Rep. Mike Levin

Billions were bet just before Trump changed course on Iran. Career watchdogs started digging into potential insider trading. Then a Trump appointee stepped in. That is not something you sweep under the rug.

We need to know who made those bets, who knew Trump’s decision before the American people did, and why political leadership tried to stop career investigators from finding out.

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Either Donald Trump is lying or Elon Musk is lying. Maybe both. The American people deserve to know who made the decision to turn off Ukraine’s access to Starlink, leaving them more vulnerable to Russian attacks. Congress needs answers, and I'm going to keep asking until we get them.

They don’t and they never will, because this Administration is ALLERGIC TO RESPONSIBILITY.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: What do you say to voters who say they're struggling & want change? BESSENT: Well, why don't we revisit the Biden-era policies W: Trump has been in office for 636 days, & inflation was at 3% when he took office, it's 3.7% now. At what point does the administration take responsibility?

Who exactly does Speaker Johnson think is in charge of the US government? Trump starts an unauthorized war that closes a critical global oil route and sends prices skyrocketing.

Republicans have spent the last two years surrendering Congress’ power to Trump while shutting down attempt after attempt to put our nation’s Constitution above partisan loyalty. And now Johnson wants to pretend none of this has anything to do with Republicans?

You don’t get to pull this and act confused when people see right through it.

Who exactly does Speaker Johnson think is in charge of the US government? Trump starts an unauthorized war that closes a critical global oil route and sends prices skyrocketing.

Democrats have voted to rein him in but Republicans would rather make excuses than stand up and stop him. Republicans control the White House, the U.S. House, and Senate.

Rep. Mike Levin reposted

Follow the money behind Trump’s ballroom and you’ll keep finding the same thing: donors with some kind of business before his government. Federal contracts, regulatory approvals, pardons, all of it.

And by the way, Trump promised he was contributing his own money to pay for the ballroom too. But guess whose name isn’t on the list? We all know who’s paying for it and it’s not him. It’s a bunch of donors who have plenty to gain from this, and you, the American taxpayers, who don’t.

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Putin knows exactly what he’s doing. While Kushner and Witkoff are trying to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is dangling lucrative business opportunities in front of them at the same time they are pushing for a deal more favorable to Russia.

All of this is happening while Trump pressures Ukraine to surrender territory that Putin seized by force. Putin wants Russia back in the Western economy and people close to Trump are already looking at how to make money if that happens.

At some point, you have to ask: why does Putin keep getting more of what he wants from Trump while people in Trump’s orbit keep finding new ways to make money off of a closer relationship with Russia?

And the people positioned to benefit from those opportunities just happen to have ties to the Trump family. Even Don Jr.’s college buddy is trying to get in on the action, pursuing a business deal with one of Russia’s largest energy companies.

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motherjones.comWhy Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bankSen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”

This is C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N. Remember World Liberty Financial? The Trump family crypto venture that’s generated more than $550 million for Trump while in office, run by the son of his Middle East envoy, and nearly half-owned by UAE-linked investors? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comWhy Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bankSen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”

And here’s the kicker: it would get the credibility that comes with being a federally chartered bank without having government-backed deposit insurance. That means that there is no guarantee you get your money back if things go wrong.

The Trump family is raking in money and his Administration is setting the rules of the game. While Trump is getting richer, Americans are getting nothing.

motherjones.comWhy Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bankSen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”

The Trump family crypto company now wants to become a bank. The regulator deciding whether to approve it is run by a Trump appointee, who Trump can fire. And if it gets approved, Trump’s family business stands to make more money.

The bank would hold the dollars backing its own stablecoin, so it could keep more of the profits instead of sharing them with another bank.

Julio Herrera Velutini desperately wanted a presidential pardon, and he was willing to do just about anything to get it. Have his daughter donate millions to Trump’s Super PAC and millions more to Trump's ballroom? Check.

Hire Trump’s former personal attorney and ally Alina Habba as general counsel of a brand-new company, guaranteeing her more than $50 million while she was still serving in Trump’s Justice Department? Check.

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

Surprise, surprise. Weeks later, Trump pardoned him. Welcome back to another episode of the Pardon Papers. Read all about this crazy story via the NYT here: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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Trump has taken one step after another to help Russia and weaken Ukraine, and what we’re seeing is incredibly dangerous.

Trump has taken one step after another to help Russia and weaken Ukraine, and what we’re seeing is incredibly dangerous.

Trump is making it easier for Russia to finance its war, removing economic pressure on Putin, and weaking Ukraine’s ability to fight back. And while Russia is putting lucrative business opportunities on the table, Trump is pressuring Ukraine to consider surrendering territory Putin seized by force.

washingtonpost.comTrump’s special envoy calls Vladimir Putin a ‘humanitarian’Steve Witkoff praised the Russian president after Russia released a U.S. citizen from detainment.

A humanitarian? You cannot be serious, Mr. Witkoff. What world are you living in? Because it sure as hell isn't this one. Vladimir Putin invaded a sovereign nation.

Putin’s war machine is indiscriminate. This war continues for one reason: the authoritarian who started it refuses to end it.

Mr. Witkoff, I want you to think about the countless innocent Ukrainians killed, injured, abducted, or forced to flee their homes before you call Vladimir Putin a humanitarian again. Vladimir Putin is no humanitarian. He is a war criminal and should be treated as such.

washingtonpost.comTrump’s special envoy calls Vladimir Putin a ‘humanitarian’Steve Witkoff praised the Russian president after Russia released a U.S. citizen from detainment.

A humanitarian? You cannot be serious, Mr. Witkoff. What world are you living in? Because it sure as hell isn't this one. Vladimir Putin invaded a sovereign nation.

His military has bombed civilian neighborhoods, attacked energy infrastructure that Ukrainians depend on to survive the winter, and forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Just this week, Kremlin drones killed a mother and her one-year-old infant in a public park.

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...

The allegations laid out against Jared Kushner in the latest excerpt from Matthew Cole’s upcoming book are staggering. According to Cole, Dutch intelligence officials reportedly gained access to Kushner’s phone and discovered that...

If these allegations are false, then an investigation should clear Kushner of wrongdoing. But if Kusher was being quietly funded by a foreign government, then the American people and Congress need to know.

We need full investigations to get to the bottom of this, and if the law was broken, those responsible must be held accountable.

But the question at the heart of this reporting could not be more serious: was a senior White House adviser helping shape American policy while secretly tied to billions from foreign governments with a stake in those decisions, and was that money being used to buy influence over the U.S. Government?

The Founders understood the danger of foreign powers using money to gain leverage and influence over American officials. That’s why they wrote the Emoluments Clause directly into our Constitution to protect against it.

One source alleges that Kushner even promised to push the UAE’s agenda with Trump if the UAE helped fund one of those accounts. Kushner also appeared to transfer funds from one of these accounts to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary, and a former hit man.

To be absolutely clear, Kushner denies these allegations, and there is still a lot we need to establish about what actually happened here.

... while he was serving as White House Advisor, helping shape U.S. policy in the Middle East, he had access to secret accounts that held roughly $2 billion dollars connected to the UAE and Saudi governments.

ICE is supposed to go after dangerous criminals who are actively making our communities less safe. Instead, families are being targeted near schools, clinics, and workplaces.

We have seen what happens when these operations spiral out of control in other cities. We cannot allow that to happen here.

ICE needs real reform: body cameras, no masks, and clear limits on enforcement at schools, hospitals, houses of worship, and other sensitive locations. I am going to keep fighting for real accountability, real oversight, and clear limits on how and where these operations can take place.

ICE is supposed to go after dangerous criminals who are actively making our communities less safe. Instead, families are being targeted near schools, clinics, and workplaces.

Kids are missing class, parents are afraid to take their children to the doctor, and entire communities are living in a perpetual state of fear.

Under “Operation Safe California,” our communities are feeling the opposite of safe – we are seeing fears intensify as ICE expands its presence across our district.

They are literally gaslighting you. JD Vance is out here saying he hasn’t seen “a single shred of evidence” of Donald Trump’s corruption. Are you kidding me?

This is coming from the same guy who gloated that Watergate would be a 12-hour story today. After all the money, all the deals, all the pardons and all the conflicts of interest, the Vice President has the audacity to look the American people in the eye and say he hasn’t seen any of it?