Blanche Faces Sullivan Today With One Filing: Delay
The Narativ | Know Sooner — ⚖️ Blanche Cornered · ✈️ CIA Doubted · 💰 Anonymity Back · 📺 CNN On Sale · ⚓ Crew Breaking · 🎤 Leavitt Out
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⚖️ BLANCHE FACES THE JUDGE
Todd Blanche walks into Judge Emmet Sullivan's courtroom at 1 p.m. today with one filing to his name since June — a motion asking for 60 more days. Sullivan ordered the attorney general to explain his timeline for the Epstein files: the unredacted emails, the FBI interview notes, the redaction log Sullivan demanded months ago. Blanche blew his June 26 deadline, went silent for six weeks, then filed his retroactive delay request on August 8 — the same day the Senate confirmed him 50-49. Katie Phang's lawyers answered Tuesday: the request has "no basis in reality," and the attorney general "is obviously trying to delay this case." A $1,000-a-day contempt fine sits briefed on Sullivan's desk. The judge holds three cards today: grant the delay, sign the fine, or set a compliance date with teeth. Seven weeks of docket already say what Blanche brings to the lectern. Nothing.
✈️ THE CIA DIDN’T BELIEVE IT
CIA analysts doubted the Iranian assassination threat before Trump ran from it. The Washington Post reports the agency rated the warning "low confidence" — "Israeli-derived, not US-generated" — and told the White House before Trump switched planes and parked his cabinet on the decoy. Lev Parnas called it a cover story on Narativ's air Tuesday; Langley's analysts beat him to it. Two questions stay open — did someone build a threat to spook the president, or did the decoy buy him a meeting away from his own press pool? The caper proves one thing either way: Trump believed the threat. A president that afraid of Tehran behaves like a man who knows what the regime holds on him.
💰 THE ANONYMITY COMES BACK
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent killed beneficial-ownership reporting — the law that made American shell companies name their owners — and promised to erase the records 32 million businesses already filed. Epstein's Southern Trust moved millions company to company, no human name on a wire; the network Narativ chronicles moved $80 trillion that way. FinCEN will delete the database too — every name the government already collected. The rule takes effect the day it prints. Congress demanded names. Bessent handed the anonymity back.
📺 ELLISON PUTS CNN ON THE TABLE
Paramount put CNN on the table. Chief legal officer Makan Delrahim said Wednesday the company would sell the network to settle the 12-state antitrust suit blocking its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal. Jamie Raskin accused David Ellison of colluding with Trump the same day; California's Rob Bonta says Paramount "has lost the plot." The collusion play now carries a price: $7 million a day.
⚓ THE CREW BREAKS AT DAY 250
Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln tried to go overboard, their families say — month nine of Trump's Iran war, 200-plus days without land, a modern Navy record. Trump claims "total control" of Hormuz; eight ships crossed Monday against a prewar 120. The Navy offered families counselors, not a return date.
🎤 LEAVITT LEAVES THE PODIUM
Karoline Leavitt quits at month's end, announced the week her decoy-flight story collapsed. Trump calls it family time; the McEnany path says Fox News by September. The podium stays what it is — propaganda, top to bottom.
🎯 THE BIGGER PICTURE
The CIA's own analysts, a federal judge, and a carrier crew's families told the same story this week: the White House's version doesn't hold. Trump ran from a threat his agency doubted. His attorney general stalls a court demanding the Epstein files. His press secretary leaves as her briefing-room lines collapse. Twelve state attorneys general just forced his ally's media empire to offer up CNN. The official story keeps losing to the record — and at 1 p.m., Sullivan puts it under oath.
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📚 READ THIS ON NARATIV
In April, Narativ reported the carrier rush toward Iran was the long war Tehran wanted — not the ending Trump promised. Day 250 on the Lincoln proves it.
Calling your attention to Jim Stewartson's post today discussing Russian interference with Clinton/Trump election, among other things. Much seems to dovetail with Zev Shalev's work