#Truth written by @tomredwords back in Feb. #2020VISION Too bad the people who need to read this won’t.
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A Call For Sanity: Trump Is Not Your Savior by @TomRedTweets https://t.co/prss3sWPas
@ByronDonalds Bless your heart. “Dum” puppet.
& @kwelkernbc you just let him say untruths. Unchecked. “Obamacare” was crippled&destroyed by republicans. Healthcare is already “rationed”.Only the wealthy get it.&that’s how they want it. They don’t want to stand in line with us.
@ByronDonalds Bless your heart. “Dum” puppet.
& @kwelkernbc you just let him say untruths. Unchecked. “Obamacare” was crippled&destroyed by republicans. Healthcare is already “rationed”.Only the wealthy get it. &that’s how they want it. They don’t want to stand in line with the poor people.
BREAKING: SUSPECT! Pete Hegseth's wife under ethics SCRUTINY over consulting payments tied to a major Pentagon contractor.
While Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon (poorly, we must say), his wife reportedly has a front-row seat to all he does, and she’s been collecting consulting money from a firm that works for one of its biggest contractors.
According to POLITICO, Jennifer Hegseth disclosed that she was paid for consulting by Watchtower Strategy, an influential Trump-aligned public affairs firm. One of Watchtower’s clients is Lockheed Martin. Public records show the federal government paid Lockheed more than $66 billion during the fiscal year she was paid.
This wouldn’t matter much if she were just a Cabinet spouse staying out of her husband’s work. She isn’t.
The Daily Beast describes her as an unofficial adviser to her husband who has embedded herself in daily Defense Department operations. The New York Times reported that in late 2024, before his confirmation hearing, she attended closed-door meetings with Republican senators and sat in on interviews with people who wanted jobs under him. Some senior officials and politicians told the Times her closeness to sensitive defense conversations was “not normal.”
There’s a family connection too. Her father was a Lockheed Martin executive. He died in 2009. The Pentagon says everything is fine. They would, wouldn’t they?
Spokesperson Sean Parnell said the couple is “in full compliance with all ethics laws and regulations.” He called any suggestion otherwise “ridiculous slander.” He also said the department works to “ensure senior leaders are completely screened” from private interests. He did not say whether Jennifer has been screened for a security clearance, which is a strange thing to leave out about someone sitting in on Pentagon business.
A spokesperson for Watchtower told POLITICO that “it should be no surprise” a public affairs firm would want to work with a former Fox News star producer.
The reporting doesn’t show that the money influenced any Pentagon decision, and it doesn’t say how much she was paid. But it doesn’t need to. Conflict-of-interest rules exist to prevent exactly this situation: a defense contractor’s consultants paying someone with a direct line to the defense secretary.
It’s also part of a pattern under Hegseth. His department just handed a no-bid extension to Raytheon, a company that admitted defrauding taxpayers. It paid $533 million for an artillery plant that produced no shells. And it spends its energy chasing generals over supposed leaks instead of chasing contractors over fraud.
Jennifer Hegseth said on a podcast that once her husband got the job, “We were ready to serve in any capacity.” Apparently, that includes on a consulting payroll.
With Democrats about to hold subpoena power, the Hegseths may soon have to explain all of this under oath. Whether it will be before or after Pete Hegseth faces an impeachment motion remains to be seen.
Please like and share if you think that this is all too fishy to accept Hegseth’s denials!
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Liz Cheney: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
I'm less impressed by how @ossoff speaks (though he's terrific at that too) and more impressed by what he says.
This 2-minute clip is the best explanation of Trump corruption that I've ever heard. His explanation of the Russian dirty deals is so accurate and so clear. He knows the facts cold. And he explains them better than I can.
"Republicans broke almost every promise they made."
Thomas Massie says he was removed from Congress because he exposed the Republican Party's failure to honour campaign promises. He points to the Epstein files, the pledge to avoid new foreign wars and promises to cut government spending as commitments he tried to enforce through legislation.
This is one of the finest, most powerful television ads I've every seen. Do American a favor and share this everywhere.
Heart, not policy papers.
Love, not hate.
Hope, not fear.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Ossoff: "Maybe you saw that Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday, oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one enduring two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its 5 month high"
@FoxNews As always. Complete projection. Donald. The biggest king of the “total con man” ever. His own defining traits. His own playbook. Donald says something then says he was kidding & everyone around him says he was kidding & tries to explain for him…
This is getting mighty old.
@RonFilipkowski Democrats need to speak up & stop letting these trumpers do this. Just like all of the stuff little lost boy JD was saying today in Tyler, Texas about Talarico. He’s got some kind of nerve. Someone needs to speak up about him & he would probably learn to keep his mouth shut.
@TheView Sunny doesn’t believe in capital punishment… her catholic faith taught her… well what do they believe about murd*r? Sunny has proven she is almost always wrong.