We have a President who is petrified of the truth getting out about his long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Many questions remain.

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nytimes.com/2026/06/10/mag… Lisa Bloom, who likely knows as much as anyone about the credibility of the accusations against Trump, says “the man who is mentioned probably more than anyone else in the Epstein files should be subpoenaed to testify: Donald Trump.”
thedailybeast.com/lawyer-for-don…

When Trump thug lawyer Emil Bove joined the MAGA Justice Department, he quickly became involved in three instances of likely prosecutorial misconduct.

One of them caught the attention of a federal judge as potential contempt of court.

🧵 When the judge scheduled a hearing to look into whether contempt of court had been committed by the MAGA DOJ, two Trump judges on the DC Circuit court suddenly stayed those contempt proceedings. (The dissent is worth reading.)

Todd Blanche was behind the Epstein Files cover-up, the rotten cop-beaters slush fund, and a sleazy tax fraud amnesty for the Trump family and businesses; all while causing an unprecedented "fraud on the court" investigation of the Department... 🧵 ... pursuing illegal U.S. Attorney appointments, having courts regularly throw out indictments and grand juries return "no bills," and costing the Department its customary "presumption of regularity."

He is a walking disgrace.

Even if crooked Trumpsters try to weasel their way back out of their rotten ‘cop-beaters slush fund’ deal, they still have to deal with the equally rotten Trump family business-and-personal tax/crimes amnesty. This ain’t over until ALL of it goes away.

But wait, there’s more! 🧵 If this was schemed up via a “fraud on the court” (now the subject of a federal judicial inquiry), that fraud on the court is complete, and dumpstering the slush fund and tax amnesty doesn’t make that fraud go away, any more than returning the jewels makes a robbery go away.

Want to know how we blew up the billion-dollar ballroom?

Let me take you into the parliamentary “reconciliation” challenge.

🧵 @EPWCmte Dems argued the case for EPW’s jurisdiction over White House construction and federal public buildings.

We argued that the Public Buildings Act requires EPW approval of projects exceeding $3.9 million. Which it does.

Top 10 reasons why Democrats need to talk about climate change now:

🧵 1.  In some states, the top economic issue is the home insurance meltdown. Start with a big cost, add a huge increase, and you get big cost impact on families.

The gentleman who ICE hauled without cause out of his home in his underwear into the icy Minnesota winter (after terrifying his 5-year-old grandson) was from Laos, one of the Hmong hill tribes people of the then-Kingdom of Laos.

🧵 You should know a bit about the background of those people.

During the Vietnam conflict, the CIA supported a Hmong military force operating out of a base in Laos called Long Tieng, run by a general named Vang Pao.

Yet again, actual data show wind and solar are the least expensive power on the grid (and getting cheaper by the day). So the Trump administration is just lying about that. Trumpsters lie in no-accountability public statements, but when the lie was challenged in offshore wind court filings that asserted huge cost savings for consumers, they conspicuously failed to contest that.

This is getting ugly fast.

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https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1990794164683092377

The saga began initially with Trump’s plan to illegally deport people from the United States to a foreign prison. When lawyers for the victims of that scheme got wind of it, they went to court.

Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.

I get it. I have my own feelings.

🧵 But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.

I voted no tonight.

But the next phase of Democrats’ health care affordability fight is starting.

While I personally don’t believe Republicans will keep their promise to work with us on lowering health care costs, I would be thrilled to be wrong. The American people are with us, and Republicans will pay a heavy political price if they do not follow through on their commitment to work in a bipartisan way to lower skyrocketing premiums.

The latest shadow docket decision moves the Supreme Court further down a submissive pattern of wins given up to Trump: the pattern is 10:1. 🧵 Courts allow bias to be assessed using evidence of pattern, so what’s good for the goose should be good for gander, and pattern evidence should be fair game.

It’s always good to pounce on government liars when they lie, so it’s been good posting about Patel lying.

But note where his lies led:

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https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1968024798585356643

Saying the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in D.C. had issued an order, challenging me “Do you want me to violate a court order?”

Another low moment in yesterday’s hearing was Patel saying he and MAGA Bondi tried to get Epstein files out but judges wouldn’t let them.

Here’s what really happened:

🧵 Federal judges (who are not idiots) know that ONLY grand jury documents are protected by secrecy rule.  

So why, two separate judges wondered, would FBI/DOJ release nothing FBI/DOJ had, and only try to release protected documents? Weird, huh?

Republicans still grouse about Harry Reid “going nuclear” ONCE, way back in 2013, to undo their blockade of D.C. Circuit judicial nominees. Supreme Court nominees were negotiated out of that.

🧵 Then, when Republicans had the majority and wanted to jam partisan justices onto the Supreme Court, they went nuclear. Happily. So much for their complaining; so much for the deal exempting the Supreme Court.

After Trump’s fossil-fuel goons shut down Revolution Wind, I’ve been waiting for the phone to ring with the ransom demand.

But maybe this is attempted murder, not extortion, and there will be no demand.

🧵 That moves us to litigation, where my experience tells me the discovery phase will be fascinating as the lawyers dig into the true motivations and scheming behind this ugly fossil-fuel thuggery.

Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping you’ll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors.

Here’s how it works. 🧵 1. The Trumpsters make good on their crooked deal with fossil fuel donors to harass and harm fossil fuel’s clean energy competitors, competitors who actually made up 95% of all new power added to the grid last year.

Well, well, well. 

With Emil Bove safely through his sham Senate confirmation proceedings, the two Trump judges just lifted the three-months-long administrative stay that had kept any evidence of Bove’s contempt of court bottled up.

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nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/… It gets worse: the two Trump judges then used “mandamus” to undo the district court’s unappealable order and halt the contempt proceedings entirely. First, abuse of administrative stay, then abuse of mandamus, to shield Trump mischief from review.

Why did I send this letter to the Chief Justice?

So he’d understand the full scenario that just touched the Judicial Conference (the administrative body of judges that oversees the operations of the Judicial Branch), which he convenes and chairs.

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The saga begins with the much-reported battle over illegal deportations that played out in federal court, in the courtroom of Chief Judge Boasberg of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a respected veteran of decades on the bench.

Republicans are saying that our opposition to Trump nominees is “unprecedented.” Seriously? Let’s take a look at some of the stuff that is really “unprecedented”: A partisan rescissions bill pulling back funding that was agreed to by both sides in bipartisan appropriations agreements.

Over-ruling the Parliamentarian to destroy emissions standards to let their Big Oil donors sell more gasoline.

A disappearing IG complaint about Emil Bove? What, “the dog ate it”? This Emil Bove mess could not smell much worse, until you sniff out the rest of the story.

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nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/… This was a guy who set the all-time Department of Justice record for prosecutorial misconduct, with three significant episodes in six months (plus whatever cover-up he did of Jeffrey Epstein’s files — he wouldn’t answer). Nothing even comes close.