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US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
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Bragging about their hands in our pockets and some STILL can’t see the grift. Insanity.
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Hasan Piker: “Trans people are 1% of the population. They shouldn’t be talked about endlessly. Muslims are 1% of the population. They shouldn’t be talked about endlessly. It’s not a Guatemalan migrant that made your housing more expensive. It’s your landlord, it’s hedge funds buying out all of these homes and rising up their prices. A transgender person is not the reason your energy costs are skyrocketing. It’s the wars we’re waging, the data centers sucking up the energy needs. This is just the truth”
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Tim Dillon on MAGA: “Trump now is playing to the lowest caliber of human being in our country. These are basically people that are just violent psychopaths that are attending these rallies. They don’t care about any of the Epstein stuff. I’ve lost friendships over people that have joined the MAGA cult and you couldn’t get them back. They were gone and you could just see it in their eyes where it’s like, oh you’re gone, you can’t come back. These people are so far gone that they no longer care about anything except what this man says. They have absolutely no logic left”
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BIER: "This is Roger's campaign"
EL SAYED: "Don't be Roger's campaign. Be a journalist"
El Sayed is brilliant. This is how you gather these pathetic propagandist journalists.
Love this dude. @AbdulElSayed
VOTE EL SAYED.
El-Sayed: I have never been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. I never will be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. I'm interested in serving the United States, I'm interested in swearing an oath to the constitution that every senator has sworn an oath to.
If the question about my faith is the issue, which Mike Rogers wants it to be, I think it is sad and beneath him, and frankly beneath the President of the United States to make that an issue because under our constitution you're guaranteed the right to pray as you choose to pray
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What an insanely cool thing to collect
For 28 years, 69-year-old Rick Taylor has gathered tickets from Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632-game streak spanning 1982–1998. Now only eight away, the retired salesman’s 16-box basement collection — each ticket labeled and shielded — ranks among baseball’s most notable. Taylor never anticipated reaching single digits, yet he feels confident about finishing.
🎥 The Associated Press
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Where have I heard this name before … oh yeah … propublica.org/article/krist…
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Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.
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If Americans cannot get Jared Kushner arrested we are powerless and oppressed
Jared Kushner allegedly had access to secret foreign bank accounts involving nearly $2 billion while serving as a senior White House adviser during Trump’s first term, according to Vanity Fair.
The report alleges $750 million in Saudi and Emirati funds was routed into a UAE account, while another $1 billion was deposited into an Israeli account reportedly subject to Benjamin Netanyahu’s oversight.
The alleged arrangements were tied to Kushner’s diplomatic dealings in the Middle East.
Kushner denies the accounts existed.
Follow: @AFpost
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This Forbes investigation is a must-read.
Donald Trump pulled in roughly $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500 million. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825 million.
He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general alleged two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than double what he paid for the entire resort.
A month after the Jupiter deal, he sued the IRS. The settlement his own Justice Department signed bars claims against him over matters that "could be pending," language that appears broad enough to cover this year's taxes. A federal judge found the case was brought to manipulate the judicial process. And the man now running the IRS, who took the job as this deal was being assembled, has a home backing onto those same Jupiter fairways.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody should be able to use the presidency to write his own tax bill.
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We hosted a landmark conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tareq Baconi and Nesrine Malik at London's Southbank Centre this week.
You can watch the whole event here: youtube.com/watch?v=652EVCK1…
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BAIER: Millions of Michiganders have private insurance… Will you tell them today that their plans are going away?
EL-SAYED: No, I don't want to take away anything. It’s about providing healthcare for everybody. It’s like saying because you have public schools, you can’t have private schools. I’m fine with people keeping their private insurance if that’s what they want.
