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Hammer drop exposes Todd Blanche to judge hours before confirmation vote

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Hammer drop exposes Todd Blanche to judge hours before confirmation vote

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's own admissions about FBI negligence in the Epstein case landed in federal court today, hours before his Senate confirmation vote.Survivors' attorneys filed the letter Wednesday before Judge Ryon McCabe in the Southern District of Florida in the case Doe 1 et al. v. United States. The filing suggests the survivors believe Blanche admitted wrongdoing by the FBI in a rush to deflect responsibility for failures in the Epstein case.The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Blanche's confirmation Thursday morning.The letter cites Blanche's statements at a July 16 meeting with survivors at Justice Department headquarters as grounds to amend the complaint. Plaintiffs said they were "seeking this relief in light of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's very recent statements to survivors."During that meeting, ABC News reported, survivors described Blanche's conduct as "dissatisfactory and contrived" when he dismissed survivor Maria Farmer, telling her that her "call [to the FBI about EpsteinI] was made in 1996," "the case was handled improperly before 2007" and "you got screwed over by the FBI but I cannot fix the FBI's lack of investigation."Those admissions, the filing shows, now sit in a federal court record the day before senators decide Blanche's fate.The underlying lawsuit, filed in September 2024, represents 33 women suing the U.S. government under the Federal Tort Claims Act — a law that allows citizens to sue the federal government for negligence — for the FBI's failures in the Epstein case. They are seeking more than $100 million.The complaint alleges the FBI received its first credible tip in 1996, when Maria Farmer reported that Epstein and Maxwell had sexually abused her and her sister. The FBI did nothing.It also alleges the FBI ignored child sexual abuse material seized in a 2005 raid of Epstein's Palm Beach mansion, failed to interview victims whose names and phone numbers it already had, and allowed Epstein to judge a beauty pageant in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2007 while under active investigation.Epstein survivor Annie Farmer, who testified at Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, said she left the meeting convinced senators should vote against Blanche, ABC News reported. She called him "abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."Annie Farmer said his evasiveness felt like "a deliberate attempt to claim the Attorney General's office is powerless in this matter.""The FBI has the power to open investigations, not me," Blanche told those assembled inside the meeting, MS NOW reported. "I'm just the attorney general," he added.The meeting only happened because Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), whose vote Blanche needs to clear the Judiciary Committee, demanded it as a condition of his support, ABC News reported. As of Wednesday afternoon, Tillis had still not committed to voting for Blanche's confirmation.That vote is scheduled for Thursday morning.

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Gretchen Carlson names who's really calling the shots as Blanche confirmation in jeopardy

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Gretchen Carlson names who's really calling the shots as Blanche confirmation in jeopardy

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson called out the shot caller keeping Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from killing the anti-weaponization fund.Blanche is courting the Senate Judiciary Committee to secure the role of President Donald Trump's attorney general, but he has stopped short of making key concessions that would help make him a shoo-in.Carlson noted that Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Blanche to meet with Epstein survivors to secure his vote, and Blanche responded by holding that meeting shortly after. However, Carlson said, "he apparently wasn't even nice in the particular meeting that he was basically told to have," as Epstein survivors reported that Blanche told them to "get to the point."However, Blanche hasn't been so quick to give in to demands by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Cornyn asked Blanche to put into writing his vow that Trump's anti-weaponization fund is dead. Blanche refused, despite previously saying that the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund, which critics worry will be used as a slush fund by Trump's allies and January 6 rioters, is dead."What's really interesting is the slush fund must be more important," in Trump's mind, Carlson said. "Because this is what he is saying that he will not sign off on it tonight. It has to be coming from Trump, right?"CNN anchor Erin Burnett agreed, saying, "That's the person who ultimately controls this."Carlson was disturbed, though, that others would even be willing to vote to confirm Blanche. "Why is everyone else who's going to give a yes vote okay with how the Epstein files were handled?" she asked, as Blanche handled their release as deputy AG.

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‘Too many bad calls’: Trump confirms he warned Biden about ‘CRAZY’ Anthony Fauci

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‘Too many bad calls’: Trump confirms he warned Biden about ‘CRAZY’ Anthony Fauci

Democrat gave COVID adviser 'vast destructive power' and 'the rest is history'

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At Senate Hearing, Fauci Takes the Fifth To Avoid Accounting for Inconsistent Statements About a Lab Leak

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At Senate Hearing, Fauci Takes the Fifth To Avoid Accounting for Inconsistent Statements About a Lab Leak

Diary entries show the former public health official acknowledged that U.S.-supported researchers were conducting gain-of-function research in Wuhan that could have caused the pandemic.

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Senate approves resolution opposing Ghislaine Maxwell pardon amid Epstein investigation

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Senate approves resolution opposing Ghislaine Maxwell pardon amid Epstein investigation

The Senate unanimously passed a resolution opposing a presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell on Wednesday, putting itself on record against Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend. Maxwell was associated with Epstein for decades before he died in a jail cell in New York in 2019. She underwent criminal trials for sex trafficking charges related to facilitating Epstein’s crimes […]

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'Naked opportunist': Vance dressed down as he sets the stage for 'someone even worse'

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'Naked opportunist': Vance dressed down as he sets the stage for 'someone even worse'

MAGA has started to turn on Vice President JD Vance, and in doing so, it's left room for his rivals and complicated his status among his conservative base, a columnist argued on Wednesday.The Guardian's Arwa Mahdawi discussed how Vance has been eating sauerkraut and losing weight under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recommendations, but he can't seem to keep his MAGA coalition happy. Kennedy recently commented on Vance's weight loss, claiming he lost 20 pounds in 20 days."JD Vance is also on the diet, and you can see how different he looks," Kennedy said. "Dunno about that: still looks like a naked opportunist to me," Mahdawi wrote.Amid reports that Vance's security detail has accommodated frequent or last-minute helicopter trips for his family, Vance's standing among Republicans has also come into question, according to The Washington Post."Vance’s allies told the Post that the attacks, which seem largely driven by his mild criticism of Israel and the Iran war, are a 'coordinated' attempt to poison his 2028 presidential chances," Mahdawi wrote.Angering the GOP could create a path for Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the 2028 presidential race, she added."I can’t say it’s not fun to watch MAGA infighting," Mahdawi quipped. "Nevertheless, it’s hard to take too much satisfaction from Vance’s troubles considering they only really benefit his rival for the 2028 Republican nomination: the odious war hawk Marco Rubio, who is now narrowing the gap with Vance in the polls. A setback for one awful politician always seems to spell a career boost for someone even worse. It’s really quite the pickle."

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5 takeaways on Fauci’s hostile Senate hearing, GOP contempt threats

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5 takeaways on Fauci’s hostile Senate hearing, GOP contempt threats

Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing on Wednesday ended up being an hourslong opportunity for Republicans to vent criticisms, arguments and theories on the COVID-19 response as the veteran government scientist adamantly refused to answer any questions. Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for nearly 40…

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'Where does it stop?' Todd Blanche's 'lawfare' haunts him as another GOP senator defects

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'Where does it stop?' Todd Blanche's 'lawfare' haunts him as another GOP senator defects

President Donald Trump's nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general hit yet another stumbling block on Wednesday, this time from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).According to Semafor's Burgess Everett, Cassidy has lingering concerns about Blanche's record, saying, “I have to make sure that he is the attorney general who used to be the president's personal attorney, not the personal attorney who is also the attorney general.”In particular, he cited the fact that under Blanche's leadership, the Justice Department appears to be criminally investigating a former Trump White House official who served as a key witness for the House January 6 Committee — a probe that reportedly began under Blanche's predecessor, Pam Bondi, as a way to placate the president.“I am concerned about the lawfare, going after people," said the senator. "Cassidy Hutchinson, for example, a grand jury, I'm told, is being empaneled, [and] going after her. Why? Tell me that again. Why? The fact that that's happening ... should concern all Americans, because where does it stop?”Cassidy is one of a handful of Republicans set to leave Congress due to Trump's fury, having lost a primary in his state after Trump endorsed his opponent.Another Republican who was ousted by a Trump-backed primary challenger, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), has similarly threatened to oppose Blanche until he can give satisfactory answers on the Trump administration's "anti-weaponization" slush fund and the deal to immunize the Trump family from IRS investigations. Opposition from survivors of the Jeffrey Epstein case is also a factor.Cornyn abruptly canceled a meeting he was set to have with Blanche on Wednesday ahead of this week's confirmation vote.

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Jay Clayton Confirmed By Senate, Sets Up Possible Vote On Warrantless Spying Tool

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