Stephen Saltzman

Nothing like hiking around #Oregon to recharge your batteries. This was my first time hiking #SmithRock -- definitely won't be my last!

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. The Qatar jet. January 6th. The money. The names. All of it. (link in reply)

12 countries voted against Ukrainian sovereignty at the UN — including Russia and Belarus. 107 voted for it.    The United States abstained.

"if Israel loses this war, the next battle will be on the southern coasts of Europe. Israel is not only defending its right to exist. It is protecting Western values and the entire Western world" José María Aznar Former Prime Minister of Spain October 7th, 2024

DOGGETT: What role do you play in the soft in crime approach on healthcare fraudsters? RFK Jr: I don't think there's anybody who believes this administration is soft on fraud-- DOGGETT: More fraudsters pardoned than any president in American history

This will blow your fucking mind!!!!!

Paolo Zampolli’s title is Special Envoy for Global Partnerships. No one held that position before him. It did not exist before March 2025. Trump announced it on Truth Social. No salary has ever been disclosed. No budget has ever been made public. No staff has been identified. There is no predecessor, no institutional history, and no defined mandate. The position was created for one man. Trump has appointed 10 special envoys in his second term. The others have defined portfolios: Ukraine, Russia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Zampolli’s is Global Partnerships. It covers EVERYTHING and NOTHING. What does he actually do? He visits countries, meets ministers of culture, attends sports federation meetings in Uzbekistan, and promotes the 2026 FIFA World Cup. He brought a miniature Charging Bull statue to Davos (another Epstein-related person at the WEF). He travels alongside JD Vance on diplomatic missions and has lunch with the President at the White House. Official US Embassy press releases describe his work as cultural and sports diplomacy. The American taxpayer is paying for his travel. We do not know how much. This is the man who sponsored Melania Knauss’s H-1B fashion model visa in 1996, arranged her apartment in his own building, and introduced her to Donald Trump two years later. His name appears multiple times in the Epstein files. He allegedly contacted a senior ICE official to have the mother of his child detained and deported during a custody dispute. He tried to buy Elite Model Management alongside Jeffrey Epstein. Why was this position created? What does it cost? What is its purpose? Who does it serve? The Brazilian woman who arrived in New York on Epstein’s plane at 17 is in Rio. She says she will expose everything. He is at the White House having lunch with the President. What does Amanda know?

4 years ago, then-Rep. Mike Waltz called on President Biden to make clear that Putin was an 'absolute war criminal.' Today, he refused to even utter those words himself. As one of Trump's top diplomats, his reversal speaks volumes.

A retired lawyer in the U.S. was watching the news when he saw the story about the new Trump commemorative coin and something immediately didn't sit right with him. So he did what lawyers do. He went digging... And he found it. A federal law passed in 1866 that explicitly prohibits living people from appearing on U.S. currency. It's not a grey area. It's not open to interpretation. It's been sitting in the books for over 150 years. The last time this actually happened was 1926 when a coin featuring Calvin Coolidge was minted while he was still alive and serving as president. The backlash was immediate. The coins were pulled. And the law was reaffirmed... Now this retired lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Mint not because of who is on the coin, but because the law says it simply cannot be done. Full stop... No political agenda. No protest. Just one guy, a dusty legal statute, and a federal case that nobody in Washington apparently saw coming

Israel did NOT put 60 Palestinians in a garbage truck. The reality is that 60 Palestinians hid in a garbage truck and tried to sneak into Israel to murder Jews. This lie is going viral — please share this so people know the truth.

Watching the victory lap on our blockade of the blockade is something to behold. We moved the goalposts, downgraded to “skinny goals,” and now Trump is packaging that as a huge win. We asked Iran for 20 years of no enrichment and they’re offering 5. Our time is spent containing a crisis we helped create in the first place. And the messaging? All over the place. One minute their nuclear program is “obliterated,” the next it’s weeks away from multiple bombs. Which is it? And if we walk away now, we’re not getting regime change—we’re leaving behind a more hardened, more extreme leadership than before.

WATCH: In a massive move that nobody saw coming, the Lebanese government has imposed a full ban on all Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps activities inside Lebanese territory. Security forces have been ordered to hunt down, arrest and deport any IRGC members found operating there.

ERASING HISTORY: Trump’s Justice Department is now moving to erase some of the most serious January 6 convictions. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has filed motions asking a federal court to vacate convictions against key members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Proud Boys leaders like Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs, who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to stop the peaceful transfer of power. These were among the final convictions still standing after Trump issued sweeping pardons and commutations on Day One. Now, the DOJ is attempting to wipe them away entirely, even after juries heard extensive evidence of coordinated planning, weapons stockpiles, and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro. Dozens more were injured. ​The military assistance you are so proud of stopping was used to save lives in a war Russia started and continues every day by choice, in a war that only became possible after USA pressured Ukraine into disarming... ​I do not know if Vance can fully comprehend the scale of the tragedy unfolding here: a brutal, illegal war of extermination by Russia, and the slow abandonment by our allies. There is nothing to be proud of. Absolutely nothing.

Sen. @RonWyden: The Trump IRS illegally shared tax information but at the same time, he's suing the IRS over his tax returns being released. Will you recommend the US taxpayer pay him? IRS CEO: I'm not involved in the matter Wyden: What advice did you get from your ethics office on this? IRS CEO: Advice from my ethics office being what? Wyden: This is a conflict of interest on the part of the president, one of the most flagrant conflicts of interest I've seen in all my time in public service.

Trump’s approval rating is 34%. Let that number sink in. Lower than Jimmy Carter at his lowest point. As low as Herbert Hoover in the middle of the Great Depression before he got ousted. He campaigned on ending wars in the Middle East. We have a new war in the Middle East. He campaigned on lowering prices. Prices are up across the board: energy, tariffs, everything. And the same people who were with him when he said he wouldn’t do it are still with him now that he’s doing it. Here’s the real question: Does he care about any of this? I would submit to everybody — he does not. He’s entered the nihilistic stage of his political career. The polls don’t matter. The people don’t matter. The consequences don’t matter. That is the most dangerous version of this man. And that’s exactly where we are.

Deni Avdija: 41 points 12 assists 7 rebounds GOAT level playoff performance by the first Jewish-Israeli All Star in the NBA. 🇮🇱🏀

GAME CHANGER: Montana just found the "exit ramp" to kill Citizens United. They aren't waiting for the Supreme Court—they’re going around them. 74% of voters are on board and corporate lawyers are PANICKING. This is how we win. 🏔️💸 dworkinsubstack.com/p/army-secreta…

What was meant to be a show of force has spiraled into a full-blown agricultural disaster. T.r.u.m.p’s latest potash tariffs were designed to pressure Canada, but instead they detonated inside America’s own farming heartland. In an emergency meeting at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump adviser reportedly admitted the unthinkable: the policy had backfired so badly that American farmers may not survive the growing season. Canada wasted no time. As the world’s largest potash supplier, Ottawa redirected exports to Asia and Europe within days, locking in billion-dollar contracts and tightening its grip on the global fertilizer market. One Canadian official mocked the situation bluntly, saying that if the U.S. doesn’t want Canadian potash, the rest of the world gladly will. On the ground in Iowa, the consequences turned personal. A U.S. farmer broke down during a live interview, explaining that without Canadian potash, crops simply cannot be grown at scale. The result is stark: Canada posts record profits and cements its status as the undisputed “fertilizer king,” while the United States loses control of a critical supply chain at the worst possible moment of the planting season. Analysts are already calling this the worst trade failure of Trump’s year — a pressure tactic that ended up crushing the very people it claimed to defend.

Trump spent years at rallies screaming "we're gonna win so much you'll be sick of winning." Crowds went wild. People believed it. That belief became the most powerful financial instrument he ever wielded, and in 2025 he finally figured out exactly how to monetize it. January 17th, 2025, three days before the inauguration, the $TRUMP meme coin launches. The timing was not an accident. The entire world had its eyes on Washington. Mainstream media, crypto Twitter, retail investors, everyone was paying attention. The coin explodes. $62 at its peak. People were calling it the most successful political meme coin in history. Forums were full of people buying in, convinced that a sitting US president's token could only go one direction. It went the other direction. Fast. Today $TRUMP trades around $2. That is a 97% collapse from the top. The people who bought at $40, $50, $60 are still holding bags that are worth almost nothing. Meanwhile the Trump organization controlled roughly 80% of the token supply at launch, meaning they had every structural ability to sell directly into the demand that retail created. Whether they did or not, the architecture was built for exactly that outcome. Then came $MELANIA. Days after the first coin was still generating headlines, the First Lady launched her own token. Same mechanics. Same hype cycle. Same result. It pumped on novelty and First Lady branding, retail chased it, and it collapsed just as fast. At this point it wasn't a coincidence, it was a pattern. But the most calculated move in the whole operation is WLFI, World Liberty Financial, the project the Trump family has been quietly pushing as their legitimate entry into decentralized finance. This one was packaged differently. No meme aesthetic. A whitepaper. Institutional language. The framing of a real financial product. But when you look under the hood the structure tells a different story. The Trump family controls 75% of the revenue share. The governance tokens sold to the public are non-transferable, meaning buyers cannot sell them on secondary markets. Hundreds of millions were raised from token sales. And the whole thing operates in a legal gray zone carefully designed to avoid the securities classifications that would trigger serious regulatory scrutiny. Three products. Three launches. One pattern running through all of them. Build an audience through politics. Launch a financial product at peak attention. Let retail pour in chasing the brand. Insiders are already positioned. Price collapses or tokens lock. Move to the next product. The rally was always the marketing. The crypto was just the latest version of the merchandise table. What makes this different from a normal pump and dump is the scale of the trust being leveraged. These weren't random influencers shilling tokens. This was the President of the United States, the First Lady, and their extended family using the most powerful political platform on earth to drive retail money into products they structurally controlled. The people buying were not degens looking for a gamble. Many of them were genuine supporters who believed that buying the coin was almost a form of political participation. The rallies sold a dream for decades. The crypto just sold the same dream with a ticker symbol attached. Both times the people in the room paid for it. Both times the people on stage walked away fine.

🚨JUST IN: The leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats just said it on the record. “Donald Trump is no leader of the free world. He’s a dangerous and corrupt gangster.” He’s also calling on Keir Starmer to cancel the King’s state visit to Washington before it’s too late.