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Albert Pirro was a real estate lawyer for Trump.

He's the ex-husband of Jeanine Pirro who Trump has made U.S. Attorney for DC.

Article from January 2021.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/judge-jeanine-lobbied-trump-pardon-ex-husband

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Pirro was upset that her ex-husband Albert J. Pirro Jr. wasn’t on Trump’s final pardon list that came out early Wednesday morning, and that message was conveyed to the White House and its former resident, according to a former White House adviser. Albert Pirro was convicted on conspiracy and tax evasion charges after improperly deducting $1.2 million of his personal expenses in business write-offs.

A separate source familiar with the matter tells CNN that Albert Pirro was not on the pardon radar before Wednesday morning. It wasn’t until midmorning that day that aides, who were in the middle of off-boarding their duties to the new administration, were told it needed to be done.

 

Trump pardoned Pirro's ex-husband.

It was one of the last-minute acts Trump did at the end of his first term.

Article from January 2021.


https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-last-minute-pardon-albert-pirro-460764

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In the closing minutes of his presidency, President Donald Trump issued a full pardon for Albert J. Pirro Jr., who was convicted in 2000 on conspiracy and tax evasion charges.

The pardon for Pirro, who has in the past worked for Trump, is the latest in a flurry of more than 140 last-minute pardons and commutations that the president issued overnight to loyalists, such as alt-right provocateur and former aide Steve Bannon, and celebrities, including rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

 

Article from May 1999 about Pirro's husband at the time.


https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/magazine/the-da-s-husband-trouble.html

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"This time, the Feds provided the supporting details -- in the kind of case Pirro herself would have pursued with gusto. According to the United States Attorney's office, the District Attorney's husband hid over $1 million in income by listing, as business deductions, such things as: furnishings for their West Palm Beach vacation home; a $40,000 gate at their Harrison, N.Y., estate; salaries for baby sitters and a maid; luxury cars (including Jeanine's Mercedes); cigars, and even the legal bills for his paternity suit."

 

Jeanine Pirro - Wikipedia

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On February 23, 1999, Pirro's husband was indicted on one count of conspiracy, four counts of tax evasion, and 28 counts of filing a false tax return for hiding over $1 million in personal income as business expenses between 1988 and 1997.[108] That day, Pirro appeared with her husband at a press conference in response to the charges, criticizing the investigation as "invasive and hostile."[109][110]

On June 23, 2000, a jury found Pirro's husband guilty of 23 of the charges brought against him and not guilty of 10 others.[111] He served 17 months in prison, being released early for good behavior and participating in an alcoholism treatment program.[106]

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-drug-smugglers-military.html

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Jeh Johnson, who served as the Pentagon general counsel and homeland security secretary in the Obama administration, noted that Congress had not authorized force against cartels, and that the Coast Guard and Navy had long interdicted suspected drug-smuggling boats.

“Here the president appears to be invoking his amorphous constitutional authority to kill low-level drug couriers on the high seas, with no due process, arrest or trial,” he said, adding: “Viewed in isolation, labeling drug cartels ‘terrorists’ and invoking the ‘national interests’ to use the U.S. military to summarily kill low-level drug couriers is pretty extreme.”

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-parade-china-putin-xi-kim/684113/

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"But the parade was worse than a mere snub. Putin, Xi, and Kim stood in solidarity while reviewing China’s military might only weeks after Putin came to Alaska and refused Trump’s pleas to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. The White House tried to spin that ill-advised summit into at least a draw between Putin and Trump, but when the Kremlin’s dictator shows up with no interest in negotiation, speaks first at a press conference, and then caps the day by declining a carefully planned lunch and flying home, that’s a humiliation, not an exchange of views."

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-parade-china-putin-xi-kim/684113/

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"Likewise, the North Koreans, after playing to Trump’s ego and his ignorance of international affairs during meetings in the president’s first term, have continued their march to a nuclear arsenal that within years could grow to be larger than the United Kingdom’s. Trump was certain that he could negotiate with Kim, but the perfumed days of “love letters” between Trump and Kim are long over. Pyongyang’s leadership seems to know that it costs them little to humor Trump politely, but that they should reserve serious discussion for the leaders of serious countries."

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-parade-china-putin-xi-kim/684113/

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"America is adrift. It has no coherent foreign policy, no team of senior professionals managing its national defense and diplomacy, and a president who has little interest in the world beyond what it can offer him. Little wonder that the men who gathered in Beijing—three autocrats whose nations are collectively pointing many hundreds of nuclear weapons at the United States—feel free to act as if they don’t even think twice about Trump or the country he leads."

 

Trump tried this same stunt during his first term and was talked out of if by the few rational minds in his administration.

This time there aren't rational minds around him.


Trump announces plans to host 2026 G20 summit at his Doral resort
By Jennifer Jacobs, Ed O'Keefe, and Kristin Brown
Updated on: September 5, 2025 / 5:11 PM EDT / CBS News

Trump announces plans to host 2026 G20 summit at his Doral resort

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Washington — The United States plans to host the 2026 Group of 20 summit of world leaders at President Trump's golf course and spa in Doral, Florida, fulfilling a plan the president initially proposed during his first term.

Mr. Trump revealed his decision to hold the G20 in Miami in the Oval Office at the White House on Friday.

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who is seen as a potential future nominee to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve, is set to serve as the point person for the summit. The president said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is organizing the agenda for the meeting, which will focus on "unleashing economic prosperity by limiting, eliminating the burdens of regulations, unlocking affordable energy and pioneering new technologies."

 

Trump signs Department of War order, announces 2026 G20 will be at Doral

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"President Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, and changing the title of secretary of defense to secretary of war."

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Trump rebrands Department of Defense as Department of War

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Trump and Hegseth have sought to refocus the department on "warfighting" and a "warrior ethos".

They have argued that the Pentagon has become too focused on diversity, equity and inclusion programmes and "woke ideology".

 

Rubio says U.S. will 'blow up' crime groups if needed.


Rubio says US will 'blow up' foreign crime groups if needed

 

'Unconstitutional' and 'unlawful': Judges push back on Trump's expanding power

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Judge calls Harvard funding cuts an ideologically motivated 'assault'

The judge presiding over Harvard's lawsuit on the government's gutting of its federal funding found the administration's actions were "violative of the First Amendment" and "unconstitutional coercion."

The administration had said it was freezing over $2 billion in funds because of Harvard's failure to combat antisemitism. U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs said in her Wednesday ruling that the claim "reeks of pretext."

 

Labor market is lackluster. Inflation creeps upward.


America’s job growth has flatlined—and Mark Zandi believes June may have been the start of a recession
By Eva Roytburg
September 5, 2025

America’s job growth has flatlined—and Mark Zandi believes June may have been the start of a recession

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"The weak showing reinforces a picture of a labor market that has almost entirely lost momentum. Hiring in health care and social assistance provided a modest boost, but it was largely offset by declines in federal government payrolls and a continued weakness in the energy and manufacturing sectors.

The weakness was most pronounced on the goods-producing side of the economy. Manufacturing shed 12,000 jobs in August, adding up to a 78,000 loss this year to date. Wholesale trade also shed workers. Construction was flat, but Zandi warned that the sector remains highly vulnerable.

“Manufacturing, transportation, distribution, mining, agriculture, construction—they’re all getting hit pretty hard,” he said.

Much of that pain, he argued, stems directly from policy. Higher tariffs are weighing on manufacturers and exporters, while immigration restrictions are constraining the supply of workers in industries that rely heavily on lower-skilled labor, such as construction, agriculture, retail, and hospitality."

 

Trump asks for money to help him get to heaven.


Trump fundraiser asks for $15 donations so he can ‘try and get to Heaven’

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/politics/trump-chicago-war-meme-post

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“I love the smell of deportations in the morning … Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the post reads. Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the Pentagon as the “Department of War.”

 

Can’t stand that bitch!

 

Idiot. It’s temporary. It will change in three years, guaranteed!

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/ssZtZxQvDC4?si=KDZPgZzIp-QQ4JKU