Trump is gathering major military forces off the coast of Venezuela in preparation for a likely regime-change war on that nation. He may also attack Colombia, whose president has angered him by criticizing his extrajudicial executions in international waters.
He is sending $ 20 billion to Argentina to back his fellow far-right president there as 42 million US Americans face hunger because he is cutting off their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program( SNAP) benefits.
Former SNAP recipients joined masses of federal workers Trump has thrown out of work on food lines as Trump demands $ 230 million from his Department of Justice as“ compensation” for its( badly belated) indictment( under former President Joe Biden) of Trump for … you know, trying to overthrow electoral democracy and the rule of law at the end of his first horrific administration( and for absconding with classified documents and obstructing efforts to retrieve them).
Trump has just maniacally torn down the East Wing of the White House, planning to replace that former historic landmark with a gargantuan, gaudy ballroom funded by some of his favorite capitulating corporations, including the tech giants Google, Meta, and Palantir and the leading“ defense” firm Lockheed Martin.
The Congress has been essentially dissolved by Trump through his command over the Speaker of the US House, the obsequious Mike Johnson( R-La.). This makes legislative branch oversight of Trump’ s war moves and plans impossible. It also prevents the release of the Epstein Files, which contain information on his close relationship with a disgraced pedophile, and congressional action to restore SNAP benefits( food stamps).( Johnson is meanwhile refusing to seat a duly elected congresswoman from Arizona since, according to media reports, she would tilt the US House majority to the side of the files’ release.)
Trump has slapped 50 % tariffs on Brazil to punish it for properly prosecuting and convicting his fascist comrade Jair Bolsonaro( the onetime“ Trump of the Tropics”) for sparking an attempted insurrectionist coup( Brazil’ s January 6) in that nation’ s capital on January 8, 2023.
Among the many ways in which Trump is mimicking his role model Adolph Hitler is his attempt to rule through executive order and memorandum.
A recent Trump memo— NPSM-7— absurdly attributes recent domestic US political violence to a supposedly top-down movement of left-wing terrorism and tells federal law enforcement to investigate and potentially prosecute any group or individual who advances“ anti-fascist” ideas, including even criticism of“ Christianity” and“ traditional” family and gender relations.
74 The Trial Lawyer