Trump’s Own People Just Did The One Thing He Never Saw Coming. And It’s About Fricking Time.
His own Park Service couldn't hide it. Democrats boxed in his slush fund. Michigan grabbed a mop. Congress builds an anti-corruption coalition
I’ve got good news for you today—the kind we don’t get nearly enough. Four times this week, people refused to let Trump’s corruption slide—and one of those times, it was his own people who called him out. Wait until you see what happened.
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EVEN HIS OWN REGIME COULDN’T HIDE THIS ONE
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is hallowed ground. On the steps above it, Marian Anderson sang on Easter Sunday in 1939 after a whites-only hall slammed its doors on her for being Black. 75,000 Americans showed up for that. On those same steps in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told the world he had a dream.
Trump looked at it and saw a paint job. He handed the work—no bidding, no competition—to a Virginia company that had never held a federal contract in its life. He bragged he’d found “a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools.”
The bill started at $1.8 million. Six weeks later it was $13.1 million. Seven times over—for paint.
Here’s the part that’ll make you smile. Trump’s own National Park Service wouldn’t go along with it. Their own report said the company was charging way too much—a 20% profit, when honest government work like this runs 6 to 12%. That one greedy number means at least $850,000 extra, straight out of your pocket and into the contractor’s. They called it “inflated and excessive,” in writing.
And it gets worse. The regime is footing the bill with your National Park tickets—around $7 million skimmed from the entrance fees families pay at the gate, and from the senior passes folks over 62 buy just to see their own parks.
This isn’t a Democrat on a cable news panel making noise. It’s Trump’s corruption laid bare by his own government—so bad that his own people wouldn’t cover for him.
DEMOCRATS COME FOR THE SLUSH FUND
As we follow the money, it just keeps getting worse for Trump. He sued the US government for $10 billion and out came a $1.776 billion fund as a “settlement.” Our tax dollars at work—writing checks to the Jan 6 mob and the cronies who keep Trump afloat. He even rigged it to land on 1,776. These greedy people are not subtle.
Then Democrats found a way to fight back. In DC, Rep. Mike Thompson—the top Democrat on the House tax committee—wrote a bill with a simple trick: tax the payouts at 100%. That means if a rioter receives a dollar from Trump’s slush fund, the government takes the whole dollar right back. Every cent. The fund would become worthless.
And it’s not just the House—Senators Schumer and Wyden introduced the same bill in the Senate.
The states also brought the fire. New York Assemblymember Alex Bores didn’t blink: “If you storm the Capitol and you take from this slush fund—too bad, we’re taking it.” A day later, Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged the same from California—a 100% tax. New Jersey Assembly members are drafting similar legislation.
And then the hammer dropped. A federal judge just froze the entire fund until a hearing next month.
Trump wanted to make his rioters rich. In one week, Democrats came at his slush fund from every direction—and a judge stopped it cold.
MICHIGAN DOES WHAT DC WON’T
One number tells you everything. DTE Energy is a monopoly that sets the electric bill for half of Michigan. Along with its executives and lobbyists, they’ve shoveled campaign cash to 138 of the state’s 148 lawmakers. That’s not a loophole—it’s a stickup in a three-piece suit.
On Wednesday in Lansing, an army of folks who call themselves Mop Up Michigan—some carrying actual mops—hauled 562,068 signatures through the door of the Bureau of Elections. Their goal: put it to the voters in 2026—a ballot measure that would ban monopolies and big government contractors from donating to political campaigns.
They needed 357,000 signatures to qualify. They turned in 200,000 more than that.
And it was the people behind all of it. Eight grassroots groups and tens of thousands of folks made it happen. You can’t get four Americans to agree on a pizza, but 81% of Michigan voters back the ban, according to a Public Policy Polling survey—including 90% of Democrats, 84% of independents, and 66% of Republicans.
Washington wrings its hands. Folks in Michigan grabbed a mop and got to work.
DEMOCRATS TAKE ON TRUMP’S CORRUPTION
Democrats have been sounding the alarm on Trump’s corruption—and now they’re building something to fight it head-on.
At dawn on Wednesday, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jason Crow, and Mike Levin launched the End Corruption Caucus. They kicked things off by introducing a measure challenging every member of Congress to go on the record and condemn corruption, out loud, “in all its forms.”
Crow didn’t dress it up: “Our democracy is buckling under the influence of billionaire donors and special interests.” Levin hit harder: “At no other point in American history have we seen corruption so rampant in our politics.”
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🌊 while Washington wrings 🫧 their hands 🙌 , Michigan grabbed a mop 🧹 ! One of the best lines The Dworkin Report has ever written.
🌊 🧹 are the chickens finally coming home to roost, y’all? 🐓 🤠