House Democratic subcommittee report outlines web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes
Donald Trump staged a hostile takeover of the US’s 250th anniversary celebration to enrich political allies, harvest voter data and promote Christian nationalist ideology, according to a congressional investigation released on Thursday.
The interim report, “From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday”, outlines a web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes orchestrated through a shadow corporation embedded within the National Park Foundation (NPF).
The document was produced by Democratic staff of the House of Representatives’ natural resources committee’s oversight and investigations subcommittee. It has not been officially adopted by the committee.
“Under President Donald Trump, this anniversary has been hijacked and perverted into a hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment,” it states, contending that the machinery built for a national commemoration was converted “into an apparatus for raising and spending money in service of the President’s ego, political ideology, and pet projects.”
And they wonder why nobody gives a fuck this year…
I have fireworks…but not setting them off on the fourth this year…saving them for the day the big-beautiful-obituary hits the newsstands…
Neighbors are gonna be PISSED.
They should be pissed. The whole country should be pissed. I was around for the 200th, and it was a celebration of all of us. This is a disgusting multi-day rally for one guy, and not a very impressive one, unless you count the grift. Truly amazing, the biggest grift.
Republicans ruin everything. No wonder they are balls-deep on King Merdes. Everything he touches turns to shit.
This could have been one of the coolest July 4th in quite some time. Instead, diaper daddy has to get his grubby mitts on it…
I’ve been watching the crowds (or lack therof) for the “Freedom 250” bullshit in DC and laughing my everloving ass off… What a fucking joke…
First off, it’s like 1,000 degrees out right now, NO ONE is going to spend all day at the national mall sweating their balls off for a lame ‘state fair’
(It’s my understanding that State Fairs are usually in the fall, because they were originally intended to celebrate the harvest (or the end of it to be specific)
Also the mosquitoes and gnats and those biting flies that the East has can be annoying AF. At least in the late fall, as long as you don’t have an overly warm year, most of that is done with.
I cannot imagine hanging out in DC in 100 degree weather in July. Being stuck in a bullshit fair like this on top of it? 🤮
At least you don’t have to wait in line.
I never understood American patriotism outside of celebrating Sherman’s based war crime strategy, and parts of WW2.
On a related note, we need a federal holiday specifically recognizing Sherman’s patriotic and glorious March to the Sea.
I kind of understand patriotism…what I don’t understand is how, in the US, the people who are the “most patriotic” are the ones that usually hate everything about the government…
Yeah, they usually confuse nationalistic performative bullshit for patriotism. Don’t let them steal real patriotism from everyone else.
Just because they plaster the flag (and the flag of racists and traitorous losers, too, WTF?!) all over everything and talk about Jesus and the Constitution … does not a patriot make.
Nah patriotism in the US is a facade for white Christian colonizer nationalism.
Fuck them all.
They treat patriotism as a contest and most of their personality.