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One of the features of Maga's authoritarian planning is its inability. Remember January 6: yes, it was an attempt to a coup-violent climax of a multi-month campaign regarding the cancellation of the election results. But it was also strangely inadequate: it is still unclear whether there is one plan for what to do; Trump retreated after it became clear that the riots were scattered.
This is not in order to reduce seriousness as much as noting that this is a feature, not a mistake. Dan Bongino, Deputy Director of the FBI, is an example.
Bongino spent years as a subcaster and conservative influence before Trump appointed him to the FBI this year. This was a relatively easy job, and one, which turned out to be significant: he took the place of Rasha Limbo after the death of the radio host on the radio and was able to earn money, selling the goods and own the share of ownership in the conservative video platform Rumble through his company.
The problem is that Bongino, a former secret agent, does not like it.
“I refused everything for this,” Fox News complained at the beginning of this year, Bongino, adding that he should appear at 7:30 p.m. East times.
“I look at these four walls all day in the district of Colombia, diluted from my wife. Without getting divorced, but I mean the separated, getting out. And it is difficult. I mean, we love each other, and it is hard to be distributed, ”he added.
Being Dan becomes more difficult. He was reported, he thought over the bureau in July from Epstein's files (of course); In the end, Trump appointed Prosecutor General Missouri Andrew Bailey to help him together with the FBI.
Since then, it has been strangely reduced, even though the Trump administration tried to take the FBI in the era of obvious politicization, which has not been seen for decades. He complained about some messages about the murder of Charlie Kirk and made a strange remark that the killer had influenced left -wing ideologies, but in fact? It was low energy. Other parts of his Empire of the DO-FBI continue to hum.
The company is now controlled by his wife, Bongino Inc., is still selling Merch. America and Alligator Alcatraz T -shirts cost $ 30 each.
– Josh Kovensky
Here's what else TPM has this weekend:
- Trump’s White House put forward many threats about how he claims that he would punish the Democrats and Americans who vote for them.
- The Governor of the Democratic Party of North Carolina speaks of his interest in an attempt to confront the efforts of the state of Republicans to redraw some Congress cards in North Carolin to help his party hold the ward on average. This happened after the Republicans in the state’s legislative body achieved success in depriving Governor Josh Stain from his power regarding the elections even before he took office.
- The Trump administration decided to use a stop for obscure numbers, which suggest that the president’s policy harmed the US economy. But the final bureau of labor statistics during the back of the government is not necessarily unique for the second administration of Trump.
Many threats of administrator Trump Trump
We are only a few days after the closure of the government. And the White House of Trump and the Director of Management and the Vought budget broadcast their not such a secret plan to break the federal government and made this shutdown as painful as possible for democrats and people who vote for them.
President Donald Trump and Vought threatened massive, constant dismissal in federal agencies – instead of ordinary work, which we will see during the closure of the government.
In addition, the duet uses a shutdown as an excuse Cancel billions of dollars of federal financing For energy and infrastructure projects in the blue states. Vouught also announced the administration Adhere to federal financing in Chicago infrastructure projects in the amount of 2.1 billion US dollars. And 18 billion dollars for two major infrastructure projects in New York Since the shutdown began on Wednesday.
“The longer this continues, the more pain it will be caused,” more pain told reporters, ”said reporters on the first day of disconnect.
Some of them are simply threatened; Some are real. But all this – as it was clearly formulated by the White House, President TrumpVouught and some Republicans of Congress – Designed in order to punish the Democrats for not voting with the Republicans on the Republican Party, and instead demanding that some health care measures be restored and extended in exchange for their votes. Democrats also strive to take measures so that Trump’s White House ceases to launch the funds approved in Congress. But, as evidenced by the deployment of the troops of the National Guard in Blue Cities under the guise of repression against crime and various executive orders that threaten to pull out federal funds from blue cities in which there is a policy of the reserve, closing is just an excuse to make benefits on these constant threats.
“If [Democrats] I do not want further harm to their voters at home, then they need to open the government again, ”said the press secretary of the White House Caroline Litt on Thursday, as if the President of the United States serves only people who voted for him.
If you still have questions about how purposefully all this is … Senator Mike Lee was Fox News this week, posting all thisField
“They do it intentionally,” Lee said. “Russ Vought, the director of OMB, dreamed of this moment, preparing this moment from puberty.”
But not every Republican is also frivolous in relation to the reimbursement of the American hills Vought, and the White House is included.
“I am a little worried that they can be counter-productive for us in a political plan in the long run, because other things will require 60 votes again,” said Senator Kevin Kramer (R-nd) on Wednesday, when he was asked if he was worried about Vought threats.
– Emin Yusel
Northern Carolina DEM Government fights the redistributive pressure of Trump
Democratic North Carolina Governor Josh Stain called for the redistribution of the Republicans in his state, which became part of the wider campaign of the Trump administration for the legislative bodies controlled by the Republicans, in an effort to participate in the redistribution of medium cycles to help the party to keep the US House in Midter.
Currently the Congress Map of North Carolina Includes four places represented by democrats and ten RepublicansThe map is redrawn Help the Republicans win in the 1st district of CongressWhich currently belongs to the democratic representative of Don Davis.
According to the message from NC NewslineStein called the Republican campaign to redraw the map of North Carolina as “funny”.
“We simply re -propagated for the second time the last cycle. Therefore, every two years is the theory that we are going to redistribute so that we can maximize the political advantage to stick it to one side and improve the other party? ” He said, per NC NewslineThe field “We cannot fall into this worldview of the maximalist political power, because it will destroy this country.”
“We must be able to find out, sometimes you win the elections, sometimes you lose the elections. When you lose, you are gathering your strength, you work hard, you are trying to convince voters the next time, ” – Stein addedField
This is not the first time, even recently, the Republicans in North Carolin tried to mess with the elections in the state for political reasons. Republicans in the same legislative assembly of the state tried to deprive Stein of his powerEven before he entered the post.
In the last days of his veto-permeable supermajorite last year, the legislation controlled by the Republican Party, last year, in which he gave the then elected state auditor of Dave Bolka, power over the state election council of the state. This is a responsibility that historically rests on the governor, not a state auditor.
– Khaya Himmelman
BLS does not publish data while shutdown
It is amazing that, against the background of culture in the administration of Trump manipulating data, even when the government is functioning, the shutdown led to the stop of the federal data collection and publication. For example, in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on Friday a critical monthly report on workplaces was not published. Trump administration decided to use a stop on obscure numbers This suggests that his economic policy is damaged by the US economy. But the termination of BLS operations during the government is not necessarily unique for the second administration of Trump, and the pause of the work report may not be as ominous as some other methods with which Trump's White House is arming the shutdown.
In 2013, when the BLS Commissioner, Eric Grush, answered, the bureau stopped functioning, but “left to open the possibility of publishing certain data.” Bloomberg Report From that time it is said. Ultimately, however, the data was delayed. Senior Economist Wells Fargo Michael Pugliese wrote in a recent analysis that a monthly report on workplaces and inflation reports were postponed for about two weeks. “[D]The quality of ATA for the period reflecting the stop was not affected to a large extent, ”Pugliz writes, but less prices were used to calculate the IPC.
The disconnection of 2019 was different. Bureau led by Commissioner Trump BLS William Beach was Able to publish data Because Congress has already been financed by the Ministry of Labor with one of the 12 bills on allocations.
– Leila A. Jones
