The Lamplighter 🕯️

Keeping the light on for the republic. Veteran. Vigilance is the rent we pay for liberty. 🕯️

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The emoluments clause is supposed to prevent the President from receiving foreign bribes.

That hasn’t stopped Trump’s family from receiving about $13 billion in “investments” from foreign governments, especially in the Middle East.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

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DOJ letters threaten election officials with criminal prosecution: https://t.co/3hMZXuTOpF

[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

Eleven federal courts have tossed the DOJ's voter-roll lawsuits. It hasn't won one, per Votebeat. This week's move: criminal-prosecution threat letters to election officials in all 50 states and D.C., five days to answer. Utah's Republican Lt. Gov. calls it "truly bizarre." When you can't win in court, threaten the referees. #AccountabilityNow

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Source: NBC News — "ICE arrests increase significantly, marking a turn in immigration strategy" — https://t.co/wJiznWbiDA

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On America's 250th birthday, worth noting how it's being celebrated: ICE detained 10,000 people in five days after the White House set a quota of 2,000 arrests a day, per NBC News. No announcements this time — just the quota. The pattern continues. #AccountabilityNow

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Source: Washington Post — "Former Olympian faces felony charge over alleged Reflecting Pool vandalism" — https://t.co/M9rpWwQkqa

[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

The DOJ just won a felony indictment against a 67-year-old Olympic canoeist for allegedly ripping a piece of sealant in the Reflecting Pool. Up to 10 years, per the Washington Post. Assaulting police officers on January 6: pardoned, day one. Sealant: felony. #AccountabilityNow

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The empty fair has a paper trail. In today's House report: donors trying to give to America250 — the nonpartisan commission Congress created — were handed wire instructions that routed their money to Trump's Freedom 250 instead. Potential wire fraud, per the report. Of the $100 million Congress intended for the official commission, it's seen $25 million.

[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

@SecretaryWright China added 543 GW to its grid last year — 434 of it wind and solar, because nothing builds faster. The U.S. added 53. The Secretary of Energy is "thrilled" to quit a race we're losing 10 to 1. Beijing didn't have to lobby anyone.

[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

The federal seed is $1,000 — the program's own website projects that grows to about $6,000 by age 18. The "hundreds of thousands" scenario in the White House's own report assumes the family deposits the $5,000 maximum every single year. He's taking credit for other people's compounding.

[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

Moscow says last night's attack on Kyiv hit "key military plants." The actual hit list: 20 residential buildings, an ambulance station, six floors of an apartment block, more than 20 dead — the biggest bombardment of the capital in the entire war. 74 missiles and 496 drones. Hold it to the light and it falls apart.
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[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

Russia's war just passed 2 million casualties. CSIS: the worst losses of any major power in any war since WWII — nearly 8 Russian casualties for every Ukrainian one this year, and Russia now loses more men a month (30,000+) than it recruits (27,000). Putin can stop this any day. He won't. Link: https://t.co/bLqPhmZU38

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@SecretaryWright

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China added 543 GW to their energy grid last year — 434 of it renewables, because they're faster to build. We added 53. A 10:1 deficit. @SecretaryWright is "thrilled" to widen it.

#AccountabilityNow

[Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright]

I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for new wind and solar projects, thanks President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cut.

[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

The disclosure is the floor, not the ceiling. Per the WSJ, $500 million of World Liberty came from a firm tied to a UAE royal — signed four days before the inauguration — and the administration later cleared the UAE for 500,000 advanced AI chips a year. The grift has a paper trail. #AccountabilityNow

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@PressSec Same June jobs report: 57,000 jobs added — half the forecast — labor force participation at its lowest since March 2021, and 507,000 fewer people employed in a single month. The workforce isn't "becoming more American." It's becoming smaller.

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Hold it to the light and it falls apart. The "contribution to the country" came with a taxpayer-funded overhaul — congressional analysts traced $934 million moved from the Sentinel nuclear-missile program to pay for it — and the jet is slated for his presidential library when he leaves office. A gift to the country would stay with the country.

[The Lamplighter 🕯️ @LamplighterUS]

They called it "simplifying" student loans — sold as making college "more affordable." As of today the most generous plan (SAVE) is gone: 7 million+ borrowers pushed into plans NPR says "cost more." Many had a $0 payment. Simplified. Just not cheaper. #AccountabilityNow

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The White House ordered ICE to hit 2,000 arrests a day — before Trump took office it was about 300. Five days, 10,000 people. Among them: a nun in her habit, walking to Sunday Mass in Texas. A quota that size doesn't find the "worst of the worst." It grabs whoever's easiest. #AccountabilityNow

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