So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
At least 40 minors gave sworn statements to the FBI that Jeffrey Epstein raped and trafficked them. The line prosecutor wrote an 82-page memo recommending charges.
Alex Acosta declined and signed a non-prosecution deal.
He was later confirmed as Labor Secretary.
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
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Amanda Ungaro, ex-girlfriend of Paolo Zampolli and mother of his son, claims that Paolo Zampolli did NOT introduce Melania to Donald Trump. Jeffrey Epstein did:
“She (Melania) was an escort of Jeffrey Epstein. That’s how she met Donald Trump"
Imagine how many children wouldn't have been sexually assaulted if Trump hadn't pardoned the J6'rs and left them in jail. Every day another one is arrested for raping kids.
Never forget that this piece of shit helped a man who RAPED a child for 3 years straight get off with the lightest possible sentence.
Adam Hoffman didn’t even have to report as a sex offender.
For fucks sake Texans… DO NOT vote for this piece of shit human 👇🏼
If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.
We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s business partners, the Alexander brothers, have been convicted on 19 counts of sex trafficking.
It’s odd how often sex offenders appear in the Trump family’s inner circle.
Trump literally trumped the law. No one is ever going to see Donald Trump get the justice he deserves for all of the crimes he's committed. Why? It's bad. It's REALLY fucking BAD. Listen:
Netanyahu and Lindsey say its fine to shut down the $3.8B a year in military aid to Israel. They don't tell you how they will make it up— by "partnering" with the US military directly.
It begins here.
This is an alarming read by @BenFreemanDC
https://t.co/QzQmlvwTln
BREAKING: Congress is attempting to fuse the U.S. military with Israel's as Section 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act "would all but fuse American and Israeli armed forces together"
🚨 ANOTHER NEO-CONFEDERATE P*DOPHILE BITES THE DUST!
39-year-old Joshua Bryan, Gainesville, FL, a proud traitor waving the Confederate flag, just got 25 years in prison for distributing child s*xual abuse material online.
This wasn’t his first rodeo—he already did 4 years for the same sick shit in 2021.
His Facebook is drenched in treasonous Confederate imagery—the same symbols of a slave empire explicitly built on white supremacy and the “right” to own Black people.
These Lost Cause clowns aren’t defending “heritage,” they’re predators hiding behind racist nostalgia.
Lock ‘em up. The Confederates can’t stop losing over 100 years later. 🇺🇸
🚨 BREAKING: ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi confirms the White House directly intervened to force the Pentagon to give a record-breaking loan to a startup just 3 months after Don Jr. invested in it.
The Trump administration is looting the country!