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A woman just filed a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump, claiming that she was raped by Trump in a Florida hotel room. Jeffrey Epstein, according to the complaint, was present during the 1997 incident. We are only publishing the complaint as filed with the Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts. The actual document follows this text. We note the Clerk’s office has temporarily put a hold on the case due to a “cover sheet” issue — but a case number has been assigned. A response has not been filed to the complaint.

Interestingly there is another action in NY against Black et. al. from last week -- https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2026cv08389/673708/3

remains to be seen if she will file the fees to proceed

Anyone have any further info or insight on these cases?

“Though it often goes overlooked or ignored, the deep financial burden that survivors of sexual violence carry – coupled with mental and physical trauma – can be debilitating. Navigating such harm can lead to time away from work or the need to leave a job entirely, resulting in a loss in income while rent is due, daily needs have to be met, and medical expenses to address physical injury and mental health support pile up,” Pressley said in a statement. “The Survivors’ Rights Restitution Act shines a light on this critical gap in support for survivors and would force our government to bring the meaningful accountability and compensation that survivors are owed.”

BBC's Panorama has a new documentary out today - this is the trailer

here's the free article

well well

sounds like Epstein tactics -- But a course called “Operator” instructs members on how to bribe government officials in other countries, including by offering “$20 to $50 for street level police.” It also gives pointers for resisting interrogation by government officials and mentions countersurveillance techniques, such as detecting tails.

The “Penetrating the Elite” course is not well known outside of War Room members. It teaches members investigative techniques to be used against wealthy and powerful people.

“The method it teaches is blunt: find the target’s vulnerabilities and exploit them,” the researcher said.

today's the day, boys -- hopefully it's adios, Miami, hello Big Smoke

Former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley told US lawmakers he repeatedly shared confidential and market-sensitive bank ⁠information with Jeffrey Epstein and ⁠was at one ​point named as a trustee of his estate, according to a transcript released by the House oversight committee on Wednesday.

ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING? --

Staley defended the exchanges, saying he believed he had the authority to share information when he considered it appropriate. He has maintained he had a close professional relationship with Epstein, but was unaware of his crimes.

A federal judge struck roughly 150 pages of evidence supporting Emory Andrew Tate, an influencer in Barron Trump's social orbit accused of rape.

Magistrate Judge Lauren Fleischer Louis signed the order on Aug. 25 in Miami federal court. The stricken filings were two notices Emory Andrew Tate submitted the same day, according to the order.

oh boo hoo -- This is the angle they're gonna try??

Legal representatives for the former kickboxer and his brother Tristan Tate have claimed the pair deliberately portray themselves as “uberwealthy” because their “business model depends on online attention”.

demonstrably meritless -- In the decision denying the petition, Engelmayer wrote that the “vast majority” of grounds on which Maxwell made her appeal “are procedurally barred – either because Maxwell made and lost the same arguments on direct appeal, or because she could have made such arguments on appeal but elected not to do so”.

The judge also rejected that new evidence had come through the Trump administration-led US justice department’s multimillion-page release of documents. Those, Engelmayer said, “incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges”.

“And by the way, nobody on the Vineyard believed this, even the people who hated me,” Dershowitz added. “Because they all see me with my wife.”

He went further. “In fact, the lawyer for Virginia Giuffre, he came over to me one day”—it was during a deposition—“and said, ‘Alan, I’ve seen you with your wife. I can’t believe you would ever have done anything.’”

I said I was dubious that the opposing lawyer would say something like this.

“I’ll give you his name—his name is Chuck Cooper.”

Reached by phone for comment, Charles Cooper, Giuffre’s lawyer, told me the exchange that Dershowitz had described had never taken place.

full interview -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5b8M0ylkQw

I don't see this going down well in court - a few AI searches ain't gonna cut the mustard, boys.

He also shared a striking image of the Tates sitting around a table with prominent men from across the historical spectrum—from Joe Rogan back through George Washington, with his tricorn hat looming oddly behind his head—accompanied by a lengthy caption on the importance of masculinity. It begins with a claim that the “manosphere built Western society. and you fools are paying him for this slop! LMAO

https://archive.ph/3wgrw#selection-325.0-325.69

this one was new to me, anyone have further inforrmation on this? Given today's revelations re Hefner having reported on behalf of Ms. Christensen in or around 2005, seems like another issue that needs a look

as if these liars in the DOJ would comply with actual laws.

isn't this a no brainer that they are flight risks?? These two have absolutely no reason not to flee.

Comer has a to-do list -- puleez

That gap between expectations and results is now a central point of tension hanging over House Oversight Chairman James Comer’s probe.

“I feel more pressure to achieve something than not do something,” he told CNN.

Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, told CNN that he is “very confident” the Justice Department will have no choice but to reopen its Epstein investigation after his committee sends prosecutors a “to-do list” later this year.

Adam Klasfeld and Dave Aronberg discuss Blanche's upcoming August 13 hearing in the Phang v Blanche case and Senator Wyden's report