That nasal rant he just gave in the WH about "affordability" and healthcare and Thanksgiving and gas and Americans negotiating their own healthcare (yeah, like that's an idea that's really gonna work): That's ALL because of TN!
I received a response from Senator Luján regarding the recorded conversation between Special Envoy Wickoff and top Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. However, he did not address my request for criminal referral.
December 2, 2025
Dear Dr. Potter,
Thank you for reaching out to my office. Keeping in touch with my constituents is my greatest priority, and I appreciate the opportunity to engage with you on such an important topic.
From Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, to China threat toward Southeast Asia, the United States and our allies face evolving threats around the world that demand a renewed commitment to international partnership. My work in Congress has reflected our country’s goals of a strong national security while supporting democracy, diplomacy, and international development worldwide. I am committed to working with my colleagues to deliver necessary support to our allies, deter aggression from our adversaries, and promote peaceful and responsible governments that protect innocent people.
I’ve been proud to support funding packages to ensure that the United States upholds its responsibility to support our allies in the fight for democracy. Legislation such as the April 2024 supplemental included $60 billion in urgently needed assistance for Ukraine, including critical equipment, weapons, and defensive services and funding for humanitarian aid efforts and U.S. operations in the region. I remain committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to provide Ukraine with the necessary aid to ensure its safety and security and to hold Putin accountable for his horrific war crimes.
Part of the United States’ commitment to defend democracy around the world is promoting the security of Taiwan and addressing China’s role as a growing global power. I am pleased that the same supplemental funding package also included over $8 billion in security assistance to support Taiwan and our allies in the Indo-Pacific, which will strengthen deterrence against China while growing partnerships between the U.S. and the region.
On July 17, 2025, Senate Republicans passed a reckless spending cuts package that slashes funding for international economic and development aid, and humanitarian assistance. This “rescissions package” cuts over $7 billion for foreign aid that the Senate previously appropriated on a bipartisan basis. These cuts threaten our cybersecurity, hinder work to counter the influence of China, and risk critical defense operations at home and abroad. My priority here in the Senate is to keep New Mexicans and the United States safe and secure though the promotion of global alliances and activities to prevent wars and promote global peace.
As your Senator, I will continue to work with my colleagues to set strong expectations and assert American leadership on the global stage. Please know that I will keep your concerns in mind as legislation concerning U.S. foreign policy and national security comes before me in the Senate.
Once again, thank you for expressing your concerns on this important matter. I am humbled to serve New Mexico in the Senate, and I look forward to continuing to hear from you. I hope you will consider keeping in contact with me by subscribing to my newsletter here. If you are looking for assistance navigating a federal agency, or would like to speak to a member of my staff in New Mexico, please visit my website here for more information.
I love this guy, and I only hope and have faith, per Simon (and based on all the impact YOU have had!), that he and others are keeping tabs on how often they hear this from constituents, and at some point the dam breaks, as it has so often since Simon first told us to do this, because as someone wrote today, what Wickoff et al have been up to makes the infamous Zimmerman telegram look like child's play by comparison.
I hope this letter from Gavin Newsom's Press Office will make you laugh. Mocking dt, Gov. Gavin Newsom released his own Advanced Imaging Results by Dr. Dolittle. No need to log in to view it. https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1995659642899497393
Thanks much, Deborah. It's great to have a letter like this in hand. People in the media often like to claim that Trump’s sense of humor is one of his assets. In the case of publications that actually have the guts to allow comments, I always challenge them to name one thing he has *ever said in his entire life* that's *intentionally* funny (he couldn't even manage a joke at the Al Smith dinner without being gratuitously nasty in the telling!), or ask if they think Hitler was funny too. Now I can show them a perfect example of what a politician with a real sense of humor who is genuinely funny sounds like. LOL--and thanks! :D
Yes, yes, except that if you say "yes," he sics a government agency on you, instead of beating you up or pulling a gun, because, frankly, said Joe Pesci character, while his means are still cowardly, has more guts in one cell of his stomach lining than Trump has in his entire being.
Laughed *at* him, yes, often. Laughed *with* him--absolutely never, and don't expect I ever will. At least Stalin's unfunny jokes (like the one about one death vs a million) are *clever,* if chilling--Trump's jokes are just dumb. I doubt I would have even found them funny on a playground, where most of them belong.
Sharing a post I made yesterday to WaPo that's gotten the *second* highest number of likes I've ever gotten there, indicative, I think, of how people are feeling (and a growing tolerance and even preference I've noticed everywhere for length and detail in communication vs snappy snarky soundbites--we, the people, are coming to understand we can't and don't want to just laugh this stuff off anymore) :
Re: the Caribbean "double-tap:"
"What's especially appalogical about this whole thing (ie appalling but par for the course) is that in defining illegal orders, guess what the US military manual uses as the literal textbook example of a "clearly unlawful order?"
You guessed it: firing on enemy combatants who are shipwrecked at sea.
It's as if this administration did this quite deliberately for two nefarious reasons that have characterized Trump's modus operandi from Day One: (1) to dirty up everyone involved (ie the whole chain of command) to soften up any resistance from the one institution (the military) fully capable of bringing him down (2) To convince the rest of us that he can literally do whatever he wants, up to and including crimes against humanity, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Except that, as Mark Kelly demonstrated in his powerful and scathing news conference today, Agent Orange is dead wrong. There's one institution even more powerful than the military that can hold him accountable--we, the people--and no reason why we need to buy what he's selling.
PS I can only think of one truly logical reason why Trump and Hegseth wanted there to be no survivors, and why, when it appeared there might be, they launched another missile to ensure there wouldn't. True to the Mafia ethos he has lived his entire life by, Trump and his yes man wanted to enforce omerta, to ensure there would be no loose ends, no one left alive to talk, no one who could credibly reveal their boat was carrying cocaine, not fentanyl, that they were bound for Europe or Africa, not the US, or most damningly of all, that they weren't trafficking drugs at all.
Conveniently, when you blow up the boat rather than interdict, you destroy all the evidence either way. And when you summarily execute survivors, you dispose of all witnesses and testimony that might contradict the party line. SAD!
Would you consider interviewing Cait Conley, who is running I think in NY 17 against Lawler in 2026? She is inspiring.
I am too busy to be able to take any actions today. I'll be watching the Behn results. I am hopeful. Thanks to those of you doing something today. I wish I could report something.
Are there any reliable stats on real deaths caused by stopping and burning food USAid used to provide? I think that story highlighted in the season of Christmas giving would help turn hearts and votes.
I heard some estimates but I don't have them in front of me. I don't have a citation either. But it was in the 100's of thousands. Of course, going forward, if it continues, it will be in the millions.
That was the exact number in my head too, I didn't want to put it there because I wasn't sure and I can't cite it anyhow. But that is the number I believe I heard someplace, and it might very well be right.
"But one area where there needs to be a very serious internal discussion in the family is what are we going to ask for in the budget negotiations beyond desired levels of funding for critical programs. Should we be requiring..."
To give my input here, I would do it in this order:
1) the resignation of malevolent and lawless Cabinet secretaries and advisors
2) the ending of the Trump tariff regime immediately before inflation goes up more than it already has (possibly way more? Is this a way we can message this? As in, the worst is yet come?)
3) since data centers are a very unpopular issue causing some solid Republicans to vote Democrat in protest, could I suggest something like a moratorium on all data center creation until a bipartisan commission analyzes it and comes up with regulatory guidelines? This may not be practicable, but we need some kind of data center regulation with real teeth.
(Such a move would really help Democrat image among voters, I think).
4) revoking the social services cuts of the Big Beautiful Bill
5) provisions that reign in/expose their corruption and lawlessness, including forcing Treasury to release all the Epstein related financial records they have
6) an end to American military adventurism in Venezuela, Columbia, etc.
7) an end to U.S. financial aid to Argentina
8) the rollback of ICE expansion
9) restoration of the regulatory agencies regulating cryptocurrency
I would maybe call these "the Nine Non-Negotiables." If they catch on, then I think we can add the following
10) full support of Ukraine and our European allies, and unequivocal condemnation of doing business with a Russia that routinely violates international law (the latter part is a more popular way of saying it, especially with Witkoff news)
11) the canceling of the illegal building of the gilded ballroom and the restoration of the East Wing
Instead of that, what I think they should do is make an environmental impact tax, and an energy-usage tax, on new data centers. I'm not sure a "moratorium" makes a lot of sense.
And, relatedly, there should be an environmental impact tax on ALL crypto transactions. It could be based on how energy intensive each one is, because they are not all the same. My understanding, admittedly limited, is that Bitcoin scales terribly and has one of the worst impacts.
I tend to agree with you, Patrick. I only threw out a moratorium as a brainstorm. A tax, policy-wise, is much more sound.
Though I wonder whether announcing a moratorium (no matter how temporary, even if VERY temporary) could be very great branding. It suggests action, it suggest standing up to the current Administration, and it gives the sense of decisiveness. Something that people don't associate as much with the current Party.
So, maybe policy-wise, a very temporary moratorium could eventually lead to a commission that basically suggests a tax along the lines of what you said.
I hear you. I don't think any of that will happen, because many people seem to think the AI investments are about the only thing keeping us out of a recession. So there's going to be little appetite I think for anything like a moratorium, or even a tax of some kind.
But broadly, we need to go back to sensible energy policy. So I think you are right about the direction for sure. Taxing energy use, those companies might be more likely to build their own solar out to run their data centers, or think harder about where to put them. Right now, they are a giant "fuck you" to everyone.
I saw an ad or a graphic from the Department of Energy. It looked like something I would expect the people marketing professional wrestling would put out. Just insanely embarrassing. It's even worse than Trump I when he had that moron ex-Texas governor (whose name escapes me right now) as DOE secretary, and he thought he'd be a "cheerleader" for oil and gas. He had no idea what DOE does.
It's just embarrassing how far we've fallen in so many different areas.
Here we go! Costco is suing for reimbursement of Trumps illegal tariffs. And so it begins. The “what if” economic reckoning Congress did not consider and should have contested from the get-go.
Great post, David. I'm printing it out to share with Uber/cab drivers et al who think they need a Bukele for their country. Based on your piece, I'd say they probably already have one...
Called my dang electeds. We're becoming so familiar to each other. Let's keep fighting-tis the season of giving. The emperor marmalade and his cultish sycophants deserve a giant lump of coal.
I don't comment here every day but I do make my calls every day. I have good fortune to live in a blue state, with 3 Dems to contact, but they still hear from me. The past few days I called on foreign policy.
1. Support Ukraine. I'm especially outraged at Kushner being involved in negotiations although Witcoff is no better. Why was there such outrage from GOP and Trump about Hunter Biden being on the board of an energy company, but crickets now that Kushner is negotiating whole of Ukrainian peace deal? All of them are looking for personal benefits, but are fine selling out Ukraine.
2. Second point is about war crimes in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Is this the set up to go to war with Venezuela? I think Sen. Kelly said it well the other day when he compared Hegseth to a 12 year old playing army. Except that I have a 12 year old in my life and he is well past playing shoot 'em up army. The children's book cover with a gentle Canadian turtle that Hegseth shared on social media was so beneath the dignity of his position there are no words for his immaturity.
What an international and national embarrassment this administration's whole foreign policy has been.
This happened in the first term too, both Sec. State, Tillerson and Pompeo were frozen out like Rubio is. This cabinet position is as close to irrelevant as you can get in Trump's regime. Rubio was always being set up to look like a fool. He either is dumb enough to not have realized it, or just ambitious enough to not care and think no one will notice.
It's all about the grift. So you bring in Kushner and Witkoff. Both are dumb, but their lack of experience doesn't matter because this is just another swindle.
For Rubio too, why would you want to have little impact on the policy, but get blamed for bad results? If you are going to be responsible for the results, don't you want to have control over the process? Just dumb.
No one but T and his minions matter for anything. It is all about pleasing dear leader and financial windfall. Rubio seems to have been frozen out of any role with regard to Ukraine, so he is focused on Venezuela. He will have no better results there.
Corruption and grift is the whole operating mode of this crew. More for me, screw you.
That nasal rant he just gave in the WH about "affordability" and healthcare and Thanksgiving and gas and Americans negotiating their own healthcare (yeah, like that's an idea that's really gonna work): That's ALL because of TN!
He is scared shitless of the race in TN
GO, AFTYN, GO!!!!
And Hegseth - I think you need a drink.
Wondering how any budget agreement that includes Dem priorities can be Trump- and rescission-proofed. Do we have good-faith negotiating partners?
I received a response from Senator Luján regarding the recorded conversation between Special Envoy Wickoff and top Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. However, he did not address my request for criminal referral.
December 2, 2025
Dear Dr. Potter,
Thank you for reaching out to my office. Keeping in touch with my constituents is my greatest priority, and I appreciate the opportunity to engage with you on such an important topic.
From Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, to China threat toward Southeast Asia, the United States and our allies face evolving threats around the world that demand a renewed commitment to international partnership. My work in Congress has reflected our country’s goals of a strong national security while supporting democracy, diplomacy, and international development worldwide. I am committed to working with my colleagues to deliver necessary support to our allies, deter aggression from our adversaries, and promote peaceful and responsible governments that protect innocent people.
I’ve been proud to support funding packages to ensure that the United States upholds its responsibility to support our allies in the fight for democracy. Legislation such as the April 2024 supplemental included $60 billion in urgently needed assistance for Ukraine, including critical equipment, weapons, and defensive services and funding for humanitarian aid efforts and U.S. operations in the region. I remain committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to provide Ukraine with the necessary aid to ensure its safety and security and to hold Putin accountable for his horrific war crimes.
Part of the United States’ commitment to defend democracy around the world is promoting the security of Taiwan and addressing China’s role as a growing global power. I am pleased that the same supplemental funding package also included over $8 billion in security assistance to support Taiwan and our allies in the Indo-Pacific, which will strengthen deterrence against China while growing partnerships between the U.S. and the region.
On July 17, 2025, Senate Republicans passed a reckless spending cuts package that slashes funding for international economic and development aid, and humanitarian assistance. This “rescissions package” cuts over $7 billion for foreign aid that the Senate previously appropriated on a bipartisan basis. These cuts threaten our cybersecurity, hinder work to counter the influence of China, and risk critical defense operations at home and abroad. My priority here in the Senate is to keep New Mexicans and the United States safe and secure though the promotion of global alliances and activities to prevent wars and promote global peace.
As your Senator, I will continue to work with my colleagues to set strong expectations and assert American leadership on the global stage. Please know that I will keep your concerns in mind as legislation concerning U.S. foreign policy and national security comes before me in the Senate.
Once again, thank you for expressing your concerns on this important matter. I am humbled to serve New Mexico in the Senate, and I look forward to continuing to hear from you. I hope you will consider keeping in contact with me by subscribing to my newsletter here. If you are looking for assistance navigating a federal agency, or would like to speak to a member of my staff in New Mexico, please visit my website here for more information.
Sincerely,
Ben Ray Luján
United States Senator
I love this guy, and I only hope and have faith, per Simon (and based on all the impact YOU have had!), that he and others are keeping tabs on how often they hear this from constituents, and at some point the dam breaks, as it has so often since Simon first told us to do this, because as someone wrote today, what Wickoff et al have been up to makes the infamous Zimmerman telegram look like child's play by comparison.
I hope this letter from Gavin Newsom's Press Office will make you laugh. Mocking dt, Gov. Gavin Newsom released his own Advanced Imaging Results by Dr. Dolittle. No need to log in to view it. https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1995659642899497393
Thanks much, Deborah. It's great to have a letter like this in hand. People in the media often like to claim that Trump’s sense of humor is one of his assets. In the case of publications that actually have the guts to allow comments, I always challenge them to name one thing he has *ever said in his entire life* that's *intentionally* funny (he couldn't even manage a joke at the Al Smith dinner without being gratuitously nasty in the telling!), or ask if they think Hitler was funny too. Now I can show them a perfect example of what a politician with a real sense of humor who is genuinely funny sounds like. LOL--and thanks! :D
Making fun of the disabled reporter back in the day: hilarious.
I've never found a single thing he said "funny" even in the least. He's just obnoxious. I've never understood why people say "he's funny".
I've laughed at him, because he's so stupid and pathetic. Is that what people mean by saying he's "funny"? I don't know.
Makes me think of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. "How am I funny? Am I a joke to you? Do I make you laugh?" LOL
Yes, yes, except that if you say "yes," he sics a government agency on you, instead of beating you up or pulling a gun, because, frankly, said Joe Pesci character, while his means are still cowardly, has more guts in one cell of his stomach lining than Trump has in his entire being.
totally ad libbed, by the way.
Laughed *at* him, yes, often. Laughed *with* him--absolutely never, and don't expect I ever will. At least Stalin's unfunny jokes (like the one about one death vs a million) are *clever,* if chilling--Trump's jokes are just dumb. I doubt I would have even found them funny on a playground, where most of them belong.
Sharing a post I made yesterday to WaPo that's gotten the *second* highest number of likes I've ever gotten there, indicative, I think, of how people are feeling (and a growing tolerance and even preference I've noticed everywhere for length and detail in communication vs snappy snarky soundbites--we, the people, are coming to understand we can't and don't want to just laugh this stuff off anymore) :
Re: the Caribbean "double-tap:"
"What's especially appalogical about this whole thing (ie appalling but par for the course) is that in defining illegal orders, guess what the US military manual uses as the literal textbook example of a "clearly unlawful order?"
You guessed it: firing on enemy combatants who are shipwrecked at sea.
It's as if this administration did this quite deliberately for two nefarious reasons that have characterized Trump's modus operandi from Day One: (1) to dirty up everyone involved (ie the whole chain of command) to soften up any resistance from the one institution (the military) fully capable of bringing him down (2) To convince the rest of us that he can literally do whatever he wants, up to and including crimes against humanity, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Except that, as Mark Kelly demonstrated in his powerful and scathing news conference today, Agent Orange is dead wrong. There's one institution even more powerful than the military that can hold him accountable--we, the people--and no reason why we need to buy what he's selling.
PS I can only think of one truly logical reason why Trump and Hegseth wanted there to be no survivors, and why, when it appeared there might be, they launched another missile to ensure there wouldn't. True to the Mafia ethos he has lived his entire life by, Trump and his yes man wanted to enforce omerta, to ensure there would be no loose ends, no one left alive to talk, no one who could credibly reveal their boat was carrying cocaine, not fentanyl, that they were bound for Europe or Africa, not the US, or most damningly of all, that they weren't trafficking drugs at all.
Conveniently, when you blow up the boat rather than interdict, you destroy all the evidence either way. And when you summarily execute survivors, you dispose of all witnesses and testimony that might contradict the party line. SAD!
Would you consider interviewing Cait Conley, who is running I think in NY 17 against Lawler in 2026? She is inspiring.
I am too busy to be able to take any actions today. I'll be watching the Behn results. I am hopeful. Thanks to those of you doing something today. I wish I could report something.
Donated on Monday. We need to win this!
Just Plain YES (gift link). COSTCO SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/costco-trump-tariffs-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.F-5e.RGFi9V5KrxUQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Saw that this morning. Hell to the yeah!
Criminal referrals need to become an agenda.
Thanks, Simon! I'll call my Congressman and Senators.
Fingers crossed for Aftyn Behn this evening! Either way, she's made them really work for what should have been a very safe seat.
Are there any reliable stats on real deaths caused by stopping and burning food USAid used to provide? I think that story highlighted in the season of Christmas giving would help turn hearts and votes.
It’s often on my mind.
I heard some estimates but I don't have them in front of me. I don't have a citation either. But it was in the 100's of thousands. Of course, going forward, if it continues, it will be in the millions.
I believe it's over 600,000 -- and counting.
That was the exact number in my head too, I didn't want to put it there because I wasn't sure and I can't cite it anyhow. But that is the number I believe I heard someplace, and it might very well be right.
Nick Kristof has been reporting on this on Lawrence O'Donnell. His published work should have latest stats.
"But one area where there needs to be a very serious internal discussion in the family is what are we going to ask for in the budget negotiations beyond desired levels of funding for critical programs. Should we be requiring..."
To give my input here, I would do it in this order:
1) the resignation of malevolent and lawless Cabinet secretaries and advisors
2) the ending of the Trump tariff regime immediately before inflation goes up more than it already has (possibly way more? Is this a way we can message this? As in, the worst is yet come?)
3) since data centers are a very unpopular issue causing some solid Republicans to vote Democrat in protest, could I suggest something like a moratorium on all data center creation until a bipartisan commission analyzes it and comes up with regulatory guidelines? This may not be practicable, but we need some kind of data center regulation with real teeth.
(Such a move would really help Democrat image among voters, I think).
4) revoking the social services cuts of the Big Beautiful Bill
5) provisions that reign in/expose their corruption and lawlessness, including forcing Treasury to release all the Epstein related financial records they have
6) an end to American military adventurism in Venezuela, Columbia, etc.
7) an end to U.S. financial aid to Argentina
8) the rollback of ICE expansion
9) restoration of the regulatory agencies regulating cryptocurrency
I would maybe call these "the Nine Non-Negotiables." If they catch on, then I think we can add the following
10) full support of Ukraine and our European allies, and unequivocal condemnation of doing business with a Russia that routinely violates international law (the latter part is a more popular way of saying it, especially with Witkoff news)
11) the canceling of the illegal building of the gilded ballroom and the restoration of the East Wing
Very much agree with the data center regulation addition! Of note is that public outcry against data centers is bipartisan.
Instead of that, what I think they should do is make an environmental impact tax, and an energy-usage tax, on new data centers. I'm not sure a "moratorium" makes a lot of sense.
And, relatedly, there should be an environmental impact tax on ALL crypto transactions. It could be based on how energy intensive each one is, because they are not all the same. My understanding, admittedly limited, is that Bitcoin scales terribly and has one of the worst impacts.
I tend to agree with you, Patrick. I only threw out a moratorium as a brainstorm. A tax, policy-wise, is much more sound.
Though I wonder whether announcing a moratorium (no matter how temporary, even if VERY temporary) could be very great branding. It suggests action, it suggest standing up to the current Administration, and it gives the sense of decisiveness. Something that people don't associate as much with the current Party.
So, maybe policy-wise, a very temporary moratorium could eventually lead to a commission that basically suggests a tax along the lines of what you said.
I hear you. I don't think any of that will happen, because many people seem to think the AI investments are about the only thing keeping us out of a recession. So there's going to be little appetite I think for anything like a moratorium, or even a tax of some kind.
But broadly, we need to go back to sensible energy policy. So I think you are right about the direction for sure. Taxing energy use, those companies might be more likely to build their own solar out to run their data centers, or think harder about where to put them. Right now, they are a giant "fuck you" to everyone.
I saw an ad or a graphic from the Department of Energy. It looked like something I would expect the people marketing professional wrestling would put out. Just insanely embarrassing. It's even worse than Trump I when he had that moron ex-Texas governor (whose name escapes me right now) as DOE secretary, and he thought he'd be a "cheerleader" for oil and gas. He had no idea what DOE does.
It's just embarrassing how far we've fallen in so many different areas.
Rick Perry. That idiot was Secretary of Energy.
Here we go! Costco is suing for reimbursement of Trumps illegal tariffs. And so it begins. The “what if” economic reckoning Congress did not consider and should have contested from the get-go.
Also, given Trump's Venezuela adventurism and his pardon of a ex-president of Honduras who flooded our country with cocaine, here is my latest repost regarding Trump's deal with one of MS-13's many accomplices, Nayib Bukele: https://davidsalzillo.substack.com/p/two-times-a-charm-notes-from-underground.
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Great post, David. I'm printing it out to share with Uber/cab drivers et al who think they need a Bukele for their country. Based on your piece, I'd say they probably already have one...
Hahaha. Thanks again for the compliments, Tom!
Called my dang electeds. We're becoming so familiar to each other. Let's keep fighting-tis the season of giving. The emperor marmalade and his cultish sycophants deserve a giant lump of coal.
I don't comment here every day but I do make my calls every day. I have good fortune to live in a blue state, with 3 Dems to contact, but they still hear from me. The past few days I called on foreign policy.
1. Support Ukraine. I'm especially outraged at Kushner being involved in negotiations although Witcoff is no better. Why was there such outrage from GOP and Trump about Hunter Biden being on the board of an energy company, but crickets now that Kushner is negotiating whole of Ukrainian peace deal? All of them are looking for personal benefits, but are fine selling out Ukraine.
2. Second point is about war crimes in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Is this the set up to go to war with Venezuela? I think Sen. Kelly said it well the other day when he compared Hegseth to a 12 year old playing army. Except that I have a 12 year old in my life and he is well past playing shoot 'em up army. The children's book cover with a gentle Canadian turtle that Hegseth shared on social media was so beneath the dignity of his position there are no words for his immaturity.
What an international and national embarrassment this administration's whole foreign policy has been.
This happened in the first term too, both Sec. State, Tillerson and Pompeo were frozen out like Rubio is. This cabinet position is as close to irrelevant as you can get in Trump's regime. Rubio was always being set up to look like a fool. He either is dumb enough to not have realized it, or just ambitious enough to not care and think no one will notice.
It's all about the grift. So you bring in Kushner and Witkoff. Both are dumb, but their lack of experience doesn't matter because this is just another swindle.
For Rubio too, why would you want to have little impact on the policy, but get blamed for bad results? If you are going to be responsible for the results, don't you want to have control over the process? Just dumb.
No one but T and his minions matter for anything. It is all about pleasing dear leader and financial windfall. Rubio seems to have been frozen out of any role with regard to Ukraine, so he is focused on Venezuela. He will have no better results there.
Corruption and grift is the whole operating mode of this crew. More for me, screw you.