"A federal judge in Washington last week gave Blanche until 2 July to produce unredacted versions of files the justice department has already released, or provide an explanation for why it cannot produce the unredacted records.

The Department of Justice was also ordered to release interview notes related to Jane Doe 4's allegations. The decision was part of a civil case against Blanche brought by journalist Katie Phang.

Late Friday, the justice department's number three official, Stanley Woodward, gave notice he will join the case.

"They really, really don't want these documents released," tweeted Brendan Ballou, a lawyer for the Public Integrity Project, who is representing Phang."

much more at the thread link

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One wonders which country Trump will bomb next to keep the Epstein Files secret?

Bye, bye American democracy, it was nice knowing ya.

The People are now a total afterthought to Corporate Personhood and the Oligarchy control of law and economics in this country... we might as well be Russia or China as far as Most Corrupt Nations go.

#7

"Thinks" DJT is better Pres than Harris... or his pet sheep Esmeralda, would be.

Mikey gives new meaning to the old expression, 'cheap whore'.

He's really denigrating their reputation!

#4

Yeah... even MTG and Mother Tucker can see the light on DJT, but the OP is still blind.

A Whataboutism thread for Trump Cult Apolgists.

No one else is going to look as patheticly foolish in public as the criminal Orange Lard Bucket, ever.

Pretty funny really... even his own stacked Supreme Court can't justify most of his criminal activity.

#12

Whiny baby!

"Ken who?" - God

They are doing this all around the world... Slovenia, Gaza, several Arab countries and others, including the attempt to do so in Iran.

Make America Grift Again!

... and in the article.

#9

Only in the first post....

he was, sheesh!

"A republic, if you can keep it" is a famous warning spoken by Benjamin Franklin at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

When asked by Elizabeth Willing Powel what form of government the delegates had created, Franklin replied that they had built a republic, if the people could maintain it.

Franklin's caution emphasizes that democratic republics are inherently fragile.

Their survival does not rely on a king, a ruling elite, or blind luck, but rather on the active, informed involvement of ordinary citizens."

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Ironically, it's the "Republicans" who have co-opted our People's democratic republic by kowtowing to Banking, Corporate, Elitist racist Authoritarian monied interests.

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"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies" stems from a warning Thomas Jefferson wrote in an 1816 letter to John Taylor.

Context & Meaning - Jefferson feared that centralized financial institutions and long-term government debt (which he referred to as "funding") posed a more structural and quiet threat to republican liberty than military forces.

He believed private banks and corporations could control the money supply through inflation and deflation, ultimately concentrating wealth and power into the hands of a few and undermining the financial independence of everyday citizens."

And we was correct, sir.

Prius is by the most popular car in Mongolia... it'll still start at -30 degrees.

The large lovable dog at the Yurt stay at the end is a Mongolian Bankhar...

"They are fiercely protective, loyal to their human families, and formidable enough to fend off wolves, snow leopards, and eagles. Despite their tough working reputation, they are remarkably gentle and affectionate with their owners."

(and unlike many large dogs, they can live 15 t0 18 years)

Beautiful scenery before she gets to the sand desert Gobi.

Bernie Speaks at Texas Democratic Party Convention

Streamed live 5 hours ago

"Whether you're from Texas or New York, people are sick and tired of living paycheck to paycheck while the rich get richer.

Our job: keep building a grassroots movement in every corner of the country to create a government that works for all, not the few."

#4

Don't be catty!

#3

He's fiddling around while America burns.

Her speech at the Presidential Center Opening last week was one for the ages:

This is the Gov of misfit loyal incompetents... you know, just to make double sure that the People's Gov in no way werks for the People.

"And that was put into such stark relief at this really remarkable moment when Jonathan and I went to the Oval Office uh on March 16th of this year to see him.

At the end of our reporting process, we we had been asking for an interview. We we had fact-checking questions.... but we didn't want to, you know, sort of have an open mic night with him. We wanted to ask specifics about our reporting. And we did.

But at one point, we asked about power and how he was seeing himself in the context of power just based on things he had been saying to people in public and elsewhere. And it was an astonishing moment.

He had his omnipresent adviser, Natalie Harp. He said, "Go Natalie, go
get the the thing from the historian." I'm paraphrasing. She comes back with these two printouts that she says were were from a historian, words by a presidential historian.

And she hands them to us and the start of the document says essentially Donald Trump is the most powerful person who has ever walked the face of the earth.

And then he proceeds to tick off what he describes as the top 10.

Mao, Hitler, Stalin, uh, Tamarlain, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, the Caesars, you know, some of the great monsters, and conquerors of history.

And he was making no moral distinction at all between, people who had had murdered and people who had conquered or people who had, you know, had built empires.

It was that they had power and they were willing to use it and that was how he was seeing himself.

The the punchline here was that it turned out that the person who wrote it was not a historian.

It was Gary Player, the golfer's former caddy and business associate... but that didn't matter a great deal.

I mean, the key thing to the people around him is is, you know, is the advice he's getting.

A a president has to have people who will tell him when he's wrong. and and if you look at his foreign policy record, it doesn't look like he's got that."

(early excerpt... there's a Transcript)

Kinda juicy seeing all those wealthy beach-going Muscovites trapped behind the lines in Occupied Crimea with no fuel to get home; getting a bit of a taste of the war they brought on Ukraine.

Not to mention seeing Vlad having to protect or destroy his palaces and villas north of the city.