BREAKING: Justice Merchan imposes the sentence of unconditional discharge to cover all 34 of Trump's counts.
"Sir, I wish you godspeed as you assume your second term in office," Merchan says to Trump in conclusion.
This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.
The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
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Thing I keep coming back to is Blanche's refusal to put his decision to shut down the fund in writing.
Grace Meng: “You started it, you established it in writing, so it just makes sense to rescind it in writing."
Blanche: Thanks. I'll take it "under advisement."
Why?
🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.
He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”
Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.
Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.
That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.
So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…
It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.
The Acting Attorney General — and Trump’s criminal defense lawyer — claimed that he had settled Trump’s suit against the IRS by holding Trump, his family and businesses immune from audit.
That would protect $100 million of the president’s potentially fraudulent tax claims.
But this corrupt act of self-dealing will never withstand legal scrutiny. Hopefully the court will strike it down. If not, a future IRS must refuse to honor this sham agreement.
YESTERDAY:
ME: Was that the point of this whole thing? The Tax immunity? Do you know how much MORE corrupt that would look?
DANA: OMG If he got rid of the fund and not the other part?
ME: That’s like EXTRA Corrupt. Like, is that the WHOLE reason you did this?
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a critically important role for the safety of all Americans
Bill Pulte is a 38 year old broadcast journalism major whose billionaire grandfather helped him launch a private equity firm at age 23
Pulte has exclusively worked in real estate and private equity until now
If I made a list of the 25,000 people most qualified to be the new DNI, Bill Pulte would not be on that list
In a per curiam order tonight, the Supreme Court allows Alabama to move forward with an electoral map a lower court had found intentionally discriminates against Black voters.
All three of the court's liberal justices dissent.