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where do you get $63K in debt?

@#20 ... Glad to see the Saudis taking care of business. ...

That's one way to put it ...

What We Know Now: Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Saudi Arabia
saudipress.com

... A detailed breakdown of decades-long business dealings culminating in tens of millions in Saudi-linked revenue for Trump and his businesses
Donald Trump has maintained a complex financial relationship with Saudi Arabia stretching back decades, and recent disclosures suggest the ties have grown markedly since his return to the presidency.

While the former president denied having direct financial interests in the Kingdom, available records show multiple deals and significant capital flows linking his business network to Saudi investors.

Early, more modest transactions date to the 1990s and early 2000s"such as the sale of the Plaza Hotel and floors of Trump World Tower to Saudi-related buyers.

More recently, Forbes and other outlets report that from his extended family's enterprises, at least nine distinct deals with Saudi-linked parties occurred after his first presidential term ended, funneling millions into Trump-branded licensing and private-equity ventures.

The most striking recent estimate places the Trump family's gain from Saudi-connected transactions in 2024 at roughly fifty million dollars.

The Trump Organization itself has also publicly announced new Saudi-linked luxury developments: for instance, a Saudi developer agreed in late 2024 to launch Trump Tower Jeddah, followed by further expansion announcements in the Kingdom this year.

These developments coincide with a broader surge in U.S."Saudi commercial engagement under President Trump's agenda of "America First" investment deals.

In May 2025, Trump announced what was described by the White House as a Saudi commitment of six-hundred billion dollars in U.S. investment, anchored by defence, energy, technology and infrastructure agreements.

While much of this involves corporate and state-level commitments, Trump's personal and family business ties to Saudi-linked investors stand out within that broader context.

The overlap of Trump's business network and U.S."Saudi bilateral diplomacy poses questions about the convergence of financial interests and public office.

According to the analysis, Kushner's firm, Affinity Partners, also plays a role, having secured Saudi sovereign-wealth-fund backing while participating in deals supported by the Trump orbit.
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@#1

Something else we learned ...

Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team
www.theregister.com

... Backslash Security, a four-year-old Tel Aviv-based AI security biz, recently gave out its first Agent of the Month award to an AI agent called Newman, named after a character from the 1990s TV show Seinfeld. Newman received the award after being nominated by Jerry, another Seinfeld-inspired AI agent.

Jerry's nomination message said, "Newman shipped 146 research findings in 60 days, but volume isn't why he wins. Every other agent depends on him. Kramer's best posts started as Newman findings. Elaine's PRDs [product requirements documents] reference his landscape scans. Strip any other agent and the team degrades. Strip Newman and the team goes blind. He's not just the most productive agent, he's the raw material the entire pipeline runs on," according to Backslash Security co-founder and CEO Shahar Man.

And when Newman's acceptance message was read aloud at an all-hands meeting, "The whole room lost it," Man explained in a social media post.

"We treat our agents as team members," Man wrote. "They have names, roles, a reporting structure, and now apparently, career ambitions. When your AI agents start nominating each other for awards and writing in-character acceptance speeches ... something has genuinely shifted."

What has shifted at Backslash is both the technology of work and the relationship people have to that technology. Naming agents and giving them backgrounds based on TV characters doesn't mean much functionally. But it signals organizational focus and encourages a collaborative rather than antagonistic relationship between staff and AI models. ...


But please do tell me your opinion about those numbers.

#35 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics"

The numbers are rigged. Just like everything else this corrupt administration touches. Unless verified by two outside reliable independent sources they obviously cannot be trusted.

"During the second Trump administration, official DHS social media accounts have been used to disseminate lies, inflammatory rhetoric, and partisan political content that seek to divide, rather than inform, the public. At a time when Americans rely on DHS for accurate information about public safety and disaster response, the Department's communications must be factual, objective, and worthy of public trust."

"Under the failed leadership of Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security is constantly posting inflammatory rhetoric that appeals to the Great Replacement Theory' of replacing white, native-born populations with non-white immigrants," said Ranking Member Thanedar. "My bill brings commonsense changes to how DHS operates its social media, to include personal and official accounts, by requiring mandatory media trainings and oversight by the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG). It is time that Congress brings an end to this unacceptable behavior."

The other side of the story. More at democrats-homeland.house.gov

Accountability is coming my loonie friend.

Im sure we'll find out more about how the corrupt Trumpy admin had twisted the data when the adults regain access and oversight.

Which is why they are deleting and changing data as fast as they can. Of course it will get much worse after November and the reality of what they have done sinks in and the desperation to hide the evidence takes over.

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Trump Tells U.N. he is Still Deciding Whether to 'annihilate' Iran

So Trump gave a Nikita Khrushchev kind of speech at the UN, only without banging the shoe?
en.wikipedia.org - Shoe-banging incident (1960)
www.youtube.com

Didn't watch the speech, but from the small fragment I saw, it seemed like he has no idea what to do about Iran, and is ready for another extremely expensive MOU TACO... "to make Iran great again (MIGA)!", "like never before in history of the Middle East, maybe the world..."

Getting ready for MIGA TACO hard turn, the real question is when - before or after elections.
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Also, why do you assume that all illegal votes end up being discovered especially on states where those in power don't want illegal votes to be discovered?
#10 | Posted by BellRinger

Where do you think the votes are coming from? Voter history rolls are public record. They have a history of every vote that was cast in the election.

Every ballot cast has to have a corresponding person on the voter rolls that now shows as having voted. Otherwise the number of cast ballots would be more than the number of people shown as having voted. If that were the case, it would be pretty easy for you to show evidence of it. So show me the evidence.

There are other possibilities as well. Ineligible voters being on the rolls... and THEN CASTING A VOTE. But that is also easy to prove. Find a person on the rolls who was ineligible, and then show that they voted from their history.

The last I can think of is an ineligible person impersonating someone who did not vote. But you should be able to find people on the rolls who show as having voted, but did not actually vote. Again, that should be pretty easy to find. And you would likely have a bunch of people who got flagged for trying to vote twice, because how would the fraudsters know who to impersonate?

So please share your evidence of fraud or your theories (based upon how voting, voter rolls, and public information work) of how the fraud could be committed without it being pretty easily uncovered by citizen journalists, much less the political party that has a vested interest in uncovering fraud.

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