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A #latina who loves books, music, history and science. #StillWithHer #IStandWithPP #BidenHarris2024 #HarrisWalz2024

[EM @razzleberry_e]

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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed.

The bank says its AML team conducted a careful review that identified suspicious transaction patterns and made the decision under federal anti-money laundering obligations.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
Continued in replies…

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Trump is lying. WaPo knows he is lying. We all know he is lying. Yet, the Post cannot say it.

Support independent pro-democracy media that never backs down from the truth. https://t.co/7W0yoPHmq2

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

When the full story of this is told, I suspect some lawyer or group of lawyers in the US Attorney's Office feared for their bar licenses and forced the dismissal and disclosure.

trump, of course, doesn't care about anyone but himself, so he continues his lies.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This drunk bitch was lying.
And she damn well knew it.
But her psycho boss told her to charge someone. So she did.
She needs to be disbarred and sued into oblivion.

[The Associated Press @AP]

UEFA says it has lost confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino and that “no option should be off the table” as it will pursue a full review of his now abandoned plan to sell stakes of the World Cup to private equity investors. https://t.co/AjDd32f2nl

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

The only reason @TheJusticeDept charged Olympian David Hearn was to sooth trump’s fragile ego.

The Justice Dept knew they were indicting an innocent person. This is unethical, radical, criminal behavior by @DAGToddBlanche and his thugs at the Department.

November is coming.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Every lawyer involved in this outrage should be disbarred

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Fifa president Gianni Infantino scraps World Cup investment plan after backlash https://t.co/bfckeOquOh

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Donald Trump lied.

Jeanine Pirro lied.

Doug Burgum lied.

They all lied about the vandalism at the reflecting pool. I have the latest: https://t.co/d8RMBLw0XI

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another big victory for Elias Law Group and its clients.

DOJ is now 0-19 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. https://t.co/UmjQZAee9p

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn

Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state’s primary. https://t.co/v45s6LpkfS

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

🚨BREAKING: The Kansas Supreme Court dealt a final blow to Republicans’ bid to revive a strict Election Day mail ballot deadline.

The state’s three-day grace period will remain in place for the Aug. 4 primary — protecting voters from postal delays.
https://t.co/lP8iILUuqL

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

EXCLUSIVE: @TroyJackson207 responds to CNN reporting that he ran an anonymous account online to troll Republicans.

His response: I guess so :)

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Big step and big win for @KatiePhang and her lawsuit to secure release of more Epstein Files

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Kansas Supreme Court rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) final emergency effort to revive a strict Election Day receipt deadline for mail-in ballots right before the state’s primary. https://t.co/v45s6LpkfS

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

A federal judge has tossed Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit against blogger Jim Stewartson, who accused Patel of being a "Kremlin asset" and suggested that he helped plan the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

IMAX 70mm showings for ‘THE ODYSSEY’ are being extended through to September 16 due to massive demand.