RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116597017246406093

TL;DR

In case you missed it:

1980s: Reagan and Justice #Scalia push #UnitaryExecutiveTheory arguing that the Constitution vests all executive power directly in the President.

2001–2008: #GWBush uses "Unitary Executive Theory" to consolidate security services and justify signing statements on laws passed by Congress.

2014: #Trump stated on air: "If I decide to run for office, I'll produce my tax returns, absolutely... And I would love to do that. He would go on to repeat this during actual campaigns. He did not release them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump

2019 While Trump was president, a man hired under Trump's IRS gave #TaxRecords to the New York Times while Trump was defying a congressional subpoena for records they were allowed by statute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Littlejohn

2020: In Seila Law LLC v. CFPB the Supreme Court claims "the entire 'executive power' belongs to the President alone" and strikes down removal protections for the director of the CFPB.

2024: In Trump v. US the Supreme Court granted presidents broad, near-absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. Also, the leaker of the records Congress couldn't get and that Trump promised was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

2025–2026: Over and over, "Unitary Executive Theory" is used to justify a purge of employees and departments Trump deems to be enemies.

2026/01/29: Trump sues his own IRS and Treasury over the leak of tax records that he had previously promised to release himself. He demanded 10⁶ × $10,000 — https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72207870/trump-v-internal-revenue-service/

2026/05/18: Before showing up in court to answer "is Trump just suing himself with our $$$ at stake?" they settled out of court for a reported 10⁶ × $1776 — no Court, no Congress, no Transparency.

I think the rulers of Iran have Trump trapped and able to make only moves he doesn't want to make.

Compare this with Bin Laden who had Cheney-Bush making moves that Bin Laden wanted them to make.

#TrumpIranWar #NineEleven2001 #Trump #GWBush

Even our second most stupid president, #GWBush, was able to get #rumsfeld, #Wolfowitz, and #cheney to invent their #weaponsofmassdestruction charade… #trump has no such brains in his cabinet to support his absurd claims. He should just admit that all it took was #Netanyahu to say “jump”with the added bonus of diverting media controversy from #epstein

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/intel-chief-gabbard-declines-say-iran-posed-imminent-threat-us-rcna264077

#EpsteinFuryWar #maga #uspol #epicfury #tulsigabbard

Judgement Of Character

Listened to the radio program below.

Got to 24:20 mm:ss before things clicked.

Former ICE attorney Ryan Schwank had joined George W. Bush's newly formed DHS in 2001. Because he felt it was the right thing to do.

Then I realised I'd misjudged this gently spoken, well educated, son of a Guatemalan migrant.

Seeing now I've been so pickled in a para-fascist culture that I can't pick a fascist.

#USPol #Fascism #GWBush #RyanSchwank #DHS #ICE
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/give-a-little-whistle