Sen. Tom Cotton says U.S., allies looking at "weeks, not days, of joint efforts" in Iran

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48. The magnitude of the corruption, which goes back decades, has grown to epic proportions.

It's beyond mind-boggling.

I wish our electeds would bang the drum on the ACTUAL corruption with the relentless vigor the right-wing nuts muster for utterly bullshit "scandals." Yes, they bring it up. But somehow our side has not learned the lesson of repetition. A few statements doesn't cut it. They need to learn to say the same set of things over, and over, and over, and over again until they are sick of hearing themselves say them. And then they need keep saying them. Only then does the "message" have a shot at penetrating.

As they make their statements denouncing the strikes, it is not enough to condemn the violation of the constitution and international law, they need to connect the act to the magnitude of Trump's corrupt bargains with the Saudi crown. They need to bring up the magnitude of the corrupt bargains Trump has entered under the "board of peace" umbrella.

Even before Dar Global, with its deep links to MBS and the Saudi state, started funneling tens of millions in licensing fees to Trump in 2021, even before they partnered with trump org on multiple projects worth billions, even before the Saudi/MBS-led Public Investment Fund shoveled 2 billion into Kushner's Affinity Partners, MBS owned Trump.

As William Rivers Pitt (may he rest in peace) reported in 2019

In 2001, he sold the entire 45th floor of Trump Tower to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for $4.5 million. The fact that Trump is the 45th president serves as further proof that the universe has a gruesome sense of humor.
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“They buy apartments from me,” Trump said at a rally in Alabama in 2015. “They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.” Trump has ample reason to “like them very much”:
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Now, after the recent attack against a significant portion of Saudi Arabia’s petroleum infrastructure, the commander in chief of the United States armed forces appears to have verbally ceded decision-making power over to the 45th floor tenants of Trump Tower.

“There is reason to believe that we know the culprit,” Trump tweeted on Saturday, “are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!”

“Waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!” Every member of the vast, wildly expensive U.S. intelligence-gathering apparatus can take an early lunch, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff can stay in bed, because the president says Saudi Arabia will tell him who launched the attack, and when it will be time to go to war (against Iran).
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