And so it begins.

[berg80]

Because of anti-Trump assholes who have been proven to make up shit.

As we wait for trump's abuses of power in term two, it's worth looking at what he did in term one.

WASHINGTON — As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a minor.

All told, the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those of Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, then the panel’s top Democrat and now its chairman, according to committee officials and two other people briefed on the inquiry. Representative Eric Swalwell of California said in an interview Thursday night that he had also been notified that his data had been subpoenaed.

Prosecutors, under the beleaguered attorney general, Jeff Sessions, were hunting for the sources behind news media reports about contacts between Trump associates and Russia. Ultimately, the data and other evidence did not tie the committee to the leaks, and investigators debated whether they had hit a dead end and some even discussed closing the inquiry.

Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress (Published 2021)

The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members.

www.nytimes.com

 

[MarathonMike]

Trump transition figure warns DOJ lawyers: Get on board or get out

A conservative lawyer working on Donald Trump’s transition, Mark Paoletta, offered a stark warning to career Justice Department lawyers Monday that those who refuse to advance Trump’s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired.

“Once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan,” Paoletta wrote in a post on X responding to a POLITICO story detailing widespread fear among DOJ lawyers about being asked to advance or defend policies they consider unethical or illegal.

“If these career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave,” Paoletta said. “Those employees who engage in so-called ‘resistance’ against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy (or upholding it). … [t]hose that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.”

Paoletta recited a laundry list of Trump goals, including mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, issuing pardons and commutations to Jan. 6 defendants, reversing “lawfare and persecution of political opponents,” and “holding accountable those who weaponized their government authority to abuse Americans.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updat...-paoletta-justice-department-lawyers-00188772

Let's begin with this, trump's goal coming in to the start of his admin is to purge the government of those viewed to be disloyal. This has been well advertised.

Now consider the ACLU plans to challenge the legality of trump using the law he plans to use to facilitate mass deportations.

https://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/i-heard-an-interesting-interview-with-the-head-of-the-aclu-yesterday.1134492/#post-35690588

If members of the DoJ agree with the ACLU's position, will they be fired before the matter can be adjudicated? Because it seems to me the admin is already looking for a pretense to fire people opposed to their policies...........policies which may be illegal.

In his first admin a number of high ranking DoJ officials said they world resign if Jeff Clark was made acting AG. No such officials will be part of the new admin if trump has his way.

To be clear, if DoJ employees try to block legal and ethical policy goals firing them is appropriate.

Trump is bringing the hazmat cleaning crew. He will start with the DOJ and FBI.

 

[dblack]

Trump is bringing the hazmat cleaning crew. He will start with the DOJ and FBI.

Purge!

 

[Godboy]

Yes, trump said quite openly he planned on violating the Constitution on day one. You know that's a bad thing, right?

Nah, we wont be violating constitutional rights like Biden and his DOJ did.

 

[daveman]

As we wait for trump's abuses of power in term two, it's worth looking at what he did in term one.

WASHINGTON — As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a minor.

All told, the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those of Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, then the panel’s top Democrat and now its chairman, according to committee officials and two other people briefed on the inquiry. Representative Eric Swalwell of California said in an interview Thursday night that he had also been notified that his data had been subpoenaed.

Prosecutors, under the beleaguered attorney general, Jeff Sessions, were hunting for the sources behind news media reports about contacts between Trump associates and Russia. Ultimately, the data and other evidence did not tie the committee to the leaks, and investigators debated whether they had hit a dead end and some even discussed closing the inquiry.

Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress (Published 2021)

The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members.

www.nytimes.com

Gosh, why would they investigate Democrats for leaking information that would damage Trump? It's a mystery!

By the way, Schiff is a lying sack of shit. I don't think you're aware of this.

IG Report Confirms SchiffFISA Memo Media PraisedWas Riddled With Lies Nearly two years later, the inspector general's report vindicates the Nunes memo while showing that the Schiff memo was riddled with lies and false statements.

 

[berg80]

Gosh, why would they investigate Democrats for leaking information that would damage Trump? It's a mystery!

Because I can only cut and paste so much of an article due to board rules I didn't include this in the post you responded to.

The zeal in the Trump administration’s efforts to hunt leakers led to the extraordinary step of subpoenaing communications metadata from members of Congress — a nearly unheard-of move outside of corruption investigations. While Justice Department leak investigations are routine, current and former congressional officials familiar with the inquiry said they could not recall an instance in which the records of lawmakers had been seized as part of one.

It wasn't the targeting of a perceived enemy like Schiff that was particularly surprising for a DoJ controlled by trump. It was the methods they used that were troubling. No doubt a sign of things to come.

 

[berg80]

Trump’s FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do​

Trump's FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do

Kash Patel has been well-known for years within Donald Trump’s orbit as a loyal supporter who shares the president-elect’s skepticism of the FBI and intelligence community.

apnews.com

Now that Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration for AG, Patel represents the greatest threat to the constitutional order among Baby Donald's nominees.

 

[j-mac]

Trump’s FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do​

Trump's FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do

Kash Patel has been well-known for years within Donald Trump’s orbit as a loyal supporter who shares the president-elect’s skepticism of the FBI and intelligence community.

apnews.com

Now that Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration for AG, Patel represents the greatest threat to the constitutional order among Baby Donald's nominees.

You sound scared, are you scared?

 

[berg80]

Trump is bringing the hazmat cleaning crew. He will start with the DOJ and FBI.

I saw an interview with former Asst. AG Sally Yates last night. She pointed out the vast majority of DoJ employees are civil servants, both Dems and Repubs, dedicated to making the country more just. There are only a few political appointees at the top of the organization. trump will be replacing all political appointees with sycophants.
The idea of a mass purge is just theater for morons. That said, I imagine some career officials...........both Dems and Repubs..........will resign rather than participate in Baby Donald's inquisition. It goes without saying this will weaken the institution. And that's the point.

 

[Delldude]

Lee Zeldin has been tapped to run the EPA. He says the administration is going to restore US energy dominance, bring back jobs, revitalize the auto industry, and make the US number one in AI. Too late, Biden already did that.

Give me a hit of that......

 

[Delldude]

I saw an interview with former Asst. AG Sally Yates last night. She pointed out the vast majority of DoJ employees are civil servants, both Dems and Repubs, dedicated to making the country more just. There are only a few political appointees at the top of the organization. trump will be replacing all political appointees with sycophants.
The idea of a mass purge is just theater for morons. That said, I imagine some career officials...........both Dems and Repubs..........will resign rather than participate in Baby Donald's inquisition. It goes without saying this will weaken the institution. And that's the point.

Wasn't it dem and republican career officials who organized a soft coup to try to get rid of Trump in 2016?

 

[berg80]

Actually, this is more of a continuation from trump 1.0 when his media team constantly made light of the un-American, anti-Constitutional things Baby Donald spewed.

Jason Miller says Trump’s suggestion to jail Jan. 6 committee members was taken out of context​

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/09/congress/trump-jan-6-00193315

 

[berg80]

You sound scared, are you scared?

For the country, yes.

 

[berg80]

Gotta love it! He won't make the mistakes he made the first time.

He's going to purge this corrupt government and there's nothing you can do about it.

He should start with his cabinet nominees.

 

[Blisterfinger]

Trump transition figure warns DOJ lawyers: Get on board or get out

A conservative lawyer working on Donald Trump’s transition, Mark Paoletta, offered a stark warning to career Justice Department lawyers Monday that those who refuse to advance Trump’s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired.

“Once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan,” Paoletta wrote in a post on X responding to a POLITICO story detailing widespread fear among DOJ lawyers about being asked to advance or defend policies they consider unethical or illegal.

“If these career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave,” Paoletta said. “Those employees who engage in so-called ‘resistance’ against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy (or upholding it). … [t]hose that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.”

Paoletta recited a laundry list of Trump goals, including mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, issuing pardons and commutations to Jan. 6 defendants, reversing “lawfare and persecution of political opponents,” and “holding accountable those who weaponized their government authority to abuse Americans.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updat...-paoletta-justice-department-lawyers-00188772

Let's begin with this, trump's goal coming in to the start of his admin is to purge the government of those viewed to be disloyal. This has been well advertised.

Now consider the ACLU plans to challenge the legality of trump using the law he plans to use to facilitate mass deportations.

https://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/i-heard-an-interesting-interview-with-the-head-of-the-aclu-yesterday.1134492/#post-35690588

If members of the DoJ agree with the ACLU's position, will they be fired before the matter can be adjudicated? Because it seems to me the admin is already looking for a pretense to fire people opposed to their policies...........policies which may be illegal.

In his first admin a number of high ranking DoJ officials said they world resign if Jeff Clark was made acting AG. No such officials will be part of the new admin if trump has his way.

To be clear, if DoJ employees try to block legal and ethical policy goals firing them is appropriate.

We need Patriots who love our country running our country.

 

[Blisterfinger]

Exactly what I'd expect a sycophant to say.

Gut the doj of American hating dishonest liberal sycophants.

 

[berg80]

Trump is stacking his White House roster with uber-rich backers​

Donald Trump’s first administration was chock full of super-rich figures whose combined wealth exceeded $5 billion, marking an unprecedented marriage of money and executive power.

Trump’s second term could make that total look like chump change. More than half a dozen of the Republican president-elect’s picks for his incoming administration are either confirmed billionaires or widely speculated to be. Numerous others are multi- or centimillionaires.

The richest by far is Elon Musk, whom Trump has tapped to co-lead a bespoke advisory group tasked with slashing purported government waste. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is the world’s wealthiest person, with estimates placing his net worth above $346 billion and as high as $362 billion.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the entrepreneur and former presidential candidate working with Musk on the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, is worth $1 billion, according to Forbes.

The nonprofit Americans for Tax Fairness last month estimated that the average net worth among Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and his top appointees is $616 million.

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www.cnbc.com

Not to worry. I'm sure he'll start focusing on rewarding the working class people who voted for him as soon as he counts his gains from promoting crypto currencies.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says Trump’s idea to create a national Bitcoin reserve is ’crazy’​

Trump's plan to create a national Bitcoin reserve is 'crazy' says former Treasury Secretary

President-elect Trump proposed creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve, in part to beat out China.

fortune.com

 

[Blisterfinger]

Robert Wilke has been named to the transition team for the Pentagon. If that name doesn't ring a bell he was referred to the DoJ for criminal investigation when he was the head of the VA in trump's first term. All the best people.

Trump promoting the victims of lawfare. I love it!

 

[berg80]

Gosh, why would they investigate Democrats for leaking information that would damage Trump? It's a mystery!

By the way, Schiff is a lying sack of shit. I don't think you're aware of this.

IG Report Confirms SchiffFISA Memo Media PraisedWas Riddled With Lies Nearly two years later, the inspector general's report vindicates the Nunes memo while showing that the Schiff memo was riddled with lies and false statements.

A salacious and unverified dossier formed an essential part of the application to secure a warrant against a Trump campaign affiliate named Carter Page. This application failed to reveal that the dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.

That's a pile of lies.

Dossier Not What 'Started All of This' - FactCheck.org

In an interview about the special counsel's report, Rep. John Ratcliffe said that what "started all of this" was "a fake, phony dossier." But a House Republican intelligence committee memo said it was information about a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser that sparked the FBI's...

www.factcheck.org

Why Trump is wrong about Carter Page, the dossier and the FISA warrant

Mueller's Russia probe wasn't launched because of Carter Page, and the dossier compiled by an ex-spy was only part of the evidence cited to get a warrant.

www.nbcnews.com

Republican leaders are acknowledging that the FBI disclosed the political origins of a private dossier the bureau cited in an application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, undermining a controversial GOP memo released Friday and fueling Democratic demands to declassify more information about the bureau’s actions.

Republicans concede key FBI 'footnote' in Carter Page warrant

Devin Nunes said Monday the FBI had disclosed political backing for a Trump-Russia dossier in October 2016, but a controversial GOP memo released last week did not mention it.

www.politico.com

 

[Delldude]

A salacious and unverified dossier formed an essential part of the application to secure a warrant against a Trump campaign affiliate named Carter Page. This application failed to reveal that the dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.

That's a pile of lies.

Dossier Not What 'Started All of This' - FactCheck.org

In an interview about the special counsel's report, Rep. John Ratcliffe said that what "started all of this" was "a fake, phony dossier." But a House Republican intelligence committee memo said it was information about a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser that sparked the FBI's...

www.factcheck.org

Why Trump is wrong about Carter Page, the dossier and the FISA warrant

Mueller's Russia probe wasn't launched because of Carter Page, and the dossier compiled by an ex-spy was only part of the evidence cited to get a warrant.

www.nbcnews.com

Republican leaders are acknowledging that the FBI disclosed the political origins of a private dossier the bureau cited in an application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, undermining a controversial GOP memo released Friday and fueling Democratic demands to declassify more information about the bureau’s actions.

Republicans concede key FBI 'footnote' in Carter Page warrant

Devin Nunes said Monday the FBI had disclosed political backing for a Trump-Russia dossier in October 2016, but a controversial GOP memo released last week did not mention it.

www.politico.com

Still puking up yesterdays onions......................I know, it's bad for you.

This is going to change exactly what?