The least surprising thing I read this week.

[berg80]

Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show​

Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on a sweeping claim that President Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws, newly disclosed documents show.

In letters to companies like Apple and Google, Ms. Bondi wrote that Mr. Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his “constitutional duties,” so the law banning the social media app must give way to his “core presidential national security and foreign affairs powers.”

The letters, which became public on Thursday via Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, portrayed Mr. Trump as having nullified the legal effects of a statute that Congress passed by large bipartisan majorities in 2024 and that the Supreme Court unanimously upheld.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html

If there is a theme established by trump 2.0 beyond the breaking of laws. It is the claims of non-existent presidential authority to break them.

 

[OODA_Loop]

President Trump has claimed via an executive order that the law passed by Congress interferes with his ability to regulate foreign affairs as set by Article II of the Constitution, thus he's able to suspend enforcement of the law, which the Attorney General has agreed with.

 

[elektra]

A law banning tik tok have you even seen the law? Will you post the law?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Try it, and the 2/3ds necessary for impeachment conviction will immediately appear.

 

[kyzr]

Trump claims he is selling TicTok. Another tempest in a tea pot from berg.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/tech/trump-tiktok-who-could-buy

Trump says he has a TikTok buyer. Here are the players who have been vying to buy​

 

[elektra]

Try it, and the 2/3ds necessary for impeachment conviction will immediately appear.

Impeachment threats are a joke. Maybe democrats should try a 4th assination attempt.

 

[Crepitus]

Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show​

Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on a sweeping claim that President Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws, newly disclosed documents show.

In letters to companies like Apple and Google, Ms. Bondi wrote that Mr. Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his “constitutional duties,” so the law banning the social media app must give way to his “core presidential national security and foreign affairs powers.”

The letters, which became public on Thursday via Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, portrayed Mr. Trump as having nullified the legal effects of a statute that Congress passed by large bipartisan majorities in 2024 and that the Supreme Court unanimously upheld.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html

If there is a theme established by trump 2.0 beyond the breaking of laws it is the claims of non-existent presidential authority to break them.

Oh holy shit. It just gets worse and worse.

 

[Crepitus]

President Trump has claimed via an executive order that the law passed by Congress interferes with his ability to regulate foreign affairs as set by Article II of the Constitution, thus he's able to suspend enforcement of the law, which the Attorney General has agreed with.

NOT how this works, kid.

 

[Crepitus]

Try it, and the 2/3ds necessary for impeachment conviction will immediately appear.

I seriously doubt it.

 

[Crepitus]

Impeachment threats are a joke. Maybe democrats should try a 4th assination attempt.

Those assassins were all disillusioned tRumplings.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I seriously doubt it.

Yeah, you are probably right,

Did you see that Orange Yo You is saying he has the power to nullify laws made and decision judged?

Fascism begins with going after the weakest, then coming for the normals and decent ones.

 

[BluesLegend]

Hellish warrior Trump takes on the corrupt government, claws back executive power, the corrupt government squeals like stuck pigs.

 

[Nostra]

Those assassins were all disillusioned tRumplings.

Lies.

 

[Nostra]

I bet the lying sack of vermin shit OP can’t link us up to this law that banned tik tic.

Watcha got berg80

Let the squirming begin……

 

[elektra]

Those assassins were all disillusioned tRumplings.

Yes, trumplings are democrats same as dingle berries. Look it up.

 

[Crepitus]

Yeah, you are probably right,

Did you see that Orange Yo You is saying he has the power to nullify laws made and decision judged?

Fascism begins with going after the weakest, then coming for the normals and decent ones.

Ayup, I did. I think we are past the point of recovery here. America will never be the same.

 

[Crepitus]

Yes, trumplings are democrats same as dingle berries. Look it up.

Little early in the morning to be that altered, kid.

 

[elektra]

Ayup, I did. I think we are past the point of recovery here. America will never be the same.

It is a little early to claim democrats succeeded in destroying freedom

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Try it, and the 2/3ds necessary for impeachment conviction will immediately appear.

Never going to happen during Trump's current term

 

[elektra]

Little early in the morning to be that altered, kid.

Yes, it is too early for you to be alert, we agree.