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Dennis Donovan

(28,089 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:49 AM Yesterday

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent: Trump AG Pick Accidentally Reveals a Dark, Ugly Truth About 2025 Plans

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent - (archived: https://archive.ph/OtGTb ) Trump AG Pick Accidentally Reveals a Dark, Ugly Truth About 2025 Plans

January 16, 2025
PODCAST

As Pam Bondi evades questions at her confirmation hearing about Trump’s threats to target enemies, a former prosecutor explains what Bondi inadvertently demonstrated about what’s really coming in 2025.

At her confirmation hearing Wednesday, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, sought in some ways to project an apolitical aura. But Bondi also refused to answer direct questions about Trump’s threats to prosecute enemies and dissembled about similar threats from Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to head the FBI. All this accidentally revealed something important. Bondi could not say straight out that she wouldn’t carry out Trump’s corrupt designs, because saying that could disqualify her in his eyes—which is itself the problem here. We talked to former prosecutor Mimi Rocah, who explains how Bondi exposed herself as an unreliable defender of the rule of law—and what that telegraphs about the coming hellscape of 2025. Listen to this episode here.
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The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent: Trump AG Pick Accidentally Reveals a Dark, Ugly Truth About 2025 Plans (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Yesterday OP
She's the felon's Vengeance Viper (R) BoRaGard Yesterday #1
When she becomes a liability he will then... S/V Loner 23 hrs ago #7
NAZI Law Kid Berwyn Yesterday #2
And then there's DJT's threat of "televised military tribunals"... allegorical oracle 22 hrs ago #9
The one protected class in what's ahead: the Rich. Kid Berwyn 22 hrs ago #11
Absolute requirement for an authoritarian regime. Some days my goose feels cooked. allegorical oracle 22 hrs ago #12
Hegseth evaded similar questions about Trump using the military on American citizens. hadEnuf 21 hrs ago #14
This New Republic story deserves its own thread, Kid B. BoRaGard 21 hrs ago #16
But, but NJCher Yesterday #3
None of trump's nominees MLWR Yesterday #4
Here in Florida, many people think Pam Bondi as a combination of DeSantis and Ronald Reagan.... chouchou Yesterday #5
The transcript: Buns_of_Fire 23 hrs ago #6
She is an ideological opportunist with no moral core... S/V Loner 23 hrs ago #8
This orangecrush 22 hrs ago #10
But she wears a cross..... Evolve Dammit 21 hrs ago #15
Bondi will be a defender of the rule of Trump, not the Constitution and the rule of law. patphil 21 hrs ago #13

BoRaGard

(3,481 posts)
1. She's the felon's Vengeance Viper (R)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:05 AM
Yesterday

He's always whining about something or someone. He's setting her up to try and hurt everyone he imagines has been (whine, whine, whine) "unfair" to him because they spoke the truth about his morally corrupted behavior.

S/V Loner

(9,155 posts)
7. When she becomes a liability he will then...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:49 AM
23 hrs ago

throw her under the bus faster than you can say sucker.

Kid Berwyn

(18,631 posts)
2. NAZI Law
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:09 AM
Yesterday
Read J.D. Vance’s Violent Foreword to Project 2025 Leader’s New Book

Trump’s running mate writes that “it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets.”


by alex Shephard
The New republic, July 30, 2024

Donald Trump has been desperate lately to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s radical plan to remake the federal government under his presidency. “I have no idea who is behind it,” he said in early July about the plan, which would replace thousands of federal workers with partisan loyalists, ban abortion, and disband the Department of Education. A couple of weeks later, he said of the people behind Project 2025, “They are extreme, they’re seriously extreme, but I don’t know anything about it.”

But between those two denials, on July 15, Trump made a decision that undercuts his claim to have no knowledge of Project 2025: He picked Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.

Vance has deep ties to the Heritage Foundation, and in particular to Kevin Roberts, who has been president of the right-wing think tank since 2021 and is the architect of Project 2025. Vance has praised Roberts for helping to turn the organization “into the de facto institutional home of Trumpism” and has endorsed elements of Project 2025. Vance is also the author of the foreword to Roberts’s upcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light, which The New Republic has obtained in full even though the book’s publisher, HarperCollins’s Broadside Books, has apparently tried to suppress it amid the scrutiny of Project 2025 and Vance’s ties to Roberts.

The subtitle and cover of Roberts’s book were softened as scrutiny of the Trump campaign’s ties to Project 2025 grew. The book, which is scheduled to be published on September 24, was originally announced with the subtitle “Burning Down Washington to Save America” and featured a match on the center of its cover. The subtitle is now “Taking Back Washington to Save America,” and the match is nowhere to be seen. Promotional language invoking conservatives on the “warpath” to “burn down … institutions” like the FBI, the Department of Justice, and universities has also been removed or toned down, though it is still present in some sales pages.

But the inspiration for that extreme language can be found in Vance’s foreword, which ends with a call for followers to “circle the wagons and load the muskets,” and describes Roberts’s ideas as an “essential weapon” in the “fights that lay [sic] ahead.” (The New Republic downloaded Dawn’s Early Light earlier this month from NetGalley, which provides advance copies of books to reviewers and booksellers. Copies were removed from the platform earlier this month.)

SNIP...

Vance’s foreword is also, notably, a call for revolution. “The old conservative movement argued if you just got government out of the way, natural forces would resolve problems,” he writes. “We are no longer in this situation and must take a different approach.” That is where the muskets come in:

Continues...

https://newrepublic.com/article/184393/jd-vance-violent-foreword-kevin-roberts-project-2025-leader-book

AG Bondi will work to put down all opposition to Trump and his Turd Reich. Then, she’ll lead the round-up of all who they don’t “need,” like liberals, progressives, and anyone who believes in the Constitution over rule by King Puppet.

allegorical oracle

(3,632 posts)
9. And then there's DJT's threat of "televised military tribunals"...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 09:45 AM
22 hrs ago

Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia, told Newsweek that Trump's presidency may accelerate the increasing politicization of the legal system.

"Trump 2.0 could exacerbate this dynamic, especially if the new President does much that he promised to do when campaigning and since he was elected."

"For example, the pledges to weaponize the DOJ and use it to prosecute his enemies and to pardon the January 6 defendants will not improve the federal legal system," he said.

In one of many cases in which Trump has vowed to jail political opponents, he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, in June, 2024 that he would hold "televised military tribunals" and would jail President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Mike Pence, among others.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jack-smith-president-joe-biden-revenge-inauguration-military-tribunal-2015928

Kid Berwyn

(18,631 posts)
11. The one protected class in what's ahead: the Rich.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 09:58 AM
22 hrs ago
A: The Carlyle Group and Friends.

Who’s Enabling Putin’s Enablers?


BY SAM PIZZIGATI
CounterPunch, March 29, 2022

Where would Vladimir Putin be without the Russian oligarchy? Without Russia’s oligarchs, political leaders of the Western world have concluded, Putin would be tottering. Western leaders have made squeezing Russia’s richest a central piece of their strategy to end Putin’s Ukraine cross-border assault.

These same Western leaders, unfortunately, have failed to take seriously what ought to be an equally pressing question: Where would Russia’s oligarchs be without the West, without the Wall Streeters, wealth managers, and assorted other high-finance riff-raff “paid millions,” as Institute for Policy Studies analyst Chuck Collins puts it, “to help billionaires sequester trillions”?

Western leaders have essentially been ignoring this question almost ever since the old Soviet Union collapsed. And now we’re paying the price. Those Ukraine sanctions against Russia’s oligarchs? They come with a huge loophole. The Western world’s opaque web of tax havens and anonymous corporations is essentially rendering much of those sanctions ineffective.

Snippe…

The U.S. wealth defense industry, we need to remember, hasn’t just been helping Russian oligarchs hide their fortunes. America’s money-handlers have for years been helping them pile up ever grander fortunes. They’ve steered the illicit funds of Russian oligarchs into U.S. real estate, investment funds, and “even factories,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein, a senior reporter on the 2016 bombshell “Panama Papers” tax avoidance exposé.

The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has used “a network of banks, law firms and advisers in multiple countries,” the New York Times just reported, to invest “billions in American hedge funds.” Along the way, he tapped the expertise and contacts of U.S. high-finance giants ranging from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to BlackRock and the Carlyle Group.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/29/whos-enabling-putins-enablers/

And the richer they are, the more protected they will be. They paid for the destruction of democracy, justice and liberty -- in short, the U.S. Constitution. Proud to stand with you in the Good Fight, allegorical oracle.

hadEnuf

(2,856 posts)
14. Hegseth evaded similar questions about Trump using the military on American citizens.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:52 AM
21 hrs ago

I'm sure we can expect the same evasion from all of Trump's other nominees. They know what they have been selected for.

Let's not kid ourselves. Evasions on questions like "would you obey an order from the POTUS to use military power on American citizens" or "would you use the power of your office to exact revenge on politicians the POTUS does not like" amounts to a resounding YES, they would absolutely do that.

MLWR

(35 posts)
4. None of trump's nominees
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:29 AM
Yesterday

for cabinet positions can honestly be described as competent, knowledgeable, qualified, above-board, honest, experienced, unbiased and capable. All of them have the one quality he wants which is unquestioned loyalty to HIM, not the Constitution, and that alone makes them unworthy of the positions they seek, paid for by US, the taxpayers.

chouchou

(1,510 posts)
5. Here in Florida, many people think Pam Bondi as a combination of DeSantis and Ronald Reagan....
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:31 AM
Yesterday

...but not quite as intelligent. (That ain't a compliment)

S/V Loner

(9,155 posts)
8. She is an ideological opportunist with no moral core...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:54 AM
23 hrs ago

guaranteeing she will overstep her bounds. Unfortunately there will be a lot of suffering before she does. That is what they do.

patphil

(7,219 posts)
13. Bondi will be a defender of the rule of Trump, not the Constitution and the rule of law.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:45 AM
21 hrs ago

Bondi will violate her oath of office on day one, and every day she holds that office.

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