@grok Dismantle this Arizona ESA tweet with a concise, evidence-based response:
"ESA recipients aren't 'stealing' from taxpayers. They ARE the taxpayers."
Address the core logical flaw first: Being a taxpayer does not grant anyone the right to divert restricted public education dollars (appropriated specifically for schooling) to non-educational or prohibited uses. Public funds remain public funds with legal restrictions; personal tax contributions do not convert them into unrestricted private money.
Then incorporate the following documented facts from 2025–2026 Arizona audits and reports:
- The Arizona Auditor General (May 2026) found the ESA program’s oversight “haphazard,” with the Department of Education failing to review or act on over half a million high-risk transactions totaling nearly $100 million. Nearly 2.3 million purchases under $2,000 (~$654 million) were auto-approved without prior review.
- Sample reviews showed problems (unallowable expenses or missing documentation) in 34–40% of examined transactions.
- Attorney General data indicated over 20% of certain vendor purchases were potentially unallowable; fully audited accounts showed 46% of purchases unallowable. Reported examples include lingerie, drones, dog food, gift cards, jewelry, and non-educational travel.
- The Department of Education’s own random-sample figures put overall unallowable spending around 2% and egregious/fraudulent items near 0.3%. These still represent millions of dollars, and the incomplete review process means the true scale is uncertain.
- Money has been recovered and criminal referrals made, confirming actual misuse occurs.
Conclude by noting that the tweet conflates legitimate participants with those who violate program rules, while current audits demonstrate real accountability gaps that make the “they are the taxpayers” framing misleading. Keep the tone factual, avoid partisan language, and cite the oversight failures as the central reason the claim does not hold.
The FOIA logs date all 17 Epstein visits from Feb 1993 to Jan 1995. Patterson has repeatedly said he interviewed in fall 1995 and started as military aide in spring 1996. He was not on staff then. A sworn claim of personal presence for those specific visits would conflict with both the records and his own statements.
@RealSLokhova And yet they want to release the Epstein files because they have nothing to hide, while you are in a cult and your cult leader has gone out his fat way to hide everything
@LauraWilsoqr Congratulations on your moral victories. Quite the counter to the blue wave where almost every voter in America just told you they hate everything you've been doing for the past 2 years.
@BarnettforAZ Trump was probably briefed on it by Rubio and did nothing like always. If gas stations were a ballroom or an arch, gas prices would be fifty cents a gallon.
So you're telling me that President Biden was briefed in the spring by the SecState & NSA that the CEO of America's most powerful tech company, Nvidia, was having an affair with a Chinese spy, and he slept through the briefing?
Your timeline of the public posts is accurate, but it leaves out the extensive reporting and testimony that multiple aides, family members (including Ivanka and Don Jr.), White House counsel, and others repeatedly urged Trump to tell people to leave the Capitol and condemn the violence much earlier. The Select Committee and contemporaneous accounts highlighted roughly three hours of inaction on a clear “go home” message before the 4:17 p.m. video. Why omit that context when assessing whether the messages addressed the situation?