he has a lot of nerve. he didn't serve in the war - 5 deferments means 5 other men had to go in his place. and he wants to pretend he could have done the war better? what a liar.
'general hospital'?
ethan is now working for sonny. he called lulu from outside of sonny's house and made mysterious comments that went over her head. there's more going on here than he wants to replace jason. and sonny is aware of that. he told ric that ethan's got something he's hiding.
lulu and dante were eating out with rocco. dante told rocco that he feels guilty about jason and that's why he feels bad around dante.
lulu and rocco immediately think of how rocco shot ross and jason took the fall for it to protect rocco.
but dante hadn't figured that out, he just said that rocco felt guilty because he had his mom and his father and danny's mom was dead and now jason was gone as well.
rocco said he had to get to the hospital to do his community service.
at the hospital, lucas spoke to britt. she doesn't want him on the island at sidwell's and lucas says this is how they'll get to sidwell and ross. britt doesn't want lucas hurt, she already feels bad enough that marco died trying to help her and that jason has been disappeared to some wsb secret prison. lucas replies that marco was given a choice by lucas and he chose lucas - over his own father. he now wants to take down sidwell and ross for marco. britt agreed to the plan. she'll pretend to go along with helping sidwell and, in a month or so, they'll be in the position to take down sidwell and ross.
molly and chase made love.
rocco arrived at the hospital and was asked to take a pillow to a patient. he opens the door and it's ... ross.
britt walks in on them talking and tells rocco he's supposed to be in the pedia ward reading to the kids. he walks out with her and asks what's going on because he's not supposed to be reading. she hauls him off to the chapel where they can talk.
she tells him not to hang around ross. he says he knows ross is a killer. britt says that, as a wsb agent, she's sure ross has killed people before but -
he stops her. he knows ross is a killer. he knows ross tried to kill her. he tells her he followed her that night to the pier.
britt's shocked.
he then tells her that jason didn't shoot ross, he did.
and that was the end of tuesday's episode.
let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'
Paramount, ABC, Meta, X indicated that they have no explanation or are unwilling to share information about where millions in settlement money have gone — or where it will go
As much as $63 million in settlement payments to Trump Presidential Library slush fund missing
“These are troubling answers…particularly given the vast tide of corruption and self-enrichment that has occurred during your Administration, and your ongoing attempts to seek massive personal payments from the federal government.”
Paramount Response (PDF) ABC Response (PDF) Meta Response (PDF) X Response (PDF)
Washington, D.C. – In new responses to U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), Big Tech CEOs indicated that they have no public explanation for where as much as $63 million in settlement money to Donald Trump’s now-dissolved Presidential Library fund has gone. The lawmakers released these responses today and sent a new letter to President Donald Trump pressing for answers to solve the ongoing mystery of the missing millions.
“These are troubling answers…particularly given the vast tide of corruption and self-enrichment that has occurred during your Administration, and your ongoing attempts to seek massive personal payments from the federal government,” wrote the lawmakers.
The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund, Inc. was incorporated in late 2024 with a stated purpose “to preserve and steward the legacy of President Donald J. Trump and his presidency.” From late 2024 to mid-2025, four Big Tech companies — Paramount, ABC, Meta, and X — contributed as much as $63 million in settlement payments to President Trump's future presidential library." But in September 2025, the Fund was administratively dissolved for failure to submit a mandatory annual report, and in December, the incorporator filed articles of dissolution — with no explanation.
The lawmakers wrote to the four companies in March 2026, seeking answers about the funds. Key points from the companies’ responses include:
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ABC reported that its “parent company made a payment by wire on December 19, 2024, to . . . the escrow account established by the Plaintiff’s counsel” and that “[i]n response to our recent ask for a status update, Plaintiff’s counsel, on Thursday, March 19, 2026, provided written notice to us that the IRS has recognized the 501(c)(3) status of ‘The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, Inc.,’ and requested that we provide written authorization for release of the funds to that entity.” This response appears to indicate that ABC had no knowledge of the whereabouts of the contents of the Fund in the immediate aftermath of its dissolution, and the response still fails to provide clarity on whether the ABC settlement has been transferred to the Foundation.
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Paramount noted that it made a payment of $16 million and that “[w]ith respect to your questions regarding the disposition of funds and subsequent developments concerning the presidential library fund, the Company’s involvement was limited to making the payment as specified in the Settlement Agreement” — providing no answers about the disposition of funds following the dissolution of the Foundation.
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Meta confirmed that it paid $22 million “to support a presidential library for President Trump . . . for the purpose of settling the pending claims” but refused to provide further “confidential” details.
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X likewise confirmed that it paid $10 million in a group settlement that included President Trump but refused to comment further on “confidentiality” grounds.
“The companies do not know or are unwilling to share their information about what happened to the millions of dollars given to the Fund,” wrote the lawmakers. “This leaves the public completely in the dark about what happened to the Fund, whether there was any money in it when it was dissolved, what happened to that money upon the Fund’s dissolution, and why a second entity with the same purpose as the Fund was created in the first place.”
There have been no disclosures about the Fund’s disposition of any funds, and the White House press office has not responded to requests for comment. There appears to be no individual taking responsibility for the closure of the Fund and disposition of its money: no Fund board members were ever appointed, and the only person to sign any of its public documents has minimized his role.
In May 2025, a second nonprofit, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation Inc., was incorporated with the same stated purpose as the Fund. Questions remain as to why the Foundation was formed when the Fund already existed and whether any money held by the Fund was transferred to the Foundation once the Fund was dissolved.
“You owe the public an explanation,” wrote the lawmakers to President Trump, requesting answers to a series of specific questions by May 1, 2026.
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s embattled labor secretary, stepped down on Monday as multiple scandals and investigations closed in on her.
“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” Steven Cheung, a White House spokesman, posted on social media. He said Keith Sonderling, the deputy secretary of labor, would serve as acting secretary.
Pressure on Ms. Chavez-DeRemer had mounted in recent weeks, as investigators and congressional leaders homed in on questions about her conduct in office, and that of her aides and members of her family.
The Labor Department’s inspector general’s office is nearing the end of a monthslong investigation into a whistle-blower’s allegations of professional misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer and her closest aides. The claims include that she was having an affair with a member of her security team and used department resources for personal trips. Ms. Chavez-DeRemer was expected to be interviewed in the matter in the coming days.
Her husband was banned from Labor Department grounds after he allegedly assaulted two female staffers.
The writing may have been on the wall for Chavez-DeRemer. After unceremoniously firing ex-Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump was apparently on the warpath against his own Cabinet. An administration official anonymously told Politico at the start of the month that Trump was “very angry” with his advisers and was looking to move some of them around or even axe them entirely.
Chavez-DeRemer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were at risk of losing their jobs “imminently,” three anonymous sources told Politico at the time.
Hegseth has made deep cuts in funding, personnel for civilian harm mitigation programs
More than 1,700 civilian deaths, strikes on more than 30 schools, health care facilities since the start of President Trump’s illegal war in Iran
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led nine senators in opening a new investigation into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s role in weakening civilian harm prevention programs and the catastrophic civilian impacts of President Trump’s war in Iran.
“The high human toll of this war reflects the administration's broader disregard for the strategic, legal, and moral imperative to minimize civilian harm,” wrote the lawmakers. ”We call on the administration to immediately end the war in Iran and fully restore Congressionally authorized programs and staffing to mitigate civilian harm.”
Since the start of President Trump’s illegal war in Iran, attacks on civilian infrastructure have led to more than 1,700 civilian deaths, along with strikes on more than 20 schools and a dozen health care facilities.
“We are concerned that these were all preventable tragedies…This is a concerning pattern and raises questions about whether the administration is upholding international law and the laws of war,” wrote the senators. The Senators called on DoD to answer questions about reported attacks on two separate elementary schools in Iran that killed more than 170 people, most of them children.
Prior to the war, Secretary Hegseth made deep cuts to the military’s civilian harm mitigation and response (CHMR) programs, fired personnel at DoD’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, and slashed CHMR staff at the U.S. combatant commands “by more than 90 percent.” All the cuts were reportedly made over the objections of veterans organizations and top military officials, including admirals, generals, and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“We are also concerned that your leadership is further harming the credibility of our armed forces, exacerbating threats to civilians and U.S. servicemembers alike,” wrote the senators.
Secretary Hegseth has mocked “stupid rules of engagement” and threatened to offer “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies” in Iran, which would violate international law and the military’s own Law of War Manual.
“These statements not only harm civilians and undermine established standards, but also endanger U.S. servicemembers with greater risk of reciprocation and erode good order and discipline,” warned the senators.
Senior military officials in the Trump administration agree that mitigating civilian harm is vital for national security. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby wrote to Congress that, “it is in the U.S. national interest, as well as morally right, to seek to reduce civilian harm to the degree possible.” During his confirmation, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine said that combatant commanders who incorporated CHMR personnel into planning “see positive impacts from the program.”
“Your attempts to gut DoD’s civilian harm institutions contradicts more than a decade of bipartisan consensus and DoD-led reforms, initiated during the first Trump administration,” noted the senators.
“The importance of protecting civilian life to the greatest extent possible is central to effective military operations and differentiates the United States from our adversaries…We call on the administration to immediately end the war in Iran, fully restore Congressionally authorized programs and staffing to mitigate civilian harm,” concluded the senators.
The lawmakers asked Hegseth to explain the cuts to civilian harm programs and explain what steps the Pentagon is taking to protect civilian lives in Iran by May 4, 2026.
Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined in signing the letter.
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