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Thanks for engaging on this @jaredkushner! Look fwd to reviewing all your financial documents and any agreements with foreign nationals in January. And now that you are back in “public service” make sure to preserve all written communications as required by law. #ButHisEmails
CNN published a deeply misleading story and headline suggesting that my diplomatic work in the Middle East somehow benefited investments in Israeli defense companies.
But CNN’s own reporting says otherwise. Buried behind a paywall, it acknowledges: “CNN found no indication that Kushner’s actions as a diplomat directly affected the investments reviewed.”
Phoenix is not a defense company. It is one of Israel’s largest publicly traded financial institutions, highly regulated and managing approximately $220 billion across thousands of investments.
Think of Phoenix as the Israeli equivalent of Vanguard or Fidelity. It manages the retirement savings of millions of Israelis. The savers don’t choose the individual investments, and neither do I. I have no role in deciding what Phoenix buys or sells. It has performed very well for Affinity and our investors, up more than five times since our initial investment.
Affinity is an SEC-registered investment firm. Our investment in Phoenix is public and dates to before President Trump was re-elected and before I returned to public service. Affinity does not own the defense companies highlighted in CNN’s story.
Those facts make for a less provocative headline, but a much more accurate story.
Misleading stories will not distract me from the work President Trump asked me to do: help end wars, bring people together and pursue peace. That work is too important.
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Democratic Rep.Don Beyer heard their was work being done at the site of Trump’s Arch so he went there & sure enough there were workers with heavy equipment there working even though there’s a court ordered block till November.The workers knew nothing about the block & kept working.
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One day after @jaredkushner took to this platform to insist his work diplomatically is unconnected to his business interests, the Times drops this one
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The president was talking about Venezuela's role in drug trafficking, then started talking about the attack on Iran's nuclear sites...mistakenly mentioned drugs...and then, instead of just correcting himself, decided to pretend Iran's nuclear sites were indeed "drug factories." x.com/Acyn/status/2105839593…
Trump on Midnight Hammer strikes on Iran: They unloaded every single bomb—went right down air chutes into this uhhh drug factories, really, that's what they were doing. They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs. These drug factories/nuclear factories were hit so hard
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A CNN investigation revealing Jared Kushner, tasked by Trump to negotiate peace in Gaza, owns a company with a major stake in a firm linked to Israel's military. @katie_polglase reports.
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Man demands mariachi band stop playing—at restaurant in Mexico City.
"Do you think it's correct for a mariachi to play in a place like this!" man yells.
"It's the style of the restaurant," manager says.
"It's your decision to come in or not to come in—but this is our style."
Spanish speaking outlets have nicknamed the man "Lord Mariachi"—but his identity has not yet been made public.
Incident occurred at Ave María restaurant in Coyoacán, Mexico City.
Grace Bravata doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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the fact that JD Vance tells
this monstrous lie - like his eating-pets lie - shows the teachings of the Bible mean absolutely nothing to him.
there's a black hole where his soul ought to be.
JD Vance: "Think about this. If your 6-year-son comes home one day and says he's a girl, Talafreako says, and I quote, it is abusive -- abusive! -- if you don't let school officials but him on hormones and change his pronouns. Nothing in the Bible supports any of this, of course."
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John Kennedy before he adopted his Foghorn Leghorn MAGA character.
Ron Filipkowski
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Hegseth is waging an illegal, immoral Holy war.
We are not in the time of the crusades.
We need to pass @RepThomasMassie’s resolution the day Congress is back to remove him.
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE
That means the case cannot be brought again 
Huge victory for Davey, for us at @DDFund_ & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law
More to follow!
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Jacques V. retweeted
The Pink Panther “Does your dog bite?” gag was already 80 years old when Peter Sellers did it.
It’s an old vaudeville joke from the late 1800s, and it lands because the “Zimmer” line disarms you first. Plus Graham Stark was Sellers’ best friend; the timing was years in the making
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Don’t forget, articles of impeachment were filed against Hegseth by GOP Rep. Massie and are to be voted on the next time the House convenes, which will be after Nov. 3.
Pete Hegseth: Lord, here I am. Send me. Send me to fight the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me.
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in FDR's time, journalists & photographers diplomatically did not reveal that the president was in a wheelchair. today, no physical impairment would be tolerated in a president even if, as with FDR, the fact of his being in a wheelchair in no way interfered with or defined his presidency.
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What’s the difference between this c^nt and the Ayatollah?
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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Imagine how many people had to approve this. Staffers. Researchers. Communications people. Graphic designers. Printers. Senate aides. And apparently not one person knew the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
MAGA Republicans are really stupid people.
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Perhaps Senator Eric Schmitt was a little too hawkish during his questioning of Jack Smith today. After accusing the former special counsel of perjury over whether he’d been at a Hawks basketball game, Schmitt was hit with an awkward moment of live fact-checking.
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Sen. Klobuchar to Sen. Schmitt: “I’m former prosecutor and I’ve never seen anyone say, ‘What do you think of this?’ and put it down.”
Smith: “I recall going to a University of Maryland basketball game where Caitlin Clark was playing…It was Maryland playing Iowa.”
Sen. Klobuchar: “Could it then be the University of Iowa’s Hawkeyes?…Perhaps you should’ve looked at it more carefully.”
Sen. Schmitt: “Are we just having an open session?…I presented him with text messages about him wanting to meet with people that could’ve obviously been related to the prosecution coordinated with his office in Atlanta!”
Sen. Klobuchar: "I think people should have their facts straight before they accuse someone of being a dirtbag."
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