bars the military from enforcing
domestic laws without explicit
permission from Congress. But Judge
Brier said that despite this
restriction, the Pentagon systematically
used armed soldiers to perform police
functions. And now, friends, let's just
jump right to the first few paragraphs
of Judge Briar's clear, definitive,
compelling ruling setting out that
Donald Trump, again, violated federal
law.
In the case of Gavin Newsome at all and
others plaintiffs versus Donald Trump at
all and others defendants opinion
granting injunctive relief.
Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it
passed the Posi Kamatus Act prohibiting
the use of US military to execute
domestic law. Nearly 140 years later,
defendants President Trump, Secretary of
Defense Hegsth, and the Department of
Defense deployed the National Guard and
Marines to Los Angeles ostensibly to
quell a rebellion and ensure that
federal immigration law was enforced.
There were indeed protests in Los
Angeles and some individuals engaged in
violence. Yet there was no rebellion,
nor was civilian law enforcement unable
to respond to the protests and enforce
the law. Nevertheless, at defendants
orders, Trump and Hegsth's orders, and
contrary to Congress's explicit
instruction, federal troops executed the
laws. The evidence at trial established
that defendants systematically used
armed soldiers whose identity was often
obscured by protective armor and
military vehicles to set up protective
perimeters and traffic blockades,
engage in crowd control, and otherwise
demonstrate a military presence in and
around Los Angeles. In short, defendants
violated the Posi Kamatus Act. Almost 3
months after defendants first deployed
the National Guard to Los Angeles, 300
National Guard members remain stationed
there. Moreover, President Trump and
Secretary Hegsth have stated their
intention to call National Guard troops
into federal service in other cities
across the country, including Oakland
and San Francisco here in the Northern
District of California. thus creating a
national police force with the president
as its chief. Because there is an
ongoing risk that defendants will act
unlawfully and thereby injure plaintiffs
Governor Nuome in the state of
California. The court enjoins defendants
from violating the posi commatatus act
as detailed below.
So friends, here we are again with a
federal court ruling after a trial that
Donald Trump violated federal law and
with the federal judge ordering that he
stop.
Will he? Or will Trump continue to send
troops into the streets of other
American cities? And if he does, there
will be no straightfaced argument that
he's acting lawfully.
You know, at that point, he will clearly
be a runaway, lawless president of the
United States.
You know, friends, it seems to me that a
president loses his legitimacy,
and no, I'm not pretending that Donald
Trump has even an ounce of legitimacy
left at this point, but a president
should lose his legitimacy
when he repeatedly acts lawlessly
when he refuses to acknowledge the
lawful authority of a co-equal branch of
government. When he repeatedly defies
court orders, a president loses his
status as a legitimate president of the
United States because he has abandoned
our constitutional construct of
government.
Now, Judge Brier ruled against Trump,
ordered him to stop, but stayed his
ruling, paused it for 10 days until
September 12th to, of course, give
Donald Trump and his administration, his
Department of Justice, an opportunity to
appeal it, ultimately up to the Supreme
Court to see if
the six justice radical right-wing
majority on the Supreme Court will again
accept and embrace and endorse Donald
Trump's lawlessness. That is always
Trump's hope.
But at some point, friends, this is
going to come to a head probably sooner
rather than later, given the pace of
Donald Trump's lawlessness and
unconstitutionality.
It will come to a head. And when it
does,
the rule of law should must win and
Donald Trump should must
lose
because justice
matters.
Friends, as always, please stay safe,
please stay tuned, and I look forward to
talking with you all again tomorrow.

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Trump gets CAUGHT IN THE ACT as Judge UNLEASHES ON HIM
by Ben Meiselas
MeidasTouch
Sep 5, 2025 The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting busted engaging in illegal detentions causing a federal judge to unleash fury on him.



Transcript

A federal judge just exploded in the
courthouse and ripped the Trump regime a
new one. Judge Zia Farakqui looked at
the Trump regime lawyers with all of the
hell they're unleashing in Washington DC
and in streets across the United States
with their Gestapo. And as they try to
arrest people who are peacefully
protesting, the federal judge erupted.
And as Scott McFarland writes, the judge
said, "We are past the point of a
constitutional crisis council." looking at
Trump's Department of Justice lawyers.
"This is embarrassment and shame for the
government, for the United States." The
judge looked at the Trump DOJ lawyer and
said, "Shame on you. You are a shameful
human being. This is a rush to get
stats on Twitter or social media. This
is not what you do in the real world. In
the real world, you pursue actual
crimes, not reposts on social media
platforms or so Donald Trump can do
truth social memes. This is the United
States of America, damn it. So, let's
just let's talk about what went down.

So, a hearing was held where,
the federal government, they had
pursued charges against someone by
the name of Edward Dana, who they claim
broke a light fixture, was drunk, and
was shouting a bunch of things. "Oh,
Trump's part of the Russian mafia.
You're all mafia people." And he was
jailed for a week. And then they were
trying to potentially pursue charges
against the guy who may have been mildly
inebriated and exercising his First
Amendment rights. And they locked him
up. They detained the guy, and they were
going to potentially bring major federal
charges like they've been doing over and
over again. And one of the things you'll
note, we've been covering it here on the
Meidas Touch Network, is that grand jury
after grand jury, the Trump regime, has
failed to secure indictments when in a
grand jury room, the only lawyers that
are there are the DOJ lawyers. They're
presenting cases in the grand jury
saying, "Get this crap out of here." So
the judge says, "We are long past the
Rubicon here when it comes to the
Constitution." The judge apologized to
the individual who was wrongfully
detained. And then the judge said,
"We're acting like this is all normal.
This is not normal. You," referring to
the Trump DOJ, "are not serious people.
You are playing cops and robbers like
children. You are a bunch of children.
Do you understand me?" Then the judge
continued to talk about it. "What's going
on in Washington DC? What's to prevent
people here from just getting rounded up
off the streets? So apparently you all,
the feds, have time to collect stats and
have press releases, but what are you
doing for people who are unlawfully
detained? While you're out there with
your marketing campaigns, and with Dr.
Phil, and Dr. Oz, people are rotting away
in prison while you engage in this
fascist cosplay. The judge went on to
blast the Justice Department for their
sloppy work, for their corrupt work, for
their anti-democratic
work. And the judge noted how frequently
grand juries have been rejecting the
Justice Department's attempts to get
indictments over and over again. He
blasts the Justice Department for
saying, "You're working out the kinks.
That's what you're trying to do. These
are people with names and rights and
you're torturing them and you are
ruining their lives." The judge ordered
the Justice Department to make a filing
by 5:00 p.m., explain to me everything
you did in this case and how you did it
so bad. It's September 4th. The judge
said, "As of now, we still have a
constitutional democracy. So, as long as
we have a constitutional democracy, I am
going to serve as a federal judge and do
my duty. Do you understand me?" The
judge then said, "It's not even that
you're losing credibility in this court
and before courts across the country. We
are way past this point." The judge
points out that the cases filed
during the Trump police surge in DC, the
volumes of motions to dismiss raise
grave concerns. People like Mr. Dana, who
you're now having to dismiss his case,
are suffering the consequences. You've
created this mess. You've created a
mess. There are way too many misfires
here as you are now referring to him as.
The feds are operating under a
concept of we'll just arrest people and
then we'll see what happens."

The defense attorney spoke briefly in court and said
the criminal case was ridiculous. She
said even a 15-year-old would know that
this case was not a criminal threat
against the president. The judge then
asked out loud what amount of money
undoes the harm to those charged in
these dismissed cases. He suggests a
defense attorney that she seek a remedy
against the government for this case. Go
and sue him. The judge said, "Sue these
people about the military who are now
being designated to help the US attorney
office in DC handle a wave of cases in
this federal crackdown in DC, which
isn't a crackdown, let's just call it
what it is, an authoritarianism, fascist
cosplay ridiculousness." The judge
wonders why none are being deployed to
help the federal defenders manage an
exhausting case load. The judge says
about the people whose cases are being
dismissed, "These arrests that you're
making will be on their record. It'll
impact the arc of someone's life
forever." The prosecutor tells the judge
that the case was initially authorized
by a superior and the judge is like, "I
don't care. You're blaming it on Janine
Pirro." The judge then slammed the US
attorney for DC, Janine Pirro, and the
head of its criminal division for not
showing up in court to explain the
decision because the DOJ lawyer was
saying, "It wasn't me. It was my
higherups. It was Pirro. It was the head
of the criminal division." The judge
said, "So, I get it. You all have time
for press conferences. You all have time
for tweets. You all have time for going
on Fox, but not for actually dealing
with the implications of your mistakes."
scratch that of your assault on people's
rights. Finally, the judge looked at the
defendant whose charges were being
dismissed and said, "The government's
message to people who look like Mr. Dana
is be very afraid." The judge says, "I'm
afraid right now." And then the judge
said basically, "Get the hell out of
here."

That's what's going on in our
courtrooms across the country. And you
see, for example, right here, ICE
beginning to arrest a woman outside
their domestic violence hearings
starting in Chicago. One woman had the
case dismissed by the judge only to be
immediately detained by agents. Women
are being forced to choose between
staying in abusive relationships or
potential deportation. The network
advocating against domestic violence is
encouraging all survivors to file for
order of protections online and not
schedule in-person hearings. Here, watch
this.
Witnesses tell us that agents took at
least one person into federal custody
ahead of their scheduled court
appearance. Our Sabrina France has been
looking into that case. Sabrina, victim
advocates are saying that this has
people turning away from their scheduled
appearances.
Marie, it would appear that's already
happening. We were standing in the lobby
of this courthouse today and while we
were there, folks were asking for people
who would otherwise be in court, whether
they be defendants or plaintiffs in
cases that were heard today. Those
people were not there and the reason
given, they were too afraid to be there.
The courthouse at 555 West Harrison
opens at 8:30 each weekday. One woman,
whose name we are withholding because of
the nature of her case, was set to
appear at 9:00 a.m. We're told she
didn't make it there. She was arrested
by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
according to this court document.
Witnesses say they saw this man, who
they believed to be a federal officer,
assist in her arrest outside the
courthouse about 15 minutes before her
scheduled time to appear. A victim
advocate asked why she was being
arrested and told us an agent said,
quote, "We're going to speak to her
about her immigration status before
putting the woman in handcuffs." CBS
News Chicago has learned the woman in
this case was the accused abuser,
arrested by the Chicago Police
Department, and charged with two
misdemeanor counts of domestic battery.
Court records say the charges were
dropped today. Sounds like as soon as we
got word, my advocates and a bunch of
other advocates and legal aid attorneys
uh came down and started passing out
know your rights information.
Tessa Kypers works as a victim advocate
at the courthouse. She says she worries
this will deter victims of domestic
violence from reporting their abusers.
Just making people survivors unsafer,
right? Um obviously survivors are going
to know ICE was here. um they're going
to have hesitancy about seeking
protections about connecting with their
advocate and or protection and criminal
charges um that might be a tool for
safety for them. The CEO of the network
advocating against domestic violence
encouraged virtual hearings moving
forward, adding in part, quote, "These
actions will undermine survivors trust
in our legal system to be a resource for
them and will discourage survivors from
coming forward if they fear immigration
will be at their next court hearing and
take their loved ones."
Now, there has been a call for support
here at the courthouse tomorrow morning.
volunteers asked to show in front of the
courthouse with know your rights
material. We expect to see some sort of
demonstration here. Then meantime, we
have reached out to ICE for a comment on
all of this and are still waiting to
hear back. We're live in the West Loop,
Sabrina Franza, CBS News Chicago.
And in this next video I'm going to show
you, unknown officers arrest an Ohio
woman, hand her over to ICE in a
secluded parking lot. Officers reach in
through the car window and forcibly drag
her out after refusing to show a badge
number. They then drive her around town
to the back of a bank parking lot. They
hand her over to a group of men that she
later learned were ICE agents. At least
one of the officers detaining her in
this video appears to be wearing an ATF
badge. Marlin Ortiz Sto is a 24year-old
woman who is legally seeking asylum from
violent attacks against her in Honduras.
She was scheduled to attend a hearing on
her case in September. Now she's locked
up without bail in Butler County, Ohio.
Watch what's going down here. Play this
clip.
Can I get his badge number?
Can I get the rest?
Can I please?
I'll have everyone's badge number
memorized.
Please, can I talk to them?
In video shared with WCPO, you see a
tense back and forth with officers.
Flores repeatedly asking officers to
identify themselves. After a while of
that, this happens.
Please identify yourself, sir. You're
not identifying yourself. Please. Hey,
no. Hey, don't don't don't.
Eventually, officers appear to open both
the driver and passenger side doors, and
they begin to pull the couple out of the
car.
Hey, you can't touch her, man. Identify
yourself.
One officer appears to have a Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms or ATF
vest on.
She is extremely scared in this video.
She doesn't know what's happening. She's
not being told what's happening.
Attorney Krishna Maha Davis says after
this, Ortiz Sto was arrested by officers
and handed over to ICE.
They took her back to their vehicle and
then drove her to a local US bank
parking lot where they handed her over
to actual ICE agents.
Aa David says Ortiz Sto has an ongoing
asylum claim from 2019. Are we aware of
why the family wanted asylum? It
involves uh that the individual is from
Honduras and flee fears returning to
that country uh due to violence that
happened in the past uh but
unfortunately not at liberty to discuss
the details of that.
He says his client followed all the
rules and regularly attended ICE
check-ins. Do we know a predicate for
why they decided to stop this particular
vehicle?
She did not know why they were stopped.
Now, Ortiz Sto sits inside the Butler
County Jail awaiting a bond hearing,
hoping her case is heard fairly. WCPO
reached out to Fairfield police several
ways Wednesday, but we have not heard
back.
They should keep in mind that this is a
young woman who is who is found some
success uh and happiness here in the
United States. She started her own
business. Uh she's f hopefully found
love here in the United States with her
boyfriend
in Cincinnati. Jour, WCP9 News. And
finally, I want to show you this. And
this is how Christopher Webb puts it. As
a parent, as an aunt, as an uncle, as a
grandparent, as a human being, if you
don't feel for this young woman and see
the injustice here, you're dead inside.
Deported to Guatemala. This young woman,
she's an honor student, a track star.
She doesn't speak Spanish. She doesn't
even know Guatemala.
And this isn't the worst story out
there. Not by a long shot. She had no
idea where she was going when they
deported her. This is what the Trump
regime is doing. This is what that
federal judge was pissed about. Here,
play this clip.
What's it like to be living here instead
of your house in in uh in Wesley?
It's really hard. Um I have the cat.
It's It really hurts me like him being
um in my house and like
maybe he thinks like I just abandoned
him.
Oh.
So, it really hurts me just be be here
and like not knowing what's going to
happen.
Your cousin Yuri when we stood across
the street from your house, she said,
"Um Nory's bedroom is in the back." She
kind of pointed to where it was. Do you
think about your room and
Yes.
all your stuff?
I think about my stuff. I think about um
my clothes,
especially my cat. I really miss him so
much.
Are you dreaming about home or sleeping?
Um yes, I dream about my family, my
friends,
but it's just it's just really hard.
What's it like when you wake up here?
It's not my home.
She wanted to go to Santa Monica
College, which you know, um, and become
a fashion designer. Yeah.
And then transfer to another college.
Just real quick, let me play you a
little bit of what she said about not
being able to complete her studies there
and how important school was to her.
Even though I'm far, I'm still going to
keep it up and like not give up. And I'm
really grateful for the opportunity they
gave me to just study from here. So, I'm
just really grateful for everything that
they're doing. And I'm going to keep it
up and not give up.
Is the idea just keep going so that if
you make it back soon, you can go to
college next year.
If I make it back, I'm definitely going
to go go to college. Make just make my
mom proud and make myself proud as well.
Make everyone proud.
In terms of their asylum claim, you said
that they were fleeing um an attempt on
the mother's life in Guatemala. Why
would that get denied? I mean, I thought
that was one of the bars you had to
clear. And it it sounds like if that's
true, why would they not be allowed to
stay here?
Such a good question. That that's part
of the reason that there are lawsuits in
federal court about these immigration
courthouse arrests, not just in Los
Angeles, but also and most notably
probably here in New York at 26 Federal
Plaza, where even as people are getting
continuations for their cases on her
case was dismissed.
No, they could have stayed. And and they
tell us and you can read about in the
article that, you know, maybe there were
some issues with the lawyer. Um but it
wasn't a slam dunk that they were going
to have to be deported. She had gone to
these check-ins of Nory's mother time
after time and they said to her, "Bring
Nory next time." Uh, and they had no
idea that this is what was going to
happen because the way that these things
normally play out, you get a
continuation to say, "Come back again
and we'll talk about it in 6 months or a
year."
Why is that? Why? Why? Why are there
continuations?
Because the immigration adjudication
system is badly broken. It's hugely
backlogged. um the Trump
administration's fix is to is to not
have immigration judges at all, but to
have military judges,
military judges, people of Steven
Miller's choosing.
There you have it, folks. Let me know
what you think. Hit subscribe

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BOMBSHELL: Justice Department Staffer Admits Republican Names Will Be HIDDEN From Epstein Files
The Damage Report
Sep 5, 2025 The Damage Report

In a secretly recorded video, a staffer in the Department of Justice claimed Republican names in the Epstein files will be redacted. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!

Read more here:

In Undercover Video, Staffer Claims DOJ Will Hide Republican Names In Epstein Files - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...

"A staffer in the Justice Department said in a secretly recorded video that the department would redact any Republican names from its investigative files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

The administration has been funneling the Epstein files to Capitol Hill in a supposed show of transparency, but only liberals’ names will remain visible, the staffer said."



Transcript

Pam Bondi just got busted because one
of her lackeys was caught on camera
saying that, "Oh, they have a plan when
it comes to the Epstein files. They're
just going to redact all the Republicans
and leave the Democrats out." Take a
look.

Q. Do you think like the stuff you're with
Epstein will actually get released or
not at all?

[Joseph Schmitt] If it does, it'll be heavily redacted,
and Disney won't be
Well, those files do exist.
There's files for sure. There's yeah
thousands and thousands of files.
But again, if they're released in any
way, it's going to be very reductive.
They'll redact every Republican or
conservative person in those files.
Leave all the liberal Democratic people
in those files, and have a very slanted
version of it where it's like looking at
what he's doing without really seeing
any of their bad behavior.

So a couple of interesting things
about that. One, that's not just some
rando speculating about what they're
going to do. You're you're watching one
of those right now. No, this is a
different person. This is somebody who's
the acting DOJ deputy chief of
operational enforcement or whatever.
Joseph Schmitt. And the other interesting
thing is that that's a James O'Keefe
investigation. You know, the people who
took down Acorn, and he gets to
dress up in I don't like he's a pimp or
something. Like the only person that
loves cosplaying more than Kristi
Noem.

Well, in this case, they got a
conservative appearing to admit that the
fix is in. They're going to redact all
of the conservatives. And there, look,
admittedly, they're already a good way
there. They've already redacted Trump's
name after the thousand times or
whatever it appeared in there. And so,
yeah, they're just going to, I guess,
release the files. There might be some
Democrats or Democratically linked
donors. They'll just protect all the
Republican politicians, the Republican
donors, and all that. And that I guess
is the plan I suppose. And so we're
definitely gonna discuss that.

I want to get Trey in to talk about
that. They're gonna like backtrack and
be like, "Nah, that dude's he's
chucklehead. He doesn't know what he's
talking about. He's the DOJ deputy
chief." What do you think?

Yeah, I didn't realize that Tom Sigura's
brother was that high up in the DOJ
personally. But yeah, so I don't
know. Like there's a lot going on here.
on the one hand like uh like you said
he's high up in the DOJ. He's speaking
with apparent confidence there and
everything but it is the whole thing is
sort of stained by the source of it at
least a little bit you know but it being
O'Keeffe and their history there and
then the fact that they're even doing
that at all because this is the one and
only scandal that's kind of penetrated
the you know the barrier of loyalism. I
know it's the far right or however you
want to put that. So, uh, it's
I'm also thinking about just thinking
ahead and if that when if and when that
does happen, if they do release them and
it is uh
just redacted, all every conservative
name and Trump's name is redacted, but
they release the files and then the idea
that everybody's just like good with
that, everybody being like on the right
or whatever, it's like, see, we told you
nothing but Democrats, you know, like it
isn't obvious what happened might just
be the final straw. for me. I might show
up bald on here the next day from having
finally pulled every last hair out of my
head if that actually happens. Because I
mean, when they say redacted, they do
mean like
like just black black lines through
names and stuff.
Yeah.
And that that shouldn't work,
you know? But here's the thing. I mean,
it totally would.
I know. Yeah.
Why didn't they just do that three
months ago? Because like there there are
some conservatives who still do really
care about this. A significant chunk of
the voters or whatever. Three or four
Republican politicians, they're a little
bit dicey, but they at least signed on
to the discharge petition or whatever.
So Massie and Marjorie Green, uh Lauren
Boebert and Nancy M. Um and then in
terms of right-wing media, there's um
there's nothing actually. There was for
like a weekend and then Trump called
them and they all bowed down. Uh, and so
there are some who want to get to the
bottom of it, but that's going too far.
They they they can see that there's a
cover up. They don't like it. They're
like, "Hey, um, for years we've been
doing the Qunan thing. Can we be like at
least minimally consistent on this?" And
so they want I would say something. Do
they demand the full truth, nothing but
the truth?
Right.
I don't I don't think so. I think that
if they were to do what this guy laid
out and just release a couple of
interesting names, I think for a
significant chunk, that would be enough.
And so, I don't know why Trump didn't do
that. Why is he continuing to attack
them for caring about this rather than
just give them a bit of red meat?
Yeah. No, I I agree 100%. When all this
like was first happening, the the video
that I made about it for my socials, I
said some like at the time I was like I
feel like we all know that if Trump
could literally just like pull out like
a napkin written in crayon misspelled
Epstein list at the top and it's like
Obama's Clintons, Rosie O'Donnell
probably not me and they would all be
like thank you for getting to the bottom
of this sir. We appreciate that. and
then then it would just go, you know, it
would be that simple. And obviously
that's, you know, just a tiny bit
hyperbolic, but not much. But yeah,
you're you're right. It would it would
would work and it will work if they ever
do it. And I don't I don't know why the
only I mean, isn't the sort of idea that
the theory that some people have had is
there's some some form of like mutually
assured destruction involved is the only
thing that would keep him from doing
something like that. meaning that like
they're not the only ones that have
access to this information or something.
You know what I mean? Like you try to do
that, you burn us, then we will burn you
back type of thing.
Yeah. I mean, there are definitely a lot
of theories and it's entirely possible
that something like that is out there,
but like what he's landed on as the
strategy and we'll show some of his
updated communications, Donald Trump, is
just it's the most suspicious possible
way to address this. Uh, and we've got a
lot to get to. I want to give you just a
little bit more from that expose. Here's
more schnit.
You know, internally there's a lot of
even within the administration, there's
internal conflict.
Oh, okay.
FBI really wants it. Second in command
at FBI has been like causing problems
cuz he's like, "No, these have to be
released."
Yeah. So, the FBI wants them out.
Um, yep. The top two guys, do
and Bonnie does it.
I don't know what Bonnie wants. Bonnie
wants whatever.
Sure.
They visited that Maxwell person.
Yeah.
And also involved
got transferred to a minimum security
prison too recently
which is against BP policy because she's
she's a convicted sex offender
and they're not supposed to be minimum
security prisons which is an interesting
detail because she's getting a benefit
which means they're offering her
something to keep it shut.
Yeah. And none of this looks very good.
So he seems to imply there that there is
actually a conflict between Cash Patel
and Dan Bonino and Pam Bondi. Uh and so
that definitely stood out. And uh now
after what Trey said, I definitely
cannot get past how much he looks like
the love child of Tom Seagura and Jesse
the Body Ventura, I think. Um but
anyway, uh so yeah, look, so apparently
there's that fight. The thing is like
that makes her look even worse and it
makes theoretically Cash Patel and Dan
Bonino I guess look better. Bear in mind
Cash Patel I have not heard a word out
of his mouth in like two months that
he's pushing for more disclosure. Dan
Bongino has sort of tried to imply that
he wants to get to the truth but bear in
mind he didn't like resign in protest or
whatever. He's still there months into
this cover up and so yeah, maybe on some
level he wants it to come out, but he's
certainly not making that happen. Um, in
any event, you're probably all
wondering, how did this guy get taped?
So, uh, what they did was O'Keefe did
the same dishonest stuff that he always
does. Uh, they set, uh, that guy up,
Schnit, on a date with some with a
woman, the reporter or whatever on the
dating app him Hinge. He said, "The
comments I made were my own personal
comments on what I've learned in the
media and not from anything I've done or
learned at work. He has no knowledge of
the circumstances surrounding Miss
Maxwell other than what is reported in
the news." And that's possible. He
doesn't have to be involved in anything,
but like like not nothing at his job.
Nothing in the DOJ had anything to do
with Maxwell in the investig. Why is he
leaping to the conclusion that they're
going to do all of this redacting if
it's not based on literally anything?
That just seems weird to me. and the DOJ
put out this message from him. So, you
can take a look at it. And it appears
that they screenshotted
a note that he typed in his phone and he
just barely got it in before his battery
died. So, this is like the weirdest,
least official way to do this, Trey. So
I look I share with you, you know,
O'Keeffe being involved kind of hurts it
cuz they're super disreputable, but like
I also don't know what the context could
be of selective editing,
right,
that makes it look like anything other
than it does right now. So who knows?
What do you think?
The only caveat I'll get, I don't know
why I'm trying to give I don't want to
give anyone the benefit of the doubt. It
certainly seems very damning, but like
his, you know, his excuse for it all or
the way he uh explained it like I don't
know what that job title means.
Obviously, acting deputy chief sounds
very high up to me, but I have no idea
what his actual job description is or
his duties and stuff. And if he's works
there but isn't actually involved with
any of that crap. the idea that that guy
if he's on like a date apparently or
he's trying to impress some girl or
whatever he's that he would you know act
very confidently as though like he's
real plugged in and knows everything
that's going on is not I mean that's not
really a stretch that a guy would do
that but it all fits in with what we've
all kind of been assuming and thinking
anyway and is definitely very believable
and at the very least looks really bad.
So, um, you know, regardless of the
source, cuz yeah, it wasn't James
O'Keeffe in a dress and, you know, like
like you said, it's doesn't appear to be
AI or manipulated or anything. You
really, this guy really did say those
things. This guy really does have that
job. So, you know, that looks bad.
Yeah. Look, I will say may maybe I've
maybe I've done a bad thing. Maybe I've
jumped to conclusions based on my desire
to believe the narrative that this guy
spread. So, I I know I know a solution,
a pretty easy one. put out all the files
with no redacting and then clearly that
guy will have been wrong. I'll look like
a big dumb donkey. Just release the
files and it'll clear the DOJ's name.
But obviously they're not going to do
that.
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PANICKED Trump gets ROCKED by WORST KARMA of HIS LIFE
MeidasTouch
Sep 5, 2025 Legal AF Podcast

Trump can’t “fire” his way out of the new catastrophic job numbers and other economic data released this week, showing that the Trump Recession has begun. Michael Popok looks at the new Bureau of Labor Statistics job numbers that show that Trump is making 1/10 the number of jobs Biden created each month, and in June, there were actually NEGATIVE job numbers, meaning less than 0 job growth. Looks like the Fed will have to try to bail out Trump’s failed policies with a major rate cut in 2 weeks, as it works to try to pull the economy back from the brink.



Transcript

Well, I don't know what Donald Trump's
going to do now. He'll have to fire the
entirety of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics because their new job numbers
are out and they're even worse than last
month after Donald Trump fired its
commissioner, but couldn't fire 200
economists that are doing the job of
trying to figure out how many jobs this
administration is making or actually not
making. if he hated last month's numbers
when they revised down by a couple
hundred thousand June uh the prior May
June and July he's going to hate these
numbers because it shows that for
instance in the in the month of August
the total amount of jobs that were made
total amount of jobs that were made were
about 22,000 they were expecting 80,000
so they missed the mark by about 60,000
jobs.

Q. What percentage of 7400000 is 22000?
A. 0.297297297297%
[.3% chance of getting a job in America right now. Not even 1%.]

And just to put this in perspective
for those that are thinking That seems
like a big number. Not in an economy of
300 million people. It's not not when
you've got 7.2 million people looking
for work. A

In July 2025, job openings fell to 7.181 million, while the number of unemployed individuals stood at 7.4 million.

-- Job Seekers Exceed Jobs Since Covid, by Google AI

And as an example, during the
Biden administration and its final days
in 2024,
they were making 170,000 jobs a month.
Not 22,000,
170,000. It got so bad that they just
revised the numbers again. These are all
Trump administration numbers. He owns
this economy now, having been in office
for over seven months. They revised June
down so low it made negative jobs. It
was negative 14,000 and then additional
on average of just about
22,000 a month for the 3 months prior.
So what do we have as a result? We have
as a result consumer confidence is down,
jobs are in the toilet, and putting
pressure on the Federal Reserve as if
they don't have enough pressure, putting
pressure on the Federal Reserve to make
a change. September 18th is going to be
the interest rate meeting by the Federal
Open Markets Committee. Yes, that still
apparently includes Lisa Cook, who
Donald Trump has gone after and tried to
remove for purported mortgage fraud.
Side note: mortgage fraud that is
exactly the same thing is being
committed by 20% of his cabinet. It's
not mortgage fraud at all. It's just
owning two properties and listing that they
both your primary residents. So in
September 18th, they're going to be
meeting to cut rates. I don't think
they're going to have a choice now but
to cut rates to bail out Donald Trump's
failed economy. That's all we're
watching between the tariffs wrecking
our global relationships and causing
instability here in America, and
the tariff scheme wrecking our economy.
Consumer prices up. And it's not just
up, you know, almost 4%. You go
get fruits and vegetables today, and you
go to the market, they're up 30 to 40%
because of the tariff war that Donald
Trump started, a self-inflicted wound.

So consumer confidence, the new polling
shows, it's in the tank. The operative word for this economy,
according to the polling, was, "we're
struggling." That's American people,
voters for Donald Trump included, that
are struggling under this economy 7
months in.

In addition, just get ready for
the future. We also have new
numbers out that show that people are
not hiring. Hiring managers are not
hiring. The Federal Reserve and its 12
different regional banks create what's
called the Beige Book every quarter that
evaluates financial performance by
state, by district in America. Seven out
of the 12 districts in America under the
Federal Reserve report that they are
hesitant to hire anyone right now
because of the instability of the Trump
administration and of the leader of the
Trump administration, Donald Trump
himself. So they're not hiring.
Wholesale prices are way up, meaning the
prices charged between business, the
products that are necessary, and the
elements that are necessary to
manufacture, those prices are up, which
means they'll ultimately get passed on
at to the consumer. The tariffs are
starting to get fully baked into
consumer pricing, which means consumer
pricing, another pressure for consumer
pricing to go up. With consumer pricing
up, confidence by the consumers down,
wholesale prices up, and jobs in the
toilet, that's the pressure on the
Federal Reserve.

They have one blunt
force instrument to try to help the
American people and the economy now that
Donald Trump has dug such a deep hole.
That's called interest rates. That's the
interest rate charge between banks. That
ends up being the bellwether
for setting of interest rates for things
that impact you and me directly, like
credit card debt, loans, mortgages,
student loans and the like. Any kind of
borrowing is ultimately set off the
Federal Reserve interest rate which now
is between four and a quarter and four
and a half. Add two to 10 points
depending upon your credit score and
you'll figure out where your interest
rate is. When that gets cut, that is
cheaper.

People hopefully will borrow
more on the consumer side, I guess, go
into more debt to help spend our way out
of this recession Trump's creating. And
the thought is more investment by
suppliers and manufacturers. They'll
bring in more inventory because they can
float more loans, get more credit, ease
the credit markets, and by doing so
hopefully create more jobs.

Now the downside risk of that is what the Fed
has been concerned about which is that
hyperinflation happens. Cheaper money
also leads to higher prices because
people have more money to spend and
therefore in the market more competition
for capital and goods prices go up.
Right now their target rate was to try
to get inflation to 2%. We're heading to
4% under Donald Trump. So forget
the target rate now. They have to shift focus
to the weakening and cratering job
market created by Trumpanomics. So I see
at least a half a point being cut on
September 18th, and probably another half
a point if that doesn't work coming in
October as new data, new statistics,
come in rolling behind it.

Who's Donald Trump gonna fire now? He can't
fire the numbers. You know, the
suffering of America under Donald
Trump's thumb is real.
What you pay at the pump, what you pay
at the grocery store, what you pay for
health insurance, if you can even afford
it, and there's 20 million people thrown
out of health insurance by Donald Trump.
You no longer have
federal subsidies for school lunch
programs, for health care, for seniors
programs.
You know, what you pay matters around
your kitchen table. And Donald Trump is
making it a hell of a lot worse since
the Biden administration and Kamala Harris
administration.

I mean, I'll end it the
way I started it. Look at the numbers.
And behind every number, every statistic,
is a human being who is suffering under
the Trump administration. Plain and
simple. When you have negative growth
for a year, when you're averaging
14,000 jobs created a month, one-tenth of
what Joe Biden created, that's real
human suffering behind each one of those
numbers. When prices go up and you're
now short in the beginning, you start
taking things out of your
basket, right? Well, can't get this,
can't get that, can't get the yogurt.
Kids are going to have to skip milk
today. I'll have to water the milk down.
But how do you cut through when there's no fat? You're
already through the bone. Then where do
you go? When you're 5% short, 10% short,
30% short for what you need to buy to
live. Where do you turn?
Not the federal government. And the
state government has been defunded by
the federal government by Donald Trump.

How do we make a change? What do we do
in the short term? In the short term, we
got to put pressure on our leaders, the
members of Congress and the Senate to
stop Donald Trump's failed economic
policies. In the long term, midterm
election, it's time to it's time to
throw the bastards out, get the
Democrats back in, start getting
economic policies that work for America
and work for the American middle class
and those even that aren't in are not in
the middle class, not an economy that's
working for the superw wealthy.
and hold Donald Trump accountable
through impeachment processes and
investigations. That is our next course.
And together we will do it here on the
Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF.

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I dated Jeffrey Epstein. The files must be released
by Stacey Williams
The Guardian
Thu 4 Sep 2025 06.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... tein-files

-- Who Is Stacey Williams? SI Swimsuit Model Who Claims Trump Groped Her Was a Fan Favorite Who Appeared on the Magazine for Six Consecutive Years. Standing at 6 feet tall, Williams made her Sports Illustrated debut in 1992 and appeared for six consecutive years, quickly becoming a fan favorite until 1998. By R. Ghosh, October 24, 2024

This is not a partisan issue. The American people – and Epstein’s many victims – deserve transparency

In 1986, my life went from black-and-white to color. It was the year I taped a Duran Duran poster to my rural Pennsylvania high school locker, and then months later hung out with band members backstage at the Paris runway shows. It was the year I went from cleaning bathrooms for $3.35 an hour to making $50k in a day for a Maybelline shoot. Modeling opened a door into a gorgeous, creative, elite world – a dream born of a biological accident.

It is also what led me, decades later, into the very uncomfortable position of speaking out about the horrific legacy of the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom I briefly dated in 1993.

I was introduced to Epstein at a dinner party, which I attended at the request of my then agent, Faith Kates. He was charming and smart, and didn’t condescend as we connected over current events and the state of the world, a rare experience for me in those scenarios.

The brief relationship that emerged was consensual. But some of the events that took place within the confines of that relationship were not.

Last October, I came forward with a story I had kept private (with the exception of sharing with my closest friends) for decades: Epstein once walked me into Donald Trump’s office at Trump Tower, where I was groped by Trump as Epstein stood by and watched. (Trump denies that this ever happened). For years I stayed silent in order to protect my privacy and my family. But with the release of a documentary in which I was featured, I felt I had to tell the truth. To support my account, I was polygraphed by a renowned examiner, my close friends were interviewed to corroborate that I had shared this story over the years, and Trump biographer Michael Wolff confirmed that Epstein disclosed the incident to him.

More recently, I have also shared something Epstein once told me over tea and Zabar’s walnut bread at his mansion: that he had video of me disrobed in a bedroom in his home. He described it as “the most beautiful thing” he had seen. That comment chilled me then, and it haunts me still. When I watched FBI agents raid Epstein’s homes in 2019, I grew nauseous at the thought that such videos could have ended up in the hands of other people.

Let me be clear: I did not consent to being groped by Donald Trump, and I did not consent to being filmed by Jeffrey Epstein. I am speaking out not because of politics, but because the American people – and Epstein’s many victims – deserve transparency.

This is not a partisan issue. Being a victim crosses party lines. That’s why I’ve been encouraged to see Representatives Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, and Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, from opposite sides of the aisle, standing besides Epstein’s victims on Capitol Hill, demanding the release of the Epstein files. Hundreds of women have lived in the shadow of this man’s crimes. They deserve truth, not secrecy.

Yet what we’ve seen is a game of political chicken. The Wall Street Journal reported that the attorney general, Pam Bondi, privately told Trump his name appears in Epstein-related files. The justice department’s second-in-command, Todd Blanche – Trump’s former lawyer – met behind closed doors not with victims, but with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for helping Epstein abuse underage girls. And despite public assurances that there is “nothing to see”, Congress recessed early rather than debate the issue. Maxwell, meanwhile, was quietly moved to a more comfortable minimum-security prison in Texas, despite the fact that she repeatedly deflected and minimized facts during her interview.

Two days ago, in a deceptive move supposedly intended to signal transparency, the House oversight committee released more than 33,000 files related to Epstein that it received from the justice department. As Representative Massie pointed out, 97% of those pages are “already in public domain”.

So here I am, like so many women in my position, mustering the courage to disclose and jumping through hoops to prove my truth – while perpetrators and enablers enjoy the benefit of secrecy. It is baffling that leaders from the president on down insist there is nothing to see, yet refuse to release the actual files. It is equally baffling to hear Alan Dershowitz deny that surveillance tapes exist, when testimony and evidence suggest otherwise. Maria Farmer, one of the first women to report Epstein and Maxwell for sexual crimes, told CBS News that Epstein had hidden cameras throughout his home. A recent New York Times report included images of video cameras inside Epstein’s mansion, even above his bed. And Epstein specifically boasted that he had video footage of me.

I know my pain is shared by countless survivors. I think of Virginia Giuffre, who tragically died by suicide this April, and of the retraumatization survivors endure as they watch Ghislaine Maxwell settle into a more comfortable facility while their stories remain buried. That is not justice.

We deserve peace of mind. We deserve healing that comes with accountability. And that will never come so long as our trauma is reduced to partisan warfare. Sexual violence and trafficking have no political party.

It is time to put politics aside, release the Epstein files and help free the women at the center of this tragedy from a nightmare that has lasted for decades.

Stacey Williams is a former model

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Stacey Williams says Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein ‘coordinated’ groping incident. Former model said of incident at Trump Tower in 1993: ‘I was rolled in there like a piece of meat in some kind of twisted game’
by Jessica Glenza
The Guardian
Fri 25 Oct 2024 09.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... mp-epstein


Stacey Williams in October. Photograph: Marion Curtis/Starpix/Rex/Shutterstock

The former model Stacey Williams said she thought Donald Trump groped her to show off to her then boyfriend, the late financier and sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, when the couple dropped by to visit him in Trump Tower in New York in 1993.

In her first detailed, on-camera interview since discussing assault allegations with the Guardian, Williams late on Thursday told CNN that she recalled the former president and Epstein smiled at each other as the property mogul was feeling her up, which gave her the impression the entire incident was a “coordinated” game between the two men.

Her account comes just weeks before the presidential election, in which Trump and the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, are essentially tied, according to polls. Trump has denied Williams’s accounts.

“The second he was in front of me, he pulled me into him and his hands were just on me and didn’t come off,” Williams told CNN, echoing her account to the Guardian.

“Then the hands started moving on the side of my breasts, on my hips, back down to my butt, back up, sort of – they were just on me the whole time, and I froze,” she said.

Williams briefly dated Epstein in the 1990s. At the time, she told the Guardian, she and Epstein were walking through Manhattan when he suggested they visit Trump at his Trump Tower complex on Fifth Avenue.

The two were good friends, she said. Trump later distanced himself from Epstein after the financier was convicted of being a sex offender in Florida, several years before he was arrested in New York on federal sex offenses in 2019 and killed himself while in custody awaiting trial.

She added, as she did in her recounting to the Guardian, that she believed now that the incident was planned by Epstein and Trump all along. When they encountered Trump, she alleges he immediately grabbed and groped her, right in front of her boyfriend.

“This context made no sense because the hands were on me and he and Jeffrey just kept talking and looking at each other and smiling,” she said. Later, when the couple left, she said Epstein berated her for allowing Trump to touch her, and that the whole incident left her confused and sick.

“I just had this really sickening feeling that it was coordinated, I was rolled in there like a piece of meat in some kind of weird twisted game,” she told CNN. “I felt a wave of shame,” she said, and took the memory of the incident, “put it in a little box inside of me, turned the key, locked it.”

Williams told the Guardian this week in an exclusive first interview that she got the sense, at the time, that Trump and Epstein were “really, really good friends”. Williams also shared an undated postcard that she said Trump later sent her, with a view of Palm Beach, Florida, home to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion.

“Your home away from home,” the postcard read. “Love, Donald”.

Trump’s campaign, responding to CNN, said Williams’s allegations were a “fake story [that] was contrived by Kamala Harris’ campaign,” to distract from a second incident, in which Doug Emhoff is accused of slapping a former girlfriend. A campaign spokesperson for Harris, the US vice-president, earlier this month denied the allegation against her husband.

Williams’s account will add to a long list of women who have accused Trump of sexual assault, ranging from the writer E Jean Carroll, who was eventually vindicated by a civil jury that found Trump liable for sexual abuse, to his ex-wife, Ivana Trump, who accused the former president of raping her, in a divorce deposition.

Williams said she gained the courage to come forward about the incident following the release of a recent documentary about the magazine Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issues, called Beyond the Gaze.

“I can’t control when a documentary comes out, I can’t control its premiering two weeks before the election,” Williams told CNN. Although Williams had alluded to the incident in social media comments, she had never told her story in detail until this week.

“It takes a lot of guts, and you have to really prepare yourself for that onslaught, and I’m ready now,” she said. “Just bring it.”

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'Sheer embarrassment': Judge declares 'constitutional crisis' as Jeanine Pirro drops case
by David Edwards
RawStory
September 4, 2025 3:31PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirro-2673961621/

'Sheer embarrassment': Judge declares 'constitutional crisis' as Jeanine Pirro drops case
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ferris Pirro speaks during a press conference announcing the indictment of the Haitian gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier for conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions, at the Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 12, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon

Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui said Thursday the country was "past the point of constitutional crisis" after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office dropped the case against a man accused of threatening to kill President Donald Trump.

"Why is the government not out of sheer embarrassment and shame seeking to dismiss with prejudice and expunge the record?" Faruqui asked prosecutors on Thursday after they dropped charges against Edward Dana.

Dana was held in jail for a week after the government alleged he broke a light fixture and threatened to kill Trump while drunk.

ALSO READ: Leaving MAGA: NY mom who fell for anti-vaxxers, QAnon and Trump describes painful escape

"We're past the point of constitutional crisis," Faruqui said, according to CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane. "We're acting like this is all normal."

The judge accused the Justice Department of "just a rush to get stats on Twitter or Truth Social."

"What's to prevent people from just getting rounded up off the streets?" he wondered. "These are people with names and rights!"

The judge said that "people like Mr. Dana are suffering the consequences" as the DOJ was "losing credibility."

"You created this mess," he told prosecutors, accusing Pirro's office of "too many misfires."

"The government's message to people who look like Mr. Dana is … 'be very afraid!'" Faruqui exclaimed. "I'm afraid right now."

The judge gave prosecutors until 5 p.m. Thursday to file a document explaining how they would prevent the same mistake from happening in the future. Grand juries have declined to provide indictments in at least nine cases brought by Pirro's office since Trump ordered a federal takeover of policing in Washington, D.C.

Scott MacFarlane@MacFarlaneNews

FLASH: Judge erupts at hearing as Justice Dept reveals dismissal of yet another recent DC criminal case

Judge Zia Farriqui: “We’re past the point of Constitutional crisis”

“embarrassment & shame for the govt”

“This is just a rush to get stats on Twitter or truth social”

11:19 AM · Sep 4, 2025

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'Sound familiar?' Mitch McConnell lobs parting shot at 'America First' Republicans
by Ailia Zehra
Alternet
9/3/25
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics ... r-AA1LPjDH


U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) holds a press conference following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz, © provided by AlterNet

In his final act in Congress, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — who was the Republican leader before stepping down in 2024 — took aim at the growing MAGA wing of the Republican Party, dismissing suggestions about popularity and isolationist politics while defending his record.

“These suggestions about who’s popular and who isn’t irritate the hell out of me, because when you get into the leadership position, you get beat up,” McConnell said in a recent interview with the Lexington Herald‑Leader published Wednesday.

McConnell, 83, warned of risks reminiscent of the 1930s, when the slogan that has defined President Donald Trump's movement rose amid isolationism.

“I think this is the most dangerous period since before World War Two. There’s certain similarities right now to the ’30s,” he said, referencing the notorious Smoot‑Hawley tariffs and isolationist sentiment.

He added: "Those who were totally anxious to stay out of all of what was going on in Europe were called 'America First.' Sound familiar?"

The Kentucky Republican also highlighted his long record of wins, saying: “Seven victories in Kentucky, nine victories in the (Senate Republican) conference.”

McConnell has won every election in Kentucky since defeating Democratic incumbent Walter “Dee” Huddleston in 1984, and earned a record‑breaking 18 years as Senate GOP leader.

During the wide‑ranging interview held at the McConnell‑Chao Archives at the University of Louisville, McConnell also reflected on his legacy.

He mentioned three major achievements for Kentucky: the mid‑2000s tobacco industry buyout, securing $1.6 billion for a toll‑free Brent Spence Bridge, and leading the deconstruction of a chemical weapons storage facility in Richmond.

He explained that his focus over the remaining two years in office would be on defense and foreign policy.

“I’m not doing that anymore [campaigning],” he said. “I thought the best thing for me to do the last two years was to focus on what I thought was the most important thing I might have an impact on, and that’s defense and foreign policy.”

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-- Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book Redacted

-- Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book Unredacted

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Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie

I’m leading the fight in the House to release the Epstein files. Is this why a billionaire who appears in Epstein’s black book [John Paulson] and regularly donates to @SpeakerJohnson and NRCC is paying for ads against me? His superPAC is deceptively named MAGA Kentucky.

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