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07 October 2025

UPDATE: Trump Administration Live Updates: Defiant Bondi Testifies in Combative Senate Hearing 7OKT25 RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES & CLIENT LIST!

 

AG fascist fotze pam bondi has to be the most corrupt attorney general in the modern history. She is a rude, ignorant, dishonest hündin, a disgrace to the nation, and a defender of pedophiles and sexual predators. It will be ironic if someday her decisions to defend criminal AND immoral activity will come back on her, her family and friends. And FYI Sen fascist fotze josh"I shit my pants on 6JAN21"hawley r-MO my family's phone was tapped after the fbi started a file on me when I was in the 9th grade during the nixon regime. It was annoying and insulting and illegal but we didn't have anything to hide cause I / we didn't do anything wrong. What are you afraid of being discovered? This from the New York Times.....

Trump Administration Live Updates: Defiant Bondi Testifies in Combative Senate Hearing

Glenn Thrush

Reports on the Justice Department

Devlin Barrett

Reports on the Justice Department

  • Bondi testimony: During a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Pam Bondi flatly refused to answer questions from Democrats about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the decision to drop an investigation into President Trump’s border czar and the legal rationale for deadly strikes on boats the administration has said were carrying drugs from Venezuela. Ms. Bondi accused the Biden administration of having weaponized the Justice Department, even as the Trump administration has eroded the department’s traditional independence.

  • Chuck Grassley, the Trump-aligned chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opens an oversight hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi with a rambling attack on “indefensible” Democratic actions, including the investigation into President Trump. Bondi is expected to face withering questioning on a range of topics, including the strong-arm removal of a respected career prosecutor in Virginia last week.

  • Senator Grassley, in his opening remarks of a hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, tells the committee that his staff is working closely with the Justice Department’s weaponization task force, run by Ed Martin, the former U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia. The group was formed purportedly to root out “abuses of the criminal justice process” by local and federal law enforcement officers, but Martin has said he plans to use his authority to expose and discredit those he believes to be guilty, even if he cannot find sufficient evidence to prosecute them. Critics say that would be weaponizing an institution he has been hired to de-weaponize.

  • Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, blasted Attorney General Pam Bondi for overseeing a “systematically weaponized agency to protect President Trump and his allies” and “attack his opponents.” Durbin, who represents Illinois, accused Trump and Bondi of targeting Chicago for punitive immigration enforcement and using “the full force” of the federal government to intimidate his opponents and score political points.

  • Attorney General Pam Bondi, adopting the attack-is-the-best-defense playbook she has used in previous appearances before the committee, angrily dismissed suggestions that she has weaponized the Justice Department to attack President Trump’s political foes. “They wanted to take President Trump off the playing field,” she said of Biden-era officials who indicted Mr. Trump twice. “This is the kind of conduct that shatters the American people’s faith in our law enforcement system.”

  • Bondi just lauded the work of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Under her watch, the agency responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws has been essentially leaderless, after F.B.I. director Kash Patel — who was originally given leadership of the bureau — quit. He was replaced by another off-site official with a demanding day job, Daniel P. Driscoll, the secretary of the Army.

  • Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois asked Attorney General Pam Bondi if the White House consulted her on the deployment of federal troops in Chicago. She responded with a high-volume personal attack. “I wish you’d love Chicago as much as you hate President Trump. And currently the National Guard is on the way to Chicago — if you’re not going to protect your citizens.”

  • Bondi, like the F.B.I. director Kash Patel, is attempting to turn Democrats’ questioning on the committee into high-volume political theater. The attorney general has shouted herself hoarse after only a few minutes of questioning. She has refused to answer any questions about her decision-making on the Epstein investigation and other matters.

  • Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat of Rhode Island, asked Bondi about the Justice Department’s decision to drop the investigation into Tom Homan, who was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation. “What became of the $50,000?” he asked. Bondi refused to answer the questions, then attacked Whitehouse by demanding to know why he once took campaign donations from a donor that Republicans have linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

  • Bondi’s calculated bombast on Tuesday, punctuated by her partisan and personal attacks on Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, reflects a coordinated effort across the Trump administration to flip potentially damaging moments of public accountability into opportunities to savage political opponents. Oversight hearings have always had elements of political theater. But the approach taken by Bondi, and previously by F.B.I director Kash Patel, has been different than that taken by any of their predecessors, characterized by a contemptuous refusal to cursorily address inconvenient questions and the use of prepared attacks against Democrats to change the subject and drown out criticism.

  • UPDATE 1 BELOW:

  • More than three hours into the hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi has repeatedly refused to answer questions about her involvement in and knowledge of the forced resignation of Erik Siebert, the former U.S. attorney in eastern Virginia.

    Siebert was replaced after refusing to prosecute the former F.B.I. director James Comey. Bondi did not deny reports that she opposed his firing and did not directly rebut the accounts of administration officials who have told The Times that she cast doubt on the viability of the case.

  • Bondi expressed little interest in the claims of Commerce Secretary Commerce Howard Lutnick that the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was “the greatest blackmailer ever.” Bondi has been under fire for months since she decided to stop the release of F.B.I. files about Epstein and declared that no evidence had been found of him blackmailing others. Pressed by Senator John Neely Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, she said no official had asked to talk to Lutnick, a former neighbor of Epstein’s.

    Kennedy seemed perplexed by that answer. “If Howard Lutnick wants to speak to the F.B.I.,” and if F.B.I. Director Kash Patel wants him interviewed, that would “absolutely” happen, Bondi said.

  • Bondi also dodged queries about reports that the Justice Department signed off on the legality of military strikes against boats in international waters that are believed to be involved in drug trafficking. “I’m not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have given or issued,” she said.

  • Republican senators denounce Jack Smith over Jan. 6 scrutiny of their phone records.

  • At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers repeatedly denounced Jack Smith, the former special counsel, and the Biden administration for taking the phone records of more than a half-dozen G.O.P. senators to determine who they spoke to just before and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.

    The attacks formed a core part of Republicans’ response as Democrats on the panel grilled Attorney General Pam Bondi over President Trump’s increasing pressure on the Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies. Republicans used the phone records to argue instead that the Biden administration had politicized the department, though much remains unknown about the records’ role in the investigation, and there has been no evidence that the Biden White House influenced the inquiry.

    Republicans pressed Ms. Bondi to investigate and punish anyone associated with the investigative step, such as the F.B.I. agents who examined the phone data of nine Republican lawmakers to determine who they called, who called them, and when and where the calls were made.

    The analysis of phone toll records is a common investigative tactic, though there are occasional policy and political debates about when and how such data should be taken. Such toll record information does not include the contents of conversations, which would require a court-approved wiretap.

    On Monday, Republicans revealed an internal F.B.I. document showing that the toll records were collected in September 2023, shortly after Mr. Smith indicted Mr. Trump for conspiracy and other crimes related to Jan. 6.

    The committee’s chairman, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, called the move politically motivated “spying,” and said there was no factual predicate to justify examining the lawmakers’ phone records around the time of the riot by supporters of Mr. Trump.

    One of the senators whose phone records were taken with a grand jury subpoena, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, erupted at the hearing over the issue.

    “Can you tell me why my phone records,” taken at a time when he was the chairman of the committee, “were sought by the Jack Smith agents?” Mr. Graham asked. “Why did they ask to know who I called and what I was doing from January 4th to the 7th?”

    He then asked Ms. Bondi if she thought that was an “abuse of power.”

    The attorney general declined to answer, but said Mr. Smith “wasted $50 million” in an effort
    to “put President Trump in jail.”

    Another Republican lawmaker whose phone records were examined over that four-day period was Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who falsely claimed that the F.B.I. document showed agents had engaged in wiretapping.

    “The F.B.I. tapped my phone,” Mr. Hawley said angrily.

    Mr. Grassley and other lawmakers have hedged when asked if they plan to call Mr. Smith as a witness to discuss his investigation, saying they plan to let the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, conduct his own inquiry. At the hearing, Ms. Bondi said she “cannot discuss whether there is an ongoing investigation” into the matter.

  • Through the course of this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Pam Bondi has sought to deflect a pointed informational request with an attack line. One example: She accused Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, of “storming” Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem during a news conference in June. In fact, the senator was physically removed from the event and shoved into a hallway as he approached the lectern to ask the secretary a question.

01 October 2025

Judge Disqualifies Nevada’s Acting U.S. Attorney From Handling Cases 30SEP25

 


THIS worthless maga cultist is getting a little of what she deserves but justice will be served when she is completely removed from the US Justice Dept system. Here's another win for the people and our democratic Republic!!! BYE BYE fascist fotze sigal chattah, BYE BYE!!!!! From the New York Times.....

Judge Disqualifies Nevada’s Acting U.S. Attorney From Handling Cases

Danny Hakim
By Danny Hakim
Sept. 30, 2025

A federal judge on Tuesday disqualified Nevada’s top federal prosecutor from handling cases, a rebuke to the Trump administration’s attempts to circumvent federal appointment procedures put in place by Congress.

Judge David G. Campbell of the Federal District Court in Arizona, who was temporarily assigned to handle the case in Nevada, said that the prosecutor, Sigal Chattah, was “not validly serving as acting U.S. attorney” and that her involvement in cases “would be unlawful.”

Challenges to her appointment had been brought in four different cases. The judge disqualified her from supervising the cases or “any attorneys in the handling of these cases.”

Ms. Chattah’s office declined to comment on the ruling.

Ms. Chattah is a Republican activist and a supporter of President Trump who was previously a lawyer for the state Republican Party. She was also the party’s unsuccessful candidate for attorney general in 2022.

As a private lawyer, Ms. Chattah has sued on behalf of a client seeking to decriminalize the harassment of election workers. Last month, she said that she would be “revisiting election cases” as the state’s top federal prosecutor, adding that a broad election inquiry was in the works.

In late July, the Trump administration decided to extend the terms of Ms. Chattah in Nevada and Bill Essayli in Southern California, who had initially been appointed “interim” U.S. attorneys. Interim appointments expire after 120 days, but the administration extended their terms by naming them both acting U.S. attorneys. Permanent U.S. attorney appointments typically require approval either by the U.S. Senate or by local federal judges. Public defenders in Nevada and California had challenged Ms. Chattah’s and Mr. Essayli’s appointments.

“The procedure used by the government to appoint Ms. Chattah was never intended by Congress,” Judge Campbell wrote in his ruling.

In August, a different federal judge rejected a similar maneuver in New Jersey, ruling that the acting U.S. attorney there, Alina Habba, had been serving without legal authority. The judge delayed an order disqualifying Ms. Habba from participating in ongoing cases, pending appeal.

During a hearing in Las Vegas last week related to the efforts to disqualify Ms. Chattah, federal prosecutors and public defenders clashed over the fine print of laws dictating the rules for appointments, which are not always straightforward. Defense lawyers sought to dismiss four pending criminal cases based on the circumstances of Ms. Chattah’s appointment, including one that involves an undocumented immigrant who is facing drug and gun charges, and another involving a felon accused of carrying a firearm.

An assistant U.S. attorney, Daniel Schiess, argued in those cases that “the defendants have suffered no harm whatsoever, none, from any of the issues involving appointments” and noted that the indictments had been signed by staff prosecutors, not Ms. Chattah herself. But an assistant federal public defender, Jeremy Baron, argued that the lack of a legitimately appointed U.S. attorney potentially puts at risk all prosecutions brought by the office after the change in Ms. Chattah’s status in July.

On Tuesday, Judge Campbell did not dismiss the cases but said that “the government attorneys handling these cases shall, within seven days of this order, file statements in the docket that they are not being supervised by Ms. Chattah in their prosecution of these cases.”

The Trump administration has moved to stock the Justice Department with loyalists amid increasing pressure by Mr. Trump to retaliate against those who have brought cases against him or who are perceived as his enemies. Last week, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, was indicted over the objection of career prosecutors who found insufficient evidence to support the charges, and Mr. Trump said on Sunday that he believed it was possible that his Justice Department could be investigating another former F.B.I. director he dislikes, Christopher A. Wray.

Mr. Trump has also criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi for not moving more aggressively to prosecute Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, and Senator Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California. And federal investigators have subpoenaed travel records related to Fani T. Willis, a Georgia district attorney who charged Mr. Trump in 2023 in an election interference case that has since stalled.

Danny Hakim is a reporter on the Investigations team at The Times, focused primarily on politics.

19 September 2025

POLITIFACT WEEKLY: Looming ACA plan hikes?, A Kirk book conspiracy theory., What online posts got wrong about Kirk shooting suspect's politics, Trump and wars: Did he ‘solve’ everything but the big ones?, Research doesn’t show using Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here’s what else you should know. 18SEP25

 


 This week:  Research doesn’t support autism link to Tylenol use in pregnancy … AI-generated book not proof Kirk shooting was staged … Democratic leaders warn about ACA premium hikes … Trump signs 4th TikTok extension … Some conservatives push back on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s  “hate speech” definition
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After Kirk’s killing, confusion spreads about 2012 law and ‘propaganda’ 

Three days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, President Donald Trump shared a supporter’s video pleading with him to reinstate a Cold War-era law she said punished media organizations for spreading falsehoods.

"I am hoping and praying that you will revisit what Barack Obama and Joe Biden got rid of back in 2013, which is the Smith-Mundt Act," the narrator said in a TikTok video that Trump reposted Sept. 13 on Truth Social. The supporter described the law as one that "held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people and spreading propaganda instead of truth."

The narrator urged Trump to reinstate the law and rename it the "Charlie Kirk Act." Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, seemed up to the task; on X, he posted, "In the coming days, I’ll be filing my previously drafted legislation to restore Smith-Mundt, and renaming it the Charlie Kirk Act. Domestic, political, government-funded propaganda must end now."

The Smith-Mundt Act was amended, not repealed. And it didn’t punish news corporations for their content. PolitiFact previously rated False the claim that Obama allowed the media to "purposely lie" when he signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. That bill folded in the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, which was introduced in 2012.

Claims that the Smith-Mundt Act held media "accountable for lying" mischaracterize that law, which did not apply to news content by private corporations. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act amended the law to remove a ban on government-funded broadcasters disseminating their programming to American audiences upon request from media entities and others

The Smith-Mundt Act, or the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, was enacted during the Cold War to enable the government to distribute information about the U.S., its people and policies to foreign audiences. The law led to the creation of the international broadcasting station Voice of America and its surrogates.

It also allowed U.S. media organization representatives to physically examine government-sponsored content at the State Department. But it prohibited the dissemination of that content to the American public.

In 2012, Democrat and Republican lawmakers co-sponsored the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, which aimed to modify the existing law they called "outdated." "Eliminating the ban updates the law to reflect technology advances, removes a barrier to more effective and efficient public diplomacy programs, provides transparency of these programs to U.S. citizens, and allows the material to be available to inform domestic audiences," the lawmakers said in a press release.

We rated the social media post False.

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Fact-checks of the week

  • A Kirk book conspiracy theory. Internet users found a book on Amazon that detailed Kirk's assassination — with a publication date preceding the shooting. "Can someone honestly explain to me how a book titled ‘The Shooting of Charlie Kirk: A Comprehensive Account of the Utah Valley University Attack, the Aftermath, and America’s Response’ was published on Amazon.com on SEPTEMBER 9TH, when the event took place on SEPTEMBER 10TH??" one user wrote Sept. 11 on X. A book with that title by an author listed as Anastasia J. Casey was briefly available on Amazon, and the site showed the book was published Sept. 9. But that was a technical error, Amazon told PolitiFact. The book, which was created using artificial intelligence, was published Sept. 10 after the fatal shooting. The erroneous publication date is not evidence that Kirk’s shooting was planned or staged. The e-book has since been removed from Amazon’s website.

  • Looming ACA plan hikes? With Congress grappling with ways to avoid a government shutdown, House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., said, "Republicans are spiking health insurance premiums by 75% for everyday Americans.” If the Republican-controlled Congress does not extend Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies before they expire at the end of this year, enrollees would have to pay more. KFF analysis of federal data found that the average increase in out-of-pocket coverage cost would be 79%, with state-by-state average increases ranging from 49% to 195%. This cost increase would come from a combination of insurance premium increases and the disappearance of subsidies. Clark’s statement is Mostly True.
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What online posts got wrong about Kirk shooting suspect's politics

As soon as officials announced the name of Kirk's alleged assassin, internet theories about the suspect’s background and motives quickly outpaced confirmed facts.

Authorities said Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah resident, shot and killed Kirk Sept. 10 on the Utah Valley University campus. Announcing the arrest Sept. 12, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox shared four phrases etched on bullet casings found with a gun investigators believe was Robinson’s.

When the news became public, Americans began searching for information on Robinson and sharing theories about him and his family. Much of that information, especially in the early hours after the news broke, was inaccurate. Some online users chased wrong leads and implicated innocent people in the process. 

Here’s a look:

  • One X post identified a $225 donation to Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign from a Tyler Robinson in St. George, Utah. But that’s a different Tyler Robinson than the suspect, according to records.

  • An X post said Robinson was a registered Republican in Utah, "according to state records." That’s not what records show. The website voterrecords.com shows a person with identifying information that matches the suspect reflects he was an unaffiliated, inactive voter.

  • Social media users said Robinson was a member of the Salt Lake City Democratic Socialists of America. The organization said he is not a member of any of its chapters, and the photos and videos users have pointed to as evidence of his affiliation do not show Robinson. 

— Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe and Louis Jacobson

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Trump and wars: Did he ‘solve’ everything but the big ones?

In a Sept. 12 Fox News interview, Trump said the Russia-Ukraine war “is the only war that I haven't solved." He brought up the Israel-Hamas war moments later.

We have previously rated Mostly False his statement that he "stopped six wars" since taking office. Trump has cited his work on conflicts between Israel and Iran; the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda; Cambodia and Thailand; India and Pakistan; Serbia and Kosovo; Egypt and Ethiopia; and sometimes Armenia-Azerbaijan. In some cases, our reporting found that Trump’s diplomacy helped resolve conflicts, but in others, his role was exaggerated, or the conflicts he cited weren’t “wars.”

As for Trump’s new statement about his war-ending record, it is not the case that he’s stopped all wars other than Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas.

The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, an academic research organization based in Switzerland, periodically tracks wars going on around the world. Beyond the ones Trump said he had stopped, we found at least one example of a continuing conflict between two countries that the group classifies as a war: Eritrea and Ethiopia, with civilians in the Amhara, Oromia and Tigray regions hit by fighting.

More common are wars internal to one country. In at least a dozen countries — Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen — the government is fighting internally against one or more non-state armed groups, the group says. And technically, North and South Korea are still at war, even if it’s been decades since a direct military attack on either side.

— Louis Jacobson

Research doesn’t show using Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here’s what else you should know.

For years, Tylenol has generally been considered safe for treating pain and fever — even during pregnancy, when doctors discourage patients from using many medications. 

Doctors might even recommend taking Tylenol for pain or fever during pregnancy, because left untreated, they can pose their own health risks. 

But recent news reports about the federal government connecting Tylenol to autism have drawn fresh questions about the drug, and concerns. 

After years of research, no study has shown that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, causes autism. There’s no known single cause of autism, a neurological condition that influences how someone acts and communicates.

But some scientific terms, like "association," can confuse the issue. There’s some research that says there’s an association between taking acetaminophen during pregnancy and autism. There’s also some research that says there’s not an association. 

Either way, there’s an important caveat: "Association" is not the same as causation. That means that research showing an association between the medication and autism doesn’t mean the medication caused autism.

— Madison Czopek

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