Today in Politics, Bulletin 383. 5/19/26
Today in Politics, Bulletin 383. 5/19/26 Ron Filipkowski May 19, 2026 … Acting AG Todd Blanche faced questioning today from Senate Democrats outraged over the $1.7 billion slush fund he created to pay J6 criminals and Trump’s co-conspirators as well as his handling of the Epstein investigation: Sen. Jack Reed on Trump’s $10B lawsuit: “How many taxpayers’ returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? Blanche: Excuse me? Reed: 405,427. One of them was Trump, correct? Blanche: Trump and his family. Reed: And Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy.” Reed: “You talked to Ghislaine Maxwell. A few days later, she was transferred from a high security prison to a very comfortable— Blanche: That’s not true. She was not in a high security prison. She was transferred from a low security prison to a low security prison. Reed: I don’t think at the other prison she had her own room. She had ac...