
• Some Trump Officials Hold Two or More Jobs
• More Republican Senators Feebly Try to Justify Voting for a Bill They Hate
• Alligator Alcatraz Is Much Worse Than You Thought
• Epstein Died but the Issue Won't
• Harvard and University of Virginia Grads Are Working to Sabotage Their Schools
• Will Ernst Be the Next to Go?
• State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) Just Gave the GOP a Giant Gift
Trump Wants to Arm Ukraine--If Allies Pay for It
Donald Trump seems to have had a falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maybe Putin decided that he doesn't want Trump Tower Moscow after all. Is the souring of their relationship permanent or is Trump angry about something and it will be over tomorrow? Who knows. Putin is at least consistent. Trump is not.
In the past, Trump has blamed Ukraine and Russia equally for the war in Ukraine. If only the Ukrainians hadn't fought back, there would not have been a war. His view has changed. He said: "And I will say this, the Ukrainians, whether you think it's unfair that we gave all that money or not, they were very brave because somebody had to operate that stuff. And a lot of people I know wouldn't be operating it." We have no idea what that means, but it does credit the Ukrainians for being brave. It also shows that Trump has no idea how the military aid worked. Joe Biden did not sign a check for $50 billion and have Tony Blinken hand-deliver it to Volodymyr Zelenskyy for deposit in the Bank of Ukraine. What happened was Biden gave contracts to defense companies like General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc., to produce weapons in American factories staffed with American workers. The finished weapons and munitions were then shipped to Ukraine. Virtually all the "money for Ukraine" was spent in America, creating jobs at home.
What is interesting, though, is that Trump's souring on Putin may have some real-world effects. Previously, Trump had no interest in saving Ukraine. If Putin wanted it for lunch, so be it. Now he seems to have changed his mind and is willing to help Ukraine, but with a catch. It isn't about the grift, but it is grift-adjacent. Instead of giving the weapons produced by the defense contractors to Ukraine, he now wants NATO countries to buy the weapons, take possession of them, and then give them to Ukraine. The difference is that now the U.S. can make money off the war in Ukraine by selling weapons and munitions to NATO members instead of giving them away for free. If you turn the war in Ukraine into a profit center, Trump is suddenly interested. NATO allies in Europe have a lot more skin in the game than Trump, so they are probably willing to go along for the time being. In the longer run, NATO countries in Europe are going to ramp up their own defense industries and produce their own weapons (to the detriment of the U.S. defense industry), but that will take years.
Details are still being worked out. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has been on the phone constantly with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (to make sure no trans or gay people get any weapons) and with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine, who actually understands war and weaponry. Rutte is also in contact with European ministers of defense to work out who will buy what and when. Germany and Norway have already said they will buy Patriot surface-to-air missiles. They are made by Raytheon. However, the ones being sold now will have to come from stockpiles because it can take up to 3 years to build a full Patriot battery. A full Patriot battery can cost up to $1 billion.
Rutte will visit Trump in D.C. today to tell him how brilliant his plan is and that only a stable genius at Trump's level could possibly have thought of it. Rutte has that down pat. He will discuss which weapons NATO members want to buy and other details. Rutte will also meet with other officials and members of Congress. In particular, he will have dinner with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) to discuss their bill that would impose severe sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil.
This change of heart (if possible) from Trump makes a certain amount of sense. For years he has complained that NATO allies didn't spend enough on defense. This new strategy will force them to start spending big time on defense very quickly, long before they can build defense plants. So far, there hasn't been any public pushback from European countries about the plan. They have long realized that they will have to ramp up defense spending. They just didn't expect it to happen so quickly. (V)
Some Trump Officials Hold Two or More Jobs
Virtually all top government jobs are full-time jobs. Working part-time is fine for secretaries, maybe, but not for cabinet secretaries. Managing thousands of people and billions of dollars is not something anyone can do in his or her spare time. Nevertheless, Donald Trump has assigned several cabinet secretaries and other high-ranking officials multiple jobs, making them de facto part-timers at all of them. In a sense, this saves money by having one person do the work of two, but the quality of the work is almost certain to reflect that unless the multiple jobs are closely related and the person is exceptionally good at both jobs and a very hard worker.
It has happened before that a government official held multiple jobs. During the Nixon administration, Henry Kissinger was both secretary of state and national security adviser. Both jobs are about managing foreign affairs and Kissinger knew his stuff pretty well. In the current incarnation, that is not always so. Here are the most egregious examples:
- Marco Rubio: As a senator, Rubio was not known for his work ethic. Senators don't
have to do a lot if they don't want to. Going to committee meetings is optional. Giving speeches on the floor of the
Senate is optional. As long as a senator votes on bills when needed, none of the other senators complain about him (at
least not in public). Taking on the job of secretary of state was a big move for Rubio, since that job requires a lot of
travel and meetings with foreign heads of state and foreign ministers. Now Trump has saddled the
definitely-not-a-workaholic Rubio with three more jobs. He currently is:
- Secretary of State
- Acting NSA
- Acting U.S.A.I.D. administrator
- Acting national archivist
The first two kind of go together. Running U.S.A.I.D. might not be a lot of work after Elon Musk and his DOGEys basically destroyed the organization. However, running the National Archives is a real job. On the other hand, maybe Trump doesn't want anything he is doing preserved for posterity, so having Rubio be a no show might be fine with him. Still, these are a lot of titles for a guy not known to be a go-getter.
- Jamieson Greer: Next is Greer, who is not a cabinet secretary, but occupies a
cabinet-level position, U.S. Trade Representative. With all the action on the tariff front, and Donald Trump's desire to
negotiate 200 trade deals with 200 countries (some of which have no people in them, just penguins) the trade
representative should be a busy beaver and doesn't need other jobs. Nevertheless he has three hats:
- U.S. Trade Representative
- Acting director of the Office of Government Ethics
- Acting director of the Office of Special Counsel
Since Trump has no ethics, the second job is easy. If Trump or anyone else asks if something is ethical, Greer can simply say: "Yeah. Sure. Do it." That shouldn't take up much time. One of the main duties of the Office of Special Counsel is to protect whistleblowers. Trump actually opposes that, so Greer gets off easy here as well. All he has to do is negotiate 200 trade deals in the next 2½ weeks. How hard can that be? Besides, Trump has nominated a former podcaster, Paul Ingrassia, for the latter job, so Greer may soon be rid of it.
- Sean Duffy:
The secretary of transportation has to deal with airplanes.
Rockets are sort of like airplanes
(well, they fly in the air), so why not combine airplanes and rockets? Duffy, a former congressman
and reality TV star is now running the Department of Transportation and also NASA.
He also has nine children but he has probably outsourced managing them to his wife. His jobs
are:
- Secretary of Transportation
- Interim NASA administrator
NASA is kind of drifting, what with private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin getting into the space business. Someone at NASA needs to figure out what its mission should be. That is more than a full-time job by itself. These jobs don't combine well and Duffy has no background in any of this material.
- Russell Vought: As chief architect of Project 2025, which serves as Trump's playbook,
Vought has already had a massive impact on the government. As Director of the Office of Management and Budget, he can
now carry it out. But in addition, Trump gave him another job:
- Director of OMB
- Acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Trump hates the CFPB and wants it to wither on the vine. Making Vought, who is very busy destroying the government at OMB, acting director of the CFPB ensures that no one is home at the CFPB. That is precisely what Trump wants. Good fit here.
- Daniel Driscoll: Driscoll, a veteran who served in the Army in Iraq with distinction, was
named Secretary of the Army. While this is a big promotion from lieutenant, he at least has some military background,
although leading 1 million soldiers is a step up from leading a platoon. As if this weren't enough, Trump also gave him a
second job:
- Secretary of the Army
- Interim head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
The second job has nothing to do with the first one and is very controversial, since all three of its areas are individually controversial. Trump has said that the ATF is weaponized against gun owners and Driscoll will be expected to fix this. How did he get his jobs? Well, being a friend of J.D. Vance probably didn't hurt.
- Richard Grenell: Former ambassador to Germany Grenell is about as Trumpy as they come, so
he got the title of "Envoy for Special Missions," meaning Trump can use him wherever he is needed, typically to inject
Trumpiness somewhere. For example, Trump sent Grenell to Venezuela to handle a prisoner swap. However, this undercut Marco
Rubio (not that Trump cared). Grenell's current portfolio:
- Envoy for special missions
- Interim president of the Kennedy Center
After taking over the Kennedy Center in February, in order to purge it of wokeness, Trump installed himself as chairman and Grenell as the president. That has been harder than expected since virtually everyone there hates him and ticket sales have collapsed. Also, the workers have tried to unionize and five Democratic senators held a protest concert there. By now, Grenell is probably begging Trump to send him to some distant Third World country. - Todd Blanche: Blanche was Trump's lawyer in the case where Trump was convicted of
falsifying business records in New York. Though Blanche lost the case, Trump was still impressed with him, so he
appointed Blanche to be Deputy AG. With all the turmoil there and AG Pam Bondi under fire in the matter of Jeffrey
Epstein, it is a busy job. But Trump gave him another job, as well:
- Deputy attorney general
- Acting Librarian of Congress
Trump thinks the Library of Congress just stores books and he doesn't like books—except those ghostwritten in his name. So he fired the director, even though that person wasn't at the Library in 2021. But the director was Black, and that is grounds for firing in the Trump administration. Blanche probably doesn't have any time to run the library and certainly has no interest.
There are others as well, but these are the most visible ones. (V)
More Republican Senators Feebly Try to Justify Voting for a Bill They Hate
After voting for the BBB, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was confronted by a reporter who asked her about it. She had loudly opposed the bill before voting for it, so the reporter wanted to know: "How come?" She stared at him for at least 10 seconds and then went on about how agonizing the decision was but she had to do it. Actually, she was the deciding vote and didn't have to do it at all. She could have voted "no," then demanded (and gotten) many, many concessions before the next vote. She was clearly upset at being called out on her hypocrisy.
Since then, other reporters have confronted other senators who were wildly and loudly against the bill, but voted for it anyway. Turns out senators don't like it when a reporter shows the world what cowards they are.
One of the cowardly senators is Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a self-proclaimed deficit hawk. He yelled about the cost of the BBB at length before the vote. He said it was a "big ol' grenade" and wasn't going to vote for it. Then he did. When asked about this, he said: "One of the reasons I decided to vote for this is I didn't want the bill to get more expensive. I wasn't asking for money for my vote. I was asking for nothing other than a commitment to reduce the deficit." So, let's examine this. He voted for a bill that increased the deficit by $3 trillion so it wouldn't increase the deficit more? Why didn't he and three other deficit hawks vote "no" and say they were not going to vote "yes" until the bill was changed to be deficit neutral, or better yet, to reduce the deficit? He also said Trump promised him another bill later that would deal with the deficit. But he knew very well that his leverage was maximum at the time of the vote. By voting "no" and getting three other senators to do so as well, he would be in a position to force the bill to be changed to reduce the deficit. Now Trump has probably already forgotten his promise. Oh, and Trump couldn't threaten to primary him in 2026 because he is not up in 2026. A true candidate for Profiles in Cowardice.
Next up is Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), another self-proclaimed deficit hawk. Before the vote, she repeatedly claimed the bill spent too much money and didn't address the deficit. So what was her fake excuse for voting for the bill? She said: "We didn't have a choice. You know it was a vote to extend the tax cuts or have them expire, which would have had a huge tax increase." Of course she had a choice. If she voted "no" along with Johnson and two others, they could have forced a rewrite of the bill to reduce the deficit. Actually, just letting the tax cuts expire would have made a huge dent in the deficit. But in reality, while she talks a good game about the deficit, she actually prioritizes cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires. By the way, her net worth is "only" $15 million, so why would she care about reducing taxes for rich people? Oh, and she said her constituents loved the bill. Actually, multiple polls show that it is wildly unpopular across every demographic.
The other senators who opposed the bill, such as Mike Lee (R-UT), a long-time deficit hawk, mostly caved. The only one who stuck to his guns was Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who opposes everything and votes accordingly. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) voted against it because a "yes" vote would probably mean her demise in the 2026 election. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) also initially opposed it for electoral reasons, but then got tired of the whole sh**show that is Congress, announced his retirement, and voted "no" because his constituents so oppose the bill. Not a lot of heroes here. (V)
Alligator Alcatraz Is Much Worse Than You Thought
With all the attention to deportations, Florida AG James Uthmeier (R) decided to get into the act and ordered a hastily constructed prison on an abandoned airport runway in the Big Cypress National Preserve, 6 miles from the Everglades and 50 miles west of Miami. While not an island, it is surrounded by an alligator- and python-infested swamp. It has been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." It consists of zoo cages under tents. Each cage holds 16 double bunk beds. Here is a photo of Donald Trump inspecting it:

Reports from detainees describe horrible conditions. There is one meal a day and the food has worms in it (and it must be eaten in 2 minutes). Toilets don't flush so the floor is covered with fecal matter. Mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere. Inmates are denied showers and medical care (including prescription medicines). Phone calls are monitored and limited. The temperature is in the mid 80s. When you build things in a hurry in the middle of a swamp, you don't worry too much about building codes and laws. Inmates say they are under immense pressure to sign documents saying they want to self-deport. Many detainees have no criminal record. They also say that they have had no due process and their constitutional rights are constantly violated. Authorities deny all these charges but refuse to let journalists and photographers in to see for themselves. One immigration attorney, Atara Eig, said the conditions there make other detention facilities seem advanced.
Members of Congress from Florida demanded to inspect the facility and were turned down. They sued. Then officials backed down and allowed a group in on Saturday. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) told reporters after her visit: "There are really disturbing, vile conditions and this place needs to be shut the hell down. This place is a stunt, and they're abusing human beings here." She noted that grasshoppers and other insects (a)bounded. However, State Sen. Blaise Ingoglia (R) said the facility was well run and safe and the air conditioning worked. It is not possible that Schultz and Ingoglia are both telling the truth.
When Trump visited it, he touted it for its harshness. For him, that is not a bug due to the hasty construction, but a feature intended to get immigrants to self-deport rather than being imprisoned there. He even said it was a national model for getting immigrants to self-deport. In a way, it is a follow-up on a PR stunt from Trump v1.0, when parents were separated from their children and the children were locked in cages. The idea there, too, was to discourage new migrants from coming and encourage migrants already in the country to leave voluntarily. (V)
Epstein Died but the Issue Won't
This past weekend, about 5,000 young conservatives, mostly high school and college students, gathered in Tampa for the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit. The goal of the event is to train attendees on how to promote conservative values at their schools. There were speeches by Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Pete Hegseth and other well-known conservatives, leadership workshops, and more.
All was not rainbows and unicorns, though. There was a great deal of free-floating anger at the administration for the way it has treated the "Epstein files," even though no such files may actually exist. Many speakers criticized AG Pam Bondi from the stage for not releasing the "files" after she said she had them on her desk. For example, podcaster Brandon Tatum told the audience: "I think that that guy was involved in something nefarious that implicates a whole lot of people. And my guess is that a whole lot of people may happen to be some of our allies and some people that we don't want to have a bad relationship with." The event raises questions about why Donald Trump seems to be out of step with the base on this.
It isn't just the kids who are unhappy. On Sunday, "Fox & Friends" host Charles Hurt said there are valid unanswered questions about Epstein and the White House needs to provide answers. Kevin Corke and Rachel Campos-Duffy agreed that Trump's supporters need better information.
There were many postings on social media during the weekend, both from attendees and others, saying that the Epstein scandal will not "go away." Gen. Mike Flynn (ret.) tweeted: "Donald Trump please understand the EPSTEIN AFFAIR is not going away. If the administration doesn't address the massive number of unanswered questions about Epstein, especially the ABUSE OF CHILDREN BY ELITES (it is very clear that abuse occurred), then moving forward on so many other monumental challenges our nation is facing becomes much harder."
Apparently this carping got to Trump. On Saturday, he issued a strong defense of Bondi, saying she is doing a FANTASTIC JOB. It is a long and rambling posting, where he claims the files exist and were written by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other MAGA bugaboos. He also took an unusual jab at the base, saying: "We're on one Team, MAGA, and I don't like what's happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and 'selfish people' are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein."
Who are the selfish people? The kids in Tampa? The Fox hosts? Laura Loomer (who wants Bondi fired)? It is rare for Trump to turn on his base, but this seems to be one of those times. He wants the issue to go away and the base is making it clear it does not want the issue to go away. It wants answers. It was not at all happy with the memo the DoJ released last week stating that Epstein killed himself and there is no "client list." Carlson is not convinced. He said Bondi is "covering up crimes, very serious crimes by their own description."
Elon Musk responded to Trump yesterday with this tweet:

It is not clear what the base is thinking, assuming it is thinking at all. If Trump and Bondi had evidence that Democrats abused children, surely they would be trumpeting it from the rooftops. So if they do have unpublished information they are intentionally hiding, that must mean some Republicans are implicated, maybe even Trump. After all, Trump knew Epstein and liked him well enough to have posed with him for this widely circulated photo taken in 2000:

In any event, the Epstein story is far from over and could prove to be an albatross around Trump's neck. (V)
Harvard and University of Virginia Grads Are Working to Sabotage Their Schools
Two of the key people involved in trying to force elite universities to adopt conservative principles are in fact, graduates of the universities they are trying to browbeat into submission. Gregory Brown was a fundraiser for the University of Virginia before he joined the Trump administration to lead the crackdown on his alma mater. He is making progress, since he forced the president of U.Va. out. He is further working to destroy the progressive culture that dominates the school.
Daniel Wasserman was an editor of the Harvard Law Review when he was a law student at Harvard. He clashed with his more liberal classmates when there. Now he is leading an investigation of the publication as a White House employee.
Josh Gruenbaum repeatedly confronted pro-Palestinian activists at New York University while he was studying business and law there. Now he is on a Trump task force investigating antisemitism. He and other officials have described how being a conservative at elite universities made them feel isolated.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised the young government officials who have turned on their alma maters. She said Trump wants people with lived experience leading the charge.
Leading the battle to reshape the elite universities is Stephen Miller, himself a graduate of an elite university (Duke). He wants to kill off all DEI programs and imbue future students with a conservative worldview so it makes sense to him to hire conservative graduates of the universities he wants to destroy. They know the enemy well. (V)
Will Ernst Be the Next to Go?
Seven senators have already said they are not running for reelection—four Democrats and three Republicans. Only one, Thom Tillis, dropped out because he had a good chance of losing. All eyes are now on Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), to see if she is the next one in that category.
There was not much doubt that Ernst would be easily reelected until she was confronted at a town hall by a constituent who asked about her support for cutting Medicaid and pointing out that Iowans will die as a result of the bill. Ernst said: "Well, we all are going to die." That didn't go over well and was soon all over the national media. It hurt her so much that there are now quite a few people (including some Republican senators) who think she may drop out and not run for reelection rather than risk a defeat at the ballot box. So far, Ernst hasn't announced her plans for 2026.
Ernst raised $1.1 million in Q1 2025. This is an acceptable amount for a sitting senator in an off year, but nothing spectacular. Her Q2 take will shed more light on her situation.
Many people are already speculating about what might happen if she drops out. The expectation is that Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), the top fundraiser in the Iowa House delegation, will jump in the minute Ernst jumps out. Hinson is a former TV anchor. Two Democrats, state Sen. Zach Wahls and state Rep. J.D. Scholten, are already in. While Iowa has become a red state after years of being a swing state, an open-seat race is generally more competitive than one with an incumbent running. In a blue wave, an open-seat race could definitely be competitive.
On the other hand, some Democrats would prefer that a badly damaged Ernst, not a representative with no baggage, was the candidate. No doubt the NRSC is already polling the state and if Ernst appears to be a loser, will inform her of that. (V)
State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) Just Gave the GOP a Giant Gift
Democrats often dream of winning statewide races in Texas, but it never seems to happen. For a little while, they had actual hope that this might finally be the year. Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) filed to challenge Sen John Cornyn (R-TX). Cornyn would win reelection easily, but Paxton is such a loose cannon that he could conceivably lose the general election if he beats Cornyn in the Republican primary.
Paxton also has a lot of baggage, such as having been impeached by the Texas House for bribery, abuse of power, obstruction of justice and a raft of other charges. Paxton's alleged infidelity (with a Senate aide) was brought up during the trial but his lawyer used the "100 years defense." The lawyer said: "Imagine if we impeached everybody here in Austin that had an affair. We'd be impeaching for the next 100 years, wouldn't we?" The defense worked. Paxton was not convicted and is still Texas' AG.
Interestingly enough, Paxton is married to a Texas state senator, Angela Paxton. The Senate voted to disenfranchise her since the optics of her voting about her husband's guilt or innocence didn't look so good. Now she has thrown a monkey wrench in his election plans. She has announced that she has filed for divorce from him on "biblical grounds," after 38 years of marriage. In her petition, she accused him of adultery. Her husband blamed the petition on the pressures Angela faces as a state senator.
The NRSC wants to get rid of the AG in the worst way. If he were to win the primary (and polls show him ahead), he could actually lose the general election due to that ol' "candidate quality" problem. Even in Texas, voters will tolerate only so much. Now Cornyn and the NRSC see the divorce as a way to paint Paxton as a disgusting scumbag.
One thing that will help the AG is that the judge in the divorce case has decided to seal all the records of the divorce proceedings, so Texas voters won't get to know what is going on or what Angela's hubby actually did and with whom. Angela may put out her side of the story, but Ken will deny everything and no one will know for sure who is lying.
An interesting factor here is which side Donald Trump is on. Paxton is very Trumpy and what's a bit of adultery between friends? It happens all the time. If Trump supports Paxton in the end, that will mitigate the damage from the divorce. So far, Trump hasn't taken sides. One thing that could help Paxton's campaign is that the primary is next year and voters have very short memories. By then, the couple may well be divorced and the storm may have abated.
Control of the Senate could well end up depending on Iowa and Texas, if all the stars align for the Democrats. That would mean getting Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) to challenge Susan Collins and former North Carolina governor Roy Cooper to announce for Tillis' seat. It would also require Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) to draw a weak opponent in Georgia. None of these things are impossible, but it would require almost all of them to happen for the Senate to flip. (V)
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