Living witnesses need to come forward because they will be safer.....
The decade that TRump spent with his pageants was the '90s. He was married to Marla Maples. She is a very fit 62 year old living and working in Florida. From what I read she supposedly describes herself as a women's advocate for various causes.
Info from a Ms. Coleman surfaced that back then Marla warned her to keep her 14 year old daughter/participant away from her husband and all those men. Get her on the record.
Luther Campbell (rapper) publicly told his story of a party TRump hosted in Florida. The young looking pageant girls were there having sex, booze and drugs. He knew it was a trap. Get him on the record.
Listen for yourself---SMOKING GUN Evidence of Trump DARK PAST Resurface
There have to be hundreds of witnesses. No one wants to admit they didn't do a damn thing to stop these crimes. They were scared of him then, they must be terrified now. Too f-ing bad. Get them in front of Congress. Make. Them. Talk. See you in the street.
Women using the pseudonyms, Katie Johnson and Tiffany Doe made gut wrenching statements about what trump did to them. Why mainstream media has not surfaced their allegations is a mystery to me.
Every one of the people mentioned in the files, is a potential witness that can lead to even more witnesses.
DOJ is still supposedly processing thousands of documents related to the case and has identified over 1,200 names of individuals who are either victims or their relatives for redaction purposes, but the total number is believed to be higher.
By obfuscating, every DOJ/FBI employee invoved is exposed to a potential prosecution for the coverup.
1. The question on many sites today is will Trump pardon Ghislaine Maxwell?
2. Rep. Elise Stefanik is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to her upstate House seat, NY 21st, she announced yesterday. Stefanik had been scheduled to be the featured guest at the Oneida County GOP’s holiday dinner Friday night. But she canceled, citing business in Washington — despite the fact the House has adjourned for the year.
The following Republican senators have announced they will not seek re-election in 2026:
Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
Thom Tillis (North Carolina)
U.S. House Representatives Not Seeking Re-election
As of December 2025, several House Republicans have announced they are leaving the House. The list below distinguishes between those who are retiring from public office entirely and those seeking another office.
Retiring from Public Office:
Jodey Arrington (Texas, 19th District)
Don Bacon (Nebraska, 2nd District)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia, 14th District; resigning in Jan. 2026)
Morgan Luttrell (Texas, 8th District)
Michael McCaul (Texas, 10th District)
Troy Nehls (Texas, 22nd District)
Dan Newhouse (Washington, 4th District)
Running for Another Office:
Andy Barr (Kentucky, 6th District) - running for Senate
Andy Biggs (Arizona, 5th District) - running for Governor
Buddy Carter (Georgia, 1st District) - running for Senate
Mike Collins (Georgia, 3rd District) - running for Senate
Randy Feenstra (Iowa, 4th District) - running for Governor
Ashley Hinson (Iowa, 2nd District) - running for Senate
Wesley Hunt (Texas, 38th District) - running for Senate
John James (Michigan, 10th District) - running for Governor
Dusty Johnson (South Dakota, At-Large) - running for Governor
Nancy Mace (South Carolina, 1st District) - running for Governor
Barry Moore (Alabama, 2nd District) - running for Senate
Ralph Norman (South Carolina, 5th District) - running for Governor
John Rose (Tennessee, 6th District) - running for Governor
Chip Roy (Texas, 21st District) - running for Attorney General
David Schweikert (Arizona, 1st District) - running for Governor
Thomas Tiffany (Wisconsin, 7th District) - running for Governor
3. Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche. IMHO they are not immune from civil suits.
The question on many sites today is will Trump pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Of course, he will, and then she will get hit by a truck as she leaves the jailhouse. LOL
What I find striking is how self-destructive it is for the ultra-wealthy—particularly those with deep ties to the healthcare industry—to allow the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits to expire. The Affordable Care Act itself was built on a framework developed by the Heritage Foundation, explicitly designed to stabilize and protect the for-profit health insurance industry.
The individual mandate and premium tax credits were central to that proposal. Their purpose was to maximize enrollment—not out of altruism, but to broaden the risk pool, suppress premium growth, and ensure a steady stream of paying customers. The result has been exactly that: millions more people purchasing private health insurance. Undermining the subsidies now doesn’t weaken “Obamacare” so much as it destabilizes the very market architecture the ACA was designed to preserve.
While it’s easy to default to “they just don’t care,” the reality is more perplexing. The ultra-rich who profit from health insurers, healthcare conglomerates, and pharmaceutical companies are allowing a system that delivers them enormous returns to erode. The enhanced subsidies cost them pennies on the dollar compared to what they extract from the system, largely at the expense of average Americans—yet they are not fighting harder to preserve the status quo that so clearly benefits them.
I wrote about this in a piece I recently published on Substack.
My guess, guess only, is that they don't give a damn about health care any more because they are betting on some kind of AI jackpot to make them trillionaires on the backs of everyone else,
Just a quick note, 45 years ago I knew Mike Rounds slightly when I worked in the South Dakota government. His wife was in the same office and he used to drop by and chat. He was pleasant and genial and probably still is, and clearly has no clue what the GOP's agenda really is. How it will grind down his already poor state seems to have escaped him. I bet there are a lot of people in Congress like that, just going along to get along and without a clue how the ground will open under their feet.
The Epstein files are turning out to be a nothing burger as I predicted, Not because there is nothing in them, but because Bondi has scrubbed and redacted them of anything Trump, and has left in only that which implicates liberals and Democrats. She has had nine months to do it.
Having Congress vote yay, and Trump sign the bill, was all part of the plan, and no one was suspicious? Liberals asleep at the switch.
We were punked with the Mueller Report, the Jack Smith Investigation, time and again when it comes to Trump and his crimes we are punked, we never learn. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, I can't be fooled again.
Republicans and the health care plan. Well AHIP has it's claws into both parties. Pelosi and Rahm killed the perfect (universal health care, amending the enabling legislation to change eligiility from age 65 to birth, in favor of the Heritage Foundation plan which provided profits for AHIP.
The attempt to repeal the ACA is performance theater,to satisfy the MAGA base, who is opposed to anything and everything liberal, even if it means cutting their own throat.
The admonition of LBJ rings clear still: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
The MAGA base perceives SNAP, the ACA and all such policies as helping ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves.
Alexandra Pelosi made a documentary after Obama’s election, called The Right feels wronged. He interviewed a toothless red neck in bib overalls, standing on a crate in front of his garbage strewn single wide in Mississippi, He said he was opposed to food stamps because they went to those “lazy nigrahs” , she replied but you get food stamps, he said “That’s different, I deserve them”
No Daniel. I am an aggressive progressive. The passivity of the Democratic party is why Trump has turned the Oval office into an Offal office.
Let's take the Epstein files.
First it was a discharge petition, the Republican congress stalled, until Adelita Grijalva was sworn in and the discharge petition passed.
Then they had a change of heart and passed the bill to release the files, almost unaminously, the senate signed it and Trump signed off, because Bondi had been srubbing the files.
Watchint Velshi just now, 500 pages of the files have been redacted, totally black, Rep Raja Krisnhanworthi of Illinois, said he searched the files using names that he knew where in there including Trump and nothing came up.
And you and other fools run around patting yourself on the back, for what: Nothing.
You accuse me of being a Trump spokesman, I think you are projecting, You spend a lot of time trying to get us spinning our wheels, chasing snipes.
After reading Daniel's comments for a few years, I think he believes there is a legal solution for everything. There isn't, especially for the poor and working people. I appreciate reading both of your opinions.
There is no legal solution Gloria, as the "legal" system is MAGA, Trumpified.
He and others tout the victories at the lower courts, but they are almost always TEMPORARY stays, when they should be permanent, that is the first tell. Trump and his administration has a tendency to ignore them anyway, but they inevitably appeal them and they are reversed on appeal by the Trumpfified or intimidated District Appeals Court, If they aren't they are appealed to the Supreme court, if the case favors Trump and is appealed by the defendant, then SCOTUS dismisses it via the shadow (emergency) docket, and only accepts what they consider are important precedent setting cases, and when they do the finding is for Trump, every case but two and those he ignored.
Trump can ignore rulings of the Supreme court, because there is no one to enforce them. Like Andrew Jackson said: Justice Marshall has ruled, let him enforce the ruling.
It is worse than that, Pam Bondi has total control over the Justice Department, which includes FBI, DEA, and US Marshalls.
The US Marshalls are suppose to work for the courts, and enforce subpoena's, but Trump has used them for backing up ICE and escorting the pimple faced DOGE boys into government facilities.
The whole system is corrupt, Trumpified, and the remedy is not the law, because they are the law.
Unless you expect a thief and a murdered to arrest,try,imprison themselves.
Why are they jumping off the cliff? Most are wealthy beyond that of the "commoners" and if not they know their billionaire owners will bail them out, up to a point of course.
The Repubs keeping on with the Krasnov administration to fly down the rabbit hole of crashing Obama care as if nobody will notice in the long run. It makes all of us that promoted a single payer or allow states to do so look brilliant. The left coast needs a waiver to take the plunge. Both Obama and Biden failed to make that possible. Seem the 5D is the only possibility.
I thought that blue state governors were engaging in an interstate compact, then the whole thing dropped off the radar. We need to stop whining and bitching and kvetching about every Trump outrage, they are endless and coming at us like a fire hose (Bannon's tactic)
We need remedies,not bitches and scandals, and an interstate compact is an answer.
Also I send email via the website to Gov Pritzker, he was all brave on TV telling Trump to get fucked, but did absolutely nothing as ICE conducted raids.
Here you have masked, unidentified men, rappelling out of helicopters,knocking down doors, assaulted people on the street, kidnapping them, even shooting them, and the state and municipal police are doing nothing, while these masked men are breaking state and municipal laws.
It is one thing for the citizens to attack masked Federal officials, but it is another thing when masked federal officials break the law, they should be arrested by the state and local police.
Our brave politicians are long on words, but short on action.
If Wiles is Putin's on-site overseer of his useful idiot, that explains her public characterizations of Trump. It sent him a message not to get too cocky and to remember who he works for.
People rarely, if ever, question how Trump is a billionaire despite managerial incompetence and serial bankruptcies. Putin and his Russian oligarch mobsters need to launder their money. Real estate deals and rental income allows laundering millions monthly. For many years, maybe even still today, DB in Germany served as the middleman for such a scheme. It might explain why the DB CEO Herrhausen was brutally assassinated back in 1989 just before he was about to blow a whistle.
I'd like to add a few more names to this list. This morning I read a truly disturbing article in ProPublica. The link is attached. I maintain that everyone in this regime that has partaken in this atrocity should be charged & convicted of crimes against humanity! It is appalling what the US has done to pull back aid to starving, war torn nations & all for what, so that trump & his hencnmen & women can get more money & influence & power. I shared the link to FaceBook & my comment to accompany it was "Shame on us for electing this Bastard!" I know, of course, that a good number of us did NOT vote for this scourge on humanity but enough of us either did not vote at all or chose to give this felon a second go at destroying the country that this what our legacy now is, Read the article & Weep!
Thanks again Thom for advising us of the trouble we are in. In a sane world trump would be in prison for, treason, rape, taking multiple bribes, destruction of government property and being a pedophile. And a personal note, I get nauseous every time I see him. And another personal note, my counter cleaner dogs ate the Christmas cookies ... now they are trumping all over the backyard.
Living witnesses need to come forward because they will be safer.....
The decade that TRump spent with his pageants was the '90s. He was married to Marla Maples. She is a very fit 62 year old living and working in Florida. From what I read she supposedly describes herself as a women's advocate for various causes.
Info from a Ms. Coleman surfaced that back then Marla warned her to keep her 14 year old daughter/participant away from her husband and all those men. Get her on the record.
Luther Campbell (rapper) publicly told his story of a party TRump hosted in Florida. The young looking pageant girls were there having sex, booze and drugs. He knew it was a trap. Get him on the record.
Listen for yourself---SMOKING GUN Evidence of Trump DARK PAST Resurface
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D1IRN0cxkXVM
There have to be hundreds of witnesses. No one wants to admit they didn't do a damn thing to stop these crimes. They were scared of him then, they must be terrified now. Too f-ing bad. Get them in front of Congress. Make. Them. Talk. See you in the street.
Women using the pseudonyms, Katie Johnson and Tiffany Doe made gut wrenching statements about what trump did to them. Why mainstream media has not surfaced their allegations is a mystery to me.
Every one of the people mentioned in the files, is a potential witness that can lead to even more witnesses.
DOJ is still supposedly processing thousands of documents related to the case and has identified over 1,200 names of individuals who are either victims or their relatives for redaction purposes, but the total number is believed to be higher.
By obfuscating, every DOJ/FBI employee invoved is exposed to a potential prosecution for the coverup.
1. The question on many sites today is will Trump pardon Ghislaine Maxwell?
2. Rep. Elise Stefanik is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to her upstate House seat, NY 21st, she announced yesterday. Stefanik had been scheduled to be the featured guest at the Oneida County GOP’s holiday dinner Friday night. But she canceled, citing business in Washington — despite the fact the House has adjourned for the year.
The following Republican senators have announced they will not seek re-election in 2026:
Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
Thom Tillis (North Carolina)
U.S. House Representatives Not Seeking Re-election
As of December 2025, several House Republicans have announced they are leaving the House. The list below distinguishes between those who are retiring from public office entirely and those seeking another office.
Retiring from Public Office:
Jodey Arrington (Texas, 19th District)
Don Bacon (Nebraska, 2nd District)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia, 14th District; resigning in Jan. 2026)
Morgan Luttrell (Texas, 8th District)
Michael McCaul (Texas, 10th District)
Troy Nehls (Texas, 22nd District)
Dan Newhouse (Washington, 4th District)
Running for Another Office:
Andy Barr (Kentucky, 6th District) - running for Senate
Andy Biggs (Arizona, 5th District) - running for Governor
Buddy Carter (Georgia, 1st District) - running for Senate
Mike Collins (Georgia, 3rd District) - running for Senate
Randy Feenstra (Iowa, 4th District) - running for Governor
Ashley Hinson (Iowa, 2nd District) - running for Senate
Wesley Hunt (Texas, 38th District) - running for Senate
John James (Michigan, 10th District) - running for Governor
Dusty Johnson (South Dakota, At-Large) - running for Governor
Nancy Mace (South Carolina, 1st District) - running for Governor
Barry Moore (Alabama, 2nd District) - running for Senate
Ralph Norman (South Carolina, 5th District) - running for Governor
John Rose (Tennessee, 6th District) - running for Governor
Chip Roy (Texas, 21st District) - running for Attorney General
David Schweikert (Arizona, 1st District) - running for Governor
Thomas Tiffany (Wisconsin, 7th District) - running for Governor
3. Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche. IMHO they are not immune from civil suits.
The question on many sites today is will Trump pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Of course, he will, and then she will get hit by a truck as she leaves the jailhouse. LOL
What I find striking is how self-destructive it is for the ultra-wealthy—particularly those with deep ties to the healthcare industry—to allow the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits to expire. The Affordable Care Act itself was built on a framework developed by the Heritage Foundation, explicitly designed to stabilize and protect the for-profit health insurance industry.
The individual mandate and premium tax credits were central to that proposal. Their purpose was to maximize enrollment—not out of altruism, but to broaden the risk pool, suppress premium growth, and ensure a steady stream of paying customers. The result has been exactly that: millions more people purchasing private health insurance. Undermining the subsidies now doesn’t weaken “Obamacare” so much as it destabilizes the very market architecture the ACA was designed to preserve.
While it’s easy to default to “they just don’t care,” the reality is more perplexing. The ultra-rich who profit from health insurers, healthcare conglomerates, and pharmaceutical companies are allowing a system that delivers them enormous returns to erode. The enhanced subsidies cost them pennies on the dollar compared to what they extract from the system, largely at the expense of average Americans—yet they are not fighting harder to preserve the status quo that so clearly benefits them.
I wrote about this in a piece I recently published on Substack.
https://danismart.substack.com/p/americas-healthcare-crisis-unraveling
My guess, guess only, is that they don't give a damn about health care any more because they are betting on some kind of AI jackpot to make them trillionaires on the backs of everyone else,
Just a quick note, 45 years ago I knew Mike Rounds slightly when I worked in the South Dakota government. His wife was in the same office and he used to drop by and chat. He was pleasant and genial and probably still is, and clearly has no clue what the GOP's agenda really is. How it will grind down his already poor state seems to have escaped him. I bet there are a lot of people in Congress like that, just going along to get along and without a clue how the ground will open under their feet.
So...make an appointment....
Is it just me, or does the term Department of Justice feel particularly offensive right now?
How about Department of inJustice, maybe? There doesn’t seem to be one iota of real justice there anywhere.
Might I address two issues.
The Epstein files are turning out to be a nothing burger as I predicted, Not because there is nothing in them, but because Bondi has scrubbed and redacted them of anything Trump, and has left in only that which implicates liberals and Democrats. She has had nine months to do it.
Having Congress vote yay, and Trump sign the bill, was all part of the plan, and no one was suspicious? Liberals asleep at the switch.
We were punked with the Mueller Report, the Jack Smith Investigation, time and again when it comes to Trump and his crimes we are punked, we never learn. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, I can't be fooled again.
Republicans and the health care plan. Well AHIP has it's claws into both parties. Pelosi and Rahm killed the perfect (universal health care, amending the enabling legislation to change eligiility from age 65 to birth, in favor of the Heritage Foundation plan which provided profits for AHIP.
The attempt to repeal the ACA is performance theater,to satisfy the MAGA base, who is opposed to anything and everything liberal, even if it means cutting their own throat.
The admonition of LBJ rings clear still: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
The MAGA base perceives SNAP, the ACA and all such policies as helping ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves.
Alexandra Pelosi made a documentary after Obama’s election, called The Right feels wronged. He interviewed a toothless red neck in bib overalls, standing on a crate in front of his garbage strewn single wide in Mississippi, He said he was opposed to food stamps because they went to those “lazy nigrahs” , she replied but you get food stamps, he said “That’s different, I deserve them”
You are completely negative. You are Trump's spokesman.
No Daniel. I am an aggressive progressive. The passivity of the Democratic party is why Trump has turned the Oval office into an Offal office.
Let's take the Epstein files.
First it was a discharge petition, the Republican congress stalled, until Adelita Grijalva was sworn in and the discharge petition passed.
Then they had a change of heart and passed the bill to release the files, almost unaminously, the senate signed it and Trump signed off, because Bondi had been srubbing the files.
Watchint Velshi just now, 500 pages of the files have been redacted, totally black, Rep Raja Krisnhanworthi of Illinois, said he searched the files using names that he knew where in there including Trump and nothing came up.
And you and other fools run around patting yourself on the back, for what: Nothing.
You accuse me of being a Trump spokesman, I think you are projecting, You spend a lot of time trying to get us spinning our wheels, chasing snipes.
Who the fuck are you Daniel, really?
FUCK YOU.
You spout bullshit, I present facts and analysis and you respond with either slanderous charges and fuck yous.
Good show Daniel, good show.
After reading Daniel's comments for a few years, I think he believes there is a legal solution for everything. There isn't, especially for the poor and working people. I appreciate reading both of your opinions.
There is no legal solution Gloria, as the "legal" system is MAGA, Trumpified.
He and others tout the victories at the lower courts, but they are almost always TEMPORARY stays, when they should be permanent, that is the first tell. Trump and his administration has a tendency to ignore them anyway, but they inevitably appeal them and they are reversed on appeal by the Trumpfified or intimidated District Appeals Court, If they aren't they are appealed to the Supreme court, if the case favors Trump and is appealed by the defendant, then SCOTUS dismisses it via the shadow (emergency) docket, and only accepts what they consider are important precedent setting cases, and when they do the finding is for Trump, every case but two and those he ignored.
Trump can ignore rulings of the Supreme court, because there is no one to enforce them. Like Andrew Jackson said: Justice Marshall has ruled, let him enforce the ruling.
It is worse than that, Pam Bondi has total control over the Justice Department, which includes FBI, DEA, and US Marshalls.
The US Marshalls are suppose to work for the courts, and enforce subpoena's, but Trump has used them for backing up ICE and escorting the pimple faced DOGE boys into government facilities.
The whole system is corrupt, Trumpified, and the remedy is not the law, because they are the law.
Unless you expect a thief and a murdered to arrest,try,imprison themselves.
Why are they jumping off the cliff? Most are wealthy beyond that of the "commoners" and if not they know their billionaire owners will bail them out, up to a point of course.
The "commoners" will be on their own of course!!!
Great column, and could be summarized in one sentence. It's all about the money.
The Repubs keeping on with the Krasnov administration to fly down the rabbit hole of crashing Obama care as if nobody will notice in the long run. It makes all of us that promoted a single payer or allow states to do so look brilliant. The left coast needs a waiver to take the plunge. Both Obama and Biden failed to make that possible. Seem the 5D is the only possibility.
I thought that blue state governors were engaging in an interstate compact, then the whole thing dropped off the radar. We need to stop whining and bitching and kvetching about every Trump outrage, they are endless and coming at us like a fire hose (Bannon's tactic)
We need remedies,not bitches and scandals, and an interstate compact is an answer.
Also I send email via the website to Gov Pritzker, he was all brave on TV telling Trump to get fucked, but did absolutely nothing as ICE conducted raids.
Here you have masked, unidentified men, rappelling out of helicopters,knocking down doors, assaulted people on the street, kidnapping them, even shooting them, and the state and municipal police are doing nothing, while these masked men are breaking state and municipal laws.
It is one thing for the citizens to attack masked Federal officials, but it is another thing when masked federal officials break the law, they should be arrested by the state and local police.
Our brave politicians are long on words, but short on action.
You are correct. Pelosi said she would arrest ICE if they came to San Francisco and Krasnov did not sent them.
Yep our politicians are long on talk, short on action.
Words don't impress me, actions do.
Pritzker is taking them on. He's turning out to be very progressive.
What actions has Pritzker taken, how many ICE agents have been arrested for violence, violating rights, harming people?
If Wiles is Putin's on-site overseer of his useful idiot, that explains her public characterizations of Trump. It sent him a message not to get too cocky and to remember who he works for.
People rarely, if ever, question how Trump is a billionaire despite managerial incompetence and serial bankruptcies. Putin and his Russian oligarch mobsters need to launder their money. Real estate deals and rental income allows laundering millions monthly. For many years, maybe even still today, DB in Germany served as the middleman for such a scheme. It might explain why the DB CEO Herrhausen was brutally assassinated back in 1989 just before he was about to blow a whistle.
Thom, I counted six corrupt Supreme Court Justices. Who are you giving a pass?
I'd like to add a few more names to this list. This morning I read a truly disturbing article in ProPublica. The link is attached. I maintain that everyone in this regime that has partaken in this atrocity should be charged & convicted of crimes against humanity! It is appalling what the US has done to pull back aid to starving, war torn nations & all for what, so that trump & his hencnmen & women can get more money & influence & power. I shared the link to FaceBook & my comment to accompany it was "Shame on us for electing this Bastard!" I know, of course, that a good number of us did NOT vote for this scourge on humanity but enough of us either did not vote at all or chose to give this felon a second go at destroying the country that this what our legacy now is, Read the article & Weep!
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths
Thanks again Thom for advising us of the trouble we are in. In a sane world trump would be in prison for, treason, rape, taking multiple bribes, destruction of government property and being a pedophile. And a personal note, I get nauseous every time I see him. And another personal note, my counter cleaner dogs ate the Christmas cookies ... now they are trumping all over the backyard.
The DNC has seen fit to suppress its 2024 autopsy. Leadership in these times would be desirable.