Mike Levin

Trump told a Georgia crowd that his own advisers begged him not to brag about oil profits while families are hurting at the pump. His answer? "I don't give a damn." Then he said, "We're making a frickin fortune." So who is "we"?

The fortune is flowing to the oil industry, cashing in on Trump’s war with Iran while you foot the bill. You don't have to be a Democrat to be angry. 73% of likely voters disapprove of how he's handled gas prices. Everyone knows what a tank of gas costs.

We’ve never seen corruption like this. Under Trump, a whole pardon industry has grown up around the White House, with wealthy criminals paying well-connected insiders for a shot at clemency. Some have paid up to a million dollars. This case blows past all of them.

Habba signed the deal while she was still a federal prosecutor. A few weeks after Habba started, Trump gave Herrera a full pardon.

We’ve never seen corruption like this. Under Trump, a whole pardon industry has grown up around the White House, with wealthy criminals paying well-connected insiders for a shot at clemency. Some have paid up to a million dollars. This case blows past all of them.

A billionaire banker named Julio Herrera Velutini was charged with trying to bribe Puerto Rico’s governor to fire the official investigating his bank. Herrera wanted his record wiped clean, so he went looking for a pardon from Trump.

The new Vanity Fair story on Jared Kushner is extraordinary. According to Matthew Cole's upcoming book, foreign intelligence officials watched Kushner access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars tied to Gulf governments while he served as Trump’s senior advisor.

The founders worried about this very thing and wrote the Emoluments Clause because they feared foreign powers would try to buy influence.

The new Vanity Fair story on Jared Kushner is extraordinary. According to Matthew Cole's upcoming book, foreign intelligence officials watched Kushner access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars tied to Gulf governments while he served as Trump’s senior advisor.

Harry Truman left the White House with nothing but a $113 a month Army pension.  Donald Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in office.

Meanwhile, working families are scraping by to cover gas, groceries and electric bills that keep climbing. They haven't seen a dime of Trump's windfall. They're the ones paying for it.

Harry Truman left the White House with nothing but a $113 a month Army pension.  Donald Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in office.

This New York Times report is stunning. About one in six American households is now behind on utility bills. In Oklahoma, a 58-year-old grandmother who depends on an oxygen machine spent the summer living in a single room with blankets hung over the doorways, trying to keep her bill down.

Nobody should have to choose between keeping the lights on and buying groceries. Bringing costs down means ending the war, rolling back these tariffs, and passing real relief for working families.

This New York Times report is stunning. About one in six American households is now behind on utility bills. In Oklahoma, a 58-year-old grandmother who depends on an oxygen machine spent the summer living in a single room with blankets hung over the doorways, trying to keep her bill down.

Trump promised again and again on the campaign trail that he would cut your electricity bill in half. Instead, residential electricity rates have skyrocketed.

This New York Times report is stunning. About one in six American households is now behind on utility bills. In Oklahoma, a 58-year-old grandmother who depends on an oxygen machine spent the summer living in a single room with blankets hung over the doorways, trying to keep her bill down.

Most Americans agree on a simple rule. If you're in charge of regulating a company, you shouldn't be cashing its checks or buying its stock. According to The Washington Post, Nvidia gave $25 million to President Trump's White House ballroom, tied for the biggest gift on the list.

That's exactly why I don't take corporate PAC money, why I don't trade individual stocks, and why I helped launch the End Corruption Caucus. Republicans and Democrats alike should demand full disclosure of every ballroom donor.

Most Americans agree on a simple rule. If you're in charge of regulating a company, you shouldn't be cashing its checks or buying its stock. According to The Washington Post, Nvidia gave $25 million to President Trump's White House ballroom, tied for the biggest gift on the list.

Meanwhile, the president's own disclosures show he's bought millions of dollars in Nvidia stock this year. And earlier this month, he awarded Nvidia's CEO the National Medal of Science.

Most Americans agree on a simple rule. If you're in charge of regulating a company, you shouldn't be cashing its checks or buying its stock. According to The Washington Post, Nvidia gave $25 million to President Trump's White House ballroom, tied for the biggest gift on the list.

If you want to understand how completely this White House has abandoned America's role in the world, read this New York Times piece. Earlier this month, President Trump waived sanctions so Russia could sell more diesel. He got nothing in return.

Putin is a murderous thug. Americans of both parties have known that for a long time. Standing with democracies fighting for their lives is part of who we are.

If you want to understand how completely this White House has abandoned America's role in the world, read this New York Times piece. Earlier this month, President Trump waived sanctions so Russia could sell more diesel. He got nothing in return.

Six Republican Senators joined six Democrats in calling the diesel deal a betrayal of Ukraine. They're right, and I'm grateful they said it out loud.

If you want to understand how completely this White House has abandoned America's role in the world, read this New York Times piece. Earlier this month, President Trump waived sanctions so Russia could sell more diesel. He got nothing in return.

Daily reminder that Trump and Republican leadership are spending billions of your tax dollars on military operations against Iran that Congress never authorized,

expanding Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agenda,

The Washington Post just obtained the internal donor list for President Trump’s ballroom, and there’s one big red flag I wasn’t expecting. It involves Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted in 2022 on bribery charges tied to Puerto Rico’s former governor.

The other ballroom donor info shows $333 million steered into a White House account the president directly controls, with at least $77 million coming from donors who asked to stay hidden.

The Washington Post just obtained the internal donor list for President Trump’s ballroom, and there’s one big red flag I wasn’t expecting. It involves Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted in 2022 on bribery charges tied to Puerto Rico’s former governor.

After the 2024 election, his daughter gave $3.5 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. His charges were reduced to a misdemeanor in August 2025.

Our intelligence agencies concluded that Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in 2020, just as they found he had in 2016.

This is the same president who was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine while pressing Zelensky to investigate his political rival.