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More than 100 former judges have filed an ethics complaint against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging he has used the Justice Department to advance Donald Trump’s personal and political interests.
This is not a routine bar complaint.
Read more here: https://t.co/NaZ8Ga3N0F
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.
Think about that.
At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.
Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.
Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.
Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.
Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.
Governments usually spend money to build things.
This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j
The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely.
This is the Justice Department intervening on behalf of a polluter, against the people breathing the air it’s polluting.
That’s not protecting national security. That’s protecting Elon Musk.
Elon Musk just became a trillionaire. The community next to his data center is breathing smog-forming nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde.
https://t.co/WUnVaV6yfX
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Does anyone else notice that no matter how many folks are posting about the Epstein files, it never trends on X?
Trump's @TheJusticeDept quashed probe into clemency for fraudster—who bilked 10,000 Americans out of millions of $. Fraudster paid Catholic priest, @POTUS's friend, to lobby for commutation of 7-year sentence.
@RepRaskin@RepMikeLevin#corruption
https://t.co/RBqzB1t2gR
This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.
The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.
Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.
The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz
Just four Republicans joined us in signing the Epstein discharge petition to release the files. Today, the White House and DOJ are still obstructing the law.
Of those four Republicans: one left Congress after reported threats from the President and his supporters. One is being primaried in the most expensive Congressional race in American history to be held Tuesday. One, the President is now directly trying to recruit somebody to run against. And the other, is leaving Congress at the end of the year.
Make no mistake about what is happening—this is a direct cover-up of the Epstein case with straight-up intimidation tactics to stop it.
But our Congressional inquiry will continue—tomorrow with an interview with Tova Noel, who was one of the prison guards on duty the night of Epstein’s death.
We demand justice!
Jack Smith on Trump’s behavior on January 6, 2021: “He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on, and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s evidence for criminal intent in our case.” @Acyn (2025)
The story of the big tech companies getting into bed with Trump - giving him millions for his political and personal projects - in exchange for deals with the government, is a story you should know. I lay it out for you here.
Jared Kushner should have filed a financial disclosure weeks ago.
He should be resolving his conflicts of interest.
Instead, he's steering foreign policy while taking billions from foreign countries.
It's outrageously unethical.
@mattvanswol@BernieSanders But you're entirely missing the point. No one is saying we should destroy CVS. While Big Pharma and pharmaceutical distribution need urgent reform in terms of price-gouging, the United States is the ONLY major Western country without universal, paid healthcare.
@BadAceMike@BernieSanders These same corporations & their oligarchic stakeholders pay Congress to skew tax deductions so that they don't have to pay income tax. Just because CVS generates balance sheets with paper losses doesn't mean they have no income. If they had none, they'd be defunct, right?