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Jun 23 11 tweets 4 min read Read on X
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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Jun 19
The humiliating Iran deal requires the U.S. to come up with a $300 billion reparations payment to Iran. That's more than Iran's entire GDP.

Trump says taxpayers won't pay for it.

1/ So I compiled a helpful list. Image
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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.
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May 27
This Ebola outbreak has been a slow motion disaster - 900 cases and and now threatening the U.S..

We know how to stop outbreaks like this. But Trump chose not to stop it. He destroyed our global health team, deliberately exposing us.

1/ Here's the story of how this happened.
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
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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. Image
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%.

Iran can make a bomb in months. Probably 10 of them. the-independent.com/news/world/mid…
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But in the developing world, the shock of spiralling energy prices has been cataclysmic.

1/ A short thread the scope of the damage Trump has caused. There are crises everywhere and you need to know.
2/ Here's just a sample of the disasters that are spiraling out of control, all over the world:

The Philippines had declared a national state of emergency. Their fuel reserves are so low they can only last for 30 more days of normal economic activity.
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Trump is calling reporters today to tell them he is going to commit mass war crimes next week. GOP leaders need to stop him.

Never mind that blowing up bridges and power plants and killing innocent Iranians won't reopen the Strait.

It's also a clear war crime. 1/ A 🧵on why:
2/ Trump isn't even pretending to choose military targets. He is promising to bomb all of Iran's power plants and bridges. This is military.com making it clear that hitting civilian infrastructure, like power plants, is a war crime.
military.com/feature/2026/0…
3/ Trump's advisors are telling him to hit civilian sites because it will cause unrest and potentially topple the regime.

But just think about the insanity of this plan: kill tens of thousands of civilians in order to cause a national panic.
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