Chris Murphy 🟧 Profile picture
U.S. Senator from Connecticut.

Jun 23, 11 tweets

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.

Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.

So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.

1/ Here it is - in one🧵

DATE OF CORRUPTION: April 7, 2025

Donald Trump, one of the biggest crypto players in the world, declares we will no longer be enforcing our laws against the crypto industry.

Active fraud investigations are shut down. The entire crypto enforcement team at DOJ is fired.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: September 23, 2026

Border Czar Tom Homan is caught by FBI agents taking a bribe in exchange for federal contracts. The FBI has video footage of Homan accepting a big bag of cash.

Trump kills the FBI investigation, and Homan gets a job in the administration.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: October 7, 2025

Trump's crypto corruption comes full circle. He pardons Changpeng Zhao, the convicted money launderer of choice for terrorists, drug cartels, and sex traffickers.

Why? Zhao helped Trump set up his family's crypto coin scheme.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: November 4, 2025

The White House forces the Pentagon to give a company partially owned by Trump's kids a massive gov't contract and a $670M loan. No competitive bidding process - all taxpayer dollars.

Donald Trump Jr. 10x'd his profits.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: April 10, 2026

Trump promises mass pardons to all of his co-conspirators at the White House.

Why aren't Trump's henchmen worried about going to jail for corruption and bribery? Because Trump guaranteed they'll get away with it.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: April 27, 2026

Trump's ballroom contractor gets a no-bid $17 million contract to refurbish the Reflecting Pool.

The actual cost of the project was $3 million but Trump inflated the price for his friend. And now paint is peeling off the Reflecting Pool floor.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: April 30, 2026

Trump takes a $5 million dollar bribe from the Big Tobacco industry. Trump personally calls the FDA Commissioner and Dr. Oz, demanding they change the rules so Big Tobacco can make billions targeting our kids.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: May 11, 2026

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy launches a reality TV show featuring a big cross-country road trip with his family.

Those vacations are paid for by Boeing. And Toyota. And United Airlines - all companies that Duffy's department regulates.

DATE OF CORRUPTION: May 27, 2026

Trump gives a $10 billion dollar contract to Dell - a company he holds millions of dollars of stock in. We also find out Trump is boosting *several* companies that are in his investment portfolio.

I couldn't cover all of Trump's corruption - I'd break the floor speech record if I tried that.

But this is why Trump isn't fixing America's problems: he's too busy rigging the rules for himself.

Once corruption becomes normal, it becomes permanent. We can't let that happen.

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