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Letitia James demands court restore $500 million penalty against President Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James

Letitia James, the Democrat attorney general in the state of New York, is demanding an appeals court restore a $500 million penalty against President Donald Trump that a New York judge created.

It was Arthur Engoron who heard the case in which James alleged Trump and his companies committed fraud.

James, who herself is under investigation now on fraud charges of her own related to alleged lies she submitted on federal mortgage documents, claimed that the companies’ actions left behind damages even though testimony during the trial, which went down without a jury, proved those who made loans to Trump were happy with them, they were all paid off, they made money off Trump and would like to do business with him again.

“Turns out you can’t have your principal residence in Virginia and be AG of New York. You can’t say your dad’s your husband. Or claim a five-unit is a four. But that’s what Letitia James did—while going after Trump for the same thing. You’ve got to be kidding me.”

From Donald… pic.twitter.com/zd9JNaPUvw

— Fan Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) April 18, 2025

Engoron and James worked together to create the $500 million penalty, and then tried to arrange requirements so that Trump could not appeal. He did, and the appeals court bluntly said the fine violated the U.S. Constitution.

Now, a report in the Epoch Times reveals that James wants that constitutional violation restored.

The report explains she filed a notice of appeal to the New York Supreme Court, confirming she is appealing.

“The brief notice does not spell out arguments from James as to why the appeal should be allowed,” the report explained.

It was the New York Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department, a branch of the New York Supreme Court, that tossed the penalty in a fractured ruling but left the civil judgment against Trump.

Engoron ruled against Trump in February 2024 and issuing a judgment of more than $460 million, with interest accruing.

Even the appellate judges who thought James’ claims of fraud were justified opposed her penalty.

“Justice David Friedman criticized James, saying she was focused on ‘political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business,'” the report said.

 

‘The vice president’s approval was sufficient’: New docs blow open Biden autopen scandal, put focus on Kamala

Joe Biden speaks at a meeting on a Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) event at the 2024 G7 Summit, Thursday, June 13, 2024, at Borgo Egnazia in Apulia, Italy. (Official White House Photo by Oliver Contreras)

Newly uncovered internal documents shed fresh light on former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen and alleged outsourcing of decision-making during his final year in office.

The former president has insisted that he personally made all decisions regarding pardons, executive orders and proclamations, calling claims to the contrary “ridiculous and false.” However, internal memos and emails indicate that critical decisions — including clemencies — were quietly delegated to others, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, and it remains unclear whether Biden formally approved certain decisions, multiple outlets reported on Thursday.

Biden aides initially insisted he personally sign by hand any official presidential actions. But by the end of his term, the standard had been abandoned, according to an internal memo obtained by Just the News.

“Based on precedent from the Obama-Biden Administration regarding which documents generally are hand-signed by the President, our recommendation is that as a general rule, YOU personally approve and hand-sign all decisions that require Presidential action,” reads a February 2021 draft memo distributed to top White House officials.

By February 2024, authorization for clemency actions increasingly relied on Harris’ approval, according to a draft memo circulated by the White House Counsel’s office obtained by Just the News.

“Given the President’s schedule, it can often take days or weeks for the President to review and approve the clemency package,” the lawyers’ memo reads. “The Chief of Staff’s office has been helpful in getting the paper in front of him for his review.”

“He previously asked the White House Counsel to discuss the candidates with him, although in the last round the Vice President’s approval was sufficient to obtain his approval,” the lawyers noted.

The Trump White House concluded that this memo shows the former president was effectively “outsourcing” clemency decisions to Harris during his final year.

During his four years in the White House, Biden granted 4,245 acts of clemency, more than any previous president on record, according to the Pew Research Center. All of Biden’s pardons from December to January — including those for family members, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Gen. Mark Milley — were reportedly signed by autopen, except for the preemptive pardon for his son Hunter.

Internal emails cast further doubt on whether Biden approved the commutations of roughly 2,500 inmates jailed for crack cocaine offenses in January, the New York Post reported.

On Jan. 16, then-White House Staff Secretary Stef Feldman wrote to the West Wing lawyers requesting evidence that Biden had approved the commutations, according to emails obtained by the outlet. Then-Deputy White House Counsel Tyeesha Dixon forwarded the message to Michael Posada, chief of staff to the White House counsel’s office, for guidance.

“Michael, thoughts on how to handle this?” Dixon asked, adding that the president “doesn’t review the warrants” in reference to the documents authorizing clemency.

However, Posada’s response suggests that aides instead relied on then-Deputy Assistant to the President Rosa Po’s attestation of what the president “intended” to do, and it remains unclear whether Biden gave final authorization.

“We will just need something from Rosa once the documents are ready confirming that the 21 people commuted to home confinement are who the president signed off on in the document titled X, and the # individuals listed in document titled Y are those with crack powder disparities who the president intended to commute,” Posada wrote.

“Basically, something from Rosa making clear that the documents accurately reflect his decision. If you can give me a blurb whenever they are ready to suggest to Rosa, I can pass along,” Posada added.

The sentences of several individuals convicted of illegally possessing firearms, as well as two men whose actions resulted in the death of a police officer, were commuted as part of the sweeping action.

There were four meetings between December and January during which Biden was said to have given “verbal approval” for his wide-ranging clemency actions, according to Just the News. While retroactive emails indicate his presence, the National Archives had no staff notes confirming his attendance at the meetings or that he provided verbal approval.

The internal memos and emails were discovered as part of the Trump White House’s investigation into whether Biden aides “conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”

A former Biden White House staffer familiar with the pardon process denied that the president outsourced decision-making, according to the New York Post.

“There is a concerted and willful blindness by Republicans when it comes to understanding how broad-based pardons work when they were issued by President Biden,” the source said, according to the outlet.

President Donald Trump is installing a “Presidential Wall of Fame” in the Rose Garden and will be hanging a “Biden Autopen” portrait to mark the Biden presidency, he told the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview on Friday.

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No more woke: Trump changes name to ‘Department of War’

It was the 4 p.m. Eastern hour on a Friday, not the time one might find the president in the Oval Office taking questions from reporters in the last administration.

But President Trump used the time to sign his 200th executive order – this one changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, its name until the mid-20th century.

Trump, who said the original change to “Department of Defense” was “wokey,” was accompanying by his new “secretary of war,” Pete Hegseth, who said the change is in keeping with the “warrior ethos” that has come to the for at the Pentagon since January.

The executive order calls for the reference to change, but an official change of the federal department would have to go through Congress.

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Trump signs an Executive Order to officially rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War pic.twitter.com/jtHDi0XFun

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 5, 2025

Just minutes after the change, the War Department posted a promotional video from its new X account:

? FOLLOW: @DeptofWar & @SecWar https://t.co/6TBqYLgIWQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 5, 2025

‘Pinpointed’: RFK Jr. to reveal 2 potential links to autism recently discovered

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will reveal that Tylenol use during pregnancy and a folate deficiency may be linked to autism.

During a Cabinet meeting last week, HSS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that his department has pinpointed “certain interventions” that are almost certainly causing autism in children.

President Trump pressed the issue head-on during the Cabinet meeting, calling the autism crisis “a tremendous horror show” devastating American families.

Kennedy stunned the room with the numbers. In 1970, he said, a massive Wisconsin study of 900,000 children found an autism rate of less than one in 10,000. Today, official numbers put autism at 1 in 31 children nationwide.

California reports that one in 19 children are diagnosed with autism.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Tylenol and having a folate deficiency are potentially linked to autism.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that pregnant women’s use of an over-the-counter pain medication is potentially linked to autism in a report that will also suggest a medicine derived from folate can be used to treat symptoms of the developmental disorder in some people, people familiar with the matter said.

The report, expected this month from the Department of Health and Human Services, is likely to highlight low levels of folate, an important vitamin, and Tylenol taken during pregnancy as well as other potential causes of autism, people familiar with the matter said.

Kennedy’s department also plans to pinpoint a form of folate known as folinic acid, or leucovorin, the people said, as a way to decrease the symptoms of autism, which affected roughly one in 31 eight-year-olds in the U.S. in 2022.

Tylenol, whose active ingredient is acetaminophen, is a widely used pain reliever, including by pregnant women. Some previous studies have indicated risks to fetal development, but others have found no association. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says it is safe to use in pregnancy, though it recommends pregnant women consult with their doctors before using it, as with all medicines.

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com]

‘Very unfair’: European officials fine Google billions, triggering President Trump

The European Commission has issued a long list of complaints against Google over its advertising procedures, announcing a roughly $3.2 billion fine to punish the American company.

And President Donald Trump has reacted with a warning, and a threat.

In fact, he’s suggesting that he could invoke Section 301 of America’s Trade Act, which gives the government “a range” of authorities “to investigate and take action (e.g. impose a tariff) to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and respond to certain foreign trade practices.”

JUST IN: Trump sends a WARNING to Europe after they hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine

Trump is considering invoking Section 301, essentially “NULLIFYING” unfair penalties on US companies

Europe should drop this, or they’re going to totally screw themselves over! pic.twitter.com/sO4Fmw6xQ8

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 5, 2025

A report at Courthousenews explains the European attack, the “hefty penalty” being the “tech giant’s fourth EU antitrust fine.”

The report explained, “The European Commission accused the California-based company of distorting competition in online advertising by systematically favoring its own services over rivals, harming competitors, advertisers and publishers across the bloc.”

Trump posted on social media, “Europe today ‘hit’ another great American company, Google, with a $3.5 Billion Dollar fine, effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American investments and Jobs. This is on top of the many other Fines and Taxes that have been issued against Google and other American Tech companies, in particular.”

He called it “Very unfair” and warned, “The American Taxpayer will not stand for it!”

If this continues, “I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies,” he said.

pic.twitter.com/tSUp2jxgko

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 5, 2025

The European tech experts complained that Google’s control over multiple layers of the digital advertising ecosystem creates fundamental conflicts of interest.

The company, in fact, has a long list of various software programs in the ad industry, including operations that service advertisers seeking to place ads as well as publishers looking to sell ad space.

Terea Ribera, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, threatened publicly, “Google must now come forward with a serious remedy to address its conflicts of interest, and if it fails to do so, we will not hesitate to impose strong remedies.”

Google said it would appeal.

“The European Commission’s decision about our ad tech services is wrong and we will appeal. It imposes an unjustified fine and requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money,” said Lee-Anne Mulholland, a Google vice president.

The next step in the fight probably will be response from Google, due in November to the commission, which included in its statement a threat to try to force Google to sell parts of its business.

Courthousenews said, “The fine represents the latest escalation in Europe’s regulatory crackdown on major American technology companies. The EU executive previously issued preliminary charges against Google in 2023, suggesting that forcing the company to divest portions of its advertising technology operations might be necessary to restore fair competition.”

Internally, the EU has had conflicts.

In fact, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič days ago blocked a planned Google penalty over concerns it would hurt EU-U.S. trade negotiations.

Google, in fact, also faces cases raising concerns about its advertising operations inside the U.S.

“In April, a federal judge ruled that Google illegally monopolized parts of the advertising market, with a remedies hearing scheduled to begin Sept. 22. Separately, in a case focused on Google’s search monopoly, a federal judge ruled this week that the company must end exclusive search deals but will not be forced to sell Chrome or Android,” Courthousenews said.

 

‘Numerous instances’: Trump task force reports on Joe Biden’s anti-Christian schemes

A task force under President Donald Trump is tracking – and working to eliminate – the anti-Christian bias installed in the federal government under Joe Biden.

Biden, in fact, “weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians,” according to a new report from task force members.

EXCLUSIVE: A DOJ task force uncovered “numerous instances” of anti-Christian bias in the federal government under the Biden administration — with the report saying it “weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians.” | @BrookeSingman pic.twitter.com/gpy1y2dlYQ

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 5, 2025

Joe Biden mocks God and Catholicism by making the sign of the cross at his apparent disgust for a 6 week abortion ban. He prefers abortion up until birth.

This is a mockery of God. pic.twitter.com/wv1cN1v4fz

— Dr. Abby Johnson (@AbbyJohnson) April 24, 2024

President Biden and his team weaponized the DOJ against Christians and heavily pursued an anti-religious liberty agenda.

President Trump is right to root out this hateful anti-Christian bias and protect our fundamental First Amendment rights.https://t.co/ArgFSfLhnB

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) September 5, 2025

A report from Fox News said it obtained a copy of a report from the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias,” headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

It was assigned to make certain “any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians are identified, terminated, and rectified.”

Its initial assessments covers “the damage that can be done when religious liberty is not protected and preserved for all Americans,” and it promised, “The federal government will never again be permitted to turn its power against people of faith.”

The report affirms that “the rule of law will be enforced with vigor, and every religion will be treated with equality in both policy and action.”

In a nation where protections for religious liberties are written into the Constitution, it stunningly noted, “The days of anti-Christian bias in the federal government are over. Faith is not a liability in America—it is a liberty.”

So far, its initial review of federal agencies and actions have found “numerous instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration.”

White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers, in fact, told Fox News Digital that the Biden agenda targeted Christians and “trampled on their fundamental First Amendment rights.”

“Unlike Joe Biden, President Trump is protecting Christians, not punishing them.”

Fox reported offenses were found in the Department of Defense, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Labor, where officials “deprioritized, mishandled, or denied requests for religious exemptions to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 mandate.”

The Biden administration also used the Department of Education to try to impose record-setting fines on Christian universities like Liberty University and Grand Canyon University.

And, Fox reported, the Department of Homeland Security under Biden set up “accommodations” for followers of Islam, Rastafarianism and sects of Judaism, but ignored Christian perspectives.

And Biden’s Department of Justice “pursued novel theories” to prosecute those speaking their Christian faith, and utterly failed to “address and prosecute violations of the law where anti-Christian bias was demonstrated by the persecutors.”

That involved persecuting and imprisoning dozens of people under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, used by Biden to protect abortion businesses. They were jailed for praying outside abortion industry outlets.

“Yet, the same DOJ refused to apply the FACE Act to protect places of worship and crisis pregnancy centers,” the report charged.

The FBI worked under the biased agenda that “radical-traditionalist” Catholics were domestic “terror threats” and the Treasury Department allowed Christian organizations to be “de-banked.”

The State Department’s anti-Christian bias was evident in that non-Christian workers were allowed leave for holidays, while Christians were not.

Further, Biden’s pro-LGBT bias was installed throughout the government, the report said.

The investigation, and corrective actions, are just getting under way, officials confirmed in the Fox report.

 

Turley: Injunction blocking unaccompanied minors from being deported is on ‘darn thin ice’

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle “that the injunction blocking unaccompanied migrant children from being deported is “on pretty thin ice,” adding that the U.S. is attempting to reunite them with their families.

On Sunday, Biden-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country, issuing a 14-day temporary restraining order. Fox’s Laura Ingraham asked Turley for his legal opinion on the order as well as his opinion on the nationwide injunction for all unaccompanied minors despite the Supreme Court ruling against such broad injunctions.

“Well, it does seem to run against the grain. The Supreme Court has really put a shot across the bow now of multiple district courts and said, ‘You should not do these national injunctions unless you can establish a national class action.’ And even then, some justices have said we’re going to scrutinize that closely. This seems to be bucking that order,” Turley said. “The problem with this is that ultimately I can’t imagine the injunction can stand with regard to virtually all of these individuals, these children. They are being reunited with their parents.”

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“Many of these children were sent over the border unaccompanied, and they are being sent back, and the parents have been contacted. So it’s on pretty darn thin ice for the district court,” Turley added. “Now, there could be a delay, and there can be a requirement of some due process. But this is not what you would consider an ordinary deportation case. You have minors who ideally belong with their parents.”

Early Sunday, Sooknanan issued her first temporary restraining order, barring Trump officials from sending 10 unaccompanied migrant children between 10 and 17 years old to Guatemala after an attorney requested that she intervene, according to CBS News.

Sooknanan scheduled a hearing for later that day, but she moved the session up and announced a broader restraining order blocking any deportations of unaccompanied migrant children from Guatemala, as well as those in U.S. custody who did not have a deportation order, the outlet reported. Department of Justice lawyer Drew Ensign, in response, argued that the administration was not attempting to formally deport the unaccompanied Guatemalan minors but rather repatriate them to their home country to reunite them with their relatives.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lower courts’ ability to block the Trump administration’s policies through nationwide injunctions exceeds their authority.

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‘U.S. strategic interests’: Bessent explains why Trump wants quick ruling on tariffs

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

(The Center Square) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the nation’s highest court that tariffs are the only way President Donald Trump can protect the U.S. from “a major economic and national-security catastrophe.”

Trump used a 1977 law that doesn’t mention tariffs to reorder global trade through tariffs to try to give U.S. businesses an advantage in the world market. Using tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Trump hit nearly every nation with import duties of at least 10%. Some countries face higher rates, up to 50%.

Before using tariffs, Trump declared a national emergency over fentanyl smuggling and a long-standing U.S. trade deficit that he said was at a tipping point that could lead to financial disaster.

“Due to IEEPA tariffs, six major trading partners and the 27-nation European Union have already entered into framework deals with the United States, accepting tariff arrangements heavily recalibrated in America’s favor and agreeing to make approximately $2 trillion of purchases and investment in the United States’ economy – with trillions more under negotiation with countries across the world,” Trump’s legal team wrote in filing with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Two lower courts have already said the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn’t give the president unbounded tariff authority.

Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a previous lower court ruling, but said Trump’s tariffs could remain in place while the administration appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 7-4 decision, the majority said that tariff authority rests with Congress.

Bessent told the high court that speed is critical.

“Swift review of that decision is necessary to avoid derailing critical ongoing negotiations with our foreign trading partners and threatening broader U.S. strategic interests internationally,” he wrote in a declaration.

Bessent also said that taking away the tariff authority “gravely undermines the president’s ability to conduct real-world diplomacy and his ability to protect the national security and economy of the United States.”

Bessent said the appeals court ruling has already hurt the administration’s efforts.

“The recent decision by the Federal Circuit is already adversely affecting ongoing negotiations,” Bessent said. “World leaders are questioning the president’s authority to impose tariffs, walking away from or delaying negotiations, and/or imposing a different calculus on their negotiating positions. The court’s ruling has taken away substantial negotiating leverage for the president to achieve the best trade deals for the American people.”

Bessent said that if the court forced the president to unwind the deals, it would disrupt financial markets.

“The longer a final ruling is delayed, the greater the risk of economic disruption,” he said. “For example, delaying a ruling until June 2026 could result in a scenario in which $750 billion-$1 trillion in tariffs have already been collected, and unwinding them could cause significant disruption.”

Bessent added: “If these agreed upon frameworks were unwound and the investments and purchases had to be repaid, the economic consequences would be catastrophic.”

Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to decide by Sept. 10 whether to take up the case. He also asked for “expedited consideration of the merits to the maximum extent feasible.”

The Liberty Justice Center represents the five small U.S. businesses that sued over the tariffs. A group of Democrat-led states also sued, saying they face higher costs. The businesses said the tariffs threaten their ability to do business.

The Texas-based nonprofit has also said it wants a quick resolution and would not oppose the government’s motion.

Sauer’s proposed schedule calls for briefs to be filed in the case by Oct. 20 and oral arguments set for the first week of November.

New tariffs raised $58.5 billion in revenue between January and June of this year before accounting for income and payroll tax offsets, according to an analysis of federal data from the Penn Wharton Budget Model.

Trump has said he wants to use tariffs to restore manufacturing jobs lost to lower-wage countries in decades past, shift the tax burden away from U.S. families and pay down the national debt.

A tariff is a tax on imported goods paid by the person or company that imports the goods. The importer can absorb the cost of the tariffs or try to pass the cost on to consumers through higher prices.

Economists, businesses and some public companies have warned that tariffs could raise prices on a wide range of consumer products.

This story originally appeared in The Center Square.

 

CBS responds after being caught deceptively editing Kristi Noem comments on gangbanger

CBS News changed its interview policy after they got caught deceptively editing DHS Chief Kristi Noem’s comments on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“In response to audience feedback over the past week, we have implemented a new policy for greater transparency in our interviews,” a CBS News spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. “Face the Nation will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews (subject to national security or legal restrictions). This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online.”

CBS on Sunday deceptively edited DHS Chief Kristi Noem’s comments on MS-13 gang member, wife beater and child predator, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A federal grand jury in Tennessee recently indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”

He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ordered to be deported to the East African country of Uganda after a judge recently released him from a Tennessee prison.

However, a radical Obama-appointed judge blocked the US government from immediately deporting Abrego Garcia to Africa.

On Sunday, DHS Chief appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation to discuss the Trump Administration’s work to make the country safer by arresting and deporting dangerous criminal aliens like Abrego Garcia.

CBS cut off Kristi Noem as she was detailing Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s many crimes.

In the clip that aired, Noem said, “[And] the one thing that we will continue to do is make sure that [Abrego Garcia] does not walk free in the United States of America.”

In the unaired clip, Noem said, “This individual was a known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children. He needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.”

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SHAMEFUL: CBS attempts to whitewash the TRUTH about MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

WATCH for the truth. pic.twitter.com/UNaHj6V52z

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 31, 2025

In July, Paramount and CBS were forced to pay millions of dollars to President Trump and agreed to change their editorial policy in a settlement.

President Trump filed a $20 billion lawsuit against the network’s parent company, Paramount, for deceptively editing a ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris.

Trump will be paid $16 million up front, according to Fox News.

Fake news 60 Minutes was caught editing Kamala’s answers to make her sound coherent and normal.

In fact it was so bad that ’60 Minutes’ spliced her nonsensical answer and replaced it with a completely separate sentence she said earlier in the interview.

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Holy. Shit.

60 Minutes cut Kamala’s nonsense answer on Israel and replaced it with a completely seperate sentence she said earlier in the interview…

Mixing and matching questions and answers. This isn’t journalism. It’s fraud.pic.twitter.com/onXli46xL6

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 8, 2024

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com]

‘Wait, come with me’: Illegal alien a judge is accused of helping flee ICE pleads guilty

Judge Hannah Dugan arrested in Milwaukee on Friday, April 25, 2025, for allegedly aiding a suspected criminal illegal alien

The illegal alien a Wisconsin judge is charged with helping try to flee ICE agents wanting to arrest him, now has pleaded guilty.

A report in the Washington Examiner confirms that Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was accused of re-entering the United States illegally after already being deported.

He is facing a sentence of up to two years in prison in a deportation agreement with prosecutors.

The Examiner noted he entered the U.S. illegally in 2013, but was deported. Then he returned, and found himself in court because of allegations of domestic battery.

Hannah Dugan was the judge in that case, and now is facing a trial for allegedly helping him try to flee ICE agents waiting at the courthouse to arrest him.,

Dugan “allegedly told him, ‘Wait, come with me,’ before showing him to a special courtroom door after immigration officials showed up to arrest him,” the report said.

Dugan insisted that her actions to help a criminal illegal alien were protected by absolute immunity.

She is facing a trial Dec. 15 and could spent six years in prison if convicted.

A hearing is underway in the federal case involving Milwaukee Co Judge Hannah Dugan. Judge Lynn Adelman has set a Dec 15 trial date after previously ruling the case will move forward

Dugan is accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE agents

— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) September 3, 2025

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial on federal charges alleging she tried to help an undocumented immigrant evade arrest has been set for Dec. 15. https://t.co/IiLjwupBh4

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 3, 2025

A commentary at Twitchy snarkily was headlined, “No One Is Above the Law …”

ABC reported, “Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial on federal charges alleging she tried to help an undocumented immigrant evade arrest has been set for Dec. 15. Jury selection will be on Dec. 11 and 12, Judge Lynn Adelman determined during a scheduling hearing on Wednesday.”

Dugan has claimed she didn’t do anything wrong, and unsuccessfully argued in court that she holds judicial immunity for anything she does in the courthouse.

WND reported when Adelman had adopted a recommendation from U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph that Dugan’s motion to dismiss the criminal case against her because of “immunity” should be denied.

“There is no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered ‘part of a judge’s job.’ As the magistrate judge noted, the same is true in the bribery prosecutions, concededly valid, where the judges were prosecuted for performing official acts intertwined with bribery,” the judge said.

“Even if a more limited version of judicial immunity exists, it does not support dismissal of the instant indictment.”

Dugan was on video instructing ICE agents to go elsewhere, then she allowed Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal alien before her court on charges of attacking other people, out a private back door of her courtroom, leading to a nonpublic area of the courthouse.

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley pointed out that Dugan has a “lack of a credible defense.”

“Indeed, despite having high-powered lawyers such as Paul Clement, her recent social media posts seem more like a pitch for jury nullification.”

He noted the criminal complaint explains “a six-person arrest team (including an ICE officer, a Customs and Border Protection officer, two FBI special agents, and two DEA agents) came to the courthouse to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican immigrant facing three misdemeanor battery counts they intended to deport. He is accused of hitting someone 30 times during a fight that erupted over complaints that his music was too loud and assaulting three separate individuals, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.”

Flores-Ruiz had been deported previously and came back illegally again, a felony, so he was issued an order for expedited removal, which means he could be deported with no further court hearings.

Dugan facilitated his escape, then was arrested and charged with obstruction.

“Recently, Dugan went public with an interview that notably lacked any discernible defense, other than stating that she helps defendants use the ‘backdoor’ when she considers circumstances that ‘warrant it,'” the report said.

Turley explained, “The lack of any cognizable claim in Dugan’s public pitch suggests that she might be hoping for a juror to simply vote to acquit as a visceral or political statement. This is a liberal jury pool where jury nullification must be a concern for prosecutors even though such an argument cannot be made overtly by the defense to the jurors.”

Reports confirm Dugan was “visibly angry” when informed of the ICE officers present.

WND has reported a grand jury accused Dugan of knowingly concealing a person for whose arrest a warrant and process had been issued, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1071. She is charged in Count Two with obstruction of the United States Department of Homeland Security’s removal proceedings, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1505.