A QUARTER MILE OF YOSEMITE IS ABOUT TO BECOME A DONOR'S PRIVATE DRIVEWAY
For over a year Doug Burgum's own staff at Interior have been leaned on, pushed, pressured to hand over a slice of Yosemite National Park to a private real estate firm called Kingsbarn Realty Capital
Not sold. Not leased through some normal public process. Handed over. The first time in American history the federal government would give national park land to a private developer
The Park Service said no to this exact request for more than twenty years straight. Federal courts rejected the underlying road claim twice. Twice. And Trump's people are still trying to force it through anyway
Ask yourself why
Kingsbarn's CEO Jeff Pori had zero history of national political donations before October 2024. Zero. Then suddenly he's writing checks every single month to Trump's campaign, to the RNC, to the PACs orbiting Trump like moths
Pori publicly thanked Newmark Group, the firm Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used to chair. He thanked Hankey Capital, the same outfit that underwrote Trump's $175 million bond in his own fraud judgment appeal
That is not a coincidence, that is a closed loop with Trump's fingerprints all over the outside of it
Meanwhile career staff inside Burgum's office are being forced to file constant status updates and getting berated when the land grab doesn't move fast enough for the donor class
This is Yosemite. A quarter mile of it. Carved out like a slice of cake for a guy who discovered Trump's campaign existed thirteen months before he started stripping national park land loose for him
You lose a piece of public land that belongs to every American who will ever live. Pori gets a road. Trump gets another donor fed
This is the entire administration in one square mile
They are not going to stop until every inch of this country has a price tag and a friend of Trump's name on the deed
@TadEdge@SenatorCollins You are correct. My error. Should have said her Republican colleagues. Doesn’t erase her support for most of what Trump has done.
Republicans lost their fucking minds when allegations emerged of Somali-American healthcare fraud in MN - but when Ron DeSantis & his wife stole $10M of taxpayer money meant for poor children’s healthcare & Ron rewarded his accomplices with promotions - the silence is deafening.
🚨IMPEACHABLE: A massive report exposes that Trump purchased $100,000,000 in bonds tied to companies DIRECTLY impacted by his policies. That is slam dunk insider trading.
Trump has made more money trading than every person in Congress COMBINED.
#TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS