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yvonne Z Smith's avatar

The disappearance of Congress is what is going to stand out. Even the Trump Republican's Party iare not our standard competence. No reading needed. sub stack will allow the public to see the truth because the Mainstream Media is mellowing. 1/6 of American use either Medicad or Medicare. Keep it up the masses will rise up eventually & well before the mid terms to tell Congress WE have your back.

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Nancy Marzano's avatar

Have Charlie on as much as possible! :)

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Michele Lott's avatar

Exactly why Trump plans to investigate ActBlue (but of course not WinRed), bc Trumpublicans know they will lose

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Sonja G's avatar

Excellent conversation about these important issues. I appreciate both you and Charlie.

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Joseph Felser's avatar

Stimulating and engaging discussion. Many thanks!

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Kelly Eggers's avatar

Thank you Charlie. Hug your doggies for us♥️🇺🇸

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Pattye Ludwig 🇺🇸's avatar

Very good discussion!!

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Kiwi Rebel's avatar

David Frum compares this 100 days to the original Napoleonic Waterloo

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Elizabeth Graham's avatar

I hardly listen to podcasts - my hearing is bad even with hearing aids. I am a prolific reader though and write my Substack "From Democracy to Democrazy" which is named after my bestselling book on Amazon. Here is a sample post from this moring. It is named "It is All a Scam."

A scam is a dishonest scheme and a fraud. Vocabulary.com defines a person who commits a scam/fraud as “someone who swindles you by means of deception. It is any means someone uses to get you to part with your money. It is not always easy to spot a con or scam artist. But scammers know how to get around our better judgment or play on our emotions and even promise big payoffs to get us to believe them or to act.”

“In 2023, Judge Engoron issued a summary judgement that Trump and his company had committed fraud for years. The judge ordered the termination of the defendants’ state business licenses and the dissolution of pertinent limited liability companies.” (AP News, Feb 2024) CBS News reported that “In September 2023, a state judge found Trump and his company liable for a decade-long fraud scheme in a pretrial ruling.”

“Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels as hush money to buy her silence over a sexual encounter between them; with the costs related to the transaction included, the payments totaled $420,000.” (Wikipedia)

Now in 2025, this same man who has committed and been convicted of numerous felony and fraud charges is incessantly behaving in the same manner. Why am I not surprised? He, with the help of the Russians, has been re-elected to the Presidency. In doing so, he has manipulated our system of law and order and procured his own freedom. However, he is the same man performing the same type of scams – only this time with immunity. When he is asked, he says it is all a witch hunt.

Cory Booker is the first African American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He was also the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. (Wikipedia) Senator Booker was on MSNBC last night (5/1/2025) and exclaimed to the public “It is all a scam. President Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president in the last 80 years?” Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, also on 5/1/2025, stated in his Congressional speech that “we are watching the theft of taxpayer money. He then put up a chart titled “100 Days of Corruption.” He discusses the Trump’s Crypto Firm called “World Liberty Financial.” The NYT says this firm “has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern history.

ZMoney was Zachary Folkman, an entrepreneur who once ran a company called Date Hotter Girls and was now representing World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency firm that Mr. Trump and his sons had recently unveiled. Mr. Folkman wrote to a crypto startup in the Cayman Islands, offering a “partnership” in which the firms would buy each other’s digital coins, a deal that would bolster the startup’s public profile.

But there was a catch, The New York Times found. For the privilege of associating with the Trumps, the startup would have to make, in effect, a secret multimillion dollar payment to World Liberty. World Liberty’s executives, who have maintained that they did nothing improper, were undeterred. They successfully pitched similar deals to other firms while also marketing their coin to buyers around the world, reaping more than $550 million in sales, with a large cut earmarked for the president’s family. A Trump business entity owns 60 percent of World Liberty and is entitled to 75 percent of certain revenue from coin sales which could be converted into cash.” (Ibid)

This is just another Trump SCAM. “Mr. Trump is not only a major crypto dealer, but he is also the industry’s top policy maker. He has leveraged his presidential powers in ways that have benefited the industry - and in some cases his own company.” (Ibid)

Now that he controls the judicial branch of our government, he can continue to commit fraud without fear of prison. In fact, those who oppose Trump’s gestapo type of government are the individuals who face barriers and obstacles.

Trump’s level of corruption and double-dealing fraud manipulates our entire way of life and is destroying any resemblance of our democracy.

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