Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.
His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.
📸: @MSNOWNews@Morning_Joe
In many parts of the country now, ICE pays state police set up immigration checkpoints in the interior of the United States. The assault on our freedom as Americans is unrelenting.
Ken Paxton was impeached for taking bribes from donors.
He became a multi-millionaire on a government salary.
He takes lavish vacations in Iceland while Texans can’t afford the basics.
Ken Paxton doesn’t serve us — he serves himself.
Russians are fleeing Crimea, shocked that the war their country started has finally reached them. This is likely only the beginning of their nightmare. Ukraine has turned the dial to 10 and is now shaping the course of this war.
Iran denied they requested talks with the US and said they will not be meeting with Witkoff and Kushner today despite Trump’s statements and stenographer reports in the media.
76 days ago - This motherfucker started a war with Iran.
75 days ago - He said the war “Was Over…. Complete Victory”
68 days ago - He begged NATO for assistance with the war in Iran.
68 days ago - NATO told him to fuck off.
65 days ago - 13 US Military personnel were needlessly killed in Iran….
Hundreds more have been wounded.
2 days ago - Trump asked China for help with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz…. China said no.
In the last 76 days - This piece of shit has said dozens of times that he has beaten Iran….
And the war was over.
In the last 76 days -
Gas has gone from $2.59 to $4.79 a 110% increase.
Groceries are at the highest ever in U.S. History.
The cost of living is at the highest ever in U.S. History.
All because this motherfucker was elected president,
And started a bullshit war….
To distract from the fact -
He’s all over the Epstein Files.
He’s a Pedophile.
When the 2nd Circuit affirmed E. Jean Carroll's $83.3 million verdict against Trump (the case that's still on appeal, not the one the Court ended by refusing to hear it today) I wrote this. It's still true. Woman are still fighting for rights & privileges men take for granted.
30 days out from a child support trial, Jason Miller suddenly joins the White House (salary of $195,000), when he earned $14 million in the past 12 months.
Nothing to see here. Just a 98% reduction in income. Wink-wink. The timing is a total coincidence, am sure.
NEW: “It is general knowledge in our practice that for $2 million, you can have a pardon,” a prominent defense attorney told me. Others said $1-2 million is the going rate, though clients were offering *many* times that amount for challenging cases. @michaelscherer@TheAtlantic https://t.co/5KL2vV3HEn
The DOJ just dismissed a years-long criminal probe into Abbott Laboratories — a company that donated more than $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund and has extensive financial connections to one of Trump’s top cabinet members.
https://t.co/AyZvTf7q3J
BREAKING:
A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to permanently abandon its efforts to suspend funding for a $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River — describing those attempts as "flagrantly" illegal. https://t.co/vSftfppfXh
BOMBSHELL reporting finds Princeton climate researchers took tens of millions of dollars from BP to publish research, shaped and edited by BP, promoting carbon capture & storage and fossil fuels.
Landmark "Wedges" climate paper promoting CCS now confirmed to be BP propaganda.
Ossoff: "You've got the American government controlled by Donald Trump backing a Trump family tungsten mine in Kazakhstan with a billion plus dollars of federal commitments at the very same time that they are cutting healthcare, defunding hospitals, and nursing homes, and doubling health insurance premiums."
Ossoff: "Handing an out-of-control executive even more unfettered power just makes it even more vital that we restore checks and balances and constrain this president using our power as citizens as voters in these midterm elections."