Rod Blackstone

So then why did Trump pardon these people for tax-related crimes? Todd Chrisley – Tax evasion Julie Chrisley – Tax evasion Michael Grimm – Tax fraud Paul Manafort – Tax fraud Darryl Strawberry – Tax evasion Albert Pirro – Tax evasion Paul Walczak – Payroll tax fraud Bernard Kerik – Tax fraud Paul Pogue – False tax returns Joseph Schwartz – Tax fraud

@SenCapito If you want to protect girls & young women, why isn’t justice for victims of Trump/Epstein a deeply personal issue? There are more girls/women victimized by them BY FAR than trans athletes in women’s sports. Or is Trump holding you hostage, too, to make you do whatever he wants?

As a mother and grandmother of women in sports, and an athlete myself, keeping transgender athletes out of women’s sports is a deeply personal issue to me.   Female athletes should not have to go into a competition worrying if they’ll get injured from a male athlete during a game. They should not feel like they have to hide in their own locker room—and most of all, they should not be stripped of their achievements because a biological male athlete has an unfair advantage.   That’s why I voted over the weekend for an amendment that would prohibit school athletic programs from allowing biological males to participate in programs for women and girls. Democrats blocked it.

@SenCapito Trump, Epstein & accomplices raped more girls than the actual number of “illegals” who’ve voted over the past several decades + the number of trans girls/women who’ve competed in NCAA sports COMBINED. But ignore real problems like gas prices, TSA lines, justice for victims of DJT

Voter ID ensures the safety and security of our elections.   It’s simple: American elections should be for American citizens

@CapitoforWV Making it harder for poorer & non-white male people to register and vote - under the facade of preventing a handful “illegals” from voting over decades when most voting violations are done by your party and your party’s demented and depraved leader. Oh & he just voted by mail!

The SAVE America Act is about common sense and fairness.

@BulwarkOnline “What’s been done to President Trump and his family?” 😳 Well, Secretary Pompous Ass-inine: he & his family have avoided jail time for all the crimes he & they clearly have committed! So we’re not coming to your poor pitiful p*do prez pity party!

Welker: “You don't think there's anything wrong with a post saying, 'Good. Robert Mueller's dead’?” Bessent: “We should all have a little empathy for what's been done to [the president] and his family.”

Reminder that Mueller indicted 26 Russians and 8 Americans for working together to interfere with the election. All 8 Americans were convicted in court, but 5 were pardoned by Trump.

@SenCapito Fact: more Republicans have actually committed/attempted voter fraud than undocumented immigrants. When will you stand up to the delusional, demented misogynist who lies so soften to us & himself that he no longer knows the what truth is? I used to respect and support you! 😞

Americans deserve to have confidence that every vote cast and counted comes from an American citizen.   Requiring photo ID through the SAVE America Act delivers just that.

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

President Trump, the felony fraudster convicted of 34 criminal counts, wants to be seen as “tough on fraud.” Here's the reality Republicans don't want to admit: In just one year, Trump’s pardons wiped out more than $1.3 billion in restitution and fines owed to victims and survivors of crime.

Convicted fraudsters Trump has pardoned this year: Jason Galanis — ~$200M+ Joseph Schwartz — ~$38M Lawrence Duran — ~$205M (Medicare fraud billed; ~$87M paid) Carlos Watson — ~$60M investor fraud Trevor Milton — ~$20M+ investor losses Todd Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud Julie Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud Devon Archer — ~$60M tribal bond scheme George Santos — ~$44K–$1M+ (multiple fraud schemes) Michele Fiore — ~$70K charity fraud Brian Kelsey — ~$90K campaign finance fraud Scott Jenkins — ~$75K bribery/fraud scheme Paul Walczak — ~$10M+ tax fraud Adriana Camberos — ~$1M+ counterfeit/fraud

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “So, the Saudis paid $2 billion to Trump’s son in law Jared, and now Jared is the U.S. government’s point person in the Middle East. The NYTimes now reports that while Jared is serving as the U.S. government’s point person in the Middle East, Jared is simultaneously asking the Saudis for yet MORE billions of dollars for his private business…Why would they say no? For the low low price of what they’ve already given him, the Saudi’s have apparently discovered the price of RENTING OUT something called the armed forces of the United States of America, to attack their rival nation #Iran.”😳

@atrupar #DeluluDonald although you could also truthfully use #DementedDonald #DeviantDonald #DiabolicalDonald #DepravedDonald or the more standard version #DelusionalDonald

Trump is delulu: "Jobs are coming in through the roof and we have factories being built all over the country. We've taken in $18 trillion plus in 11 months."

Maybe you guys shouldn’t have blocked the Senate bill that would have funded TSA.

When Democrats wanted to eliminate the filibuster in 2022, I stood my ground because I understood the consequences of turning the Senate into a glorified House with simple majority rule. Senator John Cornyn said of Democrats at the time: “They'll soon find themselves rueing the day their party broke the Senate.” The filibuster exists to make both sides work together and produce good legislation that can withstand the test of time. Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the majority party’s leadership — and take power away from the minority and everyday Americans. When I was a U.S. Senator, there was not another person more committed to keeping the filibuster than Senator John Cornyn. He understood the incredible political pressure I faced from my former party to get rid of the filibuster and give Democrats complete power — and at the time, he understood why neither party should take our country past this point of no return. The filibuster — the soul of the Senate — has preserved the Senate’s role for nearly 250 years as the institution that cools passions, protects minority voices, and demands consensus. America was built on institutions designed to resist political convenience, not surrender to it. It’s deeply disappointing to see that Senator Cornyn is now willing to scrap the very rule he once praised and personally thanked me for defending. These extreme election-year politics that put party power over everything else are why Americans are sick and tired of the duopoly of the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans.

@GOP Have you heard of Jesus? The Lord many of you claim/pretend to follow always stood with & urged love for people the political & religious leaders marginalized or demonized. If you people claim Christ, The Beatitudes should be your attitudes. James gets it! Read the red words!!

Sick. This freak does not belong in any position of power.

BOOM! WITNESS THIS. A 9-year-old warrior took the mic and Dismantled Trump's attacks on Black and brown communities, our seniors, & those who served. More courage, fire, & moral clarity than most grown folks will ever have. Slashing Social Security. Gutting healthcare. Stripping Medicaid & Medicare. Defunding schools. Withholding disaster relief from states that didn't vote for him. The universe has a strange poetry: when a would-be despot grabs power, a child's voice rises up echoing the spirit of Fannie Lou Hamer, Fred Hampton, Septima Clark, & the freedom fighters before him.

@mmpadellan Why is anyone surprised that there was no plan beyond huffing and puffing and hoping to blow the house down? 5th grade playground bullies never have a plan beyond their initial violence and then get surprised when someone fights back. #delusionalDonald

This briefing is a shit show. Rubio is in full panic mode. Manu Raju expertly cornered him on how he said we bombed Iran because of impending Israel attack, and now he's running away from it. They are LYING. There was no plan. THIS IS ISRAEL'S WAR.

BREAKING: Trump officials caught at secret summit with election deniers plotting to STEAL the midterms in a ‘national emergency’ power grab! ProPublica just dropped a huge bombshell: High-ranking Trump administration officials – including a White House lawyer tasked with ”reinvestigating” 2020 and the DHS official in charge of “election integrity” – attended a shady summit last week where 2020 election deniers begged Donald Trump to declare a national emergency and TAKE OVER the 2026 midterms. Yes, the same Michael Flynn – the disgraced former national security adviser and certified coup enthusiast – convened the whole thing. Attendees included Kurt Olsen, the White House lawyer spending our tax dollars digging for 2020 dirt, and Heather Honey, DHS’s election ratfu**er. Cleta Mitchell was there too, the same one pushing baseless fraud claims through her Election Integrity Network. These MAGA insiders and outside agitators are pushing Trump to go full authoritarian: declare an emergency, ban mail-in ballots, ditch voting machines, and hand federal control over state elections. A draft executive order is already reportedly circulating among these circles. Courts have blocked similar schemes before, Congress won't pass their voter suppression wishlist, so now they're trying the nuclear option – emergency powers to rig the vote in November. Election experts are sounding the alarm loud: This is the same crew that tried to overturn 2020, now embedded INSIDE the government, better organized, and breaking every guardrail. As Brendan Fischer from the Campaign Legal Center put it: “The same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.” Let’s call this what it is: a deliberate plan to reshape elections ahead of the midterms or ignore the voters entirely if things don't go Trump's way. This is what MAGA “election integrity” really looks like. Subverting votes, not securing them. While Trump slurs through wars abroad, his team is scheming to sabotage democracy at home. The U.S. isn't a democracy under this crew, it's a regime teetering on the edge of authoritarian takeover. If this makes your blood boil, like and share. American democracy is under attack from within. Trump will steal the midterms if he can.

In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia. After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later. This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryWithLana