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A classic example of political corruption
Ed Martin had no previous experience as a public prosecutor when he became a lawyer at the Ministry of Health earlier this year. And it appears.
Since his candidacy was thwarted for the permanent position due to the lack of support of the Republican Party in the Senate, it was Martin tripartite-First in major justice, such as (i), lawyer, amnesty. (2) The “Weapons Working Group” run by the head of the Prosecutor Pam Bondi – The name is unintentionally detected by the uniform accused of politicizing the Ministry of Justice; And (3) recently as a “private lawyer” in Bondi who oversees fraud in the real estate mortgage, the politically motivated by the Senator Adam Chef (D-CA) and the General Attorney in New York Lettia James.
In this third role, Martin was apparently serving when he went to Fox News and admitted that he was using the pretext of fraud in the real estate mortgage to conduct an open charming chase in Chef and James. Martin said on the air: “We will also look at everything they do,” Martin said on the air.
Most legal experts believe that the mortgage fraud claims do not rise to anything on the facts or in the law. However, it does not reduce the effectiveness of the ongoing criminal investigations on any person, especially the elected officials, especially when using investigations as a justification for a large -scale achievement without other errors.
Even if the charges never come, this is a classic example of political corruption – and the authoritarian capture of the independence of the federal prosecutors. Martin began a fishing trip and will continue as long as it is beneficial to the White House.
Talking about Leitia James …
A 500 million dollar civil fraud has been kept in New York James, and he rules civil fraud of $ 500 million against Donald Trump for about a year, apparently due to deep divisions and three fencing opinions on the Five Justice Appeals Committee, WSJ reports.
Today’s topic
Through a new series of decrees, the FBI director Cash Patel will further destroy the office and turn into something similar to the National Police Department (which is not what the FBI was historically):
Exclusive msnbc Report with @Marxantia4ny:
The FBI director, Cash Patel, is focusing on changes aimed at converting the office into a national police force that focuses on violent crime, says current and previous officials MSNBC – at an account, on the tunnel, on the role of the long FBI …
– Ken Dylanian (@dilanisnbc) August 15, 2025
A recipe for disaster
Red states Jump To send their patriotic guards to the country’s capital and show the passion of passion, which is the president. West Virginia, Ohio, and South Carolina (still smart from the last time she tried to overthrow the capital) First in the line To engage in strong armament of democratic cities.
but The most anxious news The exit during a weekend in general is that the National Guard may be armed, which is the opposite of a previous decision to deploy the National Guard in the capital in the streets without weapons on their people or in vehicles.
The ingredients can be in place to take a cocktail of violence: federal agents and national guards who have little or non -street training in the street police who are sent with guns to a peaceful urban area (many of them do not raise) and are expected to cause trouble. It puts everyone – residents of the capital, local police, guards and federal agents – in an impossible position.
one A glimmer of good news Was the Trump administration transferred to the court on Friday because of its attempt to take over the Capital Police Administration, and under pressure from a federal judge, Retreat Its maximum position.
Icymi
He sends religion: The latest ice employment materials include the new Nazi reference and the Nazi Nazi text
Treasurer: The new fascism comes with Mirch
Florida Republican Party It was cleaned Her online store for a new line of goods promoting the new “deportation depot” after the Home Depot complained that it was a non -approved use of its brands.
DEMS Texas expects again this week
With the progress of Democrats in California by re -dividing the circles in the middle of the decade, the Democrats in Texas are expected to return to the state today, giving Republicans a quorum in the legislative body to pay through the plan to re -divide the departments. Democrats in Texas succeeded in banning the process of re -dividing the circles in the first special session of the Legislative Authority. But when the matter ended, on Friday, Greg Abbott (PBUH) immediately called for a second special session, which controls the stage of passing a boycott map in the new and more friendly Congress to help the national Republicans hold the majority of their house in the middle of next year.
Today’s quote
“Trump has completely abandoned control of the narration to Putin. What Ukraine gets basically as the Russians stop fighting. This is Putin’s path for 25 years of his presidency, which is:” I will strike you and I have stopped beating you. “– The National Security Council official in Trump I Fiona Hill
Do!
The guests at a hotel in Anchorage found sensitive documents from the Trump Putin summit on a public printer, NPR reports.
Trump’s Capital Department strike: CFPB edition
DC Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao judges, appointed Trump who have scoring in the first months of Trump’s second presidency, Wipe Friday for the Trump administration to dismantle the financial consumer protection office. Judge Cornellia Pillaard, who is appointed Obama Opposition.
“The idea that the courts are unable to prevent the president from abolishing the federal government agencies that were elected to their leadership, cannot be reconciled with the constitutional separation of the authorities or our nation’s commitment to the government of laws.”
Garbage in, garbage outside
TPM’s Layla A. Jones: The Trump administration lay the foundation for full seizure of federal data
The judge prevents the FTC probe from the media
The boycott judge in the United States stood up. Suknanan from the capital to media matters in ban Investigation of the Federal Political Trade Committee from the liberal monitoring group.
“This issue is directly violating the first amendment,” Sogananan Ruling.
Media matters were financially struggling under the weight of fake right -wing investigations on whether their reports on anti -Semitic content on X/Twitter were an anti -competition behavior. He also faces relevant serial claims by Elon Musk.
“All Americans should benefit when the government is running out of individuals or organizations for its participation in the constitutionally protected public debate,” Suknanan wrote. “This alarm should be louder when the government is running out of the participants in collecting news and reporting.”
A rare example of left -wing left violence?
The alleged attack in the ice detention center in Texas caught my attention as an example of the organization left Violence, a relative scarcity since the 1970s. When I say “organizer”, I do not necessarily mean a good organization. The alleged attack of the Ragtag Group has appeared in particular, even according to the official law enforcement of the accident. In addition to strangeness, it seems that the alleged perpetrators-including two transgender activists-were from within and around Dallas, which is not my first choice for misery of fascist.
Robert and Abu Robert Kimmco A little more dug In the “Confidential Network to Combat Fascism in Dallas” who “initially unite on cross and strange identity issues.” He conducted an interview in prison with the leader of the alleged group of the group, a former reserve expert in the Marine Corps of Japanese and Mixed Korean origin who trained “very young and naive leftists”, as one of the witnesses said in the fighting close to nearby weapons and battles on a large scale in his mother’s studio in the Dallas suburb.
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