JSenst

Husband, father, and grandfather. SDSU Jackrabbit & PE

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

During his campaign for first term, Donald Trump was asked how he showed $916 million net operating losses in 1995 and setting it off for next 18 years without paying any federal taxes.

Not knowing what to answer, Trump said:

​"I absolutely used it, and so did Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett took a massive deduction."

We've to learn from Buffett as to how to deal with facts and data without being emotional or vindictive.

The very next day Buffett shared his income tax returns and said:

​"I have paid federal income tax every year since 1944, when I was 13. Though, being a slow starter, I owed only $7 in tax that year. I have copies of all 72 of my returns and none uses a carryforward."

He further noted that while he made $2.85 billion in charitable contributions in 2015, tax laws properly limited his deductions, meaning more than $2.85 billion of his donations were not taken as deductions and never would be.

He asked Trump to share his tax returns in public. Not knowing what to do, Trump said he is under IRS audit and cannot publicly share his returns.

For which Buffett responsded:

"I have been audited by the IRS multiple times and am currently being audited. I have no problem in releasing my tax information while under audit. Neither would Mr. Trump -at least he would have no legal problem."

Buffett then invited Trump to any place, any time before the election so they could both bring their tax returns, sit down, and let the public ask them questions.

Trump never accepted the invitation.

From then on Trump never once even uttered the name Warren Buffett.

Looks like Trump no longer even eat buffets.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Massive bombshell. Patriot Rep. Ro Khanna completely exposes the massive corruption in Washington regarding congressional stock trading.

He demands a total ban on stock trading for all members of Congress, Senators, and the President to stop elites profiting off insider info.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: NYT torches Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters as “worst corruption in modern times” that threatens our constitutional order!

The Old Grey Lady has finally got her hackles up about Trump.
In a blistering editorial, the New York Times calls out one of the most brazen acts of presidential corruption in modern American history after the Justice Department created a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to reward Jan. 6 criminal insurrectionists and other MAGA “victims” of the Biden administration.

“Has there ever been an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order? Certainly not in modern times,” the Editorial Page writers wrote.

The fund is the product of a sham lawsuit Trump filed against his own IRS, which morphed into a sickening sweetheart deal where he drops the suit and taxpayers foot the bill to pay off his allies.

The money will be controlled by a five-member commission hand-picked by acting AG Todd Blanche, Trump’s lap dog, with Trump able to fire any member at will and virtually no transparency on who gets paid, or how much.

The Times called it what it is: a reward system for those willing to commit violence and break the law on the president’s behalf. It also brings together Trump’s three worst traits: his lust for money, punishing his enemies and rewarding his friends, and rewriting the history of January 6.

It’s so bad that Treasury Department General Counsel Brian Morrissey couldn’t stand having anything to do with it and resigned in disgust just hours after the fund was announced. (Good for him.) Senate Majority Leader John Thune publicly admitted he was “not a big fan” while a host of others lambasted Blanche in private.

This slush fund is part of a larger, dangerous project: turning federal law enforcement into Trump’s personal protection racket while incentivizing future lawlessness by his supporters.

It sends a clear message that no matter how awfully and illegally you behave on Trump’s behalf, the government will have your back and possibly even cut you a check later.

The editorial is a must-read warning: Trump is actively working to erode the guardrails of democracy, and this fund is the most naked example yet. Has he taken it too far this time?

Indications are that he might. Let's hope the backlash continues.

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

Turns out Trump only had a two year window to file a lawsuit over his tax return release. That window closed long before Trump made a deal with the DOJ. The people of the United States owe Trump nothing for a payout. Andrew Weissman says this 1.776 billion dollar slush fund is flat out theft and is not part of his official acts. Trump has no immunity for theft. He said anyone involved in putting together this theft is also open to prosecution.

[Tom Hoefling @TomHoefling]

I watched every bit of Jan. 6th, live. I had 7 or 8 different feeds up throughout. At least half were from MAGA sources. I know exactly what went down. And the reality bears no resemblance to the nonsense Trumpists are spouting now. It's appalling how dishonest these people are.

[🪴Laurie @Laurieluvsmolly]

😡 Remember this?

MAGAs, who claim they’re patriots, threw the American flag to the ground, and replaced it with a Trump flag.

Now they want your tax dollars.

Angry yet?

Call your representatives, STOP THE FUND!

[Prof. John McLaughlin @Harvard1988]

🚨🚨The Trump Crime Family is more corrupt than the totality of All Previous Organized Crime Families Combined in the history of the United States.
———————————————
I spent thirty (30 years investigating Major Organized Crime Families & Gangs and without a doubt, Donald Trump has committed more crimes against the United States of America and its citizens than all Organized Crime Syndicates.
TRUMP is directly responsible for the theft of billions of dollars and the systematic destruction of our economy, the rule of law and our democracy.
TRUMP must be Impeached and Removed from office by the U.S. Congress this year. Both Democrats & Republicans must join together to save our nation.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

I am a US citizen, but I have never in my life been so disappointed with the US. The reasons are many:
1. The US people have elected a president who represent all the deadly sins. How could they do that? Are they so morally deprived?
2. Lying has been normalized. Trump made it the standard.
3. The US used to claim the non-partisan rule of law, but SCOTUS has been proven utterly corrupt & obedient to Trump.
4. The US used to boast about its checks and balances, but they don't exist. The republicans in Congress are obedient servants of one man.
5. The US used to oppose corruption, but the Trump crime family is probably the most corrupt ruling family in the world. How can SCOTUS & the republicans in Congress accept that?
6. The US used to be considered a democracy, but massive gerrymandering & voter discrimination make US elections not very democratic.
7. Reporters without Broders have rightly lowered the US to rank #64 in its sound World Press Freedom index. the US no longer has media freedom, because of extortion and oppression through defamation court cases.
8. The US used to be the security guarantee of the free world, but Trump only praises Xi Jingping, Putin, Lukashenko & Kim Jong Un.
Is the US able to extract itself from the Trump trap, in which it has fallen so deeply?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump promised every American a $2,000 tariff check, a $5,000 DOGE check, 10% APR on credit cards, $2 gas, a “privately funded” ballroom, and medications that were supposedly 1500% cheaper.

Instead, we got a $1.776 billion slush fund to pay people who beat up cops and smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

Trump’s insider trading exposure may actually be stronger than cases that already sent politicians to prison.

Chris Collins went to prison for a single stock tip tied to information learned at the White House.

Steve Buyer went to prison for trading around two corporate deals worth a few hundred thousand dollars.

Trump?

Over 3,600 trades.
Up to $750 MILLION in activity.
Tech stocks directly impacted by policies HE controls.

Nvidia trades around export-control decisions.
Palantir trades around DHS contracts.
Oracle positions around TikTok policy moves.
Hyperscaler trades around AI and Pentagon contracts.

And unlike presidents trying to avoid conflicts, Trump reportedly did NOT use a qualified blind trust.

That matters because insider trading law is fundamentally about:

1. Access to material non-public information.
2. A duty not to exploit it.

No one on Earth has more access to market-moving non-public policy information than the President of the United States.

And unlike the Burr/Loeffler COVID cases, this wasn’t passive exposure to vague briefing material.

These were affirmative policy decisions:
export licenses,
AI rules,
federal contracts,
antitrust actions,
TikTok policy,
semiconductor restrictions.

The exact kind of decisions capable of moving billions in market value.

The prosecution theory practically writes itself:

“Trump traded repeatedly in companies directly affected by non-public presidential policy actions under his control.”

That is a much cleaner insider trading narrative than many cases prosecutors have already won.

If any normal executive traded hundreds of millions around government actions they personally controlled, the FBI would already be crawling through their phones, emails, managers, and transaction records with a fucking microscope.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

I saw this video yesterday and assumed Mike Johnson was on SNL, that’s how outrageously out of touch the Republican party is.

Mike Johnson is actually making an argument that we should allow insider trading because his $170k/year salary is not enough to live off of.

This is the same guy that said a $7.25/hr minimum wage was enough to live on.

[Heather Sutton @heathercsutton]

The United States already owns an official ballroom.

It is Mellon Auditorium and sits, appropriately, on Constitution Ave.

And, fantastically, it was just renovated in 2023.

So, it's time to stop talking about a $1 Billion dollar ballroom.

https://t.co/3MchJGdOGI

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump just got exposed for running the biggest insider trading operation in American history.

Nancy Pelosi traded $5 million in stocks and Congress lost its mind.

Trump literally executed $750 MILLION worth of stock trades in ONE quarter while being President.

His ethics filing just dropped and the numbers are genuinely unprecedented in history:

Between January and March 2026, Donald Trump personally executed 3,700 individual stock transactions worth between $220 million and $750 million.

That's roughly 60 trades PER DAY.

While signing executive orders, meeting foreign leaders, and making policy decisions that directly impact the companies he's buying and selling.

Now here's where it gets really insane:

On February 10, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell stock.

Three months later, on May 8, he stood at a Mother's Day event at the White House, thanked Michael Dell by name, and told Americans to "go out and buy a Dell."

Dell stock surged 14.6% that day to an all-time high of $263.99.

Since Trump's February purchase, Dell is up 96%.

And 5 months BEFORE Trump bought Dell stock, Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25 billion to Trump Accounts, one of the largest philanthropic commitments to a sitting president's signature program in modern history.

So the timeline goes: Dell donates $6.25 billion to Trump's program -> Trump buys Dell stock ->Trump tells America to buy Dell from the White House podium -> Stock hits all-time high

And that's just ONE stock...

The same filing shows Trump bought Nvidia stock on February 10. One week later, Nvidia announced a massive chip deal with Meta.

He bought more Nvidia stock one week BEFORE his own Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia.

He bought Intel stock starting in March 2026. The US government already owned a 9.9% stake in Intel worth over $41 billion. On April 30, Trump posted on Truth Social praising Intel, writing that "Intel Stock continues to rise."

Intel jumped 3% in after-hours and is now up 140% year-to-date.

He bought Palantir stock while his administration was actively handing them billion-dollar government contracts for immigration enforcement and defense.

He bought Robinhood stock while his own Trump Accounts program uses Robinhood as the broker.

He's currently sitting on over 100% profit on AMD, Intel, Bloom Energy, Marvell Technology, and at least 10 other positions.

Every single president since Lyndon B. Johnson has used a blind trust to avoid exactly this situation. But Trump didn't.

His assets sit in a trust controlled by his own children, and the filings show a broker acted as agent on several trades.

The White House says the portfolio is "independently managed."

But here's what independently managed looks like:

Buy Dell stock. Three months later, publicly endorse Dell from the White House. Stock hits all-time high.

Buy Nvidia stock. One week later, your own government approves their chip sales. Stock rips.

Buy Intel stock. Post about Intel on Truth Social. Stock jumps. The government you run already owns a 10% stake.

Buy Palantir. Hand them contracts. Buy Robinhood. Route a federal program through their platform.

Nancy Pelosi got absolutely destroyed for her husband's stock trades.

Her husband's total disclosed trades in his most controversial year were worth roughly $5 million.

Trump just disclosed up to $750 MILLION in a single quarter.

While making the actual policy decisions that move these stocks.

This isn't a left or right issue.

We're talking about the President of the United States averaging 60 stock trades per day in companies his own administration regulates, contracts with, and publicly endorses.

What do you think?

[Marty Taylor @RealMartyT7]

https://t.co/rNmOjNtANj
#USDemocracy #DemsUnited #DV1

Shame on Colorado Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to unrepentant election denying thief and Trump aligned felon Tina Peters.

Peters was serving a well deserved 9 year prison sentence for allowing one of Mike Lindell’s election denying lunatics access to election data and secure computers in the dead of the night.

Now Peters will be free to continue her 2020 election denial crime spree. And all it took for Democrat Polis to free her was a little pressure and a few mean tweets from Donald Trump to make Polis fold and cower in fear of the felon in the White House.

Tina Peters is a martyr to the ridiculous 2020 election deniers and will be given a hero’s welcome at the White House upon her June 1 release from prison.

I hope Colorado makes Gov Polis pay for his traitorous act of commuting a clearly unrepentant and dangerous Tina Peters from prison after serving only a very small part of her 9 year sentence

[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

⛔️Names referenced in the Epstein Files so far‼️

[JSenst @JeffSenst]

@TalkinBaseball_ Angel Hernandez should be out of the game, has missed so many calls all season!

[JSenst @JeffSenst]

@stearnsnathan Awesome, great day to be out with your dog!

[JSenst @JeffSenst]

Don’t let him down Nathan!😊

[Nathan Stearns @stearnsnathan]

Starting his 12th hunting season, all I have to do is give him something to retrieve

[JSenst @JeffSenst]

@tteberry @Twins @toriihunter48 @mcuddy23 @RodCarew_29 @Hrbie14 @BertBlyleven28 Mayer at catcher!

[JSenst @JeffSenst]

@_AndyHowes Just accept “no” for an answer, I don’t want to spend taxpayer money fighting a fight that doesn’t need to be fought.