Donald Trump and his Department of Justice were just hit with a federal court...
feared the most in connection with Midas Touch host Katy Fang's lawsuit against acting attorney
“general Todd Blanche pursuant to the Epstein transparency act as Donald Trump and his DOJ”
tried to cover up Trump's dark past and continue to cover up the Epstein files and the child sex trafficking rain contained within those Epstein files and the co-conspirators continue to try to have their names concealed Katy Fang went on the off and she sued Todd Blanche in federal court and Washington DC recently the federal judge ordered that Todd Blanche turn over certain documents that had not been produced to the federal judge judge Sullivan for something
called in-camera review where the federal judge will review the documents to see if the department of justice is complying or lying. Todd Blanche claimed he followed that order and turned over the documents for in-camera review and this federal judge said nope you are a liar you did not comply with my order and I am here by ordering you to appear for a hearing that will be taking place
“at one p.m. on August 13th Todd Blanche DOJ you now need to show up and explain why you just”
violated this court order why are you lying to this court I asked you specific things the federal judge said I want understandings why you redacted these co-conspirator names you're claiming their victims you were supposed to provide the backup documentation to prove that these were actually victims and not co-conspirators instead you just responded trust me bro no we don't trust you you did not provide the documents in addition we want to see the federal judges I want to see
the privilege logs are the reduction logs so on August 13th I'm not asking you whether or not you will produce the reduction logs you will produce the reduction logs I want to know the timeline when you intend to produce the reduction logs so show up and be prepared to discuss that also why have you not turned over the FPI notes to the F D 302s those 302 reports those FPI 302s that involved allegations against Donald Trump you're claiming that I don't get to see it or you're
not turning it over because they're quote substantially similar to the final FPI 302 reports there's no similarly a substantially similar exception those documents those notes need to be turned over we want you to explain that on August 13th when you show up to a federal court appearance it is so ordered show up in court let's bring in Katy Fang right now and by the way make sure you
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and subscribe to her audio podcast sidebar with Katy Fang Katy Fang a hero let's bring in Katy Fang right now and ask her this the exclusive first interview with Katy Fang on the big news that Judge Sullivan just handed down this order moments ago now I want to bring in Katy Fang to break down the latest order in her case against Todd Blanche under the Epstein transparency at Katy great to see a Judge Sullivan's order basically saying Todd Blanche is not complying with Judge
Sullivan's previous order about turning over certain categories of documents also addressing the issue of the reduction log which I thought was very significant also and you know it seemed that Judge Sullivan may have been waiting to see where they going to respond to his order and comply to see how to handle the reduction log and when they seem to be deceiving the judge there he then said oh I didn't forget about that reduction log by the way talk to us about this order what
happened and I want to talk about some other stuff as well you never want to estimate a federal
judge but for a second there I was like did he forget that he had ordered Todd to turn over the stuff so yes so the breaking news is and I'm going to start with the it's the primary sea resency right right Ben I'm going to start with the most recent thing that just happened which is an order that just got entered within the last hour by federal judge Emmett Sullivan in my lawsuit against Todd Blanche the reason why this is so momentous is Judge Sullivan has now said a
status hearing for next week August 13th at 1 p.m. Eastern in court ordering both parties as in me and Todd Blanche to have to appear and he has pretty much said in this order Todd Blanche you
“have now defied my orders and I think this is a really important moment when it comes to compliance”
and whether or not this judge is going to allow Todd Blanche to continue to violate not only the Epstein fouls transparency act but the judge's own orders the judge notably when he did an order back on July 25th Ben just to refresh people's recollection told Todd Blanche to come to chambers
That the judge could do an in chambers inspection of the unredacted documents...
small subset of them and he told Todd Blanche pretty much I don't believe you when you make
“representations in your court filings about why you have redacted certain things so you have to”
bring with you proof kind of I call it show your work if you are legitimately redacting for soon to the law then you'll be able to support those allegedly legitimate redactions okay so that being said the next thing that happens is we get this order and the judge is like you told me that you were going to bring it or I told you excuse me you had to bring it and according to Judge Sullivan he says now defended did not provide such documentation so now you
have to come to court and you have to you shall not permissively you could it's you shall be prepared to discuss what documentation you can you will provide to support your assertions that these truly are victims that you have redacted in addition and really interestingly there's some handwritten FBI interview notes that pertain to the victim who alleges that when she was 13 years old she was sexually abused and physically battered by Donald Trump now the 302s as they're
called these FBI reports they've been released publicly with heavy redactions but the underlying FBI interview notes I know that they exist they were actually turned over in discovery and galen Maxwell's criminal prosecution in the southern district of New York according to Tom Blanch he has them but he told the court I'm not turning them over because they're substantially similar to what the 302s the ultimate official kind of report ended up breeding and so what a judge Sullivan
say he says hmm Blanch you never pointed to the provision in the Epstein file transparency act
that contains an exception that allows you to withhold it and you haven't pointed to the exception that says it's something's duplicative that you don't have to turn it over and in fact Ben was fantastic about what Judge Sullivan does here as he also says and hey Blanch you actually emitted in your own filing that you've published quotes substantially similar draft indictments and that's the reason why you're not turning over some other indictments and so you know what
you got to come to court on the 30th of August and explain why the handwritten notes cannot be redacted manually or why the reductions cannot be accomplished in another way which means we're going to get these handwritten interview notes by the FBI over four interviews done with this victim
who alleges that she was abused by Donald Trump and then finally here's the redaction log you mentioned
this redaction law was required to be done by the law and it's too log each and every individual redaction that's been done and Blanch said hey did a summary it's okay I don't need to do it and Judge Sullivan says nope come to court and you shall be prepared to discuss the timing for complying with this requirement not a come to court and tell me why I can't do it it's
“come to court and tell me when you're going to do it and I think then this is a really important”
inflection point in my litigation because this is the time when Judge Sullivan says take a you know water get off the pot you know it's all a really big deal but that redaction log piece of it provides the road map to everything they're hiding and the same way Blanch is claiming well we did in turn over the notes about these allegations against Trump because we've invented a substantially similar car about that doesn't exist in the Epstein Transparency act
when we're able to now see this redaction log of the millions of dot millions of documents they're withholding will look through and say that's not executive privilege that's not a real exception what's that foreign language you just made up another exception so we can now go line by line and by the way Katie this is what we do as litigators the whole thing you and I as litigators have had cases with terabytes of documents and you have a team of associates I was part of those
teams that I was really getting and you do you you draft these things you draft these logs it's not fun
“to do it's one of the most tedious tests that's what lawyers do it's like when you build the”
building you got people who are the welders and do the concrete this is what you do and you know what is so beautiful about mightest touches the following you have brought so many of us together including my friend and colleague Allison Gill and the reason why I bring up Allison right now is this is really important she and I were doing an episode on her they her show called the breakdown on my discharge and she and I we're talking about how she had the DOJ admit that they have training videos
for FBI analysts that were provided last spring in 2025 before the Epstein Files Transparency Act was even a glimmer in the eyes of Rokana and Tom Assey and those training videos told these analysts that they had to flag not only Trump's name but other VIPs and that they had to redact it and log it so we know Ben that the FBI at a minimum knows how to hell do this because the DOJ and the
Trump administration told them how to do it so everybody knows how to do a re...
not some big secret thing that's particularly complex you could whip out a table on Microsoft word and do it if you really did not want to do it you know in a more sophisticated way but
“what's really important is in a filing that was just done in my lawsuit. Todd Blanche said hey”
judge there's a thing called the privacy act and the privacy act says that I can protect email addresses that are even victims that are people that are actual perpetrators etc right and so that's another exception that Tom Blanche and the Trump DOJ just pulled out of thin air but it's really important because that protocol like the orders that were given to be able to justify how these redactions were done it's dated January of 2026 Ben and the timing is important because remember
the deadline under the Epstein Files Transparency Act for these redaction to be done and for it to be released was December of 2025 and so what they've done is they've created this memorandum internally at the DOJ that they've published trying to justify why they've redacted so much but if we get this redaction log and assuming arguing it was actually accurate and credible then to your point
“we can see each and every individual redaction and then I can challenge them but without this”
redaction log I'm supposed to just take his word for it I called it the trust me bro exception that Blanche has decided to adopt for the entirety of these files which is why I'm grateful the Judge Sullivan has said there ain't no thing called a trust me bro exception in the Epstein Files Transparency Act well look and we saw for example the fake deposition of Pam Bondi which was supposed to be under oath and with the video camera and it wasn't and we saw the DOJ objections there
where the DOJ created fake exceptions pre 2025 exception okay what was the pre 2020 what do you even talking about we've got another exception can't be anything that happened in the White House or the Oval Office okay that's an exception so they create these exceptions but one of the kind of real sick and disturbing things amongst the many which I think you've identified is what it seems that Trump and Blanche were doing is that they were going to co-conspirators and say
and here's how we protect you call me up and say you're a victim and if your lawyer gives me a ring and says that you're a victim we then don't challenge that will declare you a victim and then will redact you under the victim exception so they've leaked the victims publicly and the co-conspirators
had their powerful law firms call up and say where the victims that to me is what Sullivan knows
that to me is what you know that's what's really going on here with that category and it's why
“you and your brilliant lawyers surgically focused on that is because I think that's what you want”
to approve that you've declared the perpetrators the victims in order to conceal their names and if that's what you were willing to do there that's the tip of the iceberg and that's what I think's going that's tell me I think that's part of the strategy behind what you and your lawyer it's part of it but here let's let's pull on that thread a little bit more let's peel this back even more right because think about that if you allow as the DOJ to expand the definition of a victim
vis-a-vis Epstein Maxwell and others and you allow people to self-identify that ultimately Ben what's going to happen you're going to have everybody self-identifying as a victim you're going to have Galen Maxwell say well I was doped by Jeffrey Epstein or I was taken advantage of by Jeffrey Epstein
and that results in what? Blanche the DOJ which controls the FBI never investigating anyone
because then Blanche says everybody's a victim and so we're not going to investigate a victim because God forbid we're ever investigating a victim and what's wild is it occurred to me while I was chewing on on this idea of him allowing everybody to self-identify as a victim why is it then if let's say Jane Smith comes forward and says I am a victim and that's the reason why my name has to be redacted why is it the FBI is now not investigating what happened to Jane Smith
let's just say incredibly this person comes forward and says I am a victim and it wasn't just Jeffrey Epstein let's say it was you know one of Donald Trump's friends why is the FBI not running down these leads? Oh because according to Todd Blanche there's no evidence
that Epstein trafficked anyone to anyone else to any third party and Todd Blanche also says
I don't have anything to do because the victims have been giving me any type of thing to chase down and so I'm going to be willfully ignorant and willfully blind and not do my job because somebody is telling him not to do his job right which he's willingly saying I'm not going to do it but it all smacks of a cover up a concealment and that is the real criminality that's going on here that there are real victims that aren't getting the justice that they deserve because you have
Somebody who's in the pocket of the convicted felon Donald Trump.
he called out Blanche for not meeting the deadline to resume. I do they not know that when
there's a preliminary injunction there's also an underlying operative complaint that requires response of pleadings to both and I mean one of the things that you and I both kind of call out them as well is not just the evil and maliciousness but all of those characteristics that I had seen when I was a litigator and when I would be watching a show up in court you'd watch really bad law firms and you'd sit there sometimes you'd be like how these people past the bar what are they doing
it was like the judge was you know and you see oh my gosh the DOJ has just become like a bad law firm with a bad reputated they don't even do the most basic stuff it's like it's a deadline you respond to the preliminary and the operative complaint there's deadlines it's called court would it to talk to us about what it's called court it's so it's outrageous is when you sue somebody
“you have to respond you either answer the allegations by either admitting or denying them”
or you file something maybe like a motion to dismiss right whatever is supported by the law and the rules of procedure. I sued Todd Blanche at the end of April of 2026 his answer was due within 60 days which would have been June 29th of 2026 we sit here on August 6th and I have nothing and so my lawyers reached out and said hey hey you might want to respond we're going to be gracious and give you some time of just a few days but you got to respond and they're like no you're
so wrong the preliminary injunction issue remains open the judge hasn't ruled on your motion for preliminary injunction which Ben then what the hell has Todd Blanche been turning over to the judge so far that's all pursuing to a preliminary injunction order and then they also said and hey by the way we want an additional 60 days after everything is said and done to explore whether or not we want to appeal and we think this is such a great idea and we're like no piece
out that's not going to happen so what do they file and it's got Janine Piero's name on
“it Ben which I think is also delicious so they file a motion to stay all of the deadlines”
nunk pro-tunk pending resolution of the motion for preliminary injunction and motion to set briefing schedule so I walk through this on my channel Katy Fang news to explain that in this motion Blanche admits he blew the deadline and he goes in this motion and he says Ben hey I have something called excusable neglect I missed the deadline and it was oversight that was regrettable but not intentional and so you know what what I need is I need you to wind the hands of time back
to when it was originally due in June I need you to give me more time even though that deadline has now way past and then I need you to also give me another 60 days but what's the point of the delay we all know it's because they don't want to have to turn this stuff over but strategically Ben you and I also know this too as litigators this is a surefire way of pissing off the judge even more
“you're telling this judge that the order he entered on my motion for preliminary injunction”
that says explicitly plaintiffs motion for preliminary injunction granted you're telling this
judge that he never ruled on it and still open but then you also in the same filing admit that you
missed the deadline it's the games it's the gas lighting it's become a brand for this DOJ and this is the wrong judge to try you know and this is how they handle everything I mean the catastrophic war and Iran fake and go it's games when the other side doesn't play your games though and you're dealing with these other issues also or when you don't have a Trump appoint a judge like the BBC case where it just so happens it's the judge Trump appointed in 2019 it goes oh good ginger when you
actually have the systems working Trump can't handle it's why he wants to break the systems but it's why you're fighting every day on the Katy Feng news channel everybody subscribe to Katy Feng news on YouTube that's a channel that should be at a million subscribers yesterday let's get that channel one million subscribers today or tomorrow then so after this video is over everybody please go subscribe to Katy Feng's YouTube channel put in the comments that you saw
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Named plaintiff in this but I'm doing this alongside all of you so I'm very g...
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