Thomas P. Oppel
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@tpoppel
NH state representative, Grafton 9 (Canaan, Dorchester & Orange); O2 Strategies CEO; communications consultant; X-SecNav75 CoS; RTs≠endorsements.
Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract
Coons to Bessent: Your Treasury lifted sanctions on Russian oil, giving them an extra $150M a day in revenue. Those funds are going not just to kill Ukrainians, but Russia's using its profits to support Iran with drones and intelligence to kill our troops.
NEW: The U.S. is considering punishing NATO allies it says didn’t support the Iran war, per Reuters. Options include suspending Spain from NATO, reconsidering U.S. backing for European “imperial possessions” like Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, and blocking “difficult” countries from key NATO roles.
Witkoff has been to Moscow 8 times, Kushner has also been. Neither have ever been to Kyiv. A cynic might think the Trump administration is on Russia's side - I'm that cynic.
Shame on us. I think of the brave Afghans that stood alongside us against the Taliban, especially those I worked with personally during my four years in command of the NATO mission there. It is incomprehensible to me that we would not bring them here to the United States, fulfilling the most fundamental obligations of trust and honor. nytimes.com/2026/04/21/wor…
Eric Trump on his $24 million Pentagon contract for robots: "It's gonna change industry, military application, hospitality. The uses are unlimited and I think it's a very beautiful thing, but we must win that race."
What was the moment our politics started to go off the rails?
Forbes: Trump now worth $6.5B (+$1.4B since taking office). Don Jr. & Eric Trump each went from ~$40-50M to $300-400M range via crypto. Broader Trump family wealth has nearly doubled to as high as $10 billion
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
MASSIVE: 🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying. A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements. Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. We tracked a whale for weeks. 0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate. You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets. Now the BBC has the receipts. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.
The Pentagon’s largest-ever budget request earmarks $75 billion for drones and technologies to counter them, per Bloomberg.
The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
