Wendy Dwyer

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump accidentally admits to a crime in furious outburst about how his pardon/bribe partner Henry Cuellar is refusing to uphold his end of their crooked deal!

Donald Trump just posted a wild Truth Social rant that may have accidentally admitted to something very illegal.

In the post, Trump brags about giving Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife a “full and unconditional Pardon” after Cuellar’s daughters sent him “heart wrenching and beautiful” letters begging for mercy.

Trump then immediately turns on Cuellar for running for re-election as a Democrat, complaining that his views aren’t strong enough and endorsing his challenger instead.

With typical cheek, Trump is meddling in the Democratic primary, “endorsing” (how can Trump endorse a Democrat?) Judge Tano Tijerina, calling him “much more powerful on the Border issue, cutting Taxes, our Military, and just about everything else than is Henry Cuellar.”

He made it clear he wants Cuellar primaried for not being loyal enough after receiving the pardon.
The subtext is crystal clear: Trump expected Cuellar to repay the pardon with total loyalty and political obedience. When Cuellar didn’t deliver, Trump is now punishing him.

This is textbook quid pro quo – using the pardon power as a bribe for political favors. Trump essentially admitted he gave Cuellar a get-out-of-jail-free card in exchange for expected allegiance.

The man who spent years screaming about the “Biden crime family” just openly revealed how his own “favors” work: do what I want or I’ll destroy you.
This is what Trump’s “justice” looks like. Admissions of criminal behavior, with no shame or scruples. It must stop.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Stunning new reporting just revealed that defense contracting firms connected to Donald Trump's sons, Eric and Don Jr., have netted $3.2 billion in Pentagon contracts. This is brazen corruption. The American people deserve answers.

[Daniel Tennant @judgeteno]

@OccupyDemocrats Hide the Ketchup!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump is so FURIOUS at pathetic State Fair crowds that aides scramble to hide new photos of the Mall from him as they fear no one will show up for his July 4 speech!

This photo showing Fox hosts filling time talking about soccer in front of a completely empty National Mall this morning portends a huge crisis for Donald Trump’s handlers: a chilling fear that no one will show up for his big speech Saturday.

According to CNN, Trump was "livid" after seeing aerial photographs of the kickoff event for his Freedom 250 celebration, which NBC News reported – and all with eyes could see – drew nowhere near the fantastical figure of 45,000 attendees the president later claimed.

The reaction was so intense that White House staff got rid of photos showing sparse attendance from both official and personal social media accounts to limit circulation of the embarrassing images.

As we know, organized anticipated the fair to be the centerpiece of the 250th anniversary celebrations, but it has been dogged by problems from the start.

First, the Ferris Wheel stopped working and ice cream melted from power outages, a MAGA-fied attendee was arrested on allegations of lewd behavior, and controversy erupted from a Confederate flag display in the North Carolina exhibit.

Most of the performers originally booked for the event withdrew after learning it was tied to the MAGA-aligned Freedom 250 organization rather than the bipartisan America 250 commission established by Congress. But, no worries, Trump decided to step in and headline the big day himself with one of his signature speeches. What could go possibly wrong?
Mother Nature would like a word . . .

Forecasters are predicting temperatures above 100 degrees in Washington on the Fourth, and security will prohibit many items commonly associated with staying cool and lawn picnics, like coolers, beverage containers, blankets, and non-clear bags.

Attendees will also be required to pass through security checkpoints before entering the event area and may need to arrive hours before the evening program begins, crammed onto a lawn and scorching in the sun and heat with virtually no shade until it sets at 8:37 p.m.

With the speech not even scheduled to nearly an hour after that. and the fireworks at the insane hour of 11 p.m., it’s not too difficult to imagine even people who like Trump for some reason giving the event a miss.

We can just imagine the scene in the Oval Office the next day.

[Nancy @BeadingfanNancy]

@krassenstein @djibweb

[Mary Kirst @marykirst]

The Smithsonian has put on a Folklife Festival celebrating the social power of music on the Mall around the 4th of July for years. They wanted to do an expanded festival this year focusing on the US for its 250th birthday, but Trump refused to give them a permit. He wanted to do his own fair instead.

This is what we could have had.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG.

THERE ARE LITERALLY 7 PEOPLE WATCHING THIS ENTERTAINMENT AT TRUMP’S GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR. ONE OF THEM IS ASLEEP.

[Happy @Happykittyoffla]

@HalfwayPost He can still save it.
Set up a booth.
And let people read the unredacted Epstein files.

[MAsshole @MAsshole011977]

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[Enviablewoman @enviablewoman]

@FordJohnathan5

[Capt. Wayne Luke @WayneLuke]

@FordJohnathan5 @Dloissr

[Egon Arau @its_a_sweater]

@HalfwayPost

[BunchaSheeple @BunchaSheeple]

@HalfwayPost And yet

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@HalfwayPost

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning defeat for Donald Trump, Trump-endorsed candidate for Governor in Iowa Randy Feenstra has lost his primary. Trump’s weakness is on full display tonight inside the GOP.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Please, no matter what you do, do not post this photo as Donald Trump will lose his mind.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:

- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%

- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)

- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds

- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)

- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility

- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium

- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains

- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules

- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years

- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years

Ooops, sorry!

That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump throws the McDonald's DoorDash grandma under the bus after the mocking backlash, says that the entire stunt was "tacky" and "did not happen" for real.

Everyone gets burned by the MAGA mafia boss in the end...

"Earlier this week at the White House, I met a wonderful woman named Sharon Simmons, a grandmother driving DoorDash to help support her husband's cancer treatment," Trump said at an event in Las Vegas, reading from prepared remarks. "He's got serious cancer, he going to be okay, I think. Sharon delivered McDonald's to the Oval Office."

The PR stunt in question was a pathetic attempt to flog the section of his "big, beautiful bill" that allows some workers to deduct a portion of tipped income from their taxes. It quickly went off the rails for Trump, as Simmons refused to endorse his transphobic remarks on camera.

"It was a little bit of a, you know, I mean, to be honest, it was a little tacky," Trump said of the event, looking up from his notes. "You know, they come up with these crazy ideas like McDonald's, although that was the biggest ever on Google, they say. Number one ever and the, uh, garbage truck. I mean, we do these things in politics..."

"They're a little embarrassing," Trump continued. "They're a little tiny embarrassing, but we do them and you win by landslides. You know, it's one of the... So we got to keep doing— No, we got to knock on the Oval Office door. This did not happen."

"That's the first maybe in the history of the Oval Office. And it was a very beautiful woman standing there with two big bags of McDonald's hamburgers," he went on. "And I say, is this really believable? But the point of it was she made $11,000 that she had no idea was coming. And it was really great. It turned out to be really great."

By admitting that the entire thing was staged, Trump has exposed Simmons as a willing political pawn of his fascist agenda. Not only that, but his admission that it was tacky makes her look tacky and buffoonish by extension.

More interesting than Trump's admission that the event was totally fake is what that admission reveals about his political beliefs. Trump thinks that his voters are stupid, gullible, and easily manipulated by the most transparent, bargain bin, low IQ messaging. He has nothing but disdain for this kind of political theater, but he knows that it plays well with the rubes who make up his base.

As for Trump's desperate new push to highlight the "no tax on tips" segment of his historically disastrous bill, it simply will not be enough to salvage his electoral prospects. Americans know that the real goal of the bill was to gut the social safety net, including roughly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid. The midterms are coming and with them, a massive blue wave!

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump has no respect for his own supporters!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent deliver a DISASTROUS midterms message — admit that Americans must suffer economically for Trump's Iran War.

Please help spread this far and wide...

"Mr. Secretary, you were quoted saying in an interview earlier this week that it was worth a bit of economic pain for international security," a reporter said during a press conference. "Is that this administration's message to American voters with high gas prices ahead of the midterms this year, that it's worth the economic pain?"

"Well, the message is the short-term volatility for long-term gain," said Bessent.

Of course, there is no "long-term gain" to be had here. Iran posed no immediate threat to the United States and no American interests were at stake. Trump launched this war because Israel wanted it and now American troops are dying and the global economy is contracting.

"If I could add to that," Leavitt said, jumping in after Bessent. "You know, the president's been very clear, again, as the Secretary just said, this is short-term disruption for the long-term strategic goal of the United States to ensure that the world's leading state sponsor of terror cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. That's a good thing for the American people. That's a good thing for people all over the world."

As Trump's own intelligence agencies have admitted, Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons. In fact, Ayatollah Khamenei — who was assassinated at the beginning of the war — had a religious fatwa in place banning Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

"And as the President and his economic and energy team have repeatedly stated, as soon as the operation and now the negotiations with Iran conclude and the strait is reopened, we do expect gas prices to decrease," Leavitt continued.

"And thank goodness we have a president in an administration that believes in American energy dominance, in bringing down prices at the pump," she went on. "Look at how gas prices decreased over the past year since this president was in office. It's a stark contrast to the previous administration and Democrats in this city who believe in hampering our domestic energy industry, who believe in importing our most precious resources, who believe in implementing policies that created the worst inflation crisis in history.

"So President Trump has built the greatest economy in the world before," she added, conveniently rewriting history to ignore the disastrous effects of his harebrained tariffs. "He is doing it again. Of course, we have this short-term disruption. But, again, it's for the long-term strategic goal of ensuring that these terrorists cannot possess a nuclear bomb."

There you have it ladies and gentleman. You have pay more at the grocery market and gas station because Donald Trump wants to drop bombs on schools full of children overseas. It may not seem worth it to you, but rest assured, the President — who continues to enrich himself and his family on a daily basis — is confident that your suffering is a small price to pay for his agenda.

Remember when this monster ran on being anti-war?

Please ❤️ and share if you are unwilling to pay the price for Trump's illegal war!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump plans to betray the U.S. Marines by sending ICE agents to their graduation events to target their family members who may be undocumented.

He's going to brutalize their loved ones and then ship them off to war...

The revelation comes directly from the Marine Corps itself, which made the announcement. Under the heightened security measures implemented due to Trump's Iran War, everyone who enters a Marine base must present REAL ID. Undocumented immigrants are generally unable to obtain REAL IDs.

Anyone who shows up at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island in South Carolina will be asked to produce their identification documents. If they don't have the proper documentation on them, they'll be funneled to face ICE agents who will presumably harass, terrorize, and detain many of them.

“While the Marine Corps routinely coordinates with federal partners on security matters, this is the first time in recent memory that federal law enforcement agencies have supported base access operations at Parris Island in this capacity,” said a MCRD Parris Island spokesperson.

"To help ensure a smooth and timely process, guests should bring proper identification and limit the number of items they carry onto the installation,” they added.

The Parris Island website cites “increased force protection measures” at the recruit depot and explains that "federal law enforcement personnel will be present at installation access points to conduct enhanced screening and lawful immigration status inquiries during recruit family and graduation days."

DHS — an infamously dishonest agency under this administration — is insisting that "ICE will not be making arrests at the basic training graduation in Paris [sic] Island, SC." Of course, that's exactly what they'd say if they were hoping to lull migrants into a false sense of security. These people put no stock in the truth. The only thing that matters to them is pursuing their fascist agenda. If they aren't planning on detaining people, why will ICE be there at all?

Graduation will be held this Friday but families are invited to begin their celebration of their Marine loved one's accomplishments starting tomorrow. The Marines have been unable to see their families during the 13-week long boot camp — and now some of them will have to worry about those very same families being deported.

Consider the profound impact on morale that a move like this has on our soldiers. Trump is currently mulling a ground invasion of Iran, possibly sending thousands of Americans to die in a war of aggression on behalf of Israel. He's considering asking these Marines to die for a foreign country — and at the same time he's moving to harass and terrify their families.

Our service men and women deserve better than this.

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