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@BartunBreit1 year ago

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is ordered to pay $5M in election fraud challenge

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell talks to reporters at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.Jae C. Hong/AP ST.PAUL, Minn.An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden.
 @BartunBreit1 year ago

Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers' and 'Suckers'

The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
 @BartunBreit1 year ago

Kushner's Firm Was Backed by Investments From the Emirates and Qatar

Wealth funds in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have invested hundreds of millions of dollars with Jared Kushner's private equity firm, according to people with knowledge of the transactions, joining Saudi Arabia in backing the venture launched by former President Donald J. Trump's son-in-law as he left the White House.
 @BartunBreit1 year ago
@ACTBrigitte Putting aside the issue that there were several bank failures, he was handed a strong regulatory apparatus to avoid them...of course, he fucked that up too...

The facts on Trump's 2018 loosening of regulations on banks like SVB | CNN Politics

After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed late last week following a run on the bank, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont argued that the culprit was clear: an absurd 2018 law, signed by then-President Donald Trump, that rolled back regulations on banks of SVB's size.President Joe Biden wasn't as direct as Sanders in blaming the 2018 rollback for SVB's implosion, but he, too, criticized the Trump law in his Monday comments on the banking system.
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