Why is Trump so desperate to make sure Bill Pulte is the Acting Director of National Intelligence? Pretty clear it has nothing to do with real intel work.
My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.
Here is what he found.
Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.
Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.
The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.
So who got the money?
Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."
That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.
Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.
Patel should answer for all of it.
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@RadioFreeTom The supposed 1st reason trump started this war was for the Iranian people. There is nothing in deal to protect them. The regime will continue to kill its own citizens who disagree with their actions. trump made it worse.
PabloReports: Any reaction to this cage fight at the White House?
Luján: The president says there’s not enough money for people to eat, or for people dealing with rising fuel costs, or anything else. And then they find a way to do this. More and more reports are coming out that somehow the Trump family made a bunch of money off of this, and they’re saying, “Well, all of his money is in a trust.”
I mean, it’s one lie after another. And then we had folks making disgraceful remarks about Michelle Obama.
Enough with the bullshit.
Utah, Senator Lee's state, completed a comprehensive voter examination. Of two million voters, one noncitizen registered to vote and NO noncitizen voted.
The SAVE Act is traditional Republican nonsense and Mike Lee is an embarrassment to Utah.
I was just 2 weeks old when Mitch McConnell was first elected to the Senate.
Over the next four decades, Mitch spent my lifetime screwing us over, putting his friends first, and building the Swamp.
But this is it. The seat is open. And we’re taking it back.
For the working people of Kentucky, we will win and finally drain Mitch’s swamp.
Trump was able to quickly put together $300 billion in recovery money for Iran after he decided to bomb it.
He stood in Swannanoa NC not far from my house in October 2024 and said he’d build back bigger, better, more beautiful, and faster than Biden after Hurricane Helene inflicted $60 billion in damage in the Blue Ridge . . . and then he went MIA.
Imagine if @realDonaldTrump cared as much about rebuilding Western North Carolina for Americans as he does about rebuilding Iran for Iranians.