Thank you for keeping this operation independent and answering to nobody but readers like you. If you’re able to do more, upgrade to a Founding Member or gift a subscription to someone who needs to see the truth today. Caught Lying To A Judge. Then Trump Made It Worse. A fired 60 Minutes journalist’s allegation against CBS, a hidden $5 billion jet bill, and Trump’s mail-ballot fight frozen—for now Scott Dworkin Jul 28 This week, Trump forgot on camera the lies he told you last week. That’s what happens when a government builds itself out of cover stories—eventually one of them slips. And this time there was a room full of people there to hear it. Hit the like button and re-stack this edition for Cecilia Vega, the former CBS journalist who says she refused to push a fake story about people who were actually killed. Sharing her report is how we beat the algorithms that were built to bury it. And if you’ve been reading The Dworkin Report for free, here’s your official invitation to join us as a paid subscriber. No ads, no corporate parent, nobody protecting a president by telling us what to cover. That’s the only reason a story like Vega’s makes it onto this page instead of getting quietly killed. Reporting the truth is only half of it. Every edition we print turns into calls and letters landing on desks in Congress—making noise until the people in power are forced to listen. Come be part of that. Become a paid subscriber today: FIRED CBS JOURNALIST: THEY WANTED FAKE  NEWS Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega says CBS executives asked her to falsify video evidence. She says they pushed her to slip fabricated footage of protesters attacking ICE agents into a story about Renee Good and Alex Pretti—two Americans killed by federal agents in Minnesota. She says she refused there—and again on Iran coverage, and again on a story about the regime’s SNAP cuts starving West Virginia families. Vega, the first Latina correspondent in the show’s history, says she told them no every time. She was fired in May—given no reason—nearly a year before her contract was set to expire. CBS denies everything, calling Vega’s account “not based in reality”—while confirming, in that same statement, that none of the disputed material ever aired. If Vega’s right, CBS didn’t bury the story. It tried to invent one. A JUDGE ISN’T DONE WITH THE DOJ Days after DOJ lawyers backed down and withdrew their subpoenas against The New York Times reporters, the judge who beat them wasn’t finished. Federal Judge Arun Subramanian ordered the DOJ to hand over its internal emails: why it sought the subpoenas, why it tried to keep the whole thing secret, and whether it hid from the court that the subpoenas targeted journalists’ private communications. The DOJ has since asked for more time to comply. Prosecutors had already admitted in his courtroom that their filings weren’t accurate. Then, standing in the Oval Office, Trump confirmed exactly what this was about: unmasking sources. “The way you find them is through journalists.” DOJ’s own policy treats subpoenaing journalists as a last resort. Trump just told everyone it was the first move. There’s more the regime tried to bury. In the same investigation aimed at unmasking a source, the DOJ quietly subpoenaed Google to identify whoever was behind a specific phone number. Then it gagged Google from ever telling that person. Google fought the gag order in court—and won. The judge is about to get the regime’s private emails, sealed from the public, to find out exactly what it was hiding. TRUMP HID THE BILL FOR HIS JET A new investigation into Trump’s Qatari-donated jet found something worse than his usual vanity project. The Air Force told Congress the retrofit would cost just under $400 million. Count the whole modernization program this jet belongs to, and the real number is $5.1 billion. Real safety gear got cut along the way—no emergency lower exit, no backup power unit, no antimissile system—the kind of equipment that’s been standard on Air Force One for decades. They paid for part of it by pulling hundreds of millions out of a classified nuclear weapons budget—a move that kept the true cost from the lawmakers whose job is watching it. Sen. Chris Murphy has been asking the Pentagon to explain that for months. Nothing back yet. Right now, Murphy can only ask. Flip Congress in November, and he gets subpoena power instead of silence. COURTS TELL TRUMP HANDS OFF THE MAIL The regime tried to rush a ballot purge past a federal court. It got nowhere instead. The First Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump’s request to let the Postal Service withhold mail ballots—his plan to punish states that refused to hand their unredacted voter rolls to the DOJ. The ruling keeps his order frozen in 23 states and Washington, DC—a 2 to 1 decision that held. Even the one judge Trump appointed to that panel only dissented in part, unable to find cover for the regime’s full ask. US District Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling stands exactly as she wrote it: the Postal Service has no authority to hold your ballot hostage to a political demand. The mail isn’t a weapon, and three judges just made sure Trump can’t use it like one. The regime is already running to the Supreme Court asking them to intervene. But for now, in 23 states, four months before voters settle this themselves, Trump’s plan is blocked cold. My dad used to tell me a fight isn’t over just because you’re tired. I think about that a lot doing this work—especially with less than 100 days left until the midterms. We’ve been organizing readers into congressional pressure since 2016—millions of contacts with Congress since we started, nearly 800,000 of those letters and countless calls since November 2024 alone. I still get a little surprised every time I see that number, because it started as a handful of people who cared enough to make sure Matt Gaetz would never become Attorney General. That’s our whole operation: we report what the regime doesn’t want you to see, then we put it in front of more people than most networks reach, and we turn those headlines into letters landing on desks in Washington. None of it works without one key piece: you. If you’re one of the people who wants to keep building this movement, become a paid subscriber today. It’s what keeps us 100% independent—no ads, no corporate owner: Then hit that like button and re-stack this edition. Less than a hundred days isn’t much time, and the fastest way to reach the next person is you sharing it right now. Onward! Scott Would you fly on a jet with no emergency exit? Fill in the blank: If I ran CBS for a day, the first thing I’d fix is ___. Thanks for your support! Another way to help us out is by gifting subscriptions to friends and family! You can get yours by clicking the link. For all contact Congress links, or to volunteer, you can go here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-the-watchdog-coalition LET'S PUSH THIS HARD! Tell your Senators to vote NO on Todd Blanche: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-todd-blanche-for-attorney-general/ COMMENTS:  Cecilia Vega is an absolute hero for refusing to fabricate news and standing up for real journalism. Sharing this far and wide today! ❤️ Scott Dworkin  2h For sure! Without question! Who doesn’t love Cynthia Vega DAVID BROCK wrote about the MEDIA in 2004 and explained the surrounding issues (AMAZON synopsis below, we never buy from AMAZON). How many read it?  Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was paid to do - PROPAGANDA!  It is only lawsuits that have delayed ELLISONS' purchases. Not all issues can be neatly explained in SOUND BYTES although Scott does an impressive job.  CRAIG UNGER has done much STELLAR writing, available at your public library.  DAVID CAY JOHNSTON wrote 2 books about Rump's casino failures among numerous other issues.  (His other books are impressive in his ability to explain complex issues simply.  The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy by David Brock (Author)  Format: Hardcover In The Republican Noise Machine, David Brock skillfully documents perhaps the most important but least understood political development of the last thirty years: how the Republican Right has won political power and hijacked public discourse in the United States. Brock, a former right-wing insider and the author of the New York Times bestseller Blinded by the Right, uses his keen understanding of the strategies, tactics, financing, and personalities of the American right wing to demonstrate how the once-fringe phenomenon of right-wing media has all but subsumed the regular media conversation, shaped the national consciousness, and turned American politics sharply to the right. Brock documents how in the last several decades the GOP built a powerful media machine--newspapers and magazines, think tanks, talk radio networks, op-ed columnists, the FOX News Channel, Christian Right broadcasting, book publishers, and high-traffic internet sites--to sell conservatism to the public and discredit its opponents. This unabashedly biased multibillion-dollar communications empire disregards journalistic ethics and universal standards of fairness and accuracy, manufacturing "news" that is often bought and paid for by a tight network of corporate-backed foundations and old family fortunes. By dissecting the appeal, techniques, and reach of the booming right-wing media market, Brock demonstrates that it is largely based on bigotry, ignorance, and emotional manipulation closely tied to America’s longstanding cultural divisions and the buying power of anti-intellectual traditionalists. From the disputed 2000 presidential election to the war with Iraq to the political battles of 2004, Brock's penetrating analysis of right-wing media theories and methodology reveals that the Republican Right views the media as an extension of a broader struggle for political power. By tracing the political impact of right-wing media, Brock shows how disproportionate conservative influence in the media is integrally linked to the Republican Right’s current domination of all three branches of government, to the propping up of the Bush administration, and to the inability of Democrats to voice their opposition to this political sea change or to compete on an even playing field. As only an ex-conservative intimately familiar with the imperatives of the American right wing could, David Brock suggests ways in which concerned Americans can begin to redress the conservative ascendancy and cut through the propagandistic fog. Writing with verve and deep insight, he reaches far beyond typical bromides about media bias to produce an invaluable account of the rise of right-wing media and its political consequences. Promising to be the political book of the year, The Republican Noise Machine will transform the raging yet heretofore unsatisfying debate over the politics of the media for years to come. https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Noise-Machine-Right-Wing-Democracy/dp/1400048753 Trump Lawyers Who Were Disbarred or Had Law Licenses Suspended Published Oct 31, 2024 https://www.newsweek.com/trump-lawyers-disbarred-law-licenses-suspended-chesebro-giuliani-cohen-1978351 With less than 100 days until the midterms, stories like the $5.1B jet hidden cost and the court blocking the mail-ballot scheme are exactly why independent reporting matters. Thank you all for reading, sharing, and keeping us 100% independent. It feels like some dominos are leaning. And I want to see a complete domino collapse while the Seditionist/Convicted Felon/Rapist/pedophile is in office so he can be forcibly removed ASAP! Judges must STOP going along with their delay tactics! ENOUGH! It's a funny thing. I can't decide what I want to see. Sometimes, I want to see the clown die soon. Sometimes, it's the 25th Amendment, which looks like not. Sometimes, it a blue wave in November, and an impeachment and conviction by the middle of February. Unfortunately, any one of these leaves us with the other clown, JD. So on occasion, I've wanted to see the clown given 2020 as a concession. That's his second term (second time being elected, which is all you get for that office), and he and all the other losers can now clear out. Does that leave us with Harris? She and the clown were not the only two candidates. SeekingReason’s Substack3h Never with the 2020 election. They don’t care about the constitution. His goal is to be permanent or his successors. I want him humiliated and ineligible for presidential ANYTHING! Pension, guards etc. He's walking, or being carried, out of there with loads of money. And he's no more permanent than is anyone else. At some level, he knows that. He does have the power to interfere and has done so. Are you not aware that he’s both a seditionist and Fascist? He knows. That's why he's pretending to have a moral crisis involving his afterlife. The MAGA will swallow his resurrection of Christianity wholesale. Always a grift and a fresh new hell to Inflict. My brain is moving slowly this afternoon, but I read that there is an avenue, I think through the 25th amendment, to get rid of him and all his cabinet members including the VP. Sorry, I cannot remember the source. I believe you are correct about the 25th Amendment providing a clean sweep of all his cabinet. Why this has not been activated to date shows us just how many are corrupt and need to be removed. Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states that “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” (U.S. Const. art. II, § 4) Cornell University Cornell University +1 . Treason is explicitly listed, while “high crimes and misdemeanors” is intentionally broad, allowing Congress to address serious misconduct that may not be strictly criminal but threatens the public trust If lawyers walked into a courtroom and knowingly lied about the basis for a prosecution, why are they still licensed to practice law? The system for punishing these attorneys is broken! It relies on a slow, separate bar process that almost always gives the benefit-of-the-doubt to prosecutors who claim their lies were merely "sloppy mistakes" or "simple oversights." Sloppy mistakes like "I'm the presidents lawyer.... was his lawyer." and "I Love him." Which displays no separation of powers, as our founding father stated we needed to prevent exactly what Todd Blanche and DJT are doing. And not releasing all of the Epstein files with proper redaction when necessary. How many months over due are those files? There is no good excuse for not helping the New Mexico AG with his investigation of Epstein's Zorro Ranch. But Blanche still refuses to give that AG the Epstein files he has requested. These are just a few of the things that Todd Blanche is guilty of, in my opinion. We shouldn’t tolerate sloppy (read negligent) lawyers anymore than we tolerate sloppy doctors or sloppy politicians. Hence, they continue, at every turn, to push the system's limits. Yes, and why has this T-affiliated lawyer been appointed a dean at one of our top public universities! TRUMP-TIED LAWYER WITH COURT SANCTIONS LANDS FIU LAW’S INTERIM DEAN JOB “According to the Miami Herald, Epstein emerged from a search process that categorized him in a lower tier and did not place him among the top 20 candidates. Provost Béjar ultimately labeled that search a failure, after which President Jeannette Nunez selected Epstein.”. “Epstein's appointment landed just as a separate legal episode raised uncomfortable questions about his recent work. In mid-July, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams concluded that a lawsuit the Trump team filed against the IRS was "brought for an improper purpose" and tossed key portions of a proposed settlement. The same order referred one of the lawyers involved to the Florida Bar and directed that Epstein be denied pro hac vice admission in the Southern District of Florida for one year, according to Bloomberg Law.” https://hoodline.com/2026/07/trump-tied-lawyer-with-court-sanctions-lands-fiu-law-s-interim-dean-job-6970722/ We need to add another to Trump’s list of bankruptcies- the United States! We’re about to be his SEVENTH bankruptcy and a plurality of those who voted for him are the GUILTIEST people 🥊 Yes, true. And Some are just stupid & intellectually lazy. Others 1-issue voters who have no use for him but are anti-abortion, anti-trans etc. — Trump knows how to inspire the *wedge issue voters & harness their vote. I call most of them ‘The Gullibles’. Can we, the people, the American taxpayer, send Trump personally a bill for $5.1 billion dollars for the Qatari jet? Can we, the people, the American taxpayer, freeze Trump's personal assets until there is an investigation into his thievery? Scott Dworkin  3h We can't but we can make a new Congress do it!  Yes, how? How do I, just a regular person, get something in front of congress? I would like to freeze his assets until he is investigated to see how much money he stole from us for his self-worshipping vanity projects while taking food out of the mouths of children. AND, I would like to have an upper age limit for representatives. We seem to have an abundance of 70 and 80 year-olds in the House. I would like to see an upper age of 65 for president, 70 for senate and maybe 72 for congress. (I am 73, so this is not ageism). I know that these 70 and 80 year olds could not possibly be aware of what the younger world is like now. Especially people like Trump who has probably never pumped his own gas, bought his own groceries, or even paid a bill. I would also like to see that, in order to run for office (governor, congress, senate, vp or president) a person would have to live on $64,505 for six months or a year BEFORE running($64,505 is the average wage in the US right now). I cannot abide hearing Mike Johnson saying insider trading is okay because it is hard to support a family on $174,000 per year. Ohh! Wouldn't freezing DJT and family's assets be a thrilling day! Just the thought gives me goose bumps!!! :-) Keeping focused as the fails keep happening! BBC's lawsuit is making them sweat, the Trumpstein files deadline of 7/30 causing migraines, losing track of their lies....Tsk. tsk! And today's TACO Tuesday--which issue is he going to chicken out of this time? Good work, Scott! Fire Bari Weiss and assemble true journalists to bring integrity back to the network but that won’t happen with Ellison kissing trumpys ass Scott Dworkin  3h I would fire Bari for sure ! Seemingly every day finds more ways this regime is squandering our taxpayer monies for his own personal uses, his destruction and desecration of OUR White House and its grounds. Add to that his inciting and encouraging an insurrection, admitting only winnIng by rigging the elections, his unauthorized war, traitorous alliance with Putin and Netanyahu, both who think he's an ignorant but useful tool, and his other crimes including pedophilia. he needs to be thrown out of the White House before he does more damage to it. No. I would not fly on a plane without an emergency exit, but Trump should do so. They should have let him take his “vanity flight” home. CBS- First action should be to fire Bari Weiss. Next, restore 60 minutes’ honest and accurate reporting. We all deserve to know the truth.  Yes, and why has this T-affiliated lawyer been appointed a dean at one of our top public universities! TRUMP-TIED LAWYER WITH COURT SANCTIONS LANDS FIU LAW’S INTERIM DEAN JOB “According to the Miami Herald, Epstein emerged from a search process that categorized him in a lower tier and did not place him among the top 20 candidates. Provost Béjar ultimately labeled that search a failure, after which President Jeannette Nunez selected Epstein.”. “Epstein's appointment landed just as a separate legal episode raised uncomfortable questions about his recent work. In mid-July, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams concluded that a lawsuit the Trump team filed against the IRS was "brought for an improper purpose" and tossed key portions of a proposed settlement. The same order referred one of the lawyers involved to the Florida Bar and directed that Epstein be denied pro hac vice admission in the Southern District of Florida for one year, according to Bloomberg Law.” https://hoodline.com/2026/07/trump-tied-lawyer-with-court-sanctions-lands-fiu-law-s-interim-dean-job-6970722/ Regarding the cost for the Qatari jet… Something I read or listened to yesterday on Substack stated a figure close to $1 billion because of these added costs: training pilots to fly the aircraft. Also, I think they had to buy two other 747s, one which they dismantled for parts and maybe the other one was for the training… I don’t remember. If I bump into the post again, I’ll definitely post the link. Then of course you are reporting how they pirate funds from other accounts so that it won’t really show if there were to be an audit (heaven forbid!) or just a review of straight up accounting, which doesn’t seem to fit the M.O. of this administration. I don’t like that I’m expressing the above with a bit of a snarky tone and it’s not a great way to start the day… But the fight isn’t over even if you’re tired or you hear yourself leaning into snark so… I think I’ll take a deep breath, get to work, enjoy the sunshine and make a shift in the tone. Lol. Thank you so much, Scott, for every single post every single day. You hit on the topics that matter most in the moment, always current. Always. Grateful every day. You’re my very first go to along with Rob Hubbell because he posts after midnight these days and I’m trying to be better about bedtime. It’s my birthday today so I can’t be snarky! I’m 10 days younger than Tom Cleaver… We took up dialogue when I remarked about my dad‘s model airplanes hanging nose down all around the house when I was growing up… A P51 Mustang was hanging above my head each night and it actually became my favorite WWII aircraft. I like its proportions and lines. My dad was recruited right out of high school because of his prowess designing aircraft. How does one do that??! I cannot imagine. He worked at North American Aviation his entire career. The P51 came from North American. He sounds amazing — you were fortunate to have such an imaginative Dad!