Alternet: The National Trust for Historic Preservation is blasting Trump’s claim that a foiled plot at the “open air” UFC event justifies Trump’s ballroom — noting the event wouldn't have fit inside it & that law enforcement disrupted the plot four days before it took place.🤡
ANTIFA secret agents used a box cutter, to cut a pattern in the Reflecting Pool, to make it look like the sealant bubbled up as a result of poor application, workmanship and planning.
Diabolical!
🚨🚨🚨 MS NOW just exposed that Trump’s rushed $14M Lincoln Memorial pool renovation completely fell apart in just three weeks!
Internal documents confirm ZERO evidence of vandalism, yet Trump blatantly lies to cover up his massive failure ⬇️
One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade.
The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing).
The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open.
Here's the story:
For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs.
So why isn't it open?
Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead.
In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it.
Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely.
It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.
Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth.
So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly.
Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.
Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.
So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.
1/ Here it is - in one🧵
There’s a reason Trump is so angry about his failure in the reflective pool and blaming everyone else…. He knows it does damage to his reputation.
So, let’s keep reminding people. The reflective diarrhea pool is his doing and his alone
Senate Republicans just blocked Jon Ossoff's bill to ban Members of Congress from trading cryptocurrency and stocks.
"We could go to any town, any county in Georgia, and ask anybody of either political party or no political party, 'Should Members of Congress be playing the stock market while we make legislation?' and overwhelmingly the answer would be no."