I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption.
I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.
1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
2/ The Trump crypto coin - the biggest scandal in the history of the American presidency.
3/ Trump ends enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, so that his staff can more easily get paid on the side by foreign governments and companies seeking to bribe the Trump Administration.
4/ The most brazen abuse of prosecutorial power in a generation - the quid pro quo with Mayor Eric Adams.
5/ Trump’s new U.S. Attorney for Washington DC begins his campaign of harassment against Trump and Musk critics. DoJ is now just doing full time political enforcement for Trump.
6/ Trump starts selling meetings with him to CEOs. For $5 million.
7/ Trump turns the White House into a Tesla showroom to make clear he will boost the profit of any CEO who collaborates with him.
8/ Now, Trump thinks he can get away with ANYTHING. He starts selling access to the White House for people who buy his crypto coin.
9/ Trump launches a new private club in DC with a $500,000 buy in to allow corporations and oligarchs the chance to pay money to have access to Trump’s inner circle.
10/ These are just a small handful of the dozens of mind blowingly corrupt acts in Trump’s first 100 days. And this corruption is a big part of the reason his approval ratings are cratering. The American people refuse to let him normalize this level of graft.
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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.
Who knows if there will be a final agreement. But if there is, two things will be true at the same time:
a) It's essentially surrender to Iran.
b) We should be glad about it, because every day this insane, illegal war continues, we get weaker.
1/ Let me explain.
2/ An end to this disastrous war is a good thing - no matter the humiliating terms. Because every day it continues, our nation gets weaker, costs keep going up, Iran gets stronger, and Trump gets further from accomplishing his goals.
More war would just make things worse.
3/ But make no mistake: these are Iran's terms. They made one single concession - opening the Strait. And it's not even a concession because the Strait was open before the war!
And now that Iran has proven that the U.S. can't stop them from closing it, their power expands.
2/ Last year, Elon Musk danced on stage with a chainsaw crowing over cutting bureaucracy. In reality, Elon Musk's DOGE fired health workers and researchers. Gutted labs and contact tracing. Chaos and disease are filling the void left behind. tinyurl.com/45ayvmvy
3/ Health workers at the epicenter of the current Ebola outbreak were forced to scale back their surveillance and sanitation measures following Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO and 68% funding cut to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. tinyurl.com/4rdjyf48
I want this war to end - now. And I want a deal that constrains Iran's nuclear program.
But what we are learning is that any deal Trump gets - and a deal is still very unlikely - is going to be WAY worse than the nuclear deal he cancelled a decade ago.
1/ Here's what we know:
2/ Obama's JCPOA limited Iranian enrichment to 3% and put a low cap on how much enriched uranium Iran could possess. It required Iran to open up facilities to regular inspection to monitor compliance. Iran pledged to never obtain a nuclear weapon.
3/ When Trump blew up the agreement, Iran put their nuclear program into overdrive. They made advancements they never made before the JCPOA.
Before the agreement, they had enriched to 20%. Now - 60%.