One phone call from President Trump to his buddy Gianni Infantino and — boom — FIFA overturns a World Cup red card suspension for the first time in tournament history so U.S. star Folarin Balogun can play Belgium tomorrow.
Belgium is already furious and “astonished.” They should be. Contest this rigged nonsense publicly all day today and all day tomorrow.
The World Cup on American soil just became a Trump family business. So much for credibility, fairness, or rules. This stinks of corruption. ⚽📞🇺🇸
If Trump were innocent, Acting AG Todd Blanche wouldn't be violating federal law to hide the unredacted Epstein files from Katie Phang’s lawsuit.
Defying a court order is a blatant admission of guilt.
👏DO👏NOT👏LET👏THIS👏STORY👏DIE👏
Texas Attorney General, and now Republican nominee for the Texas Senate Ken Paxton gave his friend 28 days in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy.
He does not have to register as a sex offender.
He didn’t even lose his license to practice law.
It's weird to me how trump never lets go of a grudge, he still bitches about Obama, Biden, Hillary, and even Rosie O'Donnell for some reason.
He never says a word about any of the people who supposedly tried to assassinate him.
Nothing. Weird.
BREAKING: House Democrats are accusing President Trump of diverting donations intended for the bipartisan America250 commission to his own Freedom 250 organization.
According to the allegations, some donors were allegedly given banking information for the Trump-backed group instead of the congressionally authorized America250 initiative without their knowledge. Democrats argue that, if proven, the conduct could amount to wire fraud.
Americans deserve confidence that donations made to commemorate the nation's 250th anniversary go exactly where donors intended.
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So Don Jr can stand to gain hundreds of millions from an online handgun company he’s invested in after Trump lifts the nearly 100-year-old ban on mailing handguns - but Hunter Biden can’t sell a painting.
Liz Oyer, former Pardon Attorney, describes how Todd Blanche fired her when she refused to do a dangerous official favor for Trump friend Mel Gibson. The actor lost his federal firearm rights after committing domestic violence. Gibson assaulted his girlfriend while she was holding their baby daughter, smashing her in the mouth, breaking her teeth, threatening her with his gun. Gibson asked Trump’s DOJ to reinstate his federal firearm rights despite his criminal conviction. Although Blanche had the power to do it on his own, he tried to force Oyer to give her stamp of approval. Not convinced of Gibson’s rehabilitation or his lack of dangerousness, and knowing that over half of women murdered in the United States are killed by a current or past intimate partner, and the presence of firearms in an abusive household increases the risk of murder by 500%, Oyer refused to have anything to do with Blanche’s dangerous and unethical suggestion. Blanche sacked her.
The DOJ refused to turn over further Epstein files which were ordered by a federal judge to be released by July 2. 🤬 This is the biggest coverup by this corrupt administration. We have only seen 3 million of the 6 million files to date. https://t.co/ymhES3egdD
This is U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson. He was arrested today at the Capitol after calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump and JD Vance.
RETWEET if you are proud to stand with Major Watson!
So, Trump bombed Iran (while negotiating) because he didn't wanted them to have nuclear weapons. He threw out Obama's deal with Iran. He then proceeded to give Iran the same deal that they had with Obama. Except he's giving them more money than Obama's $1.7 billion dollars.
Trump's deal is for the same nuclear provisions, $24 billion in cash, plus $300 billion to rebuild the country he destroyed.
Trump's Deflection War cost the lives of 16 American soldiers. None died during Obama's deal.
Trump's incompetence put a strangle hold on the whole world.
One of Trump's college professors once said, "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had".
We definitely believe him.
By David Abbruzzes:
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."
Very well stated.