May 6, 2025.

In a follow-up story to last night's information about the Trump family's cryptocurrency

corruption, Mackenzie Sigelos of CNBC reported today that 58 crypto wallets have made more than $10 million each on Trump's

meme coin, gathering a total of about $1.1 billion in profits. But 764,000 wallets, mostly owned by

small holders, have lost money. Meanwhile, since January, the meme's creators have

pocketed more than $324 million in trading fees. In other news today, reality is crashing into

the ideology of the Trump administration. MAGA ideology was on full display in a meeting of the House Committee on Appropriations

Homeland Security Subcommittee when Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Knoem, refused to

answer a question from the ranking member, that is, the highest ranking Democrat, of the

committee, Representative Lauren Underwood, a Democrat of Illinois,

about whether she believes that the Constitution gives everyone in our country the right to do process.

The right to do process is clearly established in that foundational document,

but Trump refused to acknowledge it in an interview that aired Sunday. Now, Noam, too, is refusing to acknowledge it. Later, at a meeting

of a task force overseeing the International Federation of Football or FIFA, 2026 World Cup,

Noam said to Trump,

thank you, Mr. President. Thank you so much for dreaming big dreams and doing unprecedented things. Your entire life, you have stood for doing things that other people thought they

couldn't do and accomplishing unprecedented events and achievements.

Trump announced today that Andrew Giuliani, the son of former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani,

will head the task force. But MAGA's adherence to Trump and MAGA ideology is running up

against reality. Charlie Savage and Julian E. Barnes of the New York Times

reported today that U.S. intelligence agencies did not believe that the administration of Venezuela's

President Nicola Maduro was colluding with the criminal gang Trend Aragua, or TDA, when the Trump administration used that

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