Florida Judge’s Ruling on Trump’s Self-Dealing Lawsuit is Yet Another Reason Senate Should Reject Todd Blanche ⁠96%

By Newswire Editor⁠94%

7/13/2026, 7:23:57 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Biased Writer Voice, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 88.8% saturation with 284 hits. Analysis detected 1,477 faulty-reasoning hits from 320 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠96% (983 of 21,176 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.40% of the article peer group.

Today, U.S. 
District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that President Trump’s lawsuit asking for $10 billion from the IRS was manufactured to justify a “settlement” that included a nearly $1.8B slush fund to reward political allies. 
Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert, co-presidents of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: 
“Donald Trump had the brilliant idea of suing the government he runs and resolving the lawsuit with the creation of an illegal and unconstitutional nearly $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for at taxpayer expense and likely to be distributed to January 6 insurrectionists, among others, as well with as an immunity deal protecting Trump and his family from IRS investigation. 
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was a willing participant in this fraud on the court and the American people. 
“Trump and the DOJ tried to remove the issue from the court in which Trump originally filed the sham lawsuit but now Judge Williams has had her word. 
In a devastating order, she finds that ‘This lawsuit was not brought to vindicate rights; it was brought to manipulate the judicial process to pursue benefits unavailable in litigation because the Parties were not adverse.” 
The abuse is so severe that she has ordered the bar to consider sanctions against Trump’s attorney; ordered that Trump and DOJ never again refer to their collusive deal as a ‘settlement;’ and authorized amicus filers in the case — including Public Citizen — to seek attorneys fees. 
“Crucially, Judge Williams finds that the abuse is committed equally by Trump’s private lawyers and the Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice, with DOJ’s conduct ‘equally untenable.’ 
Blanche’s DOJ ‘disregarded DOJ policies, and accomplished objectives beyond those authorized, as well as those specifically prohibited, by law.’ 
“If the Senate needed an additional reason not to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, it just got it.” 
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320 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers46%attributed speech172writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 100.0% coveragePublic Citizen • 15 words • 100.0% coverageRobert Weissman • 60 words • 100.0% coverageRobert Weissman • 19 words • 100.0% coverageLisa Gilbert • 28 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 48 words • 100.0% coverageLisa Gilbert • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverage
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Robert Weissman

100%flagged-word coverage
79 attributed words53% of attributed speech99% writer coverage
0%40.0%80.0%Biased Writer Voice-52.7 ptsWriter: 76.7%Robert Weissman: 24.1%24.1%Indoctrination+64.9 ptsWriter: 11.0%Robert Weissman: 75.9%75.9%Politically Left Leaning B-56.4 ptsWriter: 56.4%Robert Weissman: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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