Life with Leo

Opportunity advocate for the underserved, Idaho outdoor enthusiast, obsessed w Goldens.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Or the contractor did not do a professional job.. there IS that possibility

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The Trump admin waived Russian oil sanctions to mitigate the disastrous impact of the Iran War on energy markets.

Russia made about $22 billion from that 98-day lapse, and roughly 40% of that likely went to fund its illegal war in Ukraine.

@CREACleanAir @KSE_Institute

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

So Trump immediately deployed the National Guard to defend the algae bloom in the Reflecting Pool - but never deployed the National Guard to defend the Capitol during the J6 insurrection. Priorities.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Arresting people on dubious vandalism charges at the Reflecting Pool instead of arresting anyone connected to the sexual abuse and human trafficking that took place on Epstein’s Island tells you everything you need to know about the Trump administration’s priorities.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.

Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.

The cost of that work is classified.

Estimates say north of a billion.

The number is enormous, and you are paying it.

Now the part they bury.

Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.

So follow the chain.

A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.

A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.

We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.

Grift in plain sight.
https://t.co/RqGjdCjV6n

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Trump's family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision, made by the Trump administration, that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president.

"For the first time in history, a president is leaning on a bank regulator to give his private enterprise the implicit backing of the federal government." https://t.co/Kq7ToFVZgi

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Witkoff and Kushner also dont know anything about diplomatic protocols.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[David Frum @davidfrum]

If destruction of government property is a crime, I wonder what they'll do to the man who tore down the East Wing without a permit.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Laser focused on affordability

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

You paid for a plane with "a level of luxury that nobody has never seen before". And he's apparently taking it with him once he leaves the White House.

The plane. The ballroom. The corruption. This guy thinks taxpayers are dopes. Your money is just his to live a life of luxury.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

What we do matters! 🧡
🔗 https://t.co/RTNBw5nTOt

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Your king is giving Iran $300 billion

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Michelle Obama: We simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent. Hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change. But hope is a choice. Whether or not we speak up is a choice. Voting is a choice. Being a decent human being is a choice. Believing that we still hold the power to build a country that reflects us all is a choice.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Nearly 160 troops at an Air Force base in Texas have come down with the flu.

Two months prior, Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional for all troops.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

KAY: There is no commitment in this MOU for Iran not becoming a nuclear state in the future

REP. MIKE TURNER: It actually expressly states that -- 'the Islamic Republic confirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons'

KAY: Which was the first sentence of the JCPOA, but that was backed up by an inspections regime

[Steve Simon @MNSteveSimon]

It’s easy to forget that this kind of gracious rhetoric was once standard and expected for Presidents of both parties.