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Russell Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.
Exclusive: Wide-ranging group of US officials pursues #Trump's fight against ‘Deep State’
A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including US #intelligence officers, has been helping to steer Trump's drive for #retribution against his perceived enemies, according to government records and a source familiar with the effort.
#law #LegalEthics #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wide-ranging-group-us-officials-pursues-trumps-fight-against-deep-state-2025-10-20/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Via @atrupar, who has video elsewhere:
Fox Business is preemptively attacking justices on the New York appeals court who might hear the #Trump case, putting up their photos and detailing their political affiliations #ClusterFox
Egotistical jackass
#Trump said on Thursday all #trade talks with #Canada were terminated following what he called a fraudulent advertisement from Canada in which former & late US President Ronald Reagan spoke negatively about #tariffs.
"Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
#economy #inflation #recession #trumpcession
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-all-trade-talks-with-canada-are-terminated-2025-10-24/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Via @atrupar:
four years ago today #Trump was threatening to send federal troops into Seattle because the governor criticized him for his covid bungling
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Donald J. Trump:
Jun 11, 2020
Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before. Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stopped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!
Via Acyn (who has video on Xitter):
McGovern: The only #Trump Derangemt Synd going on arnd here is on the other side of aisle. They are saying that Biden orch. the conviction of his own son in order to justify the crim charges against Trump. That is how you think when you are in a cult...We’re missing a chairman here. Mr. #Jordan has sent a sub which is unfortunate bc I wd’ve liked to have asked Mr. Jordan about his noncompliance w a congressional subpoena but I guess he was too afraid to come
#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
#BidenHarris2024
https://time.com/6984970/joe-biden-2024-interview/
"Trumpism ushered in an era of threats, intimidation and retribution. It is getting worse. …
In recent testimony, Anthony Fauci discussed how even a year after leaving the public sector, he has to maintain a permanent security detail shadowing him, given credible death threats against him and his family."
~ Don Moynihan
#Trump #revenge #retributions #threats #violence #bullying #Fauci
Via Katie Phang 🧵1/…
JUST IN: The Fulton County DA's Office has moved to dismiss the appeal filed by #Trump and some of his co-defendants on Judge McAfee's denial of their motion to disqualify DA #FaniWillis.
The Fulton County DA's Office argues that the appeal should never have been allowed to move forward in the first place b/c there is a "lack of sufficient evidence based on the explicit factual findings of the trial court." #Georgia #legal #TrumpIndictment
After we broke the story of the #ICE lawyer with a white supremacist X account, no one seems to be able to tell us whether James Rodden still works with the agency. Even Congress can't get answers. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-supremacist-x-account-veasey-answers/
#racism #fascism #genocide #law #Dallas #NorthTexas #Texas #Immigration #politics #USpol #news #Trump
#GOP Senators Ready to Dump #Trump Nominee With Self-Proclaimed ‘#Nazi Streak’
“I can’t imagine supporting that,” Sen. James Lankford told reporters.
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…One of Trump’s nominees…said in a leaked group chat that MLK Day should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell,” & that he has “a Nazi streak.”
#PaulIngrassia, an #attorney nominated by Trump to lead the Office of #SpecialCounsel, made these & other #racist comments in leaked group chat messages.
#HitlerYouth
https://www.notus.org/senate/paul-ingrassia-trump-nominee-gop-republican-senators-confirmation-hearing-james-lankford
Never has #Lacan's mirror phase theory been so on point. #Trump is stuck in that 6 to 18 month old time frame, "where an infant recognizes their reflection as a unified "self". This moment is a "misrecognition" b/c the infant identifies w/a stable, external image that contrasts w/their fragmented internal experience of their own body. This process is the foundation of the ego, which forms through this identification with an "Ideal I" or "other". That & #dementia.
“We need every voter. I don't care about you. I just want your vote. I don't care."- #Trump, Las Vegas, Sunday, 9 June 2024.
“The press will take that & say, ‘he said a horrible thing.’”
Nah, just an honest thing, for once.
With the headline "Only the Best People," David Kurtz reports:
"A Trump-pardoned Jan. 6 rioter has been charged with threatening to kill House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) ahead of his a Monday speech to the Economic Club of New York."
#Trump #MAGA #HakeemJeffries #fascism #violence
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/lindsey-halligan-gets-her-very-own
Many #Trump allies had been secretly rooting for an #acquittal. The talking points wrote themselves: It would have been yet more evidence that the #UnitedStates #justice system was rigged in favor of #Bidens & against Trumps. Tues’s #guilty #verdict was inconvenient to that narrative.
Even more valuable would have been the #fundraising potential.
#gaslighting #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #law #HunterBiden
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hunter-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
You know how you move into a place & it has rules, like no pets, no smoking etc?
Next level, you buy a home that’s designated a #historical #landmark & in the deed it stipulates renovations are limited to interior & have to conform to a specific era.
Now imagine you’re a renter, or better yet, a house guest.
Cuz that’s what #Trump is. A FUCKING HOUSEGUEST! And he is literally demolishing a #HistoricLandmark.
THE historic landmark.
Fuck this guy.
#WhiteHouse #Ballroom
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/watch-live-demolition-crews-tear-down-white-houses-east-wing-trumps-ballroom-2025-10-21/
Too many, huh? Imposition? Well, now you know how we feel.
A federal appeals court has stopped accepting public complaints against Judge Aileen #Cannon — many seeking her recusal from the classified documents case against #Trump — citing a flood of 1,000 filings in recent weeks that appear to be part of 'an orchestrated campaign.' #legal
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/06/03/court-stops-taking-complaints-against-judge-overseeing-trump-documents-case/
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/06/03/court-stops-taking-complaints-against-judge-overseeing-trump-documents-case/
I am so afraid for the future
#Trump admin seeks to move #SpecialEducation to #RFKJr’s #HHS
The move would affect the $15 billion #IDEA program & comes as the admin seeks to close down the federal #Education Department
#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/21/trump-special-education-move/
Nooooow c'mon! Let's go!
Reopen the house, pay your staff and swear in the Democrat to release the Trumpstein files
We'll go from there, I have some ideas
#Trump straight up robbing #taxpayers
Trump Demands #DOJ Pay Him $230 Million For Federal Investigations Into Him
Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for Trump & those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Dropping in for this one, via Katie Phang:
JUST IN: Judge McAfee in Fulton County DENIES Misty Hampton’s Motion to Stay Proceedings while the #Georgia Court of Appeals hears the appeal of McAfee’s denial of #Trump and other defendants’ motion to disqualify DA #FaniWillis. #legal
US hits $38 trillion in debt
In the midst of a federal government #shutdown, the #US govt’s gross national #debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet.
It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic—the US hit $37 trillion in gross national debt in August this year.
#economy #inflation #recession #Trump #trumpcession #Congress
https://apnews.com/article/trump-treasury-debt-ceiling-bessent-09575f13ca95c2f1beb38234b2cbe85b
The entire #WhiteHouse #EastWing is demolished as #Trump moves forward with his #ballroom, AP photos show.
The East Wing, where #FirstLadies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace for first ladies & their staffs, has been turned into rubble, demolished as part of Trump’s plan to build what he said is now a $300M ballroom nearly 2X the size of the White House.