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For the brave and curious, look up the names from the last time (repeated here from the previous post): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Vindman; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sondland; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Maguire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Yovanovitch; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_M._Gordon. Now as would befit a criminal mastermind, a Joker in the first degree, he has set his sites on the world’s foremost tried and true Federal investigators: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/31/fbi-considering-mass-purge-agents-involved-trump-investigations/. In the mix: David Sundberg, soon to be former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI, a position “overseeing nearly 1,600 employees and operations across Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia . . . .”
The purge–perhaps an opening curtain on persecutions to come–looks as bad as it appear without basis in reality, but when the nation accepts the election of a criminal, this is what it gets–>
Emil Bove, the acting No. 2 official at the department, offered no evidence those targeted had done anything improper, illegal or unethical. Instead he cited a legal technicality.
Those informed of their dismissals had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot as the office struggled to manage what became the largest prosecution in the department’s history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/prosecutors-us-attorneys-office-trump-firings.html.
Two days earlier–>
The acting attorney general on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said. /
Justice Department veterans called the firings an egregious violation of well-established laws meant to preserve the integrity and professionalism of government agencies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/justice-department-firings-trump-jack-smith.html
Where does it end?
It doesn’t.
The process of converting American Democracy into a politically absolute system of patronage, i.e., a dictatorship, has only just begun. However, it may be hampered and ended by cooperative resistance through the ranks of moderate Democrats and Republicans and all displaced or threatened with as much as if by a deeply criminal and traitorous king deserving little respect for his crimes and treason. Donald Trump may have won an American election but he has only outrun the law with the indictments processed against by our fellow Americans–election interference; classified documents abuse; attempted election fixing.
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Below: a glance at related news. By taking apart America’s Federal Government from the highest level down, Trump provides himself greater passage as a lawless and ruthless dictator. He’ll figure out the he cannot purchase an American conscience or repair the damage he will now bring to the careers and lives of the best and most experienced of American Federal servants, but having neither conscience nor empathy–or normal boundaries and limits–those disruptions and related suffering will not register with him. His cocked-up narrative: he’s the victim!
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