Hard Pass

It's almost like this guy wants his ties to Epstein kept in the news cycle - pressuring the media hard while simultaneously triggering the Streisand effect.

One is left to wonder: is this intentional, or is he really incapable of learning?

In seeking identities of those behind anonymous social media posts, the Trump administration is intensifying its pursuit using grand jury subpoenas.

Stephen

The Justice Department’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which would pay out public money in compensation for alleged overreach in federal prosecutions, including for the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, has been accurately described as one of the most nakedly corrupt actions in American history. It would give a tacit endorsement from every American taxpayer to the notion that the Capitol Riot’s only transgression, for example, came from those who tried to punish its perpetrators for attempting to halt the outcome of an election...

...if a judge can be convinced that this fund, established with no transparency and no congressional or judicial oversight, which emerged from a lawsuit between a sitting president and his own government, and is arguably contrary to the purpose of the Judgment Fund from which it derives authority, is an unconstitutional scheme to defraud the government by its very structure, then anyone can sue to recoup the money, and then some, under the False Claims Act of 1863...

...Anyone found guilty of a false claim must not only pay back the ill-gotten funds, but three times the amount in damages. That means that anti-weaponization fund recipients would risk having to pay much more back in the future, while going through years of litigation. Debts incurred by FCA violations are not even dischargeable in bankruptcy...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1132926

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And democracy takes another agonal breath.