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[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

.@RapidResponse47 remains one of my favorite accounts bc I think it's run by a mole.

The notion that @DAGToddBlanche is fighting Fraud is ITSELF fraudulent.

He is literally defrauding taxpayers to steal $1.8B to reward cop assailants and terrorists.

You are the criminal you claim to be chasing, Todd!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.

Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.

The cost of that work is classified.

Estimates say north of a billion.

The number is enormous, and you are paying it.

Now the part they bury.

Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.

So follow the chain.

A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.

A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.

We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.

Grift in plain sight.
https://t.co/RqGjdCjV6n

[Jon “Bowzer” Bauman @JonBowzerBauman]

I repeat: “Donald Trump” is a mythological creation of “Apprentice” boss Mark Burnett: a “Successful Businessman who is Very Strong & says ‘You’re Fired.’”

The reflecting pool fiasco reveals perfectly who he really is: a corrupt, incompetent dolt who bankrupted 6 casinos.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

So Trump shows the new Air Force one and the luxury of it for some reason believing Americans will love that he has such a plush plane.

He really believes we are proud of his grift

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

ZERO PERCENT chance Trump does this. I know it, the Iranians know it, and Graham knows it, and this just makes Trump look even weaker and more pathetic b/c if he REALLY wanted to deploy troops to do this, he would have already. Empty threats by keyboard tough guys.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

@ruthbenghiat We will drop pallets of cash on them until they capitulate

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Just refreshing this in everyone’s feed

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

It was literally the people who painted it. They poured peroxide in it

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Such an impudent plan. It is illegal for us “to take the Strait of Hormuz.” We will alienate the entire world if we did so. Hope this is just bluster.

[Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston]

Again it’s so important to always remember that prior to this war the Strait of Hormuz has never been closed and transit has always been free.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Yesterday: Iran can’t close the Strait because they don’t control it

Today: If they close the Strait, they won’t even make it back to their fucking country

Incoherent nonsense.

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

1) Decide to fix stuff 2) Spec wrong material 3) Rush job 4) Ignore Science 5) Blame Liberals 6) Demand Arrests to Promote Political Narrative. Repeat

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

You paid for a plane with "a level of luxury that nobody has never seen before". And he's apparently taking it with him once he leaves the White House.

The plane. The ballroom. The corruption. This guy thinks taxpayers are dopes. Your money is just his to live a life of luxury.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Taking a floating paint chip out of the Reflecting Pool is vandalism.

Smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol is patriotism.

Got it.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself.

And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

At 9AM, JD Vance claimed the Strait of Hormuz was open on Fox News.

At 10AM, Iran announced the Strait remains closed.

It could not be more clear that the Trump admin has absolutely no control over the situation right now.

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

I wonder if it ever occurs to Trump that the promises he ran on (such as no more pointless wars) led him to victory for a reason.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It was actually the multiple Nazi salutes, constant use of Nazi rhetoric, and vocal support for Germany’s far-Right political party which includes Nazis.

[Lauren Windsor @lawindsor]

you can't afford gas or groceries, but trump is gonna get his sky palace whether you like it or not

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Yes, it's from Thomas Friedman, but at this point even a child can see the war accomplished nothing and cost the U.S. and Israel a lot.

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