Amanda Carpenter

Why is Trump going to lie about our elections from the Oval Office tonight in a prime-time speech?

There's 2.2 billion reasons.

He has turned the presidency into the most lucrative grift in political history, and he doesn't wanna to lose his MAGA protectors in Congress.

From me, pass it on.

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"The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that 'it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.'"

www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/k...

Ken Paxton’s voter registration may violate Texas election law - The Texas Tribune

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

We’ve been dragged into Trump's Golden Age of Corruption.

We need a game plan to bring it to an end and hold his administration accountable.

That means more than voting them out.

It means GETTING THE MONEY BACK for the American people.

From me.

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THREAD.

Given the news that Trump is planning to deliver an Oval Office speech tomorrow night to abuse his office to spread lies about the elections, we've updated our Executive Override Report to show what we've been tracking over the last few months.

protectdemocracy.org/work/executi...

Deceive, Disrupt, Deny in full effect

The last four months have seen the president's election interference strategy accelerate, even as resistance to that strategy has kept pace.

*Reporting that's well worth your time to read.*

HuffPost's @svdate.bsky.social went to Hungary to talk with people on the ground about how they defeated Orbán.

Their experience provides lessons & inspo for those of us trying to beat authoritarians in the US.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Hungary Escaped The Clutches Of A Power-Mad Autocrat. Can We?

Hungarians resoundingly rejected a would-be autocrat and got another lease on life for their democracy. Can we?

Kash Patel was using FBI money to buy BMW cars? The entitlement has no end.

This deep-seated need to appear tough, cool, and rich warrants study. I cannot grasp it.

www.mediaite.com/media/news/d...

Chuck Grassley Demands Answers on Kash Patel Spending

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has joined Democratic colleagues in requesting more information on FBI Director Kash Patel's flights and spending.

It's not a mystery why Trump is working so hard to spread lies about elections.

Follow the money.

He's pulling off the most lucrative grift in presidential history and wants his MAGA House and Senate to protect him from any accountability.

Dan Alexander @danalexander21.bsky.social

You may have seen reports that Donald Trump hauled in $2.2 billion in 2025. Turns out, he actually made even more. New story released this morning: www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Trump Made Even More Money Than You Thought Last Year

America’s salesman-in-chief capitalized on the most lucrative pitch of his life. Now Trump is selling something else—the myth that he doesn’t know how he made so much.

REASON MAG: The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History, by the Numbers

"Donald Trump and his family are executing corruption at a scale never previously contemplated in the American experiment."

reason.com/2026/07/09/t...

The most corrupt presidency in American history, by the numbers

Looking back through the biggest scandals in American history through the lens of Trump 2.0.

Audit the White House.

Find every penny of ill-gotten gains and get the money back!

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com

While the legal work of forensic auditing and asset tracing is complex, the message is a simple one: You can’t keep what you stole.

Undoing Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption

He’s made the presidency into a profitable grift. Here’s how some of his ill-gotten gains might be clawed back.

Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a grift.

Here is how to undo Trump's golden age of government corruption.

From me for The Bulwark.

www.thebulwark.com/p/undoing-tr...

Undoing Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption

He’s made the presidency into a profitable grift. Here’s how some of his ill-gotten gains might be clawed back.

The grift never ends.

Truth Social wants to sell *faster* access to Wall Street so people can bet and trade and make money off Trump's posts.

He is running the govt and enriching himself by running the govt at the same time.

www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/b...

Truth Social will sell Wall Street quicker access to posts | CNN Business

Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.

Donald Trump is going to spread a ton of lies tonight about the elections.

BUT WHY.

Because he is running the biggest presidential grift in history and wants to keep his MAGA protectors in Congress to shield him from any accountability.

Do not lose sight of his WHY. Talk about the WHY.

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Networks that did not cover live were validated.

That speech was a kitchen-sink mishmash of moldy six-year-old conspiracy slop circling around the drain.

Reply to @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

What if I told you reformers in Hungary are beating back MAGA-style authoritarian corruption with a "get the money back" playbook?

Would that be something we ought to try here? (YES!)

More details from me in this vid here.

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A very thorough run down here of how Trump is monetizing the presidency for personal profit.

We can’t let them get away with it.

Audit the White House and take back ill-gotten gains!

stevenrattner.com/2026/07/trum...

Audit the White House and claw back every single fraud dollar.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social

Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made more than $100K by placing bets on Trump's speeches on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators found abcnews.com/US/white-hou...

WV Secretary of State Kris Warner says federal judge was right to dismiss DOJ’s unredacted voter data claims

"State law is very clear that we can’t share private voter data. That’s telephone numbers, email addresses, driver’s license, Social Security numbers."

wvmetronews.com/2026/07/14/s...

Secretary of State says federal judge was right to dismiss DOJ's unredacted voter data claims - WV MetroNews

As in the other states, lawyers for West Virginia argued the Justice Department request lacks a specific factual basis and pursues a pretextual purpose related to immigration enforcement rather than v...

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No, I am not exaggerating.

Speaker Mike Johnson: "I run the protection program."

www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

‘I run the protection program’: Johnson vows to shield Trump and his allies from scrutiny

The Republican House speaker abandoned all subtlety, promising to protect the White House from oversight if the GOP holds on to its majority.

In-freaking-credible.

elizabeth @kat223.bsky.social

www.startribune.com/mike-lindell...

Mike Lindell, Trump’s pick for governor, isn’t registered to vote in Minnesota

Texas lists an active voter registration for the Republican businessman, who has drawn criticism for moving there and returning.

Taxpayers are paying to make the Qatari plane "gift" secure for a president. Not to be Trump's personal jet forever.

If Trump tries to take it, we can send a repo man to get it back. We may not approve of this "gift," but it's definitely not his to keep.

www.facebook.com/AC360/videos...

60K views · 1.2K reactions | President Trump says the new Air Force One plane, which was a gift from Qatar to the US government, will be donated and reside in his future presidential library. Randi Kaye digs into whether or not he can actually do that. | Anderson Cooper 360

President Trump says the new Air Force One plane, which was a gift from Qatar to the US government, will be donated and reside in his future presidential library. Randi Kaye digs into whether or not...

If everyone is really having in-depth convos with Mitch McConnell on the phone, you'd think part of the conversation would be about the actual reason he's been in the hospital for 3+ weeks.

How is it we still don't know? Ridiculous.

Just for the sake of conversation.
We have access to paternity kits.
Why not deport men who impregnate foreign women in US land?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Rep. Angles Ogles on his "Anchors Away" bill: "If you're pregnant and you're from a foreign nation, you know what? It's time for Congress to pass a law saying you can't come here."

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A woman is about to SMASH the record--both men's and women's--for SOLO rowing from California to Hawaii. She'll be there soon. www.facebook.com/share/v/18ra...

"Dangerous" and "corrupt" top the words Americans are most likely to use to describe President Trump.

From this Economist/YouGov poll: yougov.com/en-us/articl...