He also points to the weaponization and politization of government, citing djt targeting major law firms, e.g., Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, with executive orders barring them from federal contracts for representing his critics, and forcing large firms into free legal service agreements amounting to almost $1 billion. So far, federal courts have blocked these orders as unconstitutional, with one judge calling them a “shocking abuse of power.” Well, duh! He has also sent his corrupt MAGA DoJ on blatantly politically motivated bogus revenge cases, such as investigating former official Chris Krebs for correctly contradicting Trump’s false election fraud claims.
Luttig sees, like I do, clearly unconstitutional actions by djt and MAGA elites such as invoking the Alien Enemies Act. That act was intended to justify mass deportations without due process in wartime. Federal courts have rejected that dangerous authoritarian crackpottery, but djt and his MAGA DoJ are not backing down. Finally, Luttig points to djt’s pardoned of >1,200 January 6 rioters and escalated his revenge rhetoric against the judiciary, attacking and framing judges who rule against his criminality and law breaking as obstacles to his agenda.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
I’ve argued here about a gazillion times that djt and MAGA elites want to be free from the rule of law. They want to accumulate vast amounts of wealth and power without much or any personal or corporate risk from committing what few crimes are left that restrain major white collar criminals. That includes most MAGA elites and djt himself. Welp folks, now djt has called off the dogs, telling federal law enforcement to stop going after white collar criminals like djt himself, and instead hunt down and prosecute or persecute immigrants. Medeiaite reports about this in an article, Trump Admin Orders FBI to Deprioritize White Collar Crime, Shift Focus to Immigration. The Trump administration told the FBI to significantly reduce its focus on white-collar crime investigations and instead prioritize immigration enforcement. This change constitutes a major policy shift for federal law enforcement agencies, which have historically not been primarily responsible for immigration enforcement.
djt’s order came with a memo from MAGA thug Matthew Galeotti, head of the DoJ’s criminal division. Galeotti’s memo told prosecutors to narrow the scope of white-collar cases, minimize the length and collateral impact of investigations, and avoid imposing unnecessary burdens on American businesses.
Narrow the scope of white-collar crime investigations and prosecutions? Avoid imposing unnecessary burdens on American businesses? WTF! Believe it or not, this is kleptocracy incarnate.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
PNAS published the results of a massive audit of the 2020 election, Audits of the 2020 American election show an accurate vote count. As we all expected, there was very little voter fraud or any other kind of election fraud. Authoritarian-kleptocrat djt and elite MAGA thugs are insulting, cynical liars and morally rotten thieves. The PNAS article comments:
This study quantifies the accuracy of vote counting in a collection of highly contested and consequential electoral contests. We compiled every available audit of votes cast in the 2020 United States elections at the county level or higher, and we used this election audit database to produce nation-scale numerical estimates of how accurately votes were counted. We find that the net error rate in counting presidential votes was on the order of thousandths of a percent, with similarly inconsequential errors for other state and federal contests.
The dataset includes all available postelection tabulation audits, spanning 856 regional governments across 27 states, with 71,702,471 individual votes and a further 1,210,528 ballots, including about 6.2% of all votes cast for Donald Trump and 6.9% of those cast for Joe Biden. We find that election audits shifted the net presidential vote count by only about 0.007%, with similarly minuscule errors across all major types of electoral contests.
