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BREAKING: VINDICTIVE RETALIATION! Trump's own administration just admitted under oath that it canceled $7.5 billion in clean energy grants to states that didn't vote for him. They finally admitted it. In their own words, in federal court. The Trump administration canceled more than $7.5 billion in clean energy grants last October, claiming it was rooting out waste. As anyone with a modicum of consciousness expected, that was a lie. Federal officials have now conceded, in court documents, that they terminated the funding "based solely" on whether the recipient states voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. Read that language again: "with one exception," a Department of Energy lawyer admitted, "the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris... and has two Democratic-caucusing senators." The lawyer further conceded none of it was based on "any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor." This isn't spin. This is the government confessing, under oath, to punishing Americans for how their state voted. The Energy Department had originally recommended canceling over 600 grants across BOTH red and blue states. But when Russell Vought's budget office got involved, hundreds of grants in Republican states were quietly left untouched, while projects in Democratic states — grid upgrades in California and Oregon, methane leak reduction in Colorado, clean hydrogen hubs in the Pacific Northwest — got axed. Vought even bragged about it publicly, framing it as killing "Green New Scam funding." This from a man who rivals Stephen Miller for the distinction of being the most evil person in the Trump administration — where there is admittedly quite a bit of competition for that title. This directly contradicts sworn congressional testimony from Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who told lawmakers in June: "No decisions were made on politics." That claim just collapsed in a courtroom. It certainly sounds like a perjury charge is warranted here. Senator Patty Murray and Representative Marcy Kaptur didn't mince words: "This is an astounding admission that the president and his team corruptly abused their power to kill good jobs and punish hard-working families because of their political views." And it's about to get worse. The administration is finalizing new rules giving Trump's political appointees direct control over more than $1 TRILLION in annual federal grants — with power to block funding that doesn't align with his political priorities. This isn't fiscal responsibility. It's a president using your tax dollars as a weapon against Americans who didn't vote for him and consolidating his authoritarian power. Please like and share if Trump’s lies and vindictiveness make you apoplectic! #RepublicanCostOfCorruption