A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor said Friday that his office is pursuing “multiple” election fraud investigations in California, amping up President Donald Trump’s baseless attacks on the state’s still-ongoing primary vote count. https://t.co/V0YHgs1XJX
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
So now we are hearing confirmation that Melania was an expensive whore, and Donald Trump bought her off Epstein after Epstein and his friends had been dipping her for over a year. Thoughts?
OMG, love it! 🤣😂🤣 Trump’s White House UFC fight will be the “gayest Pride Month party in US history! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Nobody will ever see anything like it! It will be ‘Yuge’!!
You are free to be who you are and love who you love without fear here in Pennsylvania.
We will continue to rise above the hate and division we see too often across this country, and keep fighting to advance real freedom all across our Commonwealth.
Happy Pride Month, Pennsylvania!
Breaking News! Amanda Ungaro a friend of Melania Trump’s for 20 years & the ex of Paolo Zampoli just released an audio recording where’s she’s telling him you know you weren’t the one that introduced Melania to Trump it was Jeffrey Epstein and she says that Melania was a Escort!
“Trump has wrecked it. He has debased the People’s House with the aesthetic sensibilities of a pimp turned bankrupt casino operator and reality television performer, who confuses excess for greatness and spectacle for dignity. It’s appalling.”
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