DOJ makes batshit crazy claim about Trump's powers

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Justice Department makes stunning claim that it’s totally fine for Trump to order vindictive federal prosecutions
With Donald Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche successfully installed as attorney general, the Department of Justice is abandoning any pretense of independence from the president himself.

Federal prosecutors just filed a stunning argument in court this week claiming that the “Chief Executive directing his subordinates to exercise core Executive functions is a feature, not a bug, of our constitutional system.” Blanche’s cronies also said the idea that the DOJ is somehow independent from the president is “antithetical to the constitutional separation of powers,” and, “as a matter of historical analysis,” a “myth.”

We’ll translate: according to Blanche, the 115,000-strong Department of Justice serves Trump directly and Trump can personally direct the agency to prosecute and persecute whomever he chooses.

The emperor may have no clothes, but he’s certainly being fitted for a scepter and crown.

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US debt tops a record-shattering $40 trillion under Trump
Congratulations, America! We did it! Just five months after racing past $39 trillion, the US federal debt blew past $40 trillion, with no signs of slowing down.

A whopping $11.6 trillion of the nation’s ENTIRE DEBT dating back to our founding 250 years ago has accumulated under Donald Trump. You read that correctly: in less than six years, the MAGA cult leader has been responsible for 29% of our entire debt.

“Our current fiscal trajectory is plainly unsustainable, and that’s the best-case scenario,” said Margaret Spellings, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. “Even in the rosiest scenarios, we’re speeding toward a cliff and refusing to turn the wheel.”

But don’t worry, we’re certain economic hawks in the GOP will suddenly rediscover their fiscal conservatism just as soon as Democrats are in power again.

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Gina Hinojosa hits Greg Abbott where it hurts with BRUTAL new ad
Gina Hinojosa for Texas: Data centers are shaping up to be one of the biggest issues this election cycle — and Democrat Gina Hinojosa is NAILING the wildly corrupt Greg Abbott to the wall with a devastating new ad for accepting $20 MILLION from data center developers. “Greg Abbott is selling you out!” reads the final frame. It’s a powerful message sure to resonate with Texas voters, the majority of whom don’t want a data center anywhere near their homes. Will you chip in to help Gina get this ad on every TV screen and radio in Texas?

Trump declares “ECONOMIC D-DAY,” announces “most crushing economic operation ever” against Iran
The country we have repeatedly defeated militarily this year and whose nuclear facilities we “completely and totally obliterated” last year will soon feel the real sting of defeat after America’s fearless leader announced the “most crushing economic operation” ever.

Dubbed “ECONOMIC D-DAY” on his social media site, Donald Trump said Iran would now face “economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”

The Trump regime’s latest gambit has been dubbed “Operation Economic Fury,” not to be confused with the military’s “Operation Epic Fury” earlier this year or the forthcoming “Operation Eric Fury,” which apparently will just be Donald sending his insufferable, second-born son over to annoy and confuse Iran into submission.

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Trump administration was warned about peeling Reflecting Pool nearly a month before it brought vandalism case
Word on the street is, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is still being pressured by Trump to pursue patently absurd Reflecting Pool “vandalism” charges against 67-year-old former Olympian David Hearn.

Unfortunately for Donald, word on the National Mall grounds is, a National Park Service engineer warned that the pool’s floor was, in fact, peeling because of the shoddy renovation process and the materials used for the reinstallation — nearly a month before the administration cooked up its cockamamy vandalism excuse. Good luck appeasing, Jeanine!

Natalie Harp worked for Trump at White House for a year with no security clearance
Oopsie. Crazy. Reallly looking forward to the excuses the But Her Emails™ crowd cooks up to explain an infatuated, 35-year-old aide’s unfettered and near-constant, year-long access to highly classified information without any security clearance.

Air Force major detained over call to impeach Trump is arrested again
Air Force Major Jason Watson — who was arrested on the steps of the US Capitol Building last month while calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment — has been arrested again. Watson was detained on Tuesday, just one day after an exclusive CNN interview in which he said the president was “violating the Constitution, breaking the law, [and] engaged in rampant corruption.”

Watson is currently in pretrial confinement in Maryland based on vague “allegations of continued misconduct” according to the Air Force. It did not identify the specific misconduct allegations, although his attorney believes that his recent CNN appearance is to blame.

We call it fascism because it is fascism.

Sean Hannity tries to run damage control for Darline Graham, claims she knows “probably everything about the Middle East” because her brother went there
By this tortured logic, Sean should be totally comfortable having his dentist’s brother give him a root canal or his gastroenterologist’s wife perform his next colonoscopy, right? Right?

Ken Paxton helped bury the records on 400 tortured lab animals
Of all the patently corrupt, exceedingly cruel, and exceptionally shitty things Texas state Attorney General and all-American scumbag Ken Paxton has done in his abysmal career, this is perhaps the least surprising.

Democrats declare victory in Pennsylvania state House district Trump carried by 18 points in 2024
Pennsylvania’s 12th state House district has twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats and hasn’t elected a Democrat to public office in more than 20 years. Donald Trump carried the district — which includes the town of Butler, the site of the infamous assassination attempt on then-candidate Trump — by more than 18% in 2024. On Tuesday, Democrat Brandon Dukes knocked off Republican Scott Timko in a stunning special election upset.

The blue wave is coming, folks.

Trump unveils latest renovation project, says, “if you’re grass you’re very happy”
America’s home-renovator-in-chief was positively giddy to share his latest pet project with the press — a concrete helipad on the White House South Lawn — but inevitably got sidetracked to talk about…grass.

“You know, grass has a life like humans have a life,” the 80-year-old man with access to America’s nuclear arsenal said. “This has all been redone, it’s all been topsoiled… Lot of good ingredients. If you’re grass, you’re very happy. This grass will look so beautiful.”

Nice to know grass is apparently happy under Trump. Sure would be nice if we humans could catch a break, though.