TOP Dem Gives URGENT WARNING on Trump 250 FRAUD SCHEME!!!!
Donald Trump is panicking as Democrats. are exposing potential wire fraud in. this. Freedom 250 event which co-opted the. America 250 event. Democratic. Congressman Jared Huffman posted earlier. today, "Every American should be. outraged by what Trump has done to our. nation's 250th birthday celebration. What should have been a. once-in-a-generation moment to unite the. country has been turned into another. vehicle for division, propaganda, and.
political gain. We uncovered how he. hijacked America 250. Watch to see how". And so here Democratic Congressman Jared. Huffman begins by setting the stage of. what was supposed to take place and what. Donald Trump did instead. Play this. clip. >> America's 250th birthday is being run by. a shadow company you've never heard of. Freedom 250 has raised millions of. dollars. It's selling access to the. president and it won't tell you who's.
paying or where the money goes. This is how Trump hijacked America's. birthday. by rewriting the rules to let the. ultra-wealthy and politically connected. take advantage of the American people. I'm Congressman Jared Huffman. I lead. the Democrats on the House Natural. Resources Committee. We spent the past year trying to uncover. the truth about what happened and I want. to walk you through exactly what we. found. >> Then you had Congressman.
in this address, this warning if you. will, to the American people talked. about how the Trump regime went into the. America 250 organization, changed it to. a Freedom 250, tucked the Freedom 250. organization into the National Parks, thus a for-profit LLC was stuck within a. nonprofit, and then it was used to route. monies from corporate sponsors and. potentially foreign governments. Here.
I'll play this clip. >> So, how did this private company end up. running America's official 250th. celebration, siphoning off millions of. taxpayer dollars, and harvesting. Americans' personal data? Let's start at. the beginning. In 2016, Congress did. something rare. Republicans and. Democrats came together and created a. commission called America 250 to plan. the 250th. They built it to be non-partisan on. purpose, so no president could ever make.
the country's birthday his own. The America 250 Commission was well. underway to honor the anniversary with. expertly planned festivals, activities, and unifying events to celebrate our. country and its founding. Then, Donald Trump decided he wanted. something different. He wanted a party. he could use for his own personal, political, and financial gain. So, first, he tried to take over America. 250. His appointee to the commission.
teamed up with the Speaker of the House. in an attempt to push four commissioners. out of their seats and replace them with. MAGA loyalists. When that didn't work, Trump created his own shadow entity to. circumvent and supplant America 250. They call it Freedom 250. On paper, it's a shell company. registered in Delaware through the same. anonymous vendor the president uses for. his other businesses. But this LLC is. different. It was lodged inside the.
National Park Foundation, the charity. that's funded our national parks for 50. years. Think about why you'd do that. As part. of a charity, the LLC could take in huge. sums of money without ever naming who or. where it came from. This arrangement lets them sell access. to the president, collect checks from. anyone willing to pay, and keep every donor's name secret, all. under the banner of a trusted American. institution, the National Parks.
Foundation. Then they starved America 250. >> And here's where Democratic Congressman. Huffman lays out the case for potential. wire fraud. Let's play it. >> Congress had set aside $150 million to. celebrate our 250th. The America 250. Commission was promised 100 million of. that funding. But of 2025, the White House told the. America 250 chairwoman she would only. get 50 million. And in the months that followed, they. whittled it down to just 25 [music].
million. The rest of the money was taken by. Freedom 250. Between this and other redirected funds, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. are now unaccounted for. Now, follow the money, because this is where it gets worse. Freedom 250 went after the real. commission's corporate sponsors, not. just donations, but a quid pro quo of. access to Trump in exchange for cash. Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, Chevron,
MasterCard, United Airlines, United. Health. Most of these corporations are. lobbying and trying to win contracts. from the same government that's now. selling them special access. And as they wrote their checks to. Freedom 250, the president was trading their stocks. and posting their ticker symbols online. to juice their values. Trump's cronies. were then deployed across the globe to. solicit money from foreign governments. The CEO of Freedom 250 flew to Davos, stood in front of a room of foreign.
governments, and asked them, in his. words, how they wanted to shape America's. birthday. Foreign governments shaping our 250th. He called it marketing freedom. According to a whistleblower, not everyone who donated money to. Freedom 250 knew That's what they were. doing. Fundraisers misled donors who intended. to support the America 250 Commission. by giving them Freedom 250's banking. information. And through this bait-and-switch, contributions meant for the non-partisan.
Birthday Foundation were routed to. Trump's shadow corporation instead. This is potential wire fraud. And Freedom 250 has been collecting more. than money. Its website runs through a company owned. by Brad Parscale, the president's long-time digital. strategist. Every American who signs up. for a free event, even the families who. registered for the World Cup fan zone on. the National Mall, hands over a name, a location, and a.
phone number that feeds straight into a. political operation built to profile and. target voters. >> More from Congressman Huffman right. here, talking about the. egregious behavior that the Democrats. are investigating and how Republicans. refuse to take any action at all. Play. this clip. >> Americans just wanting to celebrate our. nation's 250th birthday are unknowingly. signing up to potentially have their. data harvested and added to Trump's.
campaign operation. While Trump and Freedom 250 are. pretending this celebration is about. America's history, they've been forcing public servants. across the country to erase our. country's real story from parks and. public spaces. Park rangers were given marching orders. to take down factual signs about. slavery, climate change, and the forced. removal of Native Americans. And in their place, Trump and his. political allies have been pushing their. sanitized and distorted version of.
history. They paid out 10 million taxpayer. dollars for a fleet of trucks running. PragerU videos and an AI-generated. George Washington. that tells school kids that their rights. are a gift from God, something the real. Washington never said. They're parading these proselytizing. propaganda trucks in front of schools on. your dime. They've turned what should be a. non-political unifying celebration of. America's 250th into a right-wing.
Christian battering ram aimed at. breaking down what Thomas Jefferson. called the wall of separation between. church and state, enshrining their extreme version of. Christianity as our de facto national. religion. This agenda is not subtle. It fuses white Christian supremacist. identity with history revisionism, insisting the nation's founding, its. laws, and our fundamental rights are. rooted in the Christian Bible rather. than the revolutionary principle of.
self-government. Their own documents are littered with. proof that for them, this anniversary is not actually about. America, it's about promoting two. things: Christian nationalism and Donald. Trump. An internal playbook called for. scripture readings and worship nights on. the National Mall as official birthday. programming. They peddled sponsorship packages and. photo ops with Trump at 10 million bucks. a pop. A UFC ring was built on the South. Lawn of the White House not for the 4th.
of July, but for the president's 80th. birthday. with seats that ran a million and a half. dollars and went to executives from the. companies his government is supposed to. regulate. They handed out contracts to Trump's. closest allies, including Event. Strategies Inc., one of the masterminds. who orchestrated the rallies surrounding. the January 6th insurrection. Every fact we've unearthed in this. investigation, we've had to fight to get. it. The Republican majority in Congress.
has far more power than we do to demand. answers, but instead of joining us in. serious oversight, they've used their. power to do the opposite. They blocked our requests, shielded the. individuals and entities involved, and. refused to hold a single hearing on any. of this. They are shielding bad actors instead of. holding them [music] accountable. >> And finally, Congressman Huffman. concludes with this message. Let's play. it. >> So, today, against the obstruction and resistance.
of our Republican colleagues, >> [music]. >> we are dragging this fiasco out of the. shadows and shining a bright light on. the corruption and fraud surrounding. Freedom 250. America turns 250 years old only once. We should be celebrating this. anniversary together with patriotism. [music] and integrity. This milestone was paid for by every. generation that built this country. But Trump has tried to quietly steal it,
warping it into a celebration for one. man, and weaponizing it to advance his own. personal, political, and financial. interests. This is bigger than one anniversary. The political and legal machinations. that brought us to this point are a. potential blueprint for others who seek. to betray the public trust, take. something the public loves, >> [music]. >> run dark money through it, sell access, and make sure the details are hidden. from public scrutiny. It worked this time. We can't allow it to happen again for.
the next government program, the next. fund, the next thing that supposed to. work for all of us to be exploited and. misused this way. That's why we have to confront this. grift and corruption right [music] now. We laid out in meticulous detail how it. happened, not to tell you what to think. about America's 250th anniversary, but. so you'd know what they've done in our. name. So that you have the facts to decide for. yourself whether it's acceptable.
Two days from now, Americans of all walks of life will. gather to celebrate our 250th. anniversary. It's a moment for all of us to reflect. on what this country stands for and who. it belongs to. 250 years ago, our founders made a. statement that America belongs to the. people, not to powerful tyrants. We think America still belongs to all of. us, to you, and we will fight to keep it that way. >> [music].
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