Aaron Rupar

Aaron Rupar

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

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it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.

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Trump on Obama's library: "They're stuck. We wanted only women and DEI to build it. Well, that's what they got."

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Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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COLLINS: The NYT is reporting your legal team is seeking $230 million from your own DOJ now in response to the investigations into you. Is that something you want? TRUMP: It could be, yeah. I don't even talk to them about it. All I know is they would owe me a lot of money. They rigged the election.

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Trump: "We'll probably make a distribution out of some of the tariff money over the next fairly short period of time to people."

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Trump: "It looks like we're gonna have a Communist as the mayor of New York. But here's the good news -- he's gotta go through the White House. Everything goes through the White House. At least this White House it does."

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Trump says he's refusing to meet with Democratic leaders unless they open up the government first

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Trump on Russia's war on Ukraine: "It doesn't really affect us."

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Trump: "We have the right to use the National Guard to put out trouble. That's how I got elected, one of the reasons I got elected."

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Q: An appeals court ruled you can send the National Guard into Portland. Do you feel unfettered to send the Guard into whatever city you want now? TRUMP: Well I guess so

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Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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Trump on asking taxpayers to compensate him: "They probably owe me a lot of money. But if I get money from uhhhhh our country I'll do something nice with it, like give it to charity or give it to the White House where we restore the White House."

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Q: Are you asking the DOJ to look into the federal investigations into you and look for compensation, and how much are you asking for? TRUMP: Um. Who is asking for what? Q: Are you asking to pay compensation and how much? T: I don't get any compensation. I do it for nothing. I gave up my salary

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Trump on canceling his meeting with Putin: "Everybody take some time off because you got two countries that are killing each other." (Sounds like he's again trying to wash his hands of the whole war.)

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Trump: "Drug prices are going to be coming down 500 percent."

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Trump's Diwali remarks: "The autism situation is just crazy when you think of it. You go back 20 years, it was one in 20,000. And now, it's one in 12. Is that hard to believe?"

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Trump commemorates Diwali by ranting about tariffs and calling Jay Powell a "stiff"

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Trump's Diwali remarks are not exactly oozing authenticity

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Goldman on Comer's role in the Epstein coverup: "That Oversight investigation very specifically does not ask for the types of evidence where Trump's name, likeness would be -- photos videos, audio, witness statements, the investigation origination documents. Oversight has not asked for those"

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Dan Goldman on Republicans: "When something is so egregiously and shockingly wrong as this, they need to stand up ... that keeps getting lost as we talk about all these court cases. The Republicans have abdicated their job as members of Congress."

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Goldman: "We are combining the weaponization of the DOJ with his grift and corruption to make money off the presidency. It is completely absurd. Trump would've been convicted at trial in both of those cases. The only reason they went away is bc he won the election...it's a shakedown of his own govt"

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Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind the scenes to push a narrative they knew at the time was false." (This is a lie -- would've been nice for Kasie Hunt to point that out.)

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Hassett: "One of the places where we've seen things that weren't moving in the direction we would like in the past is food prices. And we've had a really really big series of meetings where sometime soon, there's gonna be a really big agricultural policy that's gonna help our ranchers."

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It's my birthday today and if you're appreciated my coverage over all these years, please considering subscribing to my newsletter. I'm really proud of the reporting and commentary we're publishing at PN every day and paid subscribers make my work possible. Thanks.

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Schumer on if Platner's unearthed comments are disqualifying: "I'll let the people of Maine decide. We think that Janet Mills is the best candidate to retire Susan Collins. She's a tested two-term governor and the people of Maine have an enormous amount of affection and respect for her."

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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

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"We are witnessing a split-screen moment: the aspiring autocrat has declared an expanding war against the nation’s cities and their leaders. But at the same time, he’s verging on losing what until recently seemed to be his total (and unconstitutional) dominion over the federal budget."

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Jeffries: "Republicans are the party of lawlessness and disorder, including the ongoing crime scene at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave which is running the largest pay to play scheme in the history of the country in real time. And we hear nothing but crickets from Mike Johnson."

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Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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Jeffries on reoffending January 6 criminals who Trump pardoned: "There is pain being visited upon the American people because of actions taken by Donald Trump, supported by Republicans, on day one of this presidency."

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Hakeem Jeffries: "When it comes to these extremists out there, you better watch how you talk when you talk about me. Next question."

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Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Q: Do you owe it to the American people to at least negotiate? THUNE: Well, I think we have negotiated. I don't know what there is to negotiate.

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Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

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here is a clip of the East Wing of the White House being demolished for Trump's ballroom just now

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Trump: "Schumer is even losing to AOC plus 3. What happened to the plus 3? Are they still around? I met the president of Somalia and I said, 'I have somebody I'd like to give back to you.' He said, 'No thanks. We don't want her.'"

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Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."

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Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"

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Trump: "I'm letting everybody build their own power plant so they'll become like an electric utility in addition to AI."

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Trump: "They're gonna lose Medicaid, they're gonna lose Social Security, they're gonna lose Medicare -- all of those things are gonna be gone because the whole country would be bankrupt and you're not gonna have any kind of medical insurance. With us it's the opposite."

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Trump: "Can I have your vote Josh? Because I like Josh. And Josh, who can be very difficult, said, 'Sir, you have my vote.' His wife was screaming at him on the other side. But I called people and they weren't really hard nosed. They wanted a little attention unfortunately at 4 in the morning."

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Trump on DC: "Mr. Senator, you could walk down, you can have your wife meet you at the restaurant, she's not gonna be accosted, shot, beat up, raped."

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Trump: "Women in Chicago, beautiful Black women, walking around with red MAGA hats because they don't want to be mugged and shot and everything else."

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Trump on his upcoming meeting with Chinese officials: "Maybe somebody will say, 'I don't want to meet. It's too nasty.' But it's really not nasty. It's just business."

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Trump: "I think we're gonna have $20 trillion of investment." (The entire US GDP is $30 trillion and Trump's fake number keeps going up and up.)

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Trump speaks to GOP senators over lunch: "He came back and shot her through the head. And she went down and looked at her father, 'Daddy, Daddy, something happened,' and she immediately passed away in his arms."

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Trump on Tim Scott: "I shouldn't say it, but Tim ran and he was effective and very good but he was -- on the debate stage and everything else, he wasn't as good as they thought he was."

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Trump to Republican senators: "We have everybody but one person. You'll never guess who that is. Let me give you -- he automatically votes no on everything. Look, if he wanted to come I'd probably let him come. Begrudgingly, but would let him."

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Trump: "As you know, they found $31 billion. They came to see me, 'Sir, we found $31b.' They said, 'We don't know why.' I said, 'Was this a good find or a bad find?' It was a good find. It was a plus 31. We're used to finding negative 31s for the last 30 years. I said, 'Check the tariff shelf'"

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Trump notes the sound of construction of his new ballroom at the White House and says, "that's music to my ears. When I hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying for it."

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Trump: "Somebody on TV said, 'you're the third best president behind George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.' And I got extremely angry ... hey, they didn't put out eight wars, nine coming."

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Trump to Republican senators: "What a friendly group this is. No Democrats are here, right?"

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"If Democrats continue to center their opposition to Trump around actions that a broad swath of Americans decisively oppose, they have a substantial chance of landing direct hits on the foundations of his nascent dictatorship." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social

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