The Thousandth Media Story About Drumpf's Affinity for 'Public Corruption' . . .

Yawwwwwn! . . . I mean, how often do we have to perform this valueless, self-flagellating exercise of pretending to be "shocked, shocked I tell you!!" that Drumpf has hallowed out the DOJ and shaped it into a toothless, leadership corrupted agency that is performing the bidding of a lifelong charlatan and criminal con man?

"Public corruption" is DonOld Drumpf's chosen career field.

The guy was so filthy unethical early on his "business" career that most reputable US financial institutes refused to do business with him.  Drumpf's history of shady loans, shady business deals, shady foreign dealings, and a long, well documented record of business startup failures by the dozens that left business partners, investors, contractors and employees holding the bankruptcy bag while DonOld makes off like a bandit literally screams "PUBLIC CORRUPTION!"  Ffs.

Yet here we are, tut-tutting in print again over the greasy old mobbed up felon's brazen efforts to neuter the DOJ for the very purpose of creating an accommodating federal law enforcement atmosphere for criminally corrupt public officials like himself: 

 

 

Link:  Trump pardons, DOJ moves hurt fight against public corruption : NPR

 

"In 2024, a federal jury needed just two hours to return a guilty verdict for former Las Vegas councilwoman Michele Fiore for pocketing some $70,000 in donations to build a memorial for police officers killed in the line of duty — and spending it instead on herself, including rent and her daughter's wedding.

Then, weeks before Fiore was scheduled to be sentenced in May 2025, President Trump granted her a full, unconditional pardon.

Fiore is one of at least 15 former elected officials and their co-conspirators who were either charged with or convicted of corruption offenses — and then pardoned by Trump after he returned to office last year.

Trump has granted pardons early and often in his second term, including some 1,500 on his first day in office for all of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters.

Among the former elected officials and their co-conspirators, one pardon was for a Virginia sheriff who was convicted of accepting $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing businessmen as deputies. Another was for the former speaker of the Tennessee state house and his aide, who were convicted of a kickback scheme involving taxpayer-funded mailer services.

All three of them are Republicans.

...in total, more than half of the 15 Trump pardons related to public corruption were granted to Republicans or Trump supporters, and a top administration official involved in the pardon process, Ed Martin, posted on social media last year: "No MAGA left behind.""

 

Isn't that sweet?  When it comes to Public Corruption, the motto in Drumpf-world is "No MAGA left behind!"

"Semper Fi" to Public Corruption!! 

Lol.

You just have to laugh at how stupidly insolent these MAGA clowns are that they fail to comprehend that when you say "No MAGA left behind!" as it relates to public corruption (crimes), then you are essentially admitting that MAGA officials who are actively committing public criminal acts have nothing to fear from a law enforcement standpoint and should feel free to continue committing those public corruption acts (crimes) with impunity.  There is no other way to interpret that statement.

The timeline we are living through right now in this country is just so unbelievably and exhaustively and mind-numbingly dumb that it takes your breath away at times.

 

 

 

---TFG

The Un-American Activities of MAGA "Influencers" Undermine the 'American Experiment'

This isn't a new story (Sept 2024), but I share it because it gets right to the heart of anti-American moral rot at the core of the MAGA/conservative Republican movement, and how it relates to what we are seeing today with Drumpf's betrayal of Ukraine, his insults and threats toward America's traditional NATO allies, his red-carpet, strike up the band welcome of Putin on US soil, a US military base even, and the actions he has taken in the wake of his decision to join Israel in their Big Iran Armageddon Adventure and the way those decisions have massively benefited the Russian war criminal and his terrorist regime.

In the past I have made comments to the effect that whenever I hear the term MAGA "influencer," I immediately think two things - loser and Russian stooge.

'Loser' because most of these right-wing social media "influencers" are unemployable people who have willfully chosen the occupation of creating online media personalities of themselves and stirring up faux outrage among the conservative dipshits who follow them, and they do it solely for money and gaining "influence" (followers) on whatever social media hellsites that they are peddling their trash on.

And, I think of many of them as 'Russian stooges' because of shit like this:

 

 

Link:  How Russia covertly hired U.S. influencers to create videos : NPR

 

"Federal officials have accused Russia of using unwitting right-wing American influencers in its quest to spread Kremlin propaganda ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

On Wednesday, the Justice Department charged two employees of RT, the Russian state media broadcaster, in a scheme to secretly fund and direct the production of social media videos that racked up millions of views.

The RT staffers, named in the indictment as Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, have been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act. They're accused of funneling nearly $10 million to an unnamed Tennessee company that contracted with online influencers with big audiences. 

 "While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent with the Government of Russia's interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests, such as its ongoing war in Ukraine," the indictment says.

 

$10 million isn't chicken scratch when divided up among a dozen or so grifting fraudsters.

So essentially, MAGA "influencer" chuds like Benny Johnson, Tim Poole, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, and others were caught taking $10 million from Putin to peddle propaganda that not only promoted Russian interests regarding Ukraine, but also sowed political division right here at home in the United States among Americans, and every one of them claims "unwitting" involvement, and we're supposed to believe them.

Yeah, I know.  Funny stuff, huh.  They claimed not to know who was signing these huge paychecks to them, but they had no problem depositing those checks into their bank accounts.  The lying sacks of shit.

And now you know why I have such utterly visceral disdain for these MAGA and conservative online "influencers."  

Half of them are just conniving, dissembling jackasses who are out to grift the MAGA base and separate their cash from their wallets just like Drumpf does with his merch and memecoins and Trump phones and Trump Bibles, and Trump tennis shoes, and other stupid, trashy shit that he cons the cult in to sending him money for.

The other half I believe are willing Russian stooges, like the Benny Johnsons and the Tim Pooles.  These backstabbing assholes know full-well that much of the political garbage that they are peddling is Russian propaganda, and that they were and still are actively performing Russia's bidding to incite political division in America with their worshipful support of Putin's tool in the White House and that tool's pro-Russia agenda.

MAGA "influencer" = Grifting, anti-American Propagandist.  That is the most straightforward equation to this story. 

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf Publicly Fellates Chinese Dictator While Whining About His Golden Ballroom

 Now we know the real motive behind Dirty DonOld's trip to China:

 

 

"But Mommy!  China's 'great leader' gets a ballroom, why don't I get one?  Bwaaaaaaaa!!"

JfC.

Btw - when the mobbed-up old kiddie diddler says that his ballroom will be  "the finest" ballroom anywhere, what he is referring to are the luxury materials (gold leaf for ie.) that he orderd to be used to decorate the interior of his planned dance emporium monstrosity, for which he wants taxpayers to pay for.

I honestly do not know how Americans who still support this embarrassing, whiny loser are able to show their faces in public without just collapsing and dying from utter shame.

 

 

 

---TFG

Why Don't They Just Rename 'Air Force One' to 'Lolita Express Force One' And Be Done With It?

It should surprise fucking no one that Drumpf invited one of his fellow Epstein files alumni who himself is an accused rapist, to fly with him to China and attend the meetup with the Chinese leadership:

 

Link:  Brett Ratner Accompanies Trump to China Aboard Air Force One

 

"Brett Ratner, the Hollywood director and Jeffrey Epstein associate who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, accompanied President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One this week as part of the president’s delegation to China.

Ratner flew to China as part of Trump’s delegation, alongside prominent CEOs, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, and Meta President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick, according to reports.

The New York Post reported that Ratner would be scouting for locations for his upcoming Rush Hour 4 film as part of the trip.

Ratner was ousted from Hollywood in 2017 after multiple women, including actresses Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn, accused him of sexual misconduct. A former talent agency staffer has accused him of rape."

  

Will it ever dawn on you Trump voters and supporters that the reason there are so many rapists and 'Epstein Files' pedophile alumni in DonOld Drumpf's orbit is because he is one of them himself?

 

 

 

---TFG

Donald Trump Believes You (American Taxpayers) Owe Him $10 Billion

Don't look now - actually, perhaps you should because DonOld Drumpf is about to STEAL $10 billion (not million) from we the American taxpayers in a scam so brazen it defies description: 

 

 

Link:  Internet erupts as Trump DOJ plans to settle massive lawsuit: 'A massive scam' - Raw Story

 

"President Donald Trump's Department of Justice sparked outrage on Tuesday after reports that the agency is holding "internal discussions" about settling a massive lawsuit.

The New York Times reported that the DOJ is considering settling the $10 billion lawsuit that Trump filed against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his 2019 tax returns. Trump contended in the lawsuit that the IRS should have done more to prevent his returns from being publicized.

"Mr. Trump has long maintained that the federal government was weaponized against him by political opponents, and he has spent much of his second term seeking retribution against, and sometimes compensation from, those he holds responsible," the report reads in part. "But depending on its terms, a settlement with the I.R.S. could be among Mr. Trump’s most brazen efforts to bend the government to his personal will — an agenda often carried out through the Justice Department.""

  

He is going to steal $10 Billion from the American people and deposit it in his personal bank account and he will get away with it because he has purged the DOJ of ethical public servants and replaced them with a bunch of unqualified quislings who will happily acquiesce to his criminal whims.  He has installed similarly ethics-challenged lackeys at the IRS.

Drumpf has been lying his child-molesting, felonious ass off for years about releasing his tax returns.  The reason he has gone to such extraordinary lengths to keep those taxes HIDDEN from the public is because those tax documents tell the real tale of what a criminal scumbag fraudster DonOld Trump is, and what a scummy, criminal 'company' he was running.

The guy who just last week had a commissioned, two-story tall, gold plated statue of his likeness valued at half a million dollars erected in his honor at his Mar-a-Lardass Porn Resort basically wants YOU and ME, and our kids and grandchildren to pay him $10 billion out of the tax money taken out of our paychecks because a few details of some of his tax returns got leaked years ago, and the details of those leaked returns showed him to be precisely the kind of con artist and charlatan that we already knew him to be - a horrible businessman with huge yearly business losses and all manner of legal shenanigans that allowed him to avoid paying hardly any taxes at all for years.

Trump and his crime family have already increased their family net wealth by nearly $4 billion during the first 15 months of Drumpf execrable second term in office.  Not a penny of that new wealth has been earned or obtained through legitimate business dealings.

These fucking MAGA pieces of shit are financially raping this country blind, and you, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Taxpayer are going to be left holding the bag full of IOU's when these criminal embezzlers depart Washington or are eventually removed forcefully by the American people.

 

 

 

---TFG 

 

Drumpf "Lawyer" Says Only Christians Should be Free People in America

Umm -- no.

This "lawyer" Jenna Ellis was one of the "dream team" strip mall lawyers who colluded with Drumpf and Rudy Giuliani by filing nearly seventy frivolous lawsuits across the country contesting the outcome of Joe Biden's victory over Drumpf in the 2020 election.

Drumpf and those "lawyers," including Jenna Ellis, lost all but one of those lawsuits and they lost them because the "evidence" they presented in these courts was nothing but pure hogwash lies and bullshit, and the courts were quick to recognize it and dispatch with those cases accordingly.

Ellis herself plead guilty to participating in the fraudulent electors plot in Arizona, signed a cooperation agreement with Arizona prosecutors to testify against her co-conspirators, and subsequently had her license to practice law suspended for three years in her home state of Colorado.  Drumpf granted Ellis a criminal pardon naturally as he does for all of his criminal cohorts.

 

 

Link: Ex-Trump lawyer claims religious freedom only applies to Christians - Raw Story

 

"A former attorney for President Donald Trump claimed during her radio show last week that religious freedom only applies to Christians in America, according to a new report.

Jenna Ellis, who defended Trump during his attempts to overturn the 2020 general election, claimed on her show, "Jenna Ellis In The Morning," that America's freedom of religion protections are intended to allow Christians to "evangelize" their faith, Right Wing Watch reported. She also called on Christians to be "more authoritative" in the public square.

"The whole point of having a civil society that recognizes the principles of religious freedom is so that we can go and evangelize, so that we can practice our faith, so that we can train up our children in the way they should go," Ellis said on her show. "It's so that we can preserve and protect the Christian way of life.""

 

It should not surprise anyone that a grifting, ethics-challenged "lawyer" associated with a lifelong criminal and convicted felon in Donald Trump might be willfully ignorant of the very first right enumerated in the very first clause of the very First Amendment to the United States Constitution:

 

 

It's right there in the text of the constitution as written by our forefathers, plain as day.  

No laws respecting the establishment of religion (as in every religion), not just Christianity.

No laws prohibiting Americans from exercising their chosen religion - ANY religion.  That's the part where Jenna's proselytizing activities are covered.

What part of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution does "lawyer" Jenna Ellis not comprehend? 

These theocratic MAGA jihadists will be the end of all our religions if Drumpf becomes a dictator and they get everything they want.

 

 

 

---TFG

There is a Criminal Mafia Cabal Squatting in the American People's White House

Nothing sums up the stupidity of the timeline we Americans are living in right now than watching Drumpf and his mafia spawn DumDum Jr. and Eric the Lesser brazenly rob their own MAGA supporters of $60 million in broad daylight and get away with it:

 

Link:  MAGA Fans Revolt Over Trump Mobile Phone Disaster

  

"The Trump family’s latest moneymaking scheme is coming back to haunt them.

Trump loyalists are growing heated after months of waiting for their “T1 phone,” despite already paying deposits for the Trump Mobile device, which was originally scheduled for release in August 2025. Nine months later, there is still no release date listed on the Trump Mobile website, the venture dreamed up by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump—even though reportedly almost 600,000 people have already put down a $100 deposit on the phone.

“Hey, Trump supporter here,” one man said in a now-viral TikTok video. “This one goes out to Don Jr. and Eric…where the f–k’s my phone? I ordered three, no four gold Trump phones in the summer.”

What’s more, the site states that pre-ordering the Trump phone “does not guarantee that a Device will be produced or made available for purchase,” according to Apple Insider." 

 

Apparently a disclosure statement on the Drumpf Phone website states that pre-order cash deposits do not guarantee you actually receive a phone or even that one will be produced, was added within the last month as it began dawning on the 600,000 MAGA dipshits who ordered one of these phones that they had been scammed.

But this is who MAGA are.  They are colossally dumb and gullible people.  I mean, you pretty much have to be dumb and gullible to give money to a lifelong fraudster and convicted felon like Drumpf and his crooked family.

Frankly, I hope none of those 600,000 Drumpf Phone buyers get their money back. I hope Drumpf and his sons give the middle finger to their MAGA acolytes who plopped down those $60 million in deposits and laugh in their faces all the way to their offshore bank accounts.  The MAGA chuds deserve it. 

Btw - scamming their own MAGA base is just business as usual for the Drumpf crime family.  They ran a similar scam with their Trump memecoin that saw the Drumpf crime family walk away with nearly $300 million in their pockets while all of their sucker investors took a big loss:

 

Link:  Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that. - Ars Technica

 

"Trump launched his official memecoin before his inauguration in January 2025, becoming the first president to release his own cryptocurrency. Since then, Trump’s family has reportedly made more than $280 million, while the memecoin’s value has tanked.

Insiders explicitly linked to Trump affiliates who hold most of the tokens haven’t been harmed; they have cashed out at key moments, collected fees on every retail trade, and earned profits exceeding $600 million. But retail investors buying into the politicized token have lost more than $4.3 billion, CryptoRank reported in a widely shared analysis.

Initially priced at $28.73, the tokens are worth substantially less today, losing about 93 percent of their value from their peak. The Melania Trump memecoin, launched at the same time, is the bigger failure, with a 99 percent loss from its peak price." 

 

I mean - how much more evidence is needed for you Trump voters to understand how DonOld and his criminal family are gaslighting you all while picking your pockets clean at the same time??

JfC, it's so goddamn obvious what they are doing.

Observing all of this, one can only surmise that Trump voters enjoy being treated like fools and enjoy being taken advantage of financially, and enjoy being lied to and manipulated by people who loathe their very existence.

But since the rank and file MAGAs seem not to care about any of that, and seem overtly willing to be throwaway pawns in Drumpf's criminal aspirations, it's hard for people like me to feel any sympathy for them when DonOld and his boys underhandedly separate them from their hard-earned MAGA paychecks.

 

 

 

---TFG

We Are 17 Months in to Trump's Second Term. No More Blaming Predecessors for His Blunders.

Just remember folks that when the economic pain referenced in this article arrives on your doorstep, on my doorstep, on all our doorsteps, and all indicators say it will, the individual in this country MOST responsible for that economic pain is going to be this colossally inept, arrogant, stupid, greedy, and corrupt old con man:

 

Link:  Panic ensues as ‘largest energy crisis in modern history’ appears imminent - Raw Story 

 

"Energy expert and investor Eric Nuttall predicted in early May that the world was heading toward what may be the “largest energy crisis in modern history,” one that could spark oil rationing “within weeks” – and with the two-week mark now fast approaching, observers across the political spectrum began expressing alarm on Monday.

“We’re not talking months or quarters. In the next couple of weeks, you will have to rationalize demand by more than during COVID,” Nuttall told Bloomberg on May 1. “This is by far the biggest energy crisis that anybody alive is experiencing. There remains a lot of apathy in the market, because I just don’t think people can wrap their heads around it.”

Nuttall’s prediction came amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, a conflict that immediately saw the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade flows. Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Gulf States’ energy infrastructure have only further exacerbated fears of a looming energy crisis of historic proportions."

 

Drumpf ignored his own intel that said Iran was still years away from enriching enough uranium for a nuclear warhead.  He ignored the advice of his military people that starting a war with Iran could have catastrophic consequences for exactly what we see happening right now in the Strait of Hormuz.

Drumpf ignored the advice of those American experts and chose to go with the advice of Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu instead, a guy who is under criminal indictment in his own country for corruption, is a wanted war criminal, and has had a throbbing hard-on for bombing Iran for more than four decades.

And here we are.  And when that economic pain hits, it is going to hit middle America and the middle class and working poor the hardest and that includes quite a few of Drumpf-supporting MAGA folk.

And it goes withouth saying that Drumpf, being the blameless con artist he is will of course blame it on Obama.  He will blame it on Biden.  He will blame it on Democrats.  He will blame it on the media.  He will blame it on America's long-time allies.  He might even blame Netanyahu if he's desperate enough.  He will blame everyone but his execrable self, and if it doesn't go down that way I will print those words out and eat them.

Seriously though, I don't think most Americans are ready for the kind of economic pain that is being talked about in this article and it's going to get very interesting if the Iranians decide to stand their ground knowing full well that such economic pain to the American people will eventually become painful to the American POTUS who attacked their country.  

Unfortunately, it appears we are all about to find out.

 

 

---TFG

Bloody UFC Fights on the White House Lawn? What's Next: 'Jackass: The White House Movie'?

JfC.

He is literally, before our very eyes, transforming OUR American people's White House into his own tasteless reality TV version of Mar-a-Lardass on the Potomac:

 

 

Link:  Republicans desperate for White House UFC tickets as Trump curates crowd for $1M pledges - Raw Story

  

"Republicans were reportedly clamoring for tickets to President Donald Trump's Ultimate Fighting Championship Fight Night on the White House's South Lawn — but tickets are limited, according to reports on Monday.

Trump's event coincides with his 80th birthday on June 14 and is part of a series of celebrations around America's 250th anniversary, NBC News reported. The president was apparently "handpicking most of the 4,000-plus spectators lucky enough, cunning enough or rich enough to score a seat on the South Lawn."

The UFC is paying for the event and tickets are free. But a Republican lobbyist who has direct knowledge of the event and process told NBC News that sponsorship packages have been selling for $1 million or more for ringside seats, with one report suggesting the figure was closer to $1.5 million.""

 

"Sponsorship packages."  Lol - also known as "bribes."  They really do think that we all are as stupid as the average MAGA voter, don't they?

Drumpf is giving tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to the company that maintains the pools at his porn resorts to paint the bottom of the D.C. Memorial reflecting pool blue because he wanted to see the water look like the swimming pool at his Mar-a-Lardass mob hangout. I wonder what his kickback amount is on that deal?

He unilaterally made the decision to bulldoze the historic East Room of OUR American people's White House to make room for a ginormous, ugly, gaudy, gold-leafed "ballroom" that emulates the tacky decor at his tacky Florida resort, and for which he now wants US taxpayers to pick up the $1 Billion cost of.

He wants to build a huge Nazi-era style 'Triumphal' arch that dwarfs just about every other structure in and around the US Capitol area in massiveness.

And now he is going to taint the celebration of 250 years of America and American democracy by turning the White House lawn into a fucking outdoor arena and invite his roid-raging, knuckle-dragging, UFC fighting pals to stage one of their lowbrow, three-ring-circus blood-fests there.  And of course he is trying to make money off of it.  I mean - ffs folks, it's OUR shared, national celebration, NOT HIS!!

These are all acts of a malignantly narcissistic madman who harbors delusions of being the first dictator in this nation's history.  The people who voted to put this classless pile of gelatinous, orange trash in an ill-fitting suit back in the White House for a second time around have no idea of the destructive madness they have unleashed on the people of this country with that morally bankrupt vote.

 

 

 

---TFG