4/01/2026

chump's still facing a lawsuit over jan. 6th and general hospital

 zoe tillman ('bloomberg news') reports:


More than five years after violent riots at the US Capitol, President Donald Trump still can’t avoid lawsuits seeking to hold him legally responsible for the chaos that temporarily disrupted Congress’ certification of the 2020 election.

A federal judge in Washington handed a multi-part loss to Trump on Tuesday night, keeping civil claims alive in multiple, consolidated lawsuits that were brought by Democratic members of Congress and law enforcement officers. It’s one of the last remaining legal fights against Trump predating his second term in the White House.
US District Judge Amit Mehta made three key findings: that Trump isn’t entitled to presidential immunity against all of the allegations against him, that his statements to supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, “plausibly were inciting words” that aren’t protected by the Constitution, and that the US Justice Department can’t step into the case to take over the defense.

The 79-page opinion is a significant setback for Trump, but it isn’t a final ruling on the merits of the claims alleging that he was liable for the attack by his supporters, who opposed results showing Joe Biden won the election. Mehta’s decision is likely to set off another round of appeals, creating more delays for a case that already has stretched for years. 

that's not good news, that's great news.  he should pay for what he did.  as long as that case is alive so is the chance that he will pay.  

'general hospital'?

yesterday, kai and trina were at willow's.  willow's phone rang and played 'twinkle twinkle little star' and trina said that it was wiley calling.  willow, in drew's bedroom, couldn't find her phone and kai said maybe she left it in the living room and, yes, if she did they could hear it from drew's bedroom.


willow looked at both strangely. 


and they're that stupid.  today, kai and trina are at the club trina's going to be singing at on open mike and they're talking about how can they stay silent - they can't - when willow shot drew and every 1 thinks it was michael.  they're going over what they saw and everything and michael walks up and asks them what they're talking about.

he must not have heard anything because they say they're talking about trina singing there for open mike night. 


later we see willow talking to drew and she brings up what trina and kai said and asks if they could know?  she points out that she didn't search the house before she shot drew.  

her mother arrived and she left her to watch drew until drew's nurse arrived.  she went to her office and heard kai and trrina talking.  and, again, they were still talking about willow shooting drew.  

the trial ended maybe 2 months ago.  is this all they do, every day, repeatedly during the day, talk about willow shooting drew?

so now willow knows that they know she shot drew.


jack threated willow's mother that if she didn't find out if cassadine was still in town he's ask others for help and if he got the help he needed from them he wouldn't need her and he'd release the tape of willow driving on drew's street the night he was shot.


he then waited until she left and came back in and told jacinda he'd give her something that would make michael happy (the tape of willow on drew's street the night he was shot - but he didn't tell her that) if she would pump charlotte for where her father was.

yesterday, i noted how tuesday's episode ended: nathan tells him he can't do that and sidwell responds, 'that's not something that detective nathan west would do but i'm not talking to nathan west right now. i'm talking to cassius faison.'

today, we found out that 'nathan' is cassius fasion - nathan's never before known or mentioned twin brother.  we found out that sidwell put maxie into a coma so that cassius could show up posing as nathan and be believed.  he is not 'nathan' and he is not good.  at 1 point, sidwell tells cassius that his sister britt may have to be taken out and cassius is okay with that.

lulu meets her mom laura for breakfast.  she has a favor to ask.  can laura use some of her old contacts at the wsb to find out where jason is?  laura thinks this is for lulu's job as a reporter but lulu explains it's not that, it's personal.  lulu says rocco (her son) feels bad that jason got taken away because he and danny (jason's son) are so close and hes feeling bad since his father (dante) is the 1 who brought in jason.  laura says she'll call people - including robert scorpio - to see what she can find out.  laura also says that she doesn't believe what happened the way it's been laid out (about jason shooting ross).

lulu is at the pier and cassius comes up and pretends to be caring (and pretends to be nathan).  and you watch and just think, he's so damn fake.  


lucas shows up to talk to britt.  he tells her ross has come to but doesn't remember anything.  she asks him to say what's on his mind - that she's responsible for marco's death.  lucas says that's not what he's thinking.  what he's thinking is he's responsible for marco's death.

he's the 1 who got marco to steal the medicine and he made it a point of marco doing it to prove that he truly loved lucas.

he asks brit what happened after he gave her the medicine and left the pier.  she tells him that ross showed up and made her hand over the two vials of medicine and then stomped on them destroying them.  then lucas is shocked and says that marco died for nothing.


he also asks britt what she's going to do?  without the medicine to copy, she's dependent on sidwell.  


she says she's just going to have to hope that sidwell needs her a little longer.

lucas can't figure out how ross found britt at the pier.  then he and britt are talking about marco's phone which has gone missing and wasn't found on his body.  lucas realizes that ross grabbed the phone.  he must have killed marco.  and then he read lucas' texts to marco and knew where britt was.  

he goes to sidwell's and sidwell is warm to him telling him that when they spoke the other day (at the police station on monday) marco came back to life for him due to what lucas said.  lucas asks him if he wants to know who killed marco and that's the end of the episode.

let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'


Wednesday, April 1, 2026.  Chump due to address the nation tonight regarding his Iran War, federal judge rules against him in his attack on NPR and PBS, Kristi Noem gets some attention, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon deserves some attention for being named in a pedo lawsuit, and much more. 



As former secretaries of defense, we understand the profound responsibility of deploying our men and women in uniform into harm’s way. It is critical that there be a clear objective, a strategy to achieve the objective and an endgame to bring our forces back home. The president, Congress and the American people should be unified when a country goes to war.

There are now over 50,000 troops stationed in the Middle East, with President Trump reportedly considering sending forces on missions to extract Iran’s uranium or to occupy Kharg Island. Both operations are very risky and could result in heavy casualties and prolong the war.

Because their lives are on the line, we owe it to these committed American service members and their families to be truthful about the risks involved and why we are at war. There was a case to be made that Iran had a history of threatening the stability of the United States, Israel and other nations in the Middle East. Its leaders’ support for terrorism, arming dangerous proxy forces, developing large numbers of missiles that could strike regional targets and efforts to develop nuclear capability represented a genuine threat to peace and stability in the region.

But it is also true that the 12-day war waged by Israel and the United States against Iran in June weakened Tehran and its proxies, damaged missile and airstrike capabilities and set back the project to develop a nuclear bomb. By July, Iran was no longer an imminent threat — a conclusion supported by our intelligence agencies.


This morning, NPR reports:

President Trump is set to address the nation on the Iran war at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday night, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying he would be providing "an important update," without providing further details.

On Tuesday, Trump said he expected the conflict to be over in two to three weeks, adding, "we'll be leaving very soon," and promising gas prices would then "come tumbling down."

Trump shrugged off what would happen to the blockaded Strait of Hormuz – which has cut off one fifth of the world's oil supply – saying, "we're not going to have anything to do with it." He said that it wouldn't affect the U.S. and would be something for other countries to deal with.

"They'll be able to fend for themselves," he said, having previously told European allies who have refused to enter the war to "go get your own oil!"

The assertion to wrap up the war quickly comes just days after Trump threatened to up the ante if there was no deal and Tehran didn't reopen the strait. He said he could seize Iran's oil and blow up all of their Electric Generating Plants and desalinization plants. He also said he was considering an invasion of Iran's key oil export terminal, Kharg Island.


So will Chump announce that tonight?  If so, will he stick to it or will it just be more disposable words about this war of choice?  Will it happen or will he TACO again?  At least 13 American service members have died in Chump's war of choice, over 3000 more have been left injured, between 1,500 and 3,4000 Iranians are estimated to have been killed.  


And after four weeks, Chump's finally going to address the nation about this war of choice he started.  






The Department of Homeland Security permitted a Mexican woman to return Monday to the United States after a judge found her deportation was unlawful, a rare reprieve at a time when growing numbers of immigrants who arrived as children are being targeted for removal.

A federal judge had ordered DHS to facilitate Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez’s return to the United States, after immigration officers deported her to Mexico even though she is actively enrolled in an Obama administration program that prohibits her removal because she arrived in the U.S. as a child.
Stacy Tolchin, her immigration attorney, and Ivonne Rodriguez, an advocate, confirmed Estrada had returned to California.

“This has been one of the most painful experiences of my life,” Estrada said after arriving in California. “I followed the rules. I trusted the system. And for that, I was ripped away from my daughter, Damaris, without warning. I’m home now — but what happened to me is wrong, and it should never happen to anyone.”

Estrada, 42, is one of dozens, if not hundreds, of immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program who have been arrested and, in some cases, deported, since President Donald Trump started his second term. Former DHS secretary Kristi L. Noem, who was ousted this month, alleged that most had criminal histories and were therefore eligible for removal. But congressional Democrats say Trump is targeting a group that had cleared background checks and been promised to be shielded from deportation.


Maria is just one of the many harmed by Kristi Noem.  The freak. Some of her victims are dead.  Some are being tortured in other countries.   She has a lot of blood on her hands.  And she has a lot of nerve asking for privacy.  Yes, there's her alleged years long affair with Corey Lewandowski who is married.  And Kristi's married. But that's not what she's asking for privacy over  Do we go there?  Let's. Ahmad Austin Jr. (MEDIAITE) covers it:

 
Former Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem was reportedly “devastated” by the bombshell allegations of her husband’s double life involving crossdressing.
On Tuesday morning, Daily Mail published a explosive report alleging that Noem’s husband, Bryon Noem, liked to cross-dress and regularly contacted fetish models. Included in the report were numerous photos of Bryon dressed in women’s clothing, with what appeared to be two balloons under the shirts to imitate breasts. Daily Mail also claimed that Bryon “lavished praise on their surgically-enhanced bodies” and “confessed his lust for ‘huge, huge ridiculous boobs.'”

THE DAILY MAIL published photos and texts.  TMZ adds:

The statement reads, "Ms. Noem is devastated. The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time."

According to The Daily Mail, Bryon snapped photos of himself wearing oversized fake breasts and chatted with adult performers from the "bimbofication" fetish scene about their massively augmented boobs.












Kristi Noem has made a career out of policing identity. She has pushed laws targeting transgender people, restricted access to care, and framed those decisions as moral clarity about who people are allowed to be. What began as political noise quickly became policy, enforced by the state, often against children. So when a scandal breaks inside her own family, and her response is to ask for privacy, the contradiction is not subtle. It is the system working exactly as designed.

Privacy has never been extended to the people her politics target. Transgender people, and the broader LGBTQ+ community, live under a level of scrutiny that most Americans will never experience. Our identities are debated in legislatures, dissected on television, and reduced to talking points in political campaigns.

Transgender people’s bodies, their health care, their families, and their very existence are treated as public questions to be answered repeatedly, often by people with no stake in the outcome. There is no off switch. No private lane. Just a constant demand to explain, justify, and defend the simple act of being alive.

This would be easier to dismiss as a personal scandal if it were not happening in the middle of a coordinated political project. In 2026 alone, hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills have already been introduced across the country, with hundreds more specifically targeting transgender people, restricting health care, policing schools, and inserting the state into the most private parts of people’s lives. The same politicians driving that effort are the ones now asking for privacy when the scrutiny turns toward them.

So maybe this is a moment to reconsider the rules. If privacy matters, it should matter for everyone. If identity is complex, it should be treated that way in law. And if living honestly is something worth protecting, there are already people doing that work every day, often in the face of the very policies Kristi Noem has championed.



In other Kristi Noem news,   Robert Davis (RAW STORY) notes:

Another ally of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has found herself in legal jeopardy over delays in responding to a natural disaster, according to a new report.

Bloomberg reported on Monday that Kara Voorhies, who was installed at the Federal Emergency Management Agency by Noem's top advisor, Corey Lewandowski, is facing a DHS Inspector General probe into her role in responding to the deadly floods in Texas last year. Voorhies retained outsized influence on agency contracting and spending decisions while she worked at DHS, according to the report.


Davis notes that this ally of Kristi's is "the second Noem ally to come under legal scrutiny" and that "Tricia McLaughlin, a former DHS spokesperson, and her husband have also faced allegations of benefitting from a massive $220 million advertising contract from DHS, according to reports."  Actually Voorhies is the third.  It would go Tricia, Corey and now Kara.  That's three, not two.  And there will no doubt be many more.  (And I may have forgotten one that's already known.) 

Let's stay with corruption in the administration.  Secretary of Defense Pete Looselips Hegseth.  Joe Sommerlad (DAILY BEAST) reports:


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal broker allegedly approached a major asset manager about making a multimillion dollar investment in defense companies in the weeks leading up to the airstrikes on Iran, according to a report.

The Financial Times, citing three people familiar with the matter, has alleged that Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley reached out to BlackRock in February to inquire about making a significant investment in its Defense Industrials Active ETF.
The inquiry from such a high-profile client was flagged internally at the asset manager, the FT writes, and the investment was ultimately never made as the $3.2 billion equity fund in question was not at that time available for Morgan Stanley clients to buy.

Catherine Bouris (DAILY BEAST) adds, "The Financial Times notes that it is unclear whether the broker representing Hegseth found an alternative defense-focused fund to invest in."  



Turning to Chump's friend, the late Jeffrey Epstein.  The sex trafficker remains in the news. Erkki Forster (DAILY BEAST) notes:

MAGA Rep. James Comer has admitted that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has “botched” the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The Kentucky Republican was asked on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper on Monday if he had “confidence” in the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein case, with Tapper noting that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s department has not been in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The DOJ identified 6 million Epstein files for potential release, but has only disclosed about 3.5 million.

“Well, I think the Justice Department has botched this,” said Comer, who once described himself as a “Trump man” shortly after the Jan 6. Capitol attack.
[. . .]

He said Bondi blamed the slow release on ongoing class-action lawsuits involving victims, which he said make it difficult for the DOJ to turn over some documents.
It’s unclear what lawsuits Comer or Bondi are referring to. A group of Epstein survivors filed a class-action lawsuit against the DOJ last week over its failure to redact victims’ personal information in the documents, but it’s unclear how that would affect the millions of files still to be released.




Richard Kahn was deposed by the House Oversight Committee last month. After stating that Jane Doe number four received a payout from an Epstein fund for victims, he then disowned his testimony.  Jane Doe number four is the woman who accused Epstein and Chump of assault.  María Teresita Armstrong-Matta (RAW STORY) reports US House Rep Ro Khanna appeared on Jen Psaki's MS NOW program on Sunday and they discussed this issue:

During an appearance on MS NOW, Khanna told Jen Psaki that the FBI interviewed Jane Doe 4 four times, suggesting credibility.
Khanna proposed that Kahn retracted his statement due to fear of Trump directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute him or take retaliatory action. Khanna questioned why Kahn's representatives claimed they could "neither confirm nor deny" payment of a settlement, stating they would definitively know whether funds were disbursed.


Today, the US Supreme Court hears arguments in Chump's efforts to overturn the Constitution and strip people of birth right citizenship.   Chump is said to be planning to attend the hearing.  If so, expect plenty of photos of him sleeping through the arguments.   


A disgraced attorney who tried to help President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election has been revealed as the secret driving force behind the administration’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

John Eastman has been working for decades to convince the Supreme Court to take up his fringe legal theory that the Constitution doesn’t automatically confer citizenship on virtually all people born in the U.S., despite the 14th Amendment’s explicit guarantees.

The justices will hear oral arguments on the subject Wednesday in a case challenging a Trump executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship.
But the administration has apparently sought to obscure Eastman’s influence on the topic, even as it has embraced his legal theories, according to Politico.

Trump did not mention Eastman—who has been barred from practicing law over his effort to subvert Joe Biden’s election victory—when he signed his executive order, even though Eastman had been pushing Trump to try to end birthright citizenship since the president’s first term in office.

The Justice Department’s briefs also don’t cite any of Eastman’s 100-plus op-eds, interviews, law review articles, debates, speeches, or legislative hearings, despite adhering closely to Eastman’s legal arguments, Politico noted.


Alexander Willis (RAW STORY) reported Monday on a new lawsuit:

The Trump administration was hit Thursday with a new lawsuit from survivors of Jeffrey Epstein over what they say was a “deliberate” oversight from the Justice Department (DOJ).

“The United States, acting through the DOJ, made a deliberate policy choice to prioritize rapid, large-volume disclosure over protection of Epstein survivors’ privacy,” the plaintiffs in the lawsuit said, according to a report from NBC Los Angeles.

“[The DOJ] outed approximately 100 survivors of the convicted sexual predator, publishing their private information and identifying them to the world. Survivors now face renewed trauma. Strangers call them, email them, threaten their physical safety, and accuse them of conspiring with Epstein when they are, in reality, Epstein’s victims.”


We can't talk Epstein and Chump without noting the accusations of sexual misconduct against the Secretary of Education.  From Ann's "Linda McMahon -- grifter and accused of being involved in a pedo ring:"


She's just a con artist and she knows nothing about education.  (She served less than a year on that board.)  She also has an Epstein like connection with the other creeps in Chump's administration per Wikipedia:

Main article: Ring boy scandal

In October 2024, McMahon was named as a defendant in a lawsuit accusing her, her husband, and the WWE of negligence regarding the ring boy scandal, in which multiple WWE personnel, including ring announcer Mel Phillips and executives Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin, either resigned or were dismissed in 1992 after being accused of sexually assaulting young boys.[80][81] The lawsuit alleged that the McMahons fostered a culture of sexual abuse within the WWE.[82] The lawsuit was paused by a federal judge in December 2024, pending the outcome of a legal challenge to a state law that could impact the case.[83] The lawsuit was allowed to proceed in February 2025; in April 2025, McMahon filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. She has denied the claims in the lawsuit.[84][85]

Didn't know that until today.  She's accused of being part of a pedophile ring.  I don't think she should be allowed to serve in our government while she's accused of that.  It doesn't look right. 


It's not a good time to be Chump as the corruption is exposed and as court verdicts go against him.  Such as?  Benjamin Mullin (NEW YORK TIMES) notes:

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that President Trump’s executive order barring the federal funding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment.

Randolph Moss, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said in his ruling that Mr. Trump’s order, signed last May, was unlawful because it instructed federal agencies to refrain from funding NPR and PBS because the president believed their news coverage had a liberal viewpoint.

“The message is clear: NPR and PBS need not apply for any federal benefit because the president disapproves of their ‘left-wing’ coverage of the news,” Judge Moss wrote. But the First Amendment, he said, “does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type.”

The ruling will likely have minimal effect on the federal funding of public media. Two months after the executive order, Congress voted to claw back roughly $500 million in annual funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the organization that distributes federal money to NPR and PBS. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has since shut down, and public radio and TV stations across the country have sought alternate forms of revenue.


Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:

ICYMI: Murray, Booker, Lieu Reintroduce Legislation to Ban Conversion Therapy

ICYMI: Murray, Congressional Democrats File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Support Conversion Therapy Bans

Seattle, WA – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Chiles v. Salazar. The decision rejected a Colorado law that protects children from the harmful practice of conversion therapy, putting at risk the safety and wellbeing of children in Colorado and 23 states around the country—including Washington state—with similar restrictions.

“Conversion therapy is a dangerous practice based on the hateful idea that being part of the LGBTQ+ community is an illness that requires treatment—it’s child abuse. Conversion therapy should be banned nationwide, and I have a bill to do just that because there is no real debate in the medical community—the overwhelming majority of mental health care providers know how harmful this practice is. I’m not going to stop fighting for a world where every person, no matter their gender or sexual orientation, can live with dignity and without fear.”

Senator Murray has consistently fought to ban conversion therapy and ensure that LGBTQ+ people have access to high-quality health care. Last year, Senator Murray, joined by Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-CA-36), reintroduced her Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act legislation that would ban conversion therapy—a practice that has been recognized by the national community of professionals in health, education, social work, and counseling as being both dangerous and useless. Senator Murray first introduced the legislation in the 114th Congress and has pushed to pass it every Congress since.

In addition to Senators Murray and Booker, the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act was cosponsored by Senators Baldwin, Bennet, Blumenthal, Cantwell, Coons, Cortez-Masto, Duckworth, Durbin, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper, Hirono, Kaine, Kelly, Kim, King, Klobuchar, Luján, Markey, Merkley, Murphy, Padilla, Reed, Rosen, Sanders, Schiff, Shaheen, Slotkin, Smith, Van Hollen, Warren, Welch, Whitehouse, and Wyden.

The legislation was introduced in the House with 70 original cosponsors. The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act is endorsed by the Congressional Equality Caucus, Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG, American Academy of Pediatrics, Equality California, National Association of School Psychologists, Christopher Street Project, and Advocates for Trans Equality.

Also last year, Senator Murray joined Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate in filing an amicus brief urging the United States Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of Colorado’s ban on mental health professionals engaging in conversion therapy for minors in this case, Chiles v. Salazar.

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