🚨Congress is back from recess today. If they’re serious about protecting democracy in this crisis and beyond, here’s what they *must* do—immediately. 🧵 1. End the militarization of DC.

Pass Rep. Raskin's resolution to end Trump’s federal takeover of the city and reform presidential emergency powers so he can't run the same playbook nationwide.

Big win in our case: the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Trump’s OMB to bring back its spending database by FRIDAY.

Transparency matters. Take it from the Bush-appointed judge who wrote the decision 🧵 “Benjamin Franklin’s view, shared by many Framers, that it is of central ‘importance that the people should know who had disposed of their money, & how it had been disposed of’ as ‘those who feel, can best judge’” citizensforethics.org/wp-content/upl…

NEW: President Trump racked up thousands of conflicts of interest in his first term. This time around, the corruption is even worse.

Here’s what we found in the first six months. 🧵 CREW is tracking Trump’s conflicts of interest tied to his real estate empire, including:

-Visits to Trump properties
-Events held at Trump properties
-Promotion of Trump business interests

The pattern is clear: it’s all happening more this time around.

Sean Duffy was just named acting NASA administrator—while *still* serving as transportation secretary.

But Duffy’s not the only one. Both of Trump’s terms have been full of officials wearing multiple hats. 🧵 Trump has made a habit of handing out high-powered roles to political allies.

And these double-duty appointments are by design.

It’s been over 100 days of President Trump’s second term, and the threats posed by his conflicts of interest are only increasing. Trump is poised to be even more corrupt than he was in his first term.

Here’s why: 🧵 Trump has created an untold number of conflicts of interest by failing to divest from his business interests before taking office.
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

Tonight, President Trump is hosting an “intimate” private dinner for the top holders of his $TRUMP memecoin. It’s an unprecedented pay-to play stunt and one of the most corrupt events we’ve ever seen.

Here’s what you need to know: 🧵 First off, memecoins are a type of cryptocurrency based on an online joke and are known for not having any utility beyond speculation.

Before Trump launched his own memecoin, he was a skeptic, saying the value is “based on thin air.”

Marco Rubio is simultaneously serving in three government roles—but has only been confirmed by the Senate for one.

Here’s why that’s a problem 🧵 Rubio was confirmed as Secretary of State on January 20. On February 3, Trump made him the Acting Administrator of USAID.

Then, Trump made him NARA’s Acting Archivist.

Donald Trump fired the director of the Office of Government Ethics and tried to fire the Office of Special Counsel in under 24 hours—two offices that ensure the administration is complying with the law and ethics rules.

Clearly, he wants to run a lawless administration. 🧵 Here are some of the things OSC does:

- protects against discrimination, nepotism and retaliation against federal employees
- protects whistleblowers from retaliation
- enforces the Hatch Act

We took a look at some of Trump’s nominees.

Nepotism, billionaire donors, potential conflicts of interest: here’s some of what stood out to us. 🧵 Nepotism is coming back. Trump nominated:

- Ivanka’s father-in-law, Charles Kushner, as ambassador to France
- Tiffany’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs
- Don Jr’s former fiance, Kimberly Guilfoyle, as ambassador to Greece

Remember when Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker decided to get into politics? Well boy do we have a story for you. A quick catch up: Butker delivered the commencement address at Benedictine College in May where he said that Pride Month was a “deadly sin” and that a woman’s most important title is “homemaker.” nytimes.com/athletic/55196…

Let’s talk about Donald Trump and his new Attorney General pick Pam Bondi, because boy do we have a story to tell From February 2008-May 2011, the Florida Attorney General’s office received at least 22 complaints regarding Trump University, the Trump Institute, and related entities

Amid two recent assassination attempts against Donald Trump, Congress has called for greater oversight of and accountability for the US Secret Service.

But the agency’s failures go back years. Here’s why: After the January 6th insurrection, we sued to get documents from the Secret Service detailing its preparation for and response to the attack.

Even though there were countless warning signs, the agency failed to take appropriate action and has not sufficiently explained why.

BREAKING: CREW has obtained Donald Trump's new financial disclosures.

Read them here: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest… Let's talk about what we're finding. Like Trump took in $56 million from Mar-a-Lago

BREAKING: The Office of Congressional Ethics just found there is "substantial reason to believe" that Rep. Ronny Jackson converted campaign funds to personal use or his campaign spent funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes. Read the report here: ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.h…

January 6th was an incredibly dangerous day in U.S. history—not just because of the physical attack on the Capitol, but also because in December 2020, COVID levels were higher than ever before.

FBI documents obtained by CREW reveal the agency was aware of the health threat. 🧵 Leading up to January 6th, the FBI internally circulated COVID statistics from counties in the Capitol region. One “sunrise brief” sent to agents on January 4, 2021 at 6:56 am included the most up-to-date numbers of cases and fatalities.

Something big happened in the Trump trial and it comes directly from our work.

While we wait for a verdict from the jury, let us explain 🧵

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1795574987795165270

The verdict may hinge on whether the jury believes the prosecution, who says that Michael Cohen was reimbursed by Trump for the hush money payments, or whether they believe Trump’s defense, who says Cohen was paid for legal services rendered to Trump.

We just heard some very alarming arguments from Donald Trump’s lawyer at the Supreme Court.

Trump is asking for total immunity for former presidents unless they’ve been impeached and convicted by Congress.

Here’s what that could look like. THREAD: - Trump could lie on his financial disclosures about his foreign sources of income.

- Trump could order the release of sensitive tax information of business rivals like Meta or Twitter to cripple their operations and benefit Truth Social.

One year ago on Saturday, @propublica published a damning report revealing that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury vacations for 20 years from billionaire megadonor Harlan Crow.

Here’s what we’ve learned since: 🧵 Clarence Thomas did not disclose that he accepted Crow's payments for his grandnephew's private boarding school tuition .propublica.org/article/claren…

We read the SEC filing for Trump’s new public company, Trump Media & Technology Group, so you don’t have to.

Here are some things that stood out. THREAD: The value of the stock is widely understood to be massively inflated, with the true draw being the chance to invest in Trump himself, not Truth Social’s technology or user base.

A week from today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in our case barring Donald Trump from the ballot.

It’s been a long road to SCOTUS, with an insurrection, a precedent setting win in New Mexico, and a five day trial in Colorado along the way. 🧵 It all started on January 20, 2017, when Donald Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

(It’s the fact that he swore the oath to support the Constitution before inciting insurrection that disqualifies him under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.)

In the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on Trump’s disqualification from the ballot in Colorado, established legal scholars and advocacy groups have submitted amicus curiae briefs to the Court to shed light on the case and the weight of the decision.🧵 According to several groups who submitted to the Court in support of neither party, Section Three is self-executing and functions precisely to bar insurrectionists like Trump from office. Here are a few key highlights: