Not that Mike Davis. Not that one either. I'm not famous, infamous, or well known. So if you're looking for a Mike Davis that lots of people know, it's not me.
In March of last year Donald Trump sued Capital One for closing over 300 of the Trump Organization’s bank accounts in 2021. Trump and his sons claimed it was political.
Capital One Financial hit back on Friday this week. In court filings they stated that they closed the accounts after a review by anti-money laundering experts.
In their filing Capital One stated “documents and Plaintiffs’ own allegations make clear that Capital One closed Plaintiffs’ accounts for anti-money laundering (“AML”) reasons. The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.”
This should be a surprise to no one. Donald Trump has been laundering money for years for Russian and Chinese entities and his hotel in Panama is known as Narco-a-lago after a Global Witness investigation revealed that Trump had made millions laundering money for Colombian drug cartels through the property.
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BREAKING: Trump overrules his own Coast Guard and orders 11 giant Arctic icebreakers just because Russia has more – leaving taxpayers holding the multi-billion dollar bag!
Donald Trump reportedly ignored his own Coast Guard experts and ordered the purchase of 11 massive Arctic icebreakers after getting obsessed with the fact that Russia has a bigger fleet, according to a new New York Times investigation.
The Coast Guard’s most recent assessment said the country only needs four or five heavy icebreakers.
Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, told the Times straight up: “The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president’s number and the president’s decision.���
The Times notes the deal was born as much out of Trump's personal enthusiasm as military planning. After a round of golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Trump reportedly called him late one night and announced he no longer wanted one used icebreaker.
He wanted an entire fleet of brand-new ones instead.
The ships alone are expected to cost nearly $7 billion. The administration also bypassed normal competitive bidding by invoking a rarely used “public interest” exemption so the contracts could move forward without competing bids.
And here’s the kicker: while they found billions to buy the ships, there is no plan yet to pay for the crews, ports, maintenance, and infrastructure needed to actually operate them – costs that could run into billions more.
Where did the money come from? The administration redirected billions from the Republican spending law’s border security funding after Trump decided he wanted more ships than Congress had originally approved.Trump has never hidden his reasoning:
“We only have one,” he complained during his first term. “Russia has 40.”
Experts note that comparison is nonsense. Russia has a far larger Arctic population and relies on icebreakers to keep northern ports open year-round. The United States has completely different needs.
Even the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm likening the Coast Guard to “a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.”
This is a perfect example of Trump’s government-by-fiat: decide he wants the biggest, the most, or more than the other guy – then leave everyone else to figure out how to pay for it, staff it, and make it work.
The man is treating the national budget like his personal toy store. If Trump’s ego-driven $7 billion icebreaker shopping spree has you seething, like and share this post.
.@RandPaul …hey, just wondering if you are even half as pissed off about Donald Trump and Todd Blanche refusing to cooperate with the New Mexico AG. You know…Zorro Ranch. You’ve heard of that, right? 😉
Well, Donald, you can disagree all you want, but your own White House posted the video: your motorcade drove across the freshly painted, freshly sealed pool on May 7, before it had even cured. You owe the taxpayers $14 million.
Fact Check: Trump's motorcade drove through reflecting pool during renovation project. Here's proof https://t.co/QyuvntbzPL via @@YahooNews
The administration blatantly lied to the public for weeks. DC’s DA lied to a grand jury to get an indictment. The justice department was ready and willing to put an innocent man in jail to hide their president’s incompetence or grift.
When will people wake up?
BREAKING: UNDER THE BUS! Delusional Trump publicly trashes his own U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro after she refused to call Reflecting Pool damage "vandalism!"
Donald Trump just turned on one of his own most loyal allies.
In a Truth Social post Saturday, the president publicly contradicted interim U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro over the investigation into damage at the National Mall's Reflecting Pool, making clear he believes she got it completely wrong.
"I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro," Trump wrote. "I don't know what she was thinking?"
Trump insisted the damage was "a pure case of VANDALISM," dismissing suggestions that contractors may have played a role.
"There may have been some contractor difficulty," he wrote, "but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!"
It's a remarkable public rebuke of a woman Trump personally chose to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and who spent years kissing Trump’s tuchus on Fox News as one of his most loyal public allies.
Yet when her handling of a politically charged case diverged from the president's preferred narrative, Trump didn't bother to pick up the phone – he made her walk the plank for all to see.
As we well know, loyalty for Trump is a one-way street. His allies are expected to stand behind him without question, and when they don't, even briefly, they can find themselves learning about the president's disappointment the same way everyone else does: via public shaming.
Every official who serves under Trump understands the risk. Loyalty flows in one direction. They are expected to defend him without hesitation, but the moment Trump decides they've become politically inconvenient, he has no qualms about dressing them down in public.
Jeanine Pirro is simply the latest reminder that serving Donald Trump comes with no guarantee he'll ever stand by you, and that once he considers you no longer useful, you are finished.
Elon Musk spent $290 million to elect Trump.
His investment worked. He is now $438 billion richer.
Now, he wants to buy Congress by spending $100 million to keep Republicans in control.
We must fight oligarchy. Defeat Musk. Preserve democracy.
Americans are being deliberately misinformed by our news, so we have to figure out ways to sort out truth from lies. This is a great one…
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Holy sh*t, Todd Blanche told the Epstein Survivors to "Get to the point" in their meeting, like he was late for golf.
What kind of MONSTER is dismissive of victims of trafficking and abuse???
Add his many lies under oath, and it's clear: he CANNOT be the next Attorney General.