Tiffany Trumpf's husband, Michael Boulos, arranged for oligarch Jared Kushner to buy a mega yacht at a steeply inflated price. Michael Boulos, and his cousin Jimmy Frangi pushed the scion into what was supposed to be a golden investment. The pitch was simple: buy a yacht, fix it up, sell it or rent it out, and make millions. But the deal was stuffed with hidden tricks. By June 2021, Boulos was sending Kushner presentations to buy an unfinished yacht called the Solstice, being built in Greece. Frangi's firm told Kushner the price was 12.5 million, about $15 million, with a $1 million commission built in. What Kushner didn't know was that the firm was actually paying millions less, then pocketing the difference. According to text messages later revealed, the firm secretly raked in $3.5 million instead of the $1 million Kushner had agreed to. Archived link: Schmuck Ripped Off. read more
The Trumpf junta can slash hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the SCOTUS decided Thursday. The high court majority lifted a judge's order blocking $783 million worth of cuts made by the NIH to align with Dotard Trumpf's priorities. The order marks the latest Supreme Court win for Dummkopf Trumpf and allows the junta to forge ahead with canceling hundreds of grants while the lawsuit continues to unfold. The plaintiffs, including states and public-health advocacy groups, have argued that the cuts will inflict "incalculable losses in public health and human life." Sycophant D/NIH Dr Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor, was an outspoken critic of the government's COVID-19 shutdowns and vaccine policies. read more
The Trumpf junta is lowering the recruitment standards for FBI agents. The bureau will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree. The FBI anticipates losing more than 5,000 employees by September, largely as a result of agents, analysts and others taking severance or early retirement packages offered by the Trumpf junta to reduce the budget. Instead of spending 18 weeks training at the rigorous FBI academy in Quantico, VA, the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks. The DEA, which trains their agents at Quantico as well, has a 20-week entry-level academy followed by a 16 weeks working alongside field agents.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to retract a recent unconstitutional threat to eject citizens from the state Senate chamber if they do not stand during official prayers. During the Senate's Aug. 15 session, Sen. Angela Paxton delivered a Christian invocation "in the name of Jesus, who has saved us, who keeps us safe, and who is coming again." Immediately afterward, Patrick admonished members of the public gallery who had remained seated: "For those of you who didn't stand, next time you come to the gallery, you stand for the invocation. It's respecting the Senate. If you don't stand for the invocation, I'll have you removed. We asked you to stand. I've never seen a gallery ever have any members in my 17 years of people who refused to stand for the invocation. It will not be tolerated." read more
Republicans hate the poor, sick, and elderly. Europeans already have a longer life expectancy than Americans because of universal health care and regulations on nutrition and the environment. This disparity will widen in the future thanks to the Trumpf junta's 'BBB' and these cuts to medical research. Link: preview.redd.it
Thanks Republican voters and SCOTUS, Gut arbet!
#3 and 4: So, the in-laws ripped off the schmendrik over a couple of pfennigs. Trumpf family reunions must be delightful experiences. I hope they have a party on a yacht soon: media.king5.com
All of this saber-rattling and transatlantic threats are tactics to buy time for Vladimir Putin. It's working. Dummkopf Trumpf said that there will be another summit, but in the meantime the Soviet-style human wave attacks and drone barrages are continuing against Ukraine. The Dotard also bought time for Benjamin Netanyahu whose IDF is about to invade Gaza. Some people actually believe the theater the Trumpf junta is presenting about their desire for world peace: i0.wp.com
This cat spent seven seven months in swimming lessons so he can finally walk. Video three minutes: youtu.be
The Trumpf junta is reviewing more than 55 million people who have valid US visas for any violations that could lead to deportation, part of a growing crackdown on foreigners who are permitted to be in the US. Source: apnews.com
This is how the Trump junta is wasting the money of hardworking American taxpayers.
I was wondering when the Trumpf junta was finally going to fire D/DIA Lt Gen Jeffrey Kruse: static.srpcdigital.com