We have a new lawsuit against the Trump regime to tell you about.

Here are the basics:

• As you are no doubt aware, in October, Donald Trump had the entire East Wing of the White House demolished.

• In its place, he intends to erect a humongous gilded ballroom — the estimated cost of which was initially $200 million, then $300 million, and now $400 million. Don’t be surprised if it rises to a billion or more before all is said and done.

• All so Donald Trump can curry favor with billionaire CEOs and try to impress the authoritarian foreign leaders he longs to emulate.

• Two days after demolition of the East Wing began, Public Citizen — under the Freedom of Information Act — called for the administration to publicly release records related to the construction of the ballroom.

• In defiance of the law, Trump officials have refused to do so.

• So we are taking them to court.

As Wendy Liu, the Public Citizen attorney leading this lawsuit, told the national media, “The Trump administration is withholding information that the American people have a right to know.”

Public Citizen’s Jon Golinger, who submitted the Freedom of Information Act request, added:

“The American people have the right to know who’s doing what to the People’s House, and we are going to find the facts.”

By the way, this is the 25th lawsuit Public Citizen has filed against the administration since Donald Trump returned to power almost one year ago.

Are these lawsuits alone enough to fully defeat Trump and MAGA? Of course not. But are they a meaningful part of the pushback that is the only chance we have to collectively save our country? No doubt about it.

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