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A jury in Ohio declined to find a man guilty of destroying a Flock camera, dropping all felony charges on him. Do you think resistance will increase against the corporations who are actively converting our country into a surveillance state?

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While Americans are drowning in debt, Donald is spending nearly $1 BILLION on White House renovations. Watch this.

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The End of the Rule of Law

Donald visited the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City, New York, on Friday to promote new FBI numbers showing violent crime fell in 2025. But it really was more of a political rally in which Donald attacked radical left Democrats, brought up Sleepy Joe Biden, and told those assembled, “We call them Dumocrats now because their policies are so dumb. Fighting to defund the police, does that play well in this room?” And for those of you who are uninitiated, the word dumb actually, as it turns out, ends in a B. I did not know that until Donald told me.

The uniformed officers were more reserved than Donald’s usual MAGA crowd, which is as it should be. Donald also went after Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James, calling James a real slob and a disgrace. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel also spoke at the rally to warm up the crowd for Donald, as if either one of those two people could possibly do that.

This was not just a highly unusual move at an event that was so openly political. It was against the law. To have the head of the FBI and the Attorney General of the United States at a political rally just shows us how far we have fallen. Is violent crime down? Yes. Unless you are talking about the White House, in which case violent crime is up across the board because the Trump regime is a bunch of recidivists who keep committing crimes against us and other people.

So violent crime in general might be down, but prices are up almost across the board. AAA is reporting gas at $4.06 a gallon. But Donald told the crowd that, even though for years he was campaigning on bringing gas prices down to $2 a gallon, he would not apologize.

This is what Donald said:

So I just say this. So for you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember you’re doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a country, really it’s the number one state sponsor of terror in the world. We don’t want to have them have a nuclear weapon. So remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4. It’s okay. I mean, I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing.

It fills me with shame that there are law enforcement officers in that audience applauding him for lying and basically for telling us that we not only should pay for his mistakes, but should be happy about it. This is the guy who, in over a year and a half in office, has robbed the American taxpayer blind and enriched himself to the tune of over $3 billion. Easy for him to say. He also does not have to pay for his gasoline. That is on us, too.

Before this event, Donald took questions from reporters and was asked about the horrible conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln. A reporter asked about concerns from family members of sailors aboard the carrier over conditions on the ship. Donald’s response was, “No, they’re not.” Because, as always, he knows better than us about our own lived experience. He then added that the ship had not been deployed nearly long enough, even though those sailors have been out there for over nine months.

Reporter: Family members of U.S. service members are concerned about the conditions on board.

Donald: No, that ship is moving. No, they’re not. That ship is moving right now or very shortly, and it’s being replaced with another very similar ship. No, no, no. Not nearly long enough. Thank you everybody.

That draft dodging sadist would not last 12 hours on that ship at the best of times, let alone under the kind of conditions those sailors are currently experiencing. Clogged toilets, tainted drinking water, mold in the showers. Several sailors have jumped overboard. Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are solely responsible for the conditions on the ship, and if anything happens to those sailors, it is their responsibility. We should be listening to the sailors and their family members, not the lies coming out of the Pentagon.

Because Donald is so enamored of his favorite dictators, he is once again taking aim at an American ally. On Sunday, he ordered the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea substantially, saying that they are too expensive and “sent a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he says “has been unthreatening and respectful.”

For those who do not know, North Korea has been ruled by a family dynasty since the late 1940s. It is a totalitarian dictatorship under which its people exist under the most dire conditions as long as Kim Jong Un and his party thrive. Donald also tied the move to South Korea’s refusal to join his war of choice against Iran when he posted to his failing social media site that he asked them to participate in the “denuclearization” of Iran and they said, “No thanks.”

Yes, because everybody, including South Korea, knows that declaring war against Iran was at best foolhardy and at worst catastrophic. The Associated Press calls this yet another example of Donald turning against an ally while favoring a leader previous administrations treated as an adversary. By the way, Republicans, including Donald, keep telling us that we need to be terrified of the communist threat within the Democratic Party. Last I checked, the only person supporting communists like Kim Jong Un, for example, is Donald Trump.

Speaking of the aforementioned newly sworn in Attorney General Todd Blanche, whose confirmation represents the end of the rule of law in America as we know it, Donald’s former personal attorney went on Meet the Press this weekend. Kristen Welker asked him a pretty simple question, and his answer was about what you would expect.

Kristen Welker: Can you pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House?

Todd Blanche: Well, there’s a big difference between saying we will always do our job and investigate any case and act independently of the White House. No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that. I mean, if I were to pledge I will be independent of the White House, what that means is that if President Trump says, I want the Department of Justice to go after every violent criminal in this country, which is what he has said, what you’re saying to me is I just say, No, sir, not going to do it. So I will act with integrity. Our prosecutors will act with integrity. We will prosecute without fear or any sort of favor. And that’s exactly what we’ve been doing, and that’s what every Department of Justice should do.

Welker followed up by asking Blanche whether he would comply if Donald asked him to do something that crossed an ethical or legal line.

Blanche: The President will never ask me to do something unethical or illegal. He never has. He never will. And no, I swore to the Constitution of the United States like every cabinet secretary has done and like every attorney general before me has done. And so this narrative that’s mostly pushed by the left and pushed by the media that the President’s going to pull me aside and ask me to do something illegal is completely a false narrative. Not true, will not happen, and hasn’t happened.

I give you the banality of evil.

Todd Blanche is lying through his teeth, and he is doing it with a quiet equanimity that is alarming. This is the former personal attorney of Donald Trump, now serving as Attorney General of the United States, refusing to pledge that the Justice Department will act independently of the White House and then assuring us that Donald will never ask him to do anything unethical or illegal.

Todd Blanche, along with the head of the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, with a big assist from Pam Bondi, who was Attorney General before Blanche, will do his utmost to dismantle what is left of the Department of Justice and the rule of law. He is going to do Donald’s bidding, as he has now for years.

And we have Senators Bill Cassidy, John Thune, and Thom Tillis to thank for the fact that we now have that Nazi running what used to be one of the most important, unassailable institutions in this country.

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Donald Trump endorsed Mike Lindell for governor of Minnesota. Lindell was investigated for giving away pillows at parades, faced questions about whether he even lives in Minnesota, and lost last night. Was this Trump's best endorsement yet?

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People Are Hungry for Real Leaders

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Mary Trump: I spoke with my friend and fellow Nerd Avenger, Dean Obeidallah, and we asked an important question: What does it take to get an abusive Republican to drop out of a race? Looking at you, Max Miller. We also talked about whether Donald has finally found his Roy Cohn in Todd Blanche and how we’re both feeling about the upcoming midterm elections. Check it out.

Dean Obeidallah: Mary, it’s always great to have you here. Thanks so much for joining me.

Mary Trump: Dean, it’s always a pleasure. As always, though, I wish it were under different circumstances because, honestly, what in the world is happening? I don’t even know where to begin. There’s so much going on, and most of it seems bad, although there have been a few bright spots in the election results, which I know we’re going to talk about.

Dean Obeidallah: We definitely are. For some people those election results are a bright spot. For others, apparently they’re the end of civilization. I’m not even talking about Tommy Tuberville calling Abdul El Sayed a terrorist in writing because, frankly, that’s exactly who Tommy Tuberville is.

Let’s start with the positive news. Michigan offered voters two very different visions for the Democratic Party. It ended up being much closer than the polling suggested, but Abdul El Sayed ran on Medicare for All, getting big money out of politics, raising taxes on the wealthy, and abolishing ICE. Haley Stevens took a very different approach. She opposed Medicare for All, focused on restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies, avoided talking about raising taxes on the wealthy, and didn’t embrace getting big money out of politics.

Abdul’s positions align remarkably well with Democratic voters. Depending on the issue, polling shows support ranging from roughly seventy five to ninety percent. Even so, the race remained extremely close because so much outside money poured into it.

Do you think there’s a lesson here? Is there something establishment Democrats, particularly the more corporate wing of the party, should be learning from what happened in Michigan?

Mary Trump: First and foremost, the people of Michigan made their decision.

That means it is now the responsibility of establishment Democrats to rally behind the Democratic nominee. Period. End of story. Obviously, if something extraordinary comes to light about a candidate, that’s a different conversation. But simply objecting because you disagree with someone’s policy platform isn’t good enough.

I thought Abdul El Sayed ran an excellent campaign. The race was extremely competitive, which tells me Michigan voters took the decision seriously before making their choice. What I found especially encouraging was watching not only the people who endorsed Haley Stevens quickly unite behind Abdul El Sayed, but seeing Haley Stevens herself do the same. Mallory McMorrow, who had exited the race earlier, also endorsed him. That’s exactly how the process should work.

I think establishment Democrats should treat Abdul El Sayed’s victory the same way they should have treated Zohran Mamdani’s victory and the success of other progressives and democratic socialists. These results should be a wake up call. Instead of attacking progressives, they ought to spend some time asking why progressive messaging resonates so strongly with so many voters.

The Democratic Party has always been, and should remain, a broad coalition. There should be room for a wide range of ideas about how to move the country forward. What works politically in Michigan may not be exactly what works in Virginia or New York City, and that’s perfectly fine. There isn’t going to be a one size fits all approach.

Ultimately, though, I think voters are focused on something even more fundamental than ideology. They’re asking who actually understands what’s at stake in this moment and who has a serious plan for responding to it. Too many establishment Democrats don’t seem to understand the magnitude of the threat we’re facing, and instead of confronting that threat, they continue spending their energy attacking progressives and democratic socialists.

That is absolutely the wrong fight.

Dean Obeidallah: When you look at the polling, it doesn’t really feel like there’s an ideological divide inside the Democratic Party. Ninety percent of Democrats support Medicare for All, according to the most recent Pew polling, yet you don’t hear establishment leaders like Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries championing it. Instead, they talk about restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies, which simply returns us to the status quo.

The problem is that the status quo wasn’t working for most Americans. Even when those subsidies existed, people were still struggling to make ends meet. At the same time, we are watching an oligarchy emerge right before our eyes. Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while ordinary Americans can’t afford housing, healthcare, or groceries.

Raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans polls extraordinarily well, not just among Democrats but among the public more broadly. Abdul El Sayed embraced those policies, while Haley Stevens did not. I don’t know what it’s going to take before establishment Democrats recognize what voters are actually asking for.

The larger problem, of course, is money in politics. Corporate Democrats receive enormous amounts of money from Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry, and large corporations that have absolutely no interest in changing the current system. Until we confront the influence of big money in politics, we’re going to continue having the same conversation over and over again because the incentives never change.

Mary Trump: I completely agree.

We need to overturn Citizens United. There are organizations dedicated solely to accomplishing that goal because it’s become impossible to ignore the extent to which money has corrupted our political system. We also need to change the rules governing how elected officials are able to enrich themselves while supposedly serving the American people.

It’s indefensible that so many members of Congress leave office vastly wealthier than they were when they arrived. That wealth isn’t coming from their government salaries. It’s coming from somewhere else, and that reality should concern every American.

Because incumbents and the political establishment benefit from the existing system, they have very little incentive to change it. As a result, too many elected officials stop answering to the people who sent them to Washington and instead answer to the powerful interests financing their campaigns. Unfortunately, that includes some Democrats as well.

To me, this isn’t primarily an ideological debate. It’s about the kind of leadership people are hungry for right now. Americans want leaders who are willing to fight corruption, confront oligarchy, demand accountability for the extraordinary abuses committed by this regime, and, perhaps most importantly, understand what public service is actually supposed to mean.

Those are the kinds of public servants people are looking for.

For those of us living in what some Republicans jokingly call the “socialist hellscape” of New York, we’re actually seeing what competent public service looks like. Rather than attacking people trying to govern effectively, establishment Democrats ought to learn from what’s working instead of treating progressives as the enemy.

Dean Obeidallah: I had just been watching James Talarico speak before we started recording, and nobody is accusing him of being a democratic socialist. Republicans, of course, call all of us socialists and communists, but establishment Democrats don’t seem bothered by his message because he’s simply describing reality.

He talks openly about how the system is rigged, how billionaires continue getting richer while ordinary Americans struggle to afford gasoline or groceries. He points out that Mark Zuckerberg can fuel helicopters sitting on top of his megayacht while millions of Americans are working multiple jobs just to survive.

That’s essentially the same message Bernie Sanders has been delivering for years.

The reason it resonates is because people know it’s true.


The full article, and my other interviews can be found on my Substack below.
www.marytrump.org/p/people-are-hungry-for-real-lea…

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Who's Really to Blame?

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Mary Trump: I was on with David Rothkopf of the Substack Need to Know and Deep State Radio, and we talked about the abysmal jobs numbers, how corporate media is spinning them in a way they never would have for Joe Biden, and how Donald is already defying the Supreme Court by trying to push through more limits on birthright citizenship. We covered a lot of other topics as well, so please enjoy.

David Rothkopf: Well, Mary, are you surprised that the economy is doing so poorly?

Mary Trump: I think Joe Biden has a lot to answer for.

David Rothkopf: Oh, God. They didn’t cut that Trump part out of your brain that blames Biden for everything?

Mary Trump: No. Seriously, though, how could we be surprised? Between the egregious and incredibly foolish tariffs and this war of choice in Iran, none of this should surprise anybody.

What infuriates me most about these jobs reports, which have ranged from anemic to terrible, is the complete inability of the mainstream media to remember how it used to cover jobs reports during the Biden administration. Donald adds one hundred thousand jobs and it’s presented as a tremendous accomplishment. Joe Biden added a million jobs and somehow that wasn’t good enough.

The double standard continues to drive me up the wall.

No, we shouldn’t be surprised. At some point, however, I would like to think responsibility will finally be assigned to the administration that’s actually making these decisions.

David Rothkopf: One of our viewers just commented that John F. Kennedy is really to blame for all of this. I appreciate someone who’s willing to go that far back into history. Personally, I think James K. Polk is responsible.

I also watched CNBC’s coverage, and it was absolutely unbelievable. The host acted as though the world were ending, as though nobody could possibly have anticipated these numbers. Then Kevin Hassett came out from the White House and started offering excuses, claiming there had been a severe winter, teachers stayed on payroll longer than expected, and that all of this was simply a temporary distortion.

It was complete nonsense.

There were two other important details that deserve attention. First, the previous month’s numbers were revised downward by one hundred thousand jobs. Second, and perhaps more importantly, I don’t trust any of the statistics coming out of this administration anymore.

They’ve demonstrated repeatedly that they’re willing to manipulate information, and I simply don’t believe them.

Mary Trump: That’s intentional.

They’ve already told us they’re going to stop collecting certain kinds of data or stop making information publicly available, so there’s very little reason to trust anything they release.

Ironically, all of this reminds me of what happened during the Biden administration because those jobs reports were almost always revised upward. We’d learn two months later that hundreds of thousands more jobs had actually been created than initially reported, yet Joe Biden never received credit for those revisions.

Now we’re watching the exact opposite happen.

Everything possible is being done to minimize the impact of truly disastrous employment numbers, even though those numbers can be directly traced to the policies, if we can even call them policies, that Donald and his astonishingly incompetent administration continue to implement.

David Rothkopf: Another viewer just wrote, “Thanks, Obama.”

Apparently we’re still blaming Barack Obama too.

Let’s move on before somebody decides Abraham Lincoln caused inflation.

DSR Network Moderator: I’m not sure we can blame this one on anyone else.

The president has now signed two executive orders aimed at restricting birthright citizenship. This latest effort targets what the administration calls “birth tourism” and children born to foreign government employees. These actions come shortly after the Supreme Court rejected the administration’s broader effort to limit automatic citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment.


Legal scholars, civil rights organizations, and constitutional experts expect immediate court challenges, arguing that these executive orders are simply another attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Mary Trump: Andrew Jackson is at it again.

David Rothkopf: I actually looked into this because I was curious.

Birth tourism does exist, but it’s extraordinarily rare. There aren’t even reliable statistics because the numbers are so small. The idea that large numbers of women in the final weeks of pregnancy are suddenly flying to Miami to give birth is simply disconnected from reality.

This reminds me of voter fraud.

It’s something that’s repeatedly portrayed as a massive national crisis despite the fact that actual documented cases are vanishingly rare.

Mary Trump: I was thinking exactly the same thing.

It’s just like voter fraud.

The number of actual cases is statistically insignificant.

David Rothkopf: Exactly.

Nevertheless, Fox News, NewsNation, and every other outlet pushing this narrative will spend endless hours insisting it’s a major national emergency.

The full article, and my other interviews can be found on my Substack below.
www.marytrump.org/p/whos-really-to-blame

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It's Time to Fight
in Conversation with Danielle Moodie

[Transcript edited for clarity, flow and length]


Mary Trump: I spoke with my friend and fellow Nerd Avenger, Danielle Moodie of The Danielle Moodie Show and the Substack The Damn Digest. We discussed the gains made by progressives and members of the Democratic Socialists in recent elections, the establishment Democratic Party’s reaction, and the troubling reality that some so called centrist groups seem more concerned about democratic socialists and progressives than they are about fascism. Check it out.

Mary Trump: How are you surviving the socialist hellscape that New York City has become since Zohran Mamdani won?

Danielle Moodie: Oh, it’s so terrible to walk around and see people happy. It’s so difficult to read headline after headline about someone who actually wakes up every day thinking about what he can do to improve the lives of New Yorkers and then goes out and does it.

What a monster. Lowering subway fares, providing universal pre-K, and preparing to open five grocery stores across the five boroughs. Then you hear Mike Johnson asking, “Do we want a bunch of little mini Mamdanis running the country?” And my response is, “Yes. Have you actually been to New York?”

Mary Trump: They’re afraid of New York because we have things like Pride flags everywhere, people playing Frisbee by the river, kayaking, and actually enjoying themselves.

Danielle Moodie: Exactly. It’s completely ridiculous.

Mary Trump: It is ridiculous, but it’s also deeply alarming because Republicans have become so desperate that they’ve begun telling Americans the greatest threat facing the country is communism. I wasn’t even aware there were any communists left.

I think what they really mean is fascism, but admitting that would require acknowledging that they’re the problem.

On Tuesday night, Abdul El Sayed won the Democratic primary for the United States Senate in Michigan. The race was much closer than many of the useless polls suggested it would be, but he ultimately won by nearly one percentage point.

That seems to indicate a broader trend.

I’m curious where you come down on the debate over what’s driving these victories. One argument is that voters are responding to democratic socialist ideas. Another is that establishment Democrats have failed so completely, and have been so unwilling to fight, that voters are simply looking for candidates who understand the urgency of this political moment.

To me, it isn’t necessarily about one particular set of policies because the Democratic Party is, and should remain, a big tent. There will always be a broad spectrum of ideas within it.

The more important question is who is actually willing to fight Republicans and who genuinely understands the danger we’re facing as a country.

Where do you fall on that?

Danielle Moodie: Honestly, I think it’s a combination of all of those factors.

Democratic voters are exhausted with the establishment. They’ve watched the same leadership for ten years while Donald Trump has dominated our politics. They’ve watched leaders promise strategy after strategy without producing meaningful results.

Instead, what they’ve heard repeatedly is that we need to continue taking billions of dollars from organizations like AIPAC, continue funding policies many voters disagree with, and continue being told to slow down every time we ask for universal healthcare or investments that would actually improve people’s lives.

For years we’ve been asked to donate five dollars here, twenty dollars there, every time someone gives an impressive committee hearing performance or delivers a fiery speech on the Senate floor. Then another fundraising email arrives.

At some point, people naturally begin asking what all of that money is actually accomplishing.

I don’t think democratic socialists are perfect. They’re a political movement, and every political movement has flaws.

What they have demonstrated, however, is a willingness to center working people. They’re willing to focus on the needs of ordinary Americans. They’re willing to reject corporate money, reject AIPAC money, call a genocide a genocide, and be honest with people about the extent to which both political parties have failed them.

That’s what people are responding to.

Mary Trump: Thank you.

I think one of the biggest problems with establishment Democrats is that they’ve become so deeply entrenched and insulated, particularly in the Senate, that they can no longer see beyond their own self serving, self righteous little circle.

They genuinely fail to recognize the extent to which they’re participating in the very system that’s perpetuating many of the problems we’re facing today. They don’t seem capable of acknowledging that, in some respects, they’re helping create the conditions we’re now struggling to overcome.

Mary Trump: We see that failure to meet the moment reflected in so many different ways. One example was the willingness of establishment Democrats to lavish praise on Lindsey Graham after his death, despite the fact that Lindsey Graham helped enable a fascist regime and did enormous damage to the LGBTQ community, a community of which he was allegedly a closeted member.


Time and again, they seem to believe that making common cause with fascists is somehow more important than actually fighting fascism.

That brings me to the pop quiz I promised you.

There was an article in The New York Times today discussing how moderate Democrats are reacting to the recent successes of the left. Jonathan Cowan, the president of Third Way, said, “We are preparing for the next war that is coming.”

So here’s the question.

Is that war against fascism?

Is it a war against oligarchy?

Or is it a war against Democrats?

Danielle Moodie: Bing, bing, bing. It’s a war against Democrats.

Mary Trump: Exactly.

What’s especially troubling is that Third Way plans to spend fifteen million dollars between now and 2028 trying to discredit democratic socialism. If they truly believe socialism is such a terrible thing, perhaps they should also campaign to dismantle Social Security and Medicare. Those are, after all, social programs.

The full article, and my other interviews can be found on my Substack below.
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Donald Trump deployed 2,500 National Guard troops to Washington over a year ago to address a crime emergency. Independent research now shows it had no measurable effect on violent crime. The bill through 2029 is projected at 1.4 billion dollars. What do you call that?

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Trump Trolls Trump
Week 81

Donald has a remarkable talent for saying the quiet part out loud. Sometimes it is an admission of corruption. Sometimes it is a confession of incompetence. And sometimes it is simply a sentence so grammatically mangled that it becomes the perfect metaphor for the state of his presidency.

This week, it was the latter.

Donald looked at polling showing Americans’ deep dissatisfaction with the economy and somehow managed to produce a sentence that was even worse than the numbers themselves.

Donald: I saw polls today on television. I say Donald Trump polls from the economy aren’t good. The economy is the greatest economy we’ve ever had by far. The economy aren’t good.

“The economy aren’t good.”

That is devastating news, not just for those of us who actually care about inflation, but apparently for English grammar as well.

Welcome to this week’s episode of Trump Trolls Trump. As of today, it has been 565 days since Inauguration Day on January 20, 2025, and Donald’s promise that we had finally entered America’s so called golden age. The golden age, it turns out, looks suspiciously like rising prices, sinking approval numbers, and a president insisting that reality itself is lying.

Everyone who is sentient knows that the cost of nearly everything continues to climb. Gas is more expensive. Groceries cost more. Families are making increasingly difficult choices about what they can afford and what they have to do without. Donald, of course, will never admit any of that because doing so would require admitting that he is wrong. In this case, he is.

With the midterm elections now only eighty seven days away, Donald has settled on an economic strategy that is both familiar and deeply absurd. Do not believe your grocery bill. Do not believe your gas receipt. Do not believe the polls. Do not even believe your own eyes. Believe Donald because, according to Donald, he deserves an A plus.

Donald: We’re doing an unbelievable job. Costs are coming way down. I inherited very, very high costs and they’re all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it’s all coming down. We’ve done a great job. I think we should be given an A plus for the economy, but I think it’s coming. People are starting to talk about it.

Only an A plus? Honestly, I think he is selling himself short.

Personally, I blame Herbert Hoover for today’s inflation. Surely Herbert Hoover is responsible for grocery prices, fuel costs, and farmers struggling under Donald’s disastrous economic policies. That explanation makes about as much sense as anything else we have heard from this administration lately.

Naturally, Fox Business was more than happy to reinforce the narrative. Stuart Varney welcomed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, better known as the backyard chicken enthusiast who once suggested Americans could solve high egg prices simply by raising chickens at home. If you happen to live in a Manhattan apartment, apparently all you need is a balcony, several hens, and understanding neighbors.

Rollins insisted food prices were falling, grocery prices were improving, and everything was moving in exactly the right direction. There was only one small problem. Fox accidentally displayed reality on the screen. Their own graphic showed ground beef up more than twelve percent year over year and milk up nine percent. Apparently, even state television occasionally forgets to coordinate its propaganda with its graphics department.

Brooke Rollins: What we inherited was unbelievable. In the four years of Joe Biden, the cost of food went up 25 percent. Over the last year and a half, we’re at about 3 percent, which aligns with the national average. Eggs are actually down about 90 percent, ( graphics show they are -27%), Berries are down, fruits are down, chicken breasts are down, but there are some outliers. One of those is beef. Our cost today of ground beef is actually down from where it was six months ago, so we’re trending in the right direction. The president is right. As soon as we get the job done in Iran, the gas and fuel prices start coming way down again, and we’ll begin to see even more relief.


Outstanding journalism, Stuart Varney. Even you must know the difference between a plus sign and a minus sign. By the way, I should probably take some credit for falling egg prices. It is genetic. The chicken coop I built in the hallway of my apartment building has apparently transformed the national economy. The chickens are thriving, the eggs are plentiful, and America has been saved.

Unfortunately, grocery prices are driven by far more than eggs. Energy costs affect virtually everything Americans buy, transport, and consume. Which naturally brings us to one of America’s foremost energy experts. Or, more accurately, somebody who believes he is one.

Of course, running the Trump regime requires a certain amount of finesse. More importantly, it requires knowing when to call in the experts. When we have questions about medicine, we ask physicians. When we need engineers, we consult engineers. But when Donald has a question about virtually anything, there is apparently only one person qualified to answer it.

Donald.

According to Donald, he knows more about the economy than economists, more about military strategy than generals, more about trade than economists, more about taxes than tax experts, and now, apparently, more about Europe than the people who actually live there.

Donald: Look, you have to stop illegal immigration in Europe. I know Europe better than anybody, better than the people that run it and have great relationships there. Two things are killing Europe. Number one is immigration. Number two is energy. They have windmills all over the place. Windmills, you lose your shirt. Any country with windmills is a loser. If they have windmills, they’re a loser.

It is remarkable how often Donald’s personal grievances become public policy. His obsession with wind turbines has never had anything to do with science, economics, or energy production. It has everything to do with the fact that he has spent years complaining about windmills near one of his golf courses in Scotland. Apparently, because Donald dislikes the view, renewable energy itself has become one of civilization’s greatest threats.

Unfortunately for Donald, reality continues to refuse to cooperate. Wind energy remains one of the fastest-growing and least expensive sources of electricity in much of the world. Meanwhile, the Trump regime recently spent more than seven billion taxpayer dollars paying a company not to build wind farms that would have produced exactly the kind of inexpensive energy Americans actually need. That is quite an achievement. It takes a special kind of incompetence to spend billions of dollars ensuring that less energy gets produced while simultaneously complaining that energy costs are too high.

Speaking of things Donald apparently knows better than everyone else, he delivered another astonishing revelation this week while speaking to a room full of NCAA national champions at the White House.

Donald: And already we’ve done a lot to help save women’s sports. And we’re also saving college sports. We’re in the process of working very hard. We had a bad judge’s decision and a judge that knew nothing about sports declared sports unconstitutional. Can you believe it?

Actually, no.

I cannot believe it.

Mostly because it never happened.

There was no judge who declared sports unconstitutional. That is not a thing that exists outside Donald’s imagination. Yet somehow he managed to say it with complete confidence, and a room full of people simply listened as though it were perfectly normal.

That has become one of the defining characteristics of the Trump era. The lies are no longer even tethered to reality. They do not have to be plausible. They do not have to withstand the slightest scrutiny. They simply have to be delivered with enough confidence that the people surrounding Donald choose not to question them.

What makes all of this even more disturbing is that the Trump regime continues to wage a relentless campaign against the transgender community while simultaneously dragging the country into an illegal and unconstitutional war of choice against Iran and making life increasingly unaffordable for millions of Americans. Yet somehow, in Donald’s version of reality, the great constitutional crisis facing the nation is that a judge supposedly outlawed sports.

That brings us, inevitably, to what Donald actually spends his time thinking about.

Americans are struggling to pay rent. Families are deciding whether they can afford groceries or healthcare. The cost of living continues to rise while economic uncertainty grows by the day.

Donald, meanwhile, has far more pressing concerns.

During an Oval Office executive order signing, he revealed the monumental decision currently occupying his attention.

Donald: That was one mistake with the reflecting pool. They hadn’t put up the cameras yet. But we’re very proud of Lafayette Park. Now we have a big decision to make. Do we take the pavers that are red, the red brick pavers, and do we change them into granite? Gray granite. They’re beautiful, but they’re not the original. So we’re going to have to make that decision. You have a good sense of taste. What would you do?

This, apparently, is what keeps the President of the United States awake at night.

Not inflation.

Not healthcare.

Not housing.

Not the cost of food.

Not the growing financial pressure facing millions of American families.

The color of the pavers outside Lafayette Park.

The full article, and the previous weeks of Trump trolls Trump can be found on my Substack below.

www.marytrump.org/p/trump-trolls-trump-b34

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Mary Trump: I had a great conversation with the always amazing Joyce Vance, whose SubStack is Civil Discourse. We discussed the importance of what’s happening with the $1.776 billion slush fund, how it relates to Todd Blanche’s role as Acting Attorney General, and the continued cravenness of Republicans who, unbelievably, voted to move Blanche’s nomination out of the Judiciary Committee and on to the full Senate for confirmation. Sadly, it looks like this guy is going to get in.

Joyce Vance: One of the reasons I wanted to have you on is because you have not let go of this entire $1.776 billion slush fund. I think part of the problem with the era we’re living through is that there is simply so much happening. There’s so much corruption, so much incompetence, so much cruelty, and on and on it goes. It feels overwhelming, and I know it’s difficult for people to stay engaged.

Every once in a while, though, an issue comes along that crystallizes what’s really happening, what is being done to us, and why it matters. I think, in a slightly different way, the reflecting pool is one of those issues. So too is this horrific slush fund because it encompasses self dealing, grift, the final nail in the coffin of Justice Department independence, the Acting Attorney General of the United States functioning as the president’s personal defense lawyer, and, of course, the president’s willingness to use his office and federal agencies to enrich himself and his family while enjoying complete impunity for financial crimes.

There is a tremendous amount wrapped up in this one issue. That’s exactly why I think it’s such an effective lens through which to understand what’s going wrong. Today, Todd Blanche’s nomination, unbelievably, or perhaps believably, made it out of the Judiciary Committee and will now go before the full Senate.

I’d love for you to walk us through where we are, how we got here, and what this entire situation says about the capitulation and, frankly, the treasonous behavior of Senate Republicans.

Joyce Vance: By the end of this conversation, we’ll probably all be lying on the floor in tears because that’s really where this leads.

You know what I try to do at Civil Discourse. I always try to follow the through lines because I share exactly the concern you’ve described. There is so much happening simultaneously that it’s easy to become overwhelmed. I actually believe that’s intentional. I think the constant flood of chaos is designed to make people unplug.

How many people have said to you, “I just can’t take it anymore”?

That’s exactly why I try to identify the common threads running through all of these events so that people can better understand what’s really happening instead of feeling consumed by every individual outrage.

This particular issue is the mother of all through lines, especially for someone like me who spent a career as a federal prosecutor.

What we’re witnessing is the corruption of the Department of Justice itself.

I still remember when Eric Holder got into trouble simply for joking that he was President Obama’s wingman. He didn’t mean it literally. If anything, he probably meant he had the president’s back on the basketball court. Even so, there were calls for his resignation.

Now we have someone who isn’t merely the president’s wingman.

He’s functioning as the president’s criminal defense attorney.

He’s literally giving away taxpayer money to Donald Trump and getting away with it.

Mary Trump: I think what’s equally disturbing is the number of people lining up to help make all of this possible.

That’s something we have to remember throughout this entire regime.

There are so many people who know better, who are either looking the other way or actively enabling what is happening.

Even people who owe Donald Trump absolutely no personal allegiance, people like Tom Tillis and John Cornyn, continue covering for him despite the fact that Donald himself has done enormous damage to their political careers.

It’s the shamelessness of it all. The openness.

Could you also talk a little about the judge’s ruling and just how obvious it is that we’re dealing with a situation in which the same individual effectively controls both sides of the dispute while simultaneously claiming to have been harmed?

You wrote about this recently, echoing something you’d written back in May. You said there’s ordinary corruption, and then there’s the second Trump administration.

Joyce Vance: That really was my immediate reaction because this situation struck me as being extraordinarily corrupt from the very beginning, specifically when we saw that settlement agreement bearing Todd Blanche’s signature.

Let’s rewind the legal history for a moment.

Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the IRS in the Southern District of Florida.

After a considerable amount of procedural maneuvering, the judge recognized something fundamental. Donald Trump was effectively on both sides of the lawsuit. He was both the plaintiff and, through his public statements asserting control over the IRS, essentially directing the defendant as well.

The judge recognized that this raised serious concerns about manipulating the judicial process.

But here’s why all of this matters.



The lawsuit itself should never have succeeded because Donald filed it after the statute of limitations had already expired. Under ordinary circumstances, it should have been dismissed almost immediately.

Instead, before the IRS even filed an answer, Donald voluntarily dismissed the case himself, something he was entitled to do procedurally.

Then came the truly extraordinary developments.

We suddenly saw the creation of the so called 1776 Fund, what many people continue referring to as the $1.8 billion slush fund, although I think it’s important to call it by its actual name because that name itself carries enormous significance.

The very next day, Todd Blanche signed an extraordinary document providing that Donald Trump, his family, and his businesses could not be investigated, prosecuted, or compelled to pay certain tax liabilities. While people often describe it narrowly as applying only to IRS matters, the language is considerably broader than that.

This entire chain of events began with a lawsuit that should never have survived in the first place.

That’s why Todd Blanche has become such a central figure in all of this. Donald Trump has nominated him to become Attorney General of the United States. The problem is that Todd Blanche is behaving as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

That is not the job of the Attorney General.

The Attorney General represents the American people, not the president. Todd Blanche was once regarded very highly by many of the lawyers who worked with him in the Southern District of New York. They considered him a good lawyer and a good person.

Somewhere along the way, though, he lost his way.

As people often say, everything Donald Trump touches dies.

Mary Trump: I always say that every person who chooses to be in Donald’s orbit destroys themselves. It isn’t involuntary. People sign up for this. To me, Todd Blanche is the Heinrich Himmler of the Trump regime. He presents himself as this seemingly mild mannered guy who simply got a taste of power, became addicted to it, and is now willing to do the most despicable things despite knowing exactly what his role is supposed to be and what he has chosen to do instead.

Just to remind people, this slush fund, as Joyce correctly points out, is the $1.776 billion slush fund. The entire thing began with Todd Blanche insisting that the amount was simply the number they happened to arrive at when assessing damages. He claimed it was merely a coincidence that it totaled $1.776 billion.

From the very beginning, the corruption has been obvious. And again, it’s important to remind people what this money is actually intended to do. This is compensation for people who betrayed this country. It is compensation for people who, on January 6, 2021, at Donald Trump’s direction, attacked our Capitol, endangered the lives of everyone inside that building, and, in some cases, committed sedition.

As though that weren’t bad enough, we’re also witnessing extraordinary financial self dealing. Had this agreement not been reached, Donald already owed the IRS roughly $100 million. That obligation simply disappears. Don’t we all wish our tax debts could be wiped away so easily?

The full article, and my other interviews can be found on my Substack below.
www.marytrump.org/p/the-corruption-of-the-doj

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