Trump plots BILLION-DOLLAR handout to MAGA terrorists

Top Stories for May 15:

Trump poised to drop IRS suit in exchange for $1.7 billion “weaponization” fund to enrich Jan. 6 allies
With reports swirling that the Trump regime will soon settle Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against Trump’s IRS in favor of Trump, a blatant, new grift has been grafted onto Donald’s shakedown tree. ABC News is reporting that the MAGA cult leader will drop his suit against the federal government in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 BILLION fund to compensate MAGA allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration for participating in Donald’s failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

But wait, there’s more! A commission — established by Trump, of course — will oversee the compensation fund AND will have complete and total authority to hand out approximately $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds to settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration’s “weaponization” of the legal system, including the nearly 1,600 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, as well as entities directly associated with Trump himself.

Folks, we’re on the cusp of REWARDING RIOTERS AND INSURRECTIONS for ransacking the Capitol, attacking police officers, destroying federal property, and disrupting the peaceful transfer of power of a duly elected president. All to soothe the exceptionally fragile ego of a malignant narcissist who simply cannot accept that he got smoked in the 2020 election.

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Emails show Kash Patel’s Hawaii work trip included undisclosed, highly unusual “VIP snorkel” at a Pearl Harbor memorial
When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was definitely not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau’s Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement. Curiously left out of FBI’s news releases was the exclusive “VIP snorkel” excursion Patel took days later around the USS Arizona in a highly unusual outing coordinated by the military.

Patel apparently decided that the most appropriate way to honor one of the military’s most hallowed cemetery cites entombing some 900 fallen sailors was to treat it like a personal, Make-A-Wish snorkel adventure. Only Kash isn’t a sick kid, and even terminally ill children could recognize the impropriety of such an act. Utterly shameful, disqualifying behavior from a truly shameless, supremely unqualified clown.

Beloved Alaskan Mary Peltola SURGES in the race for critical red Senate seat
Mary Peltola for Alaska: Former Congresswoman Mary Peltola sent shockwaves through American politics when she won the only congressional seat in deep-red Alaska in 2022. Now she’s running for the US Senate seat held by MAGA millionaire Dan Sullivan. A new poll shows she’s engineered a TEN-POINT swing and now leads the race by 5%! A proven winner like Peltola with an Alaska First platform of “fish, family, and freedom” is just the candidate we need to flip this critical seat and retake the Senate. Will you chip in to help push her over the finish line?

Trump Mobile hit with embarrassing community note online revealing phone is a Chinese-made, low-cost rebrand
We know this is going to come as a huge surprise, but the ballyhooed and long-promised $500 Trump Mobile T1 Phone — which nearly 600,000 people pre-ordered almost a year ago — is NOT made in America as originally promised. Rather, it’s a low-cost, reskinned 2024 Android model made in China that retails for $126 on Amazon. So, for the low, low upcharge of $374 you too can be bilked by America’s grifter-in-chief!

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Trump Border Patrol chief quits after report he hired foreign sex workers
The Trump regime’s heinous immigrant purge is experiencing yet another major shakeup. US Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks suddenly resigned on Thursday, telling Fox News’ Bill Melugin: “It’s just time, man… Time to pass the reins.”

Conspicuously absent in his announcement on Fox? Reports that he has regularly employed the services of sex workers while traveling abroad. Border Patrol employees told the Washington Examiner last month that Banks was “known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes” and openly bragged about his deviant habits. Customs and Border Patrol reportedly investigated his behavior twice, including last year, but the probe was squashed by former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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House barely rejects limits on Iran war as GOP defections grow
A vote to rein in Donald Trump’s war powers failed by just one vote after Democrat Jared Golden, who CO-SPONSORED THE BILL, voted against it at the last second in order to prevent its passing. Golden is not running for reelection, making him the perfect sin-eater for Democrats who want to have a “no” vote on their record but actually want to see conflict with Iran continue. If the Democratic Party is wondering why their approval rating is in the dumpster along with Trump and his Republican Party, they can start by looking at shit like this.

House ethics panel announces sexual harassment investigation of GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards
Republican Chuck Edwards, a 65-year-old two-term congressman currently seeking reelection in North Carolina’s 11th District, is just the latest flag-bearer from the party of FaMiLy VaLuEs™ to be embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal. Edwards has been credibly accused of engaging in inappropriate conduct toward two female staffers in their 20s, including one who later complained about his behavior and feared retaliation.

The House Ethics Committee announced yesterday that it will formally investigate the claims against Edwards. Let’s hope a thorough combing over of the facts in this case delivers justice for his accusers and reveals the unsavory truths the GOP lawmaker undoubtedly does not want uncovered.

Jim Jordan comically denies saying thing he said less than a minute before: “Those are your words, not mine”
When asked by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about Donald Trump’s failed campaign promise to bring gas prices under $2 per gallon, Ohio Republican Jim Jordan dismissively responded, “That’s life.” Seconds later, when Collins noted that “that’s life” might not go over very well with people struggling with skyrocketing fuel prices, Jordan incredulously shot back, “Those are — those are your words, not mine.”

These clowns do know how video cameras work, right?

ICE strapped down immigrants for 51-hour plane trip with drop-offs in six countries during record month for deportation flights, report finds
Scores of immigrants were reportedly strapped down with physical restraints during a 51-hour journey that dropped detainees in six countries last month, marking one of the longest-ever deportation flights under Donald Trump’s draconian, unconscionably cruel crusade to make America white again. April set a dubious record in the Trump regime’s ongoing mission to rid the country of Brown-skinned people, with ICE conducting some 245 removal flights — all funded by American taxpayers, of course.

The spike included an increase in so-called “third-country removals,” where marginalized immigrants are forcibly transferred to nations where they don’t have any claims of citizenship, zero family connections, no clear legal protections, or any reasonable prospects of getting out. Trump and his white nationalist cronies are treating human beings like refuse, to be deposited out of site and out of mind beyond our borders. The cruelty IS the point.

Trump says Xi is “very tall” and out of “central casting” because people in China “tend to be a little bit shorter”
It wouldn’t be a high-profile state visit for our imbecile-in-chief without a few headline-worthy gaffes, and (un)lucky for us, Donald did not disappoint. In an interview with Sean Hannity following his meeting with Xi Jinping, Trump gushed over the Chinese president’s physical appearance while casually taking a swipe at Chinese people as a whole: “If you went to Hollywood and you look for a leader of China, to play a role in a movie, he’s central casting… you couldn’t find a guy like him,” the simpleton noted. “Even his physical features, you know, he’s tall, very tall, and especially for this country, because they tend to be a little bit shorter… but no, if you went to Hollywood, you wouldn’t find that, you’re not going to find a guy to play the role who’s good.”

Donald’s obsession with the superficial is obviously well-documented, but it’s no less embarrassing every time he puts it on full display.