Darlene Mauser

trumps grifting fucking billionaire owners have no clue how much we will fight to protect Yosemite from this bullshit.

BREAKING: BETRAYING NATURE! Trump’s public lands sellout reaches Yosemite in STUNNINGLY CORRUPT private development scandal. From his actions designed to put public lands in the hands of private developers, it’s plain to see that Donald Trump deserves to be called an anti-Yosemite. For 150 years, the American government has protected Yosemite National Park as a birthright belonging to every citizen. It was in fact the 3rd National Park ever established, with sections of Yosemite Valley protected as a California state park as early as 1864 because of its spectacular natural beauty, including such famous landmarks as Half Dome, El Capitan, and its fabulous waterfalls. Now the Trump administration is quietly working to give a piece of it away — to a private developer who's naturally donated to Trump's campaign and has business ties to two Trump officials. The National Park Service has been under sustained pressure from Secretary Doug Burgum and Interior Department leadership to hand over a quarter-mile strip of Yosemite land to a company controlled by real estate developer Jeff Pori and his firm Kingsbarn Realty Capital. Pori wants to carve a new private road directly into the park to access an 83-acre property he purchased for $4 million, land that would otherwise require a winding 90-minute drive to reach popular park attractions. This isn't a new idea — it's a zombie proposal courts already killed twice. The previous owner of the private parcel sued to build this exact road in 2007 and lost in district court, then lost again on appeal in 2012, with judges ruling flatly that federal law doesn't require the Park Service to grant new private roads when an existing access route already exists. Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations all said no. Trump's Interior Department is the first to say yes. The timing is particularly suspicious. Pori's company recently closed a real estate deal involving Newmark Group, chaired by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick until months before, and Hankey Capital, whose chair also personally underwrote Trump's $175 million bond during his New York fraud appeal. Pori himself started making regular donations to Trump's campaign and the Republican Party beginning in late 2024, with zero prior history of political giving. (Just out of the goodness of his heart, we suppose.) Former Yosemite superintendent Cicely Muldoon put it bluntly: "Our basic purpose in the national parks is to preserve these places unimpaired for future generations, not letting go of that for the purpose of private profit." One person familiar with the negotiations was even blunter: "It kind of smells, you know. It's not quite right." It smells so bad that it rivals Trump’s dirty diapers in its stench. California's Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff have both publicly opposed the deal, and it never even made the approved project list from the Senate committee overseeing the relevant conservation fund. Environmental groups are already preparing legal challenges. Yosemite belongs to the American people, not to whoever's donated enough money to the right campaign. With Trump already destroying formerly pristine public lands by allowing fossil fuel and lumber interests to rape them and reap the profits, he must be stopped from doing the same to Yosemite. Please like and share if you agree!

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