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@#2 ... No wonder he is panicking at the idea of the midterms. ...

Trump's approval hits new 36% low
www.reuters.com

... President Donald Trump's approval rating fell in recent days to its lowest point since he returned to the White House, hit by a surge in fuel prices and widespread disapproval of the war he launched on Iran, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The four-day poll, completed on Monday, showed 36% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance, down from 40% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted last week. ...


Chart showing polling results...

Trump's second-term approval ratings
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Another view ...

DOJ may have disclosed secret grand jury material to Congress, violated judicial gag order in Trump classified documents case
courthousenews.com

... A trove of previously undisclosed information related to former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation contained sealed grand jury materials which lawmakers said were illegal for prosecutors to disclose and which ran afoul of an order blocking their release. ...

Traders bet $500 million on oil price just before Trump's post on delay to Iran attack
www.reuters.com

... Traders bet half a billion dollars on the price of crude only 15 minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump announced a five-day delay to attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure that sent the market plunging, exchange data and Reuters calculations showed. ...

More: "These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them, that the documents President Trump stole pertained to his business interests, and that Susie Wiles, then the CEO of Donald Trump's super PAC, witnessed President Trump showing off a classified map to passengers on his private plane," Raskin said in the letter.

Raskin asked Bondi to tell lawmakers in a classified setting who was on the plane, what the map showed and which of Trump's various business interests were relevant to the documents. The letter includes an image of an aircraft manifest with a redacted passenger list from a 2022 flight from Florida to New York.

A grand jury indicted Trump in 2023 for improperly taking classified documents and obstructing a federal investigation. According to the indictment, the papers included "information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack."

The FBI determined some of the documents Trump withheld "would be pertinent to certain business interests" of Trump's, Raskin said, quoting from material he said the Justice Department gave the judiciary committee earlier this month. And a Justice Department memo said "classified documents pertinent to his business interests" established "a motive for retaining them."

Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the documents case as well as a separate criminal case against Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election results, dropped the prosecutions after Trump won the 2024 election. Smith made a public report of the election case, but District Court Judge Aileen Cannon has blocked the release of Smith's report on the documents case.

"Apparently blinded by the frenzied search to find any scrap of evidence that could be twisted and distorted to level an attack against Special Counsel Smith," Raskin wrote, "you have, quite amazingly, missed the fact that some of the documents you provided include damning evidence about your boss's conduct and may well violate the gag order your DOJ and Donald Trump demanded from Judge Aileen Cannon."

The nonstop tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans

It's not just the wealthiest Americans. In order to placate the poor and middle class modest tax giveaways are thrown at them every time as well.

40 years ago we did not have the child tax credit, the dependent credit, student loan interest deduction, overtime deduction, social security exemption, HSA deduction, FSA deduction, section 125 plans to deduct health insurance, college tuition credit, etc.

But over time as corporations pushed the cost of health insurance, retirement onto the backs of the employees Congress decided to hand out these giveaways to the bottom 99% to make it slightly less expensive while avoiding the issue of how the greed of wall street was strangling American society.

The sheer number of people outside the 1% that gets a $500 tax break is what is dooming our economy.

In order to restore fiscal stability the entire system needs to be revised and it will cause horrible pain and Congress is too afraid to do it. The reality is that restoring a 90% tax rate on billionaires will not solve the problem.

While productivity has soared over the past 50 years, very little of that benefit has gone to the bottom 90% with wages barely keeping pace with inflation. All of the benefit flows up to the top.

Wall Street has built an economic system in America that is a house of cards. Half of Americans over 40 have NO RETIREMENT SAVINGS and Wall Street and the GOP is pushing to kill social security through half assed measures like ----- Scott requiring it to be "re-authorized" every five years (which will inject chaos into retirement planning for the middle class) to a "bi-partisan" group of do nothings in Congress suggesting retirement age be raised to 70 to 75.

The day is coming where social security will no longer be able to pay 100% of the benefits promised to the workers. What will that play out like? You think America is going to be fine when benefits to seniors (who are already starving on social security now) are cut by a 1/3? They certainly aren't going to lift the salary cap on social security taxes on millionaires. Neither party has the stones to do that.

My guess is they will do "emergency funding" financed through debt to keep kicking the can down the road. That is what they do best. But then the social security benefits will be tied to Congress being functional and just look at the mess Trump has caused in just over a year.

Dark days are ahead for America thanks to the greed of the 1%.

The pitchforks are coming.

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