It's
nothing but bad news for lame duck Donald Chump. The Convicted Felon
is just another fat, elderly man. And the courts are making that
clear. Lisa Hornung (UPI) reports:
President Donald Trump's lawsuit against CNN for using the phrase "The Big Lie" was rejected by a federal appeals court.
Trump
was trying to revive the $475 million suit against the news
organization that had been rejected by a lower court. CNN used "The Big
Lie" to describe Trump's assertion that the 2020 election was rigged and
that Trump had actually won, despite there being no evidence.
Trump's lawyers tried to argue that the phrase was used to align Trump with German dictator Adolph Hitler.
"Trump's
argument is unpersuasive," the appellate judges wrote. "First, although
he concedes that CNN's use of the term 'Big Lie' is, to some extent,
ambiguous, he assumes that it is unambiguous enough to constitute a
statement of fact. This assumption is untenable."
Trump's
legal team responded in a statement: "There is no doubt that Fake News
CNN defamed President Trump and all of the tens of millions of Americans
who have rightly stated that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged
and stolen by Crooked Joe Biden and his handlers. President Trump will
continue to hold the mainstream media accountable and will pursue this
case against CNN to its just and deserved conclusion."
Oh,
shut up, you crooks. Chump tried to overthrow a legal election. He
should be in prison. Merrick Garland is an embarrassment to our
country. Chump thought lying and tricking his way into the White House
would mean he had the power to rewrite history. No, Chump. And all
your garbage will leave when you leave the White House. Does that make
you mad? Good. Then rage, fat man, rage hard and put yourself into the
early grave you belong. Sarah Rumpf (MEDIAITE) updates with the outcome in the case:
A
federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of President Donald Trump’s
defamation lawsuit against CNN, specifically noting that the network’s
use of the phrase “Big Lie” to describe Trump was not a false statement
of fact.
The president had sued
CNN in 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
Florida, seeking $475 million in punitive damages, complaining about the
network’s use of the term “Big Lie” to describe Trump’s unfounded
claims about the 2020 election being stolen and other comments aired on
CNN.
A
federal appeals court on Tuesday appeared doubtful of President Donald
Trump’s attempt to reinstate an anti-racketeering lawsuit that alleged a
broad conspiracy by Hillary Rodham Clinton, former FBI Director James
Comey, and others to link his 2016 presidential campaign to Russia.
[. . .]
A
federal appeals court’s skeptical reception of Donald Trump’s effort to
revive his dismissed racketeering lawsuit—and its review of nearly $1
million in sanctions against him and former attorney Alina
Habba—underscores a broader fight over the limits of using the judiciary
to advance political grievances.
The
ruling will decide whether Trump owes substantial penalties and clarify
how far public figures can advance political claims in federal court, a
question with wider consequences for the judiciary and for Trump’s
other legal fights.
Alina Habba is, of course, the idiot. Chump loves him some idiots. In this case, like attracts like, apparently. Lindsey
Halligan is an idiot. So what does that make Chump. He hired the
idiot to be one of his lawyers -- personal lawyers. More recently, he
hired to be a public servant paid by us. She can't be that. She's
apparently too stupid. David Kurtz (TPM) reports:
A quick update on the big coverup in the Letitia James case that Morning Memo featured last week:
In
a new filing Monday, James lawyers asked the judge in the case to order
the Justice Department to produce the documents reportedly turned over
to prosecutors by former FHFA acting Inspector General Joe Allen.
More
intriguingly, James’ attorneys say the discovery they’ve already
received from the government contains a gap in the Bates-stamp sequence
that suggests “over 100 pages of discovery likely turned over by the
former FHFA Acting Inspector General has not been produced.”
Allen
and about a dozen officials within Fannie Mae’s ethics and internal
investigations unit were fired after looking into complaints about FHFA
director Bill Pulte’s access to the personal mortgage records of
prominent Democrats, including James. Before he was ousted, Allen turned
over to U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s office some of what he had
unearthed that, according to news reports, he felt legally obligated to
provide, suggesting it may have been exculpatory evidence favorable to
James.
It’s not clear what makes
James’ attorney suspect that the gap represents the IG’s documents, but
they are requesting a court order for Halligan to provide them with a
specific set of documents that have a common Bates stamp signature.
A
new court filing from New York Attorney General Letitia James’s legal
team has upended the narrative around the mortgage-fraud case against
her, revealing that senior fraud investigators inside Fannie Mae did not
believe there was clear evidence she had committed any crime. The
disclosure landed Monday and paints a far more complicated picture of a
case that has been closely tied to the political orbit surrounding
President Donald Trump.
James,
who has pleaded not guilty, is charged with bank fraud and making a
false statement to a financial institution. Prosecutors allege she used a
Virginia home as an investment property despite certifying it as a
secondary residence to secure better mortgage terms. Her lawyers now say
the internal communications they’ve obtained show that even the experts
tasked with evaluating such cases were unsure at best, and unconvinced
at worst, that her actions amounted to fraud.
According
to the filing, Sean Soward, Fannie Mae’s director of mortgage fraud
investigations, wrote in June to colleague Jennifer Horne, the company’s
vice president of financial crimes, that the evidence in the case was
“certainly not clear and convincing.” For James’s team, the comment
speaks volumes. If the people whose job it is to assess mortgage fraud
saw major gaps, they argue, the decision to pursue charges must have
come from somewhere else.
Let me give a verdict: Chump and his fat, old ass are dragging the country down. He's having a tantrum tonight -- we'll probably hear tomorrow about a plethora of social media posts he did between now and sunrise. And I say, "Throw your tantrum, fat baby. Rage, rage, get that blood pressure up. Bring that stroke on, fatty, bring it on."
The
House passed legislation Tuesday mandating the disclosures of a trove
of government files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a milestone
in a long-running fight that divided the Republican Party and President
Trump’s MAGA movement.
The 427-1 vote came
after a band of Republicans bucked party leaders and joined with
Democrats to force the matter over the opposition of GOP leadership. The
one lawmaker to vote against the measure was Rep. Clay Higgins (R.,
La.).
Here
for the run down of the vote at THE NEW YORK TIMES. Clay Higgins,
Republican known to Lake Charles residents as "Miss Higgins," voted
against the measure. He mumbled something about three months ago one of
his nuts climbed up his sack and it still hasn't descended back to
normal. Five members of the House didn't vote -- 3 Dems, 2 Republicans
-- presumably, they were attempting to help Miss Higgins find his
missing nut. Some jokers insisted they'd seen in Mike Johnson's office
or maybe his mouth but, to date, the testicle has not been discovered.
THE WSJ reporters also note:
Trump,
in comments to reporters Tuesday, said he has “nothing to do with
Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out of my club many years ago because I
thought he was a sick pervert, and I guess I turned out to be right.”
When
Manhattan modeling management executive Faith Kates wrote to Epstein,
asking where he was having Thanksgiving dinner in 2017, he answered
“eva” – apparently referring to Epstein’s ex-girlfriend Eva
Andersson-Dubin. Kates asked “who else is down there?” “david fizel.
hanson. trump,” Epstein responds. Trump was in West Palm Beach for
Thanksgiving and hosted a large public dinner at Mar-a-Lago. There is no
indication that they met for Thanksgiving that year.
Newly released emails suggest that President Donald Trump may have
spent his first Thanksgiving in office accompanied by none other than
Jeffrey Epstein.
Buried in a batch of thousands of documents
released Wednesday by the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and
Reform, one email chain between Epstein and someone called “Faith
Kates,” likely referring to the founder of NEXT Model Management,
suggested that the convicted sex offender was still hanging out with
Trump long after the president claims he cut ties.
[. . .]
That
wasn’t the only message that suggested Trump and Epstein were still
spending time together. In another email chain from December 2017, a
guest of Epstein’s claimed
they didn’t want to risk running into Trump at Epstein’s Paris
apartment. In other emails sent just days after the presidential
election, Epstein claimed he was headed for New York as “Trump gives many new things to do,” and later said he was visiting Trump Tower.
The president has long claimed
that his friendship with Epstein ended before his Palm Beach neighbor
was indicted for soliciting prostitution in 2006. But clearly, the two
remained linked long afterward.
In
an attempt to forestall the vote, Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson
sent the House home for weeks on an extended vacation and refused to
swear in Adelita Grijalva for over fifty days. Yet today? Johnson voted for the measure. David Moye (HUFFINGTON POST) notes a reaction to that:
On
Tuesday, the Louisiana Republican announced he would vote to release
Department of Justice files related to the late sex offender.
Considering
the decision came two days after he accused the Democrats of only using
the scandal to bring down President Donald Trump, some people wondered
the reason behind Johnson’s change of heart. The speaker previously shut
down the House early and held off on swearing in a new member during
the government shutdown as part of his effort to delay a vote.
Rep. Eric Swalwell had a theory that he offered on social media that was pretty vicious.
“Daddy gave you permission??” Swalwell asked.
Befor
the vote on Tuesday, Epstein survivor and House Reps Ro Khanna
(Democrat), Thomas Massie (Republican) and Marjorie Taylor Greene
(Republican) held a press briefing.
US
House Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene: I was called a traitor by a man that
I fought for five, no, actually, six years, and I gave him my loyalty
for free, I won my first election without his endorsement beating eight
men in a primary, and I've never owed him anything, but I fought for
him, for the policies and for America first, and he called me a traitor
for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the
discharge petition. Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an
American that serves
foreign countries and themselves. A patriot is an American that serves
the United States of America, and Americans like the women standing
behind me. The only thing that will speak to the powerful, courageous
women behind me is when action is actually taken to release these files
and the American people won’t tolerate any other bulls**t.
After
fighting and attacking and even getting Speaker of the Closet Mike
Johnson to shutdown the House for a little over two months, Sunday night
found Chump suddenly doing a turn around on the Epstein files. The
snapshots this week have featured a number of thoughts on that from
different people. Today, let's note US House Rep Ro Khanna who addressed this issue and many more with NYT's David Leonhardt in a recent podcast for the paper of record:
Leonhardt:
Donald Trump reversed course on social media, where he makes many of
his big announcements, on Sunday night. Where were you when you found
out that he was reversing himself?
Khanna: As I
was about to get to bed, my phone starts to blow up. Someone says:
Donald Trump endorsed your bill. And I said: What do you mean? Because
Thomas Massie and I, we’ve been working all weekend texting Republicans
we knew, trying to get a veto-proof vote in the House.
Leonhardt: Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican, with whom you’ve been working very closely.
Khanna:
He has been an instrumental partner. So the underlying bill is my bill,
but Thomas Massie has the discharge petition that would get the bill to
a vote in the House. But Donald Trump saw that he was going to lose. I
mean, this is the first time it has happened that probably almost a
hundred Republicans would’ve voted for a Democratic bill, for the Khanna
Epstein Files Transparency Act. And he was having Rasmussen, the
Republican pollster, People’s Pundit, a Republican pollster, say: What
are you doing, Donald Trump? You’ve forgotten the forgotten Americans
you campaigned against. So I think he bowed to reality and now is
endorsing our bill.
Leonhardt:
And so just to walk people through what happened for those who haven’t
been following this as closely as you have: You spent months scraping to
get just enough Republicans to get their signatures on this petition
that then forced the House leadership to hold a vote on a bill. The
House leadership didn’t want to hold a vote on the bill. How many
Republicans did you ultimately get to sign that petition?
Khanna: We got four.
Leonhardt: Four — all Democrats and four Republicans.
Khanna:
All Democrats, four Republicans. I’ve been in Congress nine years. It
was the most herculean effort to get that discharge petition through for
a few reasons. You had a full-court press here by the White House and
the speaker to make this not possible. You had the speaker adjourn
Congress early in the summer, if you remember, trying to get the whole
issue to go away. At the same time, you had the White House launch the
most intense pressure campaign on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and
Lauren Boebert, to get them to remove their names from this petition.
Leonhardt: And they are the three along with Massie. Those are the only four Republicans.
Khanna:
They’re the only four. So with Massie, they came out right away: “We’re
going to primary you. The president’s team is going to run the campaign
against you.” Why? Yes, they didn’t like what Massie was doing, but
they were also sending a signal to every other Republican in the caucus
to not defy Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump then
un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene. I mean, can you imagine this? He is
treating Ghislaine Maxwell better than he is treating Marjorie Taylor
Greene these days. Once Trump starts to un-endorse Marjorie Taylor
Greene, we think, OK, people are going to have understandably cold feet.
I mean, do you really want Donald Trump endorsing a primary challenger
against you over this vote? And yet, Massie’s thought — and from the
people I was talking to — that we thought that some Republicans would
still defy him. And obviously that’s what Donald Trump calculated.
Ultimately, it was a surrender to justice. But it shows that you can get
Donald Trump to come to your side as opposed to having to cave to his
side.
The
Senate moved swiftly to approve legislation Tuesday forcing the Justice
Department to release more information about the case it built against
the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — acting hours after an
overwhelming House vote to send the bill to the desk of President Donald
Trump, who spent months trying to kill it.
The
Senate acted by unanimous consent, which requires signoff from every
senator but does not require them to take a roll call vote. Earlier in
the day, the House passed the bill on a 427-1 vote.
Ben covers the developments this morning at MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.
And let's note some other coverage in the last 24 hours.
A
“whistleblower” who came forward to House Democrats alleging convicted
sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell received preferential treatment at a
federal prison camp in Texas says she was not motivated by politics.
Instead,
“this was about common human decency and doing what’s right for all
inmates,” Noella Turnage, a nurse who worked at Federal Prison Camp
Bryan since 2019 until she was fired last week, told NBC News on Monday.
She
added that when even one inmate is wrongly retaliated against, “and
influence gets another one protected, somebody had to say something.”
Maxwell’s
time at FPC Bryan, an all-women’s minimum-security facility, has come
under scrutiny since her transfer there in early August from a
low-security prison in Tallahassee, Florida. Her relationship with the
late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has become a focal point as
Democrats and some Republicans renew their push to compel the Justice
Department to make all investigative files surrounding Epstein’s case
public.
Turnage said she was not driven by
public outrage surrounding Epstein, Maxwell or any other public figures,
but acted because she felt “failed by the institution” when colleagues
and others have spoken out about alleged leadership misconduct and
retaliation.
Maxwell
is serving 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually
abuse minors over the course of a decade. Blanche interviewed Maxwell in
Tallahassee, Fl., on July 24 and 25. Days after the interview, Maxwell
was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to an
all-women minimum-security prison northeast of Houston called Federal
Prison Camp Bryan. The Department of Justice did not respond to a
request for comment for this story.
I'd
hoped to get some Justice Dept news in here today. There's not room.
We will move over to the economy, however. Yes, Donald Cump continues
to destroy the economy. Zoe Schneeweiss (BLOOMBERG NEWS) reports:
Initial
applications for US jobless benefits totaled 232,000 in the week ended
Oct. 18, according to the Labor Department website showing historical
data for claims.
Continuing claims, a proxy for
the number of people receiving benefits, came in at 1.957 million, up
slightly from 1.947 million in the prior week. For initial claims,
weekly data for the previous three weeks weren’t made available.
The
department did not release its weekly jobless claims report during the
government shutdown, which ended last week, but it has published data on
its website through other channels.
Unadjusted
state-level claims data were available for download throughout the
shutdown. Economists have used those state figures along with
pre-released seasonal adjustment factors to estimate weekly claims.
The
seasonally-adjusted initial claims figure was accessed through an
online database, and the recently posted figure is roughly in line with
prior estimates.
This as MONEY TALK NEWS notes, "American
families will pay an average of $2,700 more annually due to President
Trump's new tariff policies. Research shows consumers have different
tolerance levels for price increases depending on the product category
and how businesses explain the hikes." And Trevor Jennewine (THE MOTLEY FOOL) explains:
The
S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) stumbled out of the gate in November,
historically the strongest month of the year for the U.S. stock market.
The index has declined 1.5% month to date as investors have received bad
news about the economy and become increasingly concerned by elevated
valuations, particularly where artificial intelligence stocks are
concerned.
Indeed, the S&P 500 recently flashed a warning signal seen just once in the last 25 years. Here's what you should know.
President
Trump has argued tariffs are necessary to bring manufacturing activity
back to the U.S. However, the most recent ISM Manufacturing Purchasing
Managers' Index (PMI) -- which measures the health of the manufacturing
sector by tracking orders, production, employment, deliveries, and
inventory -- shows that manufacturing activity has fallen in eight
consecutive months.
Trump
Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company, is
trading at all-time lows as Bitcoin and other tokens keep plunging.
The
stock, known by its ticker DJT, was down 0.9% at $10.76 in afternoon
trading Tuesday. Earlier, it hit an intraday low of $10.32—the lowest
price since DJT’s predecessor company announced in October 2021 it had
entered a merger agreement to take Trump’s social networking company
public.
President Donald Trump indirectly owns
nearly 115 million shares of DJT that are held in a revocable trust in
the name of son Don Jr. The son sits on the Trump Media’s board. The
holdings make the Trump family the company’s largest shareholder.
DJT stock has fallen nearly 70% this year and 34.6% in the past month.
The
little con artist can afford to pay E Jean Carroll because he doesn't
have the cash on hand and probably never will. He wanted to make a
little money on bonds but Ja'han Jones (MS NOW) explains that required breaking rules and ethical guidelines:
Trump
— who waged a yearslong conspiracy-driven campaign against former
President Joe Biden, accusing him of using the presidency to enrich
himself and his family — claimed prior to his inauguration that his
business ventures would be controlled by his children when he returned
to the White House. The White House did not immediately respond to
Reuters’ request for comment on Saturday. The administration has said
before that Trump has continued to file mandatory disclosures about his
investments but that neither he nor his family has a role in running the
portfolio, which is managed by a third-party financial institution.
But
the suggestion that the president is staying out of his family’s
business affairs has been contradicted by Trump Organization statements
to foreign governments and by Eric Trump himself.
The
timeline for these investments (late August into early October) shows
Trump, through his private investments, positioned to profit from
decisions in his role as president, all while his administration was
contributing to unemployment through government layoffs and federal cuts
and fueling an affordability crisis via the president’s ongoing
tariffs.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
McMahon previously admitted to Warren that she did not have the authority to dismantle the Department of Education
Washington, D.C. - Today, in reaction to news that
Secretary McMahon plans to further dismantle the Department of Education
by moving multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments,
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following
statement:
“The Trump administration is waging an illegal assault on public
school kids. Instead of working to lower costs for Americans, the Trump
administration is hellbent on punishing underserved students.
“Linda McMahon is a liar who knows she doesn’t have the power to
single-handedly dismantle the Department of Education – she admitted
that to me herself. Only Congress has the authority to close the
Education Department, and I will not let that happen on my watch.”
Senator Warren has led the fight to make our higher education system
more affordable, cancel student loan debt, and hold student loan
servicers accountable for incompetence and malfeasance. She launched the
Save Our Schools campaign in a coordinated effort to fight back against President Trump’s attempts to abolish the Department of Education:
On November 17, 2025, Senator Warren led over 40 of her colleagues in a letter urging
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and Secretary of the Treasury
Scott Bessent to immediately end any plans to sell or transfer the
federal student loan portfolio to the private market.
On November 10, 2025, Senator Warren led her colleagues in a letter urging
the Trump administration to use the IRS’s existing legal authorities to
stop the looming “tax bomb” facing borrowers who obtain income-driven
repayment (IDR) discharges of their student loan debt.
On October 15, 2025, Senator Warren and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) led 70 members of Congress
in a letter calling on the Trump administration to address the ongoing
and unprecedented wave of student loan delinquencies and defaults, which
threatens the financial stability of millions of people and could have
disastrous effects on the American economy.
On September 19, 2025, following a push by Senator Warren and nine
other senators, the Acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of
Education agreed to open an investigation
into DOGE’s infiltration of internal systems, including the scope of
its access to sensitive student loan borrower information and its impact
on borrowers’ rights and privacy.
On August 26, 2025, Senator Warren led colleagues
in sending a follow-up letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon
condemning the Department of Education for deliberately hiding the
“Submit a Complaint” button on the Office of Federal Student Aid’s
website, firing employees responsible for providing customer service to
borrowers and families and misleading Congress about the scope of these
firings.
On August 7, 2025, Senator Warren publicly released
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s response to the senator’s 60+
questions and pressed for additional information. Senator Warren
announced that she would refer certain matters where the Department has
proved uncooperative to the Government Accountability Office and the
Education Department’s Inspector General.
On August 4, 2025, Senator Warren led
eight Senators in pressing major private student loan lenders on their
plans to serve the incoming surge of borrowers who will be pushed to the
industry because of Republicans’ recently passed “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
On July 17, 2025, Senator Warren released a new 23-page report,
“Education At Risk: Frontline Impacts of Trump’s War on Students,”
highlighting warnings from 11 major national education and civil rights
organizations on the impact of the Trump Administration’s dismantling of
the Department of Education (ED), slashing support to millions of
American students, primary and secondary school teachers,
administrators, parents, and student loan borrowers.
On July 15, 2025, Senators Warren and Sanders, along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, sent a letter
to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, urging her to reverse the
interest hike on student loan borrowers in the SAVE forbearance.
On July 14, 2025, Senator Warren joined
a letter to the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ
Vought, and Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, demanding that the
Department of Education stop blocking nearly $7 billion in funds for
K-12 schools, including for afterschool programs.
On July 3, 2025, Senator Warren led
her colleagues in submitting an amicus brief for NAACP v. US, arguing
to the United States District Court District of Maryland that President
Trump’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education violate
separation of powers and lack constitutional authority.
On June 10, 2025, Senator Warren met
with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and delivered over 1,000
letters to McMahon that the senator had received from people in all 50
states who were worried about the Secretary’s efforts to dismantle the
Department of Education.
On June 9, 2025, Senator Warren led her colleagues in pushing
the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Education to open an
investigation into new information obtained by her office, revealing
that DOGE may have gained access to two FSA internal systems, in
addition to sensitive borrower data.
On May 20, 2025, Senator Warren and 27 other senators pushed for full funding for the Office of Federal Student Aid.
On May 14, 2025, Senator Warren led a Senate forum
entitled “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are
Raising Education Costs for Families,” highlighting the consequences of
Secretary Linda McMahon’s reckless dismantling of the Department of
Education and President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” for working- and
middle-class students and borrowers.
On May 13, 2025, Senator Warren agreed
to meet with Education Secretary Linda McMahon and promised to bring
questions and stories from Americans across the country to highlight how
the Trump administration’s attacks on education are hurting American
families.
On May 6, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted
the consequences of President Trump and Secretary Linda McMahon’s
reckless dismantling of the Department of Education for American
families in a Senate forum.
On April 24, 2025, Senator Warren launched a new investigation
into the harms of President Trump’s attacks on the Department of
Education, seeking information on the impact of the Trump
administration’s actions from the members of twelve leading
organizations representing schools, parents, teachers, students,
borrowers, and researchers.
On April 10, 2025, following a request
led by Senator Warren, the Department of Education’s Acting Inspector
General agreed to open an investigation into the Trump administration’s
attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.
On April 2, 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mazie Hirono, along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, sent a letter
to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon regarding the Department of
Government Efficiency’s proposed plan to replace the Department of
Education’s federal student aid call centers with generative artificial
intelligence chatbots.
Remember former Trump-appointed District Court Judge Joshua Kindred? The federal judge who managed to flame out of his lifetime gig in record speed — four years — as if he’d taken the bench with a personal mission to prove that vetting is for suckers?
Yeah. That guy.
Well, the final chapter of his professional unraveling just dropped, and it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect: disbarment.
Earlier this month, the Alaska Supreme Court made it official. In a November 7 order, they handed down Kindred’s disbarment (as recommended by the Alaska Bar Association’s Disciplinary Board) like a slow-moving, ethics-soaked anvil.
In
yet another weird twist in a case that has had more than its fair
share, disciplinary authorities say Kindred never responded to the
proceedings. Not a filing, not an appearance, not even a “new phone who
dis.”
Even better, he allegedly was home when
process servers attempted service. They literally saw him sitting inside
his mother’s house while they knocked.
Which
is… honestly art. A federal judge who once wielded the power of the
United States now hiding behind his Mom while the bar tries to hand him
paperwork. Chef’s kiss.
President
Donald Trump's private legal team returned to court on Tuesday with the
hope of convincing the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a
thoroughly dismantled civil RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and a
collection of Democrats and entities he blamed for conspiring to
bankroll "an unthinkable plot" to tar the 2016 Trump campaign, cloud his
first term through "a sinister link" to Russia, and harm his business
interests.
[. . .]
Sanctions
against Trump lawyers followed, as Middlebrooks found the amended
complaint was a "shotgun pleading" that substituted substance "with
length, hyperbole, and the settling of scores and grievances," producing
a "frivolous" and "harmful" case.
This
is a deliberate attempt to harass; to tell a story without regard to
facts," Middlebrooks wrote. "In order to understand the scope of this
abuse, multiply the above discussion by thirty-one defendants and their
lawyers, forced to try to analyze and defend against the sprawling
Complaints. I sifted through the thread of allegations against each
defendant only to find they added up to no cognizable claim. And the
pleadings were drafted in a way to disguise that fact."
On
Tuesday, Chief U.S. Circuit Judge William Pryor, a George W. Bush
appointee, U.S. Circuit Judge Andrew Brasher, a Trump appointee, and
U.S. Circuit Judge Embry Kidd, a Joe Biden appointee, listened as Trump
appellate lawyer Richard Klugh made his case for vacating the dismissal.
Use the link but, spoiler alert, it doesn't go well for Chump's goons.
Nothing
does. In fact, for all of us who need a smile and to remember we are
in holiday season, let me note this heart warming video produced by the
wonderful people at MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Today, the House is scheduled to vote on
releasing the Epstein files, Donald continues his war on immigrants, an
ICE-er gets arrested, the editorial board of THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVERS
serves up a must-read piece, Chump's war on the economy has driven a
family out of the family business -- a family trade that had lasted
since the late 1800s prior to Chump 'helping' the economy, and much
more.
President
Donald Trump's call for House Republicans to support releasing Jeffrey
Epstein-related documents was a stunning capitulation after a
months-long campaign to block the vote.
It was also a specific defeat for Trump at the hands of a despised GOP opponent: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
“He got tired of me winning,” Massie said of Trump’s U-turn in an interview Monday morning.
Insisting
“I DON’T CARE!” in a late-night Truth Social post, Trump was bowing to
the inevitable — a broad House Republican mutiny on a vote that was only
scheduled because Massie forced it. It was the result of Massie and
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) launching a discharge petition aimed at
sidestepping senior GOP leaders who desperately wanted to avoid bringing
the issue to the House floor.
The campaign to
avoid the vote got remarkably ugly in the days before Trump finally
conceded, with the president personally attacking Massie for recently
remarrying after the sudden death last summer of his wife of more than
30 years.
Chump's a liar. If he wanted the files released, they'd be released. Luke Broadwater (NEW YORK TIMES) points out Chump doesn't need the House of Representatives to vote on the issue today, he can release the files without a vote:
Facing intense political pressure,
President Trump has reversed his position on whether he supports a
congressional measure that would compel the Justice Department to release more materials from the investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On Monday, Mr. Trump said he would sign the bill if it reached his desk.
But Mr. Trump’s sudden reversal
raises a question: If the president agrees that more investigative
materials in the Epstein case should be released, why is he waiting for
the passage of the so-called discharge petition to do so? Why doesn’t he
immediately order Attorney General Pam Bondi to make the documents
public?
The fact is that if Mr. Trump
chooses to, he can indeed order more files released — with or without
legislation — much as he did in other cases of intense public interest,
including the killings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy.
In
the end, he was forced to change his public statements because ha had
lost and by lying and pretending he wants the Epstein files released, he
hopes to look like less of a loser. Not possible. Annie Karni and Tyler Pager (NEW YORK TIMES) offer a reminder on his previous stands:
President Trump
denounced calls for the release of the Epstein files as a Democratic
hoax. He dispatched aides to warn Republicans that backing it would be seen as a “hostile act.” He placed personal calls to those who dared to do so, and even dispatched his attorney general and F.B.I. director to meet with one in the White House Situation Room in efforts to get her to flip.
In
the end, none of it worked. And on Sunday night, Mr. Trump did
something he has rarely been forced to do: He caved in the face of
pressure from his party and called on House Republicans to go ahead and back a bill
that would order his Justice Department to release all of its
investigative files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
By Monday, he was saying, “Sure,” he would sign the legislation he has spent months trying to kill.
It’s not clear that doing so would have any concrete impact; Mr. Trump could have ordered the release of the files without an act of Congress, and has not. And it remains to be seen whether his Justice Department will ultimately release the files.
But
his reversal has opened the floodgates of Republican backing for the
bill, which is expected to come to a vote in the House as early as
Tuesday and appears likely to pass unanimously. It has also raised
questions about Mr. Trump’s ability to impose his will on Republicans
and the nation, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on his party amid his
falling polling numbers, rising prices and rifts within his political
coalition.
Poised
to lose a House vote this week calling for the Justice Department to
release its Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump snookered a good
chunk of political media by declaring in a social media post last
evening that the House should vote to release the files.
Knowing
he’s going to lose the vote — and knowing that the vote itself won’t be
enough to pry the files loose unless the Senate agrees and he doesn’t
veto it — Trump tried to redefine the setback by withdrawing his
opposition to the vote, but not actually releasing the Epstein files.
But who in the world would be fooled by this?
The
whole reason the House is voting is because the Trump DOJ — run out of
the White House — won’t cough up the files. That is to say: Trump won’t
release the files.
It’s not an about-face or a reversal. It’s a sham.
Trump’s
inane new position — that he wants House Republicans to vote to demand
that he release the Epstein files that he refuses to release — comes
after the president on Friday ordered the Justice Department to
re-investigate everyone’s contacts with Jeffrey Epstein except his own.
Who
knows what tricks the con artist Chump has up his sleeves but right now
it looks good for the survivors. They are supposed to appear outside
the Capitol later today with Massie and US House Reps Ro Khanna and
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
MS
NOW's Jen Psaki, over the weekend, caught one of the lies Ghislaine
Maxwell told Deputy AG Todd Blanche during the two days of questioning
-- Ghislaine lied that the photo taken of her with King Charles' brother
Andrew and Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre was a fake photo.
It wasn't real. It never happened. In the e-mails, Epstein talks about
taking the photo himself. Ghislaine lied. Cameron Adams (DAILY BEAST) catches another lie:
However,
last week’s trove of Epstein emails highlighted contradictions from
what the prisoner told Blanche, including Maxwell’s claim to have never
seen Trump at Epstein’s home.
In one of the emails sent in 2011, Epstein told Maxwell had “spent hours at my house” with the late Virginia Giuffre.
That led to a feud between George Conway and Blanche on X last week.
Conway
wrote, “Blanche’s questioning of Ghislaine Maxwell was either (a)
completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts
incriminating Trump.
“Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General of the United States,” he added.
.
Donald
Chump will be gone soon -- three years or so he'll be kicked out of the
White House -- and he'll be gone soon from this earth because the
diuretics and the heart medication just isn't working -- and can't with
his obesity. Until he leaves, he's bound and determined to destroy as
much of our great country as he can. Sabrina Haake (SALON) notes:
On
Nov. 10, the Trump administration submitted supplemental arguments to
the Supreme Court claiming that no court — including the Supreme Court
itself — can question the president’s ability to deploy military troops
against U.S. cities.
“The President’s
determination to call up the National Guard is a core exercise of his
power as Commander in Chief over military affairs, based on an explicit
delegation from Congress,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. “That determination is
not judicially reviewable at all; at minimum, it is entitled to
extremely deferential review, under which (Trump’s deployment) should be
upheld.”
Claiming that Trump called up the
National Guard in Chicago “in light of the violent, organized
resistance” faced by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the
attorneys insisted his decision is not subject to judicial review under
Martin v. Mott, a nearly 200-year-old case that stemmed from the War of
1812. In 1827, the court ruled that military subordinates could not make
their “own determination whether an imminent threat of invasion
existed.” Although the ruling is often incorrectly cited by the Trump
administration, it did not prohibit or even discuss judicial review of
military deployments — foreign, domestic or otherwise.
Most
Americans have a strong moral resistance to military intrusion into
civilian affairs. According to public polling, a bipartisan majority
opposes sending military troops into U.S. cities in the absence of a
foreign threat.
That resistance is rooted in
tradition dating back to the American Revolution. After living under the
tyranny of King George III, whose hated armed troops ate their food and
slept in quarters the colonists were forced to provide under the
Quartering Act of 1765, the drafters of the Constitution held a
widespread fear of a national standing army, which they believed posed a
threat to individual liberty and the sovereignty of the separate
states. Because of that distrust, the founders carefully apportioned
responsibility over the “militia” — today’s National Guard — between the
federal government and the states.
The
Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to deploy the
National Guard “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress
Insurrections and repel Invasions.” That foundational constitutional
authority in turn supports Title 10 USC 12406, which allows a president
to call up the militia — but only under specific, statutorily defined
circumstances. It also supports the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids
the use of any part of the federal armed forces to execute laws, except
where “expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress,”
reflecting “the deeply rooted and ancient opposition in this country to
the extension of military control over civilians.”
An
idiot who barely made it through college, Chump's never grasped the
law. The law, for Chump, is nothing but something you can break with a
bribe or a crooked attorney. He has no respect for the law and no
respect for the United States.
He's
currently attacking North Carolina. You have to wonder how Governor
Greg Asshole plans to respond when Texans are soon up in arms. And they
will be. Texas shares a border with Mexico. There's no way Chump's
plan doesn't involve invading Texas in the near future as well.
On MEIDASTOUCH NEWS this morning, Ben addresses the assault on North Carolina.
He also notes Latino voters.
Kamala Harris only got 2% more support from Latinao voters in November.
B-b-b-but how could that be?
Whores
and whoring. It was covered in real time here. And certainly left and
'left' media outlets like DEMOCRACY NOW! covered it, right?
Wrong. We covered it in real tim. We covered in the end of the year piece. Ava and I covered it at the start of the year in "Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump"
at THIRD. Find me, please, the episode in the summer or fall of 2024
where Goody Whore addressed the consequences of Chump's war on
immigrants.
I'm not a genius. But somehow I could
see South Africa on the streets of the United States. Somehow I could
see the racial profiling that Chump's plan would result in. I could see
all innocents swept up into it. Which is why I wrote about it and
spoke about it before the election.
Goody was too busy
carrying out the DSA's grudge f**k of Kamala to do her job. So instead
she gave us one segment after another saying Kamala was just as bad as
Chump on immigration or even worse.
The damage these
people did to our country will never be forgotten. And as they try to
shove Graham Platner down people's throats, they should stop a moment,
these liars like David Sirota and grasp that they don't have the suck
with us that they think they do.
The other issue to note not in Ben's segment is: Kiss Latino voters goodbye.
That's
what the GOP better be prepared to do. This has impacted too many
Latinos in the US -- including Latino citizens. How does the GOP ever
again think they can stand before Latino voters and make a claim and be
believed. Chump's war on immigrants is a war on all Latinos. Citizens
or not. And the hatred the GOP has for Latinos -- all Latinos -- has
been made clear. It's as though they want to push all Latinos out of
the Republican tent.
Chump's actions will influence elections
for the immediate future. And pasty White faced Republicans holding
office? You better grasp that George P Bush and others with Latino
roots? GOP is going to have to back them like crazy now -- at your
expense -- because they can't afford to lose Latino voters forever and
they've got to do something to try to win them back.
Not
long from now - maybe even a few weeks - Donald Trump's Border Patrol
surge will roll out of Charlotte to take its terror to another city. It
will leave behind destroyed lives and fractured communities, but it will
have accomplished very little that meaningfully addresses our nation's
immigration issues. We suspect that never was really the goal.
What is? Perhaps the president is still hoping immigration can bring him a political win as his approval numbers head lower than even his worst first term levels. Maybe he's hoping for a distraction from the relentless drip of Jeffrey Epstein and economic headlines.
None of which is happening. None of which will likely happen. Not because of Charlotte.
In fact, just two days in, Operation Charlotte's Web already has failed.
With
every unnecessarily smashed window, every sneer at due process, every
federal agent's smirk at those who are horrified by it all, Donald Trump
continues to lose. He loses because this immigration enforcement surge
is not really about immigration. If the president really wanted to solve
our nation's border issues, he would work toward broader solutions
instead of rounding up whomever he can to hit a big number to show
Americans.
It is a fiery editorial, a
needed one and one you really should read in full. The American people
are sick of this and ICE is not above the law no matter what Pam da
Bimbo Bondi says, no matter what Corrupt Kristi Noem says and no matter
what Chubby Chump The Convicted Felon says. One of Chump's gestapo just
found that out the hard way. Will Neal (DAILY BEAST) reports:
Police
have arrested a man believed to be working as an Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agent after he allegedly brandished a gun at a
17-year-old boy.
Footage of the Nov. 10
incident, obtained by local outlet KTLA 5, shows the man approaching an
SUV on a dark street with his sidearm drawn and pointed toward the
window.
“Freeze, police,” the man in the video
says. “Put the car in f---ing park. Get out of the car. Turn it off, get
out. You’re speeding in the f---ing neighborhood. Come over here, sit
down, get your a-- down. You have a driver’s license?”
Cops
in Riverside, southern California, have since identified the suspect as
45-year-old Gerardo Rodriguez, a resident on the street who also
displayed a badge toward the minor before getting him to step out of the
car.
The teen is understood to have complied
with demands from Rodriguez, who eventually released him to his parents.
Authorities say Rodriguez has now been booked for assault with a deadly
weapon, child endangerment, and assault by a public officer.
While
Chump and Kristi try to hoodwink the nation with lies, the American
people respond with reality. Last night on MS NOW, Rachel Maddow
detailed how Americans were training and arming themselves with
information to be able to support one another in the midst of these very
un-American raids.
Bovino
also has ties to the region, having grown up in western North Carolina,
attended Watauga High School, and later earned degrees from Western
Carolina University and Appalachian State University.
Border
Patrol agents under his command have been facing increased scrutiny
over heavy-handed tactics, deploying tear gas, and excessive use of
force.
As of 2023, roughly 17.9 percent of
Charlotte’s population, or about 159,000 residents, were born outside
the United States, according to Data USA.
The
following month, Ellis extended her temporary restraining order against
ICE's use of tear gas and pepper balls, stating that Bovino had lied
under oath about threats posed by protesters and reporters.[21]
In
November 2025, the Project on Government Oversight released a report
analyzing federal data from fiscal years 2022–2025, finding that under
Bovino's leadership Border Patrol agents used force disproportionately
to the number of assaults they faced.[22]
After
a surge in Border Patrol activity in North Carolina's largest city over
the weekend, including dozens of arrests, Gov. Josh Stein said the
effort is “stoking fear," not making Charlotte safer.
The
Trump administration has made the Democratic city of about 950,000
people its latest target for an immigration enforcement surge it says
will combat crime, despite fierce objections from local leaders and
downtrending crime rates. Charlotte residents reported encounters with
federal immigration agents near churches, apartment complexes and
stores.
Immigration
agents aggressively detained a day-care worker, Diana Santillana
Galeano, at her workplace with small children present (“Chicago day-care worker detained by immigration agents released after community support,”
Nov. 13). Couldn’t they have waited until she was home? Might they have
given her time to prepare for her arrest and separation from her
family? She was treated like a dangerous criminal, "the worst of the
worst” as President Trump declares.
Americans
are largely people who value fairness, and this kind of unnecessarily
violent arrest is simply not fair. Even if someone supports a general
immigration sweep, it should be handled humanely and fairly, and people
should be treated with basic human dignity.
Unfortunately, this particular arrest is not a one-off exception to the general policy. The newsworthy raid on the apartment building in Chicago,
which the federal government justified by calling it a raid on Tren de
Aragua, may have netted a couple of gang members. But it also disrupted
the lives of everyone in the building.
Santillana Galeano was legally working
and was eventually released, as multiple inappropriately arrested
people have been. This kind of generally intrusive and unfair process is
simply not American.
Wilson Jones stands in what used to be the heart of his family's lumber empire — the Mackeys Ferry Sawmill in North Carolina.
But instead of the familiar roar of saws cutting through Southern pine, there's only silence.
"I've
grown all my life in the lumber business," the 60-something mill owner
tells Bloomberg (1), his voice heavy with emotion. "And to hear nature
at a sawmill, I think for any lumberman is not natural. I don't wanna be
overly dramatic, but in a way it's as unnerving as watching a loved one
take their final breath."
Jones
is the fifth generation in his family to run a lumber business — and
the first to close a mill. The culprit? President Donald Trump's
"Liberation Day" tariffs, announced April 2, 2025, which promised to
bring manufacturing jobs roaring back to America.
"When
I say Liberation Day, I cannot put enough snark and sarcasm in my voice
because we weren't liberated," Wilson says. "Liberation Day, it did, at
the time, it had damn near liberated me from our business."
The
Jones family's story isn't unique. It's playing out in factories, mills
and plants across America. Since President Trump's April tariff
announcement, overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000,
while job openings and hires have fallen by 76,000 and 18,000,
respectively according to the Center for American Progress (2).
Manufacturing hiring plunged in May to the weakest rate since 2016 under
President Barack Obama (3).
The
situation hasn't improved in recent months. Manufacturing jobs are down
by 78,000 since the start of 2025, with the sector losing another 3,000
jobs in October alone according to an ADP report (4). Despite job
openings in the sector increasing to 462,000 in July — up from 393,000
in June — actual hiring has declined 5% year-over-year according to
iCIMS data (5).
The family business since the end of the 1800s, destroyed in less than one year by Donald Chump's ignorance and ineptitude.
There's
a lot more left to cover but the snapshot's already running long.
Maybe we can address the Justice Dept tomorrow. At any rate, let's wind
down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Bicameral letter warns that
“sale would be a giveaway to wealthy insiders at the expense of
working-class borrowers and taxpayers.”
“Time and again, the Trump Administration has put the interests of well-connected, wealthy insiders ahead of working families.”
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs Committee, and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of
the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, along with
Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), led 41 of their colleagues in a
letter urging Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and Secretary of the
Treasury Scott Bessent to immediately end any plans to sell or transfer
the federal student loan portfolio to the private market.
“Let’s be clear: This sale would be a giveaway to wealthy insiders
at the expense of working-class borrowers and taxpayers,” wrote the
lawmakers. “It
threatens the loss of borrowers’ legally guaranteed protections, and
the sale would likely be illegal if the debt is sold at a loss for
taxpayers.”
According to a report last month, the Trump Administration is
exploring options to sell the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student
loan portfolio to financial firms and other private companies.
This move could illegally strip student loan borrowers of key
protections, including income-driven repayment (IDR) plans, Public
Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), disability and death discharges, and
relief for those defrauded by predatory schools.
Such a sale would likely be illegal as well if the portfolio were
sold at a loss. In 2019, the Trump Administration explored selling the
student loan portfolio but abandoned the idea after consultants
determined that the portfolio was “worth far less than government
accountants had projected.”
Additionally, the sale of federal loans would be a massive giveaway
to private lenders that have been shown to exploit private borrowers.
Though private loans only account for 8% of student debt, they account
for 40% of student loan-related complaints submitted to the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau.
“The Trump Administration should immediately stop any plans to sell
or transfer responsibility of the student debt portfolio to the private,
often predatory, market,” the lawmakers concluded.
“The Department of Education’s role in providing financial aid to
America’s students is clear, and the Department should not take any
action that would enrich the wealthy and well-connected at the expense
of working-class borrowers and taxpayers.”
The lawmakers requested more information as to the potential
privatization of the federal student loan portfolio by December 1, 2025.
Senator Warren has led the fight to make our higher education system
more affordable, cancel student loan debt, and hold student loan
servicers accountable for incompetence and malfeasance. She launched the
Save Our Schools campaign in a coordinated effort to fight back against President Trump’s attempts to abolish the Department of Education:
On November 10, 2025, Senator Warren led her colleagues in a letter urging
the Trump administration to use the IRS’s existing legal authorities to
stop the looming “tax bomb” facing borrowers who obtain income-driven
repayment (IDR) discharges of their student loan debt.
On October 15, 2025, Senator Warren and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) led 70 members of Congress
in a letter calling on the Trump administration to address the ongoing
and unprecedented wave of student loan delinquencies and defaults, which
threatens the financial stability of millions of people and could have
disastrous effects on the American economy.
On September 19, 2025, following a push by Senator Warren and nine
other senators, the Acting Inspector General of the U.S. Department of
Education agreed to open an investigation
into DOGE’s infiltration of internal systems, including the scope of
its access to sensitive student loan borrower information and its impact
on borrowers’ rights and privacy.
On August 26, 2025, Senator Warren led colleagues
in sending a follow-up letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon
condemning the Department of Education for deliberately hiding the
“Submit a Complaint” button on the Office of Federal Student Aid’s
website, firing employees responsible for providing customer service to
borrowers and families, and misleading Congress about the scope of these
firings.
On August 7, 2025, Senator Warren publicly released
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s response to the senator’s 60+
questions and pressed for additional information. Senator Warren
announced that she would refer certain matters where the Department has
proved uncooperative to the Government Accountability Office and the
Education Department’s Inspector General.
On August 4, 2025, Senator Warren led
eight Senators in pressing major private student loan lenders on their
plans to serve the incoming surge of borrowers who will be pushed to the
industry because of Republicans’ recently passed “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
On July 17, 2025, Senator Warren released a new 23-page report,
“Education At Risk: Frontline Impacts of Trump’s War on Students,”
highlighting warnings from 11 major national education and civil rights
organizations on the impact of the Trump Administration’s dismantling of
the Department of Education (ED), slashing support to millions of
American students, primary and secondary school teachers,
administrators, parents, and student loan borrowers.
On July 15, 2025, Senators Warren and Sanders, along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, sent a letter
to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, urging her to reverse the
interest hike on student loan borrowers in the SAVE forbearance.
On July 14, 2025, Senator Warren joined
a letter to the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ
Vought, and Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, demanding that the
Department of Education stop blocking nearly $7 billion in funds for
K-12 schools, including for afterschool programs.
On July 3, 2025, Senator Warren led
her colleagues in submitting an amicus brief for NAACP v. US, arguing
to the United States District Court District of Maryland that President
Trump’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education violate
separation of powers and lack constitutional authority.
On June 10, 2025, Senator Warren met
with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and delivered over 1,000
letters to McMahon that the senator had received from people in all 50
states who were worried about the Secretary’s efforts to dismantle the
Department of Education.
On June 9, 2025, Senator Warren led her colleagues in pushing
the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Education to open an
investigation into new information obtained by her office, revealing
that DOGE may have gained access to two FSA internal systems, in
addition to sensitive borrower data.
On May 20, 2025, Senator Warren and 27 other senators pushed for full funding for the Office of Federal Student Aid.
On May 14, 2025, Senator Warren led a Senate forum
entitled “Stealing the American Dream: How Trump and Republicans Are
Raising Education Costs for Families,” highlighting the consequences of
Secretary Linda McMahon’s reckless dismantling of the Department of
Education and President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” for working- and
middle-class students and borrowers.
On May 13, 2025, Senator Warren agreed
to meet with Education Secretary Linda McMahon and promised to bring
questions and stories from Americans across the country to highlight how
the Trump administration’s attacks on education are hurting American
families.
On May 6, 2025, Senator Elizabeth Warren highlighted
the consequences of President Trump and Secretary Linda McMahon’s
reckless dismantling of the Department of Education for American
families in a Senate forum.
On April 24, 2025, Senator Warren launched a new investigation
into the harms of President Trump’s attacks on the Department of
Education, seeking information on the impact of the Trump
administration’s actions from the members of twelve leading
organizations representing schools, parents, teachers, students,
borrowers, and researchers.
On April 10, 2025, following a request
led by Senator Warren, the Department of Education’s Acting Inspector
General agreed to open an investigation into the Trump administration’s
attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.
On April 2, 2025, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mazie Hirono, along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, sent a letter
to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon regarding the Department of
Government Efficiency’s proposed plan to replace the Department of
Education’s federal student aid call centers with generative artificial
intelligence chatbots.
