Gay Fawn Knauf

[Gay Fawn Knauf @GayFawn]

Spread Kindness!!!

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Boycott every fucking thing on CBS News. From the morning all the way through to the evening. These are the same people that fired Stephen Colbert because Trump got his feelings hurt by a comedian. These people are the biggest bunch of pussies that masquerade with these grandstanding letters like they’re such badasses. These people don’t care about the truth, they don’t care about journalism, they don’t care about the Constitution, they don’t care about a free press. It’s just absolutely devastating what these oligarchs have done to our country”

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Pay attention.

Late last night the Trump-packed Supreme Court issued an UNSIGNED order to help Republicans erase Black voters and keep a congressional seat.

The Court's legitimacy is earned and they are burning it to the ground.

MAGA is rigging our democracy in real time!

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Donald Trump wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars building a monument to himself at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery, where generations of America's fallen heroes have been laid to rest.

Today I stood with two veterans whose families are buried at Arlington to say what Republicans on the Appropriations Committee refused to: this is a desecration of our most hallowed ground, and it has to be stopped.

[Gay Fawn Knauf @GayFawn]

@MarshaBlackburn @MarshaBlackburn-How many more billions does the Trump Family need, how many more golf courses, how many more hotels, mansions, yachts, etc.???
While the Republican party is allowing this. Taking away the working class, senior citizens, veterans, kids, other countries, etc.???

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Arlington is the most sacred ground in America, where 400,000 of our fallen rest.

And Trump wants to build a 250-foot arch at its gates, taller than the Lincoln Memorial. Don’t take my word for who it’s for. When CBS asked him directly, Trump pointed at himself and said: “Me.”

That’s the whole story. Not the fallen. Not the country. Him.

Those buried at Arlington didn’t give their lives so one man could build a monument to himself at their gates. Congress must not allow it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I swear to God we are living in Idiocracy. Everyday I think 'This can't be real.' But it is.
You couldn't write a satirical movie like the insane shitshow we are being forced to live through in real life.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning.

Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.

Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square.

Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020.

Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square.

Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately.

Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state.

Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration.

Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US.

Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.)

Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026.

Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite.

Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director.

Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America.

Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct.

Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.*

Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it.

More details: https://t.co/NtFk7PUfwN

[Gay Fawn Knauf @GayFawn]

@christopherrufo Trump used his executive clemency power to wipe out a historic $1.5 billion in criminal restitution, corporate fines, & financial debts owed by convicted white-collar fraud artists to the U.S. Treasury and private fraud victims.

[Gay Fawn Knauf @GayFawn]

@RepTimBurchett Executive branch staff and Trump himself frequently use official channels to promote Trump-owned properties, signaling that access to the highest levels of government can be bought via commercial patronage.

[Gay Fawn Knauf @GayFawn]

@RepTimBurchett Political action committees, foreign delegations, & corporate entities have funneled millions into Trump properties to host events. High-dollar fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago for PACs like MAGA Inc. charged between 1 million & 1.5 million per plate for access to the administration.

[Gay Fawn Knauf @GayFawn]

@RepTimBurchett Trump launched a personal cryptocurrency token project just prior to his inauguration & then signed executive orders making cryptocurrency a national priority, inflating his own assets. His personal net worth skyrocketed to over $6 billion, heavily driven by cryptocurrency.

[Gay Fawn Knauf @GayFawn]

@ChrisMurphyCT The Trump Administration reminds me of "The Patchwright", a cast of gobblins.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Pulte's only qualification is that he is willing to abuse his authority to destroy Trump's political enemies.

He has zero national security experience. He's going to DNI to spy on Trump's opponents ahead of the election.

Period. Stop.

And Trump doesn't care if you know it.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Trump is hurting students, families, and teachers by ripping important programs out of the Education Department.

We must protect students and save our schools.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Corrupt insiders are getting rich off of Trump's war.

It's depraved and it's unacceptable.

Those who have abused the public trust MUST be held to account.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

ALBANIA — Seems like it should be a bigger deal that Ivanka Trump & Kushner’s luxury resort project is being massively protested, with the people demanding the PM’s resignation and firebombing homes over the corruption of their project partners.🤷🏼

The Trump grift is endless.

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

At a time when the U.S. is at war and the threats to national security loom large, we need a Director of National Intelligence who is knowledgeable, experienced, and respected.

Bill Pulte is none of these things.

He politicized and weaponized the housing agencies and will do the same in the intelligence community.

And Americans will be less safe as a result.