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Do not sleep on this
I want to focus the role of Stephen Miller in overseeing the investigation of the investigators because it is a serious erosion in the independence of the Ministry of Justice from the White House that in any other era it will be a comic scandal.
President Trump on January 20 Executive order “The end of the federal government weapon,” the Prosecutor directs to a review of federal law enforcement activity over the past four years of any “weapon” – a code to investigate investigators. (As we all know now, this is a license to cancel the weapon of the Ministry of Justice with its claim to store weapons.)
EO orders the public prosecutor to prepare a report “recommendations for appropriate treatment procedures” for the president and submit it through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and the White House advisor. The Policy Vice President is … Stephen Miller.
Since then, the Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi has taken Eo and began to run with her, immediately created a “weapons working group” inside the Ministry of Justice that will do Trump’s work in EO. Ha note The creation of the working group closely reflects some of the main language in EO.
In a move that experts told, experts told Khia Haila from TPM that the moment of Rubicon for the independence of the Ministry of Justice, Bondi ordered the work group “to submit quarterly reports to the White House regarding the progress of the review.” along news The White House enables itself to have more impact on the Ministry of Justice in specific cases, there are 50 years of post -water reforms for the Ministry of Justice Shield from the White House. like this. Pov.
For repetition, EO went to the public prosecutor to report her work to Stephen Miller. The Public Prosecutor in turn requested regular updates for the White House. Therefore, it appears that the guideline in the revenge campaign against the prosecutors and the investigators will be the most political assistant in Trump.
Stephen Miller is not a lawyer, even spent a time between Trump’s presidencies as a founder and head of the legal advocacy group in America. He has Poli Sci Ba from Duke and he was a hill assistant before holding the Trump ’16 campaign. It is a purely political creature.
The position of Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House of Policy holds by Stephen Miller is the same as one of Karl Rove that President George W. Bush has held. Imagine Rove to interfere with federal prosecutors and find revenge against them. Yes, as TPM readers know well, we already had this scandal.
One last note: Miller is Credit With the “Personality of Personality”, most of EOS, which Trump signed on the first day. EO was in that batch. It is not clear whether Miller also formulated it, making himself the person the point for revenge.
The latest developments in Doj/FBI
- NBC NewsTrump pledges to “launch some” FBI agents who have been achieved on January 6
- PoliticoThe Trump administration agrees that the FBI agents are not identified on January 6 without prior warning
- WsjReviving Emile Bouf his career to defend Trump. Now he raises the Ministry of Justice.
- NewtonIn the Justice Department, Trump’s former criminal defender appears
- Mother JonesCash Patel took $ 25,000 from Russia, which is linked to the appearance in the FBI TV series
- WirelessKash Patel in Trump FBI took up to $ 5 million in stock of Chinese e -commerce giant Shein
It is not normal for the Federal Public Prosecutor
Ed Martin, the American lawyer, is still outperforming himself, send Another love message to Elon Musk and posted it on social media:
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Just sent via x: toElonmusk pic.twitter.com/fvo7PDFF3QEGLEDMARTIN February 7, 2025
DOGE Treasury failure
The most important developments in the incursion by Dog in Treasury Department:
- WsjFederal judge prevents Doug Elon Musk from the treasury system
- PoliticoThe Trump administration is seeking an urgent end to the “unbearable” court order to prevent the arrival of the treasury systems
- NewtonThe arrival of the Ministry of Treasury to the Musk team, security concerns, despite the suspension of the judge
- Wireless: The intelligence analysis of the threat in the US Treasury Determination determines that “the threat of the inside” determines that it is “a threat from the inside.”
- And AbuBooz Allen “Substricor”, which warned of “DOGE’s threats” that was presented in the fashion
- ProPublica: Doug Elon Musk is expected to check another system of the Treasury next week
This is where we are
Another employee of Dog “enhanced white and women over the Internet”, Reuters Reports. At the same time, the president and vice president wants to see another employee in Dog, who publicly resigned online online positions:
Trump says he agrees with Vans that a Dawaji employee should be returned after he has been returned to create very racist jobs
Aaron Robar (@Atrupar.com)) Feb 7 2025 at 2:41 pm
A third employee of Dog is a teenager called the Cyber Security Company to leak the company’s secrets to a competitor, Bloomberg Reports.
The judge stops the preliminary
Among the many developments in the dismantling of President Trump without the law from the United States Agency for International Development:
- PoliticoThe judge prohibits the Trump administration from putting 2,200 workers at the United States Agency for International Development on vacation
- And Abu: How did the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led to the attack of Elon Musk on the United States Agency for International Development
CFPB is located directly in Crosshairs Trump II
On Friday night, OMB director Russell Fion Another summary To his portfolio: Acting Head of the Consumer Financial Protection Office. By Saturday night, he cut new financing to CFPB. By Sunday he had closed Its offices for this week. This comes after the Treasury Secretary Scott Beesen to stop All CFPB activities while briefly headed CFPB. At the same time, Dog has receipt In CFPB, Eileon Musk to publish “CFPB Rip.”
ominous
It seems that we are estimated For unnecessary rejection by President Trump to adhere to the orders of the Federal Court. While we are not there yet, Vice President JD Vance Equipped to get there And run the case in the social media post:
If the judge tries to inform the general of how to perform a military operation, it will be illegal.
If one of the judge tries to lead the public prosecutor in how to use her discretionary authority as a public prosecutor, this is also illegal.
Judges are not allowed to control the legitimate authority of the executive authority.
JD Vance (@jdvance) February 9, 2025
Trump cancels the security permit by Joe Biden
President Trump revenge Against former President Joe Biden and members of his administration and others revocation Security permits. Among those targeted:
- Former Foreign Minister Anthony J. Blinkin
- Former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan
- Former Public Prosecutor Lisa Monaco
- Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew Weissman
- New York Public Prosecutor Leitia James
- Manhattan County Lawyer Alvin Prague
- National Security Attorney Mark Zayed
- Lawyer Nurim Eisen
Of course, Biden canceled Trump’s security statement in the midst of the revelation that Trump has passed very secret documents while leaving the White House and kept them in immune insecure conditions in Mar Lago. In another retaliatory step related to the Mar Lago, Trump’s case Firing Colin Shigan, who oversees the national archives.
Loyalty test
Candidates are asked for the high national security positions in the new administration if they are participating Wapo reportsQuoting sources whose name is not revealed:
These people said that two people, no former officials who were seen in positions within the intelligence community, were asked to give “yes” or “no” responses to the questions: Was January 6 “an internal job?” Was the 2020 presidential elections “stolen?”
Both people did not respond to “yes” and did not get the jobs.
Today’s quote
Trump has changed the world in just two weeks. Yesterday we were the heretics. Now we are the main current. – – –Hungarian Prime Minister Victor UrbanIn Madrid gathering from the leaders of the extreme right, whose slogan was “making Europe great again.”
How to justify pre -emptive obedience
M. Gessen has Studied This starts from this hypothesis: Yale Timothy Snyder’s historian makes “expected obedience” an irrational voice, but it is not. “In my experience, most of the time, when people or institutions voluntarily abandon power, they do not act much about fear, but rather a group of reasonable arguments,” Jessen argues before putting five categories of justifications.
Rigan is appointed to carry a company
If you missed that last week, the American direct judge John Kognor of Seattle used the unprecedented language Defense Ruling on law against President Trump’s attack. This came when the judge prevented Trump’s executive order for the newly born citizenship:
It has become clear that, for our president, the rule of law is nothing but an obstacle to the goals of his policy. The rule of law, according to him, is something that must be moved or simply ignored, whether it is to achieve political or personal gains. However, in this courtroom, and under my hour, the rule of law is a bright beacon that I intend to follow.
You can listen to Cougenour, a 83 -year -old Reagan, here and here.
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