Doug Stambaugh

[Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @pelositracker]

You just can't make this up

The day before Trump announced a tariff pause that sent the S&P 500 up 9.5%

His accounts purchased 327 stocks worth up to $12.8 million

By law, those trades had to be disclosed within 45 days

Instead, they were disclosed over a year late, for a $200 penalty

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history.

[Financial Times @FT]

Donald Trump declared making more than 22,000 stock transactions in 2025, according to the FT analysis. His immediate predecessor, Joe Biden, made 13 transactions over four years. In his first term, Trump made 517. https://t.co/mWDvtvAllj

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Another day, another round of headlines about Trump's unprecedented corruption.

And this is just the stuff there's reporting about.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding.

A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September.

When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it.

You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade.

In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency.

With Trump, it’s Wednesday.
https://t.co/qAfVUp8KBd

[Frank C @FrankCMYK]

The Supreme Court is expanding presidential power in plain sight.

First, they gave Trump immunity like a king. Now they’ve thrown out nearly 100 years of precedent and weakened the independence of agencies meant to check CORRUPTION , FRAUD, MONOPOLIES, and ABUSE.

This is unitary executive theory by slow bleed.

People keep waiting for one big ruling that says “Trump is king.” That’s not how this works.

They’re building it case by case, brick by brick, until the presidency becomes too powerful to control.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Utterly against history, the framers intent, the constitution itself. A court more suited for Putin.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This case will not be talked about much, but today the Supreme Court abolished the independence of many federal agencies. It is a decision that will grant the President more power than a king.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

📸: @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe

[David French @DavidAFrench]

And to add to the injustice and absurdity, Trump is likely to pardon everyone involved, including himself. And we've barely even begun to talk about the national security implications of Trump's international graft.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

And there goes the administrative state, and with it, modern governance in America.

We shall likely return to some version of Gilded Age patronage-driven US government, which Trump has basically already launched.

Might be better. Might be worse. This is what MAGA voted for.

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Hegseth has blocked the promotions of at least 40 officers who were selected to become generals and admirals. About half of the officers whose promotions were derailed are women or minorities, even though 74% of all officers are white and nearly 80% are men. https://t.co/CVtkYMjnRp

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

February 10: Trump purchases up to $5 million in shares of Axon Enterprises, which manufactures 90% of all tasers

February 24: ICE opens a $220 million contract for tasers, requesting specifications that mirror Axon's top taser models

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Can someone somewhere do something. The GOP will be forever a stain

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

This massive New York Times front page report is mind blowing. 1/2

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Trump‘s and Lutnick‘s sons have been involved in 14 rare mineral deals that were collectively financed or will be financed by $8.9 billion US taxpayer money, as Trump seeks to find partnerships to get at these minerals. It’s one of the most disgusting displays of kleptocracy so far!
I gifted this article so you can read it.

https://t.co/uo4WXepQzj

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Elias's comparison is the one worth sitting with. When Bill Clinton briefly boarded Loretta Lynch's plane on a Phoenix tarmac in 2016 and they talked about grandchildren and golf - no documented request, no documented outcome, a conversation - the media treated it as a scandal that required weeks of coverage. Trump stood at a podium in Pennsylvania, described personally calling a federal prosecutor to investigate an election while his preferred candidate was losing, and the Pennsylvania federal prosecutor was sitting in the audience being publicly thanked. Elias: none of the reporters present found this worthy of a question.

The normalization that allows that to happen is not benign. When the president describes using the federal prosecution apparatus to intervene in a state election and it registers as a moment of rally color rather than a constitutional question, the mechanism that would otherwise produce accountability has been eroded. That erosion is itself the story underneath the story.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Every Trump debacle follows the same 13 steps. The reflecting pool fiasco is just one of the lower stakes versions of it.
1. Devise unnecessary spectacle
2. Disregard expertise
3. Bypass normal procedures
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post)
5. Spend way more than estimated
6. Ignore the haters
7. Realize it is not going well
8. Bypass normal procedures once again
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage
10. Redeclare victory
11. More blaming
12. Losing interest
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing