I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.
250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.
A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.
An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.
The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.
A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.
A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.
Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.
$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.
And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.
And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?
Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.
For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?
Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?
They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.
The RTA just raised sales taxes across Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties.
Starting Aug. 1, maximum combined state and local sales tax rates could reach:
Cook: 12.25%
Kane: 11.25%
DuPage: 11.00%
Will: 10.50%
Lake: 10.25%
McHenry: 8.75%
This hits everyday purchases: groceries, restaurant meals, prepared food, household goods, clothing, appliances, school supplies, and more.
They claimed transit had a roughly $200M hole. So Springfield handed them a $1.5B bailout and let the RTA raise taxes anyway.
That’s not fiscal responsibility.
That’s tax hikes for the heck of it.
For now, the spc is being cautious with Thursday as overall storm coverage likely will be very low across Illinois due to a strong cap in place throughout the day. Models continue to show a potentially volatile environment across northern Illinois Thursday afternoon and evening. Storms will have plenty of instability to work with, strong shear, and steep lapse rates. All that combined will lead to a high ceiling, low floor event, which a few discrete cells could form after 2pm and be capable of very large to destructive hail, with a secondary threat for a few tornadoes and damaging wind gusts. 2-8pm is the window right now for storms, but a strong cap could keep everything suppressed and calm Thursday evening across Illinois as the cold front moves through. #ilwx