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17 Aug 2023
People must be more comfortable saying that if you still support Trump for president today, you are not a good person and you do not wish good things for our country and fellow citizens. Theres no reason to pretend Trump represents a valid or legitimate choice.
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William Melvin retweeted
This is just like the egg thing. They invented an arbitrary marker to measure how great of a job they’re doing vs the last guy — and are now being forced to go to comical lengths in a fight against nature to not look dumb.
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After years screeching about the “Biden crime family” and Pelosi’s stock trades, Republicans are very clear they would never consider actually making those things illegal because the Trumps enrich themselves in the same manner.
BARTIROMO: Democrats want to ban government employees, including the president and his family, from crypto endeavors. The president is not gonna back that
SEN. KEVIN CRAMER: One of the thing Democrats are never going to accept is that we have a business person as the president. We shouldn't not more forward with pro-growth, pro-business policies just because it might benefit the president's family because they're in business. I reject the idea that somehow Donald Trump has to be exempt from being successful
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Again, Republicans in Congress are abandoning their constitutional duty. They’re just rolling over and letting the President seize their constitutionally mandated appropriations authority—rubber stamping whatever Trump spends.
Asked about new reporting that taxpayers will be on the hook for $300,000,000 for Trump's ballroom, Thune defends the project: "I do believe that there is certainly some expectation that there would be dollars allocated that would go above and beyond the private money that's been raised."
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William Melvin retweeted
"The problem with Patel’s social media announcement, the sources say, was the case had been sealed in court and roughly ten suspects had not yet been arrested and placed in custody at the time Patel made his public social media post." (!!!!)
News: Secret Service officials are furious that FBI Director Kash Patel prematurely announced on Tuesday morning the details of a sealed and ongoing criminal investigation into a plot to attack the UFC fight event this weekend with drones, according to three people familiar with the incident.
Secret Service and FBI agents had been partnered on the investigation into a group of individuals discussing plans for a drone attack at the White House in the last week, and had discussed unsealing the case and making an announcement later that day. The problem with Patel’s social media announcement, the sources say, was the case had been sealed in court and roughly ten suspects had not yet been arrested and placed in custody at the time Patel made his public social media post.
Secret Service and FBI officials had discussed seeking to make more arrests, unseal the case by late Tuesday afternoon and make a joint public statement, and were surprised by Patel “jumping the gun.”
“We all woke up this morning to see this on Twitter,” said one administration official, who like others, asked to speak confidentially to discuss sensitive matters.
The threat to the UFC event became known to the Secret Service and FBI in the last week when a relative of one of the suspects contacted local police in the Cincinnati area, according to two people briefed on the probe, and reporting that their relative was talking about engaging in some vague plot in DC.
An advanced threat interdiction team at the Secret Service, with the help of the FBI, began seeking a subpoena for an encrypted Signal chat thread and then were able to identify the plot being planned and some of the people discussing using drones and possible snipers to attack the UFC fight event at the White House’s South lawn.
Authorities then arrested one suspect on June 13 and moved immediately to seal the case so the FBI and Secret Service could continue investigating and identifying and arresting additional suspects. The Secret Service also dramatically increased its plans for security around the event as a precaution, and put out an alert to its law enforcement partners to be on the lookout for people with drones in downtown Washington and other identifying information.
Matt Quinn, the Secret Service’s deputy director, called out Patel’s premature announcement in a Tuesday news conference but did not use his name and said the Secret Service made a conscious decision not to reveal the existence of the probe prematurely.
“I’ll tell you a phrase I learned early in my career in the New York field office and that’s `Don’t choke on your own smoke,” he said. “I’ll tell you the Secret Service led that investigation from the beginning. I’ll tell you that case is ongoing. In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation and the security plan, we chose not to leak it.”
He said he was choosing not to discuss extensive details of the case because it remained sealed and ongoing.
With @CarolLeonnig @MarcSantiaNews @lawofruby
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William Melvin retweeted
Perfect chart title.
Protectionism was never going to benefit consumers, but what is even more perverse, is that supposed beneficiaries; American companies/workers, also paid the consequences of these tired policies.
Hundreds of workers laid off and Whirlpool lost $82 million in Q1.
My new @opinion column looks at Whirlpool - a US tariff champion since at least 2011 and one of US protectionists' favorite companies.
Spoiler: It's not doing so hot - due in large part to the very tariffs it's doggedly supported.
Lessons abound.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… (🎁)
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William Melvin retweeted
The purpose of Senate confirmation is to ensure the president doesn't appoint shameless loyalists to important positions of public trust. If the Senate confirms Blanche, it will have degraded a core Constitutional responsibility to mere partisan servility.
Senate Judiciary schedules confirmation hearing for Todd Blanche dlvr.it/TT4DCB
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After winning the war against the United States, Iran now has fewer restrictions on the sale of their oil and can take full advantage of the higher prices the war produced.
The Iranian oil tanker fleet has started to move, with at least one VLCC (DIONA, 9569695) crossing the US Navy blockade line (to be seen what the US does). Another tanker is approaching the line, while others are moving on their way into the Iranian oil terminals to load.
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William Melvin retweeted
This is clear corruption.
Secretary Mullin's only priority should be keeping the American people safe. Instead, he's using his government position to remove warnings from an addictive gas station drug he’s invested in.
Jun 15
SCOOP from @By_CJewett & me:
Markwayne Mullin urged @HHSGov to remove warnings from the @US_FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom.
Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited. nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/po…
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Democrats need to make clear to voters that this massive strategic capitulation to Iran isn't only Trump's fault, its the fault of every single Republican in Congress who refused to exercise their constitutional duty and allowed Trump to wage an illegal war clearly set up to fail
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This isn't Vance winning "his way," this is Trump telling them to make a deal, any deal. It's delusional to try to pin this on Vance when it's all coming from Trump. Only Trump decided to start this war and only Trump decided to accept the terms to end it.
⭕️This is stunning!!! You have the CIA director, the Secretary of State, the National Security Advisor, and the Secretary of War all opposing the deal, and Vance still won his way!??? WTH is happening?!!
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William Melvin retweeted
Trump’s under-appreciated masterstroke is that by demonstrating to the Iranians that they can successfully deter aggression by closing the Strait of Hormuz, he’s greatly reduced the incentive to actually build a nuclear weapon as opposed to just a ton of cheap drones.
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Republicans won the popular vote for the first time in two decades and a lot of Republicans mistook that for a positive endorsement of their project, which it wasn’t. They overplayed their hand and the voters aren’t happy.
Jun 15
many problems of Trump 2.0 seem like friction btwn cultural and economic elites that want Trump's re-election to be a major realignment that merits wholesale destruction of the old and a voting public that thought they were getting cheap eggs or had specific complaints with Biden
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Jun 15
many problems of Trump 2.0 seem like friction btwn cultural and economic elites that want Trump's re-election to be a major realignment that merits wholesale destruction of the old and a voting public that thought they were getting cheap eggs or had specific complaints with Biden
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William Melvin retweeted
Welp. There goes any chance of winning in Montana.
So many selfish, narcissists masquerading as political activists.
Some Dems hoped Alani Bankhead would announce today that she's dropping #MTSen bid & endorsing Seth Bodnar, the independent.
Instead, she attacked him as "the last person on the face of the Earth I would ever drop out of this race for."
Sets up 3-way race with GOP as favorite.
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William Melvin retweeted
I know "good governance" is a quaint notion that must sound like waxing nostalgic for the days of the rotary telephone, but this is precisely the kind of oversight Congress should engage in when hundreds of millions of tax dollars are spent on a pet project.
Bombshell report from the post. Taxpayers funding half of the WH ballroom construction. washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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Only suckers didn't think taxpayers were gonna end up paying for this boondoggle in the end.
Trump's White House ballroom is no longer projected to be $400 m. It is now $600 m. and taxpayers are projected to pick up half the tab. WaPo with a big report
washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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William Melvin retweeted
Underexplored how cleanly nativism dovetailed with the starve-the-beast mania of many notionally pro-immigration conservatives. They’re getting tax cuts anyway—shrinking the country is gravy. But along the way many of them surely became xenophobes to resolve cognitive dissonance.
If you select immigrants for fiscal benefits, then you can get large fiscal benefits which should make you want to admit more immigrants so the benefits get bigger.
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William Melvin retweeted
In case you’re wondering why we lost in Iran, the fact that our president cares a lot more about spectacle, adulation, and pet projects like his ballroom than the actual work of governing - reading, meetings, planning - is a big reason.
Jun 15
The America 250 4th of July celebration is now officially a "Trump Rally."
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Frankly, a lot of the Trumpian Right are just bigots. This is why the GOP have alienated almost all the minority voters they won in 2024 over the last 18 months.
Jun 15
Mohamed Hussein went to the Texas Republican convention to convince himself he had a place in the GOP.
He left in tears. What he found was a party that didn’t want him, that told him to leave the country.
via @RenzoDowney @TexasTribune:
texastribune.org/2026/06/15/…
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One reason we got into this mess is a lot of people were very, very wrong that the JCPOA wasn't better than no deal or whatever new deal another administration would get. This is what happens when you elect a stupid man POTUS who refuses to listen to experts.
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