Lori Liberty

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[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

1/ EXPOSÉ: The Poisoned Legacy of Trump’s East Wing Demolition. A Vanity Project That Threatens the Soul of America, And Public Safety.

In the shadowed corridors of power, where history whispers and accountability falters, a story has unfolded that strikes at the heart of the American experiment. At a time where it’s easy to lose important stories to the constant noise news cycle, we need to amplify this one. On October 20, 2025, the East Wing of the White House, the people’s house, a symbol of democratic resilience, began its swift dismantling under President Donald J. Trump’s directive. What began as a $300 million, some would say vanity project, cloaked as a privately funded ballroom, has spiraled into a potential environmental and political catastrophe. While originally slated to preserve the historic building, a rash decision was suddenly made to level it. This, despite no congressional oversight, no permits being filed, and the public having not been informed. Over four frenetic days, the entire East Wing was demolished, and an estimated 50,000 cubic yards of earth, roughly 4,167 dump truck loads, were excavated and hauled to Hains Point, a public golf course in East Potomac Park, three miles south. The official line from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt? “Clean fill” for terrain enhancement. The truth, buried beneath layers of haste and hubris, suggests a reckless dump of untested soil, possibly laden with asbestos, lead, and mercury amongst other toxic materials, threatening the health of 100,000 annual visitors, including children.

A Frenzy of Destruction-
This was no ordinary renovation. From October 20 to 23, crews razed the East Wing, its colonnade, theater, and first lady’s offices, under a breakneck schedule that defied reason. Eyewitnesses, captured by Washington Post drones, reported 50–100 trucks rumbling daily, hauling mixed rubble and soil in a blur of activity. The White House, leveraging a government shutdown now in its 24th day, claimed no permits were needed, with Trump aide Will Scharf, also NCPC chair, ruling demolition “exempt” from review. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s October 21 plea for a pause went unheeded, with a stark violation of statutory oversight. Photos reveal workers spraying water, a nod to dust suppression, but no full PPE or segregated toxic piles. Testing? Impossible in this short timeline. EPA and OSHA protocols demand 1–6 weeks, yet the dirt was spread before labs could reasonably have tested, many of their staff furloughed by the shutdown.

A Pattern Rooted in the Past-
This is not Trump’s first dance with environmental shortcuts. The December 29, 1987, New York Times exposé on his Riverside South project in Manhattan laid bare a similar playbook. There, Trump planned to excavate 1.2 million cubic yards of contaminated rail yard soil, rushing it to landfills amid protests from Hudson Riverkeepers. He secured a variance, promising “controlled removal,” but tests showed toxins exceeding safe levels, risking groundwater pollution. The project stalled, costs soared by $100 million, yet no fines stuck. Fast-forward to 2025: Hains Point, a public park under NPS and congressional purview, becomes the latest dumping ground. The 1987 echo, speed over safety, regulatory dodge suggests a pattern, now amplified by a shutdown that cripples oversight until November, the latest projected estimate for the government shutdown to end. (1/2)

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

A... scoop? Multiple workers tell me that dirt from the demolition of the East Wing of the White House (to make way for Trump's new $200 million ballroom) is being trucked to the north end of the Hains Point golf course. It will then be used to create new terrain on the course.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Trump just endorsed @NancyMace's opponent. They're trying to take out everyone who took action to release the Epstein Files. Trump has tried to eliminate every Republican who voted for it and keeps attacking leading Democrat who worked on it, @RoKhanna. Trump and a certain lobby.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The man who won Trump the White House is a registered foreign agent for Israel.

He filed the paperwork himself, so this isn't a hit piece or a conspiracy theory, it's sitting in a federal database with his name on it.

Brad Parscale, the guy who built Trump's entire digital operation, quietly registered his firm Clock Tower X as a foreign agent for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 2025. The contract started at $6 million, grew to $9 million, and The Intercept revealed today he funneled $13 million in Israeli government money to Republican firms and his own political allies.

And here's where it gets interesting. The targets weren't random. Young conservatives and evangelicals, Gen Z specifically, the ones starting to drift away from supporting Israel, reached through social media, podcasts, and AI platforms, engineered so that when these kids go looking for information about Israel, what they find has already been shaped for them.

Now here's the part that should make people uncomfortable. One of the firms that received Israeli money was Salem Media, one of America's biggest conservative Christian networks, 200+ radio stations, RedState, the Hugh Hewitt Show. Parscale is Salem's own Chief Strategy Officer. The money came from Israel, passed through Parscale, and landed at a company Parscale works for.

Rep. Thomas Massie called it straight, an Israeli media operation profiting "useful idiots."

It's all legal under FARA as long as it's disclosed. It was disclosed, in filings buried so deep that almost nobody ever reads them. Which was always the point.

Source: The Intercept, The Hill, FARA filings

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Vance is such a despicable coward.

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

Some summary points:

1/ Trump had prior exposure to asbestos and remediation issues during earlier White House work under his authority.

2/ Therefore knowledge of contamination risk becomes harder to deny.

3/ Yet demolition and removal proceeded without ordinary mitigation sequencing or review, which further supports recklessness or willful disregard arguments.

4/ Because of the added ambiguity created by Trump solely using private donors’ funding, all of the above could be construed as a private act. Therefore potentially, no presidential immunity would apply.

Importantly, disposal occurred in very publicly accessible areas, so
potential exposure risk broadens dramatically.

Pointedly, federal procedures were demonstrably bypassed during the federal government shutdown, during the President’s own party’s majority rule, and
that potentially weakens claims that the process was operating as a normal institutional government function.

More damning when viewed in that light as to intent.

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

1/ EXPOSÉ: The Poisoned Legacy of Trump’s East Wing Demolition. A Vanity Project That Threatens the Soul of America, And Public Safety.

In the shadowed corridors of power, where history whispers and accountability falters, a story has unfolded that strikes at the heart of the American experiment. At a time where it’s easy to lose important stories to the constant noise news cycle, we need to amplify this one. On October 20, 2025, the East Wing of the White House, the people’s house, a symbol of democratic resilience, began its swift dismantling under President Donald J. Trump’s directive. What began as a $300 million, some would say vanity project, cloaked as a privately funded ballroom, has spiraled into a potential environmental and political catastrophe. While originally slated to preserve the historic building, a rash decision was suddenly made to level it. This, despite no congressional oversight, no permits being filed, and the public having not been informed. Over four frenetic days, the entire East Wing was demolished, and an estimated 50,000 cubic yards of earth, roughly 4,167 dump truck loads, were excavated and hauled to Hains Point, a public golf course in East Potomac Park, three miles south. The official line from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt? “Clean fill” for terrain enhancement. The truth, buried beneath layers of haste and hubris, suggests a reckless dump of untested soil, possibly laden with asbestos, lead, and mercury amongst other toxic materials, threatening the health of 100,000 annual visitors, including children.

A Frenzy of Destruction-
This was no ordinary renovation. From October 20 to 23, crews razed the East Wing, its colonnade, theater, and first lady’s offices, under a breakneck schedule that defied reason. Eyewitnesses, captured by Washington Post drones, reported 50–100 trucks rumbling daily, hauling mixed rubble and soil in a blur of activity. The White House, leveraging a government shutdown now in its 24th day, claimed no permits were needed, with Trump aide Will Scharf, also NCPC chair, ruling demolition “exempt” from review. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s October 21 plea for a pause went unheeded, with a stark violation of statutory oversight. Photos reveal workers spraying water, a nod to dust suppression, but no full PPE or segregated toxic piles. Testing? Impossible in this short timeline. EPA and OSHA protocols demand 1–6 weeks, yet the dirt was spread before labs could reasonably have tested, many of their staff furloughed by the shutdown.

A Pattern Rooted in the Past-
This is not Trump’s first dance with environmental shortcuts. The December 29, 1987, New York Times exposé on his Riverside South project in Manhattan laid bare a similar playbook. There, Trump planned to excavate 1.2 million cubic yards of contaminated rail yard soil, rushing it to landfills amid protests from Hudson Riverkeepers. He secured a variance, promising “controlled removal,” but tests showed toxins exceeding safe levels, risking groundwater pollution. The project stalled, costs soared by $100 million, yet no fines stuck. Fast-forward to 2025: Hains Point, a public park under NPS and congressional purview, becomes the latest dumping ground. The 1987 echo, speed over safety, regulatory dodge suggests a pattern, now amplified by a shutdown that cripples oversight until November, the latest projected estimate for the government shutdown to end. (1/2)

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

No. Trump decided to take down the east wing-by tapping private donors->private act.<-

The subsequent destruction and disposal, illegally dumping the toxic debris in a nearby public park, could be construed as a ->private act.<-Was it? That ambiguity matters distinctly.

Follow my logic here:

1/ Trump raised private funds to rip down East wing to build a vanity ballroom. Minus consent.

2/ To expedite this process, he decided to forgo the customary process. He exploited the government closure at that time by circumventing laws, and required planning and environmental reviews.

3/ Despite him personally being sued for illegal dumping on a mass scale in prior real estate projects-he allowed the East Wing’s toxic materials, inclusive of things such as mercury, lead and asbestos to be transported to the nearby public park and golf club.

As it was reported upon early, the toxic materials were not separated, nor was the asbestos mitigated as required. He was aware of the requirements and the specific procedures as he had encountered the toxins and a previous renovation he oversaw as President.

To make matters worse, the particular area where truckload after truckload after truckload of these toxins were dumped is a high risk and disturbance area. We’re not just talking the risk of leaching because of water proximity and flood potential, but also basic park maintenance leading to airborne risk.

4/ It could be argued that Trump did this in a private capacity because of the use of private funding to do these things, and that opens the door wide in terms of private liability.

If no public funds were used then there’s real potential for it to be considered an unofficial act. If it is indeed an unofficial act that means no presidential immunity would protect him.

So by pushing the chambers to fund this retroactively, effectively what he’s really pushing is protection for himself. Because if they allocate and dedicate these public funds, his hope is that it likely becomes an official act as opposed to a private act. And that distinction matters because of immunity and liability.

Certainly anybody affected or of a mind to sue for damages, will have to go after the federal government if it was funded by public funds. But if funded by private funds, citizens could likely go after Donald Trump in a personal capacity, and the donors that had contributed at that point. And let’s be honest, while President, Trump has become the really wealthy man he always pretended to be. He has a lot to lose.

Additionally, I think it’s entirely possible, if not probable, the federal government and the Department of justice, under a new administration, could go after Donald Trump in his private capacity as well.

Bottom line, the private fundraising, personal legacy building and action outside of normal procedures, blurred the lines of governmental conduct and personal. That ambiguity will absolutely matter in litigation. Official acts receive strong protection. Individual acts do not.

BTW courts are under no obligation to launder liability… they can choose not to turn an individual act into an official act. The courts will examine who directed the contractors, under what authority, and which were bypassed.

It’s obvious Donald Trump, individual donors and private entities had operational control. It was outside the purview of procurement and ordinary review structure.

Demolition and illegal dumping were timed with the government shutdown. Proceeded despite review agencies being closed. Oversight channels, therefore, unavailable. Yet nonetheless, the project was accelerated. That speaks volumes as to intent. Plaintiffs and investigators could very easily argue that this was not bureaucratic sloppiness.. it was purposeful, exploitation.

Lastly, what’s not open to debate is the contractors, or private entities involved still face liability regardless of Trump’s questioned immunity. These people fall for it time and time again in his circle…

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

I'm starting to become convinced that Trump's monomaniacal obsession with the ballroom/bunker is because he plans on barricading himself inside the bunker when his term is up.

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

You know what I think the real truth is?

Trump is obsessed with the government and the taxpayers funding the ballroom because it’s imperative that the illegal act associated with ripping down the east wing, and the subsequent unlawful disposal at a heavily traversed nearby park of the toxic materials could be viewed legally as a private act as private donors were funding it.

And the truth is, it’s probably the single stupidest thing that Donald Trump did, and that’s really saying something.. because presidential immunity could potentially not cover him in this instance.

And nearly nobody is paying attention to this. It’s hiding in plain sight. But for all the distraction in the world, there it is.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Epstein survivors have released a statement in response to Blanche testimony. They say, “Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has not met with any of us.”

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies.

I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics.

It makes Nixon look like a boy scout.

https://t.co/h50c8yzXtJ

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

THIS is what journalism used to look like. Accountability. Honesty. Integrity. Hard questions. Still should. My God, how far we’ve fallen…

[Simon Ateba @simonateba]

BRUTAL 1990 interview. She tells Trump can you just drop the mask and stop pretending you're a billionaire? You don't have any money and the bankers just told me you're deep in debt. Can you drop the facade? WATCH

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Donors in Kentucky:

Massie: 1545
Gallrein: 70

🤷🏻‍♂️

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

As if a $1.8 billion slush fund weren't a severe enough violation of the rule of law, Trump's "settlement" with the IRS also includes a permanent get-out-of-jail-free card for any tax crimes committed by the president, his family and his companies.

How much grifting and scamming will it take to get the fiscal conservatives of the GOP to join us and put a stop to this presidential plundering of taxpayer dollars?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Just look at the difference between Thomas Massie's camp after he lost, versus Ed Gallrein's celebrating victory.

That's the difference between grassroots support and Israeli money buying the primary.

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

Sharp tongue and quick wit🙏

The way the guy trying to provoke Massie’s voice was cracking lol..seems about right.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country."

An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

It should be obvious by now that Israel’s goal was not to actually come up with a viable regime change plan, but to convince the Trump administration that they had a plan.

Israel’s primary goal was to get us into this war, knowing that once we were in it we’d have a hard time leaving. So far their actual plan is working.

Israel is comfortable with Iran spiraling into chaos & this war being a long & costly slog for us. Until we realize that Israel has drastically different objectives in this war we will be stuck in the current cycle.

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

Voidspawn. Canker. Malefactor. Rot. Carrion. Scourge. Wretch. Swine. Corrupt. Blight. Miscreant. Degenerate. Sociopath. Predator. Husk. Embarrassing.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

I am proud and thankful to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives with my friend Thomas Massie, a giant among weak pathetic men.

Releasing the Epstein files was our demise.

But it was worth every single bit because now everyone knows the truth.

You are ruled by the Epstein class that cares nothing about you and your elected leaders are bought and controlled by a foreign lobby.

Tonight the future of the Republican Party was destroyed.

The Real America First Movement will rise led by the younger generations, who hate the old guard with an unquenchable passion.

Let us pray that we have a country left by the time these creatures are gone.

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

Archaic manipulative election laws and closed primaries are designed to force entrenchment in the two-party duopoly and unfortunately they limit voter choice.

Massie may be blocked in KY by such a law from running as an indie, but there’s still a path.

Write-in. All he need do is file a timely declaration of intent. And there are lots of black swan variables that could make it a successful bid.

A skeleton could fall out of Gallrein’s closet. Very well could be further Epstein breakthroughs too..Massie has access to more files..the more accountability he pushes, the higher his visibility and multiparty support will continue to grow. Additionally economic pressures continue to grow, inflation, debt, cost of living etc.

The Iran war of choice is deeply impacting Americans too..and in direct correlation, blank checks to Israel are going to face a lot more scrutiny by the American people. As the fiscal and casualty counts continue to rise further because of it, Trump, and cronies like Gallrein will fall in popularity. As they fall, so shall Thomas rise.

Politics are unpredictable. Lots can happen in 7 months. Ultimately, no matter what @RepThomasMassie decides to do moving forward, one thing remains true..he’ll do it as he always does, with integrity, grace and honor.

[Lori Liberty @Hibbletsnbits]

Wow.

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

BLANCHE: "The United States...is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing...examinations or similar or related reviews" against Trump "or related or affiliated individuals," including family members or related companies and trusts.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

God bless Thomas Massie.

He walks out of this with his honor intact. He’s a patriot &amp; kept his integrity.

As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments &amp; corporate interests.

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

$32 million dollars and an entire administration mobilized to destroy one congressman.
His crime?
Demanding answers about Epstein class abuse networks, and refusing to let child predators hide behind political cover.
If that level of firepower doesn't tell you who's being protected, nothing will.
Go Massie!