| White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group |
Abandoning Allies |
2025-02-25 |
A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state.
Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand — according to people familiar with his efforts inside the administration.
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| US to cease all future military exercises in Europe |
Abandoning Allies |
2025-03-08 |
The United States has told its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises in Europe, according to reports.
The move, the latest in Donald Trump’s pivot away from the bloc, would see America pull out of exercises beyond those already scheduled for this year.
The withdrawal concerns exercises that are on the “drawing board”, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen.
It means that Nato countries will be forced to plan exercises without the participation of the US military, the largest in the alliance. |
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| Trump Declines to Say If US Would Protect Taiwan From Invasion |
Abandoning Allies |
2025-02-26 |
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday again refused to make clear his stance on protecting Taiwan from a takeover by China during his presidency.
Asked by a reporter during a Cabinet meeting whether it was his policy that China would never take Taiwan by force while he is president, Trump declined to give a definitive answer.
"I never comment on that," he said. "I don't comment on it because I don't want to ever put myself in that position." |
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| Trump Hints U.S. Could Go to War With Allies Someday in Wild Presser |
Abandoning Allies |
2025-03-21 |
Donald Trump announced a new investment in military aircraft production Friday, revealing that he had contracted Boeing to develop “the world’s first sixth-generation” fighter jet, named the F-47. And he managed to threaten America’s allies in the process.
“It’s something the likes of which nobody has seen before, in terms of all of the attributes of a fighter jet, there’s never been anything even close to it, in terms of speed to maneuverability to payload,” Trump said during the Oval Office press briefing.
“We like to tone them down about 10 percent, which probably makes sense because someday maybe they’re not our allies, right?” the president said. |
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| The US can no longer be the guarantor of Europe's security — Hegseth |
Abandoning Allies |
2025-04-23 |
The head of the Pentagon once again noted that the United States would seek from its European allies in the North Atlantic Alliance to increase military spending to the level of 5% of their GDP, since "2% is not enough if we take into account the existing threats."
The United States is considering the possibility of withdrawing up to 10 thousand troops from Eastern Europe, NBC reported earlier, citing American and European officials. We are talking about half of the group of 20 thousand people who were sent by the Joe Biden administration in 2022 to countries bordering Ukraine.
Подробнее: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/04/23/the-us-can-no-longer-be-the-guarantor-of-europes-security-hegseth |
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| Trump Pressures Romania on Andrew Tate in Stunning New Low |
Abuse of Power |
2025-02-17 |
Donald Trump is urging a foreign government to relax restrictions on a right-wing influencer charged with human trafficking and rape.
Andrew Tate, the former kickboxer and self-described “misogynist” influencer, and his brother Tristan, have been the subject of a protracted legal battle in Romania after they were arrested in 2022 on charges of human trafficking, sexual misconduct, money laundering, and organized crime, all of which they have denied. |
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| Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Impose Tariffs Is an Abuse of Power |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-24 |
In an unprecedented move, President Trump justified the imposition of tariffs on Canada. China, and Mexico under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) based on an “extraordinary threat” from illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The problem for the president, however, is that IEEPA does not explicitly grant tariff authority at all—indeed, the words “duty” or “tariff” appear nowhere in the statute—and to the extent that it grants power to restrict imports, it requires that there be a direct connection between the action taken (here, broad-based tariffs) and a properly declared national emergency (here, migrants and fentanyl crossing the southern border). But there is no direct connection between tariffs on imports of all goods—no matter how innocent or far removed from fentanyl—and the declared national emergency. |
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| Trump asks federal courts to clear his criminal record. |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-04 |
Lawyers for President Donald Trump took the unusual step this week of asking a federal appellate court in Manhattan to take control of the state appeal of his New York hush-money conviction.
Trump's lawyers wrote that the hush-money case was "extraordinary" and relied on now exempt official, presidential acts to reach a guilty verdict.
US law allows such a state-to-federal transfer, but almost only in cases that are pretrial. For judges to approve, a defendant must invoke a federal defense such as presidential immunity and must establish that the alleged criminal conduct arose from official federal acts, his lawyers said in a 40-page brief.
"This prosecution of President Trump, which never should have been brought, checks both boxes," they wrote. |
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| US IRS planning to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status "Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations" |
Abuse of Power |
2025-04-16 |
CNN’s report that the IRS is making plans to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status the day after President Donald Trump suggested it represents an unprecedented use of presidential power over the tax code.
While there are examples of colleges losing or failing to achieve tax-exempt status, this has never come on the heels of a president’s express wish. The IRS is supposed to be immune from politics. |
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| Trump says 5 more law firms will provide $600 million total in free legal work for causes he supports |
Abuse of Power |
2025-04-11 |
President Donald Trump on Friday said five more law firms have struck agreements with his administration that involve them committing to at least $600 million total in pro bono work for causes the president supports.
The new deals follow similar moves by numerous other law firms, which came as Trump threatens to sign punitive executive orders targeting legal offices for their past or current association with his perceived enemies.
Trump on Truth Social on Friday said that four firms — Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and Latham & Watkins LLP — have each committed to at least $125 million in free legal work, for a total of $500 million. |
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| Trump has just invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for the first time since WW2 |
Abuse of Power |
2025-04-09 |
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of being gang members, ending the temporary halt on deportations ordered by a federal district judge.
But the court also ruled that the administration must give Venezuelans it claims are gang members the chance to legally fight any deportation orders. The ruling did not address the constitutionality of the act.
The Monday ruling came after the wartime law was used last month to fly more than 130 men accused of being members of the gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador, where the U.S. has paid to have the men held in a notorious prison. The Trump administration argues that the gang has become an invading force. |
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| DOJ Asserts Trump Hypothetically Has Power To Purge All Female Agency Heads, Or Those Over 40 |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-18 |
The Trump Department of Justice asserted in court Tuesday that, under its theories, the President’s removal power is so all-encompassing that he could fire all female agency heads, as well as those over 40 years old. The startling admission came in response to a federal judge’s hypothetical.
“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric McArthur Tuesday in proceedings over the fired board members of two independent agencies.
“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power,” he responded, adding that “there would be separate questions about whether that would violate other provisions of the Constitution.” |
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| Hawley to introduce legislation to curb court rulings against Trump agenda |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-20 |
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he will introduce legislation to curb what he says is a “dramatic abuse of judicial authority” by courts that have issued injunctions against President Trump’s agenda, including the deportation of alleged gang members.
“District Court judges have issued RECORD numbers of national injunctions against the Trump administration — a dramatic abuse of judicial authority. I will introduce legislation to stop this abuse for good,” Hawley posted on the social platform X.
Hawley issued the statement amid several ongoing court battles between the Trump administration and federal judges. |
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| Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-12 |
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” |
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| Experts say Trump's targeting of law firms is unprecedented |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-19 |
President Trump talked repeatedly on the campaign trail about seeking vengeance against his political enemies. Since his return to office, he has followed through on that threat. That includes punishing law firms that have represented people or causes unpopular with the president. NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas reports.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have a lot of law firms that we're going to be going after because they were very dishonest people. They were very, very dishonest. I could go point after point after point. |
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| Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say |
Abuse of Power |
2025-02-20 |
President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to six people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.
The board is planning to fight Trump’s order, three of those people told The Washington Post. In an emergency meeting Thursday, the board retained outside counsel and gave instructions to sue the White House if the president were to remove members of the board or attempt to alter the agency’s independent status. Trump’s order to place the Commerce Department in charge of the Postal Service would probably violate federal law, according to postal experts. |
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| Trump’s ICE agents have ‘unchecked authority’ in schools and are violating ‘bedrock’ principle of public education, lawsuit says |
Abuse of Power |
2025-02-14 |
The Denver Public Schools district has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging a new policy that it says gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “virtually unchecked authority” to enforce immigration laws in “formerly protected areas,” including schools. The suit marks the first time a district has sued over ICE’s feared enforcement of students, with DPS officials fighting to uphold a “bedrock principle” that it says schools have to educate kids “regardless of their immigration status.” |
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| Team Trump reportedly contacted the IRS about a ‘high-profile friend of the president’ |
Abuse of Power |
2025-04-18 |
Election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell has been in the news quite a bit lately. A few weeks ago, for example, the MyPillow founder expressed an interest in launching a Republican gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota.
A couple of weeks later, someone described as a “correspondent” for Lindell’s media operation appeared at a White House press briefing and asked a cringeworthy and overly sycophantic question about Donald Trump, sparking widespread ridicule. This week, the conspiracy theorist was back in the news, telling a judge he’s struggling to pay court-imposed sanctions because his finances are “in ruins” and “nobody will lend me any money anymore.”
But things aren’t all bad for Lindell. As The Washington Post reported, he apparently still has friends in high places. |
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| DOJ seeks to boot judge questioning Trump deportations, lawyer warns of ‘constitutional crisis' |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-17 |
The Department of Justice on Monday asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to replace the district court judge overseeing a case challenging the Trump administration's deportations of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador under the wartime Alien Enemies Act.
The request, which cited Chief Judge James Boasberg's alleged "inappropriate exercise of jurisdiction," came as Boasberg conducted a hearing where he pressed a top-ranking DOJ lawyer about the circumstances of the deportations conducted over the weekend.
The DOJ earlier Monday asked Boasberg without success to cancel that hearing. |
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| Trump’s all-out war on lawyers takes a disturbing new turn |
Abuse of Power |
2025-03-12 |
Last week, the president issued an executive order that banned the government from hiring Perkins Coie, prohibited working with contractors who use the firm and suspended the security clearances of all its lawyers. That order came two weeks after an order that terminated government agencies’ work with Covington & Burling and suspended security clearances for some of its attorneys. |
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| US Agency Reportedly Plans to Shut Down 8,000 EV Chargers, Offload EVs |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-23 |
The General Services Administration (GSA), an agency that manages the federal government’s buildings, is planning to shut down all 8,000 of its electric vehicle chargers, The Verge reports.
The GSA is also expected to offload its current stock of EVs, though it's unknown if the vehicles will be sold or put into storage. The agency will reportedly begin instructing employees to remove the chargers—which are used for both federally owned EVs and employees' personal vehicles—as early as next week. |
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| Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-21 |
The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report – the latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and research.
The US had been highly involved in planning for the next installment of the report due out in 2029 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading scientific authority on climate change.
The IPCC assesses how the climate crisis is affecting the planet according to the latest science. Its reports take thousands of scientists many years to produce and are used to inform policymakers across the world of the risks posed by global warming. |
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| Trump administration cancels clean energy grants as it prioritizes fossil fuels |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-28 |
President Donald Trump’s administration is terminating grants for two clean energy projects and roughly 300 others funded by the Department of Energy are in jeopardy as the president prioritizes fossil fuels.
The DOE is canceling two awards to a nonprofit clean energy think tank, RMI in Colorado, according to a document from the agency confirming the cancellations that was reviewed by The Associated Press on Friday. One was for nearly $5.3 million to retrofit low-income multifamily buildings in Massachusetts and California to demonstrate ways to reduce the use of energy and lower planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The other was for $1.5 million to assess business models for electric vehicle carsharing in U.S. cities |
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| Trump Rewards Oil Industry Donors, Blocks Renewable Energy Projects |
Anti-Climate |
2025-04-03 |
Immediately after taking office, Trump rewarded his donors by signing an executive order declaring a national energy emergency. There is no legal precedent about what constitutes a national emergency or when the president can declare one. So, the Trump regime justified its emergency declaration on the need to reduce foreign energy dependence, increase domestic fossil fuel production, and counteract “overregulation” imposed by Biden.
In summary, the order intends to increase domestic fossil fuel production and expedite the approval of oil leasing, drilling, refining, and transport initiatives. |
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| Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Climate and Weather Specialists |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-27 |
The Trump administration has fired hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency housed within the Department of Commerce, the Guardian has learned.
On Thursday afternoon, the commerce department sent emails to employees saying their jobs would be cut off at the end of the day. Other government agencies have also seen huge staffing cuts in recent days.
The firings specifically affected probationary employees, a categorization that applies to new hires or those moved or promoted into new positions, and which makes up roughly 10% of the agency’s workforce. |
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| Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a Fracking Industry CEO, Touts Fossil-Fuel Expansion |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-11 |
The world needs more planet-heating fossil fuel, not less, Donald Trump’s newly appointed energy secretary, Chris Wright, told oil and gas bigwigs on Monday.
“We are unabashedly pursuing a policy of more American energy production and infrastructure, not less,” he said in the opening plenary talk of CERAWeek, a swanky annual conference in Houston, Texas, led by the financial firm S&P Global.
Wright, a former fracking executive who was picked by Trump to the crucial cabinet position, also attacked the Joe Biden administration for focusing “myopically on climate change.” |
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| Trump halts construction of big wind farm off New York coast |
Anti-Climate |
2025-04-18 |
The buildout of renewable energy projects in downstate New York – the region that includes the Hudson valley and below – is often complicated. The space for these projects is limited, particularly in New York City, and they’re often expensive.
Though an approach of smaller battery storage and solar projects could inch the state closer to its ambitious renewable energy goals, it must be complemented by utility-scale renewable energy generation.
That’s where Empire Wind 1, the first project in a massive buildout of offshore wind off the coast of Long Island, came in. The project, which was granted a lease from the federal government in 2017, promised to create more than 1,500 jobs and ultimately power 500,000 homes by building 54 wind turbines. |
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| Donald Trump claims nothing can destroy coal, even bombs |
Anti-Climate |
2025-01-23 |
Donald Trump appeared to claim coal is indestructible during his first major speech to global business and political leaders since he was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
During a video-link speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos on Thursday, 23 January, the Republican claimed that "nothing can destroy coal, not the weather, not a bomb, nothing."
Elsewhere during his speech, Mr Trump demanded that "interest rates drop immediately" and "they should be dropping all over the world." |
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| Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal, Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-18 |
"The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy “lunacy” at an event packed with climate science deniers."
"Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people.
Chris Wright, an oil and gas industry executive appointed by U.S. President Trump, was speaking via video link at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, a right-wing forum run by fierce opponents of climate policies. |
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| Trumps EPA seeks to “instantly terminate” $20 billion in clean energy grants |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-13 |
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to claw back around $20 billion in grant funding approved for climate projects under the Biden administration’s signature Inflation Reduction Act.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced the move in a video shared on X on Wednesday evening, claiming the funds were “parked” at a financial institution under a “scheme” to rush money to left-wing activist groups without oversight. The funding drew notice late last year when an EPA employee compared the funding to gold bars being thrown off the Titanic. |
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| Trump signs executive order to bolster U.S. coal industry |
Anti-Climate |
2025-04-08 |
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline.
Under the orders, Trump uses his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to keep producing electricity to meet rising U.S. power demand amid growth in data centers, artificial intelligence and electric cars.
Trump, a Republican, has long promised to boost what he calls “beautiful” coal to fire power plants and for other uses, but the industry has been in decline for decades.
The orders direct federal agencies to identify coal resources on federal lands, lift barriers to coal mining and prioritize coal leasing on U.S. lands. They also direct Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to “acknowledge the end” of an Obama-era moratorium that paused coal leasing on federal lands and require federal agencies to rescind policies transitioning the nation away from coal production. |
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| Trump Gives EPA One Week to Decide on Abandoning Climate Pollution Regulation |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-12 |
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has one week to tell President Donald Trump whether the agency could abandon its authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act.
His decision stands to cast EPA into a monumental fight over its ability to reduce carbon emissions, potentially reverberating beyond Trump’s presidency.
If Zeldin attempts to upend the 2009 scientific finding that underpins all greenhouse gas rules — known as the endangerment finding — he would risk being rebuked by the courts. But if judges upheld EPA’s move to reverse the finding, it would accelerate Trump’s efforts to dismantle a host of climate rules enacted under President Joe Biden, while erecting legal hurdles for future administrations that want to curb climate pollution. |
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| Researchers “Shocked” as Trump Yanks Support for Grants That Mention Climate |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-24 |
The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”
The government is withdrawing grants and other support for research that even references the climate crisis, academics have said, amid Donald Trump’s blitzkrieg upon environmental regulations and clean-energy development.
Trump, who has said that the climate crisis is a “giant hoax,” has already stripped mentions of climate change and global heating from government websites and ordered a halt to programs that reference diversity, equity, and inclusion. A widespread funding freeze for federally backed scientific work also has been imposed, throwing the US scientific community into chaos. |
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| Outrage as Trump cites ‘emergency’ to fast-track fossil fuel projects |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-19 |
Environmentalists were outraged on Wednesday after the Trump administration moved to fast-track fossil fuel projects through the permitting process, with activists describing it as an attempt to sidestep environmental laws that could harm waterways and wetlands.
In recent days, the US Army Corps of Engineers created a new designation of “emergency” permits for infrastructure projects, citing a day one executive order signed by Donald Trump which claims the US is facing an “energy emergency” and must “unleash” already booming energy production.
“Agencies are directed to use, to the fullest extent possible and consistent with applicable law, the emergency Army Corps permitting provisions to facilitate the nation’s energy supply,” the order said. |
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| Trump pushes for 'beautiful, clean coal' to boost US energy, counter China |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-18 |
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to restart coal-based energy production, calling it “beautiful, clean coal” in an attempt to counter China’s economic advantage from coal-powered electricity.
Taking to his social media platform, Truth Social, the Trump said that environmental policies had held the US back while China opened hundreds of coal-fired power plants.
"After years of being held captive by Environmental Extremists, Lunatics, Radicals, and Thugs, allowing other Countries, in particular China, to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants," Trump wrote.
He further added, "I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN coal." |
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| South Africa, Indonesia Say US Withdrawing From Climate Finance Deal |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-06 |
The United States has pulled out of a climate funding deal struck by rich nations to help their developing counterparts transition to clean energy, the programme's first beneficiary South Africa and Indonesia said Thursday.
The so-called Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETP) are ambitious financing deals between a small group of wealthy countries and emerging economies to help them ditch planet-polluting coal.
Coal-rich but energy-starved South Africa was the first developing country to reach a deal on a JETP in 2021. Indonesia's partnership for more than $20 billion in financing to wean itself off coal was unveiled in late 2022. |
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| Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-14 |
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Washington Post.
The Global Monitoring Laboratory in Hilo, Hawaii, is on a list of dozens of National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration facilities whose leases are set to expire later this year. The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data from atop a volcano to produce the famed Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. The observatory itself is not on the list of potential closures, but staff in the Hilo lab work to maintain it, according to the lab’s website. |
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| Defense Department 'does not do climate change crap,' Hegseth says |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-11 |
As of this week, the U.S. Department of Defense says it has stopped funding ongoing research on climate change as part of its discontinuation of 91 studies focused on global migration patterns, climate change impacts, and social trends.
In a news release Friday, the department said it would save more than $30 million in the first year.
On Sunday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X, “The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting." |
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| EPA terminates Biden-era climate grants worth $20 billion |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-12 |
The Environmental Protection Agency has terminated grant agreements worth $20 billion issued by the Biden administration under a so-called green bank to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects.
The action comes weeks after the EPA froze the grants, which EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has characterized as a “gold bar” scheme marred by conflicts of interest and potential fraud.
“Twenty billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution, in a deliberate effort to limit government oversight — doling out your money through just eight pass-through, politically connected, unqualified and in some cases brand-new” nonprofit organizations, Zeldin said in a video shared Tuesday night.
The grants “raise significant concerns and pose unacceptable risk,’' Zeldin added. “The only way we can reduce waste, increase oversight and meet the intent of the law as it was written is by terminating these grants.” |
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| Trump Energy secretary: Clean energy tax credits a ‘big mistake’ |
Anti-Climate |
2025-04-22 |
Energy Secretary Chris Wright railed against clean energy tax credits Tuesday, defending the Trump administration’s efforts to increase manufacturing powered by coal, natural gas and oil.
His criticism of financial incentives for citizens’ use of renewable energy came during a morning appearance on Fox Business’s “Varney & Co” and coincided with Earth Day — which is typically hailed as a time to champion environmental protections.
“I think it’s a big mistake,” Wright told host Stuart Varney, referring to energy tax credits. |
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| Trump moves goalposts for farmers counting on clean energy grants |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-31 |
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on March 25 it will release previously authorized grant funds to farmers and small rural business owners to build renewable energy projects — but only if they rewrite applications to comply with President Donald Trump’s energy priorities.
The move has left some farmers perplexed — and doubtful that they’ll ever get the grant money they were promised, given the Trump administration’s emphasis on fossil fuels and hostility toward renewable energy.
Some of the roughly 6,000 grant applicants have already completed the solar, wind, or other energy projects and are awaiting promised repayment from the government. Others say they can’t afford to take on the projects they’d been planning unless the grant money comes through. |
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| Trump takes an ax to more than a dozen pollution rules in rapid-fire deregulation |
Anti-Climate |
2025-03-12 |
The Trump administration announced its intent to roll back major climate policies Wednesday, including rules that target pollution from vehicles and power plants, in a major blow to America’s progress on clean air, clean water and climate action.
The changes are expected to inject even more uncertainty into key industries, including manufacturing, which President Donald Trump has pledged to support.
The administration was announcing rollbacks and actions in such rapid succession — 31 in around two hours — there appeared to still be placeholders or typos in the news releases.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will undo rules that would have pushed power plants and carmakers toward cleaner forms of energy. It also intends to roll back rules on soot, mercury and coal ash pollution, as well as the so-called “good neighbor rule” that regulates downwind air pollution, and eliminate its programs overseeing environmental justice and diversity. |
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| Trump says the future of AI is powered by coal |
Anti-Climate |
2025-04-09 |
The day before several major tech leaders appeared before Congress, begging for ways to get more energy for the nascent American artificial intelligence industry, Donald Trump signed an executive order offering a solution: increased coal production.
As part of a series of executive orders released Tuesday designed to promote the rapid growth of the coal industry — opening federal lands for mining, designating coal as a critical mineral, and using his emergency authorization powers to relax environmental regulations on coal — Trump signed one explicitly aimed towards powering energy-hungry AI data centers using America’s “beautiful clean coal resources”, as Trump described it. The order directs the Commerce, Energy, and Interior Departments to conduct studies determining “where coal-powered infrastructure is available and suitable for supporting AI data centers,” as well as whether it would be economically feasible.
“You know, we need to do the AI, all of this new technology that’s coming on line,” Trump said on Tuesday during a signing ceremony for all four executive orders. “We need more than double the energy, the electricity, that we currently have.” |
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| White House launches ‘energy dominance’ council to promote fossil fuels |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-14 |
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday establishing a White House energy council to promote the nation’s energy industries amid already record-high oil and natural gas production.
Dubbed the National Energy Dominance Council, the group is helmed by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin also serving on the council, according to a post on the social media site X by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. It’s tasked with centralizing the nation’s energy policies under the eye of the White House and underscores Trump’s position that American energy production is a pressing national security issue. |
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| Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement (again) |
Anti-Climate |
2025-01-21 |
Under the international climate accord, first negotiated in 2015, countries around the world agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit global warming and forestall the worst impacts of climate change.
Trump has argued the agreement imposes unfair burdens on the American economy, and he withdrew the U.S. during his first term in office. The U.S. officially rejoined under President Joe Biden in 2021. |
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| Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-02 |
The Trump administration has canceled $4 billion in U.S. pledges to the world’s largest climate fund — gutting a U.N. initiative helping over 100 countries adapt to the rapidly changing world.
“The government of the United States rescinds any outstanding pledges to the Green Climate Fund,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in a note dated Jan. 27, parts of which were seen by POLITICO. |
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| Trump exempts 66 coal plants from stricter pollution standard |
Anti-Climate |
2025-04-09 |
President Trump on Tuesday exempted dozens of coal plants from a Biden administration regulation imposing stricter standards for mercury, lead, nickel and arsenic emissions.
Trump announced the exemption as part of a series of actions he took to bolster the coal industry.
“As part of our historic deregulatory efforts, this afternoon, I'm also granting immediate relief to 47 companies operating 66 coal plants, very big ones all over the........ |
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| Trump Signals Plan to Roll Back Lightbulb Standards |
Anti-Climate |
2025-02-11 |
President Donald Trump wants to make America incandescent again. He posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he plans to end Biden-era standards for lightbulbs that accelerated the adoption of LED lighting.
According to that post, he’ll direct his appointee Lee Zeldin to “go back to the common sense standards,” for lightbulbs. Zeldin is the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, although Trump calls him “secretary” in his post. And while Trump singled out Zeldin, it’s the Department of Energy that sets efficiency standards for light bulbs and appliances. |
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| Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit |
Anti-Democratic Behavior |
2025-04-09 |
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday punishing the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain a $787.5m settlement from Fox for lies about the 2020 election.
The order against the firm, Susman Godfrey, marks the latest effort by the president to punish attorneys and firms who have opposed his interests.
The order seeks to harm the firm by limiting its attorneys from accessing government buildings, revoking security clearances and essentially making it impossible for it to represent anyone who has business before the federal government. |
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| Trump guts small federal agency funding museums and libraries |
Anti-Education |
2025-03-31 |
An agency responsible for funding museums and libraries across the nation is the latest to be shrunk by President Donald Trump’s cuts to the federal government, with its entire staff apparently put on administrative leave Monday.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides grants to “advance, support, and empower” museums, libraries and similar institutions in the U.S. according to its website, was named in an executive order this month along with several other agencies.
Trump’s order directed the Institute of Museum and Library Services “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law,” shrinking it down to its statutory minimum. |
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| Trump has ordered the dismantling of the US Education Department |
Anti-Education |
2025-03-21 |
For decades, right-wing activists have called for eliminating the agency, which was created by Congress in 1979. As Trump remakes the federal government, he has assailed the department as wasteful and responsible for spreading “woke” ideas such as programs to support diversity, equity and inclusion and protections for transgender students. |
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| Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave |
Anti-Education |
2025-03-31 |
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave.
The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to museums and libraries across the United States.
This month, President Trump named Keith E. Sonderling — the deputy secretary of labor — the new acting director of IMLS. This followed Trump's previous executive order shrinking seven federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services. |
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| Trump administration proposes loosening protections for endangered species |
Anti-Environment |
2025-04-16 |
The Trump administration proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species Wednesday.
A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would repeal the current definition of “harm” that’s prohibited under the Endangered Species Act.
The law prohibits activity that would “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect” an endangered species.
Currently, the agencies interpret “harm” under that law to include damage to a species’s habitat — which is what the Trump administration is trying to change.
It said it is specifically targeting the part of the definition that “includes habitat modification,” saying it “runs contrary” to the best interpretation of the Endangered Species Act. |
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| Endangered Whales in Gulf of Mexico Lose Protection |
Anti-Environment |
2025-02-24 |
Endangered Rice's whales have lost some of their protections under one of President Donald Trump's executive orders that aims to reduce the regulatory burdens on America's energy industry.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, under the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), announced on Thursday that it had rescinded a notice to oil and gas companies to take extra precautions on ships.
Rice's whales are endangered, with a small population of just 51, according to the most recent survey conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 2017 to 2018. |
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| E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices |
Anti-Environment |
2025-03-14 |
The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of pollution facing poor communities, according to a memo from Lee Zeldin, the agency administrator (Source: “E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices,” New York Times, March 11).
In the internal memo, viewed by The New York Times, Zeldin informed agency leaders that he was directing “the reorganization and elimination” of the offices of environmental justice at all 10 EPA regional offices as well as the one in Washington. |
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| Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean |
Anti-Environment |
2025-03-04 |
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court substantially weakened federal limitations on raw sewage discharge into nearby bodies of water. Its 5–4 decision will, in practice, free cities to dump substantially more sewage into rivers, lakes, oceans, and bays, degrading water quality standards around the country. The majority achieved the goal by rewriting a key provision of the Clean Water Act that has, for decades, protected Americans against dangerous pollution. With that guardrail gutted, the majority effectively greenlit the mass release of human waste into the nation’s water supply. As Justice Amy Coney Barrett explained in dissent, the court “offers nothing to substantiate” its “puzzling” conclusion—nothing, that is, besides evident sympathy for polluters and callous apathy toward those who will suffer from its decision. |
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| White House says Trump meant EPA will cut 65 percent of spending, not staff |
Anti-Environment |
2025-02-26 |
At Wednesday morning’s Cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump praised Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin for a plan to make aggressive cuts at the agency and lay off 65 percent of its workforce.
Hours later, the White House walked back the president’s comments, saying that EPA intends to cut 65 percent of its spending, not 65 percent of the agency’s staff — pulling back a statement that rattled employees at the agency charged with protecting the nation’s air and water. |
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| Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber |
Anti-Environment |
2025-03-03 |
Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.
The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber.
“It is vital that we reverse these policies and increase domestic timber production to protect our national and economic security,” the order adds. |
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| Trump’s New Order to Target All 18 of California’s National Forests |
Anti-Environment |
2025-04-14 |
Vast tracts of California’s national forests will be tied up in Donald Trump’s executive order to expand timber production by more than 25%. That is according to The Los Angeles Times, which reveals that Trump has given the US Department of Agriculture, which oversees the US Forest Service, sweeping new powers to salvage timber in 18 of the Golden State’s forests, which collectively span 20 million acres of forestland.
“The USDA Forest Service stands ready to fulfil the Secretary’s vision of productive and resilient national forests outlined in the memorandum,” the agency told the LA Times in a written statement. “In alignment with the Secretary’s direction, we will streamline forest management efforts, reduce burdensome regulations, and grow partnerships to support economic growth and sustainability.” |
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| Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-04-09 |
Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday. The administration is appealing the decision and arguing with the news outlet over whether it needs to change anything until those appeals are exhausted. |
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| The Trump administration is throwing more Pentagon reporters out of their workspaces |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-02-07 |
The Trump administration on Friday doubled the number of news organizations it is evicting from their workspaces at the Pentagon in order to rotate in more friendly outlets.
CNN, The Washington Post, the Hill and War Zone will be asked to leave their spaces, with Newsmax, the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller and the Free Press moving in, according to a memo from John Ullyot, acting assistant to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. |
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| White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf of America |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-02-11 |
The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.
The reporter tried to enter the White House event as usual Tuesday afternoon and was turned away, AP executives said. The highly unusual ban, which Trump officials had threatened earlier Tuesday unless the AP changed the style on the Gulf, could have constitutional free speech implications. |
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| Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology' |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-03-27 |
President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology,” the latest step in a broadside against culture he deems too liberal.
Trump claimed there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” adding that it casts the “founding principles” of the United States in a “negative light.”
The order he signed behind closed doors puts Vice President JD Vance, who serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents, in charge of overseeing efforts to “remove improper ideology” from all areas of the institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo. |
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| President Trump says CBS and '60 Minutes' should 'pay a big price' for going after him |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-04-13 |
President Donald Trump bitterly attacked “60 Minutes” shortly after the CBS newsmagazine broadcast stories on Ukraine and Greenland on Sunday, saying the network was out of control and should “pay a big price” for going after him.
“Almost every week, 60 Minutes ... mentions the name ‘TRUMP’ in a derogatory and defamatory way, but this Weekend’s ‘BROADCAST’ tops them all,” the president said on his Truth Social platform. He called on Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to impose maximum fines and punishment “for their unlawful and illegal behavior.” |
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| Trump demands election fraud investigations into ‘fake polls’ as approval rating plummets |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-04-28 |
Media organizations that released unflattering polls showing dismal approval ratings for Donald Trump should be investigated for election fraud, the president said Monday.
Trump’s pollster, John McLaughlin, “has just stated that The Failing New York Times Poll, and the ABC/Washington Post Poll, about a person named DONALD J. TRUMP, ME, are FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS,” the president said in a Monday morning post on his Truth Social media platform.
Trump claimed polls from the New York Times and ABC/The Washington Post did not represent enough of his voters to be accurate.
“These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD, and add in the FoxNews [sic] Pollster while you’re at it,” Trump said.
“They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose [sic] a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse,” the president continued. |
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| Trump’s FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-04-17 |
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr accused Comcast of "news distortion" because its subsidiary NBC isn't parroting the Trump administration narrative on the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
"Comcast knows that federal law requires its licensed operations to serve the public interest. News distortion doesn't cut it," Carr wrote in a post on X yesterday.
Carr's use of the phrase "news distortion" is significant because he has been invoking the FCC's rarely enforced news distortion policy to pressure licensed broadcasters that he perceives as being biased against President Trump. For a detailed look at Carr's fight against media, read our feature: "The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC's news distortion policy." |
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| Donald Trump blasts ‘sleazebag journalists’, swears he avoids ‘fake news’ |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-03-08 |
On Truth Social, Donald Trump condemned 'sleazebag journalists' for misreporting his conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts.
President Donald Trump raged on Truth Social against “sleazebag journalists” for their portrayal of a moment with Chief Justice John Roberts. The situation was the result of a hot mic recording of Trump speaking to Roberts in the wake of Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday night.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 7, 2025.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 7, 2025.
The moment, caught on tape, showed Trump shaking Roberts' hand and stating, “Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it,” while patting the Chief Justice on the arm. |
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| Marco Rubio Claims He Can Kick Lawful Permanent Residents Out Of The US On The Basis Of Their ‘Expected Beliefs;’ Immigration Judge Says ‘Sounds Good’ |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-04-18 |
The Trump administration has just claimed an astounding new power: the ability to deport lawful permanent residents based on their “expected beliefs” (including perfectly “lawful” expected beliefs). This isn’t speculation or hyperbole — it’s the explicit thought-police justification Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave in immigration court documents for trying to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student and green card holder. This attempted expansion of government authority to police thought should alarm anyone who cares about civil liberties, due process, or the rule of law. |
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| Trump declares 'illegal' protests at schools in America won't be tolerated |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-04-25 |
President Donald Trump has sparked outrage after posting on his social media platform Truth Social that he would cut federal funding to schools and universities that allow what he called “illegal protests.” He also threatened to have protest participants arrested, deported, or expelled and banned the use of masks at demonstrations. The First Amendment of the Constitution protects Americans from those actions. |
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| Trump calls for CBS to lose license, ‘60 Minutes’ to be ‘terminated’ over Harris interview |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-02-06 |
Continuing his battle against corporate media outlets he views as his political foes, President Donald Trump early on Thursday morning called for CBS to lose its license to broadcast and the long-running “60 Minutes” news program to be “immediately terminated” over an interview it conducted with Vice President Kamala Harris during last year’s campaign. |
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| Trump Lashes Out at Rupert Murdoch Over Fox News’ ‘Trump Hating, Fake Pollster’ After Survey Reveals Record-Low Approval Ratings |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-04-24 |
President Trump is unhappy with Fox News Channel again over the conservative outlet’s poll finding that he has record-low approval ratings in the first 100 days of his second term in office.
“Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “This ‘pollster’ has gotten me, and MAGA, wrong for years.” |
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| Trump Confirms ICE Arrested Palestinian Columbia Graduate Over Political Speech |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-03-10 |
President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that federal immigration agents arrested and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia University graduate who was taken this weekend — despite being a permanent legal resident of the United States — for helping peacefully lead antiwar protests on campus last year.
Despite not having a warrant, plainclothes agents abducted Khalil Saturday night as he returned to his university-owned apartment with his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant. Agents claimed they were revoking Syrian-born Khalil’s green card and also threatened to detain his wife, according to a habeas corpus petition his attorney Amy Greer filed on his behalf. |
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| Trump Demands MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace Be ‘Forced to Resign’ |
Anti-Free Speech |
2025-03-07 |
President Donald Trump called for MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow to resign after they criticized his decision to make a 13-year-old cancer survivor an honorary Secret Service agent.
The president also took the opportunity to bash the network’s ratings.
“Worse than CNN is ‘MS-DNC,’ which is the worst. And the good news is very few people watch them anymore,” Trump said in the Oval Office Thursday. |
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| US to again withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, stop UNRWA funding |
Anti-Human Rights |
2025-02-03 |
President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and prohibiting future funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza |
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| New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them |
Anti-Immigrant |
2025-04-21 |
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk.
The scientist, the 30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Petrova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport in mid-February. She is now being held at ICE’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana, and fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.
“I would call it a grinding machine,” Petrova, who spoke with NBC News from the Louisiana facility, said about being detained. “We are in this machine, and it doesn’t care if you have a visa, a green card, or any particular story. ... It just keeps going.” |
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| Trump administration cuts legal help for migrant children traveling alone |
Anti-Immigrant |
2025-03-21 |
The Trump administration Friday ended a contract that provides legal help to migrant children entering the country without a parent or guardian, raising concerns that children will be forced to navigate the complex legal system alone.
The Acacia Center for Justice contracts with the government to provide legal services through its network of providers around the country to unaccompanied migrant children under 18, both by providing direct legal representation as well as conducting legal orientations — often referred to as “know your rights” clinics — to migrant children who cross the border alone and are in federal government shelters.
Acacia said they were informed Friday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was terminating nearly all the legal work that the center does, including paying for lawyers for roughly 26,000 children when they go to immigration court. They’re still contracted to hold the legal orientation clinics. |
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| Rubio says State Department has revoked more than 300 student visas |
Anti-Immigrant |
2025-03-27 |
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the State Department has revoked more than 300 student visas, as the Trump administration continues to detain and deport pro-Palestinian student activists at universities across the country.
The wave of revocations is part of a larger push by the Trump administration to punish its perceived enemies or critics and crack down on higher education institutions that the president has lambasted as bastions of liberalism for years.
“Every time I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa,” Rubio told reporters at a press conference in Guyana. “Might be more than 300 at this point. Might be more. We do it every day.” |
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| Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by masked U.S. ICE agents |
Anti-Immigrant |
2025-03-28 |
As the sun began to set Tuesday over Somerville, Massachusetts, Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk was on her way to meet friends at an Iftar dinner where they would break their Ramadan fast.
But she would never make it to the gathering, according to her attorney. Instead, the 30-year-old was arrested and physically restrained by immigration officers near her apartment, close to Tufts University’s Somerville campus where she was a PhD student, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai told CNN.
Six plainclothes officers surrounded Ozturk as she walked alone, neighborhood surveillance video appears to show. The officers did not show their badges until she was restrained, the video shows.
Now, she is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana, according to the Department of Homeland Security. |
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| Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants |
Anti-Immigrant |
2025-01-29 |
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants. |
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| U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer removed to Mexico with undocumented parents |
Anti-Immigrant |
2025-03-12 |
A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment.
Immigration authorities removed the girl and four of her American siblings from Texas on Feb. 4, when they deported their undocumented parents.
The family’s ordeal began last month, when they were rushing from Rio Grande City, where they lived, to Houston, where their daughter’s specialist doctors are based, for an emergency medical checkup. |
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| Scientists at U.S. weather forecasting agency ordered to get clearance before talking to Canadian counterparts |
Anti-Science |
2025-02-18 |
Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with Canadian counterparts has become impossible for some U.S. government scientists, under new directives since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
Canadian ecologist Aaron Fisk says he recently tried to set up a virtual call to discuss plans with American colleagues, including a government scientist, around sampling fish.
"We tried to have a quick meeting with one of our collaborators … and they were denied access," Fisk said.
Given that the Great Lakes — and their aquatic life — straddle both sides of the border, having American scientists suddenly barred from meetings has had deep impacts.
That, combined with funding freezes, is drastically altering the way science works in North America, at least for now. |
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| U.S. attorney demands scientific journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity' |
Anti-Science |
2025-04-18 |
The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter this week to the editor of a scientific journal for chest doctors, implying that the journal was partisan and asking a series of questions about how the publication protects the public from misinformation, whether it included competing viewpoints and whether it was influenced by funders or advertisers.
“It has been brought to my attention that more and more journals and publications like CHEST Journal are conceding that they are partisans in various scientific debates,” the letter from acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin stated, before noting that “you have certain responsibilities.” |
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| Exits World Health Organization |
Anti-Science |
2025-01-31 |
On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) |
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| Trump administration sues Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sports |
Anti-Trans |
2025-04-16 |
The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls and women's sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.
The lawsuit follows weeks of feuding between the Republican administration and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills that has led to threats to cut off crucial federal funding and a clash at the White House when she told President Donald Trump: “We’ll see you in court.” |
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| Trump’s USDA suspended funding to Maine university after state’s governor challenged president on trans athletes |
Anti-Trans |
2025-03-12 |
The Trump administration has pulled millions of dollars of research funding from the University of Maine, weeks after the president publicly clashed with state Governor Janet Mills over the banning of transgender athletes from girls’ sports.
In an email received by the college from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency’s chief financial officer ordered all payments paused while the department “evaluates if it should take any follow-on actions” related to possible civil rights violations at the school, according to Reuters.
The university said in a press release that it had received $30 million in USDA funding in fiscal year 2024. |
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| Trump administration pulls Maine prison system funding over trans inmate |
Anti-Trans |
2025-04-08 |
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's administration is pulling some funding for the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC).
Bondi made the announcement in an interview on Fox News Channel, saying all "nonessential" funding for the Maine DOC has been pulled because Maine was "allowing a man in a women's prison."
A graphic on Fox News Channel suggested it was $1.5 million in funding that would be pulled, but Bondi did not say the specific amount during the interview. |
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| Trump erases LGBTQ+ and HIV content from federal websites |
Anti-Trans |
2025-02-21 |
Searching for terms like "LGBTQ" and "HIV" no longer leads visitors to find resources on federal websites for the White House (WhiteHouse.gov), the U.S. Department of State (State.gov), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL.gov), and the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC.gov). According to GLAAD, these topics have been erased at the onset of President Donald Trump's second term in office.
GLAAD's statement highlights other terms — "lesbian," "bisexual," "gay," "gender identity," "transgender," and "sexual orientation" — that have also been reportedly censored and/or erased on some of the aforementioned federal websites. |
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| The government suggests defunding the 988 suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth |
Anti-Trans |
2025-04-28 |
The Trump administration wants to cut funding for specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, according to a leaked budget proposal reviewed by NPR.
While anyone in a mental health crisis can call or text 988 and be connected to a trained counselor, the line has specially trained counselors, often with similar life experiences, for high risk groups like veterans and LGBTQ+ youth.
"What they get with that specialized services line is they get somebody who cares, somebody who's been there with them, who has shared experiences, who can understand where they're coming from, and who has been specially trained to address the situations that they are dealing with," says Hannah Wesolowski, the chief advocacy officer at the non-profit National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). |
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| Trump nixes $17.75 minimum wage for federal contractors adopted by Biden |
Anti-Worker |
2025-03-17 |
President Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order issued by his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, that required businesses that contract with the federal government to pay workers a minimum wage of $17.75 an hour.
Trump, a Republican, late on Friday repealed nearly 20 Biden-era memos and executive orders touching on a range of topics, including the 2021 mandate that significantly raised pay for workers on federal contracts.
Biden had initially raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour with automatic updates, and it rose to $17.75 in January. |
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| Trump official calls Social Security ‘wrong’ as administration lays groundwork for massive cuts |
Attacking Social Security |
2025-02-20 |
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are ramping up baseless claims that tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security payments, laying the groundwork to cut out “waste” and “fraud” as they look to make dramatic cuts for some of the most expensive programs in the federal budget to pay for astronomical tax cuts for America’s wealthiest households.
Despite promises on the campaign trail that his administration would not touch Social Security, and claiming that his Democratic rivals are the ones trying to end it, Trump and the world’s wealthiest man and his allies are trying to justify cuts to Social Security and federal health programs Medicare and Medicaid to come up with Musk’s target figure of more than $1 trillion in savings. |
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| Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and doesn’t rule out using American troops |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-02-04 |
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of more than a million to further displacement.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said during a joint press conference alongside his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, later describing his vision for the area as a new “Riviera.”
“We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings,” he said.
Asked whether he was willing to send US troops to fill a security vacuum in Gaza, Trump did not rule it out. |
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| Trump’s remarks on Canada becoming the 51st state raise a lot of questions |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-02-13 |
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes to erase the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the two countries. The very notion is ludicrous to Canadians and the hurdles to transforming it into a state are sky high.
But in Trump’s thinking, the traditional Lower 48 states would become the contiguous 50 as the Canadian territory between the U.S. mainland and Alaska disappears, leaving Hawaii as the only non-continental state.
“If people wanted to play the game right, it would be 100% certain that they’d become a state,” Trump said recently. |
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| Donald Trump Says He Loves Idea of Sending Americans to El Salvador Prison |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-04-15 |
Trump raised the idea in talks on Monday with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele -- the self-proclaimed "world's coolest dictator" who has already taken detained migrants from the United States into his country's jails.
But the 78-year-old Republican doubled down on the idea of sending US citizens to El Salvador too, amid fundamental questions about whether it would actually be legal.
"I call them homegrown criminals," Trump said according to excerpts of an interview with Fox Noticias, a Spanish-language program being broadcast later Tuesday. |
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| White House point man at Homeland Security shared ‘martial law option’ post to keep Trump in office |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-02-26 |
The Trump administration’s new point man for dealings with the Department of Homeland Security is a former far-right podcast host and election denier who once shared an article calling for “martial law” to keep Donald Trump in office following his loss in the 2020 election.
Paul Ingrassia and the Twitter account for a podcast he co-hosted posted the remark and similar sentiments on social media in December 2020 and January 2021, according to a CNN KFile review of deleted and still-active posts by Ingrassia himself and the account of the podcast.
The 29-year-old Ivy League-educated lawyer now serves as the second Trump administration’s White House liaison to the DHS, a key role that has historically involved managing the administration’s relationship with the department and overseeing the placement of political appointees. |
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| Bondi says judge has ‘no right’ to ask flight deportation questions |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-03-20 |
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the district judge who ordered the Trump administration to return deportation flights over the weekend has “no right” to be asking questions about the specifics.
“Our lawyers are working on this, we will answer appropriately,” Bondi said Wednesday on Fox News’s “The Will Cain Show.”
“But what I will tell you is, this judge has no right to ask those questions,” she added.
District Judge James Boasberg originally gave the Trump administration a Tuesday deadline to reply to questions about the flights carrying members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). He extended the deadline a day, giving the administration until Thursday to provide the requested information. |
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| Trump suggests no laws violated if he ‘saves’ country |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-02-17 |
President Trump said over the weekend his work to “save” the country gives him legal leeway.
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump posted Saturday to Truth Social and X.
The phrase is attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who declared himself French emperor in the early 1800s.
Trump’s post drew quick criticism from Democrats, who argued it was another instance of the president likening his executive authority to authoritarianism. |
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| Trump Claims Power to Fire Administrative Law Judges at Will |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-02-20 |
The Trump administration told Congress on Thursday that it believed President Trump had the constitutional power to summarily fire administrative law judges at will, despite a statute that protects such officials from being removed without a cause like misconduct.
The move was the latest step in the administration’s unfolding assault on the basic structure of the federal government and on Congress’ power to insulate various types of executive branch officials in sensitive positions from political interference from the White House. The Trump administration disclosed its approach in a letter from Sarah M. Harris, the acting solicitor general. |
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| Barred from running for a third term, Trump keeps talking about it |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-02-21 |
Trump raised the topic at a Black History Month event Thursday.
“Should I run again? You tell me,” Trump asked an audience gathered for a White House reception, adding: “There’s your controversy right there.”
The audience cheered and began chanting “four more years” as Trump laughed and said "you're going to see that tonight... on television." The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
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| Trump Openly Threatens Judges Who Blocked His Orders |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-02-11 |
Donald Trump’s MAGA makeover of the federal government extended to judges on Tuesday, with the commander in chief telling a crowd of reporters in the Oval Office that the judiciary would be the next branch of government to receive a massive reimagining under his stewardship.
“Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth, much more than that, in just a short period of time. We want to weed out the corruption. It seems hard to believe that a judge could say, ‘We don’t want you to do that,’ so, maybe we have to look at the judges,” Trump said. “I think it’s a very serious violation.” |
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| Karoline Leavitt Refuses to Rule Out Arrest of Supreme Court Judges |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-04-28 |
The Trump administration is open to arresting Supreme Court judges, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told it on Monday morning.
“You guys arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge for allegedly helping illegal immigrants get away,” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Leavitt. “As you guys look at other judges, would you ever arrest somebody higher up on the judicial food chain, like a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice?”
“That’s a hypothetical question, again I defer you to the Department of Justice for individuals that they are looking at or individual cases. But let’s be clear about what this judge did: She obstructed federal law enforcement who were looking for an illegal alien in her courthouse. She showed that illegal alien the door to evade law enforcement officials. That is a clear-cut case of obstruction,” Leavitt replied. |
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| Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-03-31 |
President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.
“There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago, his private club.
He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington that “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election was totally rigged.” Trump lost that election to Democrat Joe Biden. |
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| Trump Touts Prison in El Salvador for Tesla Attackers |
Authoritarian Rhetoric |
2025-03-21 |
President Donald Trump has suggested sending people who are attacking Tesla to prisons in El Salvador if they are convicted of crimes, as a number of the automaker's vehicles and showrooms have been targeted by reported arson and other violence.
Trump's comments appear to be referencing a deal his administration made with El Salvador to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members from the U.S. to serve out their jail time. Rights groups have criticized the deal, citing harsh conditions in Salvadoran prisons.
"I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla," Trump wrote Friday morning on his Truth Social platform.
"Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!" |
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| Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies |
Authoritarianism |
2025-02-19 |
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to give the president greater power over independent regulatory agencies — government entities Congress set up to be shielded from White House control.
Well-known independent regulatory agencies include the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which issues recalls and safety warnings; the Securities and Exchange Commission, which oversees markets; and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures bank deposits.
Trump's order specifically exempts the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and Open Market Committee. |
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| Legal experts sound alarm over Trump bid to control FERC |
Authoritarianism |
2025-02-20 |
President Donald Trump’s executive order asserting direct control over independent agencies sent shock waves through legal circles Wednesday, raising new questions about the direction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The executive order has drawn sharp criticism from former FERC officials and legal scholars, who warn it could disrupt critical regulatory oversight of power and natural gas markets.
“These regulatory agencies currently exercise authority without sufficient accountability to the President, and through him, to the American people,” Trump wrote. “For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President.” |
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| Wisconsin judge arrested and charged in federal court for allegedly obstructing immigration agents |
Authoritarianism |
2025-04-25 |
A Milwaukee County Circuit judge was arrested by the FBI Friday and charged in federal court for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest.
Judge Hannah Dugan is facing two charges for obstruction and concealing the individual from arrest. She made an initial appearance in court and was released.
The arrest on federal charges is an escalation in the Trump administration’s focus on judges’ conduct, particularly as it relates to immigration enforcement. The Justice Department has repeatedly asserted that it will investigate any local officials who do not assist federal authorities on immigration matters.
“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on X in a post Friday morning. “Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.” |
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| Experts say Trump comes close to the red line of openly defying judges |
Authoritarianism |
2025-02-20 |
Federal judges have blocked President Donald Trump’s attempts to freeze trillions in federal grants and loans, halt billions in foreign assistance and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.
But in each case, the administration has said it still has legal authority to do at least some of those things, prompting judges and those challenging Trump’s actions to accuse him of failing to comply.
Legal experts said the administration’s aggressive maneuvers have approached the red line of openly flouting court orders, as Trump and his top aides and advisers assert vast presidential powers. |
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| Trump Mentioned Biden 316 Times in 50 Days, Mostly to Blame Him for Things |
Biden Derangement Syndrome |
2025-03-28 |
he Trump administration was engulfed in a mess of its own making, and the president knew just whom to blame.
It was Wednesday — two days into Signalgate — and President Trump was speaking to reporters from behind the Resolute Desk. In some grand sense, he argued, the true culprit behind the fiasco was none other than one Joseph R. Biden Jr.
“Joe Biden should have done this attack on Yemen,” Mr. Trump said. “This should have been done by Joe Biden. And it wasn’t.” |
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| 'Bribery': Outrage grows as Trump drops cases against firms that funded his inauguration |
Bribery |
2025-04-22 |
An analysis released Monday in the wake of new Federal Election Commission filings shows that the Trump administration has dropped or paused federal enforcement cases against at least 17 corporations that donated to the president's inaugural fund, an indication that companies' attempts to buy favor with the White House are already paying off. |
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| Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services |
Bribery |
2025-03-20 |
US president reverses threat to suspend security clearances and cancel federal contracts after meeting with chair of Paul, Weiss
Donald Trump rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent Democratic-leaning law firm after it agreed to provide $40m in free legal services to support his administration’s goals.
The White House has targeted law firms whose lawyers have provided legal work that Trump disagrees with. Last week, he issued an order threatening to suspend active security clearances of attorneys at Paul, Weiss and to terminate any federal contracts the firm has.
But the president suddenly reversed course following a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp, the chair of the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, over the White House order. |
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| Trump administration backs off Nvidia's 'H20' chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner |
Bribery |
2025-04-09 |
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, a chip known as the H20 may have been on his mind.
That's because chip industry insiders widely expected the Trump administration to impose curbs on the H20, the most cutting-edge AI chip U.S. companies can legally sell to China, a crucial market to one of the world's most valuable companies. |
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| Trump’s IRS Pick Had Some Interesting People Pay Off His Personal Debt |
Bribery |
2025-04-16 |
Donald Trump’s nominee to run the IRS, Representative Billy Long, just had a six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors, all of whom happen to have tax issues with the IRS.
Long reported in campaign finance disclosures that he loaned $130,000 to his unsuccessful 2022 campaign for the U.S. Senate, with the dormant campaign committee raising $36,000 in the past two years. This meant that Long would have been personally on the hook for more than $100,000. |
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| Donald Trump called Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ during US Congress address |
Childish Insults |
2025-03-05 |
US President Donald Trump On Tuesday reignited a long-standing political feud with Senator Elizabeth Warren, referring to her as "Pocahontas" during his address to a joint session of Congress. The remark came as Trump discussed US financial support for Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia. "The United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense... You wanna keep it going for another five years? Yeah. Pocahontas says yes," Trump said, seemingly pointing at Warren in the audience. |
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| White House says 'Trump right as usual' and calls out 'fake news losers' in bizarre official release |
Childish Insults |
2025-03-10 |
At Donald Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday he called out the Biden administration for spending $8 million “for making mice transgender".
"[We found] $8 million for making mice transgender," Trump said, pausing as laughs emerged from the Republican side of the hall. He then added, "This is real."
As many were confused by the odd statment Mr. Trump made, the White House released an official statement on the matter. "Last night, President Donald J. Trump highlighted many of the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including $8 million spent by the Biden Administration “for making mice transgender"," the statement read. |
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| China lashes out at JD Vance for comments about ‘Chinese peasants’ |
Childish Insults |
2025-04-08 |
China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for his comments about “Chinese peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet – and comparisons with Vance’s own self-proclaimed “hillbilly” background.
Speaking to Fox News last Thursday, Vance defended President Donald Trump’s market-hammering tariffs and railed against the “globalist economy.”
“What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it’s based on two principles – incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us,” Vance told news show “Fox & Friends.”
“To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.” |
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| ‘He’s a fake’: Trump attacks Sen. Van Hollen for visiting Abrego Garcia in El Salvador |
Childish Insults |
2025-04-18 |
US President Donald Trump insists he will not facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, despite the US Supreme Court directing him to after Washington acknowledged he was wrongly deported because of an administrative error.
Mr Abrego Garcia's lawyers say he has never been charged with, or convicted of any crime, and deny the Justice Department's accusation that he belongs to a criminal gang.
President Trump says Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who visited the Maryland resident in jail, is a fraud.
"He's a fake, I know him, I know them all, they're all fake and they have no interest in that prisoner," he said.
"That prisoner's record is unbelievably bad," Trump added.
"He's an illegal alien, M-S-13 gang member, and foreign terrorist." |
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| Attacking bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for minorities |
Childish Insults |
2025-02-22 |
U.S. president calls the clergywoman a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater,” “ungracious,” “nasty” and “not compelling or smart. |
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| Trump Calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell a ‘Major Loser.’ |
Childish Insults |
2025-04-21 |
President Donald Trump has not only ramped up his insults and pressure campaign against Jerome Powell, he is also exploring how to remove the Federal Reserve chair.
In a post on Truth Social Monday morning, Trump called Powell a “major loser” and repeated his call for “preemptive” interest-rate cuts, days after saying his “termination” can’t come soon enough.
The president’s latest dig follows confirmation from presidential economic adviser Kevin Hassett that the White House is actively considering whether it can legally remove Powell. “The president and his team will continue to study that matter,” Hassett told reporters Friday evening, when asked whether Trump would try to oust the Fed chair. |
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| Trump Promotes Conspiracy Theory About Federal Government's Media Subscriptions |
Conspiracy Idiocy |
2025-02-06 |
Federal government payments to news outlets like Politico, The New York Times and The Associated Press for subscriptions or to license content are in the crosshairs of Trump administration spending hawks, with the president on Thursday calling it potentially “THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL.”
It’s the latest in a series of skirmishes with the media, long a target of Donald Trump and his supporters. The Defense Department last week evicted NPR, NBC, the Times and Politico from their Pentagon workspaces, and Trump has continued to criticize CBS’ “60 Minutes” for its handling of an interview with former opponent Kamala Harris last fall. Free press advocates are also concerned about Trump’s plans for the media outlet Voice of America, whose charter guarantees its editorial freedom. |
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| ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit |
Corporate Capitulation |
2024-12-14 |
ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.
As part of the settlement made public Saturday, ABC News posted an editor’s note to its website expressing regret over Stephanopoulos’ statements during a March 10 segment on his “This Week” program. The network will also pay $1 million in legal fees to the law firm of Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito. |
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| Trump angling for nine-figure payout from CBS to settle $10B lawsuit over Harris interview: sources |
Corporate Capitulation |
2025-02-07 |
President Trump is angling for a massive payout from CBS – significantly more than what he accepted from ABC and Meta – to settle his $10 billion lawsuit over alleged election interference, The Post has learned.
Sources with knowledge of the negotiations told The Post that Trump’s lawyers are poised to ask for as much as nine figures – a sum that would vastly exceed the $16 million recently paid by ABC and the $25 million doled out by Meta in recent weeks.
The two sides began “very preliminary” discussions last week over the controversial “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, which Trump has claimed was deceptively edited to boost the Democrat in the presidential race. |
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| Meta agrees to pay Trump $25 million to settle lawsuit over Facebook and Instagram suspensions |
Corporate Capitulation |
2025-01-29 |
Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 federal lawsuit alleging First Amendment violations and other claims following the company suspending him from Facebook and Instagram in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The payout resolves the suit Trump filed against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly engaging in "impermissible censorship" by removing the president from the social media platforms.
A Meta spokesman confirmed the settlement sum, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company official said about $22 million of the settlement will be directed to Trump's presidential library, with the rest going toward legal fees and the other plaintiffs that joined Trump in suing. |
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| US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Fox viewers to buy Tesla stock |
Cronyism |
2025-03-20 |
On March 19, Mr. Lutnick sat for an interview in his official capacity and told the American people, “If you want to learn something on this show tonight, it’s ‘buy Tesla.’ It’s unbelievable that [Elon Musk’s] stock is so cheap. It’ll never be this cheap again.” He also predicted that each American would be buying “a Telsa robot, and anyone who doesn’t buy a Tesla robot is going to be silly.” |
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| Trump denies aid for Arkansas after storms that killed more than 40 people |
Cruelty |
2025-04-24 |
Donald Trump has denied federal disaster relief funds to the people of Arkansas, which saw dozens of people die from a series of deadly tornadoes last month, as legislators plead for him to reconsider.
More than 40 people have been found dead after a series of tornadoes and severe storms hit Arkansas and neighboring states Mississippi and Missouri in March, according to CNN.
Given the scale of the disaster, the state’s Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee, requested federal disaster aid as a part of an emergency declaration. That request was later denied by the Trump administration.
Huckabee and other Arkansas lawmakers have since publicly asked Trump to reconsider his decision. Huckabee sent an appeal of the decision on 18 April. |
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| "Not Even Thoughts And Prayers Anymore. Just 'Go F Yourself'" — People Are Floored By Donald Trump's Response To The FSU Shooting |
Cruelty |
2025-04-18 |
Authorities identified the suspect as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, a likely student at FSU and the son of a deputy in the local sheriff’s department. He was taken into custody after being shot by police, officials said.
While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Donald Trump made his first public comments on the shooting. "It's a shame. Horrible thing. Horrible thing. Things like this take place. And we'll have more to say about it later," Trump said in a viral clip circulating on social media. |
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| RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction |
Cruelty |
2025-04-29 |
Despite his own history of overcoming heroin addiction, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is backing plans to end a federal Narcan distribution program credited with helping drive a steep drop in U.S. overdose deaths.
Narcan, the widely-used overdose reversal drug, has played a major role in reducing opioid-related deaths, particularly amid the fentanyl crisis.
A $56 million annual grant program through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has funded the distribution of Narcan to first responders across the country, training over 66,000 individuals and distributing more than 282,500 kits in 2024 alone. Recent CDC data shows a nearly 24% drop in overdose deaths for the 12 months ending September 2024, the sharpest one-year decline in decades—an achievement partly attributed to widespread naloxone access. |
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| Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order |
DEI Boogeyman |
2025-03-17 |
Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled "DEI."
Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
They were critical to securing America's victory at Iwo Jima. |
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| FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs |
DEI Boogeyman |
2025-02-11 |
Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has asked his agency to investigate Comcast’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, as first reported by Newsmax. “We have received an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and will be cooperating with the FCC to answer their questions,” Comcast spokesperson Joelle Terry confirms to The Verge.
Carr writes in the letter that the FCC is looking for signs that the company’s initiatives have violated federal employment law, writing: “I expect that this investigation into Comcast and its NBCUniversal operations will aid the commission’s broader efforts to root out invidious forms of DEI discrimination across all of the sectors the FCC regulates.” |
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| Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser |
DEI Boogeyman |
2025-03-19 |
The U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday that it was working to restore a deleted webpage hosting an iconic photo of six Marines hoisting an American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as well as content about the Pacific War’s legendary Navajo Code Talkers, following an uproar over their removal under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on what it says are “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) efforts in the federal government.
The deletion of the Iwo Jima flag-raising page — which was believed to have occurred because the webpage and photo emphasized the contributions of Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, in the Pacific War against Japan — was first reported by The Washington Post on Tuesday. It followed similar removals of pages about Native Americans and other minorities — including several related to the Pacific War and Japanese-American troops who fought in World War II that were deleted earlier this month. |
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| Trump and Moms for Liberty open snitch line for DEI in schools, get flooded with spam |
DEI Boogeyman |
2025-03-03 |
Donald Trump has partnered with a far-right hate group to create an online portal allowing people to snitch on public schools that have diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
The Trump Administration announced Thursday the launch of EndDEI.ed.gov, which allows anyone to report "divisive ideologies and indoctrination," dubbing it "illegal discriminatory practices at institutions of learning." The press release for the website did not feature any government officials or education experts, but rather a quote from Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, who said the goal was to end the supposed teachings of "critical theory, rogue sex education, and divisive ideologies."
Moms For Liberty has been designated as an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its efforts promoting book bans and the censorship of LGBTQ+ and race-inclusive curriculum, which it calls "woke indoctrination." The group came under fire in 2023 for prominently using a quote from Adolf Hitler in an Indiana chapter’s inaugural newsletter |
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| Trump to Apple: Ditch DEI |
DEI Boogeyman |
2025-02-26 |
“APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES, NOT JUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM. DEI WAS A HOAX THAT HAS BEEN VERY BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY. DEI IS GONE!!!,” the president said in a post on his social media site Truth Social.
The iPhone maker’s shareholders on Tuesday shot down a proposal by the conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research to dismantle the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. |
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| Trump’s DEI order leaves academic researchers fearful of political influence over grants |
DEI Boogeyman |
2025-02-08 |
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in programs receiving federal money has thrown into doubt the future of research Kendra Dahmer has been doing on intestinal parasites in India and Benin.
Dahmer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, has a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the single largest public funder of biomedical research in the world.
The grant is supposed to cover her research through the summer of 2026, but now she wonders if that will be possible. She received diversity-based funding as the first college graduate in her family and a woman in science and, more broadly, she is uncertain how Trump’s anti-DEI executive order could affect support for her areas of study. |
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| Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge |
DEI Boogeyman |
2025-03-19 |
The military story of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball after serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army, no longer exists on the Defense Department’s website as part of the Trump administration’s wiping out of diversity, equity and inclusion within the federal government.
Trump ordered the Pentagon to scan federal websites for articles, social media posts, photos, news articles and videos to remove any web pages that “promote diversity, equity and inclusion.” |
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| Cognitive Decline? Trump Calls for Open Borders in Rant on Tariffs |
Dementia |
2025-04-07 |
Donald Trump responded to a question about confusing tariff language from his administration by adding to the confusion.
During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday, a reporter asked the president about “mixed messages from your administration. You’re talking about negotiations and yet others in your administration are saying these tariffs are actually permanent.” |
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| Trump announces his unconstitutional 2028 run for President by unveiling a new hat. |
Disregard for Constitution |
2025-04-25 |
As President Donald Trump continues to float the idea of seeking an unconstitutional third term in the White House, his store has added merch: red "Trump 2028" hats for $50 each.
"The future looks bright! Rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat," the listing says. The rules in this case would be the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits anyone from serving more than two terms as president.
When asked about a third term in an April 22 interview with Time, Trump said, "I have more people begging me to run again, but I haven't looked at even the possibility," adding there were loopholes to do it, but he didn't believe in using loopholes. |
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| Trump Says US Cannot Give Every Person It Wants to Deport a Trial |
Disregard for Constitution |
2025-04-21 |
Amid a tense legal battle over deportations, President Donald Trump is now arguing undocumented migrants should not be given a trial where they could challenge being removed from the country.
"We're getting them out, and I hope we get cooperation from the courts because you know, we have thousands of people that are ready to go out, and you can't have a trial for all of these people," Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday. |
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| USAID staff ordered to shred and torch records as Trump is named in emergency court motion |
Disregard for Law |
2025-03-12 |
A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has been targeted for death by DOGE, has ordered remaining employees to shred or burn classified documents and personnel records.
An email Tuesday from the agency’s Acting Executive Secretary Erica Carr told employees to destroy the records, and thanked them for their “assistance in clearing our classified safes and personnel documents,” NBC News was the first to report.
USAID employees were told to first shred as many documents as possible — and destroy the rest in burn bags if the shredder becomes overwhelmed by the load of information to be eradicated.
“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” Carr wrote, NBC recounted. |
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| The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states. |
Disregard for Law |
2025-04-04 |
A federal judge ruled Friday that the president violated a court order to stop freezing federal funds by withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency relief to at least 19 states. The judge said that the Trump administration seemed to be making a “covert” effort to punish states whose immigration practices differed from the White House.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued an injunction in March on behalf of 23 states that sued the federal government after the White House moved to pause aid to states, ruling that the move “fundamentally undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government.” |
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| Venezuelan migrants were set for deportation without judicial review, lawyers tell US Supreme Court |
Disregard for Law |
2025-04-21 |
President Donald Trump's administration was prepared to carry out deportations of dozens of Venezuelan migrants detained in Texas under a 1798 law historically used only during wartime without judicial review and contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court's prior orders, lawyers told the justices Monday.
American Civil Liberties Union attorneys representing the migrants urged the Supreme Court in a written filing to maintain its block on the deportations to a prison in El Salvador. The ACLU filing said that administration officials had not provided the migrants the required notice or opportunity to contest the removals before many were loaded on buses headed to the airport. |
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| Trump administration violated a 2019 settlement in deporting a Venezuelan man to El Salvador, judge rules |
Disregard for Law |
2025-04-24 |
A federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump ordered his administration to facilitate the return of a man who was deported to El Salvador last month despite having a pending asylum application.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland ruled Wednesday that the government violated a 2019 settlement agreement when it deported the 20-year-old man, a Venezuelan native identified only as Cristian in court papers.
Gallagher cited another federal judge’s order for the government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had been living in Maryland and was accidentally deported to his native El Salvador on March 15, the same day as Cristian. |
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| Stephen Miller Wants Congress to ‘Step Up’ and Abolish Courts |
Disregard for Law |
2025-04-07 |
Stephen Miller has called on Congress to “step up” and abolish the Washington, D.C., federal district court after it blocked President Donald Trump’s deportations to a Salvadoran mega prison.
During the Trump aide’s appearance on the Fox News show Life, Liberty and Levin, host Mark Levin said he thought the Republican Congress should get rid of the D.C. court by eliminating its federal funding during the budget reconciliation process. |
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| Trump's border czar: "I don't care what the judges think" |
Disregard for Law |
2025-03-17 |
President Trump's border czar Tom Homan on Monday doubled down on the decision to defy a court order that barred the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Why it matters: The White House's decision to disregard a federal judge's order has set up a legal battle that could make its way to the Supreme Court and define the limits of Trump's deportation powers. |
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| Deletion of Jan 6 charges database appears to violate the law |
Disregard for Law |
2025-01-30 |
The Department of Justice’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol from its website appears to be illegal. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a letter to the Archivist of the United States and the Inspector General of the Department of Justice urging them to take action and investigate the likely violation of federal law.
On January 20, 2025, President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people charged for crimes related to their conduct in and around the January 6th attack on the Capitol, including many who violently assaulted police officers. Following the pardons, the DOJ removed a database that included information on all related cases prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
Deleting the database appears to violate 44 U.S.C. § 3106 which requires that agencies notify the archivist upon the removal or deletion of federal records. There is no indication that the DOJ reported the deletion to the National Archives and Records Administration. |
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| Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use |
Dunning-Kruger on display |
2025-01-31 |
Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent reference to the move, called it a “victory.” |
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| Trump fires FTC’s only two Democrats: ‘The President just illegally fired me’ |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-03-18 |
Donald Trump has fired the two Democratic commissioners on the US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, further blurring the lines of bipartisanship at regulatory agencies.
The fired commissioners are confirmed to be Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. Bedoya confirmed his firing in a post on social media.
“I’m a Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. The President just illegally fired me,” he wrote.
“The FTC is an independent agency founded 111 years ago to fight fraudsters and monopolists, our staff is unafraid of the Martin Shkrelis and Jeff Bezos of the world. They take them to court and they win.
“Now, the President wants the FTC to be a lap dog for his golfing buddies,” he continued. |
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| Trump revokes $80 million in FEMA grants from NYC, fires 4 top officials |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-02-12 |
After suddenly firing four FEMA officials in charge of grants, the Trump administration quietly revoked $80 million in congressionally approved funds intended to help New York City house undocumented immigrants, the latest episode in President Donald Trump’s escalating confrontation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
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| Disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-01-21 |
President Donald Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security Tuesday, firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up and eliminated all the members of a key aviation security advisory group. |
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| IRS to lay off roughly 7,000 employees in Trump downsizing spree |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-02-20 |
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning on Thursday, a person familiar with the plans told the Associated Press.
The layoffs affect probationary employees with roughly one year or less of service at the agency and largely include workers in compliance departments, according to the person, who was not authorized to disclose the plans and spoke on condition of anonymity on Wednesday. Compliance work includes ensuring that taxpayers are abiding by the tax code, filing their returns and paying their taxes, among other duties. |
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| Marco Rubio announces sweeping reorganisation of US state department |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-04-22 |
The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has proposed a sweeping reorganisation of the US state department as part of what he called an effort to reform it amid criticism from the Trump White House over the execution of US diplomacy.
If approved, the reorganisation would cut more than 700 positions and eliminate 132 of 734 offices, according to state department officials. But those officials also stressed that the plan, which was suddenly announced on Tuesday, remained a proposal and would not lead to immediate layoffs or cuts.
Other reports on Tuesday leaked through the conservative news outlet the Free Press said that Rubio was planning to request an across-the-board 15% reduction in personnel. That would mark the largest cut in the diplomatic corps in decades, although it is less drastic than draft proposals that had been circulated and a report from the White House’s office of management and budget that suggested a 50% cut in the department’s budget. |
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| Several top FBI officials are told to resign or be fired as Trump continues federal purge |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-01-30 |
Several top FBI executives promoted by former Director Christopher Wray were told Thursday to resign or retire or they would be fired, according to multiple current and former bureau officials.
The purge of senior officials includes about a half-dozen “executive assistant directors,” who are some of the bureau’s top managers overseeing criminal, national security and cyber investigations. They are career civil servants, meaning they can't be fired without cause. |
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| ‘Unprecedented’: Trump’s firing of independent credit union officials ‘patently unlawful,’ suit says |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-04-28 |
The Trump administration is facing yet another lawsuit — this one from two recently fired Senate-confirmed board members of an independent agency created by Congress to oversee about $2.3 trillion in federal credit unions and protects the accounts of more than 142 million Americans.
The complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., claims that President Donald Trump terminated Todd M. Harper and Tanya F. Otsuka “without explanation and without any cause” while they were “in the middle of their fixed terms” with the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).
The firings are part of Trump’s push to bring otherwise independent federal agencies under the control of president by ousting members who were appointed by Democratic presidents. A consolidated case challenging the removals of members at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has already been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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| Trump abruptly fires the 4-star general who headed the National Security Agency |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-04-04 |
President Donald Trump has abruptly fired the director of the National Security Agency, according to U.S. officials and members of Congress, but the White House and the Pentagon have provided no reasons for the move.
Senior military leaders were informed Thursday of the firing of Air Force Gen. Tim Haugh, who also oversaw the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, the officials said. They received no advance notice about the decision to remove a four-star general with a 33-year career in intelligence and cyber operations, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel decisions. |
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| At least 28 NBAF employees fired as part of USDA's cuts |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-02-17 |
At least 28 people have been fired from the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan since Friday as part of the sweeping cuts to the federal government workforce by the Trump administration, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
NBAF, the federal disease lab north of the K-State campus, is under the control of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The source, who spoke to The Mercury Monday on the condition of anonymity, said NBAF has terminated “at least” 28 people, all hired within the past two years or recently promoted, so they may be on some kind of probationary status. Among them are secretaries, microbiologists, custodians, and people who maintain glassware and laundry in containment areas. One of those terminated is the director of safety, health and environmental management, who holds the permit for the facility’s incinerator. |
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| New board elects President Trump chair of Kennedy Center |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-02-12 |
President Trump is the new chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, following through on a promise the president made last week. He posted the following on the social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday afternoon.
"President Donald J. Trump was just unanimously elected Chairman of the Board of the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The President stated, "It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make The Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!"
Trump was elected by a board that excluded the 18 Democratic appointees purged by the president last week. New board members, according to a statement from the Kennedy Center, include the Vice President's wife, Usha Vance as well as Susie Wiles, Dan Scavino, Allison Lutnick, Lynda Lomangino, Mindy Levine, Pamela Gross, John Falconetti, Cheri Summerall, Sergio Gor, Emilia May Fanjul, Patricia Duggan and Dana Blumberg. |
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| US cyber agency puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-02-10 |
Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country.
In recent days, 17 employees of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who have worked with election officials to provide assessments and trainings dealing with a range of threats — from cyber and ransomware attacks to physical security of election workers — have been placed on leave pending a review, according to a person familiar with the situation who was not authorized to speak publicly. |
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| Trump wants to ‘abolish’ the IRS and replace it with tariffs |
Eroding Institutions |
2025-02-20 |
“Donald Trump announced the External Revenue Service, and his goal is very simple: to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay,” Lutnick said on Fox News Wednesday night.
In other words: America will raise so much money from President Donald Trump’s tariff plan that Americans will no longer need to pay income taxes.
It sounds great. But it’s riddled with problems. |
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| USDA to begin disbursing economic aid to farmers amid low prices |
Farmer Bailouts |
2025-03-18 |
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will on Wednesday begin accepting applications from farmers affected by low commodity prices for economic aid passed by Congress last year, an agency official said on Tuesday.
The stop-gap government funding package passed by Congress last December included $10 billion for economic assistance, a supplement to existing farm subsidy programs that support U.S. crops.
U.S. farmers are struggling with slumping prices that have made some crops more expensive to plant than sell, and are expected to plant more corn this year in a bid to eke out a profit. |
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| Trump Funding Freeze Sows Chaos as Democrats Vow to Challenge It in Court |
Freezing Congressional Appropriated Funds |
2025-01-28 |
The administration’s proposed freeze would apply to about $3 trillion of the $10 trillion spent by the federal government in 2024. Democrats reported Tuesday that many state Medicaid payments systems were inaccessible, and the program’s Payment Management System website warned of “Payment Delays.” |
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| Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal |
Greenland Harassment |
2025-01-07 |
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security. |
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| Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland |
Greenland Harassment |
2025-03-27 |
President Donald Trump said the U.S. will "go as far as we have to go" to get control of Greenland, ahead of a planned visit to the Arctic island by Vice President JD Vance that has prompted criticism from Greenland and Denmark.
Vance, second lady Usha Vance and Energy Secretary Chris Wright will lead the U.S. delegation to visit the Pituffik military space base in the northwest of the island, having scaled back plans for a broader and longer visit. The American group was originally planning to visit the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk, and a dog sled race. |
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| Trump questions Denmark’s claim to Greenland, says more US troops could be headed there |
Greenland Harassment |
2025-03-13 |
"That whole area is becoming very important. And for a lot of reasons. The routes are, you know, very direct to Asia, to Russia, and you have ships all over the place and we have to have protection. So we're going to have to make a deal on that. And Denmark is not able to do that. You know, Denmark's very far away and really has nothing to do. What happened? A boat landed there 200 years ago or something and they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true. I'm not, I don't think it is, actually. But we've been dealing with Denmark, we've been dealing with Greenland, and we have to do it. We really need it for national security. I think that's why NATO might be have to get involved in a way, because we really need Greenland for national security. It's very important. You know, we have a couple of bases on Greenland already, and we have quite a few soldiers that maybe you'll see more and more soldiers go there. I don't know, what do you think about that, (Secretary of Defense) Pete (Hegseth)?. Don't answer that Pete, don't answer that question. But we have we have bases that we have quite a few soldiers in Greenland. " |
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| President Trump Says He Will Take Greenland "One Way or the Other" |
Greenland Harassment |
2025-03-04 |
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States would take control of Greenland “one way or the other,” escalating months of increasingly aggressive rhetoric toward the self-governing Danish territory.
Addressing a joint session of Congress in Washington, Trump said he had “a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland.”
“We strongly support your right to determine your own future, and if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America,” he said about halfway through his 90-minute speech. |
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| Trump Administration May Offer Annual $10K Checks for Every Greenlander if U.S. Can Annex Island: Report |
Greenland Harassment |
2025-04-11 |
President Donald Trump is working on a new strategy to claim Greenland for the United States, according to a new report.
Trump has repeatedly stated his desire to annex the island — which is currently an autonomous territory under the kingdom of Denmark — but he has ramped up action in his second presidential term.
Now, The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is reviewing possible financial incentives it could offer to sweeten a deal — including an annual payment of about $10,000 per Greenlander. This would supplant the current $600 million in subsidies that Denmark gives to the island. |
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| Donald Trump supporters lose $12,000,000,000 after his meme coin collapses |
Grifting |
2025-02-27 |
Donald Trump’s supporters have lost more than $12bn (£9.5bn) in a month after the value of the president’s cryptocurrency collapsed.
$Trump, a so-called “meme coin” unveiled on Jan 17, three days before Mr Trump’s inauguration, has lost more than 80pc of its value since its peak on Jan 19.
This has led to its overall worth falling from a peak of $15bn to $2.7bn on Thursday, as it suffered amid a wider crypto rout.
The paper value of the coins owned by Mr Trump himself has also fallen by $50bn. |
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| Trump's using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors |
Grifting |
2025-04-25 |
Imagine that Joe Biden, just as he was assuming office, had started a new company with Hunter Biden and used his main social media account to recruit financial backers, then promised that the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him. Oh, and imagine that these investors were all kept secret from the public, so that we had no idea what kinds of possible conflicts of interest might arise.
Take a minute, close your eyes. Let yourself see Jim Jordan’s face go purple in apoplexy, hear the moral thunder spewing out of Jesse Watters’s mouth, feel the shock (which would be wholly justified) of the New York Times editorial board as it expressed disbelief that the man representing the purported values and standards of the United States of America before the world would begin to think it was remotely OK to do such a thing. The media would be able to speak of nothing else for days. Maybe weeks. |
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| Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families |
Harmful Budget Cuts |
2025-03-11 |
The Department of Agriculture has slashed over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers, according to a nonprofit.
“Multiple states” were recently notified of these cuts, the nonprofit School Nutrition Association said in a statement Tuesday.
An estimated $660 million in funds through the Local Food for Schools program for 2025 will no longer be available to support childcare institutions and schools, the group added. |
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| US government seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers |
Incompetence |
2025-02-18 |
The US government is trying to rehire nuclear safety employees it had fired on Thursday, after concerns grew that their dismissal could jeopardise national security, US media reported.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) workers were among hundreds of employees in the energy department who received termination letters.
The department is responsible for designing, building and overseeing the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
The terminations are part of a massive effort by President Donald Trump to slash the ranks of the federal workforce, a project he began on his first day in office, less than a month ago.
US media reported that more than 300 NNSA staff were let go, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. |
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| Latest IRS acting chief ousted amid Musk vs. Bessent turf feud |
Incompetence |
2025-04-18 |
President Donald Trump is replacing the fourth IRS chief this year amid complaints by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that he was not consulted on the appointment after Elon Musk recommended the person, according to a White House ally and a Trump administration official familiar with the dispute who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.
Bessent also ousted a prominent member of Musk’s DOGE team assigned to the IRS, after a major staff reduction was set in motion at the agency. |
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| The American public knew before Donald Trump that top administration officials had conducted airstrikes on Yemen |
Incompetence |
2025-03-27 |
The American public knew before Donald Trump that top administration officials had conducted airstrikes on Yemen via a Signal chat, and now it appears that the president has been left in the dark on other intelligence matters too.
At an Oval Office news briefing Wednesday evening, Trump casually admitted that he was not aware that several U.S. army members had gone missing during a training exercise in Lithuania. |
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| Trump mistakes Spain for a member of the BRICS bloc and repeats the threat of massive tariffs |
Incompetence |
2025-01-21 |
U.S. President Donald Trump has apparently confused Spain for a member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, causing some head-scratching and jitters over possible tariffs in Madrid.
Spain is not in BRICS, whose initials stand for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Spain is a member of NATO, along with the U.S., and of the European Union.
Trump erroneously said Spain was in BRICS when a journalist asked him about NATO countries like Spain which don’t meet the NATO minimum of spending 2% of economic output on defense. Spain ranked last in the 32-nation military alliance, estimated to spend 1.28% on defense last year. |
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| New deputy FBI director Dan Bongino previously called for imprisoning Democrats |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-03-23 |
For more than 100 years, the role of FBI deputy director has been filled by a career agent with previous bureau experience and an insider's understanding of day-to-day operations of federal law enforcement. As the FBI's own website puts it, the deputy director "oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities."
In a break with tradition, the Trump administration instead tapped Dan Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent turned pro-Trump influencer.
For the last several years Bongino has ranted against the FBI on his podcast, saying it should be "disbanded immediately" and calling agents "thugs." Bongino will now help run federal law enforcement as the number two official at the FBI, behind Director Kash Patel. |
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| Trump loyalist Kash Patel is confirmed as FBI director by the Senate despite deep Democratic doubts |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-02-20 |
The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI, moving to place him atop the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency despite doubts from Democrats about his qualifications and concerns he will do Donald Trump’s bidding and go after the Republican president’s adversaries.
“I cannot imagine a worse choice,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told colleagues before the 51-49 vote by the GOP-controlled Senate. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the lone Republican holdouts. |
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| People on Kash Patel’s so-called ‘enemies list’ taking drastic steps for protection before his potential FBI takeover |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-01-30 |
One of the people on Kash Patel’s list of “corrupt actors” from the “deep state” is taking the drastic step of moving their family before Patel’s potential confirmation to lead the FBI.
The individual, granted anonymity to speak freely about security measures, decided to relocate in the coming weeks and is taking other steps to keep their new home purchase anonymous. They said they’re doing this because they are afraid Patel might weaponize the FBI against them or use his platform to inspire others to take action.
“After being doxed several years ago, we were tired of dealing with the constant anxiety of always needing to look over our shoulders,” the person told CNN. “Everyone deserves to have safety and security at home. Moving and taking precautions to keep our address anonymous will feel like a weight lifted.” |
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| Linda McMahon has been confirmed as Trump's secretary of education |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-03-03 |
On Monday, the Republican-led Senate voted to confirm Linda McMahon as the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
McMahon, a former professional wrestling magnate who led the U.S. Small Business Administration during President Donald Trump's first term, was confirmed by a 51-45 vote along party lines.
McMahon has a limited background in education, though she served on Connecticut's State Board of Education for about a year. |
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| ‘It’s time for fresh blood’: Trump purging military JAG lawyers so they won’t be ‘roadblocks to anything that happens’ over next 4 years, Hegseth says |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-02-23 |
The Trump administration is sacking a trio of top military lawyers — with multiple firings coming down Friday — because it doesn’t want them to be “roadblocks to anything that happens” over the next four years, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
“We want lawyers who give sound constitutional advice,” Hegseth told Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” in response to the firings of three judge advocates general aka “JAGs” for the Army, Navy and Air Force. “And don’t exist to attempt to be roadblocks to anything that happens in their spots.” |
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| Trump’s new top prosecutor in Upstate NY suggested trying Biden for treason, deporting Obama |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-03-19 |
President Joe Biden tweeted late on New Year’s Eve 2022 that he was “ready to get things done” in the coming New Year.
Among the thousands of people to reply to the post was John A. Sarcone III, a lawyer in private practice in Westchester County.
“Traitor should be tried for treason,” he wrote. “Worst person to occupy the White House.”
It’s the same John Sarcone who once tweeted that former President Barack Obama should be “the first illegal alien deported.” He’s called for Hillary Clinton to be jailed for treason.
Now President Donald Trump’s administration has placed Sarcone in charge of an office that handles criminal prosecutions across 32 counties in Upstate New York, including in the Syracuse area. |
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| 'Everything is on the table' on DOJ purge of Trump haters, AG Pam Bondi says |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-04-04 |
The Justice Department has fired all of Jan. 6 special counsel Jack Smith’s staff and is working to “root out” anyone at the department and FBI who it believes doesn’t like President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi has confirmed.
Bondi, in a Monday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, also said the Justice Department is looking at conducting investigations into the actions of Smith’s team and also into the conduct of prosecutors and federal agents involved in the sprawling criminal probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
"Everything is on the table, Sean,” Bondi told Hannity. “We're going to look at everything." |
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| New FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino: “The only thing that matters is power. Power. That is all that matters. A system of checks and balances? Haha! That’s a good one.” |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-02-24 |
The Trump administration's pick for FBI deputy director is Dan Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent-turned-conservative commentator whose fiery support of President Trump has earned him a massive following — and seen him banned from YouTube for promoting misinformation.
Bongino, 50, hosts The Dan Bongino Show, a syndicated radio show and daily podcast that was ranked the 7th most-popular podcast in the U.S. in January, according to industry analyst PodTrac.
Trump said in his announcement that Bongino is "willing and prepared" to give up his show in order to serve. |
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| Senate confirms Trump nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff chair in overnight vote |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-04-11 |
Trump abruptly fires Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, announcing his replacement with Dan Caine – According to Trump, Caine is a MAGA supporter who had on a previous occasion pledged fealty, "I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir." |
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| Trump nominates 'Stop the Steal' organizer who advocated for Jan. 6 defendants to be D.C.'s top prosecutor |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-02-17 |
President Donald Trump has nominated the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — a "Stop the Steal" organizer who advocated for Jan. 6 defendants — to be the district's top prosecutor on a permanent basis.
Trump made the announcement less than three days after the nominee, Ed Martin, posted that he would be investigating Jack Smith and a law firm that gave the former special counsel pro bono legal services.
Referring to Martin as "highly respected," Trump wrote on X that Martin "has been doing a great job as Interim U.S. Attorney, fighting tirelessly to restore Law and Order, and make our Nation’s Capital Safe and Beautiful Again."
Martin posted Friday on X, the platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk, that his office would be investigating Smith and the law firm of Covington & Burling over pro bono legal services Smith received during a time when Trump was openly vilifying him and suggesting he and his team should be locked up. |
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| RFK Jr. confirmed as Trump's health secretary, over Democrats' loud objections |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-02-13 |
Despite millions of dollars spent by groups opposed to his nomination, the Senate voted to install Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy faced opposition from the left for his decades of espousing conspiracy theories about vaccines and from the right for his past support of abortion rights. |
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| Former clerk for judge who tossed Trump's classified docs case now in senior DOJ position |
Installing Loyalists |
2025-04-07 |
A former law clerk to the federal judge who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump is now serving in the Justice Department directly under Trump's former defense lawyer Todd Blanche, who is now serving as the nation's number-two law enforcement official.
Christopher-James DeLorenz has been serving as a Counsel in the Deputy Attorney General's office since President Trump took office in January, according to officials and DeLorenz's public LinkedIn page. |
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| Trump Administration Now Attacking Judge’s Wife White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused District Judge James Boasberg of being a “Democrat activist” after Trump called for his impeachment |
Intimidation |
2025-03-19 |
The White House is employing one of Donald Trump’s favorite tactics when faced with a judge who is prioritizing the law over placating the president: attacking their family.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday bashed U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg and his wife, describing them as liberal activists attempting to stifle President Trump’s immigration agenda.
“Judge Boasberg is a Democrat activist. He was appointed by Barack Obama, his wife has donated more than $10,000 to Democrats, and he has consistently shown his disdain for this president and his policies and it’s unacceptable,” Leavitt said during a press briefing
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| Judge John McConnell Jr Faces Impeachment for Obstructing Trump |
Intimidation |
2025-02-13 |
The judge who said that President Donald Trump's administration had ignored his court order to restart the flow of federal funds, has had articles of impeachment drafted against him.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. told the White House that it must abide by the preliminary injunction to halt its funding freeze.
Representative Andrew Clyne, a Republican, has announced on X (formerly Twitter) that he is drafting articles of impeachment, accusing the judge of being a "partisan activist."
The Public Information Officer for the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island told Newsweek that Judge McConnell "does not speak to the press during the pendency of a case." |
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| White House Earth Day Message Praises Trump As President Who 'Finally' Follows Science |
Lying |
2025-04-22 |
An Earth Day message from the White House praises President Donald Trump, a man who once claimed climate change was a hoax created by the Chinese, as the long-awaited president who follows science.
The press release sent out Tuesday, titled “On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science,” lists an assortment of actions Trump has taken that the White House claims are actually good for the environment, despite every major conservation group saying the opposite.
By “pausing restrictive emissions rules for coal plants,” Trump has “accelerated responsible energy and infrastructure projects,” the release says. By clamping down on wind energy, Trump is “recognizing wind turbines’ detrimental environmental impact, particularly on wildlife, which often outweighs their benefits,” the release says, pushing the myth that wind turbines have any significant impact on bird populations. |
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| Trump’s claim that Biden pardons are ‘void’ because he used an autopen |
Lying |
2025-03-18 |
President Donald Trump claimed some of former President Joe Biden’s pardons are invalid because Biden used an autopen.
“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” Trump wrote March 17 on Truth Social. He referred to Biden’s pardons of congressional members who served on the committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. |
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| Trump says Ireland cheats the US as its leader joins him to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day |
Lying |
2025-03-12 |
President Donald Trump welcomed Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Wednesday for the annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House, where he added Ireland to the list of countries he says are taking advantage of the United States.
Martin countered by noting Ireland’s contributions to the U.S.
It was Trump’s first Oval Office meeting with a foreign leader since his recent sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which morphed into a shouting match as they jousted over ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The session ended with Zelenskyy being asked to leave the White House. |
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| DOJ Makes Up Fake Supreme Court Quote About Deportation Hoping No One Notices |
Lying |
2025-04-22 |
The United States Department of Justice continues its effort to keep Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadoran slave camp even though they’ve already admitted in front of multiple tribunals up to and including the Supreme Court that he was deported in error. The DOJ’s most recent contribution to their oeuvre of excrement is a set of interrogatory responses filed in the district court proceeding. |
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| NASA astronauts — from space — discredit Trump claims they’re stranded |
Lying |
2025-02-14 |
NASA astronauts, speaking from space, debunked President Donald Trump’s claims that they had been left behind.
Sunita Williams said she and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore were not stranded on the International Space Station despite comments Trump made last month that they were “virtually abandoned” by former President Joe Biden and needed saving. |
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| Trump: EU was formed to screw USA – and they’ve done a good job of it |
Lying |
2025-02-26 |
The European Union was formed to screw the United States, Donald Trump has declared.
Speaking during his first cabinet meeting, the US president said: “The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, that’s the purpose of it. And they’ve done a good job of it. But now I’m president.”
Claiming the EU had “taken advantage” of the US, Mr Trump said his administration planned to impose tariffs on the bloc “very soon”. |
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| Germany will work with Trump even after he spread ‘fake news’ about us, minister says |
Lying |
2024-09-29 |
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Sunday that her government would work with a Donald Trump White House even after the former U.S. president and Republican candidate made false claims about Germany's energy sector.
“We were really a bit astonished that there has been fake news, if not to say a lie, about my country,” Baerbock told Bloomberg TV in an interview. Nevertheless, she said, the government in Berlin had an "intensive interest that we will continue this trustful relationship" with the U.S.
Trump said in a debate with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 10 that Germany had promised big on renewables but ultimately failed, reverting to "normal" energy sources. |
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| Trump Melts Down Over Plummeting Popularity, Says Pollsters Are ‘Criminals’ |
Narcissism |
2025-04-28 |
President Donald Trump is fuming after a series of recent polls have found that his favorability rating among Americans has continued to drop — in some cases into the thirties.
In a wild rant today, the president even wrote on Truth Social that certain pollsters are “criminals” and “should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD.”
“They are Negative Criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I WIN ELECTIONS BIG, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse,” Trump wrote. “They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and there is nothing that anyone, or anything, can do about it. THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9% at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” |
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| Trump has given 12 Billion to Israel since Taking Office |
Netanyahu's Bitch |
2025-03-01 |
Since taking office, the Trump Administration has approved nearly $12 billion in major FMS sales to Israel. This important decision coincides with President Trump’s repeal of a Biden-era memorandum which had imposed baseless and politicized conditions on military assistance to Israel at a time when our close ally was fighting a war of survival on multiple fronts against Iran and terror proxies. |
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| Trump Admin Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4B as It Blocks Aid Into Gaza |
Netanyahu's Bitch |
2025-03-04 |
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is bypassing Congress to send yet more billions of dollars’ worth of military assistance to Israel as it renews its total blockade on aid into Gaza, sparking accusations from human rights groups that Israel is once again using starvation as a weapon of war.
On Saturday, Rubio announced that he had signed a declaration to expedite $4 billion in military assistance to Israel, vowing to “fulfill America’s long-standing commitment to Israel’s security.” |
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| US hits international court’s top prosecutor with sanctions after Trump’s order |
Netanyahu's Bitch |
2025-02-13 |
The U.S. sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Thursday, following up on President Donald Trump’s order last week targeting the court over its investigations of Israel.
The prosecutor, Karim Khan, was added Thursday to Washington’s list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.” Those on the list are barred from doing business with Americans and face restrictions on entry to the U.S. |
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| Trump signs executive order making English the official language of the U.S. |
Performative Presidency |
2025-03-01 |
President Trump has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., the first such designation in the country's history.
The order, which Trump signed on Saturday, rescinds a policy issued by former President Bill Clinton requiring agencies to provide assistance programs for people with limited English proficiency, according to a White House fact sheet. The order allows agencies to voluntarily keep those support systems in place. |
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| Trump wasting American taxpayer’s money? POTUS takes Air Force One to Daytona 500, leaving fans and critics divided |
Performative Presidency |
2025-02-17 |
While some were relishing in their fan moment, others were not so happy about the whole show. @CalltoActivism shared the disappointment and pointed out how American taxpayers’ money was being wasted. “Since we’re on the topic of government waste, Donald Trump’s joyride around the Daytona 500 cost American taxpayers around $5,000,000,” the tweet said. Giving further breakdown, the user wrote,
“Air Force One Costs: estimated $800,000 – $1,000,000. Presidential Motorcade & Transport: estimated $200,000 – $500,000, Secret Service & Security estimated $1 million – $2 million., FAA & Airspace Restrictions: estimated $100,000 – $300,000, Staffing & Logistical Support: estimated $200,000 – $500,000, Additional Emergency & Military Resources: estimated $100,000 – $500,000. |
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| Hot mic catches Trump urging Fox News reporter to say Cabinet meeting was ‘unbelievable’ |
Performative Presidency |
2025-02-27 |
President Donald Trump took the opportunity at the end of his first Cabinet meeting to urge a host of his favorite morning program to tell viewers that “we did a great job” and it was an “unbelievable” meeting.
Now that Trump’s press shop has seized power from the White House Correspondents’ Association and is handpicking reporters to fill the daily press pool, reporters from MAGA media and fringe outlets have suddenly been given increased access. The WHCA, meanwhile, has announced it “would no longer coordinate shared coverage” of the White House amid the ongoing dispute over media access. |
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| White House abruptly fires career Justice Department prosecutors in latest norm-shattering move |
Petty Revenge |
2025-03-31 |
The Trump loyalists installed to lead the Justice Department have fired employees who worked on the prosecutions against the president and demoted a slew of career supervisors in an effort to purge the agency of officials seen as insufficiently loyal. The latest firings of the U.S. attorney’s office employees, however, were carried out not by Justice Department leadership, but by the White House itself. |
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| Donald Trump Suspends Security Clearances For Employees Of Law Firm Representing Jack Smith |
Petty Revenge |
2025-02-25 |
President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered the suspension of any security clearances held by lawyers at a prominent Washington law firm who provided legal services to special counsel Jack Smith, the latest move in the Republican’s campaign of retribution over the criminal investigations that dogged him before he returned to office.
Trump’s memo signed at the White House seeks to punish the law firm Covington & Burling days after it was revealed that the firm provided pro bono legal services to Smith, who charged Trump in two criminal cases that were later dismissed after Trump won back the presidency in November. |
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| Trump Media sues Brazil Supreme Court justice who once crossed Musk |
Petty Revenge |
2025-02-19 |
Trump Media and its fellow conservative-oriented social media company Rumble on Wednesday sued a Brazil Supreme Court justice whose clash last year with Elon Musk led to the blocking of Musk’s own social media firm, X, in that country.
The Tampa, Florida, federal court lawsuit accuses Justice Alexandre de Moraes of allegedly illegal attempts to censor a “well-known politically outspoken user” of Rumble with orders to suspend that user’s U.S.-based accounts.
The new lawsuit suit notes that Trump Media’s social media site Truth Social “relies on Rumble’s cloud-based hosting and video streaming infrastructure to deliver multimedia content to its user base.” |
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| Trump revokes security clearances of former intelligence officials |
Petty Revenge |
2025-01-21 |
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearances of 50 former intelligence officials, most of whom Republicans have accused of coordinating with Joe Biden's 2020 White House campaign to discredit reporting on Hunter Biden's emails in the closing weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign.
All but one of the former intelligence officials signed a 2020 letter that said the public release of emails that reportedly belonged to Hunter Biden had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." Trump also revoked the clearance of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who became a vocal critic of the Republican president after he left the administration. |
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| Trump’s DOJ Threatens Dem Congressman Who Shared “Elon Musk Dick Pic” |
Petty Revenge |
2025-02-20 |
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has sent a threatening letter to Representative Robert Garcia after the California Democrat mocked Elon Musk last week.
Garcia joined other House Democrats at the first House Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing last Wednesday in attacking the tech mogul’s gutting of the federal government. Garcia displayed a large picture of Musk, calling it a “dick pick” and jokingly referring to the tech mogul as president. |
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| Trump’s FBI Reportedly Launches Investigation Into James Comey |
Petty Revenge |
2025-02-25 |
FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered an investigation into James Comey over the bureau’s alleged surveillance of the 2016 Trump campaign, according to a Tuesday report.
The Washington Times reported that Comey, who President Donald Trump fired as the head of the FBI in 2017, was alleged by a whistleblower last year to have ordered an “off-the-books” probe into Trump.
The whistleblower claimed Comey enlisted two female undercover agents to get close to the then-candidate in 2015. |
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| FBI analyst targeted in Kash Patel's book is placed on leave |
Petty Revenge |
2025-04-12 |
The FBI has placed an analyst on leave whose name was on a list of alleged "deep state" actors in a book written by FBI Director Kash Patel, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
This was first reported by The New York Times. It’s unclear what reason the FBI gave for the move, and the agency declined to comment.
Brian Auten, a Russia expert, was the employee who was placed on leave. He was also among the FBI employees former FBI Director Christopher Wray recommended for internal discipline over in connection with the 2017 investigation into links between Donald Trump as a presidential candidate and the Russian government.
A later review by the Justice Department inspector general found no evidence that any FBI employee acted out of political bias in the Russia investigation. |
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| Trump administration suspends $175M for Penn over trans swimmer |
Petty Revenge |
2025-03-19 |
The Trump administration has suspended approximately $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over the participation of a transgender athlete in its swimming program, the White House said Wednesday.
The Ivy League school has been facing an Education Department investigation focusing on in its swimming program. That inquiry was announced last month immediately after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports |
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| Maine faces federal investigation after Gov. Janet Mills tells Trump, 'See you in court' |
Petty Revenge |
2025-03-02 |
MILLER: It's unclear whether Trump can legally withhold federal funding from states when it's been passed by Congress. But since the confrontation, the Trump administration has launched three investigations into Maine under Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in education based on sex. And this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened officials in Maine, California and Minnesota with lawsuits, unless the states fall in line. |
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| Trump removes Anthony Fauci's federal security detail |
Petty Revenge |
2025-01-24 |
President Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press Friday. |
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| Pentagon revokes Mark Milley’s security clearance and detail |
Petty Revenge |
2025-01-29 |
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has revoked the security detail and clearance for retired Gen. Mark Milley, making him the latest high-level official to face retribution from President Donald Trump for going against him.
Hegseth also directed the Pentagon’s acting inspector general to launch an investigation into whether the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chair upended the chain of command, which could lead to the four-star general getting demoted to three-star rank. |
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| Trump is ending Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden |
Petty Revenge |
2025-03-18 |
Earlier Monday, as he toured the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Trump was asked by a reporter about the security detail assigned to Hunter Biden as he vacationed in South Africa.
"That will be something I'll look at this afternoon. OK. I just heard about it for the first time," Trump responded. His Truth Social post came hours after the exchange.
Shortly after his inauguration, Trump revoked Secret Service protection for John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Mark Milley, despite threats against their lives from Iran because of their work in the first Trump administration. He also removed the security detail assigned to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who faced threats over the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. |
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| Special counsel prosecutors were fired on instructions of White House |
Petty Revenge |
2025-02-28 |
The justice department fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors involved in the two criminal prosecutions against Donald Trump after receiving instructions to do so from the White House, indicating the late-night purge was a political directive that deputized the justice department. |
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| Top FBI official forced out after questioning Trump pursuit of agents who investigated Jan. 6 |
Petty Revenge |
2025-03-23 |
The head of the FBI's New York field office was forced out Monday, a month after he urged his employees to "dig in" after the Trump administration removed senior FBI leaders and requested the names of all agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases, five sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
In an email to FBI staff members in New York on Monday, James Dennehy confirmed that he had been ordered to leave.
"Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did," Dennehy wrote. "I was not given a reason for this decision." |
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| US halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine, CIA director confirms |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-05 |
The U.S. has halted intelligence sharing with Kyiv, threatening Ukraine's ability to strike Russian targets amid the full-scale war, CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed to Fox Business on March 5.
“Trump had a real question about whether President (Volodymyr) Zelensky was committed to the peace process, and he said let’s pause,” Ratcliffe said.
The Financial Times earlier reported on March 5, citing undisclosed sources, that the U.S. had halted intelligence sharing with Ukraine. |
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| Shock as U.S. Caves to Russia in Cybersecurity Fight |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-02 |
The White House is reportedly dropping Russia from its list of threats to cybersecurity and is instead honing in on China, part of the Trump administration’s apparent broader effort to curry favor with the Kremlin and push for a peace deal that would end the country’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
According to The Guardian, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has received a new list of directives that largely omit Russia as a threat to monitor. Part of the Department of Homeland Security, CISA monitors cyber threats made to the United States. |
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| Trump says Russian oligarchs could be eligible for $5 million US 'gold card' |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-25 |
Russian oligarchs could be eligible to apply for the "gold card," a $5 million path to U.S. residency and citizenship that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Feb. 25.
Trump unveiled his "gold card," a scheme to attract "people of wealth" to the U.S. while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Feb. 25.
"We're going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus it's going to be a route to citizenship," he said. |
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| US Is Open to Recognizing Crimea as Russian in Ukraine Deal |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-04-18 |
The US is prepared to recognize Russian control of the Ukrainian region of Crimea as part of a broader peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv, according to people familiar with the matter.
The potential concession is the latest signal that President Donald Trump is eager to cement a ceasefire deal, and comes as he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested on Friday that the administration is prepared to move on from its peace-brokering efforts unless progress is made quickly. |
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| US suspends all military aid to Ukraine in wake of Trump-Zelenskyy row |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-04 |
The Trump administration has suspended delivery of all US military aid to Ukraine, blocking billions in crucial shipments, as the White House piles pressure on Kyiv to sue for peace with Vladimir Putin.
The decision affects deliveries of ammunition, vehicles and other equipment, including shipments agreed to when Joe Biden was president.
It comes after a dramatic blow-up in the White House on Friday during which Donald Trump, infuriated over what he claimed was the Ukrainian leader’s disrespect and ingratitude, told Volodymyr Zelenskyy he was “gambling with” a third world war. Zelenskyy was told to come back “when he is ready for peace”. |
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| Putin offers to sell minerals to Trump, including from Russian-occupied Ukraine |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-25 |
With Volodymyr Zelenskyy balking at Donald Trump’s bid for Ukraine’s critical rare earth minerals, the Kremlin is attempting to persuade the United States president that Russia can offer a better deal.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told state media Monday evening, “We are ready to work with our partners, including the Americans” to access mineral reserves — including in Russian-occupied Ukraine. He also suggested Russia could resume selling aluminum to the U.S., saying Moscow was ready to supply “about 2 million tons to the American market.”
The offer came amid an attempt by the Trump administration to gain preferential access to hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Ukraine’s critical minerals as payback for previously supplied aid, while offering no clear security guarantees or prospects of future funds in return. |
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| U.S. Officials: No Minerals Deal Without Zelenskyy’s Public Apology |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-03 |
President Donald Trump is reportedly refusing to engage in talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky unless the latter issues a public apology, according to Fox News.
White House correspondent Peter Doocy shared that a senior White House official told him no progress will happen on the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal until Zelensky “goes in front of cameras and makes an explicit public apology for the way he behaved in the Oval Office.” |
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| Kremlin says US foreign policy pivot ‘largely coincides with our vision’ |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-02 |
The Kremlin said on Sunday that the dramatic pivot in the foreign policy of the US “largely” coincides with its own vision, with Donald Trump described as having “common sense”.
The US president, who has often said he respects his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, has worked to build ties with Moscow since taking office in January, including twice siding with Russia in UN votes.
“The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told a reporter from state television. “This largely coincides with our vision.” |
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| US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-25 |
The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration's change of stance on the war.
First, the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow's actions and supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity - voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
Then the US drafted and voted for a resolution at the UN Security Council which called for an end to the conflict, but contained no criticism of Russia.
The Security Council passed the resolution, but two key US allies, the UK and France, abstained after their attempts to amend the wording were vetoed. |
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| US will abandon Ukraine peace efforts ‘within days’ if no progress made, Rubio warns |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-04-18 |
The United States could end its efforts on ending the Ukrainian conflict within “days” if there are no signs of progress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Friday.
“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” he told reporters before departing Paris, where he had held high-level talks with European and Ukrainian officials. “We need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable,” he said.
Rubio’s comments point to mounting frustration within the Trump administration at the lack of progress at bringing the three-year full-scale war to a halt and come as the US has proposed a framework to drive an end to the conflict that includes the administration’s readiness to recognize Russian control of Crimea, according to an official familiar with the framework. |
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| Trump says Russia should be readmitted to G7, adding it was a mistake for Moscow to be expelled |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-13 |
President Trump said Thursday he wants Russia to be readmitted to the Group of Seven (G7) economic and political forum, more than a decade after Moscow was kicked out following the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
“I’d love to have them back,” Trump, 78, told reporters in the Oval Office. “I think it was a mistake to throw them out.”
“It’s not a question of liking Russia or not liking Russia,” the president added. “They should be sitting at the table. I think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin would love to be back.” |
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| Trump Says Ukraine Should 'Forget' NATO Ambitions Ahead of Zelensky Meeting |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-26 |
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Ukraine "can forget about" joining the NATO military alliance as he prepares to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday.
Trump also detailed his plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the near future, during which the American and Russian leaders will try to negotiate an end to Russia's war with Ukraine, which started when Russia launched an unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. |
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| Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-06 |
Senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.
The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert. |
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| Trump’s pick to run the critical DC attorney’s office has appeared on Russian state media over 150 times |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-04-16 |
Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has appeared on Russian state media more than 150 times, according to a new report.
Ed Martin, the current interim U.S. Attorney for D.C., appeared on networks funded by the Russian government from August 2016 to April 2024 as a guest commentator on RT and Sputnik, The Washington Post reports. |
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| Trump ends program tracking Ukrainian child abductions |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-19 |
Funding for a U.S.-based program that tracks thousands of Ukrainian children allegedly abducted and taken to Russia has been cut and U.S. lawmakers are worried that a database with crucial information has been permanently deleted, according to a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed by more than 15 lawmakers.
"This data is absolutely crucial to Ukraine's efforts to return their children home …The foreign aid freeze has jeopardized, and may ultimately eliminate, our informational support of Ukraine on this front," the letter states. |
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| US to withdraw from international group probing Russian war crimes in Ukraine: report |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-17 |
The US will be withdrawing from an international group investigating Russia’s alleged war crimes in Ukraine — including those perpetrated by President Vladimir Putin, according to a letter sent to European allies on Monday.
The Department of Justice has said the US will no longer be part of the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA), which the Biden administration joined in 2023 as part of America’s commitment to hold Putin personally responsible for the 2022 invasion.
“The US authorities have informed me that they will conclude their involvement in the ICPA,” Michael Schmid, president of the group’s parent organization Eurojust, said in a letter obtained by The New York Times. |
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| US Reportedly Halts Weapon Sales to Ukraine, Lawmaker Disputes Claim |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-21 |
Rumors spread within the Kyiv government Thursday that Weapons sales and deliveries to Ukraine from the US have been halted, according to one Ukrainian lawmaker’s claim, later contradicted by another Verkhovna Rada member.
Lawmaker Roman Kostenko, who works as the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, said some companies involved in weapons sales and deliveries to Ukraine are waiting for political decisions, but the exact reason for the suspension is unclear. |
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| Washington bans Britain from sharing any US military intelligence with Ukraine |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-05 |
The United States has reportedly given express orders that American-generated intelligence shared with the United Kingdom was not to be shared with following a freezing of intelligence sharing with Ukraine directly. The suspension of intelligence sharing was widely reported by a number of Western media outlets, before being confirmed on March 5 by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, with British media outlets criticizing these steps as “blinding” Ukrainian forces and dealing them a “devastating blow.” These developments follow a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington which was widely assessed to have been disastrous, and to have widened the already significant rift between Washington and European states regarding their positions towards the war. |
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| Trump says Russia 'has the cards' in Ukraine peace negotiations |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-20 |
Donald Trump says he believes Russia has "the cards" in any peace talks to end the war in Ukraine because Russia has "taken a lot of territory".
The US president told the BBC he trusted that Moscow wants to see an end to the war, which Russia started when it waged a full-scale invasion almost three years ago.
Trump was flying back to Washington DC after speaking at a Saudi-backed investment meeting in Florida, where he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator" for the second time in a day.
Trump has been angered after Zelensky, reacting to US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia from which Kyiv was excluded, said the US president was "living in a disinformation space" governed by Moscow.
"I think the Russians want to see the war end, I really do. I think they have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory. They have the cards," Trump told the BBC on Air Force One.
When asked if he trusts that Russia wants peace, Trump said "I do". |
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| Trump Calls Putin “Very Smart,” Says Russia Must Make Concessions in Ongoing War |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-26 |
US President Donald Trump stated during a Cabinet meeting at the White House that the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, will have to make concessions during negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. This is necessary to end the war.
Trump was asked whether Putin would have to make concessions during negotiations to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. |
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| White House seeks plan for possible Russian sanctions relief |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-04 |
The White House has asked the State Department and Treasury Department to prepare a list of sanctions that could be eased so that US officials can discuss them with Russian representatives in the coming days.
This is part of the administration’s broader talks with Moscow on improving diplomatic and economic relations, the sources said.
Officials are currently working on a proposal to lift sanctions on certain companies and individuals, including some Russian oligarchs, the sources said. |
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| Trump hands Russian economy a lifeline after 3 years of war |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-26 |
After three years of war, Washington may have offered Moscow an economic lifeline just as the Russian economy is over-heating driven by western sanctions. US President Donald Trump is urging for a swift agreement to end the war in Ukraine, which has alarmed Washington’s European allies. This comes amid skyrocketing interest rates, persistently high inflation, and Russia’s massive fiscal stimulus. |
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| Trump weighs revoking legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-06 |
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would soon decide whether to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, following a Reuters report that his administration planned to take that step.
Such a move would be a stunning reversal of the welcome Ukrainians received under President Joe Biden's administration and potentially put them on a fast-track to deportation. |
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| State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-28 |
The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine's energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission.
Power outages have been applied overnight in some regions of Ukraine due to the attacks on energy facilities. The country’s systems have sustained near-constant impact throughout the course of the three-year war.
“It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our past investments,” one USAID official involved in the Ukraine mission told NBC News. |
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| Trump says sanctions against Russia to be lifted 'at some point' |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-25 |
Sanctions against Russia will be lifted "at some point," U.S. President Donald Trump said on Feb. 25 during a press briefing at the White House.
Trump's comments come as the U.S. and Russia renew contact between officials, including face-to-face discussions on ending the war in Ukraine, reopening embassies in Washington and Moscow, and resuming economic cooperation.
"No, we haven't lifted any sanctions on anybody… I guess it will be at some point, but right now, we haven't agreed to lift sanctions on anybody," Trump said.
Russia has been extensively targeted by Western sanctions since the launch of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
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| Trump Says He's Confident Putin Will 'Keep His Word' if There's a Deal to End the War in Ukraine |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-27 |
President Donald Trump said Thursday that talks to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine are “very well advanced" and he expressed confidence that Russian leader Vladimir Putin won't press to restart the war if a truce can be reached.
Trump made the comments at the start of a White House meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer where Starmer was expected to make his case to the Republican president that American leadership would be critical to maintain the peace in Ukraine should the three-year war end.
“I think he’ll keep his word," Trump said of Putin. “I’ve spoken to him, I’ve known him for a long time now, we had to go through the Russian hoax together.” |
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| Trump envoy says Ukrainians ‘brought it on themselves’ after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-06 |
Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, a senior administration official said Thursday.
The Republican administration announced the pauses this week after Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’sOval Office meeting devolved into a shouting match, with the U.S. president and Vice President JD Vance excoriating the Ukrainian leader for being insufficiently grateful for the tens of billions of dollars in U.S. assistance sent to Ukraine since Russia invaded three years ago.
Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, said the pause is already having an impact on Kyiv, adding that the Ukrainians “brought it on themselves.” |
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| JD Vance sparks British fury as he mocks Ukraine peacekeeping plan |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-04 |
JD Vance was hit by a wave of criticism from British and French politicians Tuesday as he mocked Europe’s plan to deploy troops on the ground in Ukraine to keep the peace.
In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Vance dismissed peacekeeping assistance from "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years" — interpreted by politicians across the divide in London as an attack on the U.K., which has been pushing such a plan alongside France.
It prompted a swift denial from Vance, who said he had not been referring to either Britain or France in his remarks — but not before politicians had piled in to accuse him of denigrating troops who had fought alongside the United States in the past. |
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| Trump administration withdraws from Russian war crime investigations |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-19 |
The Trump administration cut funding for Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which had detailed the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
It has also withdrawn from a multinational group meant to investigate the leaders responsible for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including President Vladimir Putin.
These moves come after Trump spoke with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine, breaking with the previous US administration's approach to try and hold Putin responsible for the Russian invasion. |
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| US opposed Ukraine's UN resolution to avoid 'antagonizing' Russia, Rubio says |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-25 |
Washington voted against a UN resolution condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine because it contradicted U.S. efforts to bring both sides to the negotiating table, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Breitbart News on Feb. 24.
"We didn't feel it was conducive, frankly, to have something out there at the UN that’s antagonistic to either side," Rubio said.
He defended a separate U.S.-led resolution that avoided blaming Russia directly, calling it
"very fair language" that states that "war is a terrible thing." |
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| Trump says US should spend' less time worrying about Putin |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-03-02 |
U.S. President Donald Trump said on March 2 that the U.S. should "spend less time worrying about Putin," and instead focus on immigrants who engage in a range of alleged criminal behavior. "We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our country — so that we don’t end up like Europe!" he said in a post on Truth Social. |
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| Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-06 |
The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin. A memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi, issued on Wednesday during a wave of orders on her first day in office but not previously reported, said the effort, known as Task Force KleptoCapture, will end as part of a shift in focus and funding to combating drug cartels and international gangs. |
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| U.S. Objects to Calling Russia ‘Aggressor’ in G7 Statement on Invasion |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-20 |
The United States is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in the war with Ukraine in a Group of 7 statement being drafted to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, four senior officials from countries involved said on Thursday.
The American objections to the statement come after President Trump earlier this week blamed Ukraine for starting the war, which in fact began with Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
One senior official from a Group of 7 country said that Canada had circulated the first draft of the statement to the other six member countries. That version, the official said, used language that retained the pro-Ukraine tone the group of allies adopted after the full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022. |
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| Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after massive Russian attack |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-04-15 |
Donald Trump has again blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the war with Russia – a day after a major Russian attack killed 35 people and injured 117 others in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.
The US president said Ukraine's leader shared the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the "millions of people dead" in the conflict.
"You don't start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles," he said at the White House on Monday.
His comments followed Russia's strike on Sumy on Sunday - the deadliest attack on civilians this year. Moscow also hit the city's outskirts on Monday night. |
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| The State Department closes the office that flags disinformation from Russia, China and Iran |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-04-16 |
The State Department has shut down its office that sought to deal with misinformation and disinformation that Russia, China and Iran have been accused of spreading.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement Wednesday that he had closed what had been known as the Global Engagement Center because it had taken actions to restrict freedom of speech in the United States and elsewhere.
The center has been a frequent target of criticism from conservatives for calling out media and online reports that it said are biased or untruthful. At times, it has identified U.S. websites and social media accounts that it argued were amplifying misinformation, particularly related to the Russia-Ukraine war. |
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| Trump says Ukraine 'should never have started it' in comments about war with Russia |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-02-18 |
President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's invasion of the country three years ago, arguing Kyiv could have made a deal to avoid the conflict.
“You should have never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine while criticizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had expressed concern that his country was not included in talks between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia.
"I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. But today I heard, 'Oh, well, we weren't invited.' Well, you've been there for three years," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort. "You should have never started it. You could have made a deal." |
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| Trump criticises Zelensky as Ukraine refuses Russian control of Crimea |
Pootin's Bitch |
2025-04-23 |
US President Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelensky of harming peace negotiations, after the Ukrainian president said Kyiv would not recognise Russian control of Crimea.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump claimed a deal to end the war was "very close", but that Zelensky's refusal to accept US terms "will do nothing but prolong" the conflict.
Earlier, US Vice-President JD Vance laid out the US vision for a deal, saying it would "freeze the territorial lines [...] close to where they are today".
Ukraine has long said it will not give up Crimea, a southern peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.
Vance said the deal would mean Ukraine and Russia "are both going to have to give up some of the territory they currently own". |
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| Trump has canceled Biden’s ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of ‘drain the swamp’ |
Pro Corruption |
2025-02-22 |
Donald Trump took office eight years ago, pledging to “drain the swamp” and end the domination of Washington influence peddlers.
Now, he’s opening his second term by rolling back prohibitions on executive branch employees accepting major gifts from lobbyists, and ditching bans on lobbyists seeking executive branch jobs or vice versa, for at least two years.
Trump issued a Day 1 executive order that rescinded one on ethics that former President Joe Biden signed when he took office in January 2021. |
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| US Treasury Department says it will not enforce anti-money laundering law |
Pro Corruption |
2025-03-02 |
The U.S. Treasury Department said on Sunday it would not enforce an anti-money laundering law that obliges millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners.
The Trump administration has opposed the Biden-era Corporate Transparency Act on the grounds that it is a burden on low-risk entities. The act has faced repeated legal challenges.
In a statement, the Treasury Department said it would not enforce any penalties under the act against U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies. |
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| Trump's media company gave a roughly $800,000 stock award to his pick for FBI director |
Pro Corruption |
2025-02-07 |
President Donald Trump's pick for director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations has received around $800,000 worth of stock in Trump Media & Technology Group.
Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the US Secretary of Defence and a director of TMTG, was given 25,946 restricted shares in the parent company of Truth Social last week, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The SEC Form 4 document shows that Patel was given the shares on January 28, which were then worth $779,000. Based on Thursday's closing price, the value is now about $840,000. |
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| Treasury ends enforcement of business ownership database meant to stop shell company formation |
Pro Corruption |
2025-03-03 |
The U.S. Treasury Department announced it will not enforce a Biden-era small business rule intended to curb money laundering and shell company formation.
In a Sunday evening announcement, Treasury said in a news release that it will not impose penalties now or in the future if companies fail to register for the agency’s beneficial ownership information database that was created during the Biden administration.
Despite efforts by small businesses to undue the rule in the courts, it remains in effect.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump on his Truth Social media site praised the suspension of enforcement of the rule and said the database is “outrageous and invasive.” |
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| 7th U.S. prosecutor quits as DOJ seeks to drop charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams |
Pro Corruption |
2025-02-14 |
A seventh federal prosecutor on Friday resigned after the Department of Justice ordered criminal corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams dropped.
Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in the case against the Democratic mayor in the Southern District of New York, sent a letter to Emil Bove, the acting U.S. deputy attorney general, saying he was leaving. |
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| DOJ gives lawyers '1 hour to decide’ who’ll dismiss charges that prompted resignations — 'or be fired' |
Pro Corruption |
2025-02-14 |
Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership “has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with one hour to decide who will dismiss” the indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams “or else all will be fired,” NBC legal analyst Barb McQuade reported Friday.
The move comes after Danielle Sassoon — who was named acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York last month — on Thursday resigned from her position after refusing an order from acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to dismiss the Adams indictment.
As Reuters reports, five senior Justice Department officials followed suit, resigning "rather than comply with an order to dismiss corruption charges" against Adams |
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| Judge dismisses criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams |
Pro Corruption |
2025-04-02 |
A judge on Wednesday dismissed the federal criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, nearly two months after the Trump administration controversially sought to drop corruption charges against the Democrat.
District Court Judge Dale Ho tossed out the case "with prejudice," which permanently bars the Department of Justice from resurrecting the five-count indictment against Adams in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
In his order, Ho rejected DOJ's request to toss the case "without prejudice," which would have allowed charges to be refiled against the mayor in the future.
"It is important to clarify that the Court's decision today is not about whether Mayor Adams is innocent or guilty," Ho wrote. |
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| Trump fires 17 Inspectors General |
Pro Corruption |
2025-02-05 |
On January 24, 2025, President Trump fired Inspectors General (IGs) from 17 different federal agencies, including the Department of Labor. The role of Inspectors General is prevent mismanagement, corruption, fraud and waste of tax payers money in federal agencies. The move is significant, because President Trump failed to give Congress the 30-day notice and rationale for dismissal that is legally required for the removal of IGs. |
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| Donald Trump Fights Reinstatement of Government Watchdog |
Pro Corruption |
2025-02-11 |
The Justice Department said it plans to appeal a federal judge’s decision to temporarily allow the recently fired special counsel Hampton Dellinger, a leader of a government agency overseeing federal corruption, to stay in his role through at least Thursday as a fight over his ouster by President Donald Trump continues.
Dellinger sued Trump and several other White House and administration officials Monday in federal court, seeking a temporary restraining order aimed at unwinding the firing and a declaration from the court that his current replacement should not be recognized as acting special counsel for the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). |
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| Trump freezes U.S. law banning bribery of foreign officials |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-12 |
The FCPA is a federal law that makes it illegal for U.S. companies and individuals to make payments to foreign government officials "to secure any improper advantage" in order to win or retain business. It was enacted in the 1970s to address concerns of global corruption after investigators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission found hundreds of American companies making questionable or illegal payments to foreign officials to win business. The law doesn't require that the bribe is actually paid, but only offered. Over the past nearly 50 years, prosecutions under the law have brought to light a long and varied list of bribes. |
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| Trump took down police misconduct database, but states can still share background check info |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-28 |
A federal system for doing background checks on law enforcement officers has gone offline — thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump when he returned to the White House on Jan. 20.
The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) was launched in 2023 as a central repository of the professional records of federal law enforcement officers. The main purpose was to allow prospective employers — other federal agencies or local police — to check their backgrounds for misconduct. The system is now offline. |
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| A gold-framed Trump mug shot is hanging just outside the Oval Office |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-20 |
Right outside the Oval Office hangs a framed photo of President Trump's mug shot, as featured on the cover of a New York tabloid.
The image, which shows Trump scowling to the camera for his booking shot at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, has become a symbol. That booking photo was taken for a Georgia case related to his efforts to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election result. Experts say many of Trump's supporters see the dozens of felony convictions against the president in a separate case in New York as part of an establishment ploy to suppress their discontent. |
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| Killing the stolen classified documents case |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-11 |
On Tuesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Trump Justice Department’s motion to dismiss its appeal against the remaining defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. |
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| 'Highly unusual': White House halts FBI background checks for senior staff, shifts them to Pentagon: Sources |
Pro Crime |
2025-03-13 |
The White House has quietly directed the FBI to halt the background check process for dozens of President Donald Trump's top staffers, and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The directive came last month after agents tasked with completing the background investigations had conducted interviews with a handful of top White House aides -- a standard part of the background check process.
White House officials took the unusual step of ordering a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive, sources said. |
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| US justice department to review conviction of former election clerk Tina Peters |
Pro Crime |
2025-03-04 |
The Justice Department on Monday filed a highly unusual motion stating its intent to review a state-level conviction of a Trump ally who was sentenced to nine years in prison for leading a security breach of her county's elections computer system following the 2020 presidential election. |
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| Trump DOJ Accused of Deleting Evidence In Jan. 6 Court Cases |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-11 |
Federal courts and judges have repeatedly ordered that any evidence or exhibits tied to Jan. 6 cases be placed in an online portal. But some of those records have “disappeared” over the last week, according to a motion filed Tuesday in federal court.
At its peak, the portal contained tens of thousands of records including videos, images, testimony, audio recordings, text messages and more. |
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| Pardoning Jan 6 insurrectionists |
Pro Crime |
2025-01-21 |
He issued a handful of commutations and a blanket pardon that effectively freed all the rioters and erased the work of the largest criminal investigation in US history. |
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| Federal prosecutors drop criminal probe into ex-WWE boss Vince McMahon |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-14 |
Federal prosecutors have ended their criminal investigation into whether former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO and chairman Vince McMahon tried to cover up allegations of sexual misconduct with multiple former employees, his lawyer said Tuesday.
“We have been in consistent communication with the government … and understand, with no ambiguity, that the investigation has definitively concluded and will not result in charges,” McMahon’s attorney Robert W. Allen said in a statement.
The New York Post first reported the news on Wednesday. |
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| Justice Department broadens Jan. 6 pardons to cover gun, drug-related charges |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-20 |
The Department of Justice has widened the scope of President Trump's pardons for Jan. 6 riot defendants to include separate but related gun charges. The charges stemmed from FBI searches executed during the sprawling investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, which allegedly turned up evidence of other crimes not directly connected to the Capitol breach.
In legal filings this week, federal prosecutors asked judges to dismiss cases against two former Jan. 6 defendants, who had both faced federal gun charges. |
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| Trump Justice Department fires head of organized crime drug task force |
Pro Crime |
2025-03-10 |
Adam Cohen, who was director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, in a social media post said he had been fired by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former criminal defense attorney who was confirmed to the department's No. 2 role by the US Senate on Wednesday.
Cohen's firing came just 18 hours after Blanche released a memo that Cohen had helped him draft which announced that the task force he led would be playing a new leading role in combating illegal immigration, as part of an initiative dubbed "Operation Take Back America."
"It was a shock," Cohen wrote of his firing on LinkedIn, noting he had been meeting regularly with leadership to discuss violent crime initiatives.
"Putting bad guys in jail was as apolitical as it gets," he wrote. "My personal politics were never relevant. Not until yesterday." |
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| Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights to Be Restored by Justice Dept. |
Pro Crime |
2025-03-03 |
Justice Department officials will allow the actor Mel Gibson, a prominent supporter of President Trump, to own guns again, ending a once contentious debate that had roiled the upper ranks of the department, according to people familiar with the decision.
Concerns over restoring Mr. Gibson’s gun rights led to a tense back-and-forth with the Justice Department’s pardon attorney, Elizabeth G. Oyer, shortly before she was fired by the Trump administration last month.
The decision, which also applies to nine others, was approved by Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The specifics are expected to be published in The Federal Register, they added. |
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| Trump Quietly Fires Watchdog Overseeing Corruption In Government |
Pro Crime |
2025-02-10 |
A federal official who was in charge of overseeing whistleblower complaints against the government and enforcing laws meant to tamp down on undue political influence sued President Donald Trump on Monday, arguing that his firing was unlawful.
Special counsel Hampton Dellinger was fired via email last week, according to Politico, which first reported the sudden ouster. Dellinger was the head of the Office of Special Counsel at the Justice Department. |
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| Trump administration fires prosecutors involved in Jan. 6 cases and moves toward ousting FBI agents |
Pro Crime |
2025-01-31 |
The Trump administration on Friday fired a group of prosecutors involved in the Jan. 6 criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same probes so they can possibly be ousted, moves that reflect a White House determination to exert control over federal law enforcement and purge agencies of career employees seen as insufficiently loyal. |
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| DoJ official says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson’s gun rights |
Pro Crime |
2025-03-11 |
The pardon attorney of the US justice department was recently fired after refusing to recommend that Mel Gibson be allowed to own guns again, a right denied since the actor, director and prominent ally of Donald Trump was sentenced to probation for domestic violence in 2011, the New York Times reported.
The pardon attorney is a non-political role, supervising matters of clemency and recommendations for presidential pardons. Elizabeth Oyer was appointed under Joe Biden’s presidency in 2022. She told the Times she had been working on a project to restore gun ownership rights to some people convicted of crimes and misdemeanors, a power held by the justice department but not often used. |
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| 'Profound conflict of interest: Trump dismantles laws put in place to prevent fraud |
Pro-Corruption |
2025-04-14 |
As the stock markets crashed on Friday, April 4, Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. He did not go to New York to consult with Wall Street. He did not go to Dover, Delaware, to receive the bodies of four American servicemen, killed in an accident while serving in Lithuania. Instead, he went to Florida, where he visited his Doral golf resort, which was hosting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament, and stayed at his Mar-a-Lago club, where many tournament fans and sponsors were staying too. His private businesses took precedence over the business of the nation. |
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| Kash Patel used FBI jet paid for by taxpayers to attend UFC and two NHL games |
Profiteering |
2025-04-22 |
The FBI director also was spotted at UFC 314 with Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a bevy of other members of the President's inner circle as they watched the fight night in Miami. That said, the New York Times reports that Patel used the FBI's private aircraft to travel to New York to watch the historic game. It comes after Trump was branded the 'dumbest president ever' for a shocking 6-word geography comment. |
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| Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange’s Guilty Plea |
Profiteering |
2025-03-13 |
Representatives of President Trump’s family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would put Trump in business with the firm that pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering requirements.
At the same time, Binance’s billionaire founder, Changpeng Zhao—who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to a related charge—has been pushing for the Trump administration to grant him a pardon, people familiar with the matter said. Zhao, widely known as CZ, remains Binance’s largest shareholder. |
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| Posting AI Propaganda |
Propaganda |
2025-02-25 |
Just before midnight on February 25th, President Donald Trump posted a thirty-three-second video to Truth Social, the right-wing social network he owns, featuring the tagline "GAZA 2025 WHATS NEXT?” The clip shows victims of war scrabbling in gray rubble and running from soldiers, until the color palette suddenly brightens and the people pass through an archway into the promised land of “Trump Gaza” |
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| Dow plunges 2,200 points as tariff tumult rocks markets |
Trade War Chaos |
2025-04-04 |
US stocks were battered by a steep sell-off Friday after China retaliated against the United States for President Donald Trump’s tariffs in a tit-for-tat that escalates a global trade war.
The Dow plunged by 2,231 points, or 5.5%. The broader S&P 500 was 5.97% lower. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was 5.82% lower.
The Nasdaq closed in a bear market for the first time since 2022, down more than 20% from its record high in December.
The Dow closed in correction, down more than 10% from its record high in December. It is the first time the Dow has closed in correction since March 7, 2022, according to Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. The Dow posted its biggest back-to-back losses since March 2020, during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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| US blacklists Switzerland for “unfair trade” |
Trade War Chaos |
2025-03-09 |
US trade delegate Jamieson Greer has called on American companies to report unfair trade practices by partner countries, according Budliger Artieda. This applies in particular to G20 countries and states with a strongly positive trade balance with the US.
Switzerland has a positive balance of trade in goods and therefore appears on this list. “But we certainly can’t be accused of being unfair. Switzerland has unilaterally abolished its industrial tariffs, we have no pharmaceutical tariffs. US companies can export their products to Switzerland duty-free,” said Budliger Artieda. |
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| Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund |
Trump Slush Fund |
2025-02-25 |
On February 3, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund (SWF), saying the United States will have one of the largest funds in the world. That requires raising trillions of dollars very quickly. For context, Norway’s fund is currently worth $1.8 trillion U.S. dollars. Sovereign wealth funds are typically financed with surplus revenue from trade or natural resource development. Given that the United States is roughly $36 trillion in debt, experts question where the money would come from. The Trump administration seems to be signaling that selling out and selling off the nation’s public lands to the highest bidder might provide the necessary funding. Selling federal public lands would turn America’s treasured places into a financial asset for the Trump administration without the need for surplus revenue, making it a potentially enticing idea for the administration. |
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| Trump signs order creating first-ever US sovereign wealth fund |
Trump Slush Fund |
2025-02-03 |
President Trump signed an executive order Monday to create a sovereign US wealth fund — saying that TikTok may become one of its first acquisitions.
A sovereign wealth fund is an investment fund owned and operated by a government. The world’s largest and wealthiest such funds are owned by China and resource-rich countries like Norway and Middle Eastern emirates. |
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| Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support |
Ukraine Extortion |
2025-02-11 |
American support for Ukraine has a price tag: $500B worth of mineral riches, said U.S. President Donald Trump. In the second part of an interview with Fox News that aired late Monday, the Republican said the U.S. should get a slice of Ukraine’s vast natural resources as compensation for the hundreds of billions it has spent on helping Kyiv resist Russia's full-scale invasion. “I told them [Ukraine] that I want the equivalent like $500B worth of rare earth. And they've essentially agreed to do that so at least we don’t feel stupid,” Trump said. |
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| Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if auto prices rise because of tariffs |
Unfit for Office |
2025-03-29 |
President Donald Trump told NBC News in an interview Saturday that he would not fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat in which military attack plans were inadvertently divulged to a journalist and added later that he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raised prices because of new tariffs.
In a phone interview that lasted more than 10 minutes, Trump also discussed his commitment to annexing Greenland and reiterated that a military option was not off the table. |
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