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• Today, a one-page letter signed by the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said that the government would be “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing” pending tax claims against Mr. Trump, his family members and businesses.
• A couple of days ago was the news that he made 3642 stock trades in Q1 of 2026 – 60 trades a day!
• Also, a couple of days ago, Trump agreed to settle a $10bn law suit against the IRS in return for a $1.8bn settlement. Supposedly the fund will be used to pay his allies & include the Jan 6^(th) insurrectionists.
• Trump’s name comes up 38000 times in the Epstein files & yet we are the only country openly protecting pedophiles.
• The ‘ball room’ is now estimated to cost $1bn, in tax payer funds; Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painting project will now cost $13.1m; repainting the border wall is estimated at $500 m to $3billion.; the Trump de Arc - $100 million.; the Great Gatsby party cost $3.4m; each trip to Mara Lago about $3.4m (NPR) . As of March 2026, Trump had been to Mara Lago 24 times.; replacement of the WH rose garden cost $1.9m; other refurbishments to the WH are estimated to be between $200m to $400m (Fox 9); Repainting of the Eisenhower executive office is estimated to be another $7.5m; renaming Palm Beach airport cost $5.5m. DOD becoming Department of war is expected to cost us another $2billion (NBC News).
• Only President to put his signature on currency; 250^(th) anniversary gold coin with Trump face.; US passport with Trump face.; $1 coin with Trump face.; renaming of: the Kennedy Center; Palm Beach airport; Southern Boulevard of Florida; a segment of Route 287; US Institute of Peace; new fleet of battleships; Savings & investment accounts for kids; national park passes; Trump RX.; Trump meme coins; Trump gold cards.
• Threatening the Vatican; comparing himself to Jesus.; profanity ridden Easter post.; his threat to destroy an entire civilization.
• His meeting with Zelensky; his threat to Canada; Greenland; Mexico & Panama. 
• There were the Hollywood tapes; Russia, Russia, Russia; Mara Lago documents scandal; the fraud allegations; 27 sexual assault allegations; the impeachments.
• Just when we think he has reached a new low, he digs deeper!

For some reason, I was struck this morning, with an old news article about Trump’s attack on Thomas Massie. Massie’s wife of 31 years Rhonda, died in June 2024. Massie re married Carolyn Moffa in Nov 2025, & Trump had the audacity to post “Massie married already? Boy that was quick”. This was typical Trump hypocrisy, considering his own 3 marriages; allegations of infidelity, including while Melania was pregnant; payment of hush money; his 38k mentions in the Epstein files etc.

2016

Some of you MAGA overlooked the Hollywood tapes; the infidelity; the incessant lying; the bankruptcies; the allegations of fraud, & the abhorrent behavior, & still voted for him in 2016 because:
(i) You thought that he was going to shake up Washington & ‘clean the swamp’.

(ii) He was rich, & somehow you thought his wealth made him smart & that would translate to making your lives better.

(iii) Your sense of loyalty required you to vote for your own team.

(iv) You just could not get yourself to vote for Hillary Clinton.

2024

You overlooked the Russia scandal; Jan 6^(th) insurrection; the impeachments; the ‘perfect phone call’; the fraud convictions; the Mara Lago documents scandal; the warnings from his own cabinet members & senior advisors, about his autocratic tendencies; his illiteracy in general, but particularly on Covid; his lack of respect for people; his statements after the Proud boys march in VA, & so much more to elect him again in 2024.

Here we are now in 2026. We are in a never-ending war, with no good options in Iran. We have already displaced millions & killed thousands – including children. We have emboldened Russia & China. We have threatened our friends in Canada; Greenland; Mexico & Panama. We have stabbed Ukraine in the back. The Israel - Gaza conflict is worse. We are considered less of a reliable ally than China, with old allies like Canada; UK; Belgium; Germany; France, Sweden, Norway; Denmark; Japan & South Korea. We have likely broken multiple international & US laws off the coast of Venezuela, and in Iran. We have created a world economic & food crisis thanks to the blockade of Hormuz & already created a humanitarian crisis in Cuba.

Gas prices have gone by almost $1.40 a gallon & climbing; inflation is also climbing, & consumer confidence is the lowest in about 60 years. Meanwhile our farmers are struggling to survive.

We are separating nursing babies from their mothers; we are detaining; deporting people without allowing them any Constitutional rights; we have masked federal agents on our streets who are racially profiling, as a matter of routine; we have had black hawk helicopters on our streets & the optics of women & children standing zip tied on a cold winter night in Chicago. Our federal law enforcement has executed at least 2 US citizens and we are now building detention camps, all over the country. All this sadism under the guise of ‘immigration reform’.  He was going to remove the ‘worst of the worst’ & yet, about 85% of the people detained have no criminal history.

We protect pedophiles; ignore Court orders & have a sitting President who is selling Trump 2028 caps & shirts, oblivious of the fact that the Constitution does not allow a third term. The federal government grants open no bid contacts, while the Presidents family makes 60 stock trades a day, in just the first 3 months of this year. All he can talk about is a billion $ ball room, & painting a reflecting pool blue!

Some of you may still relate to all of this & that is between you, your faith & your upbringing. To the others who ‘do not think your neighbors ate your cat’; you have to now own it all. There is no “we do not agree with what he says or how he says it, BUT…”

The differential between Harris & Trump was roughly 2m votes. 90 m of you sat out; another 2.8m voted for a 3^(rd) candidate & 53m identified yourselves as ‘non extreme’ MAGA. I know we are all fatigued, & just want to get on with our lives. This is a moment of great peril & therefore we can ill afford to be fatigued. Our very value systems are under assault. We can rest after we evict Trump (ism) from the WH. We have to show up in large numbers on voting day.

"A federal solicitation reviewed by Project Salt Box shows that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has moved well beyond preliminary planning in its effort to place hundreds of employees in commercial co-working spaces across the country...

"ICE is seeking space for 330 full-time employees across 90 locations, from Houston, where 22 workers would be placed, to more than a dozen cities where a single desk would suffice. Vendors who win the contract would have 15 business days from award to stand up all locations simultaneously. The period of performance runs from June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2027, with leases covering a desk or private office, Wi-Fi, and printing access, and the ability to scale headcount up or down at any location after award."

PSB has a list of targets in the story: https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ices-nationwide-co-working-solicitation.

Rogan's List has a sample letter you can send to owners of co-working spaces and their agents urging them not to contract with ICE: https://susanrogan.substack.com/i/192679680/ice-agents-at-the-next-desk-at-wework

Trades were in stocks of technology, AI, defense & Bitcoin.

The good news is that he bothered to do the filing to the Office of Government Ethics. The bad news is that he did the filing, because he thinks he is above the law!

Who does 60 trades per day, unless you are a stock broker?

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people (Martin Luther King)

For those who are complicit

Article 8 of the Nuremberg Charter (the basis of international & US law):

The fact that a defendant acted pursuant to order by his Government or of a superior shall not   free him of responsibility.

Countries where leaders tried to overthrow democracy recently & consequences:

 Hungary (2026)

The newly formed Asset Recovery and protection Office has launched investigations into:

Victor Orban

Antal Rogan, former minister for cabinet office and secret service

Lorinc Meszaros, Orban childhood friend & oligarch for government procurements contracts.

Gyula Balasy, media tycoon who amassed massive wealth from government propaganda contracts.

Istvan Tiborcz, Orban son in law, for misappropriation of EU Funds

Judith Varga, former Justice Minister for removal of government corruption files.

 South Korea (2025)

Yoon Suk-Yeol is facing a life sentence for an attempted insurrection.

Han Duck-Soo: Former Prime Minister, convicted of insurrection, abuse of authority, and perjury related to the martial law crisis. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison by an appeals court.

Lee Sang-min: Former Minister of the Interior and Safety, tried for his involvement in the martial law crisis. He received a nine-year prison sentence in an appeals trial for engaging in an insurrection, abuse of authority, and perjury.

Kim Yong-hyun: Former Minister of National Defense, indicted and tried for masterminding and carrying out the martial law decree alongside Yoon, receiving a 30-year prison sentence.

Choi Sang-Mok: Former Minister of Economy and Finance (and brief acting leader), indicted on dereliction of duty charges for failing to fill vacant seats on the Constitutional Court during the political crisis.

Brazil (2023)

Jair Bolsonaro tried & convicted for 27 years for organizing a failed plot to hold on to power.

Gen. Walter Braga Netto**:** Former Chief of Staff and Defense Minister; sentenced to

26 years in prison.

Gen. Augusto Heleno: Former head of the Institutional Security Cabinet; sentenced to 21 years in prison.

Gen. Paulo Sérgio Nogueira: Former Defense Minister; sentenced to 19 years in prison.

Anderson Torres**:** Former Justice Minister.

Alexandre Ramagem: Former head of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN).

Philippines (2022)

Ex President, Rodrigo Duterte himself.  The former President was arrested and transferred to ICC custody in The Hague, where he is currently on trial.

Sen. Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa: Formerly the Philippine National Police (POLICE) Chief and a key enforcer of the drug war. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for him, unsealed in May 2026, which led him to flee the Philippine Senate to evade authorities.

Sen. Christopher "Bong" Go: The former Special Assistant to the President was also officially named by ICC prosecutors as a co-perpetrator and suspect in the extrajudicial killings.

Vitaliano Aguirre II: The former Justice Secretary under the Duterte administration was named as a co-perpetrator and faces ongoing investigation and trial proceedings.

 

 

 

VICTORY IN IRAN: WE ALREADY WON ...TWICE

June 21^(st)****, 2025:(Trump’s address to the nation)

Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities
have been completely & totally obliterated”.

Feb 28^(th)****, 2026 (after the start of the present conflict in Iran)

Iran was “days away from developing a nuclear weapon”. (DJT
told us, although his MAGA head of counter intelligence resigned because he did not agree with the President, on Iran being an imminent threat)

March 11^(th), 2026:
He declared “We have a total & complete victory” (Reuters)

May 13^(th), 2026 (NY Times). It turns out we neither destroyed their nuclear facilities in 2025 & nor have we won the present conflict.

As per US intelligence reports, Iran has recovered 70% of its prewar missile stock piles & mobile launchers, and access to 90% of its missile storage & launch sites.

TARIFFS

As per Trump, other countries are paying us so much money in tariffs that each of us will get $2k dividend check; we will pay down our debt, and probably remove income tax.

First of all, if other countries were paying the tariffs, why is it that the refund checks are going to US Companies, after the Supreme Court decided that they must issue refunds?

Secondly, why is it that our debt has gone up @ $7.38 billion a day, in the last one year. It is now at historical highs of about $38.9 trillion (US Congress Joint Economic Comm).

Thirdly, I look forward to receiving my $2k dividend and at least a reduction in my taxes.

GOLDEN AGE OF US MANUFACTURING & ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

Trump: “other world leaders and CEOs are telling me, Sir the US was a dead country before. Now, it is the hottest economy in the world”

We have lost about 200k manufacturing jobs in the last year. There about 7.4 million people unemployed; 8.4% of the labor force is underemployed; lowest consumer confidence in decades; highest inflation in years & climbing. Farmers are struggling to survive & unfortunately  it is probably going to get worse..

MEXICO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL

The US government has so far spent about $15 billion (BBC) Another $46.5 billion has been allocated under the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill Act in 2025.

REPLACE OBAMACARE WITH SOMETHING MUCH BETTER

Trump: “I do not want to terminate Obamacare.  I want to replace it with something much better. We should have something done in a couple of weeks”. (2015 rally in Kentucky & about 100 times since).

EPSTEIN FILES

Trump, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino were all the epitome of moral outrage, during the 2024 campaign. The moral outrage was because they claimed to be the only gatekeepers of complete transparency on the Epstein predators. Now that Trump’s name appears more than anyone else, other than Epstein himself & his main cohort Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump is of the view that it is “boring stuff, & time for the country needs to move on.”

One should also not forget that it was Alex Acosta who gave Epstein a sweet heart deal & was later appointed to Trump's cabinet. It is also Trump’s present AG who transferred Maxwell to what is more a resort, than a prison.

Meanwhile, it seems shameful that at least 9 other countries have held the rich & powerful accountable, but in the US we are still protecting pedophiles.

SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS

27 women have accused Trump of sexual assault, one of them was 12 years old. I am not aware of a single other world leader with so many allegations and indictments against him.

JANUARY 6^(th) INSURRECTION

Trump: “they were all patriots” & in granting their pardon he proclaimed “what has been done to these people is outrageous”. Instead, he demonized the Capitol police, & continues to bad mouth real patriots like John McCain; John Kelly & Gen Milley & Mark Kelly.

There are about 53 million or so in MAGA (not the 24m or so, who think I ate their cat ) who overlooked his misogyny; spousal abuse; infidelity; racism; fraud convictions; lack of loyalty; lack of empathy; lack of humanity; lack of basic decency or etiquette; arrogance; his illiteracy, his narcissism & so much more. All because he promised you them a better tomorrow. Tomorrow is now here and the question you have to ask yourselves is whether your today is in fact better than yesterday & if so at what price?

Trump has told us that he has no plans to leave the WH. His official Trump store is actually selling Trump 2028 caps, and shirts featuring the phrase ‘rewrite the rules’. So to the 90m of you who sat out the last election, I would remind you that the difference between Harris & Trump was just over 2m votes. I am afraid none of us can afford the luxury of sitting out!

Please show up to vote. It is literally the last guard rail left to save our value systems, and our democracy.

 

Please help your neighbors, bring food, be part of your community.
Don’t let the fact that there are people being sent to concentration camps be swept under the rug by all the distractions.

• The cost of the ‘ball room’ is now estimated at $1 billion
• Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Painting project will now cost $13.1m
• Repainting the border wall is estimated at $500 m to $3billion.
• The Trump de Arc will cost $100 million.
• The Great Gatsby party cost $3.4m, while our Federal employees stood in unemployment lines.
• Each trip to Mara Lago costs about $3.4m (NPR) . As of March 2026, Trump had been to Mara Lago 24 times.
• The supposed DOGE ‘savings’ were going to pay us $5k per household in dividends.
• The tariffs were supposed to pay us $2000 in dividends.
• Replacement of the WH rose garden cost $1.9m. Other refurbishments to the WH are estimated to be between $200m to $400m (Fox 9); Repainting of the Eisenhower executive office is estimated to be another $7.5m; renaming Palm Beach airport cost $5.5m. DOD becoming Department of war is expected to cost us another $2billion (NBC News).
• He unveiled a 15-foot golden statue of himself at his golf course in Doral. Admittedly paid for by 16 crypto currency investors & I am sure they paid for only because they love Trump!

Meanwhile, consumer confidence is plummeting; gas prices are up $1.40 a gallon, & climbing. Cost of goods & services are climbing. Inflation is moving in the wrong direction. Manufacturing jobs are down & our farmers are struggling to survive, & there is no end in sight.

We know you do not care about our financial situation, Mr President. You are still trying to figure out what 'groceries' are!

 

MID TERMS

The only mid-terms, that Trump has ever seen as President, was 2018.

Democrats gained 40 House seats, during those mid-terms.

30 of those House seats were in States that Trump won in 2016.

This was the largest flip by Democrats since 1974 – post the Watergate crisis.

His approval across every poll is much lower now, than it was in 2018.

THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Robert Muller report concluded that the Russian interference was “sweeping & systematic”.

Trump called the whole Russian investigation a ‘hoax’  and as per the Muller report made ‘multiple, systematic efforts’ to impede the investigation.  I am also old enough to remember his disgraceful press conference with Putin in Helsinki, where he took Putin’s word, over his own Intelligence agencies.

THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

We all remember:
The Jan 6^(th) insurrection. His blanket pardon of the so called patriots.

His famous call to Raffensberger (Republican) in Georgia asking for 11,780 votes.

The recounts done in Georgia; Wisconsin; AZ; Michigan; PA & Nevada.

The Jack Smith findings.

More recently Tulsi Gabbard with FBI agents in Fulton County GA.

THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

The European Union Institute for Security Studies found that Russia, China & Iran tried to influence our elections in 2024. Russia seemed to favor Trump. China only wanted to sow ‘seeds doubt and confusion among American voters’, whereas Iran did not favor Trump. 

One would imagine that in normal times our intelligence would at least have looked into it, but that is too much to expect from Trump; Tulsi Gabbard; Pam Bondi; Todd Blanche; or Kash Patel. In fact, I suspect, for them, that there is no upside in doing so.

Trump cannot stand for President again or win, if he does. He will continue to attack the integrity of our election process or rig the election, in any way possible, to stay in the WH. What he is banking on more than anything else, is deterrence, through the optics of fear. Hence all this talk of deploying ICE at voting booths.  

The deterrence did not work in MN, when his ICE agents shot Renee Good & Alex Pritty, & will not work when he deploys ICE agents at voting stations.

90 million sat out the last election. The differential was only about 2m between Harris & Trump. DJT does not understand that love of country, is greater than cult or locker room politics.

 

 

You elected Trump first 2016, despite the Hollywood tapes; the 26 women accusing him of sexual molestation; the 6 bankruptcies; the fraud settlements; the debt write offs, the misogyny; the infidelity; the physical abuse allegations; the dis respect with which he treated people. All because he was rich, & somehow you thought that would translate to competence, intellect or intelligence. He promised you:

MEXICO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL

The US government has so far spent about $15 Billion (BBC)

Another $46.5 Billion has been allocated under the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act in 2025

HE WOULD REPLACE OBAMA CARE WITH SOMETHING MUCH BETTER

HE WOULD REDUCE THE US DEBT

Debt increased from 19.9 trillion to 27.75 trillion. (2017-2021)

HE WOULD CREATE GREAT PAYING MANUFACTURING JOBS

Net loss of 200k manufacturing jobs during Trump 1.0 (2017-2021)

ECONOMIC, MILITARY & TRADE SUCCESSES LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN

"Please, please, it's too much winning, we can't take it anymore, Mr. President". Trump would say.

To be fair, COVID hit in 2020 & it is a little difficult to know what the economy would have done, had COVID not hit. Let us therefore just look at how we as the United States of America handled COVID:

COVID DEATHS: (WHO)

1. US: 1.235 million
2. Brazil 711K
3. India 533k
4. Russia :402K
5. Mexico: 334K
6. UK: 232k
7. Peru 222k
8. Italy: 196k
9. Germany: 183k
10. France: 167k

BUT THE DOW WENT UP:

TRUMP Jan 2017-2021: The Dow did go up from 19,827 to 31,188

BIDEN Jan 2021-2025: The Dow also went up from 31,188 to 43.400

Close to 40% of adults in the US have no money invested in stocks.

TRUMP 2.0

You elected him again, despite his role in the Jan 6^(th) insurrection; his speech after the Proud Boys march in VA; his speech in Helsinki, standing next to Putin; his 34 felony convictions; the 91 criminal charges; the warnings from at least 6 of his cabinet members or senior advisors; his belittling of veterans. Most of you elected him, despite all that, because you somehow thought that your tomorrow would be better than today.

Here we are today, when gas prices are on average $4.40 per gallon; we are in an ill-conceived; ill-defined war which has no good end in sight; we threaten allies & befriend historical enemies: 58% of Canadians (Bloomberg) & 56% of the Brits think we are an unreliable ally; a majority of people in Belgium; Germany; France; Spain; Italy & Poland consider the US a greater threat to the world, than China. (Politico). We have seen accountability for the Epstein files in the UK; France; Sweden; Norway; Slovakia; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; & UAE, but we are still protecting the pedophiles. Trump’s name shows up 38000 times in those files. We separate nursing babies from their mothers; execute US citizens & lock up children; beat up and deport hair dressers and landscapers, all under the garb of immigration reform. Manufacturing jobs are down; our farmers are barely surviving; Consumer confidence is the lowest it has been in decades.

We have survived a lot of scary moments, in the last 100 years or so: the Great Depression; a World War; concentration camps for Japanese Americans; deportation of Mexican Americans; Isolationism; the atrocities of the Civil rights movement; Jim Kro; McCarthyism; J Edgar Hoover’s paranoia; Watergate; the assassination of JFK: MLK & RFK; Covid & so on, but we have always come out on the other side.

Trump cannot run for President again, but he will do everything possible to stay. He is a racist; misogynist and a bully. Whatever your reason for having voted for him before, you have to now decide as to what price you are willing to pay to sell our very value systems; our morality and our Democracy?