Kim Trusty-Jones

[cjoan @cjoan223817]

@atrupar oooh whiskey @PeteHegseth .....you're whining again...

NATO was formed to come to the aid of countries of the alliance that ARE ATTACKED by their enemies.

NOT TO COME TO THE AID OF A COUNTRY WHO ATTACKS OTHERS WITHOUT BUILDING THAT ALLIANCE BEFORE A WAR BREAKS OUT.

jfc...

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🤔 @CSUNSHINE: “It's not a slush fund. It's an anti-weaponization fund.“

🔥@keithboykin: “This is a joke. I'm really embarrassed for you that you have to defend this. Even Republican senators said it’s ridiculous… it’s bad for the country.”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[FoxNashville @FOXNashville]

💸 More than 300 Nashville small businesses have joined a coalition demanding property tax relief while Metro Nashville considers possible incentives for Starbucks to relocate office operations to the city.

Business owners say the contrast is hard to ignore.

read more: https://t.co/TTJohfG0hB

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Uncle Ottis @OttisUncle]

@milopots @GovPressOffice @ablnk I'm a fiscal conservative and, I bought the GOP's bullshit for decades. The reality is, they have been digging America into a deeper hole for decades and blaming it on Democrats...
I am still a fiscal conservative but, @gop ain't...

[FUDT @milopots]

@GovPressOffice @ablnk Yes! That’s the answer!

[Lisa Lipscomb @ACATBERT]

@Acyn @TheTNHoller BECAUSE IT IS NOT A WIN! We lost lives, bases were destroyed, our arsenals have been depleted, we spent ungodly amounts of money, we have lost allies, and WE ARE NOW SEEN AS WEAK on the world stage. It could not be any worse, but just watch Republicans & the White House spin it.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The Trump admin’s removal of oversight mechanisms—including inspectors general, cuts to government operations and pardoning of fraudsters with impunity—have hurt the government’s ability to fight fraud.

Small businesses are the ones who pay the price. https://t.co/AbAuVsKEQX

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Friendly reminder: Trump has been inciting violence against Democrats over and over and over.

And almost all domestic terrorism is committed by the right, not the left. Google it.

MAGA dumbfucks don't know any of that, because Fox News hides this information from them.

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

My kid's school asked me to donate supplies.

Paper. Pencils. Hand sanitizer. Tissues.

I pay property taxes.
My state has a $4 billion surplus.
The federal education budget is $238 billion.

And the teacher is buying pencils out of her own paycheck.

And I'm sending in Ziploc bags.

We fund stadiums for billionaires with public money.

We fund schools with bake sales.

And then blame teachers when test scores drop.

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 do you understand what just happened in the last 3 hours..

> jd vance made an UNPLANNED return to washington.. motorcade racing to the white house.. no advance notice..

> trump summoned the full national security team.. hegseth, gen. caine, the whole NSC.. not a briefing.. a decision meeting..

> trump scheduled a 1pm call with leaders of several arab nations.. the same leaders who talked him out of strikes five days ago by asking for more time..

> the rome round of u.s.-iran talks ended this morning without a breakthrough.. iran still refusing to give up uranium enrichment.. demanding war-damage compensation and strait of hormuz control as preconditions..

> trump had already called off a planned attack on iran around may 18 after direct requests from qatar's emir, saudi crown prince mbs, and the uae president..

> vance has logged 20+ hours in back-channel sessions.. described the ceasefire as "fragile".. described trump's red line as: iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.. full stop..

> iran rejected every u.s. proposal as "totally unacceptable".. the clock they were given to negotiate just ran out this morning in rome..

> the arab call isn't courtesy.. the last time trump convened gulf partners after a failed round, it paused military action.. this time he's calling them AFTER the talks collapsed..

every government on this list told their citizens "diplomacy is ongoing" within the last 48 hours..

all of this.. a single afternoon..

if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..

it's only getting crazier from here..

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded?

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: There are so many Republicans coming out against this thing. It appears to me that this slush fund is like as popular as poison ivy or a dinner plate full of vegetables. Nobody is claiming ownership of this thing. I have zero statements of support for this fund from any congressional Republicans.

[Mike George @MichaelGeo2213]

@MacFarlaneNews @MeidasTouch The optics of this are so bad I just can't wait to see the full throated defenses of it. Inflation is out of control, gas prices out of control and consumer confidence in the toilet, but don't worry the President and his J6 co-conspirators have paid themselves with your money.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Jen Psaki just hit a MAJOR nerve with a story on Eric Trump’s China trip — and now he’s suing her.

As she does most every night on her MS Now program, Jen Psaki did a monologue on a current topic in the news. This time, however, Eric Trump lost his mind over what she had to say
.
The 42-year-old executive vice president of the Trump Organization took to X Wednesday night to threaten a lawsuit against Psaki and MS NOW after she reported on his presence alongside his father during the presidential trip to China — and connected it to a Financial Times story about a family-linked company pursuing a deal with a Chinese chipmaker tied to the Communist Party.

"I have NEVER been on the board of ALT5," Eric fumed, adding that he has "zero business interests in China. No properties, no investments, nothing!" He concluded by insisting he joined the trip purely as "a loving son who adores my father."

Sweet. But Psaki didn't make up the Financial Times reporting. She cited it.

That report describes how ALT5 Sigma — a fintech company connected to Eric and the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial — has a memorandum of understanding to explore a deal with a Chinese computer chip manufacturer to build AI data centers. Congress has warned that the Chinese firm in question has connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Eric and his brother were photographed ringing the New York Stock Exchange opening bell with the ALT5 name displayed behind them.

Neither ALT5 nor the Chinese firm responded to the Financial Times for comment. The deal may or may not be real. But the reporting exists, and it raises exactly the questions Psaki raised.

And those questions don't stop there. Just last month, Eric was on Fox Business bragging that one of his companies scored a $24 million Pentagon contract. Don Jr.'s company landed a nearly $5 million Air Force contract. Both brothers are now part-owners of a drone company angling for major Pentagon deals — while their father's administration controls Pentagon spending.

All of this is happening while Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit seeks to shield the entire Trump family from financial audits. Forever.

Eric wants to sue Psaki for asking whether someone should check the books. That answer tells you everything.

Please like and share to spread the news.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Miles Taylor: “This is set to be the BIGGEST HEIST in American history, not the biggest heist of the presidency, not the biggest heist in politics, the biggest heist definitionally in American history. When Donald Trump says he’s gonna put this money in charity, this is the SAME Donald Trump by the way, who right here in the state of NY they shut down his charity because he was spending the money on his lawyers, and on portraits for himself. Are we supposed to believe that guy?”😂

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Guess where Trump’s adult son @EricTrump is right now? Well, he’s with his father in China. Now, Eric Trump does NOT have a role in the U.S. government. In fact, he’s supposed to be sort of fire-walled off from ANY U.S. government activities because he took over the family businesses when his father reentered the White House supposedly to prevent conflicts of interest, but there he is…”🙄

[Kim Trusty-Jones @dezingal]

@JamesTate121 @donwinslow As someone that grew up in Honolulu with a military father this is disgraceful!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Obama on the Iran nuclear deal today:

“We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked. We didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

$25 billion spent. 14 Americans dead.
Oil at $119 a barrel. The world has one month of strategic reserves left. A UAE oil port on fire. Ships turning back at gunpoint.

Trump called Obama’s deal the worst deal ever made.

Then tore it up.

Then started a war to get back to the same place.