Skip Anderson

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

.@SenWhitehouse: Let's not forget that there is an ongoing proceeding in Florida in federal court with an open question whether Todd Blanche committed a fraud upon the court. It's probably the worst thing you can accuse someone of in a court proceeding. It means you abused the process of the court to accomplish an unjust and wrongful result. It is so bad that in the history of the Department of Justice, no senior official has ever been even accused of a fraud upon the court. And we're advancing this guy before that question is settled.

[Skip Anderson @SnuSnuPal]

@MikeLevin RICO prosecutions by Democrats might happen in the future.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump Organization had roughly 385 accounts closed by Capital One after the bank’s anti-money-laundering team spent months reviewing them.

Imagine the reaction if this involved any other prominent political family.

If any other president’s businesses had hundreds of bank accounts terminated after an anti-money-laundering review by one of the nation’s largest banks, it would dominate the news cycle.

Instead, it surfaced in a federal court filing on a Friday afternoon and is being largely forgotten by Monday.

And it wasn’t just one bank.

There is a separate lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase involving accounts it also closed during roughly the same period. Trump says the banks engaged in politically motivated debanking. The banks say they acted for legitimate business and compliance reasons. The courts will decide those cases.

What is not in dispute is that while these lawsuits are pending, Trump is using the power of the presidency to push regulators toward policies that would make it harder for banks to take similar actions in the future. When a president’s private business disputes and public authority begin to overlap, every American should pay attention.

We’ve seen this pattern before. In 2019, during his first term, Trump sued Capital One and Deutsche Bank to block them from complying with congressional subpoenas seeking his financial records.

The public deserves to know why hundreds of Trump-linked accounts were closed, why so much of the record remains under seal, and whether a sitting president’s personal financial interests are influencing the exercise of public power.

This is not the standard of accountability we should expect from someone entrusted with the presidency.

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[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

That day drunk bitch threw her entire career away for this piece of shit liar.
It’s almost as if everyone knew this would happen. Oh well.
#ETTD.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed.

The bank says its AML team conducted a careful review that identified suspicious transaction patterns and made the decision under federal anti-money laundering obligations.

[Jean-Claude Damn Van™ (commentary) @ChaosAgent_42]

Mitch McConnell is either incapacitated or dead. Unless his staff provides proof this is not so, they have committed a federal crime.

What other crimes are Republicans willing to commit, to push their agenda?

[Skip Anderson @SnuSnuPal]

@LorraineEvanoff

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Trump is a traitor. The End.

"WaPo: “US intelligence agencies have assessed that Iran was likely behind a coordinated cyberattack on more than 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota this week, according to several US officials.“

Trump: “I blame it on MN because they’re grossly incompetent. I would blame it on MN and the governor, the corrupt governor of MN. They like to say, ‘Oh, it’s Iran.’ Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about MN. I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think MN ought to get its act together.”

Gov. Tim Walz: “Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too. This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran.”

Walz then posted: “Trump can’t beat Iran because he’s too busy waging war with Minnesota.”

Journalist Aaron Rupar: “Just incredible to watch Turmp take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack.”

National security reporter Michael Weiss: “He does it with Russia and now Iran. A desire to cut deals with adversaries who don’t want to cut deals with him leads him to downplay or excuse their malign behavior. In Iran’s case, an adversary he is still at war with and threatening to escalate against. He thinks this gives him leeway for negotiating; his adversaries see it as reason to press on.”

Disinformation expert Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno: “This is so dangerous. Iran has an extensive history of targeting US water and energy systems, but instead of defending America from attacks waged by a hostile foreign actor, Trump is blaming Americans for being targeted by them.”

Someone posted on X: “Pretty crazy that both the US and Iran are attacking Minnesota.”

Walz responded: “Donald Trump’s America.”"

Today in Politics, Bulletin 430. 7/31/26 https://t.co/c9qlF4C4PT

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Oh look, the Commerce Department quietly announced 7 new equity stakes in private companies.

Brought to you by the people fighting "communism."
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[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

FACT: Trump WANTS to sue people who call him a pedophile, but he can’t because the discovery process would expose him as a pedophile. Take all the time you need with that. 💯🎯👀

[Skip Anderson @SnuSnuPal]

@commons96055467

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

This morning I have come to the conclusion that trump is not in charge, and not functioning as president. He is a dementia inflicted senior geezer who doesn’t know his head from his ass. He is a five minutes, Oval Office reality show creep. Those in charge are four Billionaires installed, Putin or Netanyahu approved assholes who are dismantling America.
1) The Epstein bro, Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary
2) The Heritage creep, project 2025 fuck, Russell Vought, Budget Director
3) Cuban mafia little shit, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.
4) the gay mafia ass, Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary.
These 4 horsemen of the apocalypse is changing our country to become an oligarchy of billionaires playground, so to do what they wish with it. All for their pleasure.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Trump's Kennedy Center just canceled its free public tours for the first time in 50 years — because an 87-year-old volunteer told the truth about its Trump-era collapse.

An 87-year-old tour guide told the OBVIOUS truth about the Kennedy Center. Donald Trump's response was to punish everyone.

For the first time in five decades, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has paused its beloved free tour program — and the timing makes the reason unmistakable. The move came directly after longtime volunteer Sandy Weiswasser gave a candid interview to the New York Times describing exactly what Trump's takeover has done to America's national theater.

According to the NY Times article she was quoted in, “Once she was among 140 volunteer guides who gave tours in 10 languages to up to 400,000 people a year. Last week on her Monday shift, only five out of more than a dozen tour guides showed up, and only three people took a tour.”

"This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded," the 87-year-old Weiswasser told the Times. "Now it's a black hole."

That's it. That's the offense. An elderly volunteer, describing what she's personally witnessed after decades of service, told a reporter the honest truth. Days later, the Kennedy Center's director of the volunteer program quietly announced a "temporary pause" on tours — the exact outcome three separate volunteers had privately worried about before the memo announcing the pause was even circulated, anticipating retaliation.

Petty vindictiveness is who Trump is. Not content with seizing control of one of America's most beloved cultural institutions, purging its board, and driving away artists who refused to perform under his takeover, he's now apparently willing to punish an entire volunteer program, silencing public access to the building itself, because one honest 87-year-old described what everyone can already see.

And remember, this is the same Kennedy Center Trump previously tried to shut down entirely for two years under the guise of "renovations," after his own name change proposal drove away performers in protest. His name was eventually scraped off the building's wall — and now the facade remains hidden under a massive tarp, a fittingly literal metaphor for an institution being suffocated from within.

America's national theater used to belong to everyone. Now it's become a monument to one man's ego and his intolerance for even the gentlest criticism, even from an 87-year-old grandmother simply telling visitors what she's seen with her own eyes.

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[Skip Anderson @SnuSnuPal]

@RonFilipkowski So are you will to testify to this under oath? I thought “not!”. Liar, liar, pants full of poop.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

He doesn't care anymore. It's just non-stop, in-your-face corruption.

The latest? If you pay Trump $100,000 a month, he will give you advance White House announcements on economic and trade policy.

An insider trading subscription service.

People will go to jail for this.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

I was wondering if anyone was keeping a running total on Trump’s waste and abuse. You have to check out this video.

There’s so much, bet you forgot about some of it:

💰Ballroom: $1 billion project, taxpayers already on the hook for $300 million

💰 January 6 Slush Fund: $1.776 billion for January 6 rioters, including people who assaulted police

💰 Reflecting Pool: $16+ million to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

💰 Argentina Bailout: $20 billion

💰 DHS Waste: $172 million for private jets, plus $220 million for a Kristi Noem ad campaign

💰 Mass Deportation: $240 billion for ICE detention and deportation

💰 Trump Arch: $100 million, with a $15 million down payment already committed

💰 Military Parade: $45 million+ for Trump’s military parade

💰 Golf Trips: More than $100 million spent, projected to hit $300 million

💰 Screwworm Fiasco: Cut a $15 million prevention program, now potentially a $1 billion outbreak