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Chuck Darwin

The director and producer
#Brett #Ratner,
-- forced out of Hollywood at the peak of the #MeToo movement,
-- will direct a documentary about First Lady #Melania #Trump for Amazon, the studio confirmed Sunday.

The move is both a warm embrace by the ecommerce giant for the incoming administration
and a dramatic return for Ratner, the director of X-Men: The Last Stand and the Rush Hour movies.

One person who spoke to Semafor said they’d been surprised that Ratner, who reportedly lives in Israel now, had recently been seen at Mar-a-Lago.
Last year, he and US President-elect Donald Trump were reportedly among the guests at the wedding of the son of businessman Al Malnik, who is close to Ratner.

Ratner’s Hollywood career stopped in 2019
when an actress accused him in the Los Angeles Times of forcing himself on her sexually,
and other women described inappropriate conduct.
A different woman accused him of rape in a Facebook post, then retracted that allegation.
Ratner denied all of the allegations, and he was never charged with misconduct

semafor.com/article/01/05/2025

www.semafor.com · Director Brett Ratner, back from ‘MeToo,’ will direct Melania Trump documentary | SemaforBy Ben Smith
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The #StateDepartment, Weapons Deals, and Israeli #ObstructionsOfHumanitarian Aid w/ #Brett Murphy

"Derek speaks with @ProPublica 's Brett Murphy about recent revelations showing the US government's continued arming of #Israel despite the State Department's knowledge of Israel preventing #HumanitarianAid getting into #Gaza."

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#WarOnGaza #Palestine #oPt #ArmsTransfers #USpol #USpolitics #USForeignPolicy #USStateDepartment #Blinken #WarCrimes

@palestine @israel

americanprestige.supportingcast.fmAmerican Prestige | E181 - The State Department, Weapons Deals, and Israeli Obstructions of Humanitarian Aid w/ Brett Murphy
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Chuck Darwin

FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds

In September 2018, as allegations of sexual misconduct against #Brett M. #Kavanaugh threatened his confirmation to the Supreme Court,

President Donald Trump vowed that the FBI would have “free rein” to vet the claims.

Trump said the FBI was “talking to everybody” and added on social media:
“I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion.”


⭐️The president’s comments came as a surprise to the FBI,
according to a new report from a Democratic senator based on previously undisclosed correspondence between the agency and the White House.

💥FBI officials — directed to conduct a very limited inquiry in a week’s time — requested “additional guidance” from the White House, citing the public remarks by Trump and other officials describing a freewheeling investigation.

But the White House never authorized the agency to independently probe the sexual misconduct allegations, which Kavanaugh staunchly denied.


The report, which was produced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a Judiciary Committee member and leading critic of the Kavanaugh confirmation, and provided to The Washington Post ahead of a public release on Tuesday, provides
♦️additional evidence of the tight control exercised by the White House over the FBI investigation
— despite Trump’s claims to the contrary.

The report found that ⚠️messages to the FBI tip line regarding Kavanaugh were forwarded directly to the White House and never probed,
and that the FBI had no written protocols for the supplemental background investigation ordered by the White House.

It notes that the FBI was instructed by the White House to talk to 10 potential witnesses and ❌was not given the leeway to pursue corroborating evidence
— 🔥the absence of which was cited by senators as they narrowly voted to confirm Kavanaugh, marking a major triumph for the conservative movement and locking in a right-leaning majority that would later overturn the constitutional right to abortion.

washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report findsBy Beth Reinhard
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Chuck Darwin

Samuel Alito accepted concert tickets from conservative German aristocrat

#Samuel #Alito, the US supreme court justice, accepted $900 concert tickets from a Catholic German aristocrat known for her unabashed conservative views and ties to rightwing activists, his latest financial disclosure form reveals.

#Princess #Gloria #von #Thurn #und #Taxis reportedly gifted the tickets to Alito and his wife to allow them to attend the Regensburg castle festival,
an annual summer music extravaganza hosted at her 500-room castle in Bavaria.

The princess, a descendant of princes of the Holy Roman empire, is noted for ties with #Steve #Bannon, a key supporter and former aide of #Donald #Trump, and connections to figures in the Catholic hierarchy opposed to Pope Francis.

Her donation to Alito is set out in the justice’s annual financial disclosure report, which he filed late after requesting an extension.

The declaration follows a series of controversies over the ethics of supreme court justices amid revelations that some, including Alito himself and Justice #Clarence #Thomas, have accepted gifts from wealthy benefactors without disclosing on mandatory forms.

Alito has been at the centre of reports that he accepted a private jet free travel gift for a luxury salmon fishing trip from a conservative billionaire who had cases pending before the supreme court.

He previously met von Thurn und Taxis along with fellow justice #Brett #Kavanaugh when she visited the supreme court in 2019 along with #Cardinal #Gerhard #Ludwig #Müller, who was dismissed from his position as head of the Catholic’s church’s doctrinal body by Pope Francis, and #Brian #Brown, a leading anti-LGBTQ+ activist.

Von Thurn und Taxis’s palatial castle in Regensburg – the venue for the concert attended by Alito and his wife – has been mooted by Bannon as a potential venue for a 🔸European network of finishing schools for rightwing conservatives.
After her reinvention as a conservative Catholic activist, she drew criticism in 2001 after saying on a television talkshow that the high rate of Aids in Africa was due, not to a lack of safe sex, but because
“the Blacks like to copulate a lot”.
She later tried to amend her remarks, saying Africans had a lot of sex due to the continent’s hot climate.

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · Samuel Alito accepted concert tickets from conservative German aristocratBy Robert Tait
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