IF YOU READ JUST ONE THING TODAY -- MAKE IT THIS
...don't be distracted from the dictator's continuing power grab
It doesn’t matter whether the on-again/off-again tariffs, the up and down stock market, or the degrading of US Treasury Bonds were instituted to intentially distract us all from other atrocities or not.
Those actions and results DO DISTRACT. But don’t let them distract you. Because there are immensely important authoritarian, dictatorial — and surely illegal — actions trump is pursuing, that first hit the news last week:
trump’s admin is ignoring the courts, refusing to comply with orders to “effectuate” (the lower court’s wording) or “facilitate” (the SCOTUS watering down of the order) the return of a young Maryland immigrant whom the admin admitted it deported to a Salvadoran concentration camp based on “administrative error.”
trump ordered “his” DOJ/FBI to investigate Chris Krebs, a lifelong Republican, who President Trump put in charge of the new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in 2018. and who was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. His puported offense? Calling the 2020 election "the most secure in American history" during the period that trump and his clown show1 were claiming the election had been stolen and fomenting right wing anger that resulted in the J6 insurrection. This truth-telling promptly got him fired. By tweet.
Watch his November 29, 2020 60 minutes interview here.
SO, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO READ TODAY is the post by Bulwark editor Jonathan V. Last, who weaves a terrifying essay connecting these two dictatorial gambits. His work is always interesting and compelling..never moreso than this piece.
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT. And keep your eye on these news stories. And be sure your federal legislators know how you feel about what they say about the intentions of this regime, that so many of them are enabling.2
Including current Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Ka$H Patel — who will now be charged with investigating him.
IT IS EASY. CALL THE CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD AT 202-224-3121, SAY THE SENATOR OR REP YOU WISH TO SPEAK TO, AND YOU WILL INSTANTANEOUSLY BE CONNECTED. MOST LIKELY YOU WILL LEAVE A VOICEMAIL, BUT MAY GET TO TALK TIO A STAFFER, ESPECIALLY ON THE HOUSE SIDE.