House Oversight Committee releasing financial docs this morning provided by the GSA which show despite Trump crowing about all the money he was making, Trump Hotel DC lost more than $70 million while he was in office.
Documents also show Trump received an estimated $3.7 million from foreign governments and received preferential treatment from Deutsche Bank when the bank allowed Trump to defer payments for six years.
Trump also had to inject Trump Hotel DC with more than $24 million in cash from Trump Org to offset losses.
But where are the consequences? We need accountability and consequences - or all that Trump did those 4+ years will become the new normal, and a dry run.
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Hillary is warning us again!
"Now they’re not only going to try to suppress votes on steroids; they’re going to try to change the way elections are determined. They’re going to try to give legislatures the power to basically throw out elections." theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Nothing is more important right now than protecting voting rights. Our democracy is quite literally hanging in the balance. Congress must focus too on passing Klobuchar's voting rights bill.
I worry that there is a sense of learned helplessness among Democrats. I am trying to rally people for 2022, but there is a sense of exhaustion and we worked take back the gov't, but there is no accountability or progress. Democrats need to get bills passed, and AG needs to act!
The Editorial Board of the Boston Globe calls for Trump to be prosecuted. Hear hear! If there isn't accountability, those 4 years will be a dry run. apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphi…
"Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law."
This x 1000!
"Norms in a democracy are only as good as our willingness to enforce them."
I too have a story to share about Yashar Ali. I met him at the same 2008 event for prominent Hillary supporters as Susie Tompkins Buell. Shortly after, Susie formed WomenCount with West Coast supporters. 30 East Coast supporters formed The New Agenda. 1/ lamag.com/mag-features/y…
The New Agenda's role was to speak out against sexism. And to promote women into leadership in both parties and in all spheres. We were among the first to speak out against sexism against women of both parties.I wrote back then for Daily Beast and HuffPost as head of the org.
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I had met Yashar. We kept in touch and he knew about my orgs work. Our paths crossed more closely when Hillary ran again in 2016. We actually were pretty close. I am gay, and I was one of the first people he came out to. I have an inbox full of gushing messages on FB.
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Story for all you dog lovers: I took...well, dragged...Shep on a walk this afternoon. He needs an extra walk away from his 16 year-old sis, but recently when the leash comes out in the afternoon, he literally tries to blend into the couch.
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Anyway, we were walking at the harbor and I saw an older couple - a woman helping her husband who was laboring with a can. The husband had a US Marine vet hat (Shep's kind of guy).
The wife was also carrying an almost full bag of bread crumbs -
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presumably meant for the seagulls and ducks and egrets. And I noticed that she looked quite sad. Shep noticed her too; although for a different reason - he spotted the bread crumbs.
So Shep walked over to the vet, and oh man, did his face light up.
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"Investigators are examining whether Mr. Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws."
womp womp.
"the examination of Mr. Gaetz, 38, is part of a broader investigation into a political ally of his, Joel Greenberg, who was indicted last summer on an array of charges, including sex trafficking of a child and financially supporting people in exchange for sex."
"Joseph Biggs, one of four Proud Boys organizers charged in one of the Justice Department’s biggest cases stemming from the Capitol siege, said the bureau regularly turned to him for advice on antifa." politico.com/news/2021/03/3…
Strange how many Proud Boys seem to have been cooperating with law enforcement in the past. Tarrio too.
...when "Biggs learned the FBI had obtained images of him inside the Capitol, he reached out to the same agent and made plans to turn himself in."