Common Dreams95%
Florida Judge’s Ruling on Trump’s Self-Dealing Lawsuit is Yet Another Reason Senate Should Reject Todd Blanche 95%
By Newswire Editor97%
7/13/2026, 7:23:57 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Biased Writer Voice, and Negativity Bias, with Politically Left Leaning Bias as the most egregious example at 94.7% saturation with 303 hits. Analysis detected 833 faulty-reasoning hits from 320 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.9% and a BS Rank of 95% (806 of 15,282 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 94.70% of the article peer group.
Today, U.S.
District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that President Trump’s lawsuit asking for $10 billion from the IRS was manufactured to justify a “settlement” that included a nearly $1.8B slush fund to reward political allies.
Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert, co-presidents of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response:
“Donald Trump had the brilliant idea of suing the government he runs and resolving the lawsuit with the creation of an illegal and unconstitutional nearly $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for at taxpayer expense and likely to be distributed to January 6 insurrectionists, among others, as well with as an immunity deal protecting Trump and his family from IRS investigation.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was a willing participant in this fraud on the court and the American people.
“Trump and the DOJ tried to remove the issue from the court in which Trump originally filed the sham lawsuit but now Judge Williams has had her word.
In a devastating order, she finds that ‘This lawsuit was not brought to vindicate rights; it was brought to manipulate the judicial process to pursue benefits unavailable in litigation because the Parties were not adverse.”
The abuse is so severe that she has ordered the bar to consider sanctions against Trump’s attorney; ordered that Trump and DOJ never again refer to their collusive deal as a ‘settlement;’ and authorized amicus filers in the case — including Public Citizen — to seek attorneys fees.
“Crucially, Judge Williams finds that the abuse is committed equally by Trump’s private lawyers and the Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice, with DOJ’s conduct ‘equally untenable.’
Blanche’s DOJ ‘disregarded DOJ policies, and accomplished objectives beyond those authorized, as well as those specifically prohibited, by law.’
“If the Senate needed an additional reason not to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, it just got it.”
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100%flagged-word coverageRobert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert
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Politically Left Leaning Bias+11.4 pts
Writer 89%Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert 100%
Biased Writer Voice-88.6 pts
Writer 89%Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert 0%
Indoctrination+11.1 pts
Writer 0%Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert 11%
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