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Kathleen Clark
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Attorney - Professor - Views are my own, not my employer. she/her
Important insights from @pbump.com:

“Nearly every element of Trump's second term … orbit[s] around the idea that he (& to a lesser extent his allies) … should not have to face accountability. …
cryptocurrency … [is] a space where he & his family & friends can do what they want” w/o accountability
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
There, I fixed it.

Congress established — and named — the US Institute of Peace by statute.
Trump doesn’t have authority to re-name it after himself by fiat.

Headline writers shouldn’t attribute to Trump power that he claims but doesn’t actually have.

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
December 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Seems like the office of pardoning rich guys is humming along a lot more smoothly than the office of making America great.
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Reposted by Kathleen Clark
Even more evidence that Trump is a
pro-corruption,
pro-crime
President:

Trump pardons wealthy businessman even though his own Justice Department “had lauded the indictment of Timothy J. Leiweke as an effort to root out corruption”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Even more evidence that Trump is a
pro-corruption,
pro-crime
President:

Trump pardons wealthy businessman even though his own Justice Department “had lauded the indictment of Timothy J. Leiweke as an effort to root out corruption”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
source:
Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Yet more evidence that Trump is a
pro-corruption,
pro-fraud
President:
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.

Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.

Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.

www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
a partial list — just Members of Congress:
With the pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar D-TX, who had been accused of bribery and corruption, President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress - 10 Republicans and 2 Democrats. (All but Cuellar had been convicted.)
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Has someone counted the number of times that Trump has pardoned / commuted the sentences of those accused or convicted of corruption or bribery?
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
. @melisa23.bsky.social was right about the swatting attack, but wrong about the timing:

Indiana State Senator Walker had already been subjected to a swatting attack.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
You refer to there being "an apparent conflict" in an SEC filing.
But don't you mean "an apparent misrepresentation" in an SEC filing?
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Close enough:

A different Republican Indiana state legislator who opposed re-districting was the target of a pipe bomb threat
A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reposted by Kathleen Clark
The Trump administration is not only corrupt,
it’s pro-corruption.

Trump repeatedly rewards corruption.
“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”

Now Trump set him free.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Trump administration is not only corrupt,
it’s pro-corruption.

Trump repeatedly rewards corruption.
“He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”

Now Trump set him free.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Kathleen Clark
Trump: The Openly Pro-Corruption President

Trump -- through AG Bondi -- disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.

bsky.app/profile/stev...
May 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Kathleen Clark
“Did an officer have a higher allegiance than the one to the Fuehrer? At Nuremberg dozens of generals excused their war crimes by answering in the negative. They had to obey orders, they said.”

- Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 603
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM