Stephen Saltzman

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

Reminder: 95% of Americans are paying more in taxes, and the top 5% wealthiest are paying less, because of Trump’s and the Republican’s tax plan.

It should be a much bigger story that JD Vance flew to Hungary, stood on a campaign stage, and told voters to return a head of government widely documented for human rights abuses and democratic backsliding. Then, after his candidate lost, Vance said what had happened during the Hungarian campaign was “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I’ve ever seen or ever even read about.” Was he describing himself? The Hungarian people rejected it all. Democracy held, despite America’s intervention, not because of American leadership. The United States has long argued that elections should be free from outside influence. That standard should apply to everyone, including us. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/wor…

Rep. @LloydDoggettTX: As far as fraud, Paul Walczak had $10 million of wages that he kept some of to buy a $2 million yacht. His mother contributed to the Trump campaign and he no longer had to pay $4.4 million or stay in prison. Have you recommended that any of these health care fraudsters should get pardons or do the campaign contributions speak for themselves? RFK Jr.: It's not a credible story. Doggett: It's not a story. It's a fact

At the core of Russia’s war against Ukraine is a false claim – that Ukraine does not exist, that it is allegedly a part of Russia. This is not just about history. Not just politics or ideology. It is the basis of their goal – to erase Ukraine completely. And not only Ukraine. Russia has openly, repeatedly said it wants to control all its neighbors. It wants to decide what security in Europe should look like – and whether it should exist at all. Russia has carried its war ideas as far as Syria and Africa. This is a truly global threat. It matters that many in the world see it exactly this way – as a global threat. From my address to the participants of the Four Freedoms Awards ceremony (2/3).

VAN HOLLEN: The tax cuts you provided to the wealthiest were made permanent, right? VOUGHT: Yes. VAN HOLLEN: But the tax cuts for working people, like no tax on tips, those will expire in 2028, right? VOUGHT: We want to extend them. VAN HOLLEN: But you didn't.

NATO is for mutual defense, not a blank check for fighting other people’s wars. Its essence is prevention, not intervention. The alliance was designed to deter conflict, not to seek it out.

In his second administration, President Trump’s family, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. @ElizLanders reports.

Companies that have paid settlements to the Trump Library Fund: ABC: $15 million Meta: $22 million X: $10 million Paramount: $16 million That original Library Fund has now been dissolved. So where has all that money gone?

ATTORNEY: “Please don’t tell me Trump cares about law and order. He doesn’t. Look at all the people he has pardoned… Galanis: $200M fraud… Schwarz: $38M… Duran: $205M…. Watson: $60M… fraudster after fraudster… Pardoned, all of them.” (From @cogdelllawuncensored)

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.