May 12, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! …
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May 12, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Associated Press reports: House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks. Tallying hundreds of pages, the legislation is touching off the biggest political fight over health care since Republicans tried to …
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May 12, 2025 Trump Corruption, United States
Politico Europe reports: The United States is becoming less popular globally in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to new data. The 2025 Democracy Perception Index summarizes attitudes toward democracy, geopolitics and global power players, and canvassed more than 110,000 respondents across 100 countries. A majority of people surveyed had an overall negative perception of the …
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May 12, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Daily Beast reports: Democrats, who have long accused Trump of blurring the lines between public service and personal profit, are decrying the gift as outright corruption. Trump reportedly plans to transfer the roughly $400 million plane to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation shortly before leaving office. “This isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to …
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May 12, 2025 Extremists, Infighting Is Funny
“I love President Trump. I would take a bullet for him. But, I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400 million ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits. “The Qataris fund the same Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah who have murdered US Service Members. The same proxies that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across …
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May 12, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Newsweek reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi’s links to Qatar are under scrutiny again following reports that President Donald Trump will be gifted a luxury plane from the Qatari government. Bondi worked as a foreign lobbyist for the nation of Qatar, earning $115,000 a month in the role which she held in 2020 and in the run up to the World …
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May 12, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump Corruption
The Associated Press reports: A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February. The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday …
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May 12, 2025 News, Wildlife
CBS News reports: A Yellowstone National Park tourist was gored by a bison when he got too close to the animal, according to officials. The 47-year-old man from Cape Coral, Fla., was hooked by the bison’s horns and lifted Sunday but escaped with only minor injuries, the National Park Service said. The visitor was attacked around 3:15 p.m. at Lake …
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May 12, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
CNN reports: President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he plans to resurrect a controversial policy from his first term that aims to reduce drug costs by basing payments for certain medicines on their prices in other countries. His prior rule, called “Most Favored Nation,” was finalized in late 2020 but blocked by federal courts and rescinded by then-President Joe Biden …
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May 12, 2025 China, United States
The New York Times reports: The United States and China said Monday they reached an agreement to temporarily reduce the punishing tariffs they have imposed on each other while they try to defuse the trade war threatening the world’s two largest economies. In a joint statement, the countries said they would suspend their respective tariffs for 90 days and continue …
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