Trump and His Staff: Leading and Directing the Country Straight to Bottom of the Cesspool

                    "I am your retribution" 

The truth about what Trump is doing as outlined in this great  AP article here with this headline:

"Trump ran on a promise of revenge. He’s making good on it"

Then add this story re: DNI Tulsi Gabbard helping Trump with his revenge tour with her craziness from this AP article here:

Gabbard revisits 2016 Russia Interference

(With false attacks on DEMS)

Trump ran on a promise to use the powers of the government for revenge against those he believed wronged him. He now appears to be fulfilling that campaign promise while threatening to expand his powers well beyond Washington. 

The FBI searched the home of John Bolton, Trump’s first-term national security adviser-turned-critic, who last week in an interview called the administration “the retribution presidency.”

Trump’s team also opened investigations of Democrat Letitia James, the New York AG who sued Trump's company over alleged fraud for falsifying records; Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) who led Trump’s first impeachment; the GOP has charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NY) over her actions at an immigration protest in Newark, right after arresting Mayor Ras Baraka also a Democrat; under investigation, too, is former democrat NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, now a candidate for NYC mayor; plus Trump directed prosecutors to investigate two other members of his first administration: Miles Taylor, who wrote a book warning of what he said were Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, and Chris Krebs, former Director of CISA, who earned Trump's wrath for assuring him and voters that the 2020 election, which Trump lost was “the most secure election ever.”

Those actions look like the payback Trump said he would pursue after being hit with four separate sets of criminal charges during his four years out of office. Those included an indictment for his effort to overturn the 2020 election that was gutted by SCOTUS which said presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for official acts while in office.

Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said: “Joe Biden weaponized his administration to target political opponents, most famously, President Trump who is now restoring law and order.”

In addition to making good on his promises of retribution, Trump has deployed the military into American cities to fight crime or to help with immigration arrests. He has sent thousands of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officers to patrol the streets DC after activating the Guard and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Taken together, the actions have alarmed Democrats and others who fear Trump is wielding the authority of his office to intimidate his political opponents and consolidate power in a way that is unprecedented in American history.

Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College said: “You combine the threat of prosecution with armed troops in the streets and the picture is pretty clear for anyone who’s read a history book what kind of administration we’re dealing with.”

Trump began his second term by pardoning more than 1,500 people who were convicted of crimes during the January 6, 2021attack on the U.S. Capitol. His DOJ meanwhile, has fired some federal prosecutors who had pursued those cases. AG Bondi ordered a grand jury to look into the origins of the investigation of his 2016 campaign’s ties with Russia, and Trump has called on her department to also investigate former President Barack Obama.

The government’s watchdog agency has opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who investigated Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and the classified documents stashed at his Florida estate. Those cases were among several that dogged Trump in the years between his presidential terms, including the NY fraud case and charges for election interference in GA brought by the Democratic prosecutor in Fulton County, Fani Willis.

All those investigations led him to claim that Democrats had weaponized the government against him.

(Insert Note: So, what is Trump and his MAGA maggots doing if not what he says the DEMS are doing?)

Stephen Saltzburg, a former DOJ official who is now a George Washington University law professor said: “It is amazing to me the number of people the Trump administration has gone after, all of whom are identified by the fact that they investigated or criticized Trump in one way or another.” 

Trump just announced that Chicago could be the next target of his to military deployment.

Retribution is wide-ranging, from judges to the military, and Trump has also targeted institutions that have defied him.

His administration filed a judicial misconduct complaint against a judge who ruled that Trump officials likely committed criminal contempt by ignoring his directive to turn around planes carrying people being sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador.

Overall summary:

Justin Levitt, a former DOJ official and Biden White House staffer who is now a law professor at Loyola Marymount University said: “This is what Trump promised. It’s what bullies do when no one tells them no.”

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My 2 Cents: The two great articles from The AP posted above says it all. Not much for me to add except to say we have never seen an American president act or do what Trump is doing and says he plans to keep doing more of the same. 

Trump has the worse of the worse officials under him acting with and for him plus 100% loyalists on his behalf (DOGE example) and that is a fact - not hyperbole.

My Bottom Line: There are no guardrails to stop Trump - SCOTUS took that last rail down when they ruled for him basically saying: “As president, he can do whatever the hell he pleases and we won't get in his way ---.”

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Reminder Post: DOJ AG Bondi and DNI Tulsi Gabbard Still Out of Control Now More than Ever

 

        AG Bondi looking at and out for client not Justice

Story Headline: "AG Pam Bondi escalates potential criminal charges for Obama officials involved in 2016 Russia- Russia-Russia hoax with bombshell grand jury order."

Story here from the Daily Mail: Bond unveiled evidence claiming that Obama and his team illegally conspired in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election to link Trump to Russia. Some thought her release of documents last month was a tactic to distract from the botched Jeffrey Epstein file, which has the DOJ reeling with calls for Bondi to resign. 

This directive from Bondi follows FBI Director Kash Patel discovering a stash of bags in a secret room at the bureau with damning documents related to the Russia investigation that were meant to be burned. 

Those documents were published by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and consist of the classified annex to former S/C John Durham's final report on the origins of the FBI investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign that found northing to do with Barack Obama, Hillary or Bill Clinton, or anyone else.

Bondi's move is an escalation that takes Trump's administration a massive step closer to criminally charging Obama and his former administration officials, but that S/C Durham found none whatsoever. A source familiar with the action speculated to the Daily Mail that the criminal referrals Bondi is acting on that further likely for and involves John Brennan and James Comey.

While special counsel, Durham examined the FBI's investigation into potential links between Trump campaign officials and Russia during the 2016 election. He concluded the FBI did not have sufficient evidence to launch the investigation at the time. A person familiar with the discovery speculated to the Daily Mail that it was likely an oversight by previous directors that prevented the documents from being destroyed. The person added that it's likely the documents would have never seen the light of day if the FBI wasn't diligently looking through everything it comes across at the bureau. 

Now in a New York Times Op/Ed, two senior Obama intelligence officials from the CIA: John Brennan and James Clapper refuted the politicization of the administration's intelligence arms as S/C Durham wrote: "The investigation on how the Russia probe was conducted, and similarly found no evidence of an Obama administration conspiracy against Trump was not found."

The annex authored by Durham shows that Hillary Clinton's efforts to tie Trump and Russia together and the FBI's failure to investigate Clinton's ties to the Russia collusion allegations.

Hundreds of documents related to the Russia collusion scandal have since been published and DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified evidence she now  claims show that the Obama administration "...manufactured and politicized intelligence to make it appear that Russia and criminal actors impacted the 2016 election" which had been not proven under S/C John Durham as stated above and in his final official report that was was also confirmed by the final bi-partisan Senate Select Committee report headed by then Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) now Trump's Secretary of State and National Security Adviser.

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My 2 Cents: Based on the above and that which follows below matches the old sayin: "There ain't no there, here." 

The matter is closed except for a distraction from the Epstein turmoil that Trump now faces, but is trying so desperately trying to hide or duck or God only knows why else.

Hopefully time and the facts will be forth coming to tell the public what most now suspects and wants to know the truth, and that is Trump is involved up to his ears.

Related posts I have made related to the above now ever growing story are below and with links - FYI:

Major story headline story here from THE NY POST: “Patel finds burn bags of Trump-Russia documents in secret room!!!"

Gabbard's first nonsense article is here:

Gabbard's second crazy article is here:

Gabbard & Bond dual articles are posted here:

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AG Bondi & DNI Gabbard Out of Control: Two dangerous sycophants in key & powerful slots

 

Gabbard and Bondi two lying laughing clowns

Two detailed articles with nearly same goal and purpose: Tarnish Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama from AG Bondi and DNI Gabbard (articles below edited and formatted to fit the blog).

The first article here from this source:

The Clinton emails have been scrutinized since 2016, with multiple reviews by the DOJ IG & congressional committees. The OIG has criticized aspects of FBI leadership and found mistakes were made, but concluded that the investigation was not driven by political bias and that 'no prosecutable evidence' was uncovered against Clinton.

In July 2016; then FBI Director James Comey noted that “no reasonable prosecutor would push any case based on the FBI's findings,” but the scrutiny of Clinton's emails still cost her politically as she went on to lose the election to Trump. 

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) thanked FBI Director Kash Patel and AG Pam Bondi for helping his Committee unseal the previously classified 2018 OIG report. The newly unclassified document is an appendix to the OIG's publicly disclosed June 2018 report into the Clinton email investigation. Dubbed the 'Clinton annex' by Grassley's office, the addendum came just a month after the initial report was filed, in July 2018. However, the file claiming the report was incomplete was never publicly reported, remaining classified until this week. The annex says the overlooked thumb drive contained very sensitive information taken from the State Department, including some emails from President Barack Obama at the time. Trump has often lashed out at Comey, accusing him of being politicized against him and he fired Comey in 2017, in part, 

for his handling of the Clinton investigation.

Chairman Grassley then published the Clinton annex after seeking its release since at least 2020. Though a drafted FBI memorandum recommended that the agency investigate the thumb drives, they were never reviewed as a part of the Clinton investigation, the annex states. The drafted memorandum stated that the thumb drives were critical to a “thorough and complete investigation, but the FBI never submitted this request.”

In addition to not investigating the thumb drive, the FBI also obtained intelligence that the Obama administration took efforts to scuttle the investigation into Clinton and to protect her. The newly unveiled 'Clinton annex' shows Comey and others at the FBI did not make efforts to fully investigate those intelligence reports. The FBI's unwillingness to release the bombshell document stands in opposition to its eagerness to investigate Trump for alleged ties to Russia during the same timespan. 

Grassley said: “Comey's decision-making process smacks of political infection.”

AG Bondi celebrated Grassley's years long work on the Clinton investigation saying: “Today, the DOJ honored Chairman Grassley's request to release information relating to former-FBI Director James Comey's failed investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of highly classified information during her tenure as Secretary of State. I commend Chairman Grassley for his unwavering, years-long commitment to exposing the truth and holding those who seek to conceal it accountable.”

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Below is the second subject article smear tactic from THE GUARDIAN: 

Headline: DNI Tulsi Gabbard asks DOJ to go after former President Obama for treason!!!

Gabbard said: “We have evidence to prosecute Obama for 2016 election narrative. There is evidence to prosecute former President Barack Obama for treason, and for his administration's intelligence assessment of Russia’s 2016 election interference.” 

Gabbard declassified documents and claimed it proved: “That the Obama administration’s intelligence officials manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for the FBI’s later investigation into Russian ties to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.”

Gabbard on FOX NEWS said she was referring documents from Obama officials to the DOJ as a criminal matter. She added: “We’re going to provide everything that we have, everything that we will continue to gather to the DOJ for that direct

intent and that direct purpose. There must be indictments for those responsible, no matter how powerful they are and were at that time, no matter who was involved in creating this treasonous conspiracy against the American people, they all must be held accountable. I’m not a lawyer. In my view, we have the evidence to be able to move forward to prosecute and indict those responsible.”

History of this: The Obama administration at the time, however, did not conclude what Gabbard now has. A bipartisan report in 2020 from the Senate Intelligence Committee supported the intelligence community's assessment at the time of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election (Note: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) signed off on it at the time). 

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Gabbard’s threat to refer Obama's administration officials to federal law enforcement for prosecution “dangerous and there was absolutely no legal basis for their prosecution.” 

Later on FACE THE NATION Himes said: “When you start throwing around language like sedition and treason, somebody is going to get hurt. The intelligence community is full of very, very good people who do their jobs every single day, and now they're watching their leader do something that each and every one of them knows is dishonest.”

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My 2 Cents:  The B/L re: AG Pam Bondi is to simply releasing Clinton email drama, because when Trump world feels more Epstein heat he and MAGA will always reach for Hillary and/or Joe Biden or even Obama or possibly Bill Clinton, too as a distraction. 

The two articles isn't just about justice or anything serious, other than pleasing Trump via his the MAGA base. The smoke machine is on full blast, and their tactics and actions are obvious: Create and keep up one huge distraction to save and protect Trump. So, will all this  work to save and/cover Trump? Only time will tell - so, stay tuned as I'm sure you will

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Trump Signs the “Big Beautiful Bill”: The Worst Law Since Post Civil War and Most-Harmful

Limited or no health care & SNAP cuts

(Huge permanent tax breaks for the top rung)

Republicans passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” dubbed the cruelest law since post Civil War. From Alternet.com here with these highlights: 

*  Removes over $1 trillion from Medicaid, which will leave 12 to 14 million Americans without health care;

・ Adjusts Medicaid payments so that most rural hospitals will have to close their doors;

・ Slashes Food Stamps and food assistance (SNAP) for approximately 42 million - mostly children and senior citizens;

・ Gives and extend already unaffordable, already budget-busting, damn-near-theft tax cuts top to wealthy & Corporations;

・ Increases the already-bloated federal deficit by $3.4 trillion, which will affect interest rates and future children who will have to pay that debt to foreign governments, including China.

We’ve all seen it all. So, about the political backlash, you ask? Ever so clever, Republicans delayed cuts to health coverage until after the 2026 midterms. Why: They think they won’t suffer any political consequences or losses for this their vote (LOL LOL LOL in my view - they will lose bigly nevertheless in my view maybe more than 30 seats).

And, the GOP just created an American police state with $130 billion for ICE to deport and lock up migrants this way. The bill specifically funds a new American police state draped in anti-immigrant language. They create a standing army of masked ICE agents, and funds enough of them to terrorize any city in the nation while meeting racist Stephen Miller's ICE goals of 3,000 migrants taken in custody daily.

We've seen videos of the ICE goons beating migrants, U.S. Senator and House Rep. and a Mayor even in front of and with sick children; any one of them could have been recruited from Trump’s applicant pool of the 1,500 January 6 pardoned felons (NOTE: This is worth checking but by whom is the key question since Trump runs and controls everything in our government right now so there are no guardrails).

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My 2 Cents: This article stands alone and now we await the horror and disruption and anger and hurt on the general public.

But, Trump doesn't care - he has no more elections and no way to be removed from office and no courts against him thanks to SCOTUS defending Trump as "the all powerful Executive").

We will all suffer greatly except that is for the top 1-2% which get the permanent tax goodies. 

This is truly a sad day in our country and the date he signed the bill, on our National Independence Day makes a mockery of the real 4th of July instead gives him his glory and nothing else which is SOP for Trump.

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Project 2025 Status Report: Update Since Trump Took Over January 20, 2025

 

Constitutional Liberty and Justice for Under Siege 

(Good reference site) 

UPDATE: PROJECT 2025 IMPACT

Full document is here - all 920 pages in .pdf format.

It is spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, along with a coalition of over 100 conservative organizations. 

It is a comprehensive plan outlining policy proposals and a roadmap for a potential future conservative presidential administration that we now see with Donald J. Trump and his MAGA sycophants.

The project's most significant publication is a 900-page "Mandate for Leadership" (link above) that details recommendations for restructuring the executive branch and implementing a conservative agenda across various federal agencies. 

Key Aspects of Project 2025 and the goals to (1) consolidate presidential power, (2) dismantle the so-called administrative state, and (3) implement a range of conservative policies that now  also have included those related to (1) abortion, (2) immigration, (3) LGBTQ+ rights, (4) education, and (5) the environment.

Policy Proposals: The project's "Mandate for Leadership" details a vast number of policy recommendations, such as reviving the Comstock Act to (1) restrict abortion access, (2) implementing mass deportations, (3) ending birthright citizenship, (4) reducing federal spending. and (5) regulations.

Implementation Strategy: A central focus of Project 2025 is to enable a future administration to take swift action, potentially without congressional approval, by using executive power, and replacing non-partisan civil servants with political loyalists.

Controversies: Project 2025 has drawn criticism from various organizations and experts, who view its proposals as a threat to democracy, civil rights, and social safety nets. Critics also express concerns about the project's potential (1) to undermine the rule of law, (2) the separation of powers, and (3) the separation of church and state.

Relationship to the Current Administration: While Donald Trump has publicly distanced himself from Project 2025, claiming he knows nothing about it, many of his actions and policies since taking office have aligned with the project's

recommendations. Several individuals involved in Project 2025 have been nominated to key slots. 

Reduced Civil Rights Protections: Project 2025 proposals could lead to the rollback of protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, among other civil rights.

Changes to Reproductive Rights: The project's recommendations aim to restrict abortion access, potentially through the Comstock Act and the reversal of FDA approval of birth control drug mifepristone.

Alterations to the Federal Workforce: Project 2025 advocates for reducing the size of the federal government and replacing career civil servants with politically aligned appointees, which could impact various government functions.

Environmental Policy Changes: The project proposes significant changes to environmental regulations and climate change initiatives, potentially leading to increased pollution and negative environmental consequences.

Impact on Immigration: Project 2025 calls for mass deportations and other measures to curb immigration, which could have a profound impact on immigrant communities. 

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My 2 Cents:­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ See anything in the plan that is related to Emperor Trump? Like maybe most of what's outlined above.

Time will prove that most if not all of the above, or at the least major parts above will be effective or not, only time will tell. 

But, for one thing certain, it really shows the conservative political mindset of the authors and of how Trump and. yes even some the courts have become the lapdogs for change and just how far off the rails of constitutional government we have gone - and I mean like total bananas  off the rails with this Heritage Foundation total piece of crap at least in my view and the results we have seen in only a few few months of this second Trump term. 

The damage is irreparable in my view in some cases.

Finally, we the people I believe most of America will react at the polls, but we shall see. Stay tuned.

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Trump Court Loses Over Wins: No Big Surprise But Shows Justice Prevails in America

He is losing more cases than he is winning

(And rightly so)

A ongoing record and score board of court cases against Trump here from JUST SECURITY:

A sample of three recent and big court cases lost by Trump (and also DOGE related):

A federal judge in MA just barred Trump from punishing states that count absentee ballots mailed before Election Day but received after then. District Judge Denise J. Casper also blocked Trump from requiring people to submit citizenship proof when they use a federal form to register to vote. FYI: That requirement is already blocked by a different judge in a separate case. 

Voice of America (VOA) told more than 50 employees to come back to work immediately amid escalating military action between Iran and Israel. Most of the staffers restored from months-long administrative leave were from the Persian news division of the government-funded broadcaster.

A federal judge in CA halted a State Department plan to lay off almost 2,000 employees, marking a setback to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s push to rapidly downsize the agency. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said an earlier ruling that prohibited federal agencies from laying off people applied to State Department downsizing, despite arguments by Trump's DOJ lawyers.

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My 2 Cents: That is a small sample of recent court rulings against Trump and MAGA administration as well as DOGE hampering on a wide scale, too.

The site linked above can be bookmarked and reviewed from time-to-time to see more pending cases and decided ones, too.

It short, and in the final analysis JUSTICE WILL (and must always) PREVAIL EQUALLY FOR ALL...

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AG Pam Bondi faces Hot Water (maybe): FL Bar Rejects Complaints Accusing Her of Misconduct

 

             Bondi before & after cosmetics and then AG

Headline story from FL: The Florida Bar rejects complaint accusing Bondi of ‘misconduct’ as U.S. AG  (edited & formatted to fit the blog).

The complaint said her actions “threaten the rule of law and the administration of justice.” Bondi appeared before the Senate Committee for her confirmation hearing on January 15, 2025. 

A liberal to moderate-leaning coalition of 70 law professors, attorneys, and former FL Supreme Court justices is attacking Bondi’s record as U.S. AG in an ethics complaint filed with the Florida Bar.

During her Senate confirmation hearing she tiptoed around whether she would stand up to Trump’s pressure on the DOJ promising only in a broad sense that “...politics has to be taken out of this system.”

Since her confirmation, Bondi has earned the praise of conservative Republicans for loyally following Trump’s agenda while drawing the wrath of critics on the Democratic spectrum who say she has politicized the DOJ on issues ranging from illegal immigration to public corruption.

Now, a liberal- and moderate-leaning coalition of about 70 law professors, attorneys, and former FL Supreme Court justices is attacking her record in an ethics complaint filed Thursday with the Florida Bar. They accuse Bondi of violating her ethical 

duties as U.S. attorney general, saying: “She has committed serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice.”

For example, the complaint claims Bondi “...sought to compel DOJ lawyers to violate their ethical obligations under the guise of zealous advocacy, and she espoused that in a February 5, 2025 memo to all agency employees on her first day in office.”

The complaint further says Bondi threatened agency lawyers with “... discipline or termination if they failed to zealously pursue the President’s political objectives,” alleging her conduct violates Florida Bar rules and long-standing norms of the DOJ.

The coalition, which includes retired Florida Supreme Court Justices Barbara J. Pariente and Peggy A. Quince, noted that the Florida Bar rejected two other recent ethics complaints against Bondi, saying: “It does not investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office.”

Now the FL Bar rejected the latest complaint in a letter sent to the coalition, citing the same issue.

Noteworthy: The coalition did not immediately respond to the Florida Bar decision. But when noting the Bar’s dismissal of the previous two Bondi complaints, the coalition argued that none of the Bar’s rules exempt a Florida-licensed lawyer from scrutiny if they are accused of abusing their position as a federal public official.

DOJ officials on Thursday condemned the latest Florida Bar complaint. “Since her first day on the job, Bondi has made clear that she plans to use the Department of Justice for political pursuits, and she has done just that,” said Norm Eisen, executive chairperson of the Democracy Defenders Fund, a nonprofit legal advocacy group in Washington, D.C. Eisen and who was the former ambassador to the Czech Republic under President Obama.

The firings by Trump’s Justice Department conjured up Richard Nixon’s controversial move to have special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired for refusing to withdraw a subpoena for the Nixon White House tapes during Watergate. In what became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Nixon ordered then AG Elliot Richardson to fire

Cox, but Richardson refused and he too resigned. 

Then, Nixon ordered the Deputy AG William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox. He also refused and resigned. Nixon finally prevailed when he ordered the DOJ solicitor general Robert Bork to fire Cox — a move that also backfired on Nixon and ultimately led to his resignation as president in 1974. In the aftermath, it was generally understood there would be “no contact” between the president and the AG regarding investigations and

prosecutions. But, now after more than 50 years, that Justice Department’s wall of independence from the White House was officially torn down in July 2024. In an historic opinion, the now 6-3 U.S.  Conservative Supreme Court ruled that Trump was generally immune for criminal liability and conduct for his official acts while in office — including his attempts to use the DOJ to obstruct the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Biden.

AG Bondi pledged that her Justice Department would not be weaponized. During her Senate confirmation hearing in mid-January, Bondi said that she would keep politics out of the Justice Department — despite refusing to say that Trump lost the 2020 election and previously

saying: “Prosecutors will be prosecuted. The the partisanship, the weaponization, will be gone.” Bondi testified that while repeatedly saying the Justice Department had been misused under Biden's administration, and “America will have one tier of justice for all.”

In her February 5 “Zealous Advocacy” memo to all Justice Department employees, Bondi advised prosecutors that their responsibilities “included not only aggressively enforcing criminal and civil laws enacted by Congress and to vigorously defend

presidential policies and actions against legal challenges on behalf of the United States.” 

But then Bondi also said: “The discretion afforded Department attorneys entrusted with those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.” 

She concluded by warning that anyone who

“refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Administration ... or impedes the Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.”

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My 2 Cents: I can't stop laughing when I recall her Senate confirmation vs. her actions today.  

So, here we are today with another Trump liar as AG of the United States lying and acting the exact opposite that she swore under oath to get AG job.

Time will tell how things go from here, but I fear and predict it will go more DOWNHILL more than ever. We shall see - so stay tuned as I'm sure you will, as will I. 

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Trump's Jet Deal: FLASHBACK to His Qatar Remarks in 2017 and Now His Flip-Flopping for Gift

 

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NY) on CNN as News Broke

Trump's "gift" from Qatar: Trump was dealt a major on-air setback on CNN as they interrupted regular programming for some bombshell news.

Anchor Erin Burnett (CNN) broke the story along with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NY) that Trump is ready (and in fact has accepted) a top-of-the-line jet from the Qatari Royal family, although he had previously slammed Qatar as a "funder of terrorism." 

During Trump's White House days back in 2017, he urged Middle East nations to cease sponsoring terrorism SAYING: "Stop funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing" and all the while directly pointing a finger at Qatar.

Full article [click here].  

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My 2 Cents: Trump is a low-down corrupt man bent on one thing and that is for himself making money anyway he can.

He is a disgrace as President and as a human being. 

He simply cannot be trusted about anything he says or does for "We the People and Our Nation."

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JD Vance Called Trump "America's Hitler": In 2016 Text to College Roommate and in Interview

 

Vance's college pal friend, Josh McLaurin, provided the story

In 2016, Vance wrote in a private message to his former law school roommate: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful), or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?"

Shortly after Trump announced his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, then Sen. JD Vance of Ohio — a claim spread on social media that he once called Trump "America's Hitler." 

The claim is true. 

In a 2016 text message to his former law school roommate, Vance wrote: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?"

The recipient of the message, Josh McLaurin, now a Democratic GA state senator — made the text message public in 2022, and several reputable news outlets corroborated its legitimacy at that time. Since then, Vance has acknowledged his past remark comparing Trump to "America's Hitler," stressing his views on the former president have changed.

It's laughable that the media treats JD not liking Trump 6 years ago as some sort of breaking news, when they've already covered it since this race began. 

Clearly, Trump trusts that JD is a genuine convert, as out of all the Republican candidates running, he endorsed JD and concluded that he is the strongest America First conservative in the race. 

In July 2024, after Trump announced Vance as his VP nominee, various reputable news outlets, such as Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian, cited the 2016 text message again.

In a July 16, 2024, interview, Fox News' Sean Hannity asked Vance about his past comments about Trump, including the "America's Hitler" remark. Vance did not refute the allegation, saying: "I don't hide from that," then adding: "Trump's time in the White House has changed my mind."

The story is here from SNOPES fact checking: 

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My 2 Cents: Proof of the clowns in this Trump administration 100% proof that is an American political history first.

I end saying no more instead allowing the SNOPES proof to stand on its own merits.

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U.S. and Iran Hold Nuke Talks: First Round in Oman More Expected Hope for Success Low

 

President Eisenhower with Shah Reza Pahlavi (Tehran, 1959)  

(Original good gesture and idea now kaput)

From January 16, 2016, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verified that Iran has completed the necessary steps under the Iran deal that will ensure Iran's nuclear program is and remains exclusively peaceful.

2024 UNDER TRUMP: U. S. and Iran hold "constructive first round" nuclear talks seen in this BBC story.

Background up to this point: The Iran nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was a landmark accord reached between Iran and several world powers, including the United States, in July 2015. 

Under the JCPOA terms, Iran agreed to dismantle much of its nuclear program and open its facilities to more extensive international inspections (by the IAEA) in exchange for billions of dollars worth of sanctions relief.

(NOTE FYI: Was not money from  the U.S., but was Iranian money held in foreign banks).

Proponents of the deal said that it would help prevent a revival of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and thereby reduce the prospects for conflict between Iran and its regional rivals, including Israel and Saudi Arabia. 

However, the deal has been in jeopardy since Trump withdrew the United States from it in 2018. 

Now, in retaliation for U.S. deadly attacks on prominent Iranians in 2020, including one by  the United States, Iran has resumed its nuclear activities. 

UN inspectors reported in early 2023 that Iran had enriched trace amounts of uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels, sparking international alarm. 

The JCPOA, which went into effect in January 2016, imposed restrictions on Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program. At the heart of negotiations with Iran were the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and also Germany — collectively known as the P5+1. The European Union (EU) also took part. 

IAEA inspectors proved, tracked, showed, and reported that Iran was complying with the 2015 JCOPA deal.

Then Trump came into office tossed the agreement and now here we & world are.

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My 2 Cents: In a nutshell, Trump has reversed history with this new "Art of the Con" and we are again as noted above on high alert. 

Trump, as usual, was jealous of the 2015 deal that President Obama handled, and it was working as approved by the governments listed above, and IAEA oversight. 

Now Trump has sunk it and again allows Iran to move on further development of their nuclear program causing Middle East alarm with many unknowns.

Trump is in a word a menace to global stability unless things do not go his way.

This NPR report of history, from 1957 under President Ike pictured above, shows how he helped Iran get a their start in the the present day nuclear business with a good idea now a major mess today under Trump.

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Trump Advisor Laura Loomer: Said 9/11 Inside Job; 2020 Election Rigged is Total Conspiracy Nut

  

Looney Laura Loomer Key Trump Guru of Sorts

Topic of national security concern from the DAILY BEAST. 

Trump has fired the general serving as Director of the National Security Agency after far-right activist Laura Loomer accused him of being disloyal to the president. 

Air Force 4-star General Timothy Haugh was fired and he also heads U.S. Cyber Command as was five other key NSA aides (WAPOST report).

Loomer advocated for the firings during a private meeting with the president on Wednesday. 

After news of the meeting leaked, Loomer, 31, took to social media to say Haugh was fired because he had been “disloyal to Trump.” 

Loomer wrote in a rambling post on X: “As a Biden appointee, General Haugh had no place serving in the Trump admin given the fact that he was HAND PICKED by General Milley, who was accused of committing treason by Trump. Why would we want Milley’s hand-picked choice for NSA DIRECTOR? We do not! And he was referred for firing.” 

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My 2 Cents:  Loomer is an insane conspiracy crackpot nut case who said 9/11 was an inside job, 2020 election was stolen, and all sorts of other crazy sh*t.

Yet Trump follows her advice and acted on it as reported above. 

I have to seriously wonder what she is holding over Trump to get him to give into her? That's a whole other interesting story I believe isn't it?

Also, I wonder what Putin has on Trump that allows him to be favored and thus control Trump. Also an interesting supposition.

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Kennedy Cuts 20,000 HHS Jobs: Latest from FDA & CDC re: Food Safety & Disease Control

 

FDA Oversees Food safety - CDC Controls Diseases

Critical article from REUTERS news with this impact:

WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to reshape federal public health agencies by cutting over 20,000 employees and centralizing some functions of the FDA, CDC, and other elements under his purview.

The job cuts include 3,500 at the FDA and 2,400 at the CDC, and 1,200 at the NIH.

Kennedy said: "Over time, bureaucracies like HHS become wasteful and inefficient even when most of their staff are dedicated and competent civil servants. This overhaul will be a win-win for taxpayers and for those that HHS serves. That's the entire American public, because our goal is to Make America Healthy Again."

Large government agencies like HHS sprawl over time and there is merit in reorganizing them, which has happened under both Democratic and Republican administrations, but this plan goes beyond that.

Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at non-profit KFF, and former senior adviser to the White House and HHS under President Bill Clinton said: "This is not just a reorganization of HHS. It is also a slashing of the federal workforce, which will ultimately affect government services."

Kennedy also said cutting a total of 20,000 from HHS: "There will be no impact - but it will be painful."

(My Insert: No Sh*t Sherlock...)

1. There are 66 million enrolled in Medicare which serves for people aged 65 and older. 

2. There are 72 million enrolled in Medicaid, which serves low-income and people with disabilities.

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My 2 Cents: R.F. Kennedy Jr., as well as Pete Hegseth (DOD); Tulsi Gabbard (DNI); Kash Patel (CIA), AG Pam Bondi, and several others are unqualified, lacking leadership, and even common sense in be the key positions they are in.

In a word the Trump batch in his cabinet and more so Elon Musk running the DOGE are horrible people and that is not just my view, but the view of hundreds if not thousands of former officials who served faithfully and efficiently in government agencies and key positions for decades.

We will suffer greatly in the coming months and years after this batch of "no-gooders" are gone and the sooner the better - at least in my view - a person who served in the Marine Corps for 20 years and have a full retirement from there as well as 22 years as an Army and Air Force civilian Federal employee (in the intelligence and education fields) for a total of 44 years public service. I hate seeing what is happening in and to our country right now under Trump and is MAGA minions.

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Conspiracy theory spreading: Social media say Musk's Starlink interfered with 2024 election

 

2024 U.S. ELECTIONS RAPID RESEARCH BLOG RAPID RESEARCH NOTE

(Source: University of Washington)

This is part of an ongoing series of rapid research blog posts and rapid research analysis about the 2024 U.S. elections from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. 

This research memo identifies election rumors using a combination of qualitative, quantitative, digital ethnographic, and visual, methodologies. It was cross-posted on the CIP’s election rumor research Substack newsletter.

Since Trump won the presidential election, rumors and audience attention have focused on interpreting the results. A new rumor has emerged on the left as part of this collective sense making process. 

Social media users speculated that Starlink, a satellite-based Internet provider owned by Elon Musk, was used to alter election results in Trump’s favor. 

Note: Fact-checks by PolitiFact and AFP have debunked these claims. 

The rhetoric and tropes of this rumor have the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory, which academics typically define as an explanation for social or political events that suggests without verifiable evidence that perceived ill-intentioned actors are secretly plotting to alter social, political, and economic institutions to their benefit — such as elections. 

In this research note, we analyze the spread of this conspiracy theory on X and its rumoring dynamics within left-leaning audiences on the platform.

Left-leaning accounts with relatively small followings (ranging from 10k to 200k) have driven the conversation about this conspiracy theory on X, especially in its early stages on November 9 and 10. 

Most engagement on X comes from tweets posted by these accounts over these two days. 

On November 11, tweets rumoring about this conspiracy theory continued, but got fewer retweets. At the same time, several right-leaning accounts joined the conversation, mainly to mock left-leaning speculation and dismiss the rumor as a conspiracy theory.

Analyzing the spread of the conspiracy theory:  The crux of the theory postulates that Starlink was used to alter vote counts in Trump’s favor. They speculate, without evidence, that tabulators that are used to count paper ballots, were tampered with via an internet connection: namely Musk’s Starlink internet provider.

It is important to note that most machines used in U.S. elections are not connected to the Internet. 

My 2 Cents: Maybe a deep dive is now required in light of of the Musk DOGE shenanigans. Just a thought.

Trump & Musk Are Out of Control: For our survival they have to be and must be stopped

Elon Musk is not officially a Federal employee 

(Not by any law, standard, or process)

First, this shocking FORTUNE story about Elon Musk and his illegal access to classified, sensitive, and personal information with this headline:

“Musk’s DOGE gets access to classified USAID info after security chiefs tried to block move – then were put on leave, officials say”

The disgusting, evil, and nasty Elon Musk must be prosecuted – he has no security clearance, no security access to classified, or sensitive personal information or data, and had no reason to gain the information, and he even is not a valid nor legal government official. Trump and Musk have effectively found a backdoor way to seize Congress’s power to appropriate funds for the executive branch — a move that would make it easier to cut the budget but also challenge basic democratic norms. 

Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the University of Michigan said: “If Musk can single-handedly shut off spending for one government agency, he can do it for any another. He can shut off payment of federal employee salaries. He can shut down federal contracts. It is an extraordinary abuse of public power.”

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Then this second shocking story from AP News relates to the above article and current Trump & Musk craziness:

“Elon Musk’s DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems”

WASHINGTON — The DOGE run by Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security, and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation. 

The move by DOGE, a Trump administration task force assigned to find ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations, means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data, among other things.

NOTED: The New York Times first reported the news of the group’s access of the massive federal payment system. The two people who spoke to the AP spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden (R-OR) sent a letter to Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expressing concern: “That officials associated with Musk may have intended to access these payment systems to illegally withhold payments to any number of programs. To put it bluntly, these payment systems simply cannot fail, and any politically motivated meddling in them risks severe damage to our country and the economy.”

The news also comes after Treasury’s acting Deputy Secretary David Lebryk resigned after more than 30 years of service. Lebryk resigned his position after Musk and his DOGE organization requested access to sensitive Treasury data. 

In his letter to the employees he said: “Our service performs some of the most vital functions in government. Our work may be unknown to most of the public, but doesn’t mean it isn’t exceptionally important. I am grateful for having been able to work alongside the nation’s best and most talented operations staff.”

Musk responded to the departure of Lebryk on his X page saying: “The DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once.”

NOTED: Musk DID NOT provide proof of that claim. I suppose he is covered by what Trump labeled him based on this story: 

Trump makes Elon Musk a “Special Government Employee” amid accusations of takeover.

I'm Mr. GOP – Like it or get out of the party 

My 2 Cents: These articles and the Trump-Musk moves are illegal and unlawful.

Lots of legal cases are forthcoming to nail them both. We need to stop them and stop them now. 

The nation’s future is at stake and many lives, too. I fear the worst is yet to come.

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