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BREAKING : On January 20th, 2025, a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist was sworn in as the 47th POTUS.
Donald J. Trump, a criminal running the free world 🌎
Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.
Here's what happened:
He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.
These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.
Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.
A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).
The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.
But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.
With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.
And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.
The threat does all the work.
By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.
Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.
If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.
Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR
@atrupar@SecRubio the demented pedo can't even stay awake ffs. You sir are a lying sack of tRump feces, your parents must be so proud. #25thamendmentnow
Pam Bondi should have had to testify under oath and videotaped, but Republicans refused. Now the transcript is clear: Bondi mentioned Tood Blanche 100 times. It’s time to talk to Blanche!
RUSSIAN COLLUSION: Rep. Keating EXCORIATED Trump's Secretary of State Mark Rubio, reminding him that Ukraine, a country that at the time had the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, peacefully turned over its nuclear weapons in exchange for a U.S. commitment to defend Ukraine if it ever came under threat.
The United States gave its WORD to Ukraine that we would defend them.
Keating exclaimed, "I find this amazing. In your opening remarks, as you took us all over the world and mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded...15, the top 15...not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing achievements that are there!"
It's not a question of whether Russia is colluding with Trump, but rather how much the Trump administration and the entire GOP are colluding with Russia.
American patriots did NOT fight a war for freedom and independence from the British crown, just to become captives of Vladimir Putin.
Things for which he has cut funding
1. Cancer research
2. National Parks
3. Dept of Education
4. Public Broadcasting
5. Research grants
6. Centers for Disease Control
7. National Institute of Health
8. Housing and Urban Development
9. USAID
10. Medicare, Medicaid, SS
11. FEMA/EPA/NOAA
12. Everything that helps people
Things that cost more:
1. Everything
Things that are better:
1. Nothing
Right! And we are all brainwashed to think it’s something to aspire to. I know this is old but the difference between one million and one billion is so vast I think people can’t comprehend it. One million seconds equals is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 Years. And Elon is about to be a trillionaire. That would be 31,700 years. Now do the math in dollars. And the fact is that no one in the history of the world has ever attained that wealth by any other means then some form of domination over others. I do not begrudge financial success, but I do have a real problem when the the top 0.1% (130,000 families) hold 6 times the wealth as the bottom 66 million households combined. Put another way 905 individuals in America have twice the wealth of the entire bottom half of the country- 165,000,000 people. And it wasn’t always this way. The top 0.1 percent’s share of the U.S. wealth pie has grown 59.6 percent since just 1989.
@HunterBiden Imagine how much good they could do with just a small amount of that kind of money. I remember researching how much Elon donates and it was basically nothing. When I think of billionaires that have made the World better by using their money for good í think of Melinda Gates.
@BobbyAllyn Hey @Georgesantos bad news, I have even more unflattering pictures of your fat body, you’ve already blocked me for showing photos of how you really look.😁🤣
George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi.
And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face."
Then he lied about it.
https://t.co/3hZWckf54M