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[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Do you know the most valid reason for not believing the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler was organic? It’s simple, really: Donald Trump says it was.

After ten years, and thousands upon thousands of lies…all for the purpose of framing himself as some kind of super hero…if we haven’t learned something…we never will.

President Reagan showed us what an authentic response to an assassination attempt looked like: head down and hauling ass. Not posing for a pre-planned photo op.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: SECURITY FAIL! Trump aide Natalie Harp allegedly fed him unvetted information while working at the White House for over a year WITHOUT a security clearance.

Natalie Harp — one of Donald Trump's most trusted aides and the person who controls much of what information actually reaches the president — spent more than a year working in the West Wing without a routine security clearance most staffers obtain immediately, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cue the sound of exploding heads! This is someone with virtually unlimited access to Trump, in the West Wing and at his residence, present during sensitive conversations, standing feet away from him during private moments — yet operating without the basic federal background vetting nearly every other senior official is required to complete.

Even the Secret Service raised internal concerns, both about her unrestricted access to the president and her failure to obtain clearance. It took White House counsel's office pressure, mounting internal alarm, and ultimately Trump's own personal intervention before Harp finally completed the process in recent months.

And Harp's role goes well beyond simple staffing. She's known internally as Trump's "Human Printer," delivering him stacks of favorable news coverage, cherry-picked poll numbers from questionable sources, and messages from confidants trying to get his attention — much of it, by internal accounts, unvetted.

One person described her as someone who "plays into the less productive and more troublesome parts of his nature, putting things in front of him that aren't vetted." Staff reportedly tried subtle maneuvers to limit her round-the-clock access. They failed.

Harp's rise has been remarkably swift for someone with this level of unchecked influence. She first gained national attention crediting Trump's signing of the Right to Try Act for saving her life during a bone cancer diagnosis — a claim medical experts have since questioned. She later became a host on far-right network One America News before joining Trump's campaign and now holds the title Special Assistant to the President.

She was also recently revealed to be among the small group of aides who accompanied Trump inside a catering cart during his secretive escape from Air Force One in Turkey amid security concerns — putting her once again at the center of exactly the kind of sensitive, high-stakes moment someone without proper security clearance shouldn't have unrestricted access to.

This isn't a minor bureaucratic oversight. This is the president's most influential information gatekeeper operating for over a year outside the basic accountability structures meant to protect national security.

Please like and share if you’re sick of Trump pretending that the rules don’t apply to him and his administration!.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MONSTER! Ron DeSantis’ handpicked court official arrested after alleged MOLESTATION of child under 5.

Michael Caruso — Governor Ron DeSantis's handpicked choice to oversee Palm Beach County's court system and $80 million budget — was arrested Tuesday on charges including child molestation, kidnapping, luring a minor, and lewd exhibition. The victim, according to sources, was a boy under 5 years old.

The allegations are horrifying. According to the arrest affidavit, Caruso exposed himself to the child while playing soccer, later touched the boy inappropriately during a game he called "tickle monster," exposed himself again and assaulted the child on a cruise ship, and molested him a third time during a fishing trip. The abuse only came to light after the boy began acting out sexually at home, prompting his parents to alert law enforcement.

This is not the first time Caruso has faced allegations like this. His first wife, Beverly Caruso, accused him of sexually assaulting a child during their 2013 divorce proceedings — an allegation Caruso dismissed as fabricated.

Records show Delray Beach police investigated a related child abuse complaint against him in 2012, though the case was ultimately deemed unfounded. Their divorce records also reveal a documented pattern of volatility, including a 2009 incident where Caruso allegedly drove drunk and screamed at Beverly, "I want to make you suffer," and a 2012 incident where he sought a restraining order against her that a judge rejected after a witness disputed his account.

Despite this troubling history, DeSantis called Caruso a "legend" for backing him on immigration legislation and appointed him Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts just last August — a powerful $219,000-a-year position overseeing 670 employees. DeSantis has now suspended Caruso following his arrest, but the deeper question is why someone with this documented pattern was ever handed that much public trust and authority in the first place.

Making matters more uncomfortable, Caruso's current wife holds not one but TWO DeSantis-appointed positions, with a third pending state Senate approval — raising serious questions about how deeply this family had embedded itself into Florida's political power structure.

Attorney General James Uthmeier said, "Being in a position of public trust provides no shield from accountability." That's true. But accountability shouldn't only arrive after a child has already been harmed. It should start with actually vetting who gets handed that trust in the first place.

Given that Caruso supported the death penalty for pedophiles when he was a Florida legislator, it will be interesting to see how his lawyers handle this case.

Please like and share if you’re sick of these MAGA child molesters!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Good morning. X drastically limited my reach yesterday so checking to see if their throttle has been released today.

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: PEDO PARTY! Corrupt MAGA Republican changes law to protect his own 18-year-old relative accused of raping a 13-year-old!

In a stunning display of Republican hypocrisy, tolerance for sexual perversion and elite corruption, Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams quietly helped change state law to rescue his own teenage relative from decades in prison after the 18-year-old was accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old junior high student.

The teen, who is related to the powerful Republican leader, originally faced multiple first-degree felony charges of child rape and child sodomy, which could have meant 25 years to life and lifetime sex offender registration.

But after Adams got involved, the Utah Legislature passed a convenient tweak that created a new lower charge specifically for 18-year-old high school students having sex with 13-year-olds.

Two months later, prosecutors offered the connected teenager a sweetheart plea deal: guilty to reduced charges, just one week in jail (already served), no sex offender registration, and basically a slap on the wrist.

The victim’s mother was blindsided.

“I felt like I was punched in the gut,” she told the Salt Lake Tribune, adding that she believes her child was merely “an afterthought” while powerful people protected their own. She believes the system gave special treatment to the perpetrator because of who he’s related to.

Republicans love to scream about “protecting children,” “law and order,” and pledge to be “tough on crime.” Yet when it’s one of their own powerful insiders facing consequences for the sexual abuse of a child, they rewrite the rules to make it go away.

The party of Epstein.

Adams claims he didn’t directly request the change, but everyone involved in the courtroom openly admitted the legislative tweak was the key to resolving the charges with a lenient deal. Wink, wink.
The young man’s defense attorney Cara Tangaro even drafted the language of the amendment, and even told the judge the new law “changed everything.”

Now, the 13-year-old victim and her family are left devastated, watching justice for the girl be denied so an connected 18-year-old could avoid real consequences.

Republicans can blather all day about family values, but this story reveals the truth that for them, justice is only for the little people, and that sexual misconduct can be swept under the rug.

No one should be above the law, especially not MAGA politicians and their families.

If you agree, please like and share.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: SOUNDS OF SILENCE — Senate hearing goes deadly quiet as Trump’s federal judicial nominees REFUSE to admit third term is illegal.
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Donald Trump is nominating people to lifetime federal judgeships who won't confirm that he can't run for a third term when they come before the Senate for their approval hearings.

Let that sink in.

Senator Chris Coons of Delaware asked what should be the easiest constitutional law question in American history at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. He asked Trump's judicial nominees about the 22nd Amendment.

The first nominee, John Marck, said that his career had been in criminal prosecution and that he hadn't had occasion to use that particular amendment.

A federal judicial nominee. Unfamiliar with the 22nd Amendment. Seeking a lifetime appointment to interpret the Constitution.

Another candidate eventually offered that it "deals with the two-term limitation." Correct. Gold star.

Coons then asked the simple follow-up: is President Trump eligible to run for president again in 2028?

Marck's response was a masterpiece of evasion: "Without considering all the facts and looking at everything, depending on what the situation is, this to me strikes as more of a hypothetical."

Coons was patient. He walked Marck through it like a kindergarten teacher explaining why you can't eat paste. Has Trump been elected president twice? "President Trump has been certified the President of the United States two times." Is he eligible to run for a third term? "I would have to review the actual wording of it."

A man seeking a lifetime federal judgeship needs to review the actual wording. Of the 22nd Amendment. Which is 61 words long.

Coons then turned to the full panel and asked if anyone — anyone — was willing to simply state that the Constitution of the United States bars Trump from seeking a third term.

A heartbreakingly long silence ensued.

He asked again. Anyone willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language?

More ominous silence.

Nobody. Not one of Trump's judicial nominees would say out loud, under oath, in a Senate hearing, that the 22nd Amendment means what it plainly says.

This isn't ignorance. These are lawyers. They know what the 22nd Amendment says. They know Trump has been talking openly about a third term. And they calculated — correctly, based on what happens to people who cross this president — that telling the constitutional truth was more dangerous than staying silent.

The frightening thing is that these are the people who will be interpreting your rights for the next 30 years.

Please like and share this post if you think federal judges should be willing to say the Constitution means what it says — even when the president doesn't want to hear it.

[Kennethis @Kennethis1]

@ytruthmatters @OccupyDemocrats #AmericawasWARNED

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@RepAlGreen: "The mere fact that people are trying to prevent us from getting to the polls and voting, that 'ought be reason enough to fight our ways to the polls and vote."

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

This explains a lot!

[linda ridpath @ridpath_linda]

@FPWellman

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Governor Gavin Newsom replaces Donald Trump on the world stage by announcing that he will attend the United Nations climate summit in Brazil that the MAGA leader refused to send a delegation to.

Big Oil owns Trump but they don't own his ascendant arch-nemesis...

COP30, the conference in question, will be held on Friday and Newsom will be the highest-profile American government official in attendance. The appearance, which will supercharge interest in his 2028 presidential run, comes in the wake of his historic redistricting victory on Tuesday.

The governor told Politico that he's making the trip “because of the complete abdication of the Trump administration that is joining the Saudis and Russia and the Gulf states.”

“It’s doubled down on hydrocarbons as the rest of the world is sprinting ahead on low-carbon green growth,” he said. “For me, it is about our economic competitiveness, period, full stop.”

Newsom's angle here is a smart one. Climate change is an existential crisis for the survival of our species, but it's also an enormous economic opportunity for those countries that are willing to adopt clean energy quickly and efficiently. Either the United States rises to meet demand or China will.

Trump has repeatedly dismissed climate change as a "hoax" and a "con job" despite the overwhelming evidence and proliferation of extreme weather events. Fossil fuel companies helped foist him into power and he's paying them back tenfold at the cost of our planet.

“I just want to make sure everyone understands we’re maybe 2,000 miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but we’re a world away in terms of our mindset on these issues,” Newsom added.

Tens of thousands of diplomats, scientists, experts, and activists are attending the conference which will unfold over two weeks in Belém, a city close to the mouth of the Amazon River. Newsom will have a strong legacy to tout during his trip since California has been leading America in renewable energy on numerous fronts.

The rest of the world is eager to speak with the United States and so Newsom will have an opportunity to boost his international standing even further—

“The U.S. will not play a major role. The world is collectively outraged, and so we will focus — as will everyone else — on engaging in talks with those who are driving the process forward," said Jochen Flasbarth, undersecretary in the German Ministry of Environmental Affairs."

Thanks to Gavin Newsom, the world doesn't have to count America out just yet. We need not surrender our global leadership. It's time to recommit to our responsibilities.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Gavin Newsom!

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

A group of duly elected individuals decided to show up to do their jobs & ICE & this corrupt government ultimately arrested two of those elected officials. One is facing 17 years in prison…

Contrast that with George Santos who by all accounts is a CON man & was booted from Congress in a bipartisan way… the Con-in-Chief, just let him go after not even being in for 2 months of his 87!!!!

Mind you the same man is forcing the prosecution of AG TISH JAMES & JAMES COMEY….

Law & Order, my ass. Trump has destroyed our country, but his party helped him do it.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

While the Trump shut down continues and Republicans triple healthcare costs for millions of Americans -- California just announced $11 insulin.

Your government should be working to make your health care more affordable.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Cowards.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Australia Could become the First Western country to permanently ban Trump, his family, and Members of his administration from its Country

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules. https://t.co/FN7okCz1V1

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump is about to steal nearly 20 more seats in Congress.

The Supreme Court is poised to wipe away the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and eliminate representation for black and brown communities across our country.

The GOP knows they cannot win. They are threatening Governors. Rigging maps across the country. And have now recruited SCOTUS to do their dirty work, too.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump was President of the United States of America on January 6th, 2021.