Curious Sam

I could tell you who I am, what I've done and where I'm going, but not in 160 characters or less. P.S. I’m not a financial advisor so do your due diligence

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

I am so sick of all these motherfuckers pretending this is normal

Joe Biden stuttered and that's all we fucking heard about for years

Fuck the media & not giving a fuck about this country

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Imagine how many children wouldn't have been sexually assaulted if Trump hadn't pardoned the J6'rs and left them in jail. Every day another one is arrested for raping kids.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump’s own government gave him, his kids, and his companies lifetime immunity from IRS audits and tax prosecution. It’s effectively a blanket pardon for cheating on their taxes. They line their own pockets with taxpayer money and get out of jail free.

This is the kind of large-scale fraud & corruption you’d expect in Russia or North Korea. Trump brought it to America.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BASH: On the reflecting pool, the Times reports you awarded two multimillion no bid contracts. Is that true?

BURGUM: Well, this is expedited contracting to get these projects done

BASH: Does that mean 'no bid'?

BURGUM: You're implying something untoward is going on

BASH: The company doing the reflecting pool has a 20% project margin. Standard is 6-12%.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Look at this.

$DELL just won a five-year $9.7 billion Pentagon software agreement for the US military.

But Trump also bought $DELL.

He bought multiple times since February 10th, up to more than $5,000,000.

On May 8th, he said: "Go out and buy a Dell."

Unusual.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The President is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them.

Got it.

It's just mind blowing that is what's happening in America.

[Daily Mail US @Daily_MailUS]

BREAKING: Taxpayers to foot Trump's $1.7 BILLION bill as president sues his own government: 'I'm paying myself'

[Hutch @hutchinson]

This is probably a “top 5 most brazenly corrupt thing a president has ever done” moment right here.

It’s stunning. Sue the government that you’re in charge of, order them to settle, then plunder ~$2B worth of taxpayer money to pay himself and his corrupt idiot friends.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Trump illegally taxed working families for over a year.

The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional. $166 billion is being refunded right now.

But here’s the part no one is talking about.
The refunds are going to the importers. Not to you. Not to the families who paid $1,751 more on groceries, on clothes, on car parts, on everything.

330,000 corporations are getting checks. 53 million shipments are being refunded with interest. You paid the tax. They’re getting the money. Trump said he’d “fight” giving any of it back to families.

His own words.

Newsom is right. Pay the people. $1,751 per household. Every dollar.

What’s the point of a court ruling something illegal if the people who actually paid never get their money back?

[Alexander Gaffney @AlecGaffney]

Last year, Michael Lewis -- you might know him as the author of Moneyball and The Big Short -- wrote a piece in the Washington Post about an obscure effort by an FDA employee, Heather Stone (@IDEpiHeather), that had made it easier to find new uses for old drugs:

https://t.co/FNSGw5EwwP

(Gift link: https://t.co/UDXdTZNxCX)

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey just TORCHED Kash Patel for his disrespectful Pearl Harbor snorkel vacation — and gave him a lesson on how to behave on the job.

Today, the Associated Press revealed that FBI Director Kash Patel happily snorkeled over the graves of 900 American sailors.

That's not a metaphor. Patel (alias “J. Edgar Boozer”) — a man who has spent the past year jetting around the world on a government Gulfstream, partying in Olympic locker rooms, and handing out branded bourbon bottles — quietly arranged a "VIP snorkel" around the sunken USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, where the remains of more than 900 sailors and Marines still rest on the ocean floor.

The excursion was coordinated by military officials, kept out of FBI press releases, and revealed only through government emails obtained by the Associated Press. Patel had already visited Hawaii once on that trip. He came back for two more days — and nobody at the FBI will say what else he did there. The government jet then flew on to Las Vegas, Patel's adopted hometown.

When CNN's Kasie Hunt asked former FBI Director James Comey whether he would have done any of this, the response was quietly devastating.

"I visited the Pearl Harbor Memorial with the admiral in charge of the Pacific Command on a Navy boat," Comey said. "Never got in the water."

Comey then explained what Patel apparently never learned: "When you're FBI director, you have a responsibility to represent not just yourself, but 38,000 people and an idea, an American idea that's respected around the world. You're always on duty, you're always being watched."

On Patel's drinking? "You can't be [intoxicated] because you're always on. You don't get vacation because you're considered on the job 24-7 all the time. You can be asked to approve a FISA, to be involved in an operational decision."

Marine veteran Hack Albertson, who dives the Arizona annually to monitor the wreck's condition, didn't mince words about Patel's snorkel tour: "It's like having a bachelor party at a church. It's hallowed ground. It needs to be treated with the solemnity it deserves."

Meanwhile, family members of Pearl Harbor survivors — who have never been permitted to snorkel at the site themselves — learned their loved ones' tomb was used for a VIP recreational outing by a man who also gave New Zealand officials illegal 3D-printed guns and chugged beer on camera at the Olympics.

How far the FBI has fallen under Patel and the Trump administration! We’re lucky to have James Comey’s institutional memory to remind us how things are supposed to work.

Please like and share this post to spread the news!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Donald Trump has pardoned more than 70 people convicted of fraud

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

President Trump called for a ban on congressional stock trading at the State of the Union.

It looks like he bought up to $250,000 of stock in $BKNG on the same day.

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

The fact that Kash Patel is still in his job after demanding a "VIP swim" over the 900+ heroes entombed in the USS Arizona tells you everything you need to know about this administration.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This paint job—if you can call it that—is costing you $7 million, America, because Trump gave a no-bid contract to a pal

This would have been Exhibit A of the sort of shit DOGE was actually *supposed* to be looking for when it was instead cutting lifesaving scientific research

[Financial Times @FT]

Trump sons take stake in Kazakh miner that won $1.6bn US contract https://t.co/1LLCKPfgYw

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

Trump has skipped EVERY correspondant's dinner across his presidencies. Except this one.

And all of a sudden there's a shooter in the lobby

Ok.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Oh my god. They really just staged a shooting so Trump can get his ballroom.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

There is a shooting and…
The head of the FBI is just hanging out?

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

Fox's Aishah Hasnie: Karoline Leavitt's husband leaned over and told me right as the WH Correspondents Dinner was starting, "You need to be very safe."

"He was very serious when that said that to me, and he kinda looked around the room and said, 'There are some–'"

*Call drops*