The Great America Show - Mid-Day Update： May 14, 2026

A federal appeals court temporarily blocks Trump's $83 million payment to a woman who claimed Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room back in the 1990s. The Justice Department has officially declared war in the leftist bastion of the leftist DC Bar. The Trump DOJ files a complaint against D.C. s Disciplinary counsel and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel this afternoon. Rep. Federico Wilson has not voted on the House floor in nearly a month, missing 43 straight votes. The Senate passes a resolution that suspends senators' pay during a government shutdown, but it won't take effect until the day after the mid-terms.

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday, May 14th.

00:00:04.760 Happy Thursday, folks.

00:00:06.300 A federal appeals court this afternoon temporarily blocking Trump's $83 million payment to E.G. and Carroll.

00:00:12.560 In 2019, E.G. and Carroll alleged, we'll put quotation marks around that,

00:00:17.540 that Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf-Goodman dressing room back in 1990s,

00:00:22.400 which you cannot name the date or even the year that this allegedly took place.

00:00:25.940 the courts which are of course uh ripe with uh rogue judges and marxist leftists uh taking sides

00:00:34.000 with her with no evidence trump has of course denied the allegations and called eugene carroll

00:00:38.140 a total whack job who's not his type the jury decided that eugene carroll did not need to 0.60

00:00:43.340 prove that president trump raped her however that jury said eugene carroll proved trump sexually 0.98

00:00:47.640 abused her when he did sexual things to her with no evidence of course to it at all the manhattan

00:00:54.960 jury reached a verdict in this case, the defamation case, in 2023 and ordered Trump to pay her $5

00:01:00.460 million. The appeals court upheld that 2024 ruling of $5 million. In a separate defamation case brought

00:01:07.200 by E. Jean Carroll in 2024 of January, Trump was ordered to pay another $83.3 million in damages

00:01:13.380 to E. Jean Carroll. His efforts to assert immunity over the 2019 statements about Carroll were of

00:01:18.420 course rejected by the rogue courts. The second court of appeals temporarily blocking this payment

00:01:23.180 this afternoon with some conditions, as it allows President Trump to fight these ridiculous, absurd

00:01:29.220 allegations. Up on Capitol Hill, another missing lawmakers, folks. Democrat Congresswoman Federico

00:01:35.600 Wilson has not voted on the House floor in nearly one month. Wilson missed all 10 votes on Wednesday.

00:01:42.040 The 83-year-old Floridian has missed 43 straight votes. Wilson is also reportedly posting old

00:01:47.160 photos on her social media pages. Last month, it was reported that Congressman Tom Keene of New

00:01:51.880 jersey had missed more than 50 roll call votes speaker johnson told abc news that keen is dealing

00:01:56.820 with personal health matters tom keen eventually broke his silence and thanked his constituents

00:02:01.280 for their patients as he addressed his personal medical issues the lawmakers said he's expected

00:02:06.140 to return to a full schedule and be 100 as for federica wilson well she's missing in action and

00:02:13.180 of course uh taking a paycheck as she's doing that nice how it works like that right over on 1.00

00:02:19.680 the senate side the senate this afternoon unanimously approving a resolution to withhold

00:02:23.660 their pay during a government shutdown the resolution adopted by a voice vote was authored

00:02:27.940 by republican senator john kennedy of louisiana kennedy's resolution suspends senators pay during

00:02:33.080 a partial or full government shutdown he says it's called shared sacrifice the senator's salaries

00:02:39.160 will be held in escrow accounts during a government shutdown once the shutdown is over the lawmakers

00:02:44.040 will get their money the resolution however won't take effect until the day after the midterm

00:02:48.500 elections so the democrats can play games i guess until then and games they will play it's what they

00:02:55.380 do and border patrol chief mike banks abruptly resigning this afternoon according to fox news

00:03:00.260 banks telling fox news it's just his time he says he feels like he got the ship back on course

00:03:05.140 from the least secure disastrous chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever

00:03:09.820 seen he says it's now time to pass the reins 37 years and it's time to enjoy time with his family

00:03:15.900 time to enjoy his life. As we know, the Democrats don't make it easy for these elected servants or

00:03:22.240 unelected servants, in his case, to live a normal life. Banks says it was the honor of his lifetime

00:03:27.220 to serve his country in an email to his colleagues. President Trump tapped Mike Banks as border

00:03:31.700 patrol chief back in January of 2025. Banks was serving as his Texas border czar for Governor

00:03:37.140 Abbott when Trump appointed him as border patrol chief. His resignation is the latest shakeup in

00:03:41.760 the trump administration's immigration enforcement apparatus earlier this week it was reported

00:03:46.360 president trump has chosen dave ventarella to replace todd lyons as the new acting director

00:03:51.500 of ice and we hope that we can get those deportations back on track the justice department

00:03:57.640 has officially declared war in the radical leftist dc bar decades long of their abuse power

00:04:03.680 following a bombshell complaint against their disciplinary action and authorities

00:04:07.460 for illegally targeting federal government attorneys who dared serve President Trump.

00:04:12.720 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Trump DOJ filing a complaint this afternoon

00:04:16.920 against D.C. Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton P. Fox,

00:04:20.580 the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel,

00:04:22.620 and the D.C. Court of Appeals Board on professional responsibility.

00:04:26.760 Filing directly advances President Trump's executive order,

00:04:29.420 which is ending the weaponization of federal government

00:04:31.900 and its presidential memorandum on preventing abuses of the legal system and federal courts.

00:04:36.740 This lawsuit seeks to shut down D.C. Barr's unlawful prosecutions and persecutions of former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark, a Trump loyalist, a great American, friend of the show, who was targeted purely for his internal deliberations on the 2020 election fraud that remained the subject of ongoing litigation nearly six years later.

00:04:59.120 Just last week, the DOJ filed a statement of interest supporting former interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin,

00:05:04.380 who the D.C. Barr is trying to crucify for daring challenge DEI brainwashing at Georgetown Law Center.

00:05:11.020 Folks, these Marxist stems have no boundaries.

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00:05:24.020 I'm John Fawcett with this Midday Update.

00:05:25.880 Have a great day, everybody.

The Great America Show - May 14, 2026

Mid-Day Update： May 14, 2026

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