Trump's $1.8 billion heist
PLUS: Tune into the final hours of the Save America Movement 24-hour live reading of the Epstein files
Donald Trump has crossed another rubicon.
America is besieged by corruption so brazen, so staggering, so nakedly authoritarian that it defies ordinary language. The scale of it is almost impossible to process because it belongs less to the history of the American presidency than to the annals of collapsing kleptocracies and gangster states.
Yesterday, Donald Trump stole $1.776 billion from the United States Treasury.
That is what happened.
A fraudulent and meritless $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a lawsuit that never should have existed in the first place — became the mechanism for a grotesque payoff. The money isn’t compensation. It isn’t justice. It isn’t governance. It’s a slush fund. It’s an extremism fund. It’s a political war chest for a movement built on vengeance, corruption, fanaticism and sedition.
The money will flow under Trump’s direction and command. It will enrich loyalists, propagandists and insurrectionists. It will reward the people who assaulted police officers on January 6, 2021. It will sustain the machinery of political extremism that attempted to overthrow American democracy after Trump lost an election he couldn’t admit he lost because his diseased ego couldn’t tolerate reality.
Outrageous is too small a word.
It’s sickening.
It’s degrading.
It’s the open looting of the American republic by a criminal political movement that no longer even bothers to conceal its contempt for law, ethics or constitutional order.
And while Trump raids the Treasury like a third-world dictator emptying the central bank before fleeing the capital, his Secretary of Defense — or as Pete Hegseth absurdly styles himself, “Secretary of War” — was in Kentucky to campaign against Congressman Thomas Massie.
Why?
Because Massie is the lone Republican in Congress unwilling to avert his eyes from the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and the powerful people connected to them.
Think about the depravity of this moment.
America’s defense secretary, fresh off appearing at a sparsely attended Christian nationalist revival meeting on the National Mall — a spectacle that looked less like an American civic gathering than a theological rally for authoritarianism — is now campaigning on behalf of silence. Silence around the crimes of a predator. Silence around corruption. Silence around rot.
This is what the MAGA movement protects now.
Not liberty.
Not democracy.
Not the Constitution.
Predators protect predators. Corruption protects corruption.
And in Pete Hegseth’s case, there’s an added layer of ugliness because the public record surrounding him is itself drenched in allegations of abuse, misconduct and degradation. The American people should remember that even his own mother once condemned him in devastating terms.
In an email that became public, she wrote to her son:
I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego.
She continued:
You are that man (and have been for years).
And then this:
As your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.
The words are astonishing because they came not from a political opponent, nor from a journalist, nor from an activist — but from his own mother.
America should hear those words again today as Pete Hegseth wields power in service to Trumpism’s moral collapse.
These events aren’t separate.
They belong together.
They must be understood together.
Donald Trump steals billions from the American people, while his “war” secretary campaigns to punish one of the only Republicans unwilling to look away from scandal, corruption and criminality.
This is the story of the age.
This is the story of America’s crisis.
And all of it unfolds as the United States stands just 46 days from the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of imperfect but extraordinary men declared before the world that no king stood above the law. They pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the proposition that liberty belonged to the people — not to a ruler, a church, a strongman, or a mob.
What would they see now?
A president looting the Treasury.
A political movement organized around cult worship.
A Christian nationalist movement blessing corruption.
A Secretary of Defense behaving like a partisan enforcer.
An insurrection normalized.
Truth degraded.
Honor mocked.
And cowardice metastasized across an entire political party.
It’s more than a desecration.
It’s a tragedy.
Because the greatest danger to the American republic has never been an invading army. It has never been a foreign ideology. It has never been a rival power abroad.
The greatest danger has always been moral collapse at home — and that collapse is no longer hypothetical.
It’s here.
Tune into the final hours of the Save America Movement’s 24-hour live reading of the Epstein files
The Save America Movement 24-hour live reading of the Epstein files is now in its 20th hour. If you haven’t yet tuned in, I would encourage you to do so — and to spread the word about it.
We’re bringing much-needed attention to counteract the media’s silence.
The event is anchored by Eliza Orlins, and will actively raise money for two incredible organizations doing the real work on the ground: RAINN and World Without Exploitation (WWE).
We’re streaming uninterrupted for 24 hours on the Save America Movement Substack and YouTube channel.
We’re also streaming it here on The Warning Substack and YouTube channel.
Watch and share the stream here: epsteinfilibuster.com.
Where is the traitorous, evil, supine Congress, controller of the purse strings?
One might consider the theft of $1.8 billion by a president to be an impeachable offense. Trump just wrote another campaign add for Democrats and independents.