🚨Forget the tractor guy, Donald Trump pardoned David Gentile.
David Gentile, founder of GPB Capital, raised roughly $1.8 billion from more than 17,000 investors by promising steady returns from car dealerships and other businesses.
By 2018, the SEC and FBI were investigating after GPB stopped filing audited financial statements. Prosecutors later said investor money was used to pay older investors in a Ponzi-like setup while executives secretly enriched themselves.
In 2024, Gentile was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. Authorities said the collapse left investors facing around $1.6 billion in losses.
In 2025, Trump granted him clemency after Gentile had spent only about 12 days in prison.
🚨TRUMP IS NOT WELL
This rally is a bust. He’s seated. He’s mixing up major details.
He just claimed he pardoned a farmer in prison for seven YEARS for fixing a tractor. He was as a diesel mechanic in prison for seven MONTHS for tampering emissions. Trump’s mind is mush.
Trump lashes out at GOP Sen. Thom Tillis after Tillis said he won’t vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general unless Blanche condemns January 6:
“Senator Tillis is a loser. He’s an angry man because he’s not going to be a Senator any longer… He fought Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth turned out to be a gem…Todd Blanche is fantastic”
If by “gem” you mean arguably the worst secretary of defense in modern history, then sure.
This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.
Absolute clownery. We are at war. He’s not in the Middle East assuring allies, coordinating operations, or overseeing operations. No. He’s cosplaying as a real warrior. An Infantry officer who didn’t graduate Ranger School so he has to dress up like the actual qualified soldiers that did.
Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.
Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.
She fired him.
JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.
The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.
The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.
History will not remember either of us. But I know that history will record that the most disgraceful man ever to hold the office of President of the United States stood in Arlington, looked around, and asked: "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"
Trump is dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system that took a decade to build and was designed to run for 25 years.
When we need answers about our oceans and our climate, this network is where we get them.
More than 900 instruments sitting thousands of feet beneath the Pacific and Atlantic are the reason we can predict coastal flooding, protect our fisheries, and track how a warming ocean is changing our climate.
It’s also our eyes on a major Atlantic current that scientists fear is weakening. If that current collapses, it triggers catastrophic weather changes across the entire Northern Hemisphere.
There is no plan to store the equipment, there is no plan to replace the data, and the scientists who spent years learning how to operate it say that expertise cannot simply be passed on to the next person.
This Administration is not just cutting a program. It is making us permanently blind to threats we cannot afford to miss.
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Perhaps the most notable secretive medical absence involving an American politician centered on another New Jerseyan: President Woodrow Wilson, the state’s former governor.
After Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke, his wife, Edith, and his physician concealed his condition from the public.
“Together they chose what they believed best for Wilson personally rather than what was good for the country,” said Christopher Cox, a Republican former member of the House and author of “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn.”
“History teaches it is difficult for important elected officials to give up power and position when health issues compromise their ability to do the job,” Cox said. “In that sense, human nature hasn’t changed.” https://t.co/3osBewrq5G
Don Jr: "I don't think anyone with an IQ above about 3 doesn't think that we won the 2020 election now. They get that."
Fact-check: This is demonstrably false. (2025)
⚖️ A 25-year SSA veteran says officials weighed listing 2.7M living people as dead — citizens, teens, a widow on benefits. The file can do it with no judge, no notice. Who holds those keys? #TruthOverSpin#SocialSecurity
Trump made some statements about the riot on January 6th the other day. I thought I would pair it with some footage from the event he claimed was full of love. Over 140 law enforcement officers were injured that day some with life altering injuries. Several committed suicide.