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Sometimes people tweet at me in French and Arabic so, just to clear up any confusion, I am not actually a Libyan dictator who died in 2011
Kadafi Purp retweeted
Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
Kadafi Purp retweeted
This Forbes investigation is a must-read.
Donald Trump pulled in roughly $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500 million. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825 million.
He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general alleged two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than double what he paid for the entire resort.
A month after the Jupiter deal, he sued the IRS. The settlement his own Justice Department signed bars claims against him over matters that "could be pending," language that appears broad enough to cover this year's taxes. A federal judge found the case was brought to manipulate the judicial process. And the man now running the IRS, who took the job as this deal was being assembled, has a home backing onto those same Jupiter fairways.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody should be able to use the presidency to write his own tax bill.
forbes.com/sites/danalexande…
Kadafi Purp retweeted
US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
Kadafi Purp retweeted
BREAKING: Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed that Kushner promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10 billion before ultimately placing at least $2 billion into accounts for him, according to a Vanity Fair excerpt from Princes and Thieves.
The revelation lands as Kushner remains deeply involved in Iran war diplomacy, while Tehran has separately accused him and Steve Witkoff of pocketing $9 billion through market manipulation.
Kadafi Purp retweeted
“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.
Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed.
Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
Ask yourself what the United States must be giving up to the Gulf States and Israel for the President’s son-in-law to be moving around almost $1 billion.
Our most closest guarded secrets and technologies? Our military works in their interests? Something worse?
Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone.
They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank.
Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.
Commander in Chief "wouldn't know why" our forces have been ordered to retreat in a war he started.
This is impeachable stuff. Every day it's just like this and the sad thing is that I don't think we've hit rock bottom with him.
Kadafi Purp retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.
We have photos.
So Trump’s final stretch pitch to voters seems to be: “sure you gave me ultimate power, I broke all of my promises to you while making myself filthy rich but if I lose now you’ll get it even worse.”
Kadafi Purp retweeted
Not sure it's a great sign for the future of democracy when one person, who is the biggest donor to the GOP, also owns a satellite system he can turn up or down like a volume dial to affect the outcome of a war + a social media platform used to influence public opinion
Kadafi Purp retweeted
BREAKING:
A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon.
His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal.
Julio Herrera Velutini's daughter hired Habba -- then a senior adviser to Pam Bondi at the Justice Department -- at $10 million a year for four years plus bonuses.
He got his pardon not long after.
Full Story: nyti.ms/47vemAQ
ALT Alina Habba, a woman with long brown hair wearing a dark pinstriped blazer and a diamond cross necklace, speaks at a microphone. Behind her are a blurred portrait and a red and gold flag.
Kadafi Purp retweeted
We suspected this was the reason Ukraine’s access to Starshield was restricted. But to see it from senior officials in this reporting is still utterly unconscionable.
Let’s be absolutely clear about what this means. The Trump Administration deliberately restricted technology Ukraine relies on to intercept Russian drones and ballistic missiles. It made it harder for Ukraine to defend itself and easier for Russia to carry out its deadly attacks against Ukrainian civilians.
They knew exactly what was at stake. They knew that more Russian drones and missiles would get through, allowing Russia to kill even more Ukrainians. And yet they went ahead anyway.
This is a deliberate weaking of Ukraine’s defenses that only Russia will benefit from. It is a betrayal of our ally that this Administration cannot wash its hands of.
The American people deserve to know who made this decision, why they made it, and how they can possibly justify putting more innocent Ukrainian lives in the crosshairs of Putin’s war machine.
reuters.com/world/europe/ord…
Kadafi Purp retweeted
Quite a thing to say this on the day that a Russian strike kills a baby in a stroller.
Kadafi Purp retweeted
It's not hard to work out the playbook here: acquire a widely used model of voting machine, hack it, and then one of three possibilities:
– don't disclose the vulnerability until after the voting is done, creating pressure for votes cast using that model to be discarded as insecure;
– disclose it just before the vote and demand that the machines not be used, throwing the election into chaos;
– use the disclosure as justification for federal forces to physically seize the voting machines, with the same result.
Whichever scenario they had in mind, it's possible, maybe even likely, that this represents preparation for events never seen before in a Western democracy.
I'd be interested to know what @C_C_Krebs thinks about all this...
Kadafi Purp retweeted
To put this in laymen's terms, Musk and Trump are now hobbling Ukraine's ability to protect its civilian population from a type of Russian drone that functions more like a cruise missile. This is not the United States adopting a neutral position vis-a-vis the war. This is the United States facilitating Russian terror.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
kyivindependent.com/planned-…
Kadafi Purp retweeted
He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
theatlantic.com/politics/202…
Kadafi Purp retweeted
🚨 NEWS: A bombshell Daily Beast investigation reveals that multiple campaign leaders for Trump-endorsed Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins have criminal histories.
One pleaded guilty to sexual battery involving his stepdaughter, who was UNDER 16, and felony child cruelty. Another was charged with child cruelty, while a third pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
The revelations come after previous reporting linked other Collins campaign organizers to a group founded by a former KKK leader.
Collins’ campaign claims it was unaware of their backgrounds.
Kadafi Purp retweeted
Every day there is a new story about the insane amounts of corruption in this admin. Guilfoyle's AMEX bill. A Russian oligarch paid for Don Jr's wedding. This dipshit was working on crypto legislation while secretly making money off the industry. It's endless.
SCOOP: While Bo Hines was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the bill—was steering millions of dollars to a company he co-owned.
Right after the bill passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
[Gift link] wsj.com/politics/policy/cryp…
Nobody says worse things about Trump supporters than Trump.