BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded.
Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough.
In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court.
The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"?
The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes.
Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due.
Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court.
Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned.
Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case.
She listened.
"We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges.
Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table.
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BREAKING: News legends Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson along with 250 journalists sign blistering letter demanding the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “stop the polite nonsense” forcefully call out Trump to his face!
In a powerful open letter, retired star journalists Rather (94) and Donaldson (92), along with more than 250 other members of the press, are urging the White House Correspondents’ Association to stop the usual polite nonsense and use this week’s dinner to directly confront Donald Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the free press.
The letter states that Trump’s “systematic, sustained, and unprecedented” assault on journalism – including retaliatory bans, lawsuits, defunding public broadcasting, arrests of reporters, and constant verbal attacks – makes it impossible for the dinner to continue as “business as usual.”
They are calling on the WHCA to issue a strong, public defense of the First Amendment from the podium, deliver a direct condemnation of Trump’s behavior, and toast the Constitution in front of the man who has spent years trying to destroy press freedom.
This is a remarkable moment: some of the most respected names in American journalism are saying enough is enough. Enough normalizing. Enough smiling and clapping while Trump attacks the free press every single day.
The letter makes clear that freedom of the press is not a partisan issue but a cornerstone of democracy, and must be defended.
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BREAKING: Joe Biden unveils his official presidential portrait and it radiates his kindness and gentle spirit. Remember when we had a president who cared about the working class and loved his country? Remember when there was an adult in the Oval Office?
They relentlessly smeared him when he was in office and ran wall-to-wall coverage about his mental state, but now Donald Trump is in the grips of obvious dementia, launching wars and picking fights with the literal pope, and the mainstream media is silent about his cognitive decline. The double standard is infuriating and explains exactly how we ended up in this position!
History will reflect kindly on Joe Biden. He wasn't perfect, no leader is, but he prioritized the needs of the American people over the desires of billionaires and corporations. His American Rescue Plan Act pulled us out the devastation of the COVID-10 pandemic and his Inflation Reduction Act carved out a future for this country by investing in clean energy and modernizing Medicare. Rather than start new wars like Trump, he had the courage to finally withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan — a decision that looks better and better with each passing day.
What do you miss most about President Biden?
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Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”
REMINDER: The Strait of Hormuz was fully open under President Biden, and he didn't have to post apocalyptic threats to wipe out an entire civilization like a psycho.
He is not implicated at all in the Epstein files.
BONUS: His wife, Dr. Jill Biden, never had to deny having any relationship with Epstein, and wasn't emailing Ghislaine Maxwell.
🚨NEW: Federal Judge Richard Leon has blocked the construction of Donald Trump's White House ballroom, saying "The President is the steward of the White House for future generations...he is not the owner!"
RETWEET to thank Judge Leon for standing up for our democracy!
Hey MAGA,
I’m waiting for you to defend Trump’s refusal to remove his white baseball hat during the dignified transfer of our troops yesterday.
Go ahead.
Try to defend it.
WITHOUT pointing to anyone else.
Defend HIS actions.
I dare you.
🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent threatened to kill a U.S. citizen for driving through a neighborhood, in Cold Spring, Minnesota.
In the video, a woman is in her car when an agent walks towards her, with his hand on his gun, in the middle of the street.
He tells her that if she comes near him with her car, it will be “the last thing that you do.”
In other words… a federal agent just threatened to execute a U.S. citizen for driving down a public street.
She immediately points out that she wasn’t even close to him and tells him to get out of the road.
Instead, the agent escalates.
He stands directly in front of her vehicle, hand still on his gun, and tells her she cannot reverse or leave the street.
Except there’s just one problem…
He never identifies a crime.
He never states a lawful order.
He simply blocks her car and starts issuing threats.
That’s an illegal detention.
Then, he contradicts himself…
He told her she can’t back up… and seconds later screams at her to “back the f*ck up.”
The agent then walks to the side of her car and begins shining a flashlight directly into her face, with his hand still on his gun.
When she tells him to get the light out of her face and back off, he moves directly in front of her car again and repeats the threat:
“Do not hit me. This is your first and last warning.”
Again… she hasn’t moved.
Her car is still in reverse, and she repeatedly tells him to take his hand off his gun.
She even says:
“I’m not going to hit you!”
And yet, the agent keeps escalating, screaming the same accusation over and over… as if he’s trying to manufacture a justification to shoot her.
This is the exact same tactic we’ve already seen in multiple shootings involving ICE/Border Patrol… where federal agents step in front of vehicles and then claim they feared for their lives when the driver tries to leave, like they told them to do.
Blocking a vehicle, threatening deadly force, illegally detaining a citizen, and creating a scenario where a shooting can be justified after the fact…
Is not only dangerous, it’s illegal.
Because when armed federal agents start threatening to kill people for driving down their own street, more people are eventually going to end up dead…
And they will call it “self-defense.”
And removing Kristi Noem isn’t going to change that.
The DOJ quietly released three FBI 302 interviews that had been "missing" due to administrative or review errors after documents were mislabeled "duplicative."
The SC woman (name redacted) said Epstein introduced her to Trump in a tall NY or NJ building.
Trump allegedly called her a "tomboy" and asked others to leave and unzipped his pants. She also alleged that Trump slapped her head and said, "Get this little bitch the hell out of here," after she bit him during forced oral sex.
She also mentioned hearing Trump and Epstein discuss casino blackmail and money laundering.
She later referenced two other Trump interactions but shifted topics, questioning the value of sharing more since the statute of limitations had likely expired.
BREAKING: LOL! The federal panel reviewing Trump's $400 million White House ballroom plans postpones their vote on the project due to an avalanche of complaints from the American public.
Some of this feedback is absolutely hilarious...
The National Capital Planning Commission was supposed to hold its final vote on Trump's dream project today, but instead they announced that the vote will not be held until April 2nd, citing the “large amount of public input."
That "input" was absolutely brutal. According to CNN, the Commission received over 32,000 comments. 9,000 were released and roughly 97% were opposed to the construction. Some compared the proposed building to a "brothel," a "soulless hotel conference space," and a "Vegas casino." Words that regularly popped up included “obscene,” "low class," "disgusting," "cheap," and "garish."
One commenter wrote that the ballroom "not only demeans the building’s balance but also creates an imbalance in the presentation of what America is about, undermining principles of equality and humility established by the founding fathers."
“If any of my previous students had submitted the proposed Ballroom addition to the White House as currently designed, I would have given them a failing grade," said Kate Schwennsen, the former national president of the American Institute of Architects.
It's unsurprising that the American people would be so staunchly opposed to Donald Trump — a man with a reputation for gaudy, hideous, gold-encrusted monstrosities — carving out a permanent legacy for himself inside the People's House. In addition to being tasteless, it's a stunning display of corruption since powerful corporations are paying for the project in an effort to buy influence with his administration.
The delay on the vote is particularly noteworthy since Trump has stacked that 12-member commission with hack loyalists. If they're unwilling to forge ahead immediately, it means that the pushback has been incredibly strong. It's possible and perhaps likely that they will ultimately approve the project to proceed, but even this temporary setback demonstrates that we have power. We need to escalate our outrage. This project can be stopped entirely if the courts intervene.
Many of the comments that the commission reviewed demanded that Trump be forced to rebuild the East Wing exactly as it had been before he demolished it. For our money, we love that idea.
Clearly, public feedback matters. Speak out!
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Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,
You say that Donald Trump “loves our troops.”
So, once again, I want to know why that is.
Is it because he received 5 deferments (for a fake medical condition) from the draft during the Vietnam War?
Or is it the time he bragged that “avoiding STDs” was his personal equivalent of military combat?
Is it because he demeaned a POW, attacked a Gold Star family and told a military widow that her deceased husband “knew what he had signed up for.”
Was it the time he downplayed the traumatic head injuries suffered by our troops after a missile attack as “not real” because they weren’t “missing hands and limbs.”
Is it the time he said he didn’t want to be seen with war-wounded amputees and to keep them forever out of his sight, or the time he called our fallen heroes of war “suckers” and “losers”?
Was it the time he skipped an event in France honoring our Marines because it was raining?
Is it all the times he called our military leaders “dumb” and “overrated” while calling terrorists like the Taliban & Hezbollah “very smart”?
Was it the time he demanded the flags after McCain’s death be returned to full mast, or the time he demanded that a ship bearing his name be blocked from view?
Was it when he suggested that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserved to be executed?
Maybe it was when he asked Gen. John Kelly (who lost his son in combat) why anyone would sign up for service because as far as he saw it, there was “nothing in it for them.”
Perhaps it was hearing him say that as President he would allow our adversary to attack the same allies this country’s Greatest Generation fought beside and died defending?
Or was it when he insulted Nikki Haley’s husband for currently serving our country overseas?
Was it when he said the Medal of Freedom he gave to his rich donors was “much better” than the Medal of Honor because the recipients of that honor are “in bad shape or dead.”
Was it when he insisted on using the sacred shrine that is Arlington National Cemetery, the final resting place for more than 400,000 veterans and their families, as a photo op for his campaign despite the fact that he wasn’t allowed to do so and officials there were attacked by his staff for trying to stop him?
Was it when he decimated the VA and gutted a suicide prevention hotline meant to help our veterans in their darkest hour?
Is it the fact that he’s fired more of our veterans than any other president in our history?
Or was it when he skipped the dignified transfer of the four soldiers who died in Lithuania so he could host a glittery gala at his gilded golf motel for the folks who funded 9/11?
Was it the time he droned on about “trophy wives” while wearing a MAGA hat to the West Point graduation? Or the time he talked about the “Olympics” and the “World Cup” on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery?
Or was it when he called for the execution of several Democratic lawmakers because they made a video reminding service members to refuse unlawful orders?
Which of those things makes you believe he loves our troops?
Which one?
Because he just sent three of our service members to their deaths for an illegal war he never justified, never explained, didn’t seek Congressional approval for, and has no plan to extract us from.
The guy who PROMISED you he was the one to end ALL FOREIGN WARS is using OUR troops as props in a deadly game that is undoubtedly lining HIS pockets while making all of us far less safe at the same damn time.
And I just don’t understand how you don’t see that.
So what is it? Because for the life of me, I can’t figure it out, and I’d really, really love to know.
Lady Gaga speaks out against Trump.
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