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[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

They just continue to insist that there are massive crowds showing up to this thing despite the fact that this is also the 200th anniversary of the invention of the camera. https://t.co/xFmP4YGodN

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Bro, wtf is happening here

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

TRUMP: “I just want to find 11,780 votes”

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Lmao yo STFU

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

Trump just posted a photo of Obama aura mogging him

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Orwellian

[Acyn @Acyn]

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

This sounds a lot to me like Trump laying the groundwork to steal the midterms.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Johnson: If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats, y'all impeachment's not even the big concern. They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the The cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Jim Jordan on the World Cup: "Look at the UFC fight where the American beat the Spanish guy in the main event. We're on a roll so let's hope the hockey team can do the same."

(The World Cup isn't a hockey event ...)

[Michael Scherer @michaelscherer]

NEW: Trump said is March that he would pay for the new black granite in the West Colonnade. But that wasn't true. The National Park Service was billed $1.3 million for the project, as spending at other parks collapses, per internal budget docs I obtained. https://t.co/s9ty15JyFL

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Wow. This focus group on the MAGA cult.

Spoiler alert: these folks aren’t MAGA anymore.

Tori Hurst: "They made me watch a documentary on January 6th, and I didn't even know what happened on January 6th prior to the PBS documentary. And I looked at him, and I said, 'Scott, did that really happen?' And he was like, 'Where have you been?’”

Fascinating.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Watters: Liberal women, they get college degrees, move into Manhattan, and they can’t get a job. Shocking.

They can’t afford rent. A bunch of single women with no jobs and degrees have to shack up in the same apartment in the Bronx. And they have been taught in school that America is evil, so they get angry and vote communist to get revenge.

They call these women downwardly mobile, and they will take the whole city down with them. We will not let them do it.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Rep. Rich McCormick: "To the point of Medicaid, the worst thing I can possibly do is give you free money to stay home and do nothing. That's not happiness. I'm not gonna allow you to sit home and get something for nothing ... we gotta proselytize that."

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Lmao they’re gonna tarp the reflecting pool, drain it and make a giant slit in it aren’t they….just so Trump can be like see I told you 🙄

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Trump supporter: "Trump doesn't have to be a sexual predator. Any woman would love to be with Trump."

@itsdeaann: Put your hand up if you would have sex with Donald Trump.

[Multiple hands up]

[Bryan Andrews @bryanandrews_]

They gonna hate this one

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Did you guys see this?? There are projected images popping all over D.C. adding to the swamp theme. 🤣