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[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Trump said the quiet part into a live microphone: he froze $16 billion for the Hudson tunnel to punish Democrats. "It's up to me," he bragged.
It wasn't.

A federal judge just unfroze it—for good—using the regime's own court filing against it. They admitted, in writing, the freeze was illegal. 1,000 jobs are back.
The regime tried to hold a tunnel hostage. A judge cut it loose:

https://t.co/FBpPuvgc5Q #SaveActIsPayToVote

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This is the very definition of corruption. President Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr., are tied to at least ten defense firms that have raked in $3.7 BILLION in federal contracts since his second term began. We cannot normalize this grift. America deserves better than the Pentagon serving as a Trump Family ATM.

op: @msnownews

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

One year since USAID was dismantled, and the bill is coming due. On @TheLastWord last night, Lawrence O'Donnell and I talked about the human cost — and Musk's lie that no one has died. USAID staffers repeatedly warned last year about what would happen. Trump, Musk, DOGE, and Rubio didn't care. Full interview here: https://t.co/IJkrsg7NIR

[Lloyd Doggett @RepLloydDoggett]

A measure adopted after Watergate to require an annual audit of the president’s tax return appears to have been ignored for Trump. Before first taking office, Trump had only one auditor assigned to untangle 400+ Trump Organization entities.

I urged creating a task force to actually review Trump’s returns and support a real audit.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

1,200 former DOJ employees have just sent a letter urging Senators not to confirm Todd Blanche as AG:

"In the coming weeks, many will rightly underscore the corruption and abuses that have defined the Justice Department under Todd Blanche’s leadership: the vindictive prosecutions and investigations of the President’s foes; the deals designed to reward lawbreakers with taxpayer dollars; the erasure of accountability for January 6; the mishandling of the Epstein files; and the denigration of judges and repeated violations of their orders... For the sake of the institution where we once proudly served, we urge you to reject Todd Blanche’s nomination."

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We just hit a harrowing milestone. There are now 1,000 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics that have closed or are on the verge of closing since Republicans gutted Medicaid and the ACA to fund tax cuts the wealthy.

Billionaires over patients. With deadly consequences.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Who could’ve guessed that a fraudster would bail out other fraudsters and criminals?

Trump just pardoned a major Republican donor and a group of people convicted of violating the Clean Air Act.

Because apparently, if you pollute our air or have the right political connections, Trump thinks you deserve a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Many of these Clean Air Act violators were convicted for tampering with emissions controls or selling parts that let vehicles pump more pollution into the air. That means dirtier air, more asthma, more heart attacks, more hospital visits, and more families paying the price.

And of course, Trump also found room to pardon Adam Kidan, a major Republican donor who pleaded guilty to fraud charges tied to the Jack Abramoff scandal, one of the most infamous corruption scandals in modern Washington. But Trump doesn’t care, because Kidan’s poured nearly $4 million into Republican campaigns and committees since 2017, including groups tied to Trump.

These pardons are not about justice. They are about rewarding polluters, donors, and political allies.

Because if you pollute the air, bankroll Republicans, or have the right political connections, Trump thinks the law should not apply to you.

Don’t ever forget this is the same man who said he would “crack down on crime.” What he meant was he would crack down on everyone except the people who help him.
https://t.co/5Hclid4D6l

[MargMoranThomas @MargMoranThomas]

Pathetic country because of a pathetic leader: https://t.co/Soc1gOOCYx

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

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

Trump’s DOJ shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by one of his closest Senate allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping toxic chemicals into our waterways. 

Welcome to Episode 20 of The Corruption Chronicles.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The strongest thing Smith said isn't the headline line. The strongest thing is about the pardons. He noted the obvious recidivism concern, people who committed crimes in Trump's name and had that favor returned. But the message that equally concerns him is what those pardons tell every prosecutor and law enforcement officer still employed: the system will not protect you for doing the right thing, and will reward you for doing the wrong thing in the right person's interest.

Smith also said the DOJ has jettisoned expertise and that losing people who know how to protect national security will have consequences for national security. That's not a political claim. That's an operational warning from someone who relied on DOJ institutional knowledge to run sensitive investigations for years.

The judge who blocked his classified documents report is still sitting. The pardons are issued. The prosecutors who refused retribution prosecutions in Minnesota are, per Smith, the exception now.

[ABC News @ABC]

The United States is facing an "attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime," the special counsel who brought charges against Donald Trump after his first term said Thursday.
https://t.co/svQJobdD2r

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

We need to put an end to the false narrative that Russia is "retaliating" when it hits Ukrainian civilians.

Russia is the unprovoked, genocidal aggressor that started this war, and Ukraine is the only side fighting back and executing real retaliation.

Calling a Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian apartment block a retaliation is a grotesque distortion of facts. Russia lied for months to cover up its plans before executing a completely unprovoked invasion.

The numbers tell the real story of who is targeting whom. While Ukraine has 2.5 to 3 times fewer total casualties than Russia, Ukraine has dozens of times more civilian casualties.

Russia opened this dark chapter by targeting civilian infrastructure first. Ukraine is retaliating to survive, while Russia is simply continuing its deliberate campaign to destroy the Ukrainian population

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Trump voters said he was the economy president.

Inflation is higher. Unemployment is higher. Labor participation is down. Paychecks are shrinking. GDP growth is lower. Job growth is lower. The deficit is bigger. The debt is rising faster.

Trump voters called him the crypto president.

Bitcoin is down 38%. Ethereum is down 51%. Dodgecoin is down 76%. The crypto market's overall cap is down 40%. The Trump coin is down 97%.

Trump voters claimed he would be the president of peace with no new wars.

Trump started a war with Iran, then surrendered while gaining nothing at all. There are ongoing extrajudicial killings happening against boats in the ocean. He threatened to invade our allies and is currently threatening military action against Cuba.

Trump voters said he would drain the swamp.

His administration is full of corruption. Trump is taking bribes for favors. He has enriched himself with billions from inside the White House and has given his family lucrative government contracts.

Trump is the worst president in history. That is his legacy.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

1 year ago today, Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law.

It includes $1,000,000,000,000 in tax cuts for the top 1%, while slashing SNAP and Medicaid budget by $1,100,000,000,000.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

On April 8, 2025, the day before Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, he apparently made 327 individual stock purchases worth as much as $12.8 million.

That's one of the largest stock buying sprees disclosed in Trump's latest financial disclosure. https://t.co/jXrfNVJATL

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

RFK Jr. looked me dead in the eye and lied. He said, "there are no cuts to Medicaid."

Now we have receipts: 3.8 million people lost Medicaid or CHIP.

All to pay for tax cuts for billionaire donors.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. Imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. Depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury.

These were all complaints that the founding fathers had written about King George III 250 years ago. Unfortunately, they could've easily been written about Trump today. https://t.co/GerhFFBplN

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that Todd Blanche has refused to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang's lawsuit, should be a more significant story.
The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story.
The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and now we found out he was, should be a more significant story.
The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup should be the most significant story of all.
And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then - especially - his panicked behavior on all things Epstein, it really should be the end of his presidency.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Do you remember last year when Trump announced his massive across the board tariffs…He called it liberation day, it actually led to a stock market crash. That liberation day announcement was made on April 2nd of last year, and Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made 327 stock purchases six days later, on April 8th, while the market was down…So he makes those purchases on April 8th. The next morning, just after the market opened, he told his followers on Truth social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.’ Hours later, he paused his tariffs and the stock market had a historic rally, so historic in fact, it represented the biggest single day gain in the history of the Bloomberg billionaires index. To put it simply, it appears an official act by Trump cratered the stock market. Trump then bought the dip and then used another official act to bring the price of the market back up. Trump of course insists that all his stock transactions are handled by his two adult sons [@EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr] without his involvement or knowledge of the individual trades carried out on his behalf. When asked about the timing of these specific trades, the White House told us tonight that President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, saying there was no conflict of interest. The White House also directed us to the Trump Organization. We’ve reached out to them, but we haven’t heard [anything] back.”🤦‍♀️

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Huge thanks to @Newshour and @GeoffRBennett for giving the deadly dismantlement of USAID by Musk & Trump such serious and sustained treatment. Clip below, full interview here: https://t.co/Yv9X6RiP1g