Crystal Wessel

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

RECALL: Nearly 30,000 pounds of raw, frozen beef imported from Argentina has been recalled after being sold in Florida and Texas. No illnesses have been reported.

[Crystal Wessel @cjwessel13]

@SecDuffy What a monumental waste of taxpayer money. You should be embarrassed

[jezz @JezziiB]

Before Trump launched his reckless, stupid WAR, the U.S. had 4 Naval Ports in the Middle East, valued at $4-$8 BILLION to build (each). We now have ZERO Ports, they have been DESTROYED. That's why there have been no shore leave for the navy.

We also had 14 Military bases, now there are 2. Because Iran bombed them to pieces and absconded all assets.

The financial losses alone are estimated to be around a Trillion dollars...and that's all within 6 months.

That's what the Pentagon is hiding

[Crystal Wessel @cjwessel13]

@CWHerbster It’s for 90 days so he can sway voters in the midterms by saying he lowered beef prices. All they care about is maintaining power.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US Government officially posts its largest July budget deficit in history, at -$432 billion, due to an acceleration in federal spending.

Interest on US debt rose +$26 billion from last July's levels to an alarming $118 billion for the month.

This puts total interest expense for FY2026 up to $1.17 trillion in FY2026.

As a result, interest expense has officially surpassed both National Defense and Medicare spending.

In other words, the US government now spends more money just on interest than it does to fund the entire US Military or to provide healthcare for seniors.

We cannot afford higher interest rates.

[Crystal Wessel @cjwessel13]

@SecretaryBurgum Embarrassing

[Crystal Wessel @cjwessel13]

@SenBillCassidy @jonfavs He doesn’t care. His approval ratings are the so bad that he is trying to pander to his base with this sort of stuff. You supported the anti-vax RFK Jr, so I am surprised you care about this.

[Crystal Wessel @cjwessel13]

@PeteHegseth @CNN Is it higher? 85%? 90%?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress is not serious.

We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…

BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.

Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,

but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Andrés 💪🕊 🍁 @andres20ad]

Una norma de 100 años prohibía enviar pistolas por correo postal. Trump la eliminará para beneficiar a la empresa GrabAGun, que vende armas en línea, y donde su hijo adquirió más de 300.000 acciones. Esto tiene un nombre: corrupción. La derecha lo corrompe absolutamente todo.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: NBC News is reporting that President Trump's investment accounts purchased over 300 stocks on the day before his tariffs were paused.

THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT EVER! BY FAR!

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Imagine if Obama was directly connected to Epstein, made $2 billion off crypto scams, grifted a $400 million plane form Arab Royals, and started and lost a war with Iran.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Absolutely 💯💯🎯

[Crystal Wessel @cjwessel13]

@Damaan4u33 His vocabulary is increasingly limited

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “…I have to start tonight with a story that in any other administration, would be grounds for opening an impeachment inquiry, because today ProPublica reported that the White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for a company tied to President Trump’s adult son @DonaldJTrumpJr…the deal in question involved a startup focused on rare earth magnet production called Vulcan Elements and last Summer, Don Jr’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in that company, and wouldn’t you know…three months later, the Pentagon announced that it was giving Vulcan Elements a $620 million loan.”🙄🤦‍♀️

[Crystal Wessel @cjwessel13]

@TheLastSquatch @RachelBitecofer If only it would rain!!