BREAKING: Trump's missing and his fund is dead
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In a major win, the Trump administration officially killed its $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund Tuesday afternoon — acting attorney general Todd Blanche told a House committee “We are not moving forward with the fund. Period.” — ending one of the most corrupt and chaotic episodes of Trump’s second term after courts blocked it and his own party revolted. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has not made a single public appearance in nearly a week — his last in-person event was a cabinet meeting on May 27th, and his White House schedule has been blank ever since. Mehmet Oz told reporters Tuesday that Trump gets tested “every day” because “he likes the results” — a claim that raised more questions than it answered. And Marco Rubio faced his first public congressional grilling since the Iran war began — with Democrats hammering him on the war, Taiwan arms sales, Ebola, and the administration’s mysterious boat-strike program that has killed more than 200 people.
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THE SLUSH FUND IS OFFICIALLY DEAD. BLANCHE TOLD CONGRESS “WE ARE NOT MOVING FORWARD WITH THE FUND. PERIOD.”
In a significant victory for everyone who fought back against one of the most brazen acts of corruption in recent American history, acting attorney general Todd Blanche testified before the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday afternoon and declared the $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund officially dead.
“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche said.
“Not moving forward with the fund ever?” Rep. Grace Meng of New York asked.
“Correct,” Blanche said.
The fund — created as part of Trump’s sweetheart settlement of his own personal $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, which would have used taxpayer money to pay Trump allies who claimed political persecution, potentially including January 6th rioters who attacked police — is now gone. Two courts had blocked it. More than a dozen Republican senators had demanded it be killed. Democrats had promised to force Republicans to take uncomfortable votes on it in the Senate. Trump’s own aides had privately described it as a mess of their own making. The Treasury Department’s top lawyer resigned the day it was announced. The fund lasted less than three weeks.
What survives is something Democrats are not letting go: under the underlying settlement, the Justice Department agreed it was “forever barred” from prosecuting potential crimes over tax filings by Trump, his family, or his companies. That IRS immunity — worth potentially billions to the Trump family — remains fully intact even as the fund is abandoned. Senator Thom Tillis said he plans to introduce an amendment to permanently bar the administration from ever resurrecting the fund. “I just feel like we need to do a Wayback Machine and just pretend like this never existed,” Tillis said.
The fund is dead. The IRS immunity lives. Trump’s allies can still sue individually for compensation. The corruption that created all of it remains on the books.
TRUMP HAS NOT MADE A SINGLE PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN SIX DAYS. HIS SCHEDULE HAS BEEN BLANK. NOBODY IS EXPLAINING WHY.
President Trump has not made a single public appearance in nearly a week. His last in-person public event was a cabinet meeting on May 27th. Since then — nothing. No events. No press. No president. His White House schedule has not been light. It has been blank.
This is not a minor scheduling gap. It is the same week that Iran cut off negotiations. Americans were injured in a missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base. A federal judge ordered Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center. A second judge said the court may have been defrauded. The $1.8 billion slush fund collapsed. His concert series imploded. His own allies told Politico the White House is in a “funk.” And the president was nowhere to be seen.
Pre-taped interviews have kept the illusion going — Trump has appeared on CNBC and Truth Social — but there is a significant difference between a president sitting for a controlled, edited conversation and a president actually showing up in public, taking questions, and doing the job. One is a performance. The other is governance.
The White House has offered no explanation for the cleared calendar. The administration that spent years attacking Joe Biden for a light schedule has said nothing about a president who has now gone six days without a public appearance during one of the most consequential weeks of his second term. Trump turns 80 on June 14th. He visited Walter Reed last week for his third time in 13 months. His medical report was dropped at 11:36pm on a Friday night. The White House says he is in excellent health.
The schedule is blank. The president is not appearing in public. Nobody in the White House is explaining why. The question is not just where Trump is. The question is who is running the country right now.
MEHMET OZ SAID TRUMP GETS TESTED EVERY DAY BECAUSE “HE LIKES THE RESULTS.” THAT RAISED MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERED.
At the White House press briefing Tuesday, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz — the former daytime television host now running the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — was asked why Trump has had so many doctor visits during his second term. His answer was remarkable.
“I think he likes the results. He does really well,” Oz said. “He aces the test every single day.”
Every single day. Trump is being tested every single day. That is what the man the White House sent to answer health questions said at the podium on Tuesday.
Oz went on to describe Trump’s medical results as “spectacular” and said that “that amount of energy and that amount of mental acuity does not exist in a vacuum.” He said Trump has “unique ability to just keep going at all hours of the day with remarkable strength.”
Trump’s most recent Walter Reed visit was his third in 13 months — a frequency that has no modern presidential precedent outside of urgent medical conditions. His medical report, dropped at 11:36pm on a Friday night, showed a 14-pound weight gain, rising heart rate, rising triglycerides, persistent leg swelling, and missing details from last year’s version. The doctor who declared him “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency” during his first campaign later said Trump had dictated that letter himself.
Trump has not appeared in public in six days. His White House schedule is blank. And the official sent to explain his health told reporters Tuesday that the president gets tested every single day because he likes getting good scores.
Mehmet Oz said Trump is tested every day. He said Trump likes the results. The president has not appeared in public in six days. His medical report was dropped at midnight on a Friday. The White House says everything is fine.
RUBIO FACED CONGRESS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE IRAN WAR BEGAN. DEMOCRATS WANTED ANSWERS. THEY DIDN’T GET MANY.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified before Congress Tuesday for the first time since the Iran war began on February 28th — facing sharp questioning from Democrats on the war, Taiwan arms sales, Ebola, and the administration’s secretive boat-strike program — in the first of four congressional appearances over two days.
On Iran, Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that any sanctions relief for Iran would be tied exclusively to concessions on its nuclear program — not to reopening the Strait of Hormuz. “Any sanctions relief is condition-based, which means it has to be in return for the reason why those sanctions were put in place in the first place, which is their nuclear program,” Rubio said. In a sharp exchange with Senator Cory Booker, Rubio declared “The war is over” — a statement Booker immediately disputed.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen — the outgoing ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee — blasted Rubio for “stonewalling” Congress, noting that her staff’s briefing requests had gone unanswered for between 90 days and over a year. “You would not have stood for this kind of stonewalling by the administration when you were a senator,” she told him directly.
On Taiwan, Rubio confirmed that a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan remains “under review” — even as Trump had said publicly the sale would be used as a “negotiating chip” with China. On Ebola, Rubio defended the administration’s aid cuts to disease detection programs despite research organizations estimating that 500,000 children died as a result. On the administration’s boat-strike program in the Caribbean — which has killed more than 200 people since September — Senator Tim Kaine raised concerns about targeting criteria, noting that “the presence of narcotics on a boat is not one of the targeting criteria.”
Rubio testified for the first time since the war began. The war is 94 days old. The deal is not signed. Congress got few answers. Rubio appears again Wednesday.
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Even when trump was showing up, the question of who is running the country was still valid.
Tested every day? Sounds like testing for high sugar levels from type 2 diabetes. That requires testing every day. Diabetes would explain the prevalence of those daytime naps, too. The swelling of his ankles, since diabetes affects the kidneys. Type 2 diabetes also csn affect the heart.
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