MS Queen
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MS Queen
@MSGal75
Silver haired wife/mother/grandmother/potter/jack of all trades. Wishing we were all sane again
Deep South Katılım Temmuz 2017
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A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.
> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.
> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.
> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.
> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.
> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.
> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.
> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.
> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.
> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.
> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.
> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.
> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.
> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.
> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.
> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.
> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.
The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.
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EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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Dear @WhiteHouse: PLEASE KEEP PUTTING KEVIN HASSETT ON TV.
I love how he helps Democratic messaging. It is absolutely true that “credit card spending is through the roof” because gas prices are through the roof and “everything else too.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Hassett on American consumers: "Credit card spending is through the roof. They're spending more on gasoline, but they're spending more on everything else too."
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"The thefts and abuses are eye-watering. I cite them not to enrage readers, but to offer a theory that we may, at last, be passing out of the “LOL nothing matters” phase of this travesty. Trump’s unprecedented corruption is going to bite him in the ass." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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Tucker Carlson on Trump saying $200/barrel oil would be "worth it":
What would $200/barrel oil mean? We've never had it in world history. $10 a gallon for gas at the pump? What would $300/barrel oil look like? It would be the end of a lot of things. Here you have Trump saying 'I thought it could be $300.' No president should ever be willing to talk that casually about the economic destruction of his nation.
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This is simple truth.
Jack Smith Calls the Justice Dept. ‘Corrupted’ by Trump and His Allies nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/…
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When the illusion finally cracks, you’re left staring at the reality you tried to ignore: the man you trusted wasn’t a savior, just a hollow performance propped up by bluster and ego.
The confidence, the promises, the swagger,it all collapses into something far less impressive.
Not a mastermind, not a disruptor, just a loud, erratic figure out of his depth, masking incompetence with noise.
In the end, what looked like strength reveals itself as pure theatrics,a caricature, a spectacle, a punchline that stopped being funny the moment you realized you were the one who believed all his bullshit......
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republicans think about gay sex more than anyone alive
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Senator Kennedy: Maybe Obama and Stephen Colbert should get a motel room.
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