Heather Cox Richardson’s most recent newsletter is a parade of Trump greatest hits.
Trump has called public attention to his ballroom about a third of the days this year, more frequently than he’s talked about healthcare insurance or affordability. And the focus on the ballroom increases as the year progresses.
Regarding the Iran war, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) posted: “We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.”
Evidence of insider trading over Trump’s war announcements, with “a consistent pattern of spikes” in market activity “just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.” And there’s a similar pattern of insider trading over Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement a year ago.
A Saudi sovereign wealth fund invested $2 billion in Jared Kushner’s private equity firm. Sen. Jon Osoff (D-GA) said Kushner is “on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion…. And now he’s leading American diplomacy in the Middle East…. The rules are for us, not for them.”
Meanwhile, the other Trump boys and Whiskey Pete Hegseth are getting rich selling weapons for the war. “I tell you what, never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights,” Osoff said.