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Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’​

Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories.

🎁—> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/...e_code=1.NU8.vj5Y.1UypJVBys0HD&smid=url-share

“… Investigations into Mr. Epstein’s 2019 death in a Manhattan prison cell found serious management errors but no evidence of criminality. Yet Mr. Trump, once a friend of the financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, has long suggested Mr. Epstein was silenced by shadowy clients of his sex trafficking ring. In a 2023 episode of his popular podcast, Mr. Bongino, now the bureau’s No. 2 official, implored listeners, “Please do not let that story go.”

They obliged. A Trump-allied podcaster suggested the F.B.I. leaders were “beholden to some unseen powers.” A former F.B.I. agent who has been critical of the bureau posted a parody of a law firm ad with Mr. Bongino standing next to a sign that read “Trust Me & Bro Consulting.” Tucker Carlson, a friend of Mr. Bongino’s, said Trump appointees were “making a huge mistake, promising to reveal things and then not revealing them.” Alex Jones, a founding father of the modern conspiracy movement, referred to Mr. Patel’s own handling of the Epstein case as flat-out “gaslighting.”

Mr. Patel and Mr. Bongino, partisan showmen placed in positions previously held by people with greater experience, earned their bona fides in Mr. Trump’s camp by promoting conspiracy theories, making promises of what they would accomplish under Mr. Trump when he returned to power based on fictional or exaggerated premises, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.

It has now fallen on Mr. Patel, Mr. Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi to make good on the promises explicit and implied — or show how hard they are trying. But they are running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say.…”
 


Saying things (even provocative or incorrect things) and flying flags cannot be allowed?



No, that does not “count” as due process.
 


Guy who was CEO of a company that cheated government healthcare programs of over a billion dollars eager to remove people from the rolls of government healthcare programs…

Background:

“… Rick Scott’s opponents have cried foul over his tenure as head of a hospital chain that paid the biggest health care fraud fine in history.

In 2000 and 2003, Columbia/HCA agreed to pay fines and penalties totaling $1.7 billion for cheating federal programs that serve the military, the elderly and the poor.

Scott, who was never charged, said he was unaware of any fraud and resigned as CEO in 1997.

What no one has ever satisfactorily answered is what, if anything, did Scott know and when did he know it.…”

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Over his two campaigns for governor, Rick Scott’s opponents have cried foul over his tenure as head of a hospital...
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GOP Rep from Nebraska’s Blue Dot sounds like a man heading for the exit:​

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Breaking With Trump, Bacon Says He Won’t Follow His Party ‘Off the Cliff’​

The Nebraska Republican’s dissent makes him one of a disappearing breed in the G.O.P. — and suggests he may head for the exit.


“… In an interview in his office last week, Mr. Bacon, at 61 serving his fifth term in Congress, would not say whether he voted for Mr. Trump last year. He also likened members of his party to people following someone off a cliff, compared himself to Winston Churchill speaking out against Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and criticized the billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musk, who has bankrolled many of his Republican colleagues.

… Mr. Bacon would not discuss his plans, but his recent record of criticizing Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk suggests that he does not have a re-election campaign in mind. Still, in the interview, he said he had not given up on politics or on the Republican Party.…”
 
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So, a majority support overall deportations and a narrow majority thinks that he's only focusing on deporting criminals (which isn't true, by the way), but a wide majority also think that they should get trials first (and yet most aren't), a clear majority doesn't support "Trump's approach" to deporting immigrants as opposed to his "goals" (if you don't support his actual approach to deporting immigrants, then why would you support the deportations at all?), and clear pluralities think that his deportations will weaken our economy and that he's deporting more people than they thought he would.

Well, that just clears everything up and isn't filled with contradictory information at all - a majority doesn't like how he's handling the deportations but still supports them, they overwhelmingly think that non-US citizens still deserve trials before being locked up or deported and yet they aren't (but they still support Trump deporting them), and they falsely believe that Trump 2.0 is only focusing on deporting criminals. A lot of ignorance, nativism, and refusal to see what is actually happening is running wild across the country right now.
 
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So, a majority support overall deportations and a narrow majority thinks that he's only focusing on deporting criminals (which isn't true, by the way), but a wide majority also think that they should get trials first (and yet most aren't), a clear majority doesn't support "Trump's approach" to deporting immigrants as opposed to his "goals" (if you don't support his actual approach to deporting immigrants, then why would you support the deportations at all?), and clear pluralities think that his deportations will weaken our economy and that he's deporting more people than they thought he would.

Well, that just clears everything up and isn't filled with contradictory information at all - a majority doesn't like how he's handling the deportations but still supports them, they overwhelmingly think that non-US citizens still deserve trials before being locked up or deported and yet they aren't (but they still support deporting them), and they falsely believe that Trump 2.0 is only focusing on deporting criminals. A lot of ignorance, nativism, and refusal to see what is actually happening is running wild across the country right now.
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This illustrates the limits of populism. It’s important to a point, but most Americans don’t have nearly enough understanding of the intricacies of policies and governance to form coherent views of how the government should operate in the details. That’s why we need experts — i.e, the Deep State.
 
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