Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota.

The most visited canoe country in America.

Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it.

The Senate just sold it out outright.

They called it "America First."

Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China.

The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections.

Here's the deal they made.

A Chilean billionaire's company digs the mine.

America can't smelt the copper — we don't have the capacity.

So the ore ships to China.

China processes it.

Sells it on the world market.

Chile keeps the profits.

Minnesotans don't even get the jobs.

Minnesota keeps the pollution.

And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price.

This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years.

They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K.

The protection died by one vote.

Here's exactly how it happened — and who made it happen.

Who do YOU think this mine actually serves?

#DemsUnited A former Trump Interior Secretary forms a lobbying firm.

A Chilean mining giant pays it $380K.

Republican senators who were leaning against the mine suddenly flip.

The White House applies pressure behind closed doors.

And a 20-year wilderness protection dies by one vote.

Outdoor Life pulled back the curtain on every backroom deal, every vote, and every senator who caved.

This is the full breakdown.

outdoorlife.com/conservation/b…

She spent her whole career as a nurse racing down hospital hallways doing CPR.

When she retired, she trusted a nursing home to take care of her. They weren’t supposed to give her solid food. They did. Doctors found scrambled eggs in her lungs.

Her name was Doris Coulson.

Her family sued for wrongful death. The owner never showed up to contest the case. A judge awarded them nearly $19 million.

He never paid.

While the family waited, that same owner was spending more than $1 million lobbying the president of the United States.

It worked.

Trump pardoned him. The White House called his prosecution “an example of over prosecution.” A top DOJ official declared him “free to rebuild.”

His name is Joseph Schwartz. Prosecutors say he still has $58 million in assets. None of it is in his own name.

Doris’s daughter Amanda fought for that judgment for years.

Amanda has since died. Her family still hasn’t seen a dollar.

When Schwartz briefly returned to prison on a separate state fraud charge, a lawyer for the family raced to serve him with a subpoena - one last shot to locate his assets and force payment.

He was released within three weeks. The subpoena never reached him.

There was a machinery working to shorten his punishment.

There was nothing to help his victims.

What do we call a system where a man can owe $19 million to a grieving family, spend $1 million lobbying a president, walk free — and still can’t be found to serve a subpoena? Full Story:

propublica.org/article/trump-…

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