Chair Industrial Commission of Arizona, former City of Mesa Vice Mayor, retired attorney and community volunteer. Proud SLU and ASU graduate.🏳️🌈
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Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
We all saw that disturbing footage yesterday of trump snarling at a reporter in the Oval Office.
But do you know what that reporter was trying to ask?
Trump just announced a new program that rewards people for reporting government fraud.
The reporter simply wanted to know why we need this new program when we’ve already had a law doing something similar since 1863, and that law actually pays whistleblowers a higher percentage.
THAT’S A DAMN GOOD QUESTION.
And here’s the crazy part. There was a perfectly reasonable answer! The new program is supposed to cover types of fraud the old law doesn’t.
THAT’S IT. THAT’S ALL HE HAD TO FUCKING SAY.
Instead, we watched the president and vice president turn a legitimate question into a confrontation.
This man is unhinged. The way he reacts to questions is disturbing. He treats every question like a personal attack. Every reporter is an enemy. Even the simplest fucking question becomes some kind of threat.
And that’s what worries me. We have a president who appears so defensive that he can’t even handle someone asking him to explain his own policies.
This is the President of the United States, folks.
And this shit is NOT normal.
Dennis Kavanaugh 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
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
UNBELIEVABLE: Russian state-run media is now broadcasting footage of Trump administration official Steve Witkoff calling Vladimir Putin a “HUMANITARIAN.”
Yes, a HUMANITARIAN.
Let’s review who Witkoff is praising:
- Invaded Ukraine, unleashing a devastating war that has killed thousands of civilians and displaced millions.
- Oversaw the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children, resulting in an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him.
- Presided over a military responsible for massacres of civilians, including atrocities in Bucha.
- Devastated Mariupol, where Russian forces bombed a theater sheltering civilians, including children.
- Ordered widespread attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving millions without electricity and heat during freezing winters.
- Oversaw a regime responsible for systematic torture, rape, and other war crimes in occupied Ukrainian territory.
Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who subsequently died in a Russian prison.
- Backed brutal bombing campaigns in Syria, where Russian and Syrian forces repeatedly attacked hospitals and civilian areas.
- Crushed political dissent, imprisoning critics, independent journalists, and antiwar protesters.
And now, because Putin released an American imprisoned in Russia for more than four years, Trump’s envoy is praising him as a humanitarian.
There’s a reason Russian propaganda outlets are broadcasting this footage.
When the Kremlin can use the words of an American official to rehabilitate the image of an accused war criminal, something has gone terribly wrong.
Putin isn’t a humanitarian. He’s a dictator wanted by the International Criminal Court. And the Trump administration just handed him a propaganda victory.
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Threatening to withhold compensation from veterans and families harmed by Camp Lejeune's contaminated water based on how North Carolina votes?
These families have suffered enough. Their care and compensation should never be political bargaining chips.
This is beyond disgusting.
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Trump keeps saying the law required Sen. Roger Marshall to aggressively pursue patients’ unpaid bills and that Marshall could’ve been arrested if he didn’t.
In reality:
1) The law the White House told me Trump was talking about gives doctors wide latitude to forgive the debts of patients with financial difficulties…as even an article the White House sent me says
2) Marshall himself told CNN last week that “we wrote off hundreds of people’s bills every month” and also provided millions in annual “charity care”
3) The controversy centers on Marshall’s hundreds of lawsuits against patients, and the law never requires lawsuits. Federal authorities have made clear that the “reasonable collection effort” standard often required of providers is satisfied by sending bills and doing follow-up like letters and phone calls
4) Nothing required Marshall’s 18% annual interest rate, which a Kansas City Star review of court records found was unusually high even among the Kansas practices that did sue patients
Fact check: cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/…
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Alina Habba was an advisor to the Attorney General, was interim US Attorney in New Jersey, and all the while was negotiating a massive bribe to get a Venezuelan billionaire a pardon.
SCOOP: Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan billionaire, really wanted a pardon. He got it not long after his daughter hired Alina Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, in a deal worth more than $50 million. Habba was also working at DOJ at the time.
nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
And it was another "Sir" story so you immediately know he's lying about it. It's already been extensively reported on. washingtonpost.com/outlook/i…
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Holy shit! Lawrence O'Donnell is reporting on the absolute catastrophe, horror, and chaos caused by the devastating attack that destroyed the U.S. Naval base in Bahrain.
Operating in total secrecy — like all fascist authoritarian tyrannies — the Trump regime has blocked war correspondents from entering the area to report on what truly happened and the terror that ensued. Until now, threats of retribution against U.S. service members by the administration have kept everyone silent.
Despite their clear responsibility to safely evacuate families and children from the base, the regime failed miserably, leaving families and children still displaced. This shocking failure underscores the utter incompetence of Trump and Pete Hegseth, both of whom continue to blatantly lie to the American people about the unfolding war with Iran.
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Wow — 🔥 Neil Bush: “I voted for @jamestalarico… Trump and those who have enabled him have done enormous damage to the Republican Party… Character matters more than party affiliation.”
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
There was a multi-year investigation by House Republicans into a pardon Bill Clinton gave to Marc Rich at the end of his presidency. Some guy handed Alina Habba a $50 million "job" and magically got a pardon from Trump and it won't even be remembered by this weekend
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
You did NOT get Greenland. Period.
You are the undisputed world champion of lying.
Greenland is NOT yours, never was, and never will be! 🇬🇱
Trump says NATO was "nice enough to give us Greenland. We got Greenland."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is not owned by the United States. A September 2026 security agreement expands US military access but reaffirms Danish sovereignty and Greenlanders' self-determination.
stm.dk/en/press/press…
…ternational-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/countries/gree…
chathamhouse.org/2026/09/denmar…
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Nine FBI agents investigated the classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. Kash Patel fired all nine.
He told Congress it followed "internal investigations."
Their lawsuit says there weren't any. Someone's lying to Congress, and I’d bet it’s not the agents.
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
BREAKING: Trump lies and claims that the Somali population in Minnesota have a 98% unemployment rate.
FACT: About 72% to 75% of working-age Somali Minnesotans participate in the labor force, which is actually HIGHER than the general population.
TRUMP: “You know they have like a 98% unemployment rate, they don't work, 98%. It's a disgrace, it's a disgrace, and they've ruined a great state.”
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three died. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Ukrainian civilian blood is on Trump’s hands.
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
I find the timing notable:
In 2024, it was the final months of the campaign when Trump introduced his vivid lies about schools sending kids off for secret gender surgeries.
In 2026, he’s revived the lies for the final weeks of the campaign.
cnn.com/2026/10/20/politics/…
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
If it ends up being the case that First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli falsely charged lawful residents of registering to vote when they did not actually do so, in this highly sensationalized and publicized lawsuit, he should not only lose his bar license, but he should be personally sued for defamation and criminally investigated for misusing his office and the power of the Department of Justice.
latimes.com/california/story…
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
Nobody, and I repeat NOBODY, has ever called East Potomac trash island. This is blatant propaganda.
Won’t change anybody’s mind but let’s be clear that the President is making things up.
Dennis Kavanaugh retweeted
From everything I've seen, this is an Op. Probably cost millions to make and mail. My money is on a PAC funded by Musk.
