Dictator Trump Takeover

[Giantone]

Trump fires boards of U.S. military service academies


https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-fi...154441907.html

President Donald Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the U.S. military’s service academies, the outside advisory panels that help oversee academic programs and student life, saying that the government’s training grounds for military officers had been invaded by so-called “woke” ideology.

“Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.” The president did not immediately announce the appointment of new members to the boards.

[Giantone]

Now's a good time to recall John Roberts' warning about court orders being ignored
John Roberts chided both sides for raising the prospect of judicial defiance in December, but one side may need a reminder.


https://www.msnbc.com/
In his last year-end report, Chief Justice John Roberts called out what he deemed several areas of “illegitimate activity” threatening judicial independence. One of them was “threats to defy lawfully entered judgments.”

The report from just six weeks ago is worth revisiting in light of recent statements seemingly supporting such defiance from Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance, following several Trump administration trial court losses early in its second term.

[Giantone]

https://news.yahoo.com/news/alarm-jd...030350722.html
Alarm as JD Vance says federal judges ‘aren’t allowed’ to control president


Experts and officials expressed alarm on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance suggested federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the White House’s “legitimate power.”

The controversy began on Sunday morning, when Vance tweeted his views on executive power.

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” he wrote on X. “If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.”

[Giantone]

Reuters
Trump to loosen enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials



https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-lo...204530479.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday planned to sign an executive order that directs the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to gain business in their countries.

According to a copy of a fact sheet seen by Reuters, the order is aimed at restoring American economic competitiveness by ordering "revised, reasonable enforcement guidelines for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977."

[Giantone]

Surprised this wasn't his first move, I mean trump and ethics go together so well!

Dictators do this.................

Bloomberg
Trump Fires Top Ethics Official Overseeing Conflicts of Interest

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has fired the head of the federal Office of Government Ethics, which oversees disclosure and potential conflicts of interest involving top government officials, according to a post on the agency’s blog.

OGE’s director supervises compliance with federal rules that require nominees to high-ranking posts, including cabinet officials, to disclose their assets and divest those that pose potential conflicts of interest. That’s proven to be a complicated task in an administration whose figures include hedge fund managers, investment bankers and financiers. In the first Trump term, OGE declined to certify Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross were in compliance with ethics laws.

[Giantone]

HuffPost
American Bar Association Says Trump Is Not Following The Rule Of Law

https://news.yahoo.com/news/american...174218714.html





No, shit!

[mredskins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no&t=20s

interesting watch

[Giantone]

White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/n...s-say/3842433/

The White House fired the inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, a day after his office warned that the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID had made it all but impossible to monitor $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian funds.

The White House gave no reason for the firing of Inspector General Paul Martin, one of the officials said. The officials were familiar with the dismissal but not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Inspectors general are typically independently funded watchdogs attached to government agencies and tasked with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. The Trump administration earlier purged more than a dozen inspectors general.

On Monday, Martin's office issued a flash report warning that the Trump administration's freeze on all foreign assistance and moves to cut USAID staff had left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational."

[MTK]

these threads lately

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by MTK

these threads lately

Lately? These threads, always. The site would be better off without them imo.

[MTK]

Or you can just choose to not post.

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by MTK

Or you can just choose to not post.

I try not too, and I have cut down, but it's hard to never not post in them. If there was a way to take the political threads off my homepage so I couldn't see when a new post was made in these, I would absolutely do that.

But it's like a moth to a flame when I see that bold font.

[MTK]

Don the con doesn't like checks and balances, shocker

[Giantone]

USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil amid Trump funding freeze

https://news.yahoo.com/news/usaid-in...152421287.html

trump cult would rather have it go bad then help someone in need.

[mredskins]

i am not sure how anyone with a straight face could be backing Elon Musk at this point.

he is literary going to destroy our country