Adam Koenig
@adamkoenig.bsky.social
Husband, son. ED, KY QH racing Assoc. Former KY State Rep. Conservative. Godfather of sports betting in KY. Passed direct shipment of alcohol and penny breakage. Adam@kpppc.us
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Adam Koenig
@adamkoenig.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Former KY legislator @adamkoenig.bsky.social on the death of Ronald Reagan's Republican Party.
www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e...
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Not my first op-ed, but my first as a non elected official. Hope you enjoy!
Reposted by Adam Koenig
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Wait, I thought the original country paid it? Weren’t we told that?
BREAKING: Trump drops tariffs on dozens of food items
Trump drops tariffs on dozens of food items
The growing affordability crisis has become a political liability for the administration.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Wait, I thought the original country paid it? Weren’t we told that?
Perhaps what should come off the bus is $20-40 billion for Argentina.
“.. We’re $36, $37 trillion in debt. To me, I think our bus is full.”
#LameDuckWatch 🦆
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#LameDuckWatch 🦆
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Perhaps what should come off the bus is $20-40 billion for Argentina.
If you didn’t do anything wrong, then you don’t need a pardon.
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If you didn’t do anything wrong, then you don’t need a pardon.
How have we survived all these years?
Trump claimed tonight that the U.S. would be "virtually defenseless" against other nations if the Supreme Court strikes down a slew of tariffs, which it is set to hear oral arguments against tomorrow.
Trump's closing argument: Tariff case is "life or death" for the U.S.
The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear oral arguments challenging the legality of a key part of his economic agenda.
www.axios.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
How have we survived all these years?
How dare you tell people the truth!
Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...
FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use
The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How dare you tell people the truth!
Reposted by Adam Koenig
Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”
Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.
www.forbes.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: “Those Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didn’t come without an expected return!”
Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it.
New: me, for @forbes.com
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I believe this will lower prices and make life affordable for all Americans.
The latest urgent assignment the Trump administration has given FBI agents: Find out what happened to Jimmy Hoffa www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/p...
FBI employees ordered to dig for Jimmy Hoffa-related documents, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa as the government shutdown ...
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I believe this will lower prices and make life affordable for all Americans.
Putting dangerous people back in the street.
New York State Police say the man was arrested after they received word from the FBI that that he made "threats to kill a member of Congress." n.pr/4qrsgw6
Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
New York State Police say the man was arrested after they received word from the FBI that that he made "threats to kill a member of Congress."
n.pr
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Putting dangerous people back in the street.
Is the Treasury Department next? Maybe a Smithsonian?
“White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach” … “Demolition that began yesterday at the White House continued, leaving the East Wing now almost completely demolished.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach
More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Is the Treasury Department next? Maybe a Smithsonian?
Well isn’t that nice. What does that intel go for these days?
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Well isn’t that nice. What does that intel go for these days?
Reposted by Adam Koenig
If the administration has such great evidence that these targets are narcoterrorists who pose an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, why are they not being tried in our criminal courts? 🤔
Breaking news: The United States plans to repatriate two alleged drug traffickers to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.
U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If the administration has such great evidence that these targets are narcoterrorists who pose an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, why are they not being tried in our criminal courts? 🤔
Just a complete embarrassment.
U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.
Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case
President Donald Trump says he has commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud
www.wdrb.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Just a complete embarrassment.
Seriously what is wrong with this guy? She literally can’t do her job because of this guy and he has the balls to say this?
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Seriously what is wrong with this guy? She literally can’t do her job because of this guy and he has the balls to say this?
It’s almost as if they didn’t think this through….
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s almost as if they didn’t think this through….
THIS THIS THIS 👇👇👇
Republican Governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt condemns the deployment of Texas's National Guard to Illinois.
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if [Gov. JB] Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration,” Stitt told The New York Times in an interview.
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if [Gov. JB] Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration,” Stitt told The New York Times in an interview.
GOP Oklahoma governor criticizes Texas National Guard deployment to Illinois
Kevin Stitt, the chair of the National Governors Association, broke with his party in an interview with The New York Times.
www.politico.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
THIS THIS THIS 👇👇👇
Tell me again how this is America first?
Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions over Trump tariffs.
Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions
American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada. A spirits industry group says spirits exports to Canada plunged 85% earlier this year.
www.lpm.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Tell me again how this is America first?
Send his ass to jail. No tolerance for people trying to steal elections.
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. - Slate apple.news/AmCrpH2rwTP2...
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. — Slate
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec votes in one state and lives in another.
apple.news
October 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Send his ass to jail. No tolerance for people trying to steal elections.
Fun fact: essential services don’t stop during a shutdown.
via @acyn.bsky.social
Vance: You don't use your policy disagreements as leverage to not have essential services of government actually function
Vance: You don't use your policy disagreements as leverage to not have essential services of government actually function
September 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Fun fact: essential services don’t stop during a shutdown.
Reposted by Adam Koenig
Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
September 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
Reposted by Adam Koenig
I’ve written an article for The Conversation about the so-called “Inconvenient Study,” described as a landmark study demonstrating vaccines cause chronic health conditions in children, highlighting its major design flaws and statistical problems that prevent it from showing what its promoters claim
September 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’ve written an article for The Conversation about the so-called “Inconvenient Study,” described as a landmark study demonstrating vaccines cause chronic health conditions in children, highlighting its major design flaws and statistical problems that prevent it from showing what its promoters claim
Or….hear me out…, we can undo the illegal tariffs that are causing these difficult times.
Brooke Rollins: "Soybean, corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton farmers are facing very difficult times. We are currently in conversations here at the White House, across the government, on a farmer aid package."
September 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Or….hear me out…, we can undo the illegal tariffs that are causing these difficult times.
Well, this is a positive.
NEW: Trump just reversed his support for Russia to keep Ukrainian territory, arguing Ukraine can and should take it back with the help of NATO allies.
Backing away from Russia, Trump says Ukraine should win back its land and NATO allies should shoot down incursions
The president’s remarks come after a meeting with Ukraine’s president.
www.politico.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Well, this is a positive.
Reposted by Adam Koenig
