92 illegal + 71 corrupt & morally bankrupt offenses
...by MAGA & POTUS 47
This is not just a Trump problem. The party of John McCain is gone. The con is out in the open. Even the deficit hawks caved, and this entire set of elected Republicans are condoning mind-bogglingly levels of illegality, corruption, and jaw-dropping immorality. As CA Governor Newsom has warned us, "these people aren't joking around, wake up!" Violence is never the answer. Our power is our voice, our vote, who we patronize, who we fund, and who we support, together.
Democrats aren't perfect
...but they are essential to restoring the balance and avoiding a catastrophe loss of freedoms, fairness, and the rule of law. Together, we can fix our institutions, but we must turn away from this non-conservative con-job to do so, and we must do it now. Don't be fooled by handfuls of positive accomplishments. Dictators always mix in a few. Without even touching upon inflation, the weakening dollar, and increased costs for you, this list below, will show you how far the balance has tipped away from what is acceptable. We need at least two healthy political parties. That can't happen if we don't stand against these things now.
Illegally sending Marines and NG to LA (on second attempt as military rejected the first)
Sending 2,000 National Guardsman and 700 Marines to Los Angeles to quell a 2-block protest with less than 200 people, intentionally trying to create conflict and escalation. Having your new DOD leader write a new order using twisted language, after the military commander refused the first order as it was clearly unconstitutional. The new twisted language in the second order was also found to be Unconstitutional. Despite this legal ruling, more National Guard troops are being sent to other states, against the desire of the state and local elected officials and against another ruling clearly stating this use of the National Guard was not legal.
Knowingly repeating the illegal use of National Guards against U.S. cities for political purposes
Sending 200 National Guard Troops to Portland immediately after mass shootings in NC and MI, knowing full well, the deployments to LA were ruled illegal. Couple this with the political speech to all military generals just days later, calling for the use of the military against "the enemy from within" and threating the use of the Insurrection Act. We are always looking for dedicated volunteers to join our leadership team. Whether you have experience in non-profit management or are looking to develop your skills, we have opportunities for you.
Deporting U.S. Citizens, then lying in court
Deportation of U.S. Citizen children, lying under oath in court that the parents of the children insisted that the children be deported with them, which was revealed to be not true.es, we rely on volunteers with a wide range of talents to help us achieve our goals.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/25/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-android-share
Pulling security protection as revenge against political opponents
Pulling the security detail of a handful of high-profile former political appointees and political opponents blatantly as a tool for political revenge while knowing full well that Iran was targeting a couple of them for assassination.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5337218/trump-revokes-security-clearances-biden-clinton
Pardoning all January 6th 2021 violent rioters without looking at it case by case as stated before..
...the election. Pardoning violent people who physically harmed police officers and lying that you were going to look at "case by case", instead pardoning and releasing them all from Federal prison as one group. Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence, and child abuse. Trump has defended his decision to give pardons and commutations to all of the defendants charged in connection with the violent Jan. 6 attack, by suggesting that evaluating all of the cases individually would have been too difficult.
Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell tears up during a hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
NPR Investigation: January 6, 2021
As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed'
"It would be very, very cumbersome to go and look – you know how many people we're talking about? 1,500 people," Trump told Fox News. Before the election, Trump misled the public on how he would handle these cases, stating, in a statement to NBC News, said such pardons would be "on a case-by-case basis," not the sort of blanket pardon Trump referred to in a recent interview with Time magazine. This double standard on some violence being pardonable is morally reprehensible.
Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump had criminal records : NPR
Trump says he may free every Jan. 6 rioter. His team is eyeing 'case-by-case' pardons.
Firing all 17 independent inspector generals
Firing all 17 independent inspector generals, violating federal oversight laws. Inspectors general — nonpartisan officials charged with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuses of office at their respective agencies — are crucial components of proper government oversight and a healthy democracy. By design, they are independent watchdogs that protect taxpayer money from being spent corruptly or inefficiently, without regard or loyalty to any presidential administration’s political whims. Certain fired inspectors general had previously looked into or were actively investigating matters that would have held in check, the business interests of both Trump and Musk. These firings were not only a brazen violation of the law, but a clear signal of Trump’s intent to evade the systems in place to hold him and his administration accountable to the American people.
https://americanoversight.org/investigation/trumps-illegal-firing-of-inspectors-general/
Attempt to suppress future election turnout via an illegal executive order explicitly meant to...
...circumvent congress to implement the federal election rules contained within the House of Reps passed (but Senate failed) "Save Act", which includes a new requirement proof of citizenship for newly registering or re-registering voters and which studies have shown to create major barriers for women who have changed their names when married and a large percentage of which would not be able to resolve the birth certificate and/or social security card mismatches before elections, thus tamping down the votes of women, which have swung towards Democrats significantly since 2016.
Attempting to change the census rules
Trying to change the Census rules to not count undocumented immigrants without going through Congress. “This flies in the face of Article I and its textual commitment that all persons in the United States be counted for the purpose of the census,” said Kareem Crayton, the vice president of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Washington office. “It also, of course, hearkens back to a very unsavory part of our history where we chose to count people who were here partially or not at all. And I’m speaking specifically of people who were enslaved and Native Americans.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-census-undocumented-immigrants.html
Attempts to interfere with state election equipment and election integrity in Colorado
Hiring a consultant, coordinating with White House Deputy Chief of Staff, to implement an elections executive order signed by POTUS. This consultant cold called the top elections official in a northern Colorado county with the request to give access to the election equipment to a third party per this executive order. The state election official denied the request. The consultant continues to operate and collect vast amounts of voter data and invoke Federal authority in his efforts.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/politics/trump-elections-pressure-campaign
Cutting USAID in such an irresponsible manner, documented to have resulted in the deaths of thousand
Illegally cutting international aid (U.S. AID) to save less than 1% of budget, while increasing spending on the military and border security and extending tax cuts that will allow for record increases to the national debt to continue. Aid cuts were done in an irresponsible manner in which tens of thousands of human beings have died globally within the first 6 months (b/t 90,000 and 200,000). Moral standing and trust for the U.S. will surely diminish from this act alone. Coupled with other corrupt and immoral actions conducted by the U.S. executive branch, the impacts to foreign relations may very well be damaged for a generation. There are documented instances in which the waste and losses were completely stupid and avoidable if done in a smarter way, including the expenses incurred for destroying and disposing of spoiled aid in warehouses that cost more than if they were properly distributed. Many more instances are still being documented.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths
Illegally holding up funds appropriated by Congress to States, putting a FEMA lawyer on leave...
...for refusing to write an illegal memo related to the seizure of $80 million from New York, allocated to migrant shelters by Congress. U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that prohibits agencies from halting the flow of federal funds awarded to the states through grants, contracts or other financial assistance based on a memo from the Office of Management and Budget issued during President Trump's first days in office.
Judge McConnell wrote:
The executive's categorical freeze of appropriated and obligated funds fundamentally undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government. The interaction of the three co-equal branches of government is an intricate, delicate, and sophisticated balance — but it is crucial to our form of constitutional governance. Here, the executive put itself above Congress. Josh Stanton, FEMA lawyer put on leave for refusing to write an illegal memo. Josh Stanton [a FEMA senior lawyer] was asked sometime this week to write a memo stating that the mid-February seizure of $80 million from the city of New York meant for migrant shelters had legal justification; this was despite the fact that it almost certainly did not.
The money that was taken back was lawfully obligated by FEMA pursuant to congressionally allocated funds. Stanton reportedly refused to write such a memo, The Handbasket has learned, and then he was put on leave.
Congressional attempts to weaken the judicial branch by slipping an illegal provision into a...
... bill .that would serve no purpose but to weaken the judicial branch, make most existing injunctions in antitrust cases, police reform cases, school desegregation cases, and others unenforceable, by requiring a convoluted plaintiff bond requirement. The provision was a clear violation of Byrd rule but inserted into the bill anyway. The provision "would make most existing injunctions—in antitrust cases, police reform cases, school desegregation cases, and others—unenforceable," Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, told Newsweek. "It serves no purpose but to weaken the power of the federal courts." The provision would prohibit courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders—the main types of rulings that have been used to rein in President Donald Trump's administration—unless the plaintiffs have paid a bond, something that rarely happens when someone sues the government. If enacted, it would be a "stunning" restriction on the power of federal courts, Chemerinsky wrote in an article for Just Security.
Disbanding the group of FBI prosecutors assigned to preventing foreign interference in U.S. election
Pam Bondi, Disbanded a group of prosecutors assigned to prevent foreign interference in US elections. NBC News, Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics. It also states that criminal charges for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires people to register when lobbying on behalf of a foreign nation, “shall be limited to instances of alleged conduct similar to more traditional espionage by foreign government actors.” The order adds that DOJ prosecutors instead “shall focus on civil enforcement, regulatory initiatives, and public guidance.”
Gutting the Foreign Agents Registration Act enforcement, opening the floodgates for corruption
Gutting the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) enforcement, by directing prosecutors to pursue criminal charges only in cases involving conduct “similar to more traditional espionage by foreign government actors.” Using this change to allow leniency on Russia, Qatar, UAE, while keeping the pressure on China, Yemen, and Iran. Reduced scrutiny on business and commercial activities no longer considered traditional lobbying activities.
https://www.swlaw.com/publication/faras-pendulum-shifts-in-foreign-agent-regulation/
Skipping all international laws for detaining with evidence and prosecuting, alleged criminals, but.
...instead murdering them and sinking the evidence, then repeating this activity at least one or two more times. Using our U.S. Military to assassinate alleged drug ship crew with 11 Venezuela probably criminal drug trafficking passengers. Not attempting to arrest, collect evidence, or give any due process. Using the miliary to be judge, jury, and executioners. Military carried out this order, knowing it was likely a war crime. Our standing in the world has having the moral high ground is vanishing. This activity has continued. Are we the good guys anymore?
Weaponizing the DOJ against Eric Adams, dangling dropped charges for pollical favors,...
...with the possibility of bringing them back. Drop charges against a city mayor, "with precedence" which allows the charges to be weaponized against the mayor, thus using it as a quid-pro-quo. Stating out loud that he shouldn't be prosecuted because he needs to focus on illegal immigration, but dropping the charges in a way that would allow them to return at any time. It doesn't need to be said out loud, "this is a quid-pro-quo", to be a quid-pro-quo.
Using an illegal tariff targeting Brazil's current gov. for prosecuting Bolsonaro, unilaterally...
...attempting to both normalize attempts to interfere with elections and tax U.S. importers for this weaponized motive. Thus, weaponizing for personal political advantage, U.S. Importer business taxes that they must pay for the sake of trying to influence a foreign government's judicial process to normalize the behavior of election denialism. Why should US citizens have to pay more for coffee beans grown in Brazil (which we couldn't have grown here anyway), because Trump wants to use a tariff, that he is not even legally able to apply without Congressional approval, making it so high (50%) as an attempt to punish the current Brazilian government for having judicial prosecution against former Brazilian President Bolsonaro, who is being prosecuted for his attempts to remain in power by fraud?
Placing a direct assault on the ability of independent journalism to cover U.S. military/Pentagon
Placing the most direct assault on independent journalism at the very place where independent scrutiny matters most: the U.S. military. Journalists who cover the Defense Department at the Pentagon can no longer gather or report information, even if it is unclassified, unless it’s been authorized for release by the government, defense officials announced Friday. Reporters who don’t sign a statement agreeing to the new rules will have their press credentials revoked, officials said.
Multiple press associations quickly condemned the new rules and said they will fundamentally change journalists' ability to cover the Pentagon and the U.S. military. They called for the Trump administration to rescind the new requirements, arguing they inhibit transparency to the American people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-places-restrictions-journalist-access-rcna232662
Firing the head of a Fed. whistle blower protections agency without cause, erasing a fifty year...
...precedence of Congress-provided watchdog protection for the position. A federal judge said that the president’s efforts to remove Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, were unlawful. The agency protects whistle-blowers. An appeals court put a stay on that ruling allowing the firing in March. The head of the agency ended his legal fight. "My fight to stay on the job was not for me, but rather for the ideal that OSC should be as Congress intended: an independent watchdog and a safe, trustworthy place for whistleblowers to report wrongdoing and be protected from retaliation,"
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5319326/trump-hampton-dellinger-watchdog-appeals-court
Attempting to revoke birthright citizenship, guaranteed by 14th Amendment with 150 yrs of precedence
Violating the 14th Amendment by issuing an executive order to revoke birthright citizenship, ignoring all known precedence and legal arguments and seeking a lawyer who could draft twisted logic to mask the move as not a direct violation of the Constitution.
Deleting the Federal Appropriations Tracker website and ignoring two statutory requirements...
...to use it for accountability and oversight. Ignoring two statutory requirements on using the Federal appropriations tracker, deleting the website, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Only getting approval on $9 billion out of $190 billion in illegal DOGE cuts.
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1051-33
On-going, dangerous polarizing rhetoric which will lead to violence
The dangerous polarizing rhetoric, cherry-picking instances of violence to use as a platform for the purpose of provoking political revenge, coupled with direct one-sided threats to free speech following the murder of Charlie Kirk. Condoning the re-platforming Alex Jones while cherry-picking acts of "hate" that are politically favorable to you and ignoring and making jokes about the rest, then insisting that "the left" needs to be gone after ignoring the actual stats and the fact the 22-year old Kirk assassin was acting alone. Pressuring Disney/ABC to suspend Jimmy Kimmel for off-color remarks after Charlie Kirks murder -- poor taste comments which were not threatening violence. POTUS Admin sponsored free speech suppression, which has been completely one-sided given the condoning and even joking about violent rhetoric when targeting Democrats, Democratic cities, etc. The double standard is sick. Coupled with J.D. Vance hosting Kirk's extremist talk show from the Whitehouse, taking a fully partisan message blaming Democrats for this 22 year old's solo actions, while Stephen Miller also says that they will "focus the anger" towards Democratic organizations, while ignoring the actual statistics showing much more violence from right wing extremists towards Democrats, including a Minnesota state congresswoman who was very recently murdered in her house by a gunman who had a hitlist of 46 Democrats just a few months earlier. Couple this with Bondi's ludicrous statements on going after hate speech from "the left".
Rebuttal by Kimmel, https://youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?si=FYO3tBibIE7zCHIu
Stating "I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them," while speaking at Charlie Kirk's
With Trump acting as "genuine" as he can be, he is just stating the truth. What is sad is that some people out there have mistaken genuineness for honesty. Trump has come across genuine, because he speaks his stream of consciousness and never ever apologizes, admits error, or backs down. This does not have anything to do with truth. In the exact speech, in which he claimed this honest stance of being 'less of a good person' than Charlie Kirk by actually hating his political enemies, he riddled that speech with lies, false narratives, and bad faith arguments, all which he genuinely believes. This is pathology. Shame on religious institutions who fell for this con. It's not too late to turn away from what is clearly your emperor with no clothes moment. We, meaning us independents, need to open up the big tent.
Firing a top district prosecutor hired just months earlier who wouldn't pursue charges on bad...
... evidence to then hire an unqualified loyalist willing pursue charges showing grand juries partial evidence. Trump appointing his unqualified personal insurance defense lawyer for head of a Federal District top prosecutor role, when she has no prosecutorial experience at all, and the person he hired just a few months ago and now fired, as that person would not allow such weak and vindictive case without established probable cause, get through a grand jury targeting specific people on Trump's political enemies list (J. Comey, L. James and A. Schiff), resulting in an immediate and ridiculous indictments against James Comey and Letitia James getting through Grand Jury charges on partial evidence.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/politics/james-comey-justice-department-trump-bondi-perjury-virginia
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/25/nx-s1-5552690/james-comey-indicted
Using the DOJ to go after Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve Board member and fire her on bad evidence...
...an attempt to seize control of what is legally structured as an independent agency. Eroding the independence of the Federal Reserve. Using the DOJ as a weapon to investigate people for the sake of turning a non-political entity into a corrupt group answering to the executive branch. Before Trump, any POTUS merely commenting on the decisions of the Federal Reserve was norm-breaking and risking sound fiscal policy.
Evading due process for detained immigrants, illegally using the 1778 Alien Enemies Act, ignoring..
...and obfuscating court orders and rulings. Evading due process completely for non-citizens accused of criminal activity. Invocating the Alien Enemies Act powers that your own intelligence agencies have concluded in February that your premise for it was false. Intentionally keeping leadership in the dark about what is logistically happening with airplanes carrying detained Venezuelans, such that they could plausibly deny under oath that they were violating court orders, while behind the scenes, ordering personnel to get the plane in the air no matter what.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/intelligence-trump-venezuelan-gang-alien-enemies.html
Supreme Court straying far from Constitution-based legal rulings, undermining lower courts, and...
...drastically increasing (4x) the frequency of use and scale of emergency rulings (shadow docket) to do so. Blocking the ability for lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions, even in cases were there are clear violations to constitutional amendments including amendment 14 for Birthright Citizenship, not ruling on the merits of the cases at all, posing existential threat to the rule of law, then continuing to grant emergency states and overrule lower court stays which avoid the supreme court from having to issue written legally sound majority opinions, and doing this at an unprecedented level and frequency from just one year ago and the previous two decades before that.
https://fox59.com/news/national-world/trumps-use-of-the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket-unprecedented/
https://newrepublic.com/post/197363/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-sotomayor-dissent
https://newrepublic.com/post/197189/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-ruling
Eroding protections against some forms of discrimination allowing the denial of medical treatment...
...based on personal characteristics, including political views and anything not directly prohibited by Federal law (protected classes). Executive order allowing some forms of discrimination, "Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law. Language requiring health care professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated."
Illegally holding up state funds aimed at hurting school children's well-being for DEI policies
Using the funding of a state's school lunch program, attempting to cut off meals and nutrition for 172,000 Maine elementary school students as a punishment for the state's refusal to implement an illegal executive order, which had nothing to do with these 172,000 students. Having the Federal government impose ideas on states, which is the antithesis of what conservative groups have wanted.
Selecting Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General
Selecting an Attorney General nominee so egregiously partisan, unqualified, and actively under investigation for criminal behavior, undermining the office and independence of AG. So bad, that one's own party overwhelmingly rejected this nominee and the nominee resigned.
Firing FBI agents solely for their work on Jan 6 riot investigations
Firing all FBI Agents that had involvement with January 6th riot investigations, while nominating and confirming a conspiracy theorist with a political enemies list to run the FBI.
Ordering the DOJ to stop the enforcement of U.S. anti-bribery law
Ordering the DOJ to stop the enforcement of a Federal anti-bribery statute that prohibits the use of bribes in securing foreign contracts, stating openly that American corporations are disadvantaged by prohibitions on bribing corrupt foreign officials because such activity is common in international business transactions, thus opening the door to unprecedented levels of corruption.
Publicly calling for the impeachment of judges
Calling for the impeachment of a judge ruling against your illegal activity and stating, publicly as POTUS, "I'm just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do." “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a rare statement. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” Chief Justice John Roberts ironically was surprised by this behavior, (No Shit Sherlock!) after being the one who tipped to vote to allow unchecked presidential power in 2023? with the ....case, in which Justice Sotomayor famously said, "...for the sake of our democracy, I decent."
Hiring Musk as special government employee after he blatantly used illegal means to influence the...
...the 2024 presidential election. Offering $1M lottery winner every day for registered voters who sign a pledge. Awarding $1MM a day to a random winner, for voting pledge in PA, then trying similar tactics again in Wisconsin while Trump was president. Trump selecting this guy to run an illegal function breaching secure data and recklessly cutting jobs in such a poorly executed manor, that thousands across multiple key departments had to be rehired. Asking for an email from everyone to state to him, what did you accomplish today. Send email on your accomplishments for the week or be fired. (Or semi fired, or not to respond (per Trump appointed leaders), or if you want to. Trump advisor to Trump, legal rebuttal, not even part of Doge. Doc about Doge said there would be an administrator. Not clear. (stupid). Did Trump and Musk send their accomplishments before the deadline? Trump is actually a Federal Government public servant also? Perhaps we should institute such a process where we get him to do that every day? Musk would be fired for his results, given what he claimed he would do, if these people actually held themselves accountable in any way. Total double standard.
Illegal extortions by against numerous private law firms
Targeting specific law firms with Executive Orders demanding legal representation and pro-bono work or face consequences, judicially ruled a "shocking abuse of power", which amounts to bribery by the Federal Government, a crime if accepted by the law firm. “The framers of our Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power,” AliKhan said. Judge blocked a new executive order from President Donald Trump punishing a prominent law firm that successfully sued Fox News for promoting false claims of election fraud. Perkins Coie files suit
First, I noted yesterday that the elite law firm of Williams & Connolly had stepped in to represent Perkins Coie, which is on Trump's enemies list for its representation of Hillary Clinton (and more). Williams & Connolly filed a complaint on Tuesday—signed by fifteen of its lawyers—seeking the reinstatement of Perkins Coie’s federal security clearances.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harvard-sues-trump-international-students-garber.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/karen-dunn-paul-weiss-partners.html
Mishandling of the negotiations on the War in Ukraine, blaming the attacked country and allowing...
...Russian state media into the oval office while conducting a disgraceful meeting with Zelensky. Russian state media briefly enters Oval Office during Zelenskyy meeting
The White House did not address how the unapproved reporter was able to gain access to the Oval Office. The White House last week announced that “all journalists deserve a seat” in the Oval Office press pool. For a fleeting moment on Friday, that included the Russian state media.
A staffer from TASS, a Russian outlet that often promotes glorified coverage of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, was briefly in the room for President Donald Trump’s bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. American media mainstays Reuters and the Associated Press were not granted access.
Extorting Ukraine for its minerals with no security guarantees
Not supporting Ukraine defense unless it included a mineral rights deal and doing so without offering security guarantees, extorting this nation while under attack and unilaterally hosting talks with the invading aggressor naively thinking this was all about a good "deal", while aligning with the false pretenses and demands of the aggressor, alienating the U.S. from its European allies and weakening NATO.
Disbanding group of prosecutors who target criminal activities by Russian oligarchs, seizing assets
Pam Bondi cut the task force on foreign influence. Disbanded a group of prosecutors who targeted criminal activities by Russian oligarchs. Reuters, Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs. Trump administration disbands task force (group of prosecutors) targeting Russian oligarchs. disbanded a Biden-era program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs as a means to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. (Task Force KleptoCapture).
https://cyberscoop.com/doj-disbands-foreign-influence-task-force/
https://www.swlaw.com/publication/faras-pendulum-shifts-in-foreign-agent-regulation/
Nominating an attorney who made 150 undisclosed appearances on Russian state television
Former staff in the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. have criticized Martin for dismissing prosecutors who handled cases involving U.S. Capitol insurrectionists. Martin has praised Elon Musk and Mr. Trump on his social media account in the two months since taking over as top prosecutor.
Martin posted in a letter on X that he would go after those who have threatened Musk and Department of Government Efficiency employees, pursuing them "to the end of the earth to hold them accountable."
He has been posting on social media about crime in Washington, D.C., using the hashtag #MarchBadness. In one post last month, Martin wrote, "Hey, thugs with guns, you hear that? Yup, we comin.'"
In another social media post earlier this year, Martin wrote that his predecessor was a "Biden prosecutor" who "upped political prosecutions, he steered resources to a now-debunked legal theory that targeted American citizens, and gun prosecutions went down. Literally. Let me be clear: he used our $ to chase political hoaxes while the people of DC were terrorized by thugs with guns."
Without Adam Schiff's intervention, this nominee would have gone through. Trump had to withdrawal him due to the uncovering of the truth and retiring Senator Thom Tillis..
Mr. Martin’s fate was sealed on Tuesday when Senator Thom Tillis, a key Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he would not support the nomination because of Mr. Martin’s work on behalf of the rioters. That dealt a fatal blow to his path to confirmation, leaving the committee deadlocked at 11 to 11, with all 10 Democrats on the panel opposing Mr. Martin. Republican leaders had said they would not take procedural steps to force a vote on the floor.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nominee-u-s-attorney-in-d-c-ed-martin-blocked-adam-schiff/
Voting with N. Korea, Russia, and China, against Ukraine's territorial integrity
Having the U.S. vote against Ukraine's territorial integrity at the UN, forcing Israel to vote with us, voting with North Korea and China perhaps as an attempt to flatter Russia / Putin for the sake of deal-making ?(unsuccessful). We, the U.S, voted against Ukraine's territorial integrity at the UN and force Israel to vote with us, we voted with N. Korea Russia and China. Didn't let them obtained. Vote on Ukraine? Bully Democracy... Why? Because Trump thought he was so smart that he could flatter Putin to de-escalate and "make a deal" ? Result is embarrassment for the U.S. and hurt international relations.
Executive order to close the Department of Education
Issuing an Executive order to close the Congress-approved Department of Education, knowing such an order is illegal, then finding ways to fire enough individuals and render the DOE unable to operate, since it wasn't able to actually close it. Executive order to close the Department of Education. Some mixed in common-sense reforms can be duly recognized, but this does not mean that there is legal authority on every change and dismantling.
https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/03/20/trump-administration-withdraws-ada-guidance/31368/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dismantling-education-department-8b5d0961700f0fe69d18ea80b437c8b8
Promoting polarization and violence in public post to the city of Chicago, a continued pattern...
...of degrading the office of POTUS and use of social media eroding all norms of truth and decency. Posting on social media, "I love the smell of deportations in the morning... Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR" along with an image of a burning city of Chicago, with Helicopters and Chipocalypse Now title. Couple this with deciding to change the DOD to the DOW, from Defense to War. Trump executive order and Pete Hegseth going along with it. Words are important. What is the real purpose for this change? What is wrong with "defense"? Are we aggressors now? Couple this with the threats against Finland/Greenland. Couple this with giving zero due process to alleged drug importers on the open ocean coming from Venezuela. Are we the "good guys" anymore? To then immediately turn this messaging at Chicago, as the strong-man that is going to use the military to swoop in and solve the decades long crime problem in one particular city (ignoring the stats across all cities but targeting those with Democratic-leadership). Even if the post and comments were "walked back" as just a claim that he, Trump, doesn't want 5 people a day to be shot and killed in Chicago, that is not an excuse for this behavior and not working together to actually support local leaders. It is pure polarizing behavior, ignoring the reality on the ground.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/06/nx-s1-5532148/national-guard-chicago-baltimore-new-orleans
Illegal attempt to remove a congress-appointed executive branch independent Merit Systems Protection
...board member mid-term, which would affect election campaign financing, removing any checks and balances against dark money flooding into U.S. elections. Knocking down checks on presidential power, including around election campaign financing by illegal attempt to remove FEC chair, which would remove any remaining checks on dark money flooding into our elections. Merit Systems Protection Board has long been referred to as an independent agency, existing within the executive branch but with some degree of independence from the White House. "Our country is built on a separation of powers, a balance of powers, and when you give the president unfettered power, you're taking away the power from Congress. Congress put me in this job," she said. "The president can pick his lawyers, but he can't pick who's going to judge cases."
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/06/nx-s1-5532148/national-guard-chicago-baltimore-new-orleans
Eroding separation of church & state by allowing IRS to settle a case which will allow churches...
...to become dark money able to bribe politicians. Having the IRS settle a case to allow a carveout from the Johnson Amendment for churches, particularly (not other 501(c)(3) charities), to allow them to endorse political candidates and stay tax-exempt. Most non-ultra-conservative Christian and interfaith groups, along with non-religious groups, oppose this, as it will lead to churches essentially becoming dark money bribe factories open to the highest bidder.
Violating due process and Habeas Corpus for immigrant detainees claiming they are too dangerous...
...to remain in the country while at the same time allowing 17 jailed Mexican drug cartel leaders to come into the U.S. to have more secure trials. Violating Habeas Corpus on the premise that these criminal illegal immigrants are too dangerous to keep in the country while within the same few weeks, striking a deal the Mexican Chief of Security to extradite INTO the U.S., 17 family members of jailed Mexican cartel leaders, such that they could have secure trials in the U.S. with lowered risk of cartel members attempting jail breaks. You can't say out of both sides of your mouth Trump / Vance that we must deport people without due process because they are too dangerous here and import actual foreign-country detained drug cartel members INTO the US to keep them secure to be convicted. This means that you can detain 'who you know to be gang members who actually committed crimes' and keep us safe, or else, why are you importing these others? This coupled with the use of Guantanamo Bay shows that the plan is to avoid US law and public scrutiny. Saying out loud that the courts are trying to stop me from what the country voted me in to do is just a public admission that you had no plans to even make a plan to try to use the power of congress and evidence-based due process. Vance can't claim that he "knows" Abrego Garcia is a gang member and criminal. If you know, prove it in court. just because you want to do it fast doesn't mean you get to affectively suspend Habeas Corpus unilaterally, which your DHS secretary doesn't even understand. Republicans were worried about the slippery slope towards Socialism, this is the fast plunge into dictatorship. Civil wars are fought for this. The fact that Trump has said out loud that he wishes he could send US Citizens, the worst criminal offenders to foreign prisons, such as the El Salvadorian prison is a scary proposition, because they have already shown that they want to avoid and remove due-process. Of course we want violent criminals in prison.
Weaponizing the office of POTUS with an executive order, as direct revenge against a law firm...
...who settled the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Fox News ($787.5 million settlement). The settlement was made because it was clear that they were clearly going to lose the case. Thus, Trump is weaponizing the presidency for the sake of revenge and intimidation over actions taken to protect our national trust in our free and fair elections. Executive order targeted the law firm Susman Godfrey with many of the same sanctions that Mr. Trump has applied to other law firms that had taken on cases or causes he did not like. In 2023, Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to resolve a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems over the network’s promotion of misinformation about the 2020 election. Susman Godfrey represented Dominion, a manufacturer of voting machines that lawyers allied with Mr. Trump attacked with outlandish claims about widespread voting fraud.
Pardoning a Sheriff who issued police badges in exchange for bribes, was convicted and in prison...
...but pardoned under "No MAGA left behind". Pardoning a convicted, imprisoned corrupt Sheriff who issued police badges in exchange for bribes and with withheld more than $10 million from the paychecks of the nurses, doctors and others who worked at his facilities under the pretext of using it for their Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes. Instead, he used some of the money to buy a $2 million yacht and to pay for travel and purchases at high-end retailers. Pardon was three weeks after his mother attended a $1 million-per-person fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago, and thus a quid-pro-quo. POTUS administration official stated publicly that the pardon was part of a "No MAGA left behind" policy.
Illegally using the IRS as a tool for quid-pro-quo against Harvard
Illegally attempting to revoke Harvard's tax exempt status as a tool to force them to change their curriculum and student acceptance practices.
Using the D.C. Admin legal power as a tool for a quid-pro-quo against Georgetown U. for DEI policies
Threatening Georgetown University's Law School Dean with a quid-pro-quo; they will not hire graduates from Georgetown Law if they don't change their DEI policies, violating free speech and illegally weaponizing the Federal office. Dean William Treanor told acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin that the First Amendment prohibits the government from dictating what Georgetown’s faculty teach or how to teach it.
“Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution,” Treanor wrote in a letter addressed to Martin.
Illegally using DHS as a weapon of political leverage against all of Harvard's international student
Using the DHS to rescinding Harvard's ability to provide legal entry to international students (~6,000), with immediate revoked status (within 7 days) of students currently residing in the U.S. Claiming this is all about national security and antisemitism, when the demands on Harvard were way beyond protecting Israeli students, which it indeed has worked to improve their safety...? As everyone expected (including Noem and Trump), a federal judge (Allison D. Burroughs) immediately issued a temporary restraining order. From Harvard's filing: "This revocation is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the “ideology” of its faculty and students.
The government’s actions are unlawful for other equally clear and pernicious reasons. They disregard the government’s own regulations—under which Harvard should remain certified to host F-1 and J-1 visa holders. They depart from decades of settled practice and come without rational explanation. And they were carried out abruptly without any of the robust procedures the government has established to prevent just this type of upheaval to thousands of students’ lives.
With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission. Harvard’s certification is essential for each of Harvard’s thousands of international students to lawfully remain in this country while they complete coursework, obtain degrees, and continue critical research."
Terminating the legal status for more than 500,000 legal immigrants with TPS, skipping the 60-day...
...notice and consultation with government agencies required by law. Trump administration terminates legal status for more than 500K immigrants They're [Haitian legal migrants] are eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets. Followed by Vance nor Trump's apologizing when it turned out to not be true, but saying the idea still applies. Doubling down. Trump administration terminates legal status for more than 500K immigrants. (TPS) for Haiti, impacting over 520,000 Haitian nationals residing in the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated that the designation will expire on August 3, 2025, with the termination taking effect on September 2, 2025. This decision reverses an 18-month extension granted under former President Joe Biden's administration, which would have extended protections until February 2026. "This decision restores integrity in our immigration system and ensures that Temporary Protective Status is actually temporary," a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson said in a statement. As Haitians are thrust into the national conversation surrounding U.S. immigration, uncertainty looms for thousands of people. Now more than 500,000 people facing the threat of being sent back to a country rife with political turmoil and gang violence. The Trump administration's move to terminate TPS for Haitian immigrants is part of a wide effort to roll back Biden-era immigration policies. Under U.S. law, at least 60 days before TPS designation expires, the Secretary must consult with relevant government agencies and review conditions in the designated country to decide whether the circumstances that justified the protection still exist and, if so, whether to extend the designation and for how long.
Ending the protected status of Afghan refugees who escaped on U.S. planes during Taliban takeover
Ending the protected status of Afghan refugees who escaped during the fall of Kabul on the last planes to the U.S., forcing many of them to weigh going back to be murdered and having no place to go and no permit to continue to work or live safely in the U.S. Also pausing indefinitely, the LEGAL applications of Afghan nationals seeking SIV & Humanitarian Parole to avoid life-taking retribution from the Taliban for working with U.S. and the Afghan government (that we abandoned with the 2020 Trump/Pompeo DOHA agreement - worst deal ever). “Ending TPS does not align with the reality of circumstances on the ground in Afghanistan,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge. “Conditions remain dire, especially for allies who supported the U.S. mission, as well as women, girls, religious minorities, and ethnic groups targeted by the Taliban. The anxiety among our Afghan clients is real and growing. They want to contribute, work, and live in peace, but now face legal limbo and fear of deportation.” The expiration of TPS means Afghans who have no other immigration status or pending application may begin accruing unlawful presence, potentially triggering bars to future immigration benefits. Many could also lose their jobs once their Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) expire.
“Without these humanitarian protections, thousands will be left in legal limbo, unable to renew work permits, cut off from the stability they need, and vulnerable to a newly supercharged detention and deportation infrastructure,” said Vignarajah.
A significant portion of TPS recipients are Afghan evacuees who entered through Operation Allies Welcome after the fall of Kabul in 2021. Among them are those still awaiting decisions on asylum, Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), or other applications for permanent protection. The expiration of TPS means Afghans who have no other immigration status or pending application may begin accruing unlawful presence, potentially triggering bars to future immigration benefits. Many could also lose their jobs once their Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) expire.
“Without these humanitarian protections, thousands will be left in legal limbo, unable to renew work permits, cut off from the stability they need, and vulnerable to a newly supercharged detention and deportation infrastructure,” said Vignarajah.
A significant portion of TPS recipients are Afghan evacuees who entered through Operation Allies Welcome after the fall of Kabul in 2021. Among them are those still awaiting decisions on asylum, Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), or other applications for permanent protection.
Asking the Trump admin to undo the revoking of protected status for Christian Afghan refugees in U.S
-- just the Christians, assuming that just Christians will face imminent danger to their lives when returning to Afghanistan, which is know to be not indeed true and is a blatant attempt to assert religious discrimination.
Evading due process for detained Venezuelan immigrants, using false generalizations of criminality
Dangerous lie-riddled statements made repeatedly, suggesting that Venezuelans were gang members or criminals as part of the decision to remove protected status for 300,000 Venezuelan migrants, which is untrue given how TPS works (TPS is lost with any criminal record), ... Judge wrote, “Generalization of criminality to the Venezuelan TPS population as a whole is baseless and smacks of racism predicated on generalized false stereotypes,” he wrote in his decision. The Supreme Court in an emergency order on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections the Biden administration gave to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, over the public dissent of one of the court’s liberal justices.
Launching a crypto meme currency & accepting foreign donations in the tens of millions while...
...running for president. Launching a meme currency and allowing it to be used for personal wealth, before and during presidency, while also interfering with related DOJ activity that is directly related to donations you received, while also having family members that will directly benefit from a government effort to create a government crypto reserve.
Having your new SEC dismiss cases against a fraudulent crypto meme coin donor, coupled with on-going
...use of the meme coin for untraceable bribes, meddling business and official POTUS duties, and violating the emoluments clause continually. Using your hired SEC chair to grant a stay/reprieve from civil prosecution, a Chinese crypto entrepreneur who purchased $30 million in your crypto currency while you were running for POTUS. Also auctioning off, to highest bidder, private tours of Whitehouse and dinners with you as POTUS using that meme coin. Not handling it as campaign contribution for other candidates, just adding it directly to your own wealth. On your first major international trip, Saudi Arabia made a $2 billion crypto investment into your personal meme coin. Stating that your media will sell $1.5 billion in shares and $1 billion in convertible bonds to institutional investors as per your filing with the SEC. When reporters asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the obvious conflicts of interest for a president selling cryptocurrency that granted access to the White House, she responded that the dinner and related activities were done on Trump's “personal time.” See Mediate, Karoline Leavitt Insists Trump Is Attending Shady Crypto Dinner With Foreign Investors in His ‘Personal Time’
Bingo! If Trump is “selling” access to the White House on his “personal time,” then the presidential immunity granted by the Supreme Court does not apply.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/business/crypto-mogul-trump-coins-civil-fraud-charges/index.html
Auctioning off tours of the White House for crypto donations, which directly go towards Trump's...
...personal wealth, while simultaneously trying to influence U.S. policy on crypto currency, which would directly benefit his family's business. As POTUS, auctioning off, to highest bidder, private tours of Whitehouse and dinners with himself using that meme coin. Crypto having no bank, no traceability. Not a campaign contribution for other candidates, just to his own wealth.
Illegally having and using a crypto coin as president, accepting a bribe
US Micro chips were banned from sale to UAE for national security. MGX, a UAE based company asked for a favor, to get AI chips from the U.S. Trump goes on trip to Millie East, UAE donates 2 billion in Trump crypto, chips then approved for sale to UAE. The sequence of events is alarming. One of Oregon's Senators questions Bondi who ignores the question completely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8r1uaPEJE
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-family-crypto-venture-tapped-part-2b-emirati/story?id=121415842
Selecting as the Head of the Small Business Administration, a Top Donor to your campaign, who also..
...happens to have been the chief executive of a cryptocurrency trading platform, that you, as president are involved directly with your own crypto currently and are in negotiations with this person's trading platform for purchase. Ms. Loeffler was previously the chief executive of Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading platform that the president-elect’s Trump Media & Technology Group is reportedly in talks to purchase. a top donor to Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign and a former Georgia senator, to head the Small Business Administration. Appointed to fill a vacated Senate seat in Georgia by Gov. Brian Kemp, serving from early 2020 until she was defeated in a special election by the Rev. Raphael Warnock in January 2021. Loeffler played a prominent role in Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. She comes from a prosperous farming family in central Illinois, and in her early 20s was given large tracts of some of the richest agricultural land in America. As senator, Ms. Loeffler briefly served on an agricultural subcommittee that oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates the derivatives market, but stepped down to dispel questions over potential conflicts of interest.
She is married to Jeffrey C. Sprecher, the chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange. She appeared to have received stock and other awards worth more than $9 million from Intercontinental Exchange, when she left her position there to serve in the Senate, according to securities filings, Ms. Loeffler’s financial disclosure form and interviews with compensation and accounting experts.
How is this merit-based? Conflicts of interest used to matter to Republicans, SCOTUS.
Cutting task force on Russian sanctions and excluding them from the illegal tariffs issued globally
Cut task force on Russian sanctions, rolling out tariffs to 100+ countries and not including Russia in those sanctions (hoping to negotiate an end to the war with niceness I guess, which didn't work, because Putin is playing Trump like a fiddle). Months later, finally threatening sanctions now, but not actually doing it. Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to get hit with the worst attacks from the three-year war and even the Nato country of Poland has been obviously intentional drone attacks on NATO soil with no response, showing us to be a paper tiger.
Freeing Mark Fogel from Russian prison with no information on what the U.S. gave or promised in exch
Not releasing any details or evidence of any exchange by Russia for the release of a 3-year wrongfully detained American Citizen prisoner held in Russia. What did we promise to Russia to get this prisoner back? All past exchanges were more transparent.
https://www.newsweek.com/what-did-trump-give-russia-exchange-marc-fogel-what-we-know-2029710
Illegally mixing business dealings with office of POTUS, continued violations of Emoluments clause
Not divesting from business interests, having your sons run it while remaining the inheritor of all of it, while mixing business dealings with executive duties, violating the emoluments. Having your son-in-low, former appointee in your administration secure a $2 Billion foreign business deal in the middle east, and continuing to be involved in real estate deals as president, mixed in with foreign policy and diplomacy. blending of political advisory roles with private business interests blurs the lines between diplomacy and profit, raising concerns about transparency, accountability, and the true intentions of both the son-in-law and the president.
https://www.tmj.news/jared-kushner-affinity-partners/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/probe-finds-trump-officials-repeatedly-violated-hatch-act
Trump makes his first real international trip as Trump 2.0 with a stated purpose as "making deals"
...starting with UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, which mix in his own personal business which his sons are running for him, but he hasn't divested and remains the inheritor. Trump makes his first real international trip as Trump 2.0 with a stated purpose as "making deals" to UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, while his sons, run his business, who he didn't divest from and will re-inherit once a former POTUS. While building properties in Saudi Arabia, while planning for a Trump Tower in Damascus Syria. Nepotism alone is an unfair concept. Jared Kushner, his son in law, struck a $2 billion business deal immediately after being in Trump's term 1 White House. It was so unethical that, even Trump's super conservative loyalists had called it out as unethical.
Directly ordering your Attorney General and Homeland Security Secretary to investigate...
...former official in charge of 2020 election oversight and former HSS Chief of Staff, who wrote an anonymous op-ed in the NY Times. Two executive orders targeted Christopher Krebs, who as a senior cybersecurity official oversaw the securing of the 2020 presidential election, and Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security during Mr. Trump’s first term and anonymously wrote a high-profile opinion article for The New York Times in 2018. Among other measures, the orders directed Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, to investigate the former officials and report their findings to the White House.
Lifting travel ban on accused sex traffickers from Romania while criminal charges are on-going and..
...having connections to your son. Trump administration pressures Romania to lift travel bans for accused sex traffickers Andrew Tate and his brother, amid ongoing criminal charges while having connections with Trump Jr. and the White House. Doing this at a time when other countries are having total travel bans and refugees are being deported without any alleged criminal behavior. Trump pressures Romania to allow accused sex traffickers to travel to US, successfully getting the travel ban lifted for them to fly to the U.S. Trump’s administration has pressured Romanian authorities to remove travel restrictions on Andrew Tate and his brother, according to a report.
Controversial influencer Mr. Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of various allegations in Romania, including criminal charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
The self-proclaimed misogynist and his brother are still facing charges in Romania. They are currently “under judicial control”, meaning he can travel through Romania "while adhering to the required legal conditions".
Both deny wrongdoing. Andrew Tate has reportedly been friendly with Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son, since at least 2016 - even visiting Trump Tower.
Illegal & poorly executed firings of thousands unnecessarily causing chaos and thousands of rehires
The mass firings of thousands of federal workers by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — with the blessing of President Donald Trump — have been ruled illegal, and Trump just lost an appeal to reverse that previous order.
In a Bluesky post, Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney linked to the 45-page ruling by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel (which encompasses Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state) which ruled 2-1 against Trump. The panel's ruling denied the Trump administration's request for an emergency stay of a previous order handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston earlier this month that ruled the mass firings were unconstitutional. Making Federal employee cuts so hastily, that across different departments including nuclear security safety officials whom could not be located after firing, then ultimately having to rehire them. Rescinding firing of 900 workers with Indian health services, those working on the Bird Flu. Firing several hundred from the FAA with ripple effect includes FAA shortage of air traffic controllers, which was already known and needing an increase, directly affect NYCs Newark Liberty ability to operate. ‘Read this e-mail immediately': CDC tells about 180 fired employees to come back to work (By MIKE STOBBE, Updated 1:22 PM PST, March 5, 2025), Emails went out Tuesday to some Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probationary employees who got termination notices last month, according to current and former CDC employees.
A message seen by the AP was sent with the subject line, “Read this e-mail immediately.” It said that “after further review and consideration,” a Feb. 15 termination notice has been rescinded and the employee was cleared to return to work on Wednesday. “You should return to duty under your previous work schedule,” it said. “We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused.” (according to two federal health officials who were briefed on the tally but were not authorized to discuss it and spoke on condition of anonymity)
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5414191/musk-lawsuit-doge-trump-spending-bill
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25955486-new-mexico-v-musk-order-052725/
Eroding financial protection and oversight with firing and unqualified hiring
Fired the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to replace him with an unqualified political extremist, who then allowed the Congress-approved agency to get dismantled by DOGE. Trump Fired Rohit Chopra, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), replaced him with Russell Vaught, then allowed Musk / DOGE to begin dismantling the Congress enacted CFPB.
https://www.newsweek.com/russ-vought-trump-cabinet-project-2025-1990588
Using a quid-pro-quo against Harvard to illegally withhold funding for life-saving medical research
... for a culture war masked as going after antisemitism. Illegally attempting to withhold Federal research funding (for cancer and other medical advances) by placing specific demands on Harvard to change admission policies to 'accept more conservatives', punish and stop taking international students that have protested on the side of Palestinians and against Israel's actions. Done under the guise of antisemitism, but undermining free speech and not holding up to the standards of evidential support for the claims with due process. Taking $200M away from UCLA illegally as well. Breach. Article 1. And impoundment control act of 1974. Separation of powers. Research is medical. Has nothing to do with his personal grudges. Illegally attempting to withhold Federal research funding (for cancer and other medical advances) by placing specific demands on Harvard to change admission policies to 'accept more conservatives', punish and stop taking international students that have protested on the side of Palestinians and against Israel's actions. Under the guise of antisemitism, but undermining free speech and not holding up to the standards of evidential support for the claims with due process. Demands on Harvard went much farther than the demands on Colombia. In both cases, using these demands to attempt to illegally without congress-approved funding for critical research, which includes many science-based initiatives and public health. Cutting cancer research and other in-process medical research that has proven to solve health issues including breast cancer. Has nothing to do with the demands.
Its illegal . Trojan horse. Purely political. Courts just ruled indeed that the funding pull was illegal.
Illegally freezing $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern violating Article 1...
...of the Constitution and the impoundment Control Act of 1947 for their unrelated DEI policies and under an unobjective guise of a 'lack of response to antisemitism'. Funds have nothing to do with those topics. Illegal canceling of grants per article, Appropriated by congress. Hubbell 9-apr. A spokesperson for Cornell said, that the affected grants “supported research that they described as ‘profoundly significant to American defense, cybersecurity and health.’”
Violating the separation of church and state by establishing the White House Faith office and ...
...staffing it with a partisan political operative. Establishing the White House Faith Office, headed by a personal minister, which requires all federal agencies to have either a Center for Faith or a Faith Liaison, and includes a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias (particularly), headed by Pam Bondi. The head of this personal minister to this new office, is clearly on record of promoting partisan, political agendas, not Faith.
The U.S. House of Representatives ceding its Article 1 powers and responsibility, by declaring...
... emergency powers to the executive branch and thus forgoing its role as an independent branch of government as a check and balance to the executive branch. House Republicans inserting a provision that declared that the remaining days in the 119th Congress do not count as separate “calendar days,” thereby creating “one day” that is year-and-a-half long in order to avoid debate on emergency declarations by POTUS 47. (Just because Democrats did similar tactics in the past doesn’t make it right and what is actually done with this loophole is important). Democrats had planned to force a vote in Congress challenging Trump's declaration of an “economic emergency,” a finding that is a prerequisite to the imposition of tariffs. To prevent a protest vote on the tariffs, House Republicans slipped in a provision that effectively eliminated Congress’s ability to override Trump's tariffs—circumventing any Democratic effort to hold a protest vote over the tariffs. See Reuters, House Republicans block Congress' ability to challenge Trump tariffs.
By deleting the right to review presidential declarations of emergency, the House continues to cede power to the president. See NYTimes, Republicans Quietly Cede Power to Cancel Trump’s Tariffs, Avoiding a Tough Vote. (Accessible to all.)
House Republicans granted Trump the unreviewable power to declare a national emergency by employing a ludicrous fantasy worthy of a Samuel Beckett absurdist play. House Republicans inserted a provision that declared that the remaining days in the 119th Congress do not count as separate “calendar days,” thereby creating “one day” that is year-and-a-half long. (See further explanation in NYTimes article, above.) House Republicans on Tuesday approved a provision that would prevent Democrats from forcing votes for the remainder of the year on repealing recent tariffs implemented by President Trump.
It essentially means that any legislation to undo the national emergency declaration Trump used to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China would have to go through a process subject to approval by House GOP leadership, rather than under a fast-track process that Democrats were hoping to utilize. Democrats had planned to force a vote in Congress challenging Trump's declaration of an “economic emergency,” a finding that is a prerequisite to the imposition of tariffs. To prevent a protest vote on the tariffs, House Republicans slipped in a provision that effectively eliminated Congress’s ability to override Trump's tariffs—circumventing any Democratic effort to hold a protest vote over the tariffs.
https://rollcall.com/2025/03/18/house-majority-rules-when-a-calendar-day-isnt-what-it-seems/
Using executive orders to illegally attempt to defund specific Democratic-leaning cities that have..
... an official policy to not use state funds to actively assist Federal ICE agents. We don't have to all agree on whether cities should have such policies, but we need to align on the fact that funds distribution is the job of Congress and if they want to have local law enforcement cooperate, then they need to provide those local police forces with the staffing and resources to do so, and they can do this by actually passing bills. Executive Order to defund "sanctuary cities". Note that a city having a "sanctuary city" policy does not mean that they are "hiding criminal illegal aliens". We may not all agree with the full edict of this approach, but the reality is that in these cities, the local police are not going to spend their own time and resources coordinating with ICE agents, who should be coming in with their own warrants and resources. It has been clearly shown that when local police are known to be assisting the work of Federal immigration enforcement, there is a major uptick in having victims of domestic violence stay silent, continuing the assault on them, rather than speaking up. In "sanctuary cities" those who commit crimes are still arrested, convicted, jailed and deported. Specific instances of some returning to the streets indeed happens and has warped the overall view of what is going on. Legal U.S. Citizens commit violent acts at a higher rate.
Appointing Steve Witkoff, entangling business dealings in Syria and lifting sanctions, along with...
...Saudi Arabia, and UAE and personal crypto ventures as president. Breaking all norms and the emoluments clause that would have had any other president impeached. Trump's primary envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is a real estate developer who supports Trump’s goal of converting Gaza into the Middle East version of the “French Riviera.”
Witkoff is operating in secret and without the assistance of the administration’s Middle East experts. See HuffPost, All Eyes On Steve Witkoff As Trump Travels To Middle East.
Per the HuffPo article,
He has become known for little coordination with other American officials, traversing regional capitals on his private jet with a handful of close aides, many of them young and without national security experience, as well as private business contacts interested in real estate opportunities in the Middle East, the former U.S. official said. His girlfriend, former professional golfer Lauren Olaya, often joins sensitive trips too, per CNN.
When Trump's top Middle East envoy engages in shuttle diplomacy accompanied by private business contacts interested in real estate development and a former professional golfer, you can bet that Witkoff is not pursuing serious policy goals in the Middle East.
Trump's entire trip to the Middle East is an embarrassment (or worse), just like the rest of his first three months in office. It is laden with conflicts of interest and personal business promotions that no president in history would be allowed to pursue. The trip is emblematic of Trump's corruption and narcissism, nothing more or less. In a related development, Trump announced—to the surprise of nearly everyone, including Syria—that the US was lifting sanctions against Syria. See NBC News, Trump shocks and delights Syrians by lifting sanctions after 45 years. Now what?
The surprise announcement lifting sanctions on Syria followed hard on the heels of Syria’s offer to allow the construction of a Trump Tower in Damascus. See The Independent, Syria offered to build Trump Tower in Damascus before meeting with president. Saudi Arabia is the home of multiple Trump investments and the sponsor of LIV Golf. Trump is reportedly negotiating with Saudi Arabia on behalf of the PGA Tour at the behest of Tiger Woods.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a66156699/witkoff-trump-sachs-uae-corruption/
Failing to comply with a judges orders to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal grants
Judge John J McConnell Jr. Trump admin disobeyed court order on Grants. A federal judge said on Monday that the White House had defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants, marking the first time a judge has expressly declared that the Trump administration is disobeying a judicial mandate.
The ruling by Judge John J. McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island federal court ordered administration officials to comply with what the judge called “the plain text” of a ruling he issued on Jan. 29.
That order, he wrote, was “clear and unambiguous, and there are no impediments to the Defendants’ compliance.”
Shortly after Monday’s ruling, Trump administration lawyers appealed the judge’s initial order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, asking the appellate court to pause Judge McConnell’s order to keep federal funds flowing while their case was being considered. The White House responded with more defiance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/trump-unfreezing-federal-grants-judge-ruling.html
Bringing migrants to Guantanamo Bay U.S. facility in attempts to avoid due process
Bringing migrants to Guantanamo, then returning them back to the US states
The government has not announced that it relocated the men to one or more Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana, nor was the reason for the move clear. But the officials familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue, said it happened on Tuesday.
The move comes days before a Federal District Court judge in Washington is set to hear a major challenge to aspects of the policy.
It is the second time the administration has brought people to Guantánamo Bay only to remove them after a few weeks, a costly and time-consuming exercise.
Accepting the "free" $400 million luxury Boeing 747-800 as a "gift" from the Qatar Royal Family...
...violating the Emoluments Clause and from a country which you called a "state sponsor of terror at the highest levels" just a few years previously. Even thinking about, let alone following through with, accepting a free $400 million luxury Boeing 747-800 gift from the Qatar Royal Family, after placing a blockage on Qatar in 2017? and calling them out as having "state sponsored terrorism at the highest levels" now claiming it is a bargain to upgrade it to Air Force One (spend $1 billion US tax payer dollars). Part of the gift being that the plane would be donated to President Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office, allowing him to continue using it as a private citizen. Using a false equivalency that Regan had a plane donated to his library (not foreign gift, ...). This plan would be the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government, which his appointed DOJ is somehow okay with. No regard for even the appearance of unethical behavior, let alone the actual nature of US Government officials and especially the president not taking a bribe by a foreign nation. Just because it is done out in the open and Qatar didn't have to say that they wanted anything in return, doesn't make it okay or not a bribe (much like the Eric Adam's dropping of the case against him). Why is Qatar donating the plane in the first place? Are we poor and they feel bad for us as a nation in that we have old Air Force One's and that the one's Trump approved to be built in 2017 were not ready yet, so Trump is suffering with two old Airforce One's? Trump first toured this "gift" in Feb 2025 as president while it was parked at the Miami airport and also learned in Feb 2025 that the new Air Force One's wouldn't be ready during his term 2. Even Laura Loomer, has stated publicly that this was wrong. ....Why is it that the Pope had his bullet proof Pope-mobile donated when he died, to the people of Gaza to use as a safe transport during a bloody war where 10s of thousands of civilians have died, yet Qatar can't think of anything better to do with a $400 million aircraft but gift it to a President who has in his first 100 days, placed an executive order to remove the anti-bribery laws for businesses dealing with foreign nations, claiming that it is just how the world works and is unfair for the US to have to uphold ourselves to these standards. While also, we citizens are expected to donate our old vehicles to 1-877-kars-4kids, to actually help fund children in need. Trump cooked his financial books for decades to get lower interest rates, so that he could borrow more. Pulled himself out of debt by doing a TV reality show, now has become an actual billionaire via his own social media platform, where he posts hateful rhetoric, lies, and has even posted violent memes. He needs this jet so badly? At the same time that we, the average citizen must pay 10% to 30% more from tariffs on goods that we import, but he can accept a gift as present worth $400 million without any import fee or cost to him at all, but then use tax payer dollars to turn this Boeing plane that an oil dictatorship family spent an extra $xx million to soup up, but now they don't want or need it anymore? Even Laura Loomer thinks this is unethical and corrupt. On top of all of this, Trump's choice for DOJ, Pam Bondi was a registered lobbyist for Qatar, earning 115k per month. After being so upset about Hunter Biden earning... per month being on a Ukrainian energy company board (not illegal) and Hunter never being part of the US Government and getting flack for riding on Air Force One once to China with VP Biden, that is a bad look but a toothpick in a volcano compared to Trump's direct deals and favorable treatment for his own family, which he pulled directly into the White House and into deals during term 1, after term 1 and during term 2.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/11/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-android-share
Revoking the protected status of more than 10,000 Afghans and Cameroonians already legally in...
...the U.S., while simultaneous pulling World Relief funding, and asylum case funding (and SNAP benefits). Trump Will End Temporary Protections for Afghans and Cameroonians
More than 10,000 people will be put on track for deportation in May and June as a result of the Department of Homeland Security’s action. Sending thousands of Afghans a letter to leave the country within 7 days or be charged $900 per day and loss of permit to work. They were here legally during the Chaotic days of the withdrawal. Some also on Humanitarian Parole. Protected status revoked. 1000 in the SF Bay Area.
Can't physically do it. Flights. Legal docs to be accepted into another country or even Afghanistan. This is after funding pulled from World relief. No funding to support asylum seekers. Afghan girls, educated in Qatar with cleared path to go to US, now canceled, going back to Afghanistan. Even Republican Lawmakers are fighting to protect the status of Afghans.
Dismantling public health records, guidance, and information
A vast repository of critical public health information — developed to provide evidence-based guidance to health care providers, medical practitioners, researchers and the general public — is being systematically dismantled. This loss will have profound consequences: preventable deaths, unnecessary illness and deteriorating public health. The elimination of guidelines for marginalized groups can cause certain communities to effectively disappear from official health records, reinforcing discrimination and neglect. This informational void threatens to deepen health disparities and further fragment an already unequal health care system. CDC and FDA deletions stopped by court order but info already deleted. Climate models being deleted?
Sending armed U.S. Marshalls to deliver a letter meant to intimidate a Pardon Lawyer
US marshals were mobilized to warn fired DOJ lawyer over congressional testimony, attorney says. “This highly unusual step of directing armed law enforcement officers to the home of a former Department of Justice employee who has engaged in no misconduct, let alone criminal conduct, simply to deliver a letter, is both unprecedented and completely inappropriate,” Michael Bromwich, a lawyer representing fired pardon attorney Liz Oyer, wrote to the Justice Department.
Choosing JFK Jr to be Sec of Health and Human Services. Kennedy having known to have made 117...
...antivax statements made previously. The total ripple effect of his firing the entire health panel, spread crap science that can be easily debunked, etc., is huge. Plenty more articles with evidence can be linked here. Atrocious decisions, statements, unjustified firings of entire panels of experts, conspiracy theory spreading, etc. Sadly, JFK Jr. actually went to the Harris Campaign first asking for a position in her cabinet, but when she said no, he then went to the Trump campaign. Trump was more concerned with his own victory and a loyalty test, than any risks on public health.
Joining in a public announcement on not taking Tylenol based on bunk science, propped up by RFK Jr.
...who is desperately seeking to claim a major finding on autism. The evidence is missing the fact that Tylenol is taken for a reason and is incredibly prevalent for use as a fever reducing agent, thus the reasons for taking the Tylenol in the first place are all confounded with the effects of the Tylenol, especially vs. a pool of survey respondents that stated (years later) that they didn't take Tylenol while pregnant and mostly didn't have autistic children. Statistics is misused and poorly understood, which is why there are scientist and statisticians with qualifications behind these studies, conducted long-term studies, trials, research, and publications. This is not to say that the possible link should not be investigated. It should, but it should be done in a way that is not searching for an exact answer, is unrepeatable, and is jumping to a conclusion for the sake of wanting one by unqualified people put in political positions.
Issuing an illegal "Dear Colleague" letter threatening cutting of Federal funding without removal of
... "DEI". Executive order prohibiting public schools from teaching or using “DEI”, prompting the Dept. of Education to issue a “Dear Colleague” policy letter sent to schools across the nation while threatening to cut off federal funding to schools that taught or utilized “DEI” in their curricula or operations. This was initially ruled "likely unconstitutional" by three judges, two of which were appointed by Trump. The letter sent by the Department of Education to schools across the nation (a) constituted “viewpoint discrimination” under the First Amendment, (b) violated the Fifth Amendment due process guarantee, or (c) violated the Administrative Procedures Act. Feb 14th 2025 "Dear Colleague" letter was ruled unconstitutional.
Eroding the independence of GDP calculations, labor statistics, and an overall assault on the ...
...transparency of accurate economic information and unbiased economic decisions. Disbanding economic data panels and planning to change the calc of GDP, coupled with the firing of the monthly jobs report head and replacing her with a pollical economic pundit who has no track record of independence and a clear track record of biased political information spreading. Firing the head of the Dept. of Labor Statistics suggesting the data was rigged based on lies, was not a new tactic. Days after the November 2024 election win, POTUS-elect said the numbers were inflated right before the election and then adjusted down for the sake of trying to help his opponent win. This was not true at all. It was way back in March of 2024 when the numbers were adjusted down.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/gdp-trump-musk-government-spending
https://www.vox.com/politics/402410/trump-musk-lutnick-gdp-economic-data
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/04/gdp-government-spending-musk-lutnick-trump/
Nominating and confirming a Jan 6th election denier to head the US counterterrorism office
Joseph Kent, a Jan 6 rioter and 2020 election denier to head the US counterterrorism office. The Republican-controlled Senate voted along sharply partisan lines Wednesday to confirm Joseph Kent as head of the National Counterterrorism Center, approving his nomination over objections from Democrats who cited his embrace of conspiracy theories and attempts to alter intelligence reports as disqualifying.
Kent, a former Army Special Operations and CIA officer who has served as a top aide to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, was confirmed by a 52-44 vote to head the center, created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to analyze and integrate intelligence relating to transnational terrorism, including threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad.
Republicans cited his combat experience and government posts as qualifications. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) noted that Kent’s first wife, Shannon, a Navy cryptologist, was killed by a suicide bomber in northern Syria in 2019.
Democrats warned that Kent’s embrace of unsubstantiated theories, including that the FBI played a role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, and his past association with white-supremacist groups made him uniquely unqualified to run a key intelligence unit.
The core principles of intelligence are “objectivity, nonpartisanship and fidelity to fact,” said Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia), the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. “Mr. Kent has shown time and again that he cannot meet that standard.”
As an aide to Gabbard, Kent earlier this year pressured analysts at the National Intelligence Council, a prestigious analytic hub, to alter a report that concluded the Venezuelan government did not direct the activities of the Tren de Aragua cartel, according to emails that emerged later. That analysis undercut Trump’s rationale for deporting suspected gang members without due process under the Alien Enemies Act.
The intelligence report was not changed. Gabbard quickly fired Michael Collins, the head of the NIC, and his deputy.
Kent’s past comments on Russia had clouded his nomination by Trump. Shortly after Russia’s invasion, Kent described President Vladimir Putin’s demands on Ukrainian territory as “very reasonable.”
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/31/senate-confirms-jan-6-denier-joseph-kent-to-head-c/
Epstein Scandal, including the lies spouted by POTUS, Bondi, and Patel, which are easily refuted...
... with evidence. GOP Representative Thomas Massie reports that he told FBI Director Kash Patel that there were approximately 20 names of perpetrators who were engaged in sex trafficking and rape of minors with Epstein.According to Massie, Kash Patel was “surprised” to hear that there was a known list of perpetrators. Patel has recently told the public that there was “nothing to see” in the Epstein investigation and that there were no perpetrators to be indicted. See The New Republic, GOP Rep Rips Trump and Kash Patel for Covering Up Epstein Files Case.
Per The New Republic, Rep. Massie wrote the following on Twitter: "I told Director Kash Patel that the FBI has names of 20 men to whom Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and girls. This basic fact seemed to surprise him. Why?
“Is the FBI withholding those names to protect the President’s rich and powerful friends?” Massie continued, before demanding that the administration “release the Epstein files. "Need to pull together the facts around Trump's comments around the "stealing of workers from Mara Lago" by Epstein causing the falling out, which doesn't match the actual timeline of when Trump is on record saying great things about Epstein, the worker, who has committed suicide was 16 at the time of this "steal", Trump's comments showing no sensitivity for her anguish and death. Allowing his weaponized DOJ to continue the cover up, not release the files, having the Speaker of the House end a congressional session early to avoid a floor vote, allowing more time for documents to be scrubbed. A congressman admitting to an under-cover journalist that Republican names are planned to be redacted while Democratic names are not. AG Bondi stating that she had the "client list" but later claiming it "didn't exist". Using the DOJ to interview a convicted and imprisoned G. Maxwell, who has an open appeals case and has never admitted any knowledge or wrong doing (yet there was enough evidence to convict her), allowing her to be moved to a less harsh prison facility and trying to use interviews on her as a way to show innocence for Trump, who is clearly on record spending time with Epstein, writing him birthday cards, and acting in ways completely contradictory to what he is saying now. The crimes are bad and the cover up has become as bad.
Dangerous statement by VP Vance stating that that Chief Justice Roberts is 'profoundly wrong..
... wrong about Supreme Court's role to check the executive branch.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/trump-jd-vance-john-roberts-supreme-court
Illegal use of the Signal app for classified information, lying about it, and continuing to use it,.
...with no consequences, when calling Hilary Clinton's use of a private server (no leaks) worthy of prison time. Illegal use of a burner app (Signal) with classified information = attack plans happening in real time, fully dodging legally required records, security, and accountability, AND accidently sharing to the wrong people, including a journalist and his own wife who had no security clearances. Then, blatant lying about what was shared. This all being done by a barely confirmed unqualified meritless hire that even prominent Republicans couldn't get behind, while other Republicans received death threats if they didn't vote yes on his confirmation. Our VP, who was also on this illegal chat was the deciding vote in his confirmation. All of this coupled with the removal of the removal of the national archivist, circumventing any chance at public oversight.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372348/signal-pete-hegseth-defense-department
Not letting a French research scientist legally enter the U.S. due to an expressed negative opinion
French research scientist denied entry into US for expressing a negative personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy as found on the researcher’s phone containing exchanges with colleagues and friends
Stating as POTUS, "He who saves his country does not violate any law."
Taking the oath of office, again in Jan 2025, swearing to protect and uphold the constitution, then posting, "He who saves his country does not violate any law."
Arresting a judge in Wisconsin for allowing an illegal immigrant to leave her court room from a back
Arresting a judge in Wisconsin for allegedly allowing an illegal immigrant in her court room to leave via the back door and not get immediately detained by ICE agents. Three states having rules against immigration detaining in or near courts, as it leads to no-shows and risks the safety of the court premise and system, but not necessarily this state.
Evading due process for detained immigrants, sending them to countries not their own and without...
...required advanced notice or opportunity to attest to the dangers they may face. Sending Burmese and Vietnamese illegal immigrants (accused of crimes?) to South Sudan ignoring the judicial order on not sending undocumented migrants to countries that were not their own without 15 days notice to the courts and the migrants having an opportunity to attest to the danger they may face in that particular country.
Cutting jobs for gun purchase safety & rolling back Biden measures to hold dealers in check, when...
...they falsify business records and skip background checks. The Justice Department plans to slash the number of inspectors who monitor federally licensed gun dealers by two-thirds, sharply limiting the government’s already crimped capacity to identify businesses that sell guns to criminals, according to budget documents. The department plans to eliminate 541 of the estimated 800 investigators responsible for determining whether federal dealers are following federal law and regulations intended to keep guns away from traffickers, straw purchasers, criminals and those found to have severe mental illness, according to a budget summary quietly circulated last week. comment.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has already rolled back a range of Biden-era gun control measures, including a crackdown on federally licensed gun dealers who falsify business records and skip customer background checks.
She also directed the A.T.F. to review two other major policies enacted under the Biden administration, with an eye toward scrapping both. One is a ban on so-called pistol braces, which are used to convert handguns into rifle-like weapons, and the second is a rule requiring background checks on private gun sales.
Ending 90 year precedence on firings without cause in what had been independent U.S. gov. agencies
6-3 ruling on POTUS power to fire ... Ending 90 year precedence on firing labor. The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Trump to terminate for now, without cause, President Biden's appointees to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The decision further limits a 90-year-old high-court precedent that was aimed at protecting the independence of certain regulatory agencies.
"The Consumer Product Safety Commission exercises executive power in a similar manner as the National Labor Relations Board, and the case does not otherwise differ from Wilcox in any pertinent respect," the court said in its order.
In a concurrent order, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he would have granted the case for review in the fall. The court's three liberals dissented.
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for herself and the other two liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, accused the majority of using the emergency docket to prevent Congress from prohibiting removals without cause. The result, as she observed, is to grant greater executive power at the expense of legislative authority.
"The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with 'little time, scant briefing, and no argument' — to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties," she wrote. "By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."
The court's action, while temporary, presents a direct challenge to Humphrey's Executor, the longstanding Supreme Court precedent, which restricts the president's power to remove agency officials at will. In a unanimous Supreme Court decision, in 1935, the justices ruled that President Roosevelt could not remove an FTC Commissioner just because the commissioner disagreed with Roosevelt's New Deal plan. The court said that when Congress created the Federal Trade Commission and other specialized agencies, they were to remain independent, and thus the president was not authorized to fire commissioners before their terms were over, except for malfeasance or other wrongful conduct.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a966_1b8e.pdf
Termination of hundreds of workers at NOAA and the National Weather Service
Termination of hundreds of workers at NOAA and the National Weather Service.
Noaa vs. starlink. Monopolize government service is corruption. Weather. Destroying a system that was working, to replace it with privatized.
https://peer.org/musk-taking-over-noaa-functions/
Federal funding cuts that gut addiction treatment including "Narcan" and other medications as well..
...as research into life-saving approaches, coupled with funding cuts that will force some hospitals to close. Federal funding cuts that gut addiction treatment including "Narcan" and other medications ($345 million) as well as research into life-saving approaches ($588 million), coupled with the near $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts that will force some hospitals to close.
Making huge Medicaid cuts after stating clearly that they wouldn't. Claiming they would have...
...balanced budgets and reduce the national debt. Doing exactly the opposite. Said he would protect Medicare or Medicaid. Not with big beautiful bill which he wanted and would sign. 1.2 Trillion ($500 Bill Medicare, $729 billion Medicaid) to pay for tax cuts ... The bill has Passed the Republican House of representatives. The House GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” will add so much money to the debt it will force across-the-board spending cuts to Medicare, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
CBO late Tuesday said the legislation will increase the debt by $2.3 trillion over 10 years. That will trigger as much as $500 billion in Medicare cuts starting as soon as 2026. President Donald Trump, who had personally lobbied for its passage through the House, involves a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, partly offset by hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimating that $625 billion in savings would be achieved by effectively removing at least 7.6 million Americans from the program. Recall also that Biden was accused of lying in his well delivered Feb 2024 State of the Union when he referenced the fact that some Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security, when others including Trump were vowing to protect the programs.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5312712-house-gop-bill-medicare-cuts/
Reducing wildlife protects with a re-interpretation of the word "Harm" in the Endangered Species Act
...allowing for easier logging, construction and drilling of oil in otherwise protected areas. By Redefining ‘Harm,’ Agencies Aim to End Longstanding Wildlife Protections
Trump officials have proposed changing a decades-old interpretation of a key word in the Endangered Species Act, which would make it much easier to log, build or drill for oil.
Attempting to close the CFPB & weaken U.S. consumer protections by eliminating the only independent
...agency to ensure consumers are protected in the financial marketplace. Trump administration attempts to close the CFPB, block agency’s work Update: On June 10, Cara Petersen, the acting head of enforcement for the CFPB, resigned from her position, citing the Trump administration’s attacks on the agency’s mission. She is the second person to resign from this role in protest since Russell Vought has taken over as acting head of the agency. The New York Times reported that in her farewell email, she wrote: “It is clear that the bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.”
https://www.epi.org/policywatch/trump-administration-closes-the-cfpb/
Changing the name of a military base back to its confederate general's name, using a trick by...
...finding a real soldier with the same name as the confederate general.
Withdrawal of 11 pieces of guidance on American with Disabilities
Withdrawal of 11 pieces of guidance on American with Disabilities. The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday removed what it called “outdated” and “unnecessary” red tape for businesses to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The department withdrew 11 pieces of compliance guidance in what it called an effort to streamline review processes and reduce costs for consumers.
Hiring Peter Navarro and carrying out his tariff ideas, when he fabricated an economic expert...
...for his book, using an anagram to his own name. Hiring a yes-man on tariffs who actually fabricated a false persona to back up his ideas in his book (name was an anagram to his own name). Thus, not getting real, unbiased advisory from real experts, and messing around with American importers business outlooks, costs, their livelihood and all of our prices that we pay, without any discipline. Peter Navarro completely fabricating a person as an economist for his book (... Vera) in order to show support for his tariff plan, which is railed against by literally all actual economists, yet Trump ignorantly followed it. The formula for tariffs was a laughable mis-calculation that didn't factor in anything sensical. When discovered, they tried to cover it up by saying that the formula wasn't that simple and provided a new factor, which canceled itself out. the formula was that simple, leading to poor countries that have no resources to actually buy anything from us, having a ridiculously high tariff put on US imports that are literally impossible to grow/make in the US (i.e. cocoa beans), causing cost increases to be paid by small businesses and passed down to US consumers. All for the purpose of trying to create more revenue via Trump's direct dealings, cutting out Congress from the process, but still not actually helping pay down the deficit, but to simply give more tax cuts that will throw bread crumbs at the 98% and make the wealthy 2% more wealthy. Peter Navarro wrote a book on tariffs and sited economist. Navarro, 75, has long advocated for tariffs, but has not always been so ubiquitously on television to get his point across. He was busted in 2019 for repeatedly quoting a Harvard-educated economist in books and in a White House memo that did not actually exist.
That economics expert, “Ron Vara,” was revealed to be Navarro’s alter ego, which he admitted to. The name is even an anagram of his surname. Exactly where Trump got tariff plan. Bond market made Trump pull back on tariffs. Not people being Yippy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-musk-called-trump-trade-192803649.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/peter-navarro-ron-vara.html
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-formula-calculated
Nominating and confirming Noeme as Sec. of Homeland Security who was clearly unqualified and..
... and is on record completely misunderstanding the Constitution directly related to her role. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says “habeas corpus” is the president’s right to deport people.
The ancient right of habeas corpus is enshrined in our Constitution. The writ of habeas corpus guarantees persons detained by the government the right to challenge the lawfulness of their detention.
Homeland Security Secretary Krisi Noem has been actively litigating the applicability of habeas corpus to the detention and deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador. As such, she should be intimately familiar with the nature of the writ of habeas corpus.
But when Noem testified before Congress today, she could not describe the right of habeas corpus. Instead of saying that it grants a detainee the right to challenge the legality of their detention, she said
Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.
Noem’s answer betrayed a profound ignorance of the Constitution regarding a right that she is currently litigating before the Supreme Court.
So, what? Why does Noem’s ignorance matter?
It matters because it reflects Trump's decision to staff his administration with people who “look the part” to be government officials—rather than with people who have the experience and expertise to lead major components of the US government. Indeed, Trump has staffed his administration with twenty-one Fox “News” personalities.
Illegal breach of U.S. residents' Social Security data and utilizing it for nefarious purposes
Illegally obtaining Social Security numbers from the IRS and publicly spreading false information after incorrectly understanding how the "dead list" is used. Suddenly cutting off people from their bank accounts. Threatening the whistle blower who revealed the data breach with evidence. Allowing this group you hired, without having security clearances, to illegally obtain tax records of citizens, while you yourself, never releasing your tax records unlike all other 46 former presidents. Violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. Doge illegally gets Social Security numbers from IRS, uses the Social security "dead list" to set the status of some migrants who came here illegally to. Self deport. These individuals have lives, bank accounts, etc., that they are suddenly cut off from. There was a whistle blower who caught this breach of security. Daniel b. Nrlb. National relations board. Large exfiltration. Large spike. Screenshot. Logs were deleted accounts. Russian hacking attempts immediately after. Threats to whistle blower. Ironically, DOGE employees, who are not passing any security clearances are getting access to our tax records, when Trump never released his own, unlike any other president ever and has actually employees of his convicted of tax fraud and cooking the books for him in his own business.
Allowed a group of hackers to seize control of large swaths of the federal government’s computer ...
... network by attaching unauthorized servers, changing and creating new computer code outside of federal security protocols, creating “backdoors” in secure systems, installing unsanctioned “AI” software to scrape federal data (including personal identification information), and installing “spyware” to monitor email of federal employees.
Parroted term, "waste, fraud, and abuse", which are three completely different things that should...
... not be lumped together. Of the $150 billion claimed savings by Musk from what has become a parroted term, "waste, fraud, and abuse", which are three completely different things that should not be lumped together. How much of that $150 billion has been found to be fraud? How many legal cases/charges have been brought against those committing the fraud? You don't cut fraud and not reveal the evidence or go after the illegal activity. Prove it and use that to demonstrate why you had to do it? Where are the cases? Abuse, how is this defined? Waste? DOGE = Department of Government Efficiency. Slacking workers without fixing any processes has nothing to do with efficiency.
Early firing of CQ Brown from position as chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing him with...
... someone who is not allowed per the Congressional statute. Early firing of CQ Brown from Top military position. early when 2027. Non political appt. that Trump is going to replace C.Q.
Brown, the current chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with a retired three-star general by the name of Cain. As commentators have pointed out this morning, there is a statute that limits who can be appointed as the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And that statute says that it either has to be the vice chair or one of the current service chiefs of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force. And Cain, General Cain, is none of them. So he is not eligible for to be appointed as the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He also lacks the requisite experience. So if Trump tries to do that, that will just simply be another way in which he ignores valid statutory restrictions placed by Congress. And that will also likely end up in the Supreme Court. *Why was Brown, who Trump first appointed in his first term fired? Is it because his comments on George Floyd's murder? (No, that was said before that)
Pam Bondi instructs Trump DOJ to investigate companies that do DEI
Instructing the DOJ to investigate companies that promote diversity and inclusion through hiring and retention, calling it illegal because it is not equity based, which is quite ironic for an administration and congress that is appointing and confirming dozens and dozens of completely unqualified individuals with nepotism and corrupt favoritism and not holding them accountable for terrible and illegal decisions and actions. Upon her swearing in on February 5, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of memoranda to all Department of Justice employees, including a memorandum entitled “Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences” (DEI Memorandum). The DEI Memorandum builds upon and goes beyond President Trump’s recent DEI-focused Executive Order, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (EO 14173), by evoking the specter of criminal prosecutions to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws.
Dropping a lawsuit against a big tech online lending agency being sued for hidden fees.
Dropping lawsuit against Solo, the Uber of online lending, who advertised zero APR, but hid fees as tips. Consumer financial protection.
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which President Donald Trump has moved to abolish, told a court on Friday it was dropping a lawsuit
Cutting SNAP, cutting aid to the most vulnerable in the U.S. and around the world (while NOT even ba
Passing cuts to SNAP (food stamps) put Hubbell's Wed/Thu 21/22-May points in here, ...about the passed pill...still adding to deficit and raising the debt ceiling. Transfer of wealth from the most vulnerable to those who both inherited millions (Trump started with at min, a $17 million nest egg and never lived a day in his life without financial security). Amazon using all the roads, bridges, and airports, but doesn't pay the taxes to maintain them. We do.
Wrongful raids on U.S. Citizens handled terribly with no consequences
Oklahoma US citizens wrongfully raided by FBI, US Marshalls, and DHS. Armed. Trashed house, took $3000 in cash, all computers, cell phones. US Marshalls insignia, FBI and homeland security, with changing story on which agencies did what. Left no contact information. Was clear on the same day, after the raid, that they had the wrong people and the house was vacated by who they were looking for two weeks earlier.
Repealing climate protecting provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, including the excess methane
...emissions fee. MAGA congress to repeal methane fee to gas companies. Congress Has Voted to Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s Methane Fee. a Biden-era rule implementing a program that charges oil and gas companies for excess methane emissions.
The vote was 220-206-1. Methane is a planet-warming pollutant that is about 28 times as powerful as carbon dioxide. Oil and gas production is one major source of methane emissions, because methane — the main component of natural gas — is sometimes released or burned during that process. Under the 2022 law, companies that emit methane at levels equivalent to 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year must pay for their excess emissions.
The law also provides grants to help companies install technology to reduce their emissions.
The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that the program would prevent 1.2 million metric tons of methane from entering the atmosphere — climate gains equivalent to taking nearly 8 million gas-powered cars off the road for a year.
Largest deregulation ever. Dee zeldon. Roll back the endangerment finding. [The Daily] A ‘Dagger in the Heart’ of Climate Change Regulation #theDaily
https://podcastaddict.com/the-daily/episode/203860737
Executive order to boost U.S. coal industry
President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to bolster the country’s declining coal industry, relaxing restrictions on coal mining, leasing and exports in what the White House said was an effort to meet the energy-intensive needs of artificial intelligence data centers.
The executive orders were the latest moves by the Trump administration that clash with global aims to reduce coal power and cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions that fuel climate change. Standing before dozens of coal miners in uniform shirts and hard hats, Trump introduced the orders, repeatedly referring to “beautiful, clean coal.”
Coal is considered the dirtiest fossil fuel and historically the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Burning fossil fuels, which unleashes carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is the primary contributor to global warming.
Demanding a list of CIA agents and breaching protocol by sending it out on an unclassified email..
...thinking the names would be protected but doing it in a stupid way that was easy to decipher. Demanding a list of CIA agents and getting them in an unclassified email, after appointing incompetence in the CIA with,.... CIA under it's new Trump leadership sent names of CIA agents to the Trump administration in an unclassified email. Disastrous national security and counter intelligence disaster. The email, first reported by The New York Times and confirmed by the CIA, contained the names of all employees hired within the past two years, and was sent to the Office of Personnel Management to comply with Trump's recent executive orders aimed at trimming down the federal workforce. According to the Times, the list contained the first names and the initials of the surnames of the CIA's new hires who are still on probation and thus easy to dismiss. It included a considerable number of intelligence analysts "who were hired specifically to focus on China, and whose identities are usually closely guarded because Chinese hackers are constantly seeking to identify them."
Officials told the outlet that omitting of the employees' full last names would ensure that their identity remained secret, therefore making these safe to send on an unclassified system. However, former officials said the partial names could be cross-referenced with existing, publicly available data to deduce their full identities. Another unnamed source told CNN that some of the employees had "uncommon" first names, making their identities easier to discover. Ranking member of House Intelligence Committee Representative Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat, stated, "It's so unnecessary. It is so easy to convey these things through classified channels." Brett Velicovich, former U.S. Army intelligence and special operations soldier, said that the email was likely sent on an unclassified system as "the people reviewing these [hires] within DOGE don't have security clearances," adding that the administration should "find people with security clearances to do the audits."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-unclassified-email-cia-agents-names-2027099
Pardoning convicted and imprisoned TV couple guilty of a $36 million fraud scheme.
Todd Chrisley speaks out for first time since Trump's pardon
Trump issued pardons for Todd and Julie Chrisley on Wednesday. The pair were sentenced to prison in 2022 for defrauding banks of more than $36 million. Chrisley family holds first press conference since Trump pardon.
Todd Chrisley joined his daughter Savannah for the family's first press conference since he and his wife Julie were released from prison following a pardon by President Trump. The reality TV couple were convicted of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States in 2022 by an Atlanta jury and were sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.
May 30, 2025 Trump pardoned the Chrisley's after their daughter made a request to Trump. The Chrisley's’ daughter actively campaigned for Trump in 2024, leading the “Women’s Tour for Trump.” Loyalty to Trump matters above all else, including defrauding innocent victims.
Pardoning a woman convicted of stealing funds intended for a memorial to a police officer killed in.
...the line of duty. Fiore was investigated by the FBI, indicted by a federal grand jury and represented during a weeklong trial by competent counsel. She was tried by a judge and convicted by a jury. Dozens of witnesses testified against her, including Gov. Joe Lombardo. The former Clark County sheriff contributed $5,000 to a fund he believed would be used to construct a statue honoring Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer Alyn Beck, who, in 2014, was murdered in the line of duty along with his partner Igor Soldo.
Instead, the prosecution showed, during six months in 2019 and 2020 then-Las Vegas City Councilwoman Fiore used $70,000 of the memorial construction donations for personal use that included paying for rent, plastic surgery and her daughter’s wedding. At trial, an FBI agent testified that Lombardo’s $5,000 intended contribution was transferred into a Fiore family member’s account and ended up being used for rent.
Convicted Oct. 3, Fiore faced as many as two decades in prison for each count. At the time, Department of Justice Public Integrity Section trial attorney Dahoud Askar said Fiore “used a tragedy to line her pockets.” Fellow prosecutor Alexander Gottfried reminded jurors, “She never cared about Officer Beck’s memory or his sacrifice.” he was pugnaciously outspoken in her support of Trump and wrapped herself in the Stop the Steal and anti-COVID vaccine deceptions. She was such a Trump acolyte on the 2022 campaign trail that she nearly pulled off the steal of her career in the race for state treasurer, losing by just 1.7 percent of the vote to incumbent Zach Conine.
Pardoning a convicted tax evader and illegal campaign donator, the father of your son-in-law, and...
...making him the official U.S. ambassador to one of our top and most important allies. Trump pardoning Jared Kushner's father and making him Ambassador to France. Charles Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations.