Twenty-One States Beat The Trump Regime Before Dinner

Plus: three more times somebody refused

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She Won.

In 2019, E. Jean Carroll said Donald Trump sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

Trump appealed it everywhere he could. The Supreme Court said no to him in June, but he asked them to reconsider. Yesterday, they turned him down again—one line in an order list.

Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said that the verdict “is now final and cannot be challenged in any court.” Trump already paid more than $5.6 million last month—that extra charge is for the interest he owed.

A separate jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her. That appeal is sitting at the Supreme Court right now.

He fought this at every level a person can fight something. He lost at every one. The next one’s waiting.

He Called Them What?

As we reported yesterday, the USS Abraham Lincoln was supposed to be home in May. It’s now been at sea for more than 260 days, most of that time without a port call.

So the families went public about all of the issues on the ship, speaking out directly against Trump. He responded by saying the deployment hadn’t gone nearly long enough. Then Fox News host Joey Jones listened to a sailor on that ship describe eating noodles and tuna, looked into the camera, and asked, “How weak are you?” Seriously.

Jones is a Marine veteran who lost both legs in Afghanistan. He knows exactly what he was doing when he said it, and he said it anyway—about a sailor who can’t say a word back without their command finding out.

Ret. US Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said “these ships, these people” need to come back.

Sen. Mark Kelly deployed twice to the Persian Gulf aboard the USS Midway and flew 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm. He’s been speaking to a grandmother who said her grandson has lost twenty-five pounds on the ship. Kelly is pushing for a full investigation and for a bipartisan delegation to be flown out to the ship.

Meanwhile, GOP Rep. Don Bacon, a Ret. Air Force Brigadier General, wants the Navy Secretary to testify in front of Congress to “explain to us the truth.”

A month ago this was a few worried family members that the regime brushed off. Now it’s a push for an investigation, a congressional summons, and a former Joint Chiefs chairman saying bring them home. That’s what a month of not shutting up did.

Ossoff Read Them Their Own Calendar

On Sunday, Sen. Jon Ossoff stood in front of a fired-up crowd in Atlanta, and called out Trump’s war promises—with dates included.

On day one, Trump claimed it was all ahead of schedule. By day four, he declared victory. Day nine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth swore that Iran was going to surrender. Day fourteen, Hegseth said Iran’s military was destroyed. And on day forty, the regime claimed that every goal was met.

Sunday was day 170. Iran still has its uranium, and gas hit $4.06 on Monday—the highest August national average ever recorded in the US—a dollar higher than last year. Whether you follow the war or not, it will hit your wallet.

Eleven weeks from today, Ossoff faces voters in a state Trump won. Polling says he’s ahead, he’s well-funded, and every advisor is probably telling him to quietly run out the clock. He loudly made Trump’s war the center of his case instead.

Politicians in his position don’t take that risk unless they’ve seen the numbers. He’s seen them.

The Deadline Came And Went

The regime demanded the private records of 17 million American truck drivers—names, birthdates, and Social Security numbers—going five years back. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subpoenaed a national nonprofit for those records, asking them not to tell anyone about the demand.

Those records sit in the group’s national database that all fifty states have to check before issuing any commercial drivers licenses.

Its CEO, Ian Grossman, asked one question in writing: What government agency wants this, and what’s it for?

What he got in response was a threat. In July, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) top lawyers and a DOJ attorney told him they’d cancel every federal grant his organization received unless he told them by the next morning whether he’d hand over the full database.

Then more than twenty states told Grossman that releasing the records would break their laws. Eleven of those states bar handing that data to immigration agents—seven attach criminal penalties.

Caught in the middle, Grossman asked to let each state decide for itself whether the data should be released. DOT said it was unacceptable, and on August 11 its chief counsel wrote that DHS would reissue its subpoena that same day.

Twenty-one states and DC sued last Wednesday morning to fight back. Judge Anthony Trenga froze all of it by six that evening. Monday came. The deadline passed. Not one Social Security number went to DHS. Those 17 million drivers never knew. The paperwork said not to tell them.

We read that paperwork. Every page. The line asking them to keep it quiet is right there on the form. But you won’t hear about that from almost anyone else.

I’ve been at this for a decade now, and it’s clear that we have the momentum to take back Congress. We just need to sprint through the finish, work as if we’re behind, and vote.

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Seventeen million truck drivers had no idea any of this was happening. What else do you figure they’re doing right now that we haven’t found yet?

What would you say to your elected officials if they were in front of you right now?