Trump’s golden ballroom scandal EXPLODES after leaked records reveal $333 million in private donations and millions in secret money.
One of the most egregious examples of corruption in Donald Trump’s administration just got the documentation that it deserves. 
After illegally tearing down the East Wing of the White House, Trump proclaimed that the grand, gilded ballroom that he wants to build to replace it would be paid “a hundred percent” by himself with “some friends of mine.”
Now, a leaked donor list says something quite different.
The Washington Post obtained an internal spreadsheet tracking every donation above $10,000 to the ballroom, which totals $333 million from private donors. At least $77 million came from donors who asked to stay anonymous. Trump himself is nowhere on the list. Nvidia, Apple, the Adelson family and Dish Network chairman Charles Ergen each gave $25 million. About half the money came from companies or executives with federal contracts under Trump.
The Post says it did not establish a link between the donations and favorable government actions, and donors who responded denied any connection. But the timing of the donations provides plenty of fodder for accusations of nefarious quid pro quo favors.
Nvidia gave $25 million, and asked for anonymity, nearly three months after striking a deal with Trump to sell advanced chips to China despite national security concerns.
Ergen’s company, EchoStar, was under FCC investigation when Chair Brendan Carr threatened to yank its licenses. After a meeting with Trump and Carr, Ergen negotiated a license sale to AT&T. Carr dropped the investigation. Ergen then committed $12.5 million in December and another $12.5 million in February, and asked that the source stay anonymous. In May, the FCC and Justice Department approved the sale.
A Rocket Companies subsidiary committed $10 million three weeks after a federal agency approved its acquisition of mortgage lender Mr. Cooper. Rocket says the two are unrelated.
Salesforce gave $1 million twice, and its CEO gave another $1 million. In between, the Army awarded the company a contract worth up to $5.6 billion, and the Pentagon admitted that it only received one bid
Then there’s the pardon. The daughter of banker Julio Herrera Velutini, who was indicted on bribery charges, committed $2.5 million to the ballroom a month after his charges were reduced to a misdemeanor. Trump pardoned him in January.
Suspiciously, the money isn’t going through normal campaign finance or government donation channels. Instead, it flows through a nonprofit and into a White House account the president directly controls, under an agreement requiring the donors’ anonymity.
Democrats who demanded details were rebuffed. The project is still short of Trump’s $400 million goal, its cost has ballooned to a projected $600 million, and taxpayers are being left on the hook for the balance needed to complete the totally unnecessary project
The White House refused to discuss these individual donations and the subsequent favorable treatment of the donors. It did, however, promise to “relentlessly pursue those responsible for this cowardly leak.”
There was not a word about the appearance of impropriety in the donations. Instead, all the White House could do is attack the people who brought transparency to another one of Trump’s massive grifts on the American public.
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DO IT, KIM: Trump's inner circle is reportedly panicking that Kimberly Guilfoyle, freshly fired as ambassador to Greece, is coming home with a secret "burn book" full of Trump family dirt.
Insiders told the Daily Mail she's kept a diary on the first family for years. They've nicknamed it "The Devil Wears MAGA."
One source put it bluntly: "Kimberly knows where the bodies are buried."
Honestly, we can't decide who we're rooting against here.
This is the woman who dated Don Jr. for six years, from 2018 until their split in 2024, and was engaged to him for part of that. She was at the family dinners, the campaign events, and Mar-a-Lago.
She heard things.
The White House forced her out after the Wall Street Journal published texts showing she asked Trump donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 straight to her American Express bill right before her Senate confirmation hearing.
Send it that way, she told him, and "it won't show up anywhere." In return, she'd get him in front of top Trump officials.
Deters calls it pay to play. Her lawyer says the money was owed for speaking gigs.
And yet Don the Con's advisers reportedly fought to keep her in the job anyway, because they were scared of what she'd say if she lost it. As another insider put it, "Keeping Kimberly happy keeps Kimberly quiet."
This is a family whose patriarch already has 34 felony convictions tied to a hush money payment, so keeping women quiet is a bit of a specialty.
Now Dear Leader is pretending he barely knew her. "No, she wasn't a member of my family," he told reporters, about the woman who spent six years with his son and got engaged to him.
She swears she'll always be a loyal supporter. She also once texted Deters that she'd be his "Trump ride or die, forever and ever." He now calls her a grifter.
A grifter holding a diary over a family of grifters. Publish every page, Kimberly

This is why good posters stay away.  I state a fact and it gets slandered.  My filly needed rest and
proper shoeing.  No I don't need to win races for money and I would never have anything to do with
doping horses.  I know who the bad guys are and so does everyone else.  Good posters shun this board
and it's sad because it should be a good place to let everyone know more about the horses.

They jealous, typically broke.  Definitely angry. 

You don't ever have to see their comments if you EGGNORE them, use the feature.

People in life smile to your face stable you in the back, let's not get on our high horse there's some perfect place.

Private Club, circle jerk...plop ain't perfect, some people are thugs  but there are horseman, owners, breeders, gamblers, regulatory and track personnel active and retired, wildly great - a real animal activist corruption investigator  we get the inside scoop more often than anyone including journalists.

30 minutes in, excellent movie kind of Equalizeresque 

However....

The next 1 hour of The Florist was fucking very low rate...the storyline, writing, directing....man did this sucker go south.

Had a Leon The Professional thing but Did-Not-Happen...not a recommend.

Bad idea to release a first 30 minutes review 

I give it 1 1/2 out of 5 plops!

Please repost the Canadian thread again!

thank you