Within a month of taking office, Trump did away or has attempted to do away with any independent scrutiny of corruption, assuring those left who care about waste, fraud, and abuse are only he himself. Only Trump should be trusted to blow the whistle on himself, he tells his loyal base. DOGE should mean Developers Of Grift Enhancement. Trump is paving the way for the most corrupt government in recent history. Fear and favor rule. This is a lawless regime that believes it can get away with anything because justice is only fair if it favors MAGA, and retribution and revenge will be taken against anyone who objects. The fox has been put in charge of the henhouse door and occupies it.
Once playing the role of oversight and fraud, Congress and sections of the Department of Justice are eliminated or controlled by his minions or will be replaced by loyalists to him. Trump is not done. Next are the thousands of civil servants offered early retirement and Schedule F to turn the rest into political appointees, down the to midlevel and lower ranks. It is worse than big, corrupt, boss-run cities. It's the rank and file of the entire federal government able to tilt their decisions out of loyalty to the boss.
This list is long, given the short time it has all been implemented. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/politics/trump-musk-corruption.html Trump has fired any government watchdog person in the executive branch so he could destroy independent agents empowered to investigate and expose facts, waste, fraud, and abuse, and if the whistleblowing/ inspector general office is not cut by Musk, he is prepared to put his flunkies in charge. Musk has been empowered to root out only to find what the prior administration allegedly did, and if what is found is a mole hole, it becomes the mountain that calls for the elimination of the entire agency or service
Allegations of fraud, aha! Trump and Musk minions were hot to find fraud but all they did was demonstrate their idiocy. If there was waste fraud and abuse...first you have to prove it was that and Musk and his minions are dumbells" https://www.msn.com/.../elon-musk-cries.../ar-AA1zeMIe...." However, Musk’s bombshell has long been known by the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) watchdog, which released an audit in July 2023 showing that 18.9 million people listed as 100 years or older — but not dead — were in the database. 86,000 people living in the US at the time were actually centenarians, according to the Census Bureau."
What is left is to take the word of the president or Musk as torrents of false claims are coming out of the mouths of the president or Trump. The Department of Justice section concerned with abuse and government fraud has been eliminated. The Trump administration removed the head of the whistleblower protection agency. The section of the DOJ that used to prosecute businesses using bribery or getting bribed in getting foreign contracts will no longer be the object of prosecution. The flap with NY Mayor Adams being the subject of investigation and corrupt practices is now dismissed, despite prosecuting attorneys resigning in mass, with some evidence there was a tit-for-tat to benefit MAGA and anti-immigration policies ,is only a symptom of how the administration uses fear and favor to control potential allies and opponents. Corruption is tolerated if the corrupt bow to Trump's policies.
Congress is now under the control of Trump, and government oversight of corruption is now a farce, controlling the hearing agenda and message. With a 3 or 4 vote difference in the House,, the GOP s acting like they got a 100% of the members. They may be in for a surprise in 2016 if the voters feel enough pain of inflation, grocery prices, and the loss of rural and urban hospitals they once depended on for other care. So far, the predicted pain is in the infant stage. So far, at least 49% of the voters are either in denial, are kept in the dark by their favored media, or just do not care. It is as if "so what if it benefits our guy in the White House and he's doing a great job on mass deportations, as the Trump-friendly media tells its loyalists. They do not know that deportation figures are below prior administrations at the same time if they continue at the same rate. A couple of weeks after Day One.. (If deportations keep on current track, it will be half of Biden's)
The MAGA loyalists are opening hearings to begin to impeach judges who rule against their interests. The Democrats are still operating under the Marquis of Salisbury rules, trying to act like traditional supporters of traditional democracy, with diffused messages uttered in dulcet tones, bemoaning democracy's demise and tsk tsk tsking what the Trump regime is doing to ordinary people. Their constituents are taking to the streets to demand they get some backbone.
How about some gut-driven outrage," It ain't fair for anyone, not a billionaire," "Did anyone vote for higher prices and belt-tightening," etc.? "All on budgets are victims." Right now, street actions are the only force able to push back, and we will see much more of that as they highlight corruption and pain conflicted on ordinary Americans of whatever political team colors they support, although most often those who live in red states who depend on federal assistance more than blue states. We may have to wait for pain to reach many, but it is happening quicker than we thought, as prices and inflation are rising even before Trump levies tariffs.
Only the free press is left to blow any whistles. as Musk calls for the impeachment of judges who rule against the White House and denies access to the press such as AP, the associated press, dares expose or report something unfriendly about the Trump regime.. The free press whistle-blowing is at the mercy of MAGA-friendly media to inform their loyal audience of any lies or misinformation that would make Trump look bad. Hear no evil, speak no evil Trump-friendly media policies about Trump or his minions. Leave the MAGA base only getting the side of the story they want to hear.
Any judges ruling against Trump's acts are threatened with impeachment yfor dare ruling that Trump was wrong, Only judges rulig in favor of Trump can avoid such threats, it appears. Even worse, when the courts rule against Trump, he ignores them and keeps violating their rulings, then seeing what he can get away with. Unfortunately, courts have no police to throw the defiant in jail. The president controls and funds the marshal's service, and the FBI is now headed by a loyalist. This is a lawless regme that believes they can get away with anything because justice is only justice that which favors MAGA and retribution and revenge will be taken against anyone who objects. .
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/head-us-whistleblower-office-alleges-trump-improperly-fired-him-2025-02-10/
https://www.newsweek.com/immigrant-deportations-removals-trump-biden-obama-compared-chart-2026835
https://www.news10.com/hill-politics/house-republicans-plot-impeachment-against-judges-blocking-trump-doge/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fcpa-anti-bribery-law-executive-order/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/us/politics/trump-inspectors-general-ruling.html
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-news-ban-air-force-one-b90b8b842d63aef9960ccffb4a657dc2
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5134725-elon-musk-impeachment-demand/
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