Ed Gmerek

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Asked today how he feels about negotiations with Iran collapsing, Trump said, "I couldn't care less."

You'd think the president of the United States would care about service members dying and millions paying more for gas because of his illegal and unconstitutional war.

[Indiana Democratic Party @INDems]

Indiana is just one of a handful of states turning down federal summer meal funding for many families with school children.

This program could feed hundreds of thousands of families at little cost to the state, but Mike Braun said no & the Republican legislature let it happen.

[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

[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.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’

@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.

Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, still owes her $86 million, and is now using the power of the federal government to keep targeting and harassing her. Abusers don’t stop abusing.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I hate to admit this but Trump was right.

He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof.

I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ken Paxton has won the Republican nomination for US Senate in Texas and will face James Talarico in November.

Paxton was impeached by his own party for bribery and corruption, said the Uvalde school shooting was “God’s plan,” and offered a child rapist a 1-day jail sentence.

[Matt Rein @MatthewARein]

The GOP really went from "back the blue" to "well, actually, it's ok to give people who beat cops taxpayer money!"

[💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 @herotimeszero]

Massie lost.

Pedophilia won.

Kentucky, you must be very proud.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THIS IS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE ‼️

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm gonna post this video everyday so we NEVER FORGET what the INSURRECTIONIST Donald J. Trump did on Jan 6th

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Does this include the $1.766 billion you just stole from taxpayers or no?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

JD Vance announced the suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California as part of his new role as "fraud czar" for the Trump Regime.

Meanwhile, Trump has pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters, including several who gave money to his campaign and Super PAC.

Remember this.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI's work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged.

Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer.

So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Here is an incomplete list of fraudsters pardoned by Trump/Vance.

It’s incomplete because the list is so long it exceeds the X post character limits.

Dinesh D’Souza: Convicted of campaign contribution fraud via illegal straw donations.
• Conrad Moffat Black: Convicted of mail fraud and obstruction related to business dealings.
• Michael Robert Milken: Convicted of conspiracy, securities fraud, mail fraud, and tax fraud in the 1980s junk bond/insider trading scandal.
• Philip Esformes: Convicted in one of the largest Medicare/Medicaid fraud schemes (over $1 billion in fraudulent claims via nursing homes and kickbacks).
• Salomon Melgen: Convicted of health care fraud involving tens of millions in fraudulent Medicare billing as an eye doctor.
• Faustino Bernadett (and similar health care figures like those in large-scale schemes): Convicted in health care fraud with sham contracts and kickbacks exceeding $900 million in fraudulent bills.
• Michael Ashley: Convicted of bank fraud tied to a mortgage company collapse.
• John Duncan Fordham: Convicted of health care fraud as a pharmacist.
• Steve Stockman: Convicted of mail and wire fraud, campaign finance violations, and money laundering (misusing charitable donations).
• Chris Collins: Convicted of securities fraud and insider trading (providing material nonpublic information).
• Sholom Rubashkin: Convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering in a large-scale meatpacking financial scheme.
• Judith Negron: Convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, kickbacks, money laundering, and structuring (part of a major scheme).
• Fred Davis Clark Jr.: Convicted of bank fraud and false statements in connection with federally insured loans.
• Albert J. Pirro Jr.: Convicted of conspiracy, tax evasion, and multiple counts of fraud.
• Additional health care executives/doctors (at least 10 total in first term): Convicted in large-scale Medicare fraud schemes involving false billing and kickbacks.

Trevor Milton: Convicted of securities fraud and wire fraud (false statements to investors about Nikola Corp. technology).
• Devon Archer: Convicted of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud (defrauding a Native American tribe in a bond scheme).
• Brian Kelsey: Convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding excessive campaign contributions.
• Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley: Convicted of bank fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to defraud banks (over $30 million in fraudulent loans).
• George Santos: Convicted of wire fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement/fraud from campaign donors and unemployment benefits.
• Michael Grimm: Convicted of tax fraud (underreporting income and filing false tax returns).
• Jacob Deutsch: Convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud (mortgage fraud scheme).
• Adriana Isabel Camberos (aka Adriana Shayota): Convicted of mail and wire fraud in a counterfeit 5-Hour Energy scheme (millions in restitution; previously had a related sentence commuted in first term).
• Andres Enrique Camberos: Convicted alongside his sister in the mail and wire fraud counterfeit product scheme.
• Terren Peizer: Convicted of insider trading and securities fraud (health care company scheme).
• Wanda Vázquez Garced: Convicted of campaign finance violations tied to bribery and wire fraud scheme.
• Julio Herrera Velutini: Convicted of wire fraud and related bribery/conspiracy.
• Mark Rossini: Convicted of wire fraud in the same bribery scheme.
• Michele Fiore: Convicted of wire fraud and charity fraud (misusing funds for slain officers).
• Glen Casada (and Cade Cothren): Convicted of honest services fraud and conspiracy to defraud in a public corruption/kickback scheme.
• Carlos Watson: Convicted of fraud (Ozy Media investor fraud scheme; sentence commuted).