Thursday, November 20, 2025. Does Pam Bondi ever do her job? We ask because when a man breaks federal law and months later becomes a member of Chump's Cabinet, it's time for a public investigation and mandatory drug testing.
Pam da Bimbo Bondi. Unqualified for the job she holds. Attorney General of the United States. She fails daily. She fails at her job repeatedly each day.
Allison Pecorin (ABC NEWS) reports:
Last
week, Bondi announced the Justice Department was initiating a renewed
investigation into the files and potential ties between high-profile
Democrats and Epstein just hours after Trump ordered her to on his Truth
Social account.
ABC News Chief Justice
Correspondent Pierre Thomas pressed Bondi on Wednesday about what
changed from the department's memo in July in which they said they
planned to make no future public disclosures related to their review of
Epstein's case and no further charges were expected.
"There's
information, new information, additional information," she said in
response to the question from Thomas. "And again, we will continue to
follow the law to investigate any leads. If there are any victims, we
encourage all victims to come forward. And we will continue to provide
maximum transparency under the law."
"We will continue to follow the law"?
Pam, when the hell have you followed the law?
You've started an investigation into a Cabinet member?
That's your job. Have you done it yet?
No, Pammy, I'm not talking about Tom Homan and the $50,000 bribe he's on video accepting. I said member of the Cabinet. Tom's not a member of the cabinet.
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a member of the Cabinet.
As Elaine notes this morning, Junior's mistress is out promoting her book. She lost her job because of the affair. When it emerged in the summer of 2024, he refused to address it. Why?
Read the book. He told her if they said no sex, if the claim put forward was 'just texting,' he could survive this scandal. Would she go along with it?
No, Pamkins, I'm not saying you investigate him for having an affair. I'm saying when a Cabinet member is credibly accused in a book and in THE NEW YORK TIMES of breaking federal law, you immediately start an investigation and you immediately announce that to the American people.
Cheryl doesn't believe her husband would cheat. Though he did and he has. Cheryl started seeing Junior when he was married and he cheated with her. But, no, no, no, he would never cheat on her. What does Rachel Green's mother (Marlo Thomas) tell her on FRIENDS? "Once a cheater, always a cheater." Five days ago, Jacob Bernstein (NYT) reported:
She writes that despite being “sober” for decades, Kennedy told her that he still uses psychedelics, and even smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a powerful drug on which people are known to have what feel like near-death experiences. She told him she “liked uppers. I told him that I took Adderall.”
They chose favorite parts of each other, she writes: He chose her mouth. She chose his nose. They shared a “common language, common skepticisms, common ideas about what was beautiful, common beliefs about what was valuable.” She didn’t care that he was 39 years older than her. She liked him just the way he was. They both “moved through the world with amused detachment and deep sensitivity, contradictions that worked somehow in concert.”
She describes providing him with advice about how to manage campaign issues, including the impending news that Kennedy dropped a bear carcass in Central Park.
I'm confused. I'm not a journalist. But it seems to me if I'm writing that the Secretary of Health and Human Services was taking Dimethyltryptamine, that wouldn't be an aside in a feature article, it would be a hard news story. DMT is illegal, it a Schedule I controlled substance. The psychedelics is alarming as well ("The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a federal official and, as such, is prohibited from using recreational psychedelic drugs under federal law, as these substances are currently classified as Schedule I controlled substances. "). But DMT should have resulted in a headline noting that, at least in 2024, Junior was supposedly taking an illegal drug -- as late as summer of 2024 -- and months later he was made HHS Secretary?
He did not reveal that during his confirmation hearings. He needs to be questioned about this and I say he needs to be fired. If he's not immediately fired, he needs to face weekly mandatory drug testing.
Get it now, da Bimbo? He shouldn't have been nominated for a number of reasons. Chief among them, his breaking of federal law in the months leading up to the nomination.
But he is HHS Secretary. And his former lover has written a book -- one she's promoting non-stop -- detailing actual crimes. He is a public servant. His salary comes from the US taxpayer.
The Cabinet has to follow the same federal laws as everyone else and, being a public servant, they should actually be held to a higher standard.
A member of the Cabinet stands publicly accused of breaking the law -- federal law -- a few months before being nominated to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.
That needs to be investigated. We need to know if he was honest to government investigators who were vetting him. We need to know most importantly if he's still using -- which would mean he is continuing to break the law.
A Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention website that previously said that
vaccines do not cause autism walked back that statement, contradicting
the agency’s previous efforts to fight misinformation about a connection
between the two.
The agency’s webpage on vaccines and autism,
updated on Wednesday, now repeats the skepticism that Health Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voiced about the safety of vaccines, though
dozens of scientific studies have failed to find evidence of a link.
A previous version of the webpage
said that studies had shown “no link between receiving vaccines and
developing autism spectrum disorder.” It cited a 2012 National Academy
of Medicine review of scientific papers and a C.D.C. study from 2013.
On
Thursday, the live version of the page stated: “The claim ‘vaccines do
not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have
not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
The updated text also claimed that the
health authorities have “ignored” studies supporting a link and said
that the Department of Health and Human Services was conducting a
“comprehensive assessment” of the causes of autism.
Studies over the past three decades consistently have not found any connection between vaccines and autism, including one from 2019 in Denmark that examined the country’s entire child population over a decade.
Does that nonsense result from Junior's illegal drug use? We The People have a right to know and you, da Bimbo, have a duty to investigate it.
We need mandatory drug testing of Junior as a result of what is now in the public record. Not one drug test, regular drug testing.
If he disclosed his active drugs use to those vetting him, we need Congressional hearings on how someone breaking federal law ends up waived through the process to become a Cabinet secretary.
Donald Chump's health is awful. And he continues to rage near nightly which brings ever closer to a stroke.
And right now, Junior is 12th in line. We grasp that, right? Junior is twelfth in the line of succession.
So the public has every right to know if Junior is still breaking federal law.
Pam da Bimbo Bondi, when have you ever done your job let alone followed the law?
You better get on it. We're not paying you to sit around on your ass.
Let's go through other examples of Pam's failure as AG.
The Constitution is the legal law
of the land. Yet a hate merchant gets shot dead and you rush forward as
though he'd passed through your slim hips nine months prior and you
insisted that you would be prosecuting "hate speech" even though there
are no laws in the US regarding hate speech (did you think you were in
Canada, Pammy?) -- even though the First Amendment gives us free
speech.
When have you ever followed the law?
When
you took your stank ass to a Senate hearing -- well it wasn't your
rear, the stank was coming from your crotch -- and served up lies about
members of the Senate, lies you have never corrected, let alone
apologized for.
When exactly do you follow the law, Pamkins?
The
Justice Department acknowledged Wednesday that the grand jury that
indicted former FBI Director James Comey was never shown the final
version of the charges.
Prosecutors revealed
the lapse under questioning by the judge overseeing the case. Comey’s
attorneys argued the omission warrants dismissing the indictment. The
judge did not immediately rule.
Pamby
da Bimbo Bondi, how was the Justice Dept following the law in what
Gooding's reporting? The answer is: They weren't. And you're the head
of that department. This does not reflect well on you.
You're so inept and so known for lying, in fact, that even Megyn Kelly laughs at you.
And
Pamby, you're named in a lawsuit and, possibly for the first time ever,
it's not accusing you of spreading social diseases. David Maltinsky names you and Ka$h Patel in a suit over his wrongful termination.
Maya Yang (GUARDIAN) explains:
The
lawsuit claims the FBI violated Maltinsky’s first amendment rights and
took retaliatory action against him for engaging in protected speech.
Maltinsky is seeking a court order to restore his job.
Maltinsky’s
18-page complaint, filed on Wednesday in the US district court for the
District of Columbia, alleges that he was dismissed from the FBI academy
last month for previously displaying the flag at his workstation with
the support and permission of his supervisors.
According
to the complaint, the Pride flag, which the bureau flew from its
flagpole in front of its Los Angeles building, was given to Maltinsky in
recognition of his efforts to support the FBI’s diversity initiatives.
“From
a young age, all I have wanted to do is serve my country and ensure its
security alongside the brilliant and dedicated men and women of the
FBI,” said Maltinsky, who joined the bureau in 2009 and spent more than a
decade supporting public corruption and cybercrime investigations
including North Korea’s cyberattack on Sony Pictures in 2014.
The lawsuit says that Mr. Maltinsky
joined the F.B.I.’s field office in Los Angeles in 2009 as a civilian
assistant and spent the next 15 years supporting agents who were
pursuing public corruption and cybercrime cases, including a prominent
investigation in 2016 into North Korea’s efforts to hack into the computer systems of the Hollywood studio Sony Pictures.
That
same year, after 49 people were slain in a shooting at a gay nightclub
in Orlando, Fla., Mr. Maltinsky raised his hand for another
responsibility. He became deeply involved in helping the F.B.I. pursue
diversity initiatives, ultimately winning a top prize for his efforts
from the bureau’s leadership in Washington.
In 2021, in recognition for his work, his
lawsuit says, the assistant special agent in charge of the Los Angeles
field office presented him with the pride flag that had flown for the
entire previous month outside the office on the grounds of the Wilshire
Federal Building.
For nearly the next
four years, the flag was displayed on the wall of Mr. Maltinsky’s work
space along with other personal trinkets, he said, including a Darth
Vader coffee mug and figurines of characters from the TV show “Stranger
Things.”
No one seemed to mind until
after Mr. Trump, who has targeted diversity measures, was re-elected and
someone at the Los Angeles office complained about the flag, according
to the lawsuit. Mr. Maltinsky’s supervisor told him about the complaint,
but also said the way in which the flag had been displayed was
“entirely permissible and appropriate,” the lawsuit said.
By
June, Mr. Maltinsky had left Los Angeles and started classes at the
F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Va. He made it through 16 of the course’s 19
weeks and was already assigned to the field office in Seattle when he
was fired by Mr. Patel.
Pamby,
you're dumb and you're stupid, and we have multiple examples of how you
do not follow the law. So why should we believe that releasing the Epstein documents will prove to be any
different?
Do
we need to get Senator Adam Schiff in on this so he can again explain
what your job duties are? You seemed very confused in that Senate
hearing and your actions and statements go to an angry idiot exploding because they can't handle the basic responsibilities of their job.
Today,
Attorney General Pam Bondi is in the hot seat. She should recall
history. Hiding incriminating Watergate tapes and potentially
incriminating Epstein files have one common thread – both Trump and
Nixon fought for months to not release the information under any
circumstance with the latter stepping down from office.
The
continuous “games” that Trump and his administration have played with
regard to the Epstein files are not fooling anybody. If Trump truly
wanted the files to be released he only has to ask the DOJ to do so –
period.
Well,
Bondi claimed months ago that there was nothing to see in the Epstein
files, and therefore there were no grounds for further investigation or
prosecution. Today, Trump has ordered her to “find something”
incriminating about a list of prominent Democrats allegedly involved
with Epstein.
Is it me or does anyone else see something wrong here?
“Opening
up a new investigation” after saying there was no need for further
review of Epstein files, seems weird. It would only serve the purpose of
allowing the attorney general not to release key parts of the Epstein
files because they would be the subject of an ongoing investigation. The
problem for Bondi is that she said before Congress there was no need
for any further digging into the files. Both cannot be true.
We
must remember that when you look back at why Nixon stepped down from
office, it was not because of the original crime – breaking into the
Democratic National Committee headquarters; rather it was because Nixon
and his administration sought to cover it up. It was the obstruction of
justice charge that brought him down. It also led to the conviction and
prison time for his attorney general, John Mitchell, as well as others
involved. Nixon was eventually pardoned by his successor, Former
President Gerald Ford.
Pam pretends that AG is a partisan job. She pretends that her skills are prejudice and ignorance.
As
2025 got underway and Republicans began to worry about losing their
narrow majority in the U.S. House in the upcoming midterm elections,
Donald Trump and his White House team launched a radical operation: The
president started to direct GOP-led state legislatures to launch
mid-decade redistricting schemes, abandoning the usual process.
The
goal, of course, was to gerrymander district maps so Republicans could
win 2026 elections the year before voters started casting ballots.
The
gambit was an immediate success: GOP policymakers in Texas redrew their
map to give Republicans five additional seats; Missouri Republicans
rigged their map to deliver one additional seat to the party, and GOP
legislators in North Carolina delivered another seat to Republicans soon
after.
Roadblocks, however, soon emerged. For
one thing, key Democratic officials started pushing back in the opposite
direction: California is moving forward with a plan that would match
Texas’ scheme, and related efforts are under consideration in Maryland
and Virginia. A newly redrawn map in Utah, meanwhile, is likely to
deliver another seat to Democrats.
For another,
some red states have resisted the White House’s demands. A Trump-backed
scheme in New Hampshire stalled; Kansas Republicans have balked, at
least for now, in response to a redistricting plan; and GOP officials in
Indiana, who’ve been the target of intense White House lobbying, are
apparently walking away from the idea. Roll Call reported:
The
president did not take the news well. In fact, Trump published on
Saturday morning a lengthy harangue to his social media platform,
condemning specific state senators by name and chastising Mike Braun,
Indiana’s Republican governor, “for not working the way he should to get
the necessary Votes.”
An
Indiana state senator publicly castigated as a “RINO” by President
Donald Trump over redistricting was the target of a “swatting” incident
just hours later, according to local authorities.
The
president named Sen. Greg Goode, a Republican from Vigo County, in a
Truth Social post on Sunday, saying he was “very disappointed in” him
and insinuated he was not backing the White House’s push to redraw the
state’s congressional maps.
Goode has not stated a position on the plan, though Trump’s post suggested otherwise.
Sheriff
Derek Fell said deputies were dispatched around 5 p.m. on Sunday after
Terre Haute police received an email “advising harm had been done to
persons inside a home, located in southeastern Vigo County.” Officers
struggled to make contact at first, Fell said, but eventually confirmed
the residents, including the senator, were safe.
Goode
and his family “were secure, safe, and unharmed,” Fell said, adding
that an investigation showed the threat was a hoax, “also known as
‘swatting.'”
To that the obvious question is: Where's our bimbo?
Pam
da Bimbo Bondi, where are you? Donald is responsible for that swatting
and Pam has grandstanded on swatting. So where's her statement?
Where's the hypocritical Pam da Bimbo Bondi?
I
know where the harlot is on redistricting. Last Thursday, the Dept of
Justice -- presided over by tramp-tramp-trampoline Bondi -- issued this:
The
Justice Department announced today that it filed legal action against
Governor Gavin Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber for the State
of California’s newly adopted redistricting plan enacted with the
passage of Proposition 50. The suit alleges that the plan mandates
racially gerrymandered congressional districts in violation of the Equal
Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Proposition
50 amends the California Constitution, allowing the legislature to draw
a new congressional-district map. Substantial evidence, including that
in the legislative record and public statements, indicate that the
legislature created a new map in which Latino demographics and racial
considerations predominated, in violation of the Equal Protection
Clause.
"California’s redistricting scheme is a
brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the
democratic process," said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. "Governor
Newsom’s attempt to entrench one-party rule and silence millions of
Californians will not stand."
"Race cannot be
used as a proxy to advance political interests, but that is precisely
what the California General Assembly did with Prop 50," said Jesus A.
Osete, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
"Californians were sold an illegal, racially gerrymandered map, but the
U.S. Constitution prohibits its use in 2026 and beyond."
"The
race-based gerrymandered maps passed by the California legislature are
unlawful and unconstitutional," said First Assistant United States
Attorney Bill Essayli of the Central District of California. "The U.S.
Department of Justice is moving swiftly to prevent these illegal maps
from tainting our upcoming elections. California is free to draw
congressional maps, but they may not be drawn based on race."
The
Department’s motion to intervene in Tangipa et al v Newsom is pending
before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Assistant
Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon has been recused from this case.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jesus A. Osete will
represent the Department on this matter.
Updated November 13, 2025
Tore up from the floor up Bondi wants to go after California. We put it to the vote. Unlike Texas where Chump called Greg Asshole and told him he needed five more seats in Congress so get to redistricting.
Pam and the Justice Dept weren't at all bothered by that or by the map Texas produced. But since a court struck it down, shouldn't you have seen some warning signs?
Ari Berman (MOTHER JONES) reports:
In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats.
“Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the
2025 Map,” wrote Jeffrey Brown, a Trump-appointed district court judge.
His opinion—backed by David Guaderrama, an Obama appointee and the
district’s senior judge—found that Texas’ map violated the 14th and 15th
Amendment by discriminating based on race. Judge Jerry E. Smith, a
Reagan appointee, filed a dissenting opinion.
The panel’s two-judge majority pointed specifically to a Justice Department letter
from early July that claimed that four congressional districts where
Black and Latino voters comprised a combined majority were
“unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cited
that letter as the rationale when calling a special legislative session
that month to redraw its congressional map. “The Governor explicitly
directed the Legislature to redistrict based on race,” Judge Brown
wrote.
Texas Republicans claimed the redistricting effort was motivated by
partisan politics, a practice which the Supreme Court has said cannot be reviewed
in federal court. But Brown concluded that “the letter instead
commands Texas to change four districts for one reason and one reason
alone: the racial demographics of the voters who live there.” The judge
was unsparing in his criticism of the Justice Department, writing that
the letter was “challenging to unpack” given its “many factual, legal,
and typographical errors.”
Dayanne
Figueroa was on her way to work in Chicago last month when she drove
onto a street where an immigration enforcement action was in progress.
As she attempted to drive around the chaos, an unmarked vehicle collided
with her car. Masked men jumped out of the vehicle, guns drawn and
dragged Figueroa from her car by her legs. She was thrown into a
minivan, taken away and held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for hours. Dayanne Figueroa is an American citizen.
Figueroa’s arrest, captured in a now-viral video,
illustrates the growing number of U.S. citizens caught up in federal
immigration actions. These arrests and detentions violate ICE guidelines
as well as the Constitution.
Americans
have been tackled, tased, beaten and shot by immigration authorities.
Some citizens have been held without access to counsel or the ability to
call their loved ones. They include a 79-year-old man who was
body-slammed to the ground by agents in Van Nuys, an Army veteran in
Camarillo who was tear-gassed before being thrown in detention for three
days, and a Cal Poly Pomona grad who was knocked down by agents and
spent two nights in jail.
Where
are the investigations, Pamby? You are the attorney general of the
US. You do realize you are tasked with protecting the American people.
Is it that you don't know your job or that you just don't want to do
your job?
While you stand before the American people asking us to trust you, you've done nothing to earn our trust.
The
Trump administration has not hired the best people to work for
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One of them was arrested for sex
trafficking as part of a three-day sting earlier this month.
The
man is an auditor for ICE, and was one of 16 men arrested who were
allegedly attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl in Bloomington,
Minnesota. The ICE employee, 41-year-old Alexander Steven Back, could
face federal charges, said Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges at a
news conference on Tuesday.
Back,
a resident of Robbinsdale, Minnesota, responded to a fake online ad
“offering prostitution services,” and wasn’t dissuaded when an
undercover officer pretending to be 17 years old wrote “U ok if I’m a
lil younger than my ad says … just wanna be honest.”
“Sure,” Beck responded, according to charging documents.
“K cause I am 17 and one guy got hella mad at me,” the undercover officer, going by the name “Bella,” replied.
“Bella”
told Beck that she was 17 a second time, and then gave him a
Bloomington address, where police arrested him and took his phone.
“When he was arrested, he said, ‘I’m ICE, boys,’” Hodges said. “Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up.”
Under
the Trump administration, ICE’s hiring has become so haphazard that
many people aren’t properly vetted, with some being turned away due to
disqualifying criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests. Many end up
being terminated because they don’t meet academic or physical standards.
Beck’s case seems to show that the agency is attracting the wrong kinds
of people.
President
Trump’s disastrous handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and the
cost-of-living crisis has seen his approval ratings dip to just 38
percent, the lowest since his return to power.
Trump’s
popularity with Republicans, once considered untouchable, has also
started to wane, dropping from 87 percent to 82 percent as the
president’s growing alienation from his base has seen cracks begin to
form in the MAGA coalition.
Of the REUTERS poll,
Andrew Stanton (NEWSWEEK) adds, "Furthermore,
only 26 percent said Trump is doing a good job at managing the cost of
living, a 3-point decline from 29 percent earlier in November. Nearly
two-thirds (65 percent) of respondents, including a third of
Republicans, disapprove of the president’s performance handling the cost
of living."
:
President
Trump’s historic gains among Latinos during the 2024 presidential
election are seemingly dissipating as the voting bloc sours on the
administration’s immigration and economic policies.
According
to an October CNN poll, only 20% of Latinos approve of Trump’s
performance in office, down from 41% in February. The dramatic drop far
outpaces the drop in confidence from Black and White Americans, who have
seen a 4- and 9-point drop, respectively, in that same period.
President
Donald Trump has deployed federal troops and National Guard units to
multiple U.S. cities in an effort to support local law enforcement
during periods of unrest. Critics have raised concerns that the
deployments may violate constitutional protections and questioned
Trump's justification for the costly deployments. According to the
National Priorities Project, the total cost of the operations has
approached nearly $500 million nationwide.
D.C.
reportedly had the highest deployment costs, with L.A., Portland,
Chicago, and Memphis following. The White House has argued the missions
are lawful.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Elizabeth Warren's office:
Wealthy donors with business in front of Trump admin raise bribery concerns
Stop Ballroom Bribery Act would root
out pay-to-play opportunities involving public property primarily used
by President or Vice President
Bill Text (PDF) | Bill Two-Pager (PDF)
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Ranking
Member of the House Oversight Committee, introduced the Stop Ballroom Bribery Act to
root out apparent bribery and corruption involving President Trump’s
ballroom, the first piece of legislation addressing the ballroom that
would impose donation restrictions. Senators Richard Blumenthal
(D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee Committee
on Investigations, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
joined as co-sponsors.
Wealthy individuals, corporations, and organizations have lined up to
fund President Donald Trump’s new $300 million White House ballroom,
many of whom currently need something from the Trump administration —
raising serious concerns of quid-pro-quo arrangements and possible
bribery. Ethics experts have argued
that the apparent pay-to-play relationship between Trump and business
leaders oversteps the norms of presidential behavior and could erode
Americans’ trust in government.
“Billionaires and giant corporations with business in front of this
administration are lining up to dump millions into Trump’s new ballroom —
and Trump is showing them where to sign on the dotted line. Americans
shouldn’t have to wonder whether President Trump is building a ballroom
to facilitate a pay-to-play scheme for political favors. My new bill
will put an end to what looks like bribery in plain sight,” said Senator Warren.
"Donald Trump is raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build
himself a White House ballroom at a time when millions of American
families can barely make ends meet," said Ranking Member Robert Garcia.
"It's outrageous that the White House won’t reveal who’s bankrolling
Trump’s pet project, and that the people’s house could be funded by
shady figures, corrupt money, and bad actors. This bill will ban
contributions from anyone with a conflict of interest, prevent bribery,
and ensure we can hold any administration accountable for blatant
corruption."
“President Trump has put a ‘for sale’ sign on the White
House—soliciting hundreds of millions of dollars from special interests
to fund his $300 million vanity project. Our measure is a direct
response to Trump’s ballroom boondoggle. With commonsense reforms to how
the federal government can use private donations, our legislation
prevents President Trump and future presidents from using construction
projects as vehicles for corruption and personal vanity,” said Senator Blumenthal.
Key ballroom donors currently have business interests
in front of the Trump administration. For example, Google, which
recently donated $22 million to settle President Trump’s censorship
lawsuit against YouTube, will benefit if Trump’s DOJ decides not to
appeal a recent judicial ruling in a relevant antitrust case. Meanwhile,
Union Pacific Railroad is seeking federal approval of a lucrative
merger and Palantir is working to get more federal contracts.
The White House has refused to be fully transparent, publishing only a
noncomprehensive donor list missing multiple key donors and offering
donors anonymity. Donations for projects like the ballroom are often
channeled through the National Park Service (NPS) and philanthropic
partners; nonprofits with formal ties to property used by the President
and Vice President raise unique conflict-of-interest risks when
fundraising from individuals and corporations with interests in front of
the federal government.
The Stop Ballroom Bribery Act would:
The bill would cover the construction, improvement, or other
alteration of property on the White House grounds, the VP’s residence,
or other public property that the President or VP regularly use (such as
Camp David or Air Force One); events hosted at such locations; and
monuments or other structures that honor a living President or VP.
The bill is endorsed by Public Citizen, Democracy Defenders Action,
People For the American Way, and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics
in Washington (CREW).
“Over the past year, President Trump has raised millions of dollars
for vanity projects at the White House—like paving over the Rose Garden
and demolishing the beloved East Wing. These funds have come from
private donors without meaningful transparency or accountability,” said Virginia Canter, Chief Counsel and Director for Ethics and Anticorruption at Democracy Defenders Action.
“The highest office in the land should never be for sale, nor should it
ever appear to be. The No Auctioning Off the White House Act would
restore accountability and ensure that the President’s decisions about
'the People’s House' are guided by integrity, not by private donations.”
“President Trump's decision to unilaterally destroy the East Wing of
the White House to build a ballroom financed by wealthy individuals and
corporations not only ignores our country's laws but raises serious
ethical concerns - namely, whether individuals and corporations funded
this project in the hopes of buying access and influence,” said Debra Perlin, Vice President for Policy at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). “Senator
Warren's Stop Ballroom Bribery Act would block this dangerous line of
influence by inserting critical restrictions and guardrails into the
donation process to ensure that government officials act in the interest
of the American people rather than in the interest of donors to
President Trump's personal projects. CREW proudly endorses this
legislation and urges the Senate to pass it without delay.”
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