Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.
The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.
It had fewer than 50 employees.
And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.
Here is the part the administration tried to bury.
Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.
One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.
Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.
A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.
This is public money. Your money.
Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.
And there is more coming.
A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.
This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.
https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE
RFK Jr. Either thinks
A. Those are the genitals of large male animals and he's trying to collect them to study alongside his raccoon genitals
B. Those are 2 of his brain worms that escaped because they had no brains to consume in his empty skull
Curious how @Nigel_Farage & https://t.co/uKZzZYvRKL co-founder @Arron_banks (major UKIP donor) are in Epstein files a lot.
Both were some of the first Brit politicians to visit
President-elect Donald Trump. Arron planned to bring Trump's 'drain the swamp'
agenda to the UK
This is Adam Hoffman, a 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney. He faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy. Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He gets out in June.
Not an immigrant. Not a trans person. Not a Black or brown person. Every MAGA accusation is a confession.
Full story: https://t.co/cU1WnZK2pT
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DHS Inspector General just opened an audit into a $38 billion warehouse-to-detention scheme that Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski rammed through.
ICE bought 11 vacant warehouses in a matter of months, paying 11 to 13 percent above market value.
The properties weren’t even zoned for detention. No working plumbing for thousands of detainees. But Noem and Lewandowski pressured ICE to open them by year’s end anyway.
The result? At least $1 billion already spent on nine facilities. Nearly 50 contractors paid $1.7 billion since Trump took office.
Companies with zero immigration detention experience suddenly winning massive federal contracts.
One firm that didn’t even exist until June 2024 got a $6 million DHS contract this January.
Noem is gone.
Lewandowski is gone.
But the bill is still landing on the taxpayer, and the IG investigation is just getting started.
Accountability cannot end when the perpetrators walk out the door.
Every contract needs scrutiny.
Every dollar needs to be traced.
Every official who steered money to inexperienced contractors needs to answer under oath.
https://t.co/GGvxSniGqM
Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke
LOL Stephen Colbert is making his band play licensed music during his final show so CBS – who fired him – will get sued and have to pay millions
"Anyone illegally using that music is gonna have to pay through the nose--"
[band starts playing]
"Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!"
A white supremacist group is facing a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a real estate broker who says she was barred from purchasing property in their rural Arkansas community because of her Jewish ancestry, Black husband, and biracial children. https://t.co/j8yVQC8wBT
Americans went from paying the MOST anywhere in the world for medications to paying the LOWEST drug prices for anybody in any country.
All we needed was a new president.
🚨 JUST IN: Trump Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just WALKED OUT at the G7 for a group photo after telling our allies to STEP IT UP and help economically devastate Iran
Bessent is one of my favorite Cabinet picks!
The man is an economic ASSASSIN. Every country dreads being his enemy 🔥
Let me dust off my crystal ball and explain what's going to happen here.
Iran is going to lose this war. Their ability to terrorize the region will be over. This will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East. Hezbollah and Hamas will be eliminated.
Once the war ends, which should be within the next weeks or so, gas prices will fall to their lowest levels in years. All of the recent stock market losses will recover and more.
Once Hamas is gone, places like Gaza will be rebuilt to rival the beauty of Dubai.
The Republicans will win the House and the Senate in the midterms.
MAGA will dominate DC for a generation.
And that's the way it is.
Elon Musk’s “baby mama” Ashley St. Clair is accusing Elon Musk of rigging the 2024 election using lasers, satellites, and space technology.
She says she has a dead man’s switch if anything happens to her.
“In October, Elon told me he was ready to release his ‘anomaly in the matrix.’”
“He said he has 10K lasers in space,” referring to his satellites.
“This is not a piece they’ll see on the chess board.”
Wonder if @RudyGiuliani will unblock me before it's too late. Have some questions about Borat, 4 Season's landscaping, sexual misconduct and all the other corrupt schemes he played a huge role in with Trump
@ProjPM@MilitaryMedicin@CombatBeat@HackingButLegal@FBI@walterkirn@jgmac1106@VelvetBlade Yeeesh, I've not known of any legitimate ties to matters concerning Thiel, Epstein or Flynn. I assumed folks you are referring to were just larping online to feel important, but I may be wrong. Also, i pretty much publicly shared everything on N and L if that's who you mean?
The dedication of President Trump’s gold statue is the most inspiring event in American history since Christ’s Sermon on the Mound. Now we are all free to publicly worship our chosen savior without fear of persecution, just as scripture commanded us.