The Incident: On April 25, 1980, the Trump Organization executed an eviction against Mary Filan, a 74-year-old widow who was partially paralyzed from a recent stroke.
The Location: The eviction occurred at her rent-controlled apartment in Flushing, Queens, where she had lived for over 30 years.
The Dispute: The Trump Organization claimed she owed four months of back rent. However, Filan maintained that her rent was fully paid, stating that her last bill was a minor balance of $10.20, which she had already cleared.
The Aftermath: City marshals and moving crews removed her belongings—including her furniture and jewelry—leaving her sitting on a laundry hamper in the apartment. Due to the trauma and her medical condition, neighbors and city social services arranged for her immediate admission to a local hospital.
Joe Conason for the Village Voice in May 1980 under the headline "Trump Evicts Stroke Victim, 74." The case also received brief coverage in The New York Times. When questioned at the time, a spokesperson for the Trump Organization stated that management handled those issues and that they "don't get involved with individual cases."
Trump and his complicit Congress did this on purpose with the big beautiful bill so that much of the damage would not be felt until AFTER the midterms. ⚠️. Stay vigilant and vote them ALL out.
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BREAKING: Bari Weiss's CBS News gets caught sweeping a MAJOR Jeffrey Epstein story under the rug, proving once and for all that the brand is now full-blown MAGA.
This is absolutely inexcusable...
"Bari Weiss now an intricate part of the Epstein cover up," Ryan Grim of Drop Site News wrote on X.
He was reacting to a bombshell story in Bloomberg which revealed that Deutsche Bank AG "failed to promptly report to US authorities" over $250 million in "suspicious transactions tied to Jeffrey Epstein." Some of those funds were used to pay women in Russia and Eastern European countries, a major red flag for sex trafficking investigators.
The stunning news was disclosed by Senator Ron Wyden in a new report entitled "Looking the Other Way: How Wall Street Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking.”
The report also details how Bank of America Corp. reported "$170 million in Epstein-related transactions connected to billionaire Leon Black," but only did so five to seven years after the transactions took place. In other words, after the parties involved had ample time to cover their tracks.
In a sane country, Wyden's efforts to uncover the truth over the course of several years would have been bipartisan. But since Republicans control Congress and their party leader is deeply implicated in the Epstein files, Wyden was limited in his ability to obtain documents and interview witnesses. In the report, he criticized Republicans for their blatant obstructionism.
But it's one particular detail in Wyden's report that's drawing attention to Weiss. The senator stated that he was interviewed back in March by then-60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi for a segment on the connection between Wall Street banks, the government of the U.S. Virgins Islands, and Epstein.
Alfonsi was later fired for criticizing CBS News' leadership, specifically editor-in-chief Weiss, regarding a different segment.
The Epstein story never aired.
So what are we to make of this beyond the obvious, which is that Weiss has completely destroy CBS's credibility and integrity?
There are a few explanations at play. Weiss was installed by Trump ally Larry Ellison to steer the network's coverage in a more MAGA-friendly direction. She has enthusiastically done just that. Suppressing Epstein stories keeps the scandal out of the news, which helps Trump since he was clearly buried to the hilt in the late pedophile's predations. It's also worth noting that Weiss’s wife Nellie Bowles appears in the Epstein files.
The second explanation involves a more macro-analysis. Outside of shielding just Trump, Weiss is committed to upholding the status quo more broadly. She has failed upward in this world despite her lack of morals or discernible intellect by flattering the prejudices of powerful oligarchs. Exposing the big banks for being involved with — or at the very least turning a blind eye to — Epstein's sex trafficking empire would mean implicating the epicenter of American capitalist power. Once journalists start pulling threads on the banks, everything could come unraveled. These are institutions that launder money for drug cartels and shuttle money back and forth for the same intelligence agencies that Epstein was clearly in bed with. Dig into him, and all the rot comes spilling into the open.
Please ❤️ and share to demand that Bari Weiss resign in shame!