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@SenJohnKennedy President Trump always billed himself as law and order.
So why does he protect rich and powerful pedophiles?
Why has he pardoned so many wealthy frauds?
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@SenJohnKennedy How ironic this elite Sen Kennedy attacks Mayor Mamdani who leads the largest Capitalist city on Earth, republicans have lied for decades that social contracts are Germany bread lines 1933, it’s not and it scares you, Democrats are for the people, republicans are for the 1%
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@SenSanders Please retire, you don’t have even a basic understanding of economics…
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I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said.
I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her.
Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it.
"Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record.
I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at.
My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building.
Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment.
I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate.
I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic.
When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change.
I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that.
My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say.
They want me to apologize.
I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.
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@grahamformaine And you’re ANTISEMITIC! Nice Nazi tattoo. You’re gonna be exposed
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@JasmineForUS Enjoy your retirement since the American people fired you!
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Well… first it was Kristi Noem, now it’s Pam Bondi… it would be too much like right that Pete be next. I see a theme. He will throw the incompetent women under the bus a lot faster than the incompetent men 🤷🏾♀️.
Let’s just agree that America needs a “do over.” The President nominated these awful people, the Republican controlled Senate confirmed them, and well… too many people thought we should give this much power to the Pu**y grabbing, 6x bankruptcy filing, 34 count convicted felon bestie of Epstein.
WE NEED A DO OVER… but only if America would do better. 😫
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@kiddwikked @showmeyourputs @elonmusk No dumbfu—ck. Hawthorne, California…your credibility on everything is zero
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@kiddwikked @showmeyourputs @elonmusk He’s calling it out in CA because SpaceX headquarters are here. And Gavin Newsome is the biggest crook alive and charges the highest taxes to cover the fraud, waste & abuse…my 12 yr old can understand this but you cant
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@showmeyourputs @elonmusk lol, because he is not calling out ALL fraud and is just focused on blue states .. that is why.. not all that complicated at all
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@elonmusk For fucks sake, you're just a megaphone for maga bullshit at this point
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@margbrennan Im not a religious man but i will pray for our troops & root for America unlike you who hates America, knows nothing of history & who is the most intolerant of people who have views different than yours. That’s half or more of Americans. You are a disgrace to American Journalism
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@ASavageNation Savana had all the Epstein receipts years ago and NBC and the Jews shut her down, so this has something to do with Epstein and to keep her shut up
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Less than 14% of the nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained exclusively by CBS News.
@camiloreports explains that these internal DHS figures undermine the frequent assertions by the Trump administration that its crackdown on illegal immigration is primarily targeting dangerous and violent criminals living in the U.S. illegally, people Mr. Trump and his lieutenants have regularly called the "worst of the worst."
Full story: cbsn.ws/3O7pgWO
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@dbongino Wow… Since musk took over and went to maga, Twitter has become a MAGA cesspool. Not sure a Twitter TMZ poll is most accurate.
But we do know you helped take part of protecting pedophiles
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@TheLaurenChen You have no understanding of the laws in this country. You’re dead wrong
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Remember how the left treated J6ers.
They have no right to call for restraint when it comes to protesters trying to sabotage ICE.
Cassandra MacDonald@CassandraRules
This woman says shes also been driving around looking to interfere with ICE operations in Charlotte and now shes horrified. Maybe she should stop, then.
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@Raven4212 @MattMorseTV Hahahaha, then you’re losing the TDS checkers game…Trump 2028!
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@MattMorseTV This is an attempt to grab natural resources from another country and to distract from the Trump Epstein scandal. Trump can't play checkers let alone any form of chess. Trump is a malignant narcissist with advancing frontal lobe dementia
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Two things are immediately obvious:
1) Trump has been patiently waiting for a chance to capture Maduro alive, and 2) Maduro’s capture is effectively doomsday for the far-Left.
In the very near future, we’re going to see Maduro publicly admit to everything - election interference, narco-terrorism, migrant invasion, working with far-Left NGO’s - ALL OF IT.
This has been an incredibly premeditated play on Trump’s part. Things are about to get VERY interesting.
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BREAKING: US Senator Jeff Merkley, moments ago:
"If this was a legal action of war, then it would be a war crime. If it was not, it was a murder. In either case, again, the right way to find out if there are drugs onboard a boat, is you stop the boat, you board it, you investigate it and in the process you learn about the strategies involved which gives you information to dismantle a broad operation."
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@krassenstein Explain Epstein’s texts with the Democrat Congresswoman/Delegate Stacey Plaskett from jail during Congressional hearing on Trump you loud MO-u//th lyy-ing POS
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BREAKING: Trump is a panicken
He claims that "Epstein was a Democrat and is a Democrat Problem, not a Republican problem."
FACT: Jeffrey Epstein was not publicly affiliated with any political party, and there’s no record of him being a registered Democrat or Republican at the national level.
And do you know how you know Trump is full of crap? If Epstein was a 'Democrat problem' he would be signing an executive order yesterday to release every file in existence on Epstein.

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@Scottmarabi @krassenstein You actually have the opposite. You’re lying and your TDS is showing
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BREAKING: 24 Epstein Victims Just sent this letter to Congress.
Only a sick person would try and cover these files up:
"Dear Esteemed Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives,
We write to you as the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and as fellow survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their co-conspirators. You have the ability to vote to release the Epstein files, and with it, deliver a promise the American people have awaited for far too long. We implore you to do so.
Several weeks ago, when a few brave survivors stood before you and recounted their harrowing stories, many of you were shaken to your core. We urge you, when you cast your vote, please do not forget the horror you felt that day.
There is no middle ground here. There is no hiding behind party affiliation. The testimonies you heard are just a fraction of the unimaginable suffering endured by more than a thousand victims alike.
Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes exposed a double standard of justice, where rich and powerful men and women evade repercussions. Despite years of work to bring them to justice, most of Epstein and Maxwell’s co-conspirators remain completely free, continuing to amass power and prestige, living without apparent shame.
As you gather with your family this season, remember that your primary duty is to your constituents. Look into the eyes of your children, your sisters, your mothers, and your aunts. Imagine if they had been preyed upon. Imagine if you yourself were a survivor. What would you want for them? What would you want for yourself? When you vote, we will remember your decision at the ballot box.
This last April, we lost our sister Virginia, a true American hero and a beacon of strength to survivors everywhere. Her resilience in the face of immense adversity—the threats to her life, financial ruin, and public shaming—inspired us all. Her courage brought this case to a monumental turning point, and her testimony exposed the lurid secrets of a global sex trafficking network. In doing so, she brought down a prince, and paved the way for us to come forward and fight. Virginia was failed over and over by the systems that consistently believed and supported her abusers over her. Today, we urge you not to fail another survivor and deny them justice any longer.
Embody Virginia’s courage. Be brave and stand for her, in her absence. Vote YES on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Vote for justice, accountability, and the truth.
With gratitude, respect, and resilience, from survivors and the family and friends who love them."

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