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Capital One closed more than 300 bank accounts tied to the Trump Organization. The reason: an internal anti-money laundering review. The disclosure came Friday in a court filing… and it is the first time any bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the president’s family business. Capital One said it closed the accounts in March 2021 after what it called “months of analysis and a careful review.” The bank has never said Trump broke the law. But the filing makes clear the closures were set off by its own team flagging the accounts for money laundering risk. The Trump Organization and Eric Trump sued Capital One in March 2025. They said they were “debanked” for political reasons after January 6. A judge in Miami has thrown out two earlier versions of the case. Capital One wants the third one thrown out too. Eric Trump has called the Trump Organization “the most canceled company” in America. In January, Trump filed a separate lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on the same grounds. In August 2025, Trump signed an executive order banning what he called “discriminatory debanking.” The president says the banks closed his accounts because of who he is. The bank says it closed them because of what its compliance team found. One of those is a political argument. The other is a legal filing. | |
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BREAKING Blanche Rescinded the $1.8 Billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” on Sunday Night — It Would Have Paid Trump Allies from Taxpayer Money — and Now Two GOP Senators Say They Will Confirm Him as Attorney General |
On Sunday night, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted a signed order on X rescinding the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund.” The fund was created in May as part of Trump’s settlement with the IRS. It was designed to pay out taxpayer money to people the administration says were “victims of weaponization and lawfare”… meaning Trump allies. Blanche axed it because two Republican senators… John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina… refused to vote for him until he did. The fund had stalled his path to AG for weeks. Hours after he signed the order, both said they would vote yes. The Senate panel votes Tuesday. Legal experts at ABC News and Axios worry the move may not stick. The deal between Trump and the IRS is still in effect. Trump’s lawyers could argue the fund was part of that deal and fight the rescission. Blanche also said the tax audit shields Trump got only cover the named plaintiffs… but the original deal said they covered “related or affiliated” people too. A $1.8 billion fund to pay the president’s friends was created in May. It took two senators from his own party to end it. And the man who signed the order ending it got a promotion for doing so. The machine does not reform itself. It trades favors. |
EXPOSED The DOJ Is Charging ICE Protesters with Federal Conspiracy — a Special Ed Teacher Was Arrested at Home, a Combat Veteran Faces Six Years in Prison | |
Treasure Thoreson was drinking coffee on her couch in Minneapolis one morning in June when she heard a knock. She opened the door. A woman in office clothes was wearing a Homeland Security vest. Six more agents stood in the front yard. “She said, ‘We have a warrant for your arrest, for conspiracy,’” Thoreson told NPR. Thoreson is a special education teacher. She was still in her pajamas. An NPR investigation published Sunday found that the DOJ is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up people who protested ICE. In Spokane, protesters linked arms to block a van carrying detainees. Police fired pepper balls. The DOJ charged several of them with conspiracy… a federal felony that carries up to six years. Huzaifa Mavalwalla, a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan, was among those charged. “Being charged with a federal felony because I showed up to a protest seems to me to be an attack on a fundamental right that all Americans hold,” he told NPR. In Chicago, two protesters were charged and later had their case dismissed over prosecutorial misconduct. Protect Democracy attorney Katie Schwartzmann says more indictments are likely coming. The DOJ told NPR: “People should not mistake violence against law enforcement or impeding officers performing their duties with peaceful protest.” The machine does not call it silencing. It calls it conspiracy. | |
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DEVELOPING Virginia’s Governor Just Restored Voting Rights for 66,000 People with Past Felony Convictions — While the DOJ Is Asking the Supreme Court to Restrict Mail-In Voting |
On Friday, Governor Abigail Spanberger restored voting rights to 66,085 Virginians who had lost them after felony convictions. Virginia is one of only three states that strip voting rights for life after any felony. The governor is the only person who can give them back. Spanberger called the law “a shameful relic of our Jim Crow past.” Her predecessor, Republican Glenn Youngkin, had slowed the process down… making people apply one by one instead of restoring rights in bulk. Thousands were left waiting. Spanberger reversed course on day one. The restored rights include voting, serving on a jury, running for office, and becoming a notary public. A ballot measure in November would make the process automatic… taking it out of the governor’s hands for good. Early voting starts in seven weeks. On the same day Spanberger gave 66,000 people their vote back, the DOJ was asking the Supreme Court to take mail-in voting away from millions more. One branch of the machine expands rights. Another branch fights to shrink them. And the people in the middle are the ones who have to figure out which side wins. |
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