Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
🚨NEW: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired Joseph Tirrell, the top Ethics Attorney at the Department of Justice. This comes as she face harsh criticism over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
RETWEET if you stand with Tirrell against Bondi!
🚨Speaker Mike Johnson went on camera and said he supports Ghislaine Maxwell testifying and wants “everything released” on Epstein.
Then he walked onto the House floor and voted to block the release of the Epstein files.
You don’t get to act like a hero on camera and then protect predators in Congress.
We saw it. We saved it.
And we’re not letting it slide.
Former Senator Claire McCaskill: "There are more pictures of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein than there are trans athletes in the NCAA, by multiples."
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: In a major lie, Trump claimed that Obama and Comey “made up” the Epstein files.
FACT CHECK: The first federal Epstein probe was under George W. Bush. The second? July 2019 - UNDER TRUMP. Obama had ZERO to do with it. Share to expose Trump’s lies!
I can't stop watching this epic video that MSNBC just played of Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein files. Share it before the DOJ demands X take it down.
NO F*CKING WAY:
Trump just leapt in to stop a reporter from asking Pam Bondi about the “missing minute” in the Epstein jailhouse tape.
The panic was visible.
You’d think they were being asked about national security secrets, not a dead sex trafficker with no clients, no tapes, and no list.
Ask yourself this: If there’s nothing to hide, why the full-blown scramble whenever someone brings up Epstein’s name?
BREAKING: Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic @TheAtlantic has just released the FULL Text Message Chain.
I have provided all texts in this post and the thread below:
CHECK MATE! 🧵
It’s amazing what Trump has accomplished. He’s convinced half the country that:
1. Canada & Mexico are our enemies, and Russia & China are our friends.
2. We can’t trust our own elections.
3. Our own DOJ & FBI are THE enemy.
4. Tariffs are cool, and it’s a really good thing for Americans to pay a lot more for cars, gas, & food.
5. Black people & transgender Americans aren’t capable of being air traffic controllers.
And that’s just a start.
In response to Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian goods, Canada announced 25% retaliatory tariffs on American goods—beer, wine, bourbon, fruits, vegetables, clothes, perfume, household appliances, plastic, lumber,etc.
America will soon learn a painful lesson about how tariffs work.
Kash Patel raised money for January 6 insurrectionists who attacked law enforcement.
I asked him to look those officers in the eye and tell them he was proud of what he did.
He couldn't.
I watch the bizarre ramblings by trump about buying Greenland, and seizing the Panama Canal, and I honestly wonder how the leaders of any country can take us seriously.
He comes off as the drunken buffoon in the bar at last call. It's so fucking embarrassing.
BREAKING NEWS:
Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Washington after developing a fever, a top aide says.
Clinton, 78, "has been admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for testing and observation.
We wish him a full recovery!