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.
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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA Have at it, Russia. Last time I checked, the Russians got slaughtered In Finland in 1939-1944. Outside of Russia and Ukraine, Finland has the largest standing army in Europe. So go ahead, Putin, open a second front in a war that you are already losing.
@timaeg54@DSA_Watch No shit, Sherlock. Trump is looting our government, plotting to end free elections, starting worthless wars, protecting pedophiles, and destroying our public lands. He & GOP could care less about you and the rest of your dum-ass ilk. Jihadists - hahahaha!!
WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:
"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
Source: @tomaskenn
@SassySouthern2U It’s just another case of self-loathing.
That cause - the Confederacy - “was one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”
U.S. Grant.
@Andie00471 Here is my thought: Trump is doing everything he can to rig the Midterms-Save Act, ICE at polls, postal service lists, etc. THE threat to our country. Work this - from every angle. Big stuff, little stuff, lawsuits, Luna’s BS, Johnson’s, and course Trump’s.
@smc429 “Alternative facts” is not a catch-phrase; it’s a worldview. They lie about everything - from wind power to polling numbers, from elections to hurricanes, from wars to ballrooms. And all of MAGA does it - otherwise they aren’t in the circle.
@smc429 Yeah, the self-loathing comes through. All of these GOP pols are fucking idiots when they think they can be “part” MAGA. You’re either in, or you’re out. Senators especially.