For 20+ years CTH has been calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Today, Texas Senator John Cornyn provides example #122,755 of why that change is needed.
After meeting with Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, the outgoing senator from Texas, one of Mitch McConnell’s key DeceptiCONS, publicly states he is blackmailing the President of the United States and demanding the DOJ present information to him about the tax filings of the Trump family.
One of the more challenging facets to awakening the general public on the scale of corruption within Washington DC is the need for people to drop party designations.
This is never truer than within the U.S. Senate where the mistaken “us -vs- them” perspective remains a pesky hurdle.
The blue team and red team are mirror images of themselves. They are not opposites, they are mirrored – a big difference.
The policy objective is the same, the business model within DC (K Street) benefits the upper chamber the most.
Now remember…. Democrats want power. Republicans want money. Democrats use money to get power, while Republicans use power to get money. The ideology of Democrats is funded by donors; while the priorities of donors determine the ideology of Republicans.
This is why Republicans shift positions so easily, and this is the essential difference between both wings of the same bird.
You often hear people wonder why the GOP doesn’t push-back against the Democrats. The reason is simple, the GOP are the right wing of the UniParty bird, the Democrats are the left wing. They are mirror images of each other.
Both clubs are attached to the body of big corrupt corporatist government.
Watch the trade front. Watch international trade, economics, banking and multinational corporation influence. That’s the ‘trillions are at stake,’ and that’s where the opposition to everything MAGA comes from.
The system of affluence and influence has been created to self-sustain regardless of party affiliation. The Senate is one club with one ideological perspective. Within that club rule #1 dominates: none of the members will ever expose another member. So, when there is corrupt activity within the Senate no-one from within the institution will expose another. This is the code of Omerta within the upper chamber. This is the way of the “my good friend” Senate, and how it operates.
Former Senate Leader Mitch McConnell had a leadership group to carry out the institutional objectives of the upper chamber as a body, they included: Senator John Thune (whip); Senator John Barrasso (conference chair); Roy Blunt (committee chair); Todd Young (NRSC chair); Jodi Ernst (conference vice-chair); and Chuck Grassley (president pro tempore). None of these senators made a move publicly without approval from Leader McConnell.
In August of 2020, before the presidential election, then Senate Whip John Thune rebuked the mail-in ballot concerns expressed by President Trump. Thune took this position because ultimately the objectives of the upper chamber were more favorably aligned if President Trump was removed.
WASHINGTON DC – […] Asked if he agreed with the president’s repeated charges that mailed-in balloting will lead to a “rigged election” and “massive voter fraud,” the Senate majority whip told reporters, “I don’t.”
“Mailed-in voting has been used in a lot of places for a long time and, honestly, we’ve got a lot of folks that, as you know, they’re investing heavily in trying … to win that war. It’s always a war too for mail-in ballots. Both sides compete, and it’s always an area where I think our side, at least in my experience, has done pretty well,” Thune answered, adding: “I think we want to assure people it’s going to work, it’s secure and if they vote that way it’s going to count.” (read more)
The rest, as they say, is history.
Thank you, Sundance.
Did Cornyn say it on the Senate Floor? If not…then lock him up!!!!
Lawyers don’t make that legal. They will tell you so, but I’ve been there and BS artists.
“they are” BS artists
Withdraw the DNI nomination until Blanche is approved.
Or just move Bill Pulte over there as Acting AG until Blanche is a confirmed 😁
Hope Trump is Reading these comments . He is a great Chess player
Awe, heck, just make a Christmas list of alllll the stuff to hang on the DNI nomination.
They are desperate.
PDJT: “Wonderful news to report: Pulte has agreed to move on over to Just-us after his DNI stint.”
Agree with this as well. Trump please read these strategic moves 🙂
Both “wings” need to go. We are no longer a republic. Passing laws and exempting themselves? That is a grifter and a thief,, nothing more.
The Curious Cat asks — and possibly more?
Boneless Wings! 🪽
and spinless Senators.
They are called snakes, no wings or spine.
Such blatant corruption that even a Democrat could understand.
First off neither that piece of human garbage Cornyn or any other Senate trash have a need to know anything. All political theater. Bone em. Withdrawal both nominations and take away any power the scum thinks they have.
If we had a functioning Judiciary that prosecuted Political criminality virtually none of this Corruption would be happening… and that’s the bottom-line….
Here is the elephant in the room and the detriment to our Republic no one speaks about…It’s actually bizarre….Even on the TCTH it’s rarely if ever mentioned…
There are 47 current U.S. Senators who hold law degrees, according to the official profile data published by the Congressional Research Service
This accounts for 47% of the entire 100-member Senate chamber. Law remains the most well-represented professional educational background within the upper house of Congress.
Now think about this……
Approximately 0.4% of the U.S. population are active, licensed lawyers. [1]
This figure is derived by comparing the roughly 1,374,720 active attorneys tracked by the American Bar Association to the estimated total U.S. population of 345 million to 349 million residents.
See the problem and what’s destroying our Country….???? The Corrupt Bar Association and the corrupt Judiciary is the Cancer that allows the Corrupt Politician Lawyer to operate unabated…..
Cue the lawyer jokes, here.
Why do sharks never touch an attorney, paling around in the water?
Y S E T R U O C L A N O I S S E F O R P
Q: Why do they bury lawyers 12-feet deep instead of 6?
A: Because, deep down, lawyers are good people.
Q: What do you call a plane crash with 250 lawyers aboard.
A: A good start.
28 Slick Lawyers are on a Bus going to a Legal Convention. Suddenly the bus blew out a front tire and the bus went off the road and off a 500′ Cliff. No Survivors.
The only real tragedy was there were 2 Empty Seats!
I will say that you all have been top-notch Dad humor tonight!
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Guess I’m too slow, so here’s my nonsensical reply:
Y R U N O G 8 7 5 ( * o 0
If you’re walking outdoors and happen to dash your foot against a stone which reveals a lurking serpent you’re very likely to locate an attorney beneath the aforementioned serpent.
Yep….go back to the Shakespeare mantra. ‘Last I heard, there were 2300 lawy3rs in Japan. In DC, there 2300 per block…
“First….We kill all the lawyers!”
It would be cool if someone could go back in time to when that line was first uttered on stage – at the Globe Theater? And record the reaction . . . now fast forward to the present times . . . hey, who wrote that!? We need to sue them!
What would call that cruise ship which sunk during the American Barr Association annual conference, with 1000 lost?
A good start.
Just to add a certain kind of special….the House is responsible for making laws. How many do we have on the books? Is it enough that every citizen breaks several laws a day?
CONTROL is the name of the Game and a way for them to make money. Mr. President, you can’t change laws but you can get rid of all the rules and regulations smothering businesses and citizens. Devote a day to getting rid of most of it. The Fishing Industry should have not had to wait a year and a half for your EO allowing them to fish in our own waters.
I hope to God he had secret military around him every minute of everyday. Remember he took off to Cheyenne Mountain in March 2020, and brought secret docs he memorized with him. They were the codes, no one could terminate him because he memorized all of it. We’ve been told he has a super human memory and I believe it
Who does, Cornyn?
Cornyn?
He doesn’t look to me like he could remember what was his last move . . . when he was tying his shoes!
So what does he hope to find? Why not Biden or Obama much more there.
Biden or Obama didn’t endorse Paxton.
Yes. He really is that much of a petty jacka**.
You’ve been listening to the RINO “Republican” Senate in Texas, who never saw a Conservative they liked!
This is about the deal made for the restitution fund that included a provision to not audit Trumps biz/kids (iirc).
So Congress can have a big slush fund from which to pay off people for the misdeeds of the politicians we send there to work for us.
But they don’t want innocent Americans wrong prosecuted to be compensated!
“Omerta.”
Most of us watched that movie … better yet, read the novels.
“Novels.” No, wait: NON-fiction, after all.
it was president washington who warned against forming factions (political parties) in his farewell address. said they were divisive as we now all know and can see. too late now.
madison discussed factions as well in the federalist papers.
The point is to understand that there are no “factions”. That is all pretense, political theater to keep WE THE PEOPLE from taking up the 2nd paragraph of the Declaration of Independence once again.
As long as there are parties that people believe are in opposition there is false hope. This hope is all that keeps the “quiet people” from rising up once again.
The House had Paul Ryan. The Senate has the Royal line of McConnell and Thune.
And Boehner. And McCarthy.
Johnson may not be MAGA, but he’s a huge improvement over all GOP Speakers since Gingrich.
he has not done much,,,
Corny, give it up. You are dissing your voters not Trump.
He doesn’t care. He lost. He’s going after Trump. He’s a despicable asshole.
A system highjacked in 1913 for the benefit of the bankers in control, incentivized for people who tend to the corrupt, and against people who tend to an earnest desire to represent the best interests of their state, operated for over a century, will likely consist of only corrupt people.
If you want to change human behavior you first must change incentives, or as characterized in a simple construction contractor witticism, “People do what’s inspected, not what’s expected.”
REPEAL THE SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT!!
End the Fed, too.
Might as well go for the whole kit n kaboodle and target the whole trifecta by including the 16th amendment.
Yeah! Let’s do it all! MAGA!
“If you want to change human behavior you first must change incentives…………..”
Milton Friedman once said words to the effect: “The challenge is to find ways to make it profitable for bad people to do good things.”
The funny thing about the local banking families in my area, of whom all started in 1913. (Most likely the same for other states.) They are mysteriously all billionaires….. yet provide no real service other than banking…. funny how that works. As if that wasn’t the plan to begin with. Looking back at it…. printing fiat is a means to steal from the rest of us. Whereas gold cannot be printed, nor silver…. which is why they run the scam.
I thought blackmail is a crime?
Some people are more equal than others.
And some people, like Cornyn, are pigs. Greedy little pigs.
Big man, pig man
Ha ha, charade you are
You well heeled big wheel
Ha ha, charade you are…
H/t Roger Waters
Cornyn is making a mistake if he tries this.
Maybe, Jeanine Pirro should announce charges?
She could bring Cornyn in for a “conversation” with investigators.
He has become a vengeful, unhinged fool. Outside of his sycophant circle, he has no friends in Texas.
“You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”–C.S. Lewis, ‘Mere Christianity’, 1952, taken from his wartime BBC broadcasts, 1942-1944.
Proverbs 16
18
Pride goes before destruction,
a haughty spirit before a fall.
Good is the Word of the Lord!
Several senators are likely behind it as well
I’m sick of it all. Useless efforts get tiresome.
Frankly, President Trump and THIS administration, had the best, last hope for overturning the cabal. Their speed and cunning won out in the earliest months of this Presidency. They took the pukes by surprise, and kept their foot on the gas. Sadly, this hellish Uniparty found their sea legs, got the courts in action quickly, and slowed momentum. The gutting of DOGE after its early successes was the first tree felled. They’ve played rope a dope ever since, deflecting every effort, getting hit (thank goodness) by some continued successes, but now they’re pushing the envelope hard. Defeating Tulsi was a HUGE crippling blow. These efforts by POS loser Cornyn and his cronies is the LAYING OF SEED CORN FOR THE IMPEACHMENT TO COME.
Unfortunately you are correct. One of our last chances are the midterms but that’s a fourth quarter Hail Mary.
It’s the conviction in the Senate after House impeaches that they really want. Mid Term elections could supply them with that majority.
Mitch McConnell married to The Foremost Group. Asian based shipbuilding and shipping bidness. Yeah…
From the photo at end of the article, he’s pursing his lips for another…
Bad behavior will continue if it’s not met with severe and, in some cases, crushing consequences.
President Trump is either incapable or simply unwilling to impose consequences on his/our adversaries.
You know, if your statement is true, then President Trump and his family will pay greatly.
Most of us will be in depression until the consequences hit our homes.
I so this is what Cornyn meant when he said the next two and half years are going to be the worst years of President Trump’s life.
This is the first time I have heard anything about President Trump’s taxes. Thune and his gang were hiding it all of the time and goodness knows what else they have up their sleeve. I am so glad President Trump did not endorse this Creep!
If I were President Trump I would immediately withdraw both nominations for new DNI and Blanche. Most definitely leave Pulte as acting DNI. Nominate someone else as acting AG that I could trust. Pronto!
Cornyn revealed a lot in that statement IMO. Acknowledging the Repukes in the Senate are facilitating losing the House and the Senate. You cannot despise them enough.
I don’t know where this idea originated that prior to the 17th Amdt states could recall federal Senators. But it is simply false. And repealing the 17th would not make federal Senators subject to recall by the state legislatures.
The second problem is that the sort of Republicans who make up the state legislatures are every bit as bad s the ones in Congress. Thom Tillis is one of the worst RINO’s, and has been a thorn in Trumps side ,and our side, for years. Thom Tillis was also previous a member of the North Carolina state legislature. In fact he was Speaker of the House there. So if anything I would expect that having US Senators be elected by state legislatures would make things even worse.
Oh, oh, oh. No, no, no Mr Cornyn – you are playing with white hot fire. In the coming months, you will no longer have the protections of the Senate.
There is nothing nefarious about real estate ownership utilizing scheduled depreciation tables for buildings and Equipment depreciation.
For that manner, deducting the cost doing business and payroll of employed personnel are also deductions.
So sure. President Trump likely paid very little in income taxes.
I wonder if Senator Cornyn made his remarks on the Senate Floor where he enjoys immunity. He had better been accurate in his description of President Trump’s taxes in public. He does not enjoy immunity for disclosing contents of tax returns in public.
The fellow who initially leaked the Trump’s Tax Forms is currently serving five years. So, there’s that.
The deep state IRS has been combing President Trump’s and all his company’s tax forms for decades. Zero, Zip, Nada. Don’t you think that they would have used that information in 2016, 2020 or 2024 if there was anything there?
This is more about show me the man and I will show you the crime.
Think the idea is to get a potentially incriminating statement that might imply a contradiction with what is recorded on some of those tax documents. They literally got nothing else to pin on him, so they will invent something if they must.
The tax code is redicously complex to the point of abject absurdity. Much of which is arguably about making imperfect compliance financially punitive and often a felony.
Never mind that with lawfare the process is the punishment as dragging out legal cases is financially ruinous to all but the wealthiest.
They are after the tax forms of Trump’s entire family, not just his. A great many of the President’s returns have been leaked already, and Lawfare founder Norm Eisen knows Trump doesn’t violate those kinds of laws. He may toe the very edge of the line, but does not go over it. They want to go after the family. There’s nothing stopping the IRS from auditing such people. Once the results hit Congress the leaks and Circus Maximus of Congressional hearings begin.
That photo of McTurtle and McCorn – what’s going on?
Whatcha wanna bet that neither of them
actually mouthed any words, preferring to tell secrets
through their pursed lips?
Sundance, I think you’re mixing up the two nominations. Cornyn said he wouldn’t decide on Blanche’s nomination until being briefed on the Trump tax issue. Clayton’s nomination of course he’s happy to fast track.
https://xcancel.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/2067025596602073554#m
A good idea would be for everyone in Congress to be audited, annually.
Yes!
That’s a great idea!
I suspect the acting AG and the President will have a conversation about this move from the defeated senator. No quarter for that dirtbag Cornyn.
“They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue.” (Sean Connery, The Untouchables)
Appently Blanche has already committed to do as Cornyn asks. Drop the nomination and immediately remove Blanche as acting AG.
John C has been thunderously turned down for re-election. So what is his take-away from that?
Did he realize that he dissatisfied his constituents? That maybe he has some degree of wrong-headedness with his agenda?
Was he sorry about any of this? Apparently not.
He has turning out to be a truly vindictive b*st*rd, who has learned nothing, which is exactly why he has been rejected.
Keep it up, John. Not only are you making a bigger *$$ of yourself, you are luring susceptible like-mind RINOs into making the same kind of mistake that has up-ended you. Yes, John, keep it up, please.
Maybe a group of Texans should pay him a rowdy office call every day until he leaves office. (That’s what the Dems would do.)
MAGA have jobs
“In August of 2020, before the presidential election, then Senate Whip John Thune rebuked the mail-in ballot concerns expressed by President Trump.”
Rebuke to take the opposite of President Trump’s position or
rebuke because of knowledge of election fraud or
both?
The Senate is basically like the Mafia / Cosa Nostra. There are families and factions within the Mafia that sometimes have opposing interests, but ultimately they maintain a code of Omertà and don’t snitch on each others’ operations to outside law inforcement. They all have their territory, rackets, areas of influence etc but settle their beefs through internal structures. But the one thing that will unite all the crime families is opposition to any outside authority, transparency or exposure of their rrespective rackets. The Senate is the same,
I guess I’m lost. What do the President’s taxes have to do with anything? Why would Blanche even play this game? Regardless of what Blanche provides or doesn’t, Cornyn is not going to vote for him. BTW, how about if we start looking at Cornyn’s taxes?
Others have stated something along the lines of if Thune wants to play this game then so be it. Withdraw the nominee for DNI. Let Pulte run roughshod. Find another acting AG once Blanche’s time has run out. (How about Pirro as acting?)
They want Trump OUT and Vance IN
Vance has made the rounds of talk shows today. That’s what he’s good at; talking. And talking and talking.
I am so turned off of Vance – just seeing him look like he was going to give Erika Kirk a nice big hug made me feel like throwing up – what a stupid jerk he is. I felt for his wife, like what the heck is he doing THAT for that really weird gal and his lovely, well-educated, lawyer, mother of his three children wife is sitting there.
Peter Thiel was Vance’s patron in his rise to prominence. No help from Thiel, no Vance. Tech Bros are not our friends.
OMG, 4 posts in a row and 2 years out. Now do Marco with his time with that worthless Warner. Please stop…..
This is about the deal made for the restitution fund that included a provision to not audit Trumps biz/kids (iirc).
How is it exactly that Blanche would be able to provide that?
Isn’t the IRS under the Treasury Department?
Asking for a friend.
I have a feeling PDJT will have a strategy for this latest despicable POS GOPe senator.
It’s primarily about taking campaign funds to facilitate replacing U.S. workers with cheap labor for their donors. The citizens and the nation suffers while politicians on both sides of the aisle and their donors hollow out this nation. As they do this, they piss down our backs and tell us it’s raining.
Why are they all so ugly? Is it because of their actions?
Mitch still in the Hospital?
Crickets on that.
Senator Crony is gone. Like any villain, he is trying to cause as much trouble as he can on his way out as revenge. Just ignore him.
As a Texan, I am ashamed of john cornyn and can’t wait until he is gone. What a despicable loser and dirtbag traitor to out nation. Further, I truly hope he is exposed for the slimey a-hole he is and has to do some time in the Federal lockup,,,, highly unlikely since none of these bastards ever get in much trouble,,, except the ones who crossed the light-bringer.
It’s crap like this, among other things, why it is my belief that the Executive Branch (President) needs more power and the Legislative Branch (House and Senate) need to have less power. I also firmly believe that it’s a myth that the Legislature serves as a check on the Executive Branch’s power. It’s more of a stumbling block to a functioning country. Who watches the watchers, so to speak? I hope I live to see the Legislative Branch stripped of a lot of power, particularly the consent powers the Constitution grants.
I recall our RINOS going all-in on every perverted nominee Joke Biden put up for an important position. Many were 100% of the Senate voting for the Biden / Obama nominees.
…….”I’m a United States Senator”
“EXACTLY”…..BANG!
From the best scene in Shooter.
I looked up Cornyn’s “official” net worth and it comes in at $1.5 million. No doubt there are ways to keep the kitty off the records. He has been a senator for a long time.
What jobs or companies do his relatives have? Do they provide services to the government? Work for law firms that lobby the government? After all, the Biden Cartel was a family business (with 10% for the Big Guy).
A butthurt bozo . . . from Texas of all places!
He must have been born somewhere else.
This is about the settlement the DOJ made with Trump because the IRS leaked his tax returns. The settlement was for 1.776 billion as the restitution fund and it included a provision to not audit Trumps biz/kids (iirc).
I believe the settlement initially came from the IRS. Cornyn has TDS up his wazoo, as well as Mad Cow Rachael Disease – proven by his foaming at the mouth that wants an audit of President Trump’s tax returns after he just won a settlement for IRS revealing them.
Corynyn, do this audit on your own dime you idiot. Nothing but a VERY SORE LOSER. You are OUT Cornyn. Wonder if he knows what that means?
The 1776 part really hurts the Globalist scum who are traitors to our country… that includes many in the Govt. who are aligned with the old Monarchy whom love to tax us to death.
The vote against Cornyn is looking smarter and smarter everyday.
Someone should whisper into Jonnny’s boy ear that two can play the legal game:
Ken Paxton, while he is still AG of Texas, should immediately file charges against John for blackmailing, using his Senate office, and have the Texas Rangers go to DC and arrest him and bring him back to Texas.
Governor Abbott would immediately appoint Ken Paxton as Senator to cover the period between now and the end of the current term.
works for me.
Me too
Audit Corny and go back 20 years. As a matter of fact, Audit every member of congress house and senate. I want to know how wealthy they are and how did they become wealthy while in DC.
DIRTBAGES ALL.
Trump never learned how to handle Congress. Maybe we can dig up LBJ and reanimate him so he can pass along some advice.
I disagree. The Congress who voted to impeach him how many times? Always a big FAIL and waste of time. The “Congress” cannot fathaom how to FATHOM just how to deal with who is honest and transparent.
And dig up LBJ? Good grief. That guy, as “rumor” has it, assassinated JFK? Go back to school @Jane.
Can someone tell Jane Fonda that she’s on the wrong site?
He has learned
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116764370070279119
Is Hanoi warm this time of year ?
Since 4/26 (“How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran.”), we have known that top secret “Situation Room” conversations on national security were taped during two key meetings in 2/26 and leaked to the NYT. Why didn’t the DOJ and FBI sound the alarm back then to catch the spy(s) and thos behind them?
Since last week, we have known that details from a similar “Situation Room” meeting on 7/17/25 were also passed on to the NYT:
“Trump’s most senior advisers had gathered — without him — to figure out how to gain some measure of control over a very different kind of crisis threatening to engulf the presidency: the Epstein files.”
It is concerning that the DOJ and FBI are only addressing these circumstances after the Genie escaped from the bottle. [2]
But who cares about national security? Cronyn and his look-alikes certainly don’t!
[1] Michael Goodwin: Leaked and classified Situation Room talks demands a criminal probe from ‘furious’ Trump
[2] Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: Haberman, Maggie, Swan, Jonathan: 9781668067246: Amazon.com: Books
What Would Rome Do?…
welllll, what DID Rome do?!
aside: Rome lasted 1000 years, jus’ sayin’
That is why Texas has wanted Cornyn gone for the past 12 years he is a worthless piece of trash, can’t be trusted never has been..
They, CONgress-people….are useless. In it for the $$’s, in it for themselves, to hell with the voters, their constituents. No Clayton nomination if there is no SAVE Act.
Tell them all where they can go…..Absolutely useless…..teats on a bull.
Well, John Cornyn is obviously bitter that he lost his seat to Ken Paxton… but he had to know betraying President Trump was going to have dire consequences. FAFO, soon-to-be former Senator.
So does this mean that Pulte remains in position, as the Clayton confirmation is delayed?
Im hoping AI takes over and eliminates the corrupt, criminal, useless, self-serving humans.AI may keep some of us as pets.
Here comes the big middle finger
Pulte stays for now
Let’s it ride
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116764370070279119