CrazyCatDC

Love my family, camping, boating & my pets… 🐶😸.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

New concerns are emerging about President Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a recent report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes since the attack in 2021. https://t.co/hOe2cLM6MC

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

UPDATE: Trump is taking another $45 million of taxpayer dollars for his ballroom.

We went from a "taxpayer free" ballroom to costing HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars.

Your costs are rising while he steals everything he can for idiotic vanity projects.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

This isn't an exaggeration: Republicans literally kicked KIDS off of food assistance so they could give billionaires more tax breaks.

This wasn't an accident this was a deliberate Republican policy CHOICE.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[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

[CrazyCatDC @din_nw]

@PamBondi That’s a proven lie.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

An appropriate birthday present on my uncle's birthday today. A federal judge ruled that President Trump and the Kennedy Center Board acted unlawfully in renaming the Kennedy Center. The judge held that only Congress can change the Center's name and blocked the planned two-year closure. I know they'll probably appeal and the story isn't over, but for today let’s celebrate a great birthday gift.

[CrazyCatDC @din_nw]

@martinamcbride Thank you!

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

Biden was not president
when Trump's tax returns were leaked

Trump was

the lying by Republicans like Mike Lawler is utterly shameless

[CrazyCatDC @din_nw]

@Mediaite @ProjectLincoln Like it’s a mystery to the public 🤣🤣🤣.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Do I have this right? While planes were crashing, air traffic controllers and TSA not getting paid, airport lines in chaos, airlines going bankrupt, and gas prices exploding, our Transportation Secretary was on a SEVEN MONTH LONG roadtrip with his family filming a reality show?

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

The U.S. secretary of transportation is supposed to oversee America’s transportation policy, but Sean Duffy has spent most of his tenure on vacation. https://t.co/Zdw8IMNafQ

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Sean Duffy is a total disgrace!

Multiple air accidents happened on his watch — and instead of doing his job, he’s been busy filming a reality TV show on the taxpayer’s dime.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Jeff Bezos is seeking $100 billion to put robots into factories. Millions of manufacturing jobs — GONE.

Driverless vehicle companies are expanding rapidly. Millions of transportation jobs — truckers, cab drivers, Uber drivers — GONE.

We are not ready for what’s coming.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

There were 3 commercial airline crashes resulting in 11 deaths during the roughly 7-month filming period of the “Great American Road Trip” series.

[CrazyCatDC @din_nw]

@LauraLoomer Trump had world leaders at MaraLago when Biden was President. WTF is your point? PS… look up the meaning of coup DA.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Google founder Sergey Brin's wealth has DOUBLED to $311 billion since Trump's election.

Now he’s spending $57M to oppose a 5% billionaires' wealth tax in California.

He’d rather millions lose healthcare than pay his fair share in taxes. This kind of arrogance is unacceptable.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Every journalist should be asking what the hell is going on with this guy's health that they aren't telling us.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

They call this dance the "Strait of Hormuz"