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House GOP preparing for court showdown to unravel why Ilhan Omar’s net worth skyrocketed up to $30M

Congressional investigators are preparing for a court fight as they seek to use every tool at their disposal to unravel how “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her hubby Tim Mynett came to be worth up to $30 million in just a few years.

"This comes as the world’s birdlife is already on the brink.

Friday’s NY Post cover is pure gold

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A moment of reckoning--and opportunity.

June 6, 2025

Robert B. Hubbell

[I will hold my regular Substack livestream on Saturday, June 7, at 9:00 am PT / Noon ET. Open to all on the Substack App on your cellphone or tablet.]

To the surprise of no one, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have had their inevitable moment of reckoning. They turned on one another by speaking the truth about each other.

This development is good—and not merely because of the political ramifications. The moment of reckoning validates everything we have felt and believed in our hearts as we watched an unfolding Kafkaesque novel in which we were the victims. The complicity of the press and the complacency of elected officials in the face of a rolling coup made us doubt our sanity.

We knew that Trump and Musk were engaging in rampant illegality, conflicts of interest, and gross incompetence. Still, the political world hummed along as though the cruel reign of terror by Trump and his co-president was perfectly normal.

The significance of the war between Trump and Musk is that they are speaking the truth about each other. We do not need to engage in argument or inference. They have said it about one another—and they were in the room when the crimes were committed.

The rupture was so bad that it devolved into Musk threatening to start a third party and Trump claiming that he fired Musk from the government.

Here is a quick run-down of what happened:

During a press availability following a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump claimed that Musk is suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Musk responds by tweeting, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

Trump responds that the easiest way for the federal government to save money is to end subsidies for Musk’s companies, including Tesla and SpaceX

Musk responds with tweet, “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”

Trump suggests that Musk is—gasp—a narcissist who used DOGE to promote his own interests. Trump said, “Elon’s upset because we took the [electric vehicle] mandate and – you know, which was a lot of money for electric vehicles. He only developed a problem when he found out I would cut the EV mandate [in the reconciliation bill.]

Musk then endorses a Twitter user’s suggestion that Trump be impeached.

Steve Bannon then suggests that Trump should deport Musk.

Musk then states that SpaceX will begin “decommissioning” the Dragon spacecraft used by NASA to transport U.S. astronauts to the Space Station.

For additional details on the war of words between the two narcissists, see CNN, The ugliest things Trump and Musk just said about one another.

Josh Marshall raises an interesting point regarding the power dynamic between the two men. Marshall notes that Musk and DOGE likely committed many illegal acts. The Trump world is abuzz about the possibility of resurrecting criminal and civil investigations against Musk and his companies.

Musk probably assumed that illegal acts performed by DOGE would be pardoned by Trump. It now seems less certain that Trump will pardon Musk and his cohorts. Trump has the weight of the federal government hanging over Musk’s head, but Musk likely knows enough dirt about Trump to make a criminal prosecution painful for both parties.

Let’s put aside the spectacle of two world-class narcissists trying to destroy each other and ask, “How does this affect our fight to defend democracy?”

It is difficult to know precisely how the reckoning will resolve, but the strong probability is that it will weaken Trump, imperil the reconciliation bill, and slow or reverse the carnage inflicted by DOGE.

All of that is very good. We can’t assume that Republicans will defeat themselves, but we should take every advantage of their mistakes. That means that the protests on June 6 and January 14 (NoKings.org) must be bigger and louder than previously planned.

Of all of the “truths” spoken by Musk and Trump today, the most troubling for our democracy is Musk’s admission that he bought the presidency for Trump and control of the House. One day we will reform the Supreme Court and reverse Citizens United—an opinion that has poisoned politics in America by making money more powerful than the electorate. We will see that day. And exhibit Number One in reversing Citizens United will be the tweet of Elon Musk,

Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

Let’s remember Musk’s truth when we examine statements by pundits who want to blame Democrats for losing the 2024 election. Musk claims that the difference was the one-third of a trillion dollars he spent on behalf on Trump and the GOP.

Washington Post mocked after reporting on ‘mysterious’ decline in fentanyl crossing the border

“As of March, fentanyl traffic at the Southern Border had fallen by more than half from the same time last year – while Joe Biden’s open border was still terrorizing America,” said Jackson. “Everyone else knows the simple truth: President Trump closed our border to illegal drug traffickers and Americans are safer because of it.”

Eric Adams Curried Favor With Trump for Months