Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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“… The move to purge people who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith had ostensibly come from the acting attorney general, James McHenry, who sent the formal termination notices that said they could not be trusted to implement Trump’s agenda.

But the genesis for the firings was Trump himself, according to two people directly familiar with the matter …

Trump’s intervention to remove the prosecutors in Smith’s office was seen by some of his advisers as the start of their efforts to make it normal practice to have the attorney general work with the West Wing to enforce and enact its political agenda.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

After Trump instructed his advisers that he wanted the prosecutors gone, the White House presidential personnel office, led by longtime Trump ally Sergio Gor, issued a memo that directed the justice department to proceed and gave the move a degree of legal cover. …”

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Possibly the least surprising scoop ever.
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Honestly, I thought that had been done on Day 2.
 


“… Trump last week fired NLRB member Gwynne Wilcoxas part of a spree of terminations of Democratic appointees that also included two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission members whose terms hadn’t expired. The dismissals, unprecedented in modern times, left both agencies without a quorum to enforce laws that protect union activity and prohibit workplace discrimination.

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Wilcox’s lawsuit, filed in Washington, said her removal was one of a “string of openly illegal firings” that was “designed to test Congress’s power to create independent agencies like the Board.”

Labor board members, who are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, serve five-year terms. Under the National Labor Relations Act, the president can remove a board member “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” Wilcox, appointed by former President Joe Biden for a term that expires in 2028, is asking a judge to reinstate her.

In 1935, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld Congress’s power to establish independent agencies run by boards whose members could be removed before their terms expired only for cause. That case, known as Humphrey’s Executor, stymied President Franklin Roosevelt’s effort to replace a holdover member of the Federal Trade Commission appointed by President Herbert Hoover with one more friendly to the New Deal. …”
 
If the Citizen’s United ruling did not exist, Elon Musk could not spend or donate $290,000,000.00 to insure Trump’s election.

(CNN) — Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration
 
Burgawnc said:
If the Citizen’s United ruling did not exist, Elon Musk could not spend or donate $290,000,000.00 to insure Trump’s election.

(CNN) — Elon Musk spent a total of more than $290 million on the 2024 election, new federal filings show, boosting President Donald Trump and Republicans in a staggering effort that has helped to secure unprecedented access for the world’s richest person in the new administration
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Now imagine Trump was Kamala and Musk was Soros.
 
superrific said:
LOL nobody cares about protests.
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Maybe not until they get creative. Perhaps something along the lines of ...

Mock guillotine executions setup with dummies for Trump, Musk, Vance, Melania (aka Marie), RFK, et al.
Torch some Teslas. Yeah, burn baby, burn.

European politicians are scared to death of this stuff.
 
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