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Secret Audio of Justice Alito’s Wife Exposes His Plans and Her ‘Bitterness’: Critics

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Secretly-recorded audio of a candid and uninhibited conversation with Martha-Ann Alito, whose husband is the far-right Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, during which she exposed her apparent anti-LGBTQ bias, bragged about how she spends time planning revenge on her critics, and appeared to reveal her husband’s possible retirement plans has stunned political experts and court-watchers alike.

Documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor, posing as a conservative Catholic at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3, also secretly recorded her conversations with both Justice Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. Windsor, who some label an “activist,” caught Justice Alito saying he believes there are “fundamental” differences between the left and the right that “can’t be compromised,” and agreeing the nation needs to return to “godliness.”

Last month Justice Alito was the subject of outrage, at least on the left, when The New York Times revealed flags associated with the January 6, 2021 insurrection and the “Stop the Steal” conspiracy had been flying at two of his homes. Alito pinned the blame on his wife while not acknowledging them as symbols of groups who attacked the U.S. Capitol and American democracy, in support of Donald Trump. The Justice has refused to recuse himself from any cases involving the attack on the Capitol or involving Donald Trump, leaving legal exerts to say he appears to be violating an unenforceable judicial code of conduct.

“You know what I want?” Martha-Ann Alito tells Windsor in that secretly-recorded audio (below). “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.”

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Rolling Stone, which had exclusive access to Windsor’s audio, called that “the most jarring moment in the recording.”

Mrs. Alito also shared her apparent passion for revenge, spite, and yes, judgment.

Speaking of her husband, Alito told Windsor, “He’s like, ‘Oh, please don’t put up a flag.’ I said, ‘I won’t do it because I am deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m gonna send them a message every day, maybe every week, I’ll be changing the flags.’ They’ll be all kinds. I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It’s white and has yellow and orange flames around it. And in the middle is the word ‘vergogna.’ ‘Vergogna’ in Italian means shame — vergogna. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A. Vergogna.”

“Shame, shame, shame on you,” Mrs. Alito added.

Some have said her “when you are free of this nonsense” comment reveals the justice’s plans to retire, likely when there is a Republican in the White House. Windsor also wrote, “Alito is 74. She made that comment and another that imply they are eyeing his retirement.”

Rolling Stone also parenthetically noted that, “Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled that businesses can discriminate against LGBTQ customers.”

In earlier remarks, Martha-Ann Alito told Windsor, “the Femnazis believe that [Justice Alito] should control me.”

“So they’ll go to hell. He never controls me.”

When the audio first dropped Monday evening, this was the segment that appeared to many to be the most disturbing:

“Look at me, look at me,” Martha-Ann Alito told Windsor. “I’m German. I’m from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you. And there will be a way — it doesn’t have to be now — but there will be a way they will know. Don’t worry about it. God — you read the Bible. Psalm 27 is my psalm. Mine. Psalm 27, the Lord is my God and my rock. Of whom shall I be afraid? Nobody.”

Rolling Stone reports, “Mrs. Alito has for years harbored a disdain and bitterness towards others in the D.C. elite, whom she has bashed for supposedly excluding or shunning her and her husband, and for being too mean about them and their unabashedly conservative beliefs. Sources add that Mrs. Alito also has a longstanding reputation in influential GOP circles for ranting about politics, the culture wars, the Left, and the burning grudges she’s nursed since at least the George W. Bush era.”

“Commenting on the Alito family’s dynamic,” Rolling Stone continued, “a well-connected GOP lawyer says that Justice Alito ‘is like if you turned National Review into a single person.’ Martha-Ann Alito, the lawyer says, ‘talks like if Breitbart assumed a human vessel … They’re the Washington couple of Donald Trump’s dreams.'”

Writer Charlotte Clymer, a former press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, response to the audio of Martha-Ann Alito by saying, “The Alitos’ hatred of LGBTQ people is so visceral.”

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“The Alitos seem very invested in Trump winning so that Sam can retire and MarthaAnn can let her freak flags fly (literally) in order to antagonize their gay neighbors,” observed journalist Brian Beutler.

Attorney George Conway mocked Martha-Ann Alito: “At the nation’s highest court, it was a tradition: go to a Supreme Court Historical Society event, grab a glass of wine, and talk to a total stranger about your shared apocalyptic religious and political worldview. But now the woke mob has taken all that away.”

Journalist, author, and SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile remarked, “Martha-Ann Alito is a homophobic monster and thinks nothing of confirming her hate to a complete stranger.”

MSNBC/NBC News legal contributor and correspondent Katie Phang commented, “Martha-Ann Alito got that ‘vergogna’ right. She and her husband bring shame to the highest court in the land.”

Listen to Windsor’s conversation with Martha-Ann Alito below or at this link.

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Trump ‘Laser-Focused’ on Affordability Says White House After Calling It a ‘Hoax’

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The White House says President Donald Trump has been “laser-focused on making America affordable” since taking office. Just one month ago, President Trump called affordability a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats.

President Trump has recently attempted to preserve his sweeping tariffs amid Supreme Court review, has engaged in foreign policy messaging involving Venezuela, Iran, and Greenland — including promoting himself as the “acting President of Venezuela” — and has responded sharply to protests involving federal officers.

The president campaigned on lowering the cost of living on “day one,” but nearly 51 weeks into his second term, inflation remains high.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that the president would travel to Detroit on Tuesday to deliver a speech about “all of the positive economic news that we continue to see as a result of his agenda.”

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“So tomorrow, he looks forward to traveling to the great state of Michigan, a state he won big, to not only tour a factory that produces Ford F-150s, and is going to be hiring more, and producing more trucks right here in the USA because of President Trump’s effective tariff policies,” Leavitt said.

Trump narrowly won Michigan, taking less than half of the vote and besting Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.4 percentage points.

Leavitt said that “mortgage rates that are falling under 6% for the first time in years,” “the national average of gasoline is the lowest that it’s been in five years,” and core inflation is “at its lowest level in five years.”

She suggested that “with a little bit of patience, the American people are going to continue to see that the best is yet to come,” and claimed that Trump “has a proven economic formula that works.”

Leavitt also said that Trump has a housing plan “in the works” and a healthcare plan “in the works,” and vowed that Americans will “continue to hear from the president, and he’ll continue to hit the road across the country to speak directly with the people he loves most, the American people.”

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Trump DOJ Fires Attorney Who Refused to Prosecute James Comey

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The Trump Department of Justice has terminated a 64-year old attorney, the number-two official in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, after he refused to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey in a highly-controversial case.

MS NOW on Monday reported that Robert McBride, a senior DOJ prosecutor and former Navy lawyer, “was brought into the prominent satellite office of the Justice Department to serve as first assistant to U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and took a more prominent role as her status was in question and after a judge ruled in late November that she was not legally appointed to run the office.”

McBride reportedly had held private meetings with judges, MS NOW reported, calling it a move that was “viewed as undermining the Administration.”

He had declined to prosecute Comey, sources said, reportedly telling top Justice Department officials that it would be difficult to do that and also run the office.

MS NOW’s Carol Leonnig added that McBride was also suspected of “gunning for” the top job.

The New York Times reported that there was a “disagreement about whether he would take charge of the Trump administration’s effort to re-indict James B. Comey,” and called McBride’s firing “the latest development in the fallout in the Justice Department over President Trump’s effort to punish Mr. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and his longtime nemesis, whom the president blames for past investigations of his conduct.”

The Times added that meeting with judges is considered “commonplace.”

 

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‘Screwed’: Trump Warns Supreme Court on Tariffs

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With many Americans awaiting a Supreme Court decision on the sweeping Trump tariffs and some experts believing the Court will rule on them any day nowpossibly as soon as Wednesday — the president is once again sending a clear warning to the justices: allow the tariffs or America is “screwed.”

During the November oral arguments, liberal and conservative justices appeared skeptical of the administration’s claim it has the power to impose global tariffs by declaring a national emergency.

President Trump has repeatedly said the tariffs are necessary for national security, and said that if the court does not allow them the U.S. would be in no position to give refunds of billions of dollars. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent late last week said refunds “won’t be a problem.”

Trump on Monday appeared to disagree.

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“The actual numbers that we would have to pay back if, for any reason, the Supreme Court were to rule against the United States of America on Tariffs, would be many Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday afternoon. It is possible the Court could rescind the Trump tariffs and not require refunds.

The president then added that “the amount of ‘payback’ that Countries and Companies would require for the Investments they are making on building Plants, Factories, and Equipment, for the purpose of being able to avoid the payment of Tariffs. When these Investments are added, we are talking about Trillions of Dollars!”

He claimed any negative ruling would create “a complete mess,” and make it “almost impossible for our Country to pay.”

Despite his Treasury Secretary’s remarks, Trump added, “Anybody who says that it can be quickly and easily done would be making a false, inaccurate, or totally misunderstood answer to this very large and complex question.”

“It may not be possible but, if it were, it would be Dollars that would be so large that it would take many years to figure out what number we are talking about and even, who, when, and where, to pay,” he claimed.

And he warned point-blank, “if the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this National Security bonanza, WE’RE SCREWED!”

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