Many things have happened. Here are some of the things. This is the morning memo of TPM. Register for the e-mail version.
Remove the few remaining railings
Although the Doj Trump was diverted to target Donald Trump’s perceived enemies with criminal investigations and prosecution, she continues to have a blend of career professionals who steals a little under the radar.
The purge of career people – in many cases in violation of laws and procedures intended to protect them from unfortunate political influence – is important in itself. But this also contributes to the widest scheme of removal of road dams and railings which could prevent or slow down even more radical abuses by Trump and the appointments to the Ministry of Justice.
Among the latest purge developments that we have learned in the past few days:
- Dc: A group of agents photographed on their knees with demonstrators in DC during the demonstrations of June 2020 Black Lives Matter against the murder of the police of George Floyd was dismissed en masse. We do not know how many agents have been dismissed, but it could be up to 20 years old. Some of them had already been reassigned earlier this year in what was equivalent to demotions.
- Miami: The Attorney General Pam Bondi summarily dismissed a booming American deputy prosecutor in Miami would have critical blog articles with regard to President Trump during his first mandate, before the AUSA joined the Ministry of Justice. Will Rosenzweig was dismissed by Bondi e-mail while he observed Rosh Hashanah; He has not noticed anything that nothing was bad the next day when his mobile phone issued by the office did not work.
- Sacramento: The acting American lawyer in Sacramento said that she had been dismissed by President Trump shortly after warning the Honcho of the border patrol Gregory Bovino that a court prescribed him from arresting people without probable cause in the eastern District of California. Michele Beckwith was dismissed on July 15, less than six hours after its warning to Bovino, according to documents examined by the NYT.
Trump’s favorite border patrol guy admits racial profiling
Gregory Bovino, the commander of the border patrol who now directs the mass deportation operation of the Trump administration in Chicago, admitted during an interview to hold people on the basis of their appearance, reports the Sun-Totes:
“You know, there are many different factors that enter something like that,” said Bovino. “It would be an agent experience, an intelligence that indicates that there are illegal foreigners in a special place or place.
“Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, what they look like. What do they look like about, say, you? ” He told the journalist, a great man of average age of Anglo origin.
You will remember that the Brett Kavanaugh judge in one of the recent decisions of the Supreme Court emergency file earlier this month has tolerated using ethnicity and the apparent breed as a factor to decide which people stop.
Day quote
“I spoke to the governor, she was very kind. But I said:” Well, wait a minute, I watch things on television that are different from what’s going on? My people tells me different. “They literally attack and there are fires everywhere … It seems terrible.”-A confusing president Trump, weakly trying to square the difference between the real world’s relationships of the Governor of Orgeon on a peaceful portland and the propaganda he had been nourished Before announcing a plan to send troops to the city, he described as “the ravaged war”
Choose through Comey’s indictment
Some new treats:
- WSJ: “The tensions on the case came to the head … After some administration officials, notably Ed Martin, an official of the Ministry of Justice pursuing cases of interest to Trump, told the president in private that the Ministry of Justice was slowing slow against Trump criticism, people familiar with the discussions said.”
- American lawyer Lindsey Halligan, without previous experience as a prosecutor, fell by obtaining the trigger of Comey, the NYT reports: “At one point, she entered the bad courtroom. When she found the right one, she was on the wrong side of the judge, then seemed confused about the documents she had just signed. ”
- Politico: “[T]The file against the former director of the FBI and Trump Nemesis for a long time could quickly end with disappointment – and even humiliation – for the prosecutor who was enlisted by the president to bring the accusations. »»
Tarump’s target alert
President Trump threatened to expand the abuse of the Ministry of Justice to target his political enemies with criminal surveys and prosecution, two new targets are distinguished:
- President Trump turned anger at the former FBI director Christopher WrayHis own appointed to the post which resigned immediately before Trump took office for a second term. In a Sunday telephone call with NBC News, Trump sicié the Ministry of Justice on Wray: “I imagine. I certainly imagine. I think they do it,” said Trump when asked if the GM should investigate him. Trump connected his complaint about Wray to a false conspiracy theory that the FBI prompted Trump supporters to attack the Capitol on January 6.
- In an article on social networks during the weekend, President Trump threatened the employment of the private sector of the former assistant general prosecutor Lisa Monaco, which is now a senior manager of Microsoft. The president said Microsoft “should immediately terminate” his job. Monaco supervised the two criminal investigations on Trump while it was n ° 2 at the Doj during the Biden administration. She has already been a target called a decree of Trump stripping the security authorizations of the people he perceived as enemies.
Endless revisionism of January 6: False flag edition
During a social media post on weekends, President Trump adopted and reiterated the false affirmation that the January 6 attack on the Capitol was fomented by the FBI.
Chamber Mike Johnson (R-La) apparently obtained memo and spit the theory of baseless conspiracy on Sunday on national television:
Johnson’s commentary comes as he created a revisionist committee of January 6 to rewrite the history of the attack, saying in the same television interview that it is “a committee investigating the previous committee”.
Scotus Hands Trump huge victory over termination without law
In an astonishing victory for President Trump, the Supreme Court used his emergency file on Friday to open the way to continue to retain billions of dollars in foreign aid despite the authorization of the Congress of the Funds. The decision has implicitly ratified the president’s use of a pocket termination, the refusal to spend money before its expiration tomorrow at the end of the fiscal year.
In the second ardent dissent of the week, judge Elena Kagan noted that the court’s decision meant that foreign aid funds will never reach the expected beneficiaries and have castigated the position of the administration according to which it would undergo irreparable damage by … follow the law::
[T]The hat is only the price of life under a Constitution which gives the congress the power to make spending decisions thanks to the promulgation of credits on credits. If these laws require the obligation of money and if the congress has not by cancellation or other action has relieved the executive of this obligation, the executive must comply. We can only hear to complain, as he does here, that the laws come up against the different vision of the president of “American values” and “American interests”. This inconsistency, in other words, is not recognizable damage, to weigh in equitable balance. It is simply a frustration that any president must bear.
Against hopium And Silly
Thomas Zimmer:
The binary categories of “winning / losing” – or “weak / strong” – are simply not very useful at the moment. They tend to reproduce mood swings more than they help generate a plausible analysis. Each Trumpian embarrassment (remember the price debacle of the “Liberation Day”?) Is intended to cause a new series of “Trump is low, it loses” parts; Each authoritarian escalation is accompanied by a choir of “democracy is dead, Trump won” post-mortems. My point is not only to say that the truth lies “in the middle” (it could be much closer to the end of the spectrum than to the other) – but to remind us of all that we must consider the situation as a whole and how the many different actions and reactions are connected.
New prohibited words
The Office of Energy Energy and Renewable Energies of the Department of Energy added “climate change”, “green” and “decarbonization” to its “list of words to avoid”, according to a Friday email obtained by Politico.
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