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Next is further response from the retired judges who raised the “fraud on the court” issue, then comes her next ruling. Stand by and watch this space.
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Obviously, they want to avoid discussing their sleazy Trump deal under oath, particularly in front of a judge who can sanction and discipline them. But it’s a rough look to hide behind Trump’s private lawyers rather than respond, and there’s every reason to believe the judge will notice.
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Remember: I know of no time in history when senior DOJ officials were accused of “fraud on the court.” Unthinkable. And they don’t even answer, but hide like rats? Not a good sign for the MAGA DOJ or for its sleazy top officials.
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Here’s what’s interesting. The judge in her order invited a response into (a) whether DOJ policies were violated; (b) whether the parties colluded and deceived the court; and (c) the client (IRS’s) defense memo. DOJ’s silence is really deafening here, in the wake of that.
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That could be US exports if the Orange Doofus wasn’t destroying US EV capacity so his corrupt fossil fuel donors can sell more gasoline.
link:https://apnews.com/article/china-autos-evs-exports-cars-53fab0e0f9f5f87a90b419727e1f294d
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Scum, it’s sometimes called. Just sayin’.
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Greed leads people down evil paths.
link:https://ecori.org/big-oil-makes-bank-on-dirty-dozen/
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Over again, Trump’s cases go to smithereens.
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A lotta my stuff in here — the bombs, the zettajoules — but they torched me on graphics. Bravo, NatGeo!!
link:https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/graphics/ocean-temperature-changes
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There’s a good and just fight to be had — and we better have it now, while there’s still time.
link:https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/06/16/climate-change-global-warming-democratic-party-trump-sheldon-whitehouse
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I was glad to join @wrwcri.bsky.social at today’s Woonasquatucket River Greenway ribbon cutting! Urban green infrastructure projects like these connect neighborhoods while strengthening our local economies and environment.
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If they’re spinning the Iran deal without showing any text, pretty good sign it’s worse than Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal.
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We’re all paying for climate change.
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Wow. Giving Trump credit for Ukraine’s victories after all he did for Putin. That’s some serious FOXing up.
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Now allegations of gross mismanagement and financial malfeasance at the Kennedy Center, on top of the failures of due diligence by the Center's Trump board already found in court. When does it stop?
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And yes, the spoilsports put up tarps to ruin the fun for everyone of seeing the name come down. Orange Snowflake needed protecting.
link:https://ew.com/donald-trump-name-removed-kennedy-center-livestream-11997461
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Newport Artillery Company celebrates Gaspee Days with a bang!
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Bye-bye coal — solar tops coal in U.S., and more to come. Clean costs less.
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No one has more fun in a parade than Joe McNamara and no one has better garb than Kasim Yarn.
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As America celebrates 250, we’re marking 254 years since bold RI colonists burned the dreaded HMS Gaspee and sparked America’s path to independence. Happy celebrating, RI!
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Bye-Bye 👋🏼
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Yesterday went by, and the MAGA DOJ/IRS filed nothing to defend the Trump slush fund/tax amnesty “settlement” in the Trump versus Trump case, hiding behind Trump lawyers’ bare-bones denial. Now on to further proceedings. Next filing in a week by the retired judges.
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Stay also denied by DC Circuit. Name comes off tonight. Watch here:
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There are many outstanding questions about President Trump’s longtime close friendship with the sex trafficking pedophile Epstein and a possible Russia angle, and the American people deserve answers.
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Even with all the attention on this, Trump’s DOJ is STILL not releasing to the public a number of docs related to this accuser: agents’ handwritten notes from the interviews, license records, and a law enforcement report. They never investigated “Suspicious Activity Reports.”
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The Trump administration did not provide Jane Doe 4’s interviews willingly. It was thanks to clever reporting from Roger Sollenberger that the world figured out the MAGA DOJ was hiding claims about Trump, and only under enormous pressure, the DOJ released SOME of the missing information.
link:https://sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/fbi-interviewed-trump-accuser-epstein
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Jane Doe 4 told the FBI she was nearly run off the road and said that strange men would call and harass her. Other Epstein accusers have described similar stories of threats and intimidation, including having their cars chased off the road:
link:https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/us/jeffery-epstein-witness-intimidation
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There are other little things. We know Epstein was a pianist and gave money to causes related to classical music. Jane Doe 4 remembered that he liked classical music. Jane Doe 4 seemed to remember that Epstein had a brother. Epstein did have a brother.
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The big accusations are impossible to corroborate without talking to other people but many of the details do check out. Post and Courier did some great shoe leather reporting on this:
link:https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump/article_21a2149f-f4a1-4351-9ac7-d12746f03a58.html
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The FBI spoke with the Trump accuser 4 times, and asked for more. The FBI doesn’t do that when they think someone isn’t telling the truth. And indeed, according to Julie Brown’s reporting, an FBI source said agents found the accuser to be credible. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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We know thanks to Post and Courier that Jane Doe 4 received a settlement directly from Epstein’s estate. Someone there thought she was credible.
link:https://www.postandcourier.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-estate-hilton-head-teen/article_a58fcca8-ba02-4303-91df-35665fd69a36.html
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It’s worth reviewing Jane Doe 4’s allegations about being sexually and physically assaulted by Trump as a minor after being trafficked by Epstein:
link:https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/nx-s1-5737562/justice-department-missing-epstein-files-trump
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Bloom’s firm represented Jane Doe 4, the woman who accused both Trump and Epstein of assaulting her when she was underage, as well as another Trump accuser in 2016.
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Lisa Bloom, who likely knows as much as anyone about the credibility of the accusations against Trump, says “the man who is mentioned probably more than anyone else in the Epstein files should be subpoenaed to testify: Donald Trump.”
link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyer-for-donald-trump-sex-accuser-13-demands-president-testify-under-oath/
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We have a President who is petrified of the truth getting out about his long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Many questions remain. 🧵
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html
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Countdown: Today’s the day! Let’s see what the corrupt and misbehaving MAGA DOJ has to say under oath about its “fraud on the court.” Who will sign the pleadings? What will they say? Will the investigation continue? We’ll keep watch.
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Rhode Islanders know the therapeutic feeling of being out on the water. Great to see Gnome Surf Therapy helping more people experience that for themselves. Bravo!
link:https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2025/10/31/surf-therapy-mental-health-gnome-surf-sara-shukla
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What is the taste of Senate Republicans for another Bove-style cover-up to ram a MAGA nominee through committee while a federal court investigation is pending, without awaiting its results? Time will tell, but the Bove precedent is an ominous one.
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The Blanche “fraud on the court” complaint arose out of what I call the Trump “cop-beaters slush fund,” which even Republicans hate (or are afraid of), so the “fraud on the court” investigation could exhume buried bodies of that rotten scheme.
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“Fraud on the court” is deadly serious, and can lead to sanctions in the case, referrals to the bar for attorney misconduct, and referral even for criminal investigation of possible fraud, perjury and obstruction.
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Where Bove had a pending contempt of court investigation, Blanche has a pending “fraud on the court” investigation. In both cases, federal judges saw evident misbehavior and began the process of investigation.
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The Judiciary Committee deliberately blinded itself to potential contempt of court by a MAGA judicial nominee, and rushed forward in the stay window. Will that “fixeroo” be repeated for Todd Blanche in his confirmation hearings?
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The Committee could have said that we needed the contempt findings in order to determine the nominee’s fitness for high judicial office, so we will hold off on confirmation until after the contempt hearing produces a factual record. The Committee did not.
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The “administrative stay,” customarily a very short-term intervention, in this case lasted four months. In those four months, Emil Bove was rammed through the Judiciary Committee and into a Third Circuit judgeship.
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When the judge scheduled a hearing to look into whether contempt of court had been committed by the MAGA DOJ, two Trump judges on the DC Circuit court suddenly stayed those contempt proceedings. (The dissent is worth reading.)
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When Trump thug lawyer Emil Bove joined the MAGA Justice Department, he quickly became involved in three instances of likely prosecutorial misconduct. One of them caught the attention of a federal judge as potential contempt of court. 🧵
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This is the pickle a stubborn, erratic and corrupt president creates for Republicans.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/11/house-vote-fails-extend-controversial-wiretapping-law/
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Climate change used to be a bipartisan issue. There’s some Rhode Island history here. I’m headed to the Senate floor to give my 308th Time to Wake Up speech.