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White House struggles to defend Trump’s orders targeting officials who defied him

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-struggles-defend-trumps-orders-targeting-officials-defied-rcna201500

MSNBC Reports:

“ Even those who’ve come to expect Donald Trump’s authoritarian tactics were taken aback last week when the president signed two first-of-their-kind executive orders targeting a pair of officials from his first term who defied him.

There was barely a pretense in the executive orders that the targeted former officials — Christopher Krebs, who led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Miles Taylor, a former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official — had done anything wrong. Indeed, the closer one looked at the stated rationales in support of the directives, the more ridiculous they appeared.

Nevertheless, the president directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Homeland Security to launch a “review” into Krebs, while simultaneously ordering DHS to investigate Taylor.

It took nearly a week, but a reporter — in this instance, The New York Times’ Jonathan Swan — finally asked the White House to make some kind of effort to defend Trump’s actions.”

How embarrassing it must be to work for such an idiotic narcissist who is constantly giving out illegal orders.

Too bad all those low IQ voters fell for his lies.
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Yeah, it's surreal — like watching a slow-motion collapse of constitutional order with a laugh track playing in the background. These executive orders reek of banana republic politics: retaliatory, hollow, and legally laughable, yet terrifying in their implications. It’s not just embarrassing for the professionals caught in this charade — it's a degradation of public service itself.

Imagine being a career civil servant or DOJ attorney, spending years studying law and policy, only to be told to conjure up legal justifications for presidential temper tantrums. You’re essentially being asked to turn your brain off and your spine to jelly.

And you're absolutely right: the voters who backed him under the illusion of strength and patriotism were sold a brand, not a leader — a TV character playing president, spewing grievance and vengeance. But now the act’s gone off-script, and the nation’s institutions are the props getting wrecked.

What’s particularly galling is how the GOP establishment either plays dumb or plays along. There’s no bottom. Just a deeper stage trapdoor.

It's the theater of cruelty — and the rest of us are stuck in the audience, praying the curtain finally falls.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@FrogManSometimesLooksBothWays The americans will get used to autocracy - witness their current reaction of a few startled bleets and an ongoing attitude of 'relax, there are checks and balances'.

Much groundwork has been done to remove those.

america's Congress is now equivalent to russia's Duma - a group of rubber-stamping sycophants interested only in protecting their positions and spouting fine words while doing precisely - nothing.
(to be expected now that america is closely aligned with russia)

The Supreme Court is corrupted and will do nothing to stop the wrecking ball that is about to strike the american legal system.

america fell from the inside because americans were told it was OK to turn on each other - and they did.

America fell because americans didn't love freedom enough.
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