Mike

Husband, Dad, Grandpa. Proud Americans need to come together.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Your regular reminder that the president's family company seeking a bank charter from an agency that the president himself appointed the head of is an outrageous conflict of interest.
https://t.co/QNm5xxaG3Z

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The OCC is expected to approve the Trump family's application for a national bank trust charter, which would allow their crypto firm to operate like a bank.

That could help the Trump family make even more money. It's an ethical outrage.

https://t.co/QNm5xxaG3Z

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

Corruption has ALWAYS been the plan….

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

SCOOP from @By_CJewett & me:

Markwayne Mullin urged @HHSGov to remove warnings from the @US_FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom.

Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited. https://t.co/rzkImei3VI

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: What is the intention of this USPS proposal? 

Secretary Griswold: “The intention, I believe, is to SUPPRESS THE VOTE. It’s to allow Trump to try to federalize elections, to put his thumb on who gets a ballot and who doesn’t get a ballot…Trump has been going after voter data on American voters since the beginning of his first term. The DOJ…last year started to request this data…I told them to take a hike, suddenly they are suing us. Then Trump tried to push Congress to pass a voter suppression bill to collect all this data. That went nowhere. Then he issues his second unconstitutional executive order on elections, specifically on mail ballots. It directs DHS to pull together a list of who’s eligible and who’s not…and then states would have to send USPS our list of approved voters. And on top of that, the DOJ is in the background directed through Trumps executive order to investigate any election official who takes part in supposedly sending a ballot to someone not on Trump’s voter list. The whole thing is unconstitutional. It’s one more way that Trump is trying to put his finger on this elections. We are going to fight back. Colorado and many states are fighting back already and I look forward for the executive order and this bogus rule-making to be stopped.” 😳

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

DOE Sec. Chris Wright said that his agency did not aim to punish states that Trump lost the 2024 election in when it canceled clean energy projects in them.

BUT his lawyers said otherwise—causing a judge to order the grants be restored.
https://t.co/bROiKVe33D

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The fact that Jared Kushner is developing multi-billion dollar real estate projects in foreign countries as he's also serving as Trump's special envoy for peace is absolutely unethical.
https://t.co/3HDFicIkYU

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

Corruption IS the plan…

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

We don’t talk enough about how autocrats view taxpayer dollars—not as public resources to serve the people, but as a pot of gold to enrich themselves and their allies. Their focus isn’t public welfare; it’s personal profit and power.

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

Wow…!

[Mr. Potato Head ⚡️ @MrPotatoHeadUSA]

The International Moth is a development sailing class known for decades of innovation and its ability to hydrofoil above the water.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The DOJ is keeping the part of Trump's IRS settlement in place that shields Trump, his family and his businesses from IRS audits

This is outrageously corrupt. Don't let it fly under the radar.

CREW President Donald Sherman breaks it down.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

This may be the most compelling podcast interview I’ve watched in years.

Not because it’s polished.

Not because it’s politically correct.

But…because it’s raw, authentic…and brutally honest.

Hunter Biden spends hours doing something almost no public figure dares to do anymore:

speaking without a script…a consultant…or a filter.

Whether you agree with him …or not…is irrelevant.

What matters is that he sounds human.

In an age of manufactured messaging and rehearsed soundbites…that’s rare.

The conversation is fascinating…emotional, unpredictable…and impossible to ignore.

A masterclass in authenticity.

https://t.co/sNZrSb13gK

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

The Fart and the Squeals…

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

The Art Of The Deal is apparently giving Iran 300 billion dollars to open negotiations for 60 days. Trump and Hegseth have no idea what they are doing. Trump has no cards. #DemsUnited

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

Corruption has ALWAYS been the plan.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump’s White House UFC fight this weekend has required more than seven federal agencies, hundreds of staff working onsite daily and at least $60 million, according to a legal filing.

Quite a use of government resources for fight night. 🤔
https://t.co/YacVRCCkwU

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

@SwearingSport Nice…

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

@Rainmaker1973 Wow…

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

Corruption has always been the plan..

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Back in March, we reported that an Indian conglomerate called Reliance Industries—owned by the richest person in Asia—paid Trump $10 million before he took office, and kept getting wins from the Trump admin this year. Well…the plot thickens 🧵

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

Odd…? It seems consistent.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Does anyone else think it’s just a bit odd that Jay Clayton, the prosecutor put in charge of the Epstein investigation, the same one Pam Bondi pointed to over and over in her testimony released just last week, was just nominated by Trump to run the entire intelligence community? https://t.co/w1PrEO92Hj

[Dow @mark_dow]

Update:

2014: Trump says Obama will launch a war in Iran because he's not a good enough negotiator to get a deal with them

2015: Obama, gets a deal with them, with the backing of the EU, China, and Russia

2018: Trump cancels deal bc it was Obama's. Says he can negotiate a better one

2018-2020: Trump can't negotiate one. Arms control experts and Trump officials start to grumble that scrapping Obama's deal was probably a bad idea

2025: Trump still can't negotiate a deal

2025: Israel launches an attack on Iran. Drags Trump in. Trump claims Iran's nuclear capacity was wiped out

2026: Trump launches a war on Iran, citing the need to wipe out Iran‘s nuclear capacity

March-Nov 2026: Trump repeats 'new deal any day now' every two weeks

Nov 2026: Trump still can't negotiate a deal

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

I recommend reading the New York Times piece “Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files,” by Haberman and Swan. Briefly, it documents how the Epstein files triggered an internal crisis in the Trump White House: Vance calling it a “huge problem,” senior aides holding repeated Situation Room meetings (often without Trump) over a political scandal, officials pushing transparency moves like unsealing grand jury records that they privately knew would produce nothing new, discussions about deploying the imprisoned Ghislaine Maxwell to publicly defend Trump, and internal warfare between Bondi, the FBI and others over messaging. Throughout, the dominant fear was losing the MAGA base, not anything Democrats might do. 

And here is what struck me reading it. Across all those Situation Room meetings, in a room normally reserved for wars and terrorist attacks, not one item on the agenda was the victims. Not one discussion about fulfilling legal obligations to disclose, not one about identifying who committed crimes, not one attempt to document what actually happened to the girls at the center of the case. The “transparency” strategies were chosen precisely because they would reveal nothing. The one Epstein insider they considered putting in front of a camera was a convicted trafficker, and her job would have been to defend the president.

An entire administration mobilized its crisis machinery around a child sex trafficking scandal, and the only victim anyone in the building was trying to save was themselves.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Mike @MgambeeMike]

Things to aspire to…