Katie Phang made a big new move today in her legal case to get more of the Epstein files from Trump’s Justice Department. She wants a federal judge to read the original handwritten FBI notes from four interviews with a woman who said Trump sexually and physically assaulted her when she was 13. She wants the judge to check if anything important was left out when the notes were turned into the official FBI reports.
Trump denies the claim, just like he denies everything else.
The final FBI reports have already been made public, but the original handwritten notes have not.Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Justice Department says the notes are just repeats of what’s already available.
Phang’s request is basically: Prove it.
U.S.District Judge Emmet Sullivan has already said he won’t just take the DOJ’s word for what’s in the notes.He wants to see them for himself.That’s exactly what Team Phang is asking him to do — to tell Blanche to hand over the unredacted notes within five days so the judge can look at them privately.
This is important.
If the notes really don’t add anything new, Sullivan can confirm that.But if the agents originally wrote down something that was left out or changed in the reports, the judge will see it too.Phang wants to take the question of whether the notes match the reports away from Trump’s supporters and put the real evidence in front of a federal judge.
The DOJ says looking at the notes might expose private information about the victim, but Team Phang argues the government already released nearly 100 other sets of handwritten notes and should be able to keep victim information safe here.
They wrote, “The Attorney General runs one of the biggest law firms in America and can find a way to reliably review about 25 pages.”
Phang also wants Sullivan to force the DOJ to provide the detailed list of redactions they’ve made in the Epstein files — something Blanche hasn’t done even after a previous court order.
Sullivan has already said he’s tired of the delays.When a DOJ lawyer told him the information was “coming soon,” Sullivan replied, “I mean, Christmas is coming soon.Let’s be realistic.”
That’s why the recent filing is important.
Phang already has a judge demanding answers, and now she’s asking him to stop arguing with the DOJ about what the documents say and just look at them.If the handwritten notes don’t match the official reports, this stops being a dispute over paperwork.It could mean important evidence from an Epstein accuser’s interviews was left out when the FBI reports were written — evidence involving the president of the United States that Trump’s own Justice Department has tried to keep hidden.
If Sullivan finds that the notes don’t match, the wall the DOJ has built around these files could start to fall, and the real truth could finally come out.
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Dollar Sinks As Investors Flock To Gold, Crypto After Scott Bessent’s Treasury Buyback ©Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Dollar Sinks As Investors Flock To Gold, Crypto After Scott Bessent’s Treasury Buyback ©Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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The U.S. dollar fell Friday as investors continued shifting toward gold and Bitcoin amid growing concerns that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s efforts to contain long-term borrowing costs could further weaken the greenback.
TheDXY dollar index fell to 98.6630, bringing its decline over the month to 2.43%. while fueling concerns that the greenback’s days of being the world’s reserve currency may be waning. The dollar’s weakness followed the Treasury Department’s decision to double its purchases of longer-dated government bonds, a move that initially triggered a selloff in the currency while boosting gold and Bitcoin in what some market participants dubbed the “debasement trade.”(RELATED: America’s Fiscal Nightmare Just Got Scarier)
The Treasury said Wednesday that it would increase the maximum size of its liquidity-support buyback operations from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation beginning Sept. 9 and cover longer-dated Treasury securities. Bessent subsequently said the purchases could exceed $4 billion per operation.
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The intervention was designed to improve liquidity in the long-term Treasury market, but investors interpreted the move as a sign that Washington was increasingly concerned about rising borrowing costs tied to the federal debt. The announcement initially pushed the dollar lower while sendingBitcoin above $72,000 and boosting gold to $4,671 per ounce as of this writing.
The simultaneous gains in gold and Bitcoin underscored the appeal of assets not directly tied to the U.S. government’s debt market. The Treasury market turmoil made non-interest-bearing assets such as gold and Bitcoin relatively more attractive.
The10-year Treasury yield climbed back toward 4.7% Thursday, while the 30-year yield remained above 5%, as investors continued to worry about inflation and government borrowing.
The scale of the intervention was also small compared with the size of the government’s obligations. Thenational debt crossed $40 trillion Wednesday, while the federal deficit was expected to exceed $2 trillion.
A loss of the dollar’s reserve-currency status could hit Americans through weaker purchasing power and higher borrowing costs. A NBER study estimated that losing reserve status could cause an 8.8% real depreciation in the dollar and push U.S. real interest rates roughly 90 basis points higher.
Economist Kenneth Rogoff has warned that a weaker dollar could also mean higher rates on “home mortgages” and “car loans,” estimating Americans currently pay roughly 0.5 to 1 percentage points less than they otherwise would, according to Foreign Policy.
The USA has lost over 60,000 Jobs since Trump took office in Jan.