Sam Liccardo

This.

Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes. $1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity. One hour before the announcement. Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time. They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades. Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium. The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened. This is not the first time. It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves. But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it. Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind. These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world. I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here. This isn't politics anymore. This is a financial operation running out of the White House.

Every budget was public. We built hundreds of units of quick-build transitional housing that Mahan expanded, thousands of units of permanent housing, and launched a homelessness prevention initiative with Destination:Home that became a national model. Despite a devastating pandemic, we saw early results by 2022, when street homelessness dropped 11% while increasing throughout the county and the state. #CheckYourFacts

@sliccardo @AGPamBondi Hey Sam what did you spend that unaccounted for $200-280million of tax payer money on 2020-2023 when you were mayor of San Jose? @MattMahanHQ is on record refusing to audit & account for it because it was “before his time” though he was D10 but you were mayor. @USAO_NDCA @VP

Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration. Leading President Trump’s historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime, and easily the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history. Since February 2025, we have secured the lowest murder rate in 125 years, secured first-ever terrorism convictions against members of Antifa, shattered domestic and transnational gangs across the country, taken custody of more than 90 key cartel figures, and won 24 favorable rulings at the Supreme Court. I remain eternally grateful for the trust that President Trump placed in me to Make America Safe Again.

@badxampl1 @StephenM Dean, why don’t you ask the 250 thousand Filipino veterans who fought for the US in WWII about that…?

@sliccardo @StephenM Duh, there is a legal caveat for LEGAL or DOCUMENTED immigrants to receive citizenship for military service.

Birthright citizenship means the children of illegal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance.

@artknapp88 @StephenM Artie, guest worker programs have existed for decades. Don’t see how that solves anything. The “common sense controls” you suggest—denying citizenship to children born here— have been deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court since 1896.

@sliccardo @StephenM Sam, rather than resist common sense immigration controls, why not propose some policies for temporary guest worker programs. Allows legal employment and ability to send money back home. This can help defuse some contentious citizenship enforcement issues.

Quite the midterm message: we can afford wars and ballrooms, but not your “daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things”

Let’s call this what it is, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s moral fraud. Franklin Graham had no problem demonizing Barack Obama, a faithful husband, scandal-free, disciplined, educated, Black man, the very embodiment of the “bootstraps” gospel white evangelicals preach about, as some kind of threat, even suggesting that he was antichrist. Yet, the same Graham bows in reverence to Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, unrepentant racist, porn star banging, pathological liar, with a trail of infidelity, exploitation, documented racism, and associations with convicted child sex traffickers, and has the caucasity to call him “raised up by God.” That’s not discernment, that’s deception, dishonesty, and disregard for the sacred text he claims to believe. The standard didn’t change, the subject did. Obama’s integrity was dismissed because he was Black. Trump’s corruption is sanctified because he is white and politically useful. Graham isn’t applying scripture, he’s weaponizing it. He ignores sin when it serves power, then quotes the Bible to justify the very wickedness it condemns. That’s not Christianity, that’s idolatry of whiteness, wrapped in religious language and draped in a flag.  This is hypocrisy at its highest level: Calling evil good when it benefits you, and calling good evil when it threatens your power. And then having the audacity to say God said it.

Chag Pesach Sameach! Wishing you and your loved ones a meaningful Passover filled with reflection, remembrance, and renewal.

This is funny…. #JusticeforCricket

@SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune Hey Mike, all you needed to do was put the bill that the Senate GOP approved last week on the House floor and it would have passed by 300 votes—including every Democrat. Why were you afraid of letting us vote on the Senate GOP DHS appropriations bill?

My joint statement with @LeaderJohnThune on DHS funding: We appreciate and share the President’s determination to once and for all bring an end to the Democrat DHS shutdown.   In the coming days, Republicans in the Senate and House will be following through on the President’s directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks: through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process.   We appreciate that Senator Graham and the Senate Budget Committee have already initiated the process of developing a budget resolution that will ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump Administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund those agencies.   We operated under a belief that while our country is in the midst of an international armed conflict, Democrats might finally come to their senses and understand that defunding our homeland security agencies is beyond reckless and very dangerous. While we hoped they would accept the 60-day CR to fund the Department entirely so that bipartisan negotiations could continue, it is now abundantly clear that Democrats place allegiance to their radical left-wing base above all else — including their own power of the purse — which means open borders and protecting criminal illegal aliens. That is not acceptable to Republicans in Congress, nor is it to the American people. We cannot allow Democrats to any longer put the safety of the American public at risk through their open border policies, so we are taking that off the table.   In following this two-track approach, the Republican Congress will fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that those law-enforcement activities can continue uninhibited. In return, Democrats will once again demonstrate to the American people their support for open borders and keeping criminal illegal immigrants in America.

Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump's cruel and lawless effort to strip citizenship from native-born children. The 14th Amendment of our Constitution enshrines citizenship an inalienable right for every child. nbcnews.com/politics/supre…

Is this what @realDonaldTrump means by “winning”? apple.news/AMQAfJXD5QZKdS…

The President’s Hail Mary for TSA pay still leaves thousands of hardworking Americans – working in emergency recovery, disaster preparedness, and cybersecurity – in the lurch. We secured a bipartisan deal to pay TSA, the Coast Guard, and all other law-abiding DHS personnel. The Senate GOP majority approved it, and it would have passed by 300 votes if the Speaker allowed the House to vote on it. Speaker Johnson derailed it. Our nation deserves better. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

@MeyerWeed @LeaderJohnThune @SenJohnBarrasso @DHSgov @ICEgov Ok, I just wanted to be clear that you’re calling GOP Senators Thune and Barrasso “Hate America First Leftists”. That’s informative.

@sliccardo ya @LeaderJohnThune @@SenJohnBarrasso & any other RINOs who passed that crap you credit yourself with sponsoring by a non-recorded voice vote so you louts could take an Easter vacay may as well be lumped in with you -Pass the SAVE AMERICA ACT fund @DHSgov AND @ICEgov

I think they drafted the 25th Amendment for this:

This is the same colleague who has repeatedly decried the US becoming a “surveillance state,” eg

.@JamesTalarico: The kind of religion that says you can treat people however you want as long as you have a personal relationship with Jesus is an abomination. Scripture says you can't love God and hate other people. You can't love God and abuse the immigrant. You can't love God and bully the outcast. You can't love God and oppress the poor. We spend so much time looking for God out there, that we miss God in the person sitting right next to us.

Democracy is strongest when we show up — grateful for this community. #NoKings