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[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Anyone else see the irony that on the night America's serial lying psychopath bizarrely claimed China helped rig the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden, German chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Trump and his authoritarian regime to stay the fuck out of their elections and stop interfering in their democracy?

This occurred due to the Trump regime announcing a scheme to fund fascist far-right MAGA-aligned causes in Europe.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

REAKING: Elizabeth Warren corners Trump's Fed chair nominee on who wrote him a $100 MILLION check just before his nomination – and he REFUSES to answer!

One of the strangest exchanges in Washington this week had nothing to do with Donald Trump's election speech. It involved Kevin Warsh, Trump's nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, and a simple question from Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

"Who gave you a hundred-million-dollar check before you were sworn in?" Warren asked. Warsh didn't answer. Instead, he repeatedly pointed to ethics disclosures and his obligations to the Office of Government Ethics.

Warren kept pressing. "Was it a billionaire who has business with the Fed?" she asked. "Was it Stanley Druckenmiller who's made billions of dollars betting on what the Fed does? Or was it a different billionaire? Who gave you the money?"

Crickets. And Warren was pissed.

"A hundred million dollars that you got just before you were sworn in, and you won't tell the American people where it came from," Warren repeated. "Somebody wrote you a check for more than a hundred million dollars."

Before we jump to conclusions, let’s remember that Warsh is as rich as a Rockefeller, and a $100 million transaction may not not be as unusual as it sounds to ordinary Americans. The former Morgan Stanley banker is married to Jane Lauder, heiress to the Estée Lauder fortune. Warsh is perhaps the wealthiest person ever nominated to lead the Federal Reserve.

The transaction could have been the sale of assets, liquidation of investments, a trust distribution, or any number of other financial transactions associated with a fortune of that size.

That said, the Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, whose decisions affect interest rates, stock prices, bond markets, mortgages, and the broader economy.

When someone poised to wield all that power receives a nine-figure payment immediately before taking office and declines to identify the source, people naturally start asking questions.

Warsh may have a perfectly innocent explanation for the transaction – some financial arrangement common among the ultra-wealthy. But if that's the case, why the hell didn't he just give it?

Sadly, the exchange has become a hallmark of the Trump era. Congress asks a direct question, and Trump's nominees increasingly respond as though the question itself is an affront.

Confirmation hearings exist for a reason. The Senate's constitutional duty is not to applaud nominees or rubber-stamp them but to scrutinize them on behalf of the American people.

Yet time and again, Trump's appointees have treated that process with open disrespect and disdain, refusing to answer straightforward questions, changing the subject, attacking the motives of the questioner, or hiding behnd carefully crafted talking points.

Elizabeth Warren asked Kevin Warsh a simple question: who gave him a big bag of money just before he took office?

Rather than answer it, Warsh behaved as though Congress was not entitled to know.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I feel like some White House reporter needs to ask Trump about the fact that his DOJ has lost 16 straight cases to access state voter rolls and that in 7 of the cases it was before judges he nominated.

Oh and point out that I am still not tired of winning.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Breaking News:There’s been another ICE shooting & it was in Aurora Colorado at a Geo Group privatized prison.The ICE officer Brandon Booth 42 retrieved a gun from his vehicle & shot a female protester who is thankfully going to survive,but he was arrested on attempted murder.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

NEW: Mayor Zohran Mamdani closed with a powerful call for solidarity:

“Workers rise up when bosses restrict their rights. Citizens link arms when authoritarians impose brutal crackdowns.”

Quoting Dr. King and Nelson Mandela, Mamdani argued that every better future begins when change feels impossible, and that solidarity means ordinary people choosing one another, sometimes even over themselves.

“It always seems impossible until it’s done. Let us do it together.”

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

This man is a true American patriot.

Patriotism is not waving a flag while masked government agents racially profile and indiscriminately seize Latino workers. It is understanding the Constitution, defending equal protection, and fighting for “liberty and justice for all.”

He confronted ICE and alerted his neighbors. Together, they drove the agents away. No warrant. No court order. Just an attempted drive-by, racist abduction of good, legal, law-abiding, hardworking people.

Know your rights. Stand with your neighbors. Use https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY to prepare for and respond to ICE encounters legally and constitutionally. Help keep it free: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"By the way, Donald Trump, if we are now accepting 'raw intelligence' from the FBI, I would remind you that the F.B.I. in the Epstein files claims to have lots of unverified intelligence about Donald Trump abusing children...if we're going to start playing the 'raw intelligence' game, does Donald Trump now accept the raw intelligence in the Epstein files?"
- me on Zeteo's post-speech livestream last night.
https://t.co/gWObRbFfFX

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump last night:

“America is respected like we have never been respected before”

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

There’s only one reason this piece of shit won’t accept the Midterms Election Results….

Because he knows the MAGA movement is fucked.

The Majority of Americans are done with his shit.

Along with the rest of the world.

Fuck Trump.

Fuck MAGA.
@realDonaldTrump
@GOP

[bananabama @shoreguy70]

@wildcay69 Absolutely

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Trump wants to tariff Canada for allowing wildfire smoke to come to America.

Here is Ontario Premier Doug Ford reminding America how Canada helped America when we had similar situations, instead of criticizing and taxing us.

[bananabama @shoreguy70]

@myprivatecht1 Of course, as long as you don’t mind dating a guy that’s 72

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

What’s so interesting is that Melania Trump wasn’t a US citizen when Barron Trump was born?

Should we deport them?

(A: Yes
(B: No

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

South Carolina Republicans decided the most qualified person to fill in for Lindsey Graham’s vacant Senator seat was his own sister, with zero qualifications, to represent the entire state of South Carolina! Darlene Graham Nordone is the DEI hire Republicans warned you about.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WOW: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani just REJECTED his own pay raise to $305,800 approved by lawmakers.

MAMDANI: “I haven’t knocked on anyone’s door in NYC that said their concern is that the Mayor makes too little. It should go to the pockets of those struggling in this city.”

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

😳🤔🙄

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

More bad news for Trump

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Local journalist reporting:

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

He should be subpoenaed. End of story.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Two Utah nonprofits and their founders have sued Fox News and celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary for defamation, alleging O’Leary repeatedly claimed on the network that they were operating on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.