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The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CCII – The “supreme court” Makes Up More Legal GARBAGE To Empower Trump

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***. “Republicans care most about those who will only get richer because of government help. The government is truly broken…and another four years, and heaven forbid not eight years under the Republicans, and our grandchildren will have to build a new government, because the one we have will be unrecognizable and unworkable.”
[ A “lifelong” Republican who knew Bush and Cheney personally, worked in the Nixon White House – specifically gave this quote to John Dean to use as the book’s closing statement in “Broken Government How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches” ]. [NOTE: with every passing day, every asinine “supreme court” decree, virtually every Trump DICTATORSHIP action – YOU are now seeing this fearful prediction come true]

This post will present excerpts from 6/30/26 reactions to yet another Roberts ‘supreme court” UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNDEMOCRATIC. ruling violating the OBVIOUS intent of the Founding American Generation to create a REAL democracy, one in which Congress, NOT the president was to be the dominate governmental body.

In some better, more rational, more CONSTITUTIONAL. future – the decisions of the CORRUPT Roberts ‘court” will be studies for their LAUGHABLE reasoning, their corruption of clear and obvious Founding Generation intent, words, fears. Having just revolted against a king. – they had NO intention of allowing another king. – the imperial president. – to become a legal tyrant.

*** “Power must never be trusted without a check.” [ John Adams; Founding Father ]

1]. “In a major expansion of presidential authority, the Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Trump to fire independent government regulators despite federal laws meant to protect their jobs.” [ Ann Marimow: “Justices Broaden President’s Sway Over Regulators”; New York Times; 6/30/26 ]

2]. “The court’s 6-to-3 ruling to broadly allow the firings…represented a significant shift in power from congress to the president, and could drastically change the federal government’s structure by giving the president more control over independent agencies.” [ Marimow ]

3] “The case tested whether Mr. Trump could oust Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, simply because she did not align with his agenda, despite a law that says the president can remove commissioners only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” [ Marimow ]

*** “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” [ James Madison; Founding Father ]

4]. “Several justices have for years said that they were eager to overturn the 1935 precedent, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, that has protected independent agencies.” [ Marimow ]
[NOTE. we’ve seen this before. – Roberts ‘court” “justices” USING a case to carry out prejudices, NOT support legal precedent and Congressional intent. Under the Constitution. – CONGRESS, not the president, makes laws. AND. – WHY are these agencies called. “independent agencies” ??????? ]

5] “Justice Sonia Sotomayor read a lengthy summary of her dissent from the bench, warning that the decision would unleash chaos. Independent agencies will be “transformed in ways that those who created them never could have expected and actively sought to avoid, fundamentally recalibrating the balance of power in this country…..”It is a power..that neither the people, nor Congress, nor the Constitution bestowed upon him”…” [ Marimow ]

6] “Today’s ruling makes it possible for presidents to fire watchdogs who won’t put politics over principle, and replace them with lap dogs,” Slaughter said. it’s a recipe for corruption. Working families will pay the price.” [ Marimow ]

***. “Checks and balances, limited government. – the genius of our constitutional system is its recognition that no one branch of government alone can be relied on to preserve our freedoms.” President Ronald Reagan; Republican ]

7] “For nearly a century, the Supreme Court has made it difficult for a president to defy the clear text of a law passed by Congress. The court prevented Franklin D. Roosevelt from firing a leader of the Federal Trade Commission in 1935. it stopped the Reagan administration from defying a pollution investigation in 1988. It helped block Barack Obama’s attempt to expand immigration protections in 2016.” [ New York times editorial: “The Supreme court’s Hypocrisy; 6/30/26]

8] “The ruling dismisses longstanding precedent and effectively discards a 112-year-old law that said the president could fire commissioners only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” Mr. Trump can now fire commissioners in regulatory agencies simply because he wants to.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/26 ]

9]. “..the unitary theory ends up being more radical, and more disruptive to the previous understanding of the separation of powers, than its advocates typically acknowledge. there is no question Congress has some authority over regulatory agencies. The Constitution gives the Senate confirmation power for top positions…Chief Justice Roberts says this merely gives the Senate the power to confirm or reject the appointees that the president prefers. but this view throws out nearly a century of practice that congress put in place because it saw bipartisan composition as a strength for agencies.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/26 ]

***. “In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.” [ James Madison; Federalist Papers #10, #51 ]

1-] “Central to the success of the American experiment over nearly 250 years has been the balance of powers among the three branches of government. Together, Mr. Trump and this Supreme Court are upsetting that balance. They are deviating from a tradition that has lasted more than a century, in which parts of the government operate with bipartisan leadership removed from everyday partisan politics, as Congress intended.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/2611]

11] “The effect is to sideline Congress, which the authors of the Constitution viewed as the primary branch among equals. The Supreme Court on Monday created a government run by a very small number of people who work at either the Supreme Court or the White House.” [ Times editorial; 6/30/26 ]. [NOTE – just as “Project 2025” and other far-right people have planned – which is why we discuss “your” American government as The Trump DICTATORSHIP ]

*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[ James Madison; Federalist Papers #47 ]

12] “In a tiny corner of the legal world…the March ruling crashed down like a thunderbolt…the Merit Systems Protection Board, whose purpose is to protect federal workers…backed President Trump’s assertion that he has broad authority to reshape the executive branch as he wants. The ruling broke with decades of precedent…it defanged the most effective method of federal workers to challenge their dismissals, and if upheld on appeal could undercut protections for broad swaths of the civil service.” [ Jonah Bromwich, Michael Schmidt, Rebecca Davis O’Brien: “White House Swayed A Board That Protects Workers From Firings”; New York times; 6/30/26 ]. [ NOTE: a DICTATORSHIP gets rid of people who are not “loyal” to the DICTATOR, by ANY means necessary…… Do YOUR homework; WHY was a non-political American civil service created???????????? ]

*** “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.” [ Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson ]

[NOTE: for PERSPECTIVES. – do YOUR own research of 1787-2005 U.S. legal and Constitutional intent and thought. You can begin with sources listed below. What EVIDENCE do they provide? What are their footnotes? WHY do they call the Roberts ‘court” CORRUPT? Remember THE test, from the Preamble: ‘..to promote the general Welfare..” What have been results of Roberts ‘court” decisions – on guns, on campaign finance, on voting rights, on civil rights, on presidential immunity, etc. – and the effect on America?
– “Raphael Warnock Says the SupremeCourt has Done ‘violence’ to Democracy” [ David Marchese; New York times Magazine; 6/14/26]; “Justices Gut Voting Rights to shield GOP majority – and Their Own Disgrace” [ Joe Conason; The Progressive Populist; June, 2026 ]; “The Scheme. How the right Wing used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court” {Senator Sheldon Whitehorse}; “The Shadow Docket. How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic”. [ Stephen Vladek }; “The Originalism Trap” [ Madiba Dennie ]; “Lawless. How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes”. [ Leah Litman ]; “Without Precedent How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled our Rights”. [Lisa Graves ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness

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*** “In a president, character is everything.” [ Peggy Noonan; Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan ]

From January 20, 2025 to June 17, 2026 – this site posted 200 times on the Trump DICTATORSHIP. We are slowing down – summer vacation, etc.
BUT –
THE primary reason is this: in doing our research, compiling our 200 posts – the Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – is beginning to corrode us mentally. Being exposed to Trump’s personality, rhetoric, actions, policies, above all his LIES. – is corrosive. It is depressing to see an American president say and do these things as intensively as we have. To make our posts – we did research for perspective on who and what Donald Trump is. – compared to other presidents; compared to what American politics and society considered “normal”; compared to what normal Americans consider to be decent, considerate, fair.

*** “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.” { Mark Twain ]

We have repeatedly said this: judging Any president or American government actions. – apply this test: The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution: “We the People…a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty..”

ANY U.s. government action, policy, law – that DOES NOT achieve these objectives is – Unconstitutional, UnAmerican, destructive, and corrosive to American liberty, society, government.
The Eisenhower freeway system passes the test. The Trump tax cuts for the rich of 2017 and 2025 DO NOT. Because, among other things: they FAIL to ‘..promote the general Welfare..” Few, if any, Trump actions have done so.

***. “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”
[ Ludwig von Mises ]

Donald John Trump is THE anti-George Washington; THE anti-Abraham Lincoln; THE anti-Dwight D. Eisenhower. Not because we say so – but because the EVIDENCE, the plain public record says this. No objective American can say Trump’s character and actions are even close to these three men. using public records. – few observers, with a straight face, can say Donald John Trump is close to many of the previous 40 other U.S. presidents.

***. “Openly monetizing the presidency is a true Trump innovation….Mr. Trump’s scheming will define him and his family…All that will be left is his reputation. Mr. Trump has made that synonymous with corruption forever.”
[ Noah Schachtman; New York times; 5/24/26 ]

No other American president has ever been accused of openly fomenting an insurrection to stop an election. No other American president made a reported fortune of $1-4 billion in just a few months in office. No other American president created, allowed ‘a pardon industry” that freed many convicted of serious white collar crimes. No other American president routinely insulted and demeaned American citizens so publicly. No other American president has LIED. so often. – over 30,000 in one term; is anybody counting 2021-2026 Trump fabrications?

*** “Trump has taken mafia government to heights unrivaled in this country’s history.”
[ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]

Some recent illustrations of Trump’s corrosive effect on America, headlines alone:
1] “How Trump Weighed suspending a Legal Right” [ Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan; New York Times; 6/18/26]
2] “Trump Escalates Push On voter ID”. [ Michael Gold, Dustin Wolf; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
3] “True to Form, President Unsettles G7 Summit”. [ Mark Landler; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
4]. “U.S. Pays $765 Million to Not Build 4 Wind Farms” [ Brad Plumer; New York Times; 6/18/26 ]
5]. “Protester says he was beaten, shackled for days”. [ Alan Feuer; New York Times; 6/20/26 ]
6] “Meloni says Trump ‘fabricated’ claim”. [ Nicole Winfield; Associated Press; 6/20/26 ]
7] “Flu sickens 160 at Air force base after end of vaccine mandate” [ Greg Jaffe, Maggie Haberman; New York Times; 6/20/26 ]
[ NOTE: this happens almost EVERY day during the Trump DICTATORSHIP !!! ]

*** “Most of Trump’s failings can be explained by a simple truth: He cared more about himself than the country.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winners Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker: “I Alone Can Fix It” ]

YOU can help SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. – on November 3, 2026. – vote against EVERY. Republican running for Congress. – just this one time, please. YOU do not want to experience an unrestrained, unaccountable. TRUMP. DICTATORSHIP. for two more years. YOUR democracy just might end if YOU don’t act…………

The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXXVII – “How the A.I. Oligarchy Devoured America”

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***. “The term oligarchy traditionally has been seen as the rule of a selfish few over a whole community.”
[ World Book Encyclopedia ]

Technology can be “good”, or it can be “bad,” depending on how it is used, and, WHO controls it. This post presents excerpts from. “Empire Builders”. [ Tim Murphy; Mother Jones; May-June, 2026 ]:

3] “The AI boom has ushered oligarchy onto a new plane by uniting the monopolistic ambitions of the world’s richest men with the nationalist ambitions of their political champions. In the process, it has sparked a reckoning..across the political spectrum, over the demand for resources and tax dollars and over what kind of future we might build….The data centers have, in a sense, transformed opaque structures of inequality and power into literal ones. Oligarchy is now more than an idea; it is a place. Across the country, the empire builders of AI have sold themselves as the gateway to the future you’ve always dreamed of, and the solution to the problems they helped bring about.”

10] “The amount of power needed to keep the data center boom going is astounding. An analysis by Accenture projected that by 2030, energy demand for data centers would be equivalent to that of the entire country of Canada, and trhe industry’s share of global emissions could jump elevenfold. Another study projected that data center use would account for roughly 12 percent of all U.S. energy consumption in that same time frame, up threefold from the start of the boom.”

*** “If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump’s autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die.” [ Heather Cox Richardson ]

7] “..the conversations that AI proponents are having in public right now tell a simpler and less idealistic story: The people who claim to be building the future traded the dream of democratic abundance for a strongman who will make them money In September, a few dozen tech luminaries gathered at the White House to promote first lady Melania Trump’s initiative to encourage children to use AI. The ulterior motive for the summit came into focus…when the president called on the AI moguls one by one to say a few words about their work.
“I just wanted to say thank you, said OpenAI President Greg Brockman, for the administration’s “optimism.” “Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president – it’s a very refreshing change,” said Altman…..Bill Gates…..Microsoft’s Satya Nadella…..Apple’s Tim Cook…..a lesser autocrat might have kept off camera but that Trump found value in showing the world. The AI executives offered him ballroom donations, settlement checks, and legitimacy. He offered them deals, deregulation, and deference. It was important that everyone understand the arrangement.”

11] “A study by two Harvard Law School researchers found that consumers would end up paying billions to underwrite tech companies’ power infrastructure – to say nothing of billions of dollars in tax breaks. A CNBC analyst found 16 states doled out $6 billion worth of tax breaks over the last five years. In New Jersey, the AI expansion drove a 22 percent hike in electric rates year over year.”

***. “When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.”
[ John Adams; Founding Father; 2nd U.S. President ]

1] “But the thing about building a data center this big you cannot simply build a data center – you must build a whole world to go with it. You need three new power plants and transmission lines to connect them to the grid. You need hundreds of millions of gallons of water and miles of pipes. You must pave roads and build new ones, clear fields and build ponds. You need a port to bring in gravel and dirt from wherever you can get it. You need stoplights and sheriff’s deputies and laundromats. You need thousands of workers and places to house them – executive lodging, cheap motels, and man camps with movie theaters and gyms.”

2]. “If the economic story of the last two decades was the consolidation of wealth and power in Silicon Valley, the story of the last few years is what tech billionaires want to do with it. Since the summer of 2024, America’s richest men have been on a building spree with few precedents in recent history. The scale of the investment…is so vast that proponents have turned to previous eras of reckless extraction and technological advancement to describe it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright called it “Manhattan Project 2.”

4]. “But at one Google site in The Dalles..an offer of $260 million in incentives and a third of the city’s 2024 water supply had resulted in just 200 full-time jobs – many of them off site. The same narratives pop up again and again. Communities are essentially given a choice: Approve it fast or watch some other town reap the rewards – and miss out on future investments..”

***. “..if the U.S. had remained as equitable as it was in 1975 for the next forty-three years therough 2018, the bottom 90 percent of Americans would have earned an extra $47 trillion. Instead that money went to people already at the top, who use that money, among other things, to influence the political system and to hoard real estate.”
[ Alec Karakatsanis ]. [NOTE – think on this. THIS is part of the THEFT the top 15 has done. ]

5] “The rise of the American oligarchy happened slowly and then all at once…you’d see a steady upward slope from Clinton-era deregulation to bush-era tax cuts to Obama-era techno-optimism and on through Trump’s first term. Then it spiked. Between 2000 and 2020, as tech monopolies consolidated power, the share of the nation’s wealth held by the top 0.00001 percent roughly doubled. By the end of 2025, it had nearly doubled again. it is no longer novel or even particularly accurate to note that the richest Americans control a greater share of resources than theydid during the Gilded Age..”

6] “The American oligarchy is an AI oligarchy. The world’s six richest men as of early March were all actively involved in AI development…There are 10 trillion-dollar companies, and nine of them are in AI.”

8]. “The implicit promise of the AI revolution is that all the things made worse by AI will eventually be fixed by AI. Some oligarchs are even pitching AI as a solution to the problems oligarchy has helped bring about.”

*** “To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government…The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.” [ Franklin D. Roosevelt; 32nd U.S. President ]

9] “Whereas Russia’s kleptocrats started off in extractive mineral industries and then branched out into tech and finance, American’s oligarchs made their fortunes online before pivoting to natural resources.”

12] “All this dirty energy means that, as with public health, oligarchy is slowing our progress on climate…[Trump’s]..agencies are rolling back clean air regulations…the increased power use by the AI industry would produce about $20 billion in public health damages by 2028.”

13]. “The Colossus of Memphis sends a signal about what the oligarchy is that all the whirring servers of the world can’t drown out – shimmering hot air, a reckless consolidation of power, a new extractive machine built on the foundations of old ones.”

*** “Oligarchies, throughout history, have always thought more of their own advantage than that of the rest of the community. It was revolt against the selfishness of past political oligarchies that produced the liberal movement in favor of democracy, and it was the revolt against economic oligarchies that produced socialism.”
[ Bertrand Russell ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXXVI. – Trump’s Ideological Tests for YOUR Government’s Grants

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*** “In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought..described his work crafting legal justifications so military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump’s executive actions. He said the plans are a response to a “Marxist takeover” of the country… Another priority, according to Vought, was to “defund” certain independent federal agencies and demonize career civil servants..” [Molly Redden, Andy Kroll, ProPublica; Nick Surgey, Documented: “‘Put Them in Trauma’: Inside a key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda”; The Progressive Populist; December 1, 2024 ]

This post presents excerpts from. “Billions in grants could depend on political test….White House would block funding if plans don’t align with Trump”; Tony Romm; New York Times; 6/3/26 ]:

7] “The proposal was only the latest attempt by the Office of Management and Budget, led by Russell T. Vought, to exert power over federal funding. The preamble to its sprawling new blueprint reaffirmed Vought’s view that much of the government’s ledger is riddled with spending that is wasteful, “divisive” or “woke.”

4] “The government could not issue grants to projects or groups that…”promote anti-American values”..”

9] “.. the administration has stalled or blocked aid for child care, disaster preparedness, green energy, education, food stamps, foreign assistance, mental health, public broadcasting, research and transportation infrastructure….In cases that date back to the early, disruptive days of the Department of Government Efficiency, judges have found that many of Trump’s actions have violated the law.”

***. “In papers and legal memos, Vought and his associates have articulated a vast array of dubious maneuvers to remake American democracy…Their plans to remove checks and balances and challenge long-established constraints on executive overreach, if realized, would unleash a Trump presidency battle-tested to turn gripe into policy.” [Isabella Dias: “The Architect…Trump wants to be King, Russ Vought has a Plan to Make It Happen”; Mother Jones; November-December, 2024 ]

1] “The White House is seeking to exert more control over billions of dollars in annual government grants, aiming to restrict a vast swath of funding – in health, housing, science and transportation. – so that it primarily serves the purposes and organizations politically aligned with President Donald Trump.”

2]. “..its proposal amounts to a major escalation in its attempt to reimagine the nation’s spending, even as Congress and the courts continue to rebuke the president for abusing such powers.”

3]. “If finalized, it would require all federal grants to be approved by the president’s political appointees, who must ensure that the money would “demonstrably advance the president’s policy priorities.”

***. “.. Vought nurtures a far more expansive. – and alarming. – ambition: to institute a new governing paradigm predicated on unrestrained presidential authority. With Vought as the architect, Trump could take his “dictator” on “day one” aspirations beyond words..” [Isabella Dias: “The Architect”; Mother Jones; November-December, 2024]

5]. “Restrictions echo the string of executive orders that Trump signed shortly after returning to office, many of which have been challenged or blocked in court. This time, however, the White House has pursued its restrictions by proposing a regulation…The result could be applied far more broadly, and perhaps in ways that are harder to fight legally or undo later..”

6]. “In exchange for federal assistance, researchers would face limits on the subjects that they can explore, the foreign labs with which they collaborate and even the conferences at which they can appear.”

8]. “Trump has frequently disregarded the instructions of Congress anyway..”

*** “During the first five months of the 2016 GOP primaries, the New York Times was so struck by Trump’s demagogic rhetoric they gathered and analyzed “every public utterance” by him, some 95,000 words. They retained historians, psychologists, and political scientists to review the material, and the experts concluded it echoed “some of the [worst] demagogues of the past century.” [ John W. Dean, bob Altemeyer: “Authoritarian Nightmare… Trump and His Followers” ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXXV. – “Trump Keeps Pushing Plans People Dislike”

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***. “..the last forty-four presidents all pursued policies that they believed would make for a better America tomorrow. The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop. He says so himself all the time..”
[ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]

This post presents excerpts from. “Trump Keeps Pushing Plans People Dislike”. [ Luke Broadwater; New York Times; 5/24/26 ]:

7] “Mr. Trump has seemed unconcerned about whether these ideas are popular with voters, and has lamented openly that Democrats are likely to gain ground in the midterm elections. He has been most animated when discussing how he exacts vengeance on Republicans who criticize him.”

8] “Ms. Binder said she took Mr. Trump at his word when he argued last year that he had little further use for Congress, a suggestion that he could enact most of his agenda by circumventing lawmakers…..”He’s focused on the arch. I think he’s focused on his own personal legacy. He’s focused on vengeance,” she said.”

*** “According to Malkin, political leaders such as Hitler, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-un exhibit malignant narcissism. As Robert Jay Lifton notes in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” such narcissism in a leader can lead to “malignant normality”…people can come to accept aberrant and even pathological behavior as a new norm, especially when it is exhibited by an authority figure. He applies this to Trump.” [ Steven Hassan: “The Cult of Trump”]

1] “…his grip over Republican lawmakers began slipping after he proposed a pair of deeply unpopular spending items, prompting an unusual revolt from the Senate. When faced with such a backlash ahead of midterm elections, many politicians would pivot, redirecting their focus ti issues they are on stronger footing with. But Mr. Trump has decided to double down, presenting himself as all-powerful even in the face of indications that he is not.”

2] “Over the years, Mr. Trump has often appeared to have an air of invincibility…He has successfully exacted retribution on many a perceived enemy. Now, with less than three years left in office, he seems comfortable burning whatever political capital he has in order to leave his legacy, even if it drags his party down in the process.”

3] “Rather than abandon his plan for a $1.8 billion fund to reward allies who claim they were persecuted by Democrats, mr. Trump has defended the proposal, suggesting he could have used the taxpayer money to enrich himself…..”Instead, I am helping others, who were so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden administration..”

***. “Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

4] “The meeting went so poorly for Mr. Blanche that party leaders scrapped planned votes on another of Mr. Trump’s top priorities: a $72 billion immigration crackdown measure lawmakers had planned to muscle through before memorial Day.”

5] “Mr. Trump was also undeterred when another unpopular policy position – using taxpayer money to help fund security for his $400 million luxury ballroom on White House grounds – was met with backlash on Capitol Hill.”

6]. “Another dynamic at play in the Trump White House is a lack of dissenting voices to some of the president’s most extreme ideas. In mr. Trump’s first term, some of the president’s radical ideas were checked by aides like John F. Kelly..Jim Mattis..Gary Cohn… But these men are long gone, and their positions have been filled mostly by people who are true believers.”

***. “Lincoln never forgot that in a democracy the leader’s strength ultimately depends on the strength of his bond with the people. In the mornings he set aside several hours to hear the needs of the ordinary people lined up outside his office, his time of “public opinion baths.” Kindness, empathy, humor, passion, and ambition all marked him from the start.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Leadership” ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXXIV. – “Dumb and dumber, Republican-style”

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***. “corruption as commonly understood is back to Gilded Age levels..Never since the scandal-ridden administration of Ulysses S. Grant has there been an executive branch as nakedly given over to self-dealing as that of Donald Trump. To describe even a few of the dynamics not yet mentioned would take pages.” [Sarah Chayes: “On Corruption In America”]

This post presents excerpts from George Will’s. “Dumb and dumber, Republican-style” [St. Paul Pioneer Press; 5/24/26]:

1]. “In this past week, the Republican Party has accomplished something difficult: It made itself stupider. It subtracted from its already shallow reservoir of intelligence by moving to purge two fine senators. And its embodiment authored a novel grift.”

6] “There is a sort of artistry, akin to the shenanigans used to cook Enron’d books, in Trump’s attempt to fleece taxpayers for a $1.776 billion [get it? this is patriotic] slush fund to be doled out by his friends to his accomplices. The doling will be done by a board appointed by the attorney general, who serves at the president’s pleasure. Trump can fire the board members for any reason. And the fund will disappear immediately after the 2028 election.” [!!!!!!!!!!!!]

*** “There’s an honest graft, and I’m an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin”: “I seen my opportunities and I took ’em.” [ Tammany Hall ward boss, George Washington Plunkitt, in: “Plunkitt of Tammany Hall”, by William L. Riordon ]

2]. “..the two senators will be replaced on this autumn’s ballots by persons who, if elected…can be counted on to be exactly what no senator should be: another of the president’s congressional sock puppets, promising, as a high principle, not to think independently.”

3] “His scarlet sin was to have believed that Donald Trump’s urging a mob to stop Congress from certifying the results of a presidential election constituted an impeachable offense. Cassidy’s departure will subtract most of the Senate membership interested in responding to the approaching crisis of Social Security funding.”

4]. “Cassidy’s genuine sin – casting the decisive vote that put an amateur quack [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] at the pinnacle of the public health system. – probably pleased the yahoos who wanted Cassidy gone. He will be replaced by a Republican whose identity does not matter: He or she will be a cipher, vigorously subservient to Trump.”

***. “as president – Trump’s ignorance of science…many of them had no qualifications whatsoever…The Trump administration deposited political termites throughout the structure of our government.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]

5] “..Trump surely, correctly, sees in Paxton a kindred spirit…He is a pinup of religious “conservatives” who disregard his lurid personal life.”

7} “In January, Trump sued the IRS [the head of which serves at the pleasure of the president] for $10 billion. this was a prelude to this week’s ‘compromise.” Trump – essentially negotiating with himself, sitting on both sides of the table – agreed to drop this suit. In exchange, the Justice Department [its head serves at Trump’s pleasure] agreed to create a $1.776 billion fund to compensate government “lawfare” victims”. [NOTE – but the fund will NOT compensate any person, any city, any state victimized the the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s persecution or prosecution !!!!!!!!!!!!]

8]. “Purging senators while complaining about “lawfare” but punishing law firms he dislikes…Sophists devoted to obfuscating the obvious will insist that Trump, not the Republican Party, is doing all this. But sentient people know it is a distinction without a difference.”

***. “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” [ Henry Clay; U.S. Senator; 1829 ]

***. “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [ Donald John Trump: “The Art of the Deal” ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXXII. – Trump Destroys American Government

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*** “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump…He is the most dangerous person ever…I talked to you about his mental decline..now I realize he’s a total fascist…A fascist to the core.” General Mark Miley – in Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward”s “War’ ] [NOTE: take so time… mull this over. Look at WHO said these words. Ask YOURSELF. – WHY – What events led General Miley to say this???]

This post presents excerpts from. “The Purged… Donald Trump’s Destruction Of The Civil Service Is A Tragedy Not Just For The Roughly 300,000 Workers Who Have Been Discarded, But For An Entire Nation.” [Franklin Foer; The Atlantic; February, 2026. Read the mini biographies of 50 former U.S. government experts to understand partially. WHY Trump’s destruction of. YOUR. government will take years, if not decades, to rebuild and repair. Trump and Musk fired people who’s job was to protect America and make America run efficiently for. YOU. 80% of U.S. government employees work outside Washington. YOUR community and YOUR. state will most likely not work as well or efficiently. THIS is one of THE most STUPID things Trump has done. “The damage will ripple through every national park, every veteran’s hospital, every city and town.”

2] “For all its flaws, the American state was a source of national greatness and power: It ushered in an age of prosperity and discovery; it made everyday existence safer and fairer.”

7] “Until the purges of the past year, the U.S. government housed an unmatched collection of experts, capable of some of the greatest feats in human existence…the Manhattan Project, Apollo, the Human Genome Project.”

10]. “What’s been lost isn’t just a sense of purpose, but a body of knowledge – a way of making the machinery of the state function….By wiping out many of the bureaucracy’s most experienced practitioners, Trump has severed the chain that allowed one generation of civil servants to pass on the habits of effective government to the next.” [NOTE: again, re-read these words. This is SABOTAGE. WHY would a loyal American patriot sabotage his own government???]

***. “Our Constitution is not written to handle someone like Trump,” the political scientist Jason Johnson told me. “That is the greatest danger and greatest harm he is to our country… the Framers “envisioned presidents who might be dishonest, who might not have consistent ethical values, but they never envisioned a self-involved dictatorial capitalist, so we don’t have a government designed to restrain someone who doesn’t care about any of the norms.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]

1]. ‘..the administration showed little interest in understanding the organizations it was eviscerating. Any sincere attempt to reform the government would have protected its top. experts and most skilled practitioners. In fact, such workers account for a disproportionate share of the Trump-era exodus.”

3]. “In the late 19th century, as the American government took on its modern form, a single word captured the spirit of the enterprise: disinterestedness. The duties of civil servants..were supposed to transcend patronage and partisanship. Their professional obligation was to present facts and judgments that reflected objective reality – not to flatter the preferences of the administration in power.”

*** “Can’t you just shoot them?” President Trump asked Defense Secretary Esper on June 1, 2020, about the protesters in Washington, D.C. “Just shoot them in the legs or something?” { Bob Woodward: “War” ]

4] “…regulators also prevented immense human suffering. Before the advent of the modern state, the economy convulsed with financial panics roughly every 20 years. After the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were created in the 1930s, confidence replaced chaos. Generations passed without bank runs. American markets became the safest bet on the planet.”

5]. “At the dawn of the 20th century, American medicines were often laced with alcohol, opiates, or narcotics. Thanks to the FDA, those potions were gradually replaced by pharmaceuticals tested for safety – snake oil gave way to science.”

6]. “..the surprising thing, really, was how many preeminent experts – scientists, intelligence analysts, economists, even lawyers – stayed in their government job for the entire arc of their career.”

*** “He is a transgressive personality, so he likes to attack and destrroy and unsettle people,” Wehner said. If he sees an institution that he thinks is not doing his bidding, not protecting him like he wants or is a threat to him, he’ll go after it….intelligence community…Justice Department…North Atlantic Treaty organization…The press is ‘the enemy of the people.’…doesn’t have any regard for institutions, the role they play, why there’re important…delights in tearing them down.” [ Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig: “A Very Stable Genius” ]

8] “Under Trump, the expertise capable of such achievements has begun to vanish… What took generations to build is being dismantled in months, and with it goes not just expertise but what remains of the shared American faith in expertise itself.”

9]. “a generation of bureaucrats, now in the prime of their career, entered government after September 11…They felt an obligation to serve. Donald Trump has betrayed those workers. by describing them as a hostile force, he’s questioned their patriotism – and robbed the sense of mission from their work.”

11] “The toll of the purge will become clear only gradually…Government, too, is part of a delicate American ecosystem – as it erodes, crises that lay bare its indispensability will multiply.”

*** “Tillerson was never told why he was fired. The president did not give him a reason. It had earlier leaked out that Tillerson had called Trump a “fucking moron”. at a July 20, 2017, Tank meeting. Probably nothing could have triggered Trump’s insecurities more.” [ Bob Woodward; “Rage’ ]

12]. Listed below are some of the critical employees no longer in. YOUR. government:

A] Micaela White: “She was America’s fixer of choice….her improvisational skills were legendary.”
B] Eric Green: ‘..became the head of the American genomics effort.”
C] Wren Elhai: ” helped build the State Department’s new cyberspace and digital policy bureau.”
D]. Jeff Cohen: “became adept at improvising programs that burnished America’s prestige.”
E]. Peter Marks: ‘was a driving force behind Operation Warp Speed.”
F] Mamta Patel Nagaraja: ‘She trained astronauts.”
G] Michael Feinberg: “becoming the FBI’s top Chinese counterintelligence invetigator.”
H]. David Boucher: Infectious disease preparedness and response expert.
I]. Susan Miller: “she led the CIA’s counterintelligence unit”
J]. Mike Gordon: “He became the department’s closer.”
K]. Michael Missal; “his office issued 2,500 reports and 10,000 recommendations, saving billions of dollars.”

***. “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” [ Margaret Atwood ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXVII. – Can We Safely Say That THIS is CORRUPTION???

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***. “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain…the character of an “Honest Man.”
[ George Washington; 8/28/1788 ]

This post concerns various issues involved in the “dea” between the U.S. government and the Trumps to “resolve” the $10 billion lawsuit “our” president filed against the IRS. As of this date, 5/21/26, we have learned some details. Ordinary American citizens have written “letters to the editor” decrying ‘corruption.” Legal experts are beginning to raise concerns. What do. YOU. think? Read these excerpts – begin THINKING……

I. “IRS to ‘forever’ drop its tax claims against Trump” { Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker; Associated Press; 5/20/26 ]:
1] “..acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday wouldn’t rule out the prospect of Jan. 6 rioters receiving payouts from a taxpayer-fueled fund created by the same settlement.”

2] “The settlement agreement also says the U.S. government is “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump Organization over current tax issues..”

3]. “Blanche defended the creation of the fund without any acknowledgement that the Trump administration has pursued investigations of Trump’s political opponents.” [NOTE: when you’re DICTATOR you make the rules !!!]

4] “The mere possibility that violent rioters at the Capitol could be considered for payouts is consistent with a Trump administration pattern of rewriting the history of Jan. 6…”

*** “It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” [ Joseph Goebbels; Nazi Minister of Propaganda ]

II. “Trump’s $1.776 billion windfall tests constitutional limits” [ Adam Liptak; New York Times; 5/21/26 ]:
2]. “The whole enterprise was a jarring shock to the conventional understanding of the constitutional system, raising what legal experts said were profound questions about presidential power. If the arrangement is allowed to stand, they said, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’ power of the purse and the ability of the courts to police the separation of powers.”

1]. “..the president managed to work out a deal with himself Monday, one as novel and brazen as the process that spawned it. He dropped his lawsuit, extracting from his own government a promise to create a $1.776 billion fund to dole out to his political allies.”

*** “The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.” {Thomas Jefferson; 1782]

III. “Trump’s stock trades questioned”. [ Bernard Condon; Associated Press; 5/21/26 ]:
2]. “If he were defense secretary, he would be commiting a crime,” said Richard Painter…”Technically he can do this, but it is a fundamentasl breach of trust.”

1] “Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle…but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions..”

3] “Since he became president again, the Trump organization has taken in tens of millions in upfront fees from overseas developers that want to put his name on resorts and hundreds of millios from cryptocurrency sales, mostly anonymous, making it impossible to know if the purchaser were trying to curry favor with the president.”

***. ‘..no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or sovereign state.”
[ Article I, Section 9; U.S. constitution ]

IV. “Officers who defended U.S. Capitol sue to block payments”. [ Michael Kunzelman; Associated Press; 5/21/26 ]:
1] “The lawsuit claims the government’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is an illegal slush fund that Trump will use to “finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name.” It describes the fund’s creation as “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century..”

2] “The officers claim the fund “encourages those who enacted violence in the President’s name to continue to do so.” “Dunn and Hodges already face credible threats of death and violence on regular basis; the Fund sunstantially increases the danger..”

*** “It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction…a penalty or punishment for disobedience. if there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolution or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendations.”
[ Alexander Hamilton: “The Federalist Papers” ]

V. “$100M tax threat for Trump likely wiped away by DOJ-brokered deal”. [ Russ Buettner; New York Times; 5/21/26]:
1] “..frees the president from a potential adverse ruling that could cost him more than $100 million..”

2] “The audit dated back to a $72.9 million tax refund that Trump claimed, and received… Trump justified the refund claim by declaring huge business losses..”

3] “The IRS has argued that he, in effect, tried to write off the same losses on the Chicago tower twice.”

4] “The agreement to end the Trumps’ lawsuit, while sidestepping judicial review, also puts an end to any other audit by the IRS pertaining to tax returns they or their businesses have already filed.”

***. “The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[ James Madison: “The Federalist Papers” ]

VI. Some excerpts from “letters to the editor”. Trump Administration Let this corruption sink in [ Minnesota Star Tribune; 5/21/26]:
1] “Never in my 70-plus years have I seen the level of greed and corruption present in the Trump administration and family.” { m.H. ]
2]. “What an unbelievable conflict of interest. But it’s just business as usual: ˇhe chief executive’s objectives of enriching his supporters from prosecution keep on coming..” [ R.S. ]
3]. “..perhaps Republicans at the federal level should consult them on how to prevent corruption in the newly established $1.776 billion fund that so far appears to be directed at the complete discretion of Trump.” [ E. P. ]
4]. “This reeks of corruption and is further proof that Trump doesn’t care about the Constitution or the oath he took to uphold it.” [ W.J. ]
5] “Apparently crime does pay. I”m thinking about quitting the career I”ve been building for 26 years to become a rioter.” [M. R.]
6]. “This is the “mafia-zation” of government.” [ P. R. ]
7] “Trump may not be working on the problems facing Americans…but he is certainly finding creative ways of enriching himself and his friends at taxpayers’ expense.” [ M. A. ]

SOOO – what do YOU think? Need more evidence? Have enough evidence to vote November 3, 2026?

***. “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law… no court can save it..”
[ Judger Learned Hand ]

VI. !!!!! – Corruption update: “DOJ violates its own policy in ‘shocking gift’ to Trump” [ Devlin Barrett; New York Times; 5/22/26]: “Justice Department veterans have been deeply skeptical…particularly when it comes to the provision in the deal that offers President Donald Trump, his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. immunity from tax penalties…
“I have never heard of the department ever being willing to grant blanket immunity, said Jennifer Rickett…”That seems blatantly corrupt. It’s a shocking gift to the president.”

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXXV. – Trump Makes America Weaker, War More likely

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***. “The mismatch shows the risks in Mr. Trump’s personality-driven foreign policy, his bet that he can solve the world’s problems and defend America”s interests by his charm and force of will. In Mr. Xi, the U.S. president faced a counterpart last week who is well-versed in Mr. Trump’s desire for praise and pomp, and with an apparent strategy for how to exploit it. The result, analysts said, was a summit that illustrated the growing confidence of China..alongside a strategically muddled U.S. foreign policy under Mr. Trump.” [ Anton Troianovski: “Trump’s Push For Friendship Is Unrequited.”; New York Times; 5/17/26 ]

This post presents excerpts from “Every Nation for Itself”. [ Robert Kagan; The Atlantic; March, 2026 ]. We invite YOU to read the entire article. We invite YOU to THINK in what Kagan says – mull his words and implications……

16] “Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer thre consequences for years to come.”

1]. “President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous – and the whole world less secure.”

17] “..Trump’s exaltation of selfishness, rests on profound ignorance of the true sources of American strength. So much of America’s influence in the world has derived from treating others as part of a community of democratic nations or of strategic partners.”

***. “Especially important it is to realize that there can be no assured peace and tranquility for any one nation except as it is achieved by all.” [ Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican; 34th U.S. President ]

3] “Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II…The U.S. will have no reliable friends or allies and will have to depend entirely on its own strength to survive and prosper. This will require more military spending, not less, because the open access to overseas resources, markets, and strategic bases that Americans have enjoyed will no longer come as a benefit of the country’s alliances.”

9]. “Trump and his supporters seem to believe that the rest of the world will simply accommodate this new American approach, and that allies, in particular, will continue to tag along, subservient to a United States that cuts them loose strategically, exacts steep economic tribute from them, and seeks to establish a ‘concert” with powers that directly threaten them. But the radical shift in U.S. strategy must force equally radical shifts among erstwhile friends and allies.”

12] “The mere existence of the United states and the liberal order it supported offered small and medium powers an opportunity denied them by centuries of multipolarity… The American order promised a higher standard of living, national sovereignty, and the legal and institutional equality.”

***. “Trump’s foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.” [ Richard Haass ]

2] “The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official: The American-dominated liberal world order is over…The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used instead to destroy it.”

4] “Americans are neither materially nor psychologically ready for this future…They have grown accustomed to the world operating in a certain way: Largely agreeable and militarily passive European and Asian allies cooperate with the United States on economic and security issues… Americans…think it is the normal state of international affairs, likely to continue indefinitely.”

5]. “Perhaps more extraordinary than America’s ability and willingness to play the dominant role was the readiness of most other great powers to embrace and legitimize its dominance…America’s allies made trwo remarkable wagers: that the United States could be trusted to defend them whenever needed, and that it would not exploit its disproportionate might to enrich or strengthen itself at their expense.”

*** “To achieve [enduring good relations between states], the conduct of diplomacy should conform to the same moral and ethical principles which inspire trust and confidence when followed by and between individuals.”
[ Dean Acheson; former U.S. Secretary of State ]

6]. “..the grand bargain of the American order after 1945. And it was what allowed for the extraordinary peace and stability of the subsequent decades.”

7] “Trump has openly celebrated the end of the grand bargain…launched aggressive tariff wars against virtually all of America’s allies…waged ideological and political warfare against European governments and explicitly threatened territorial aggression against two NATO allies, Canada and Denmark.”

8] ‘..the administration’s National Security Strategy regards Russia and China not as adversaries or even competitors burt as partners in carving up the world.”

***. “[The commander] must be able to see the situation as a whole, attribute to each object its relative importance, grasp the connections between each factor in the situation, and recognize its limits. All this implies a gift of synthesis which, in itself, demands a high degree of intellectual capacity.” [ Charles de Gaulle ]

10] “The consequence of a newly unreliable and even hostile United States, therefore, will likely be significant military buildups by former allies. This will not mean sharing the burden of collective security, because these rearmed nations will no longer be American allies…They will owe nothing to the United States…At the very least, they will not be the same countries Americans know today.”

11] “In a multipolar world, everything is up for grabs.”

13] “Do we know how far China’s perception of its rightful sphere extends?”

***. “Even in war moral power is to physical as to three parts out of four.” [ Napoleon ]

14] ‘..China and Russia are not at all satiated, status quo powers. They are dissatisfied, have-not powers…chronically unhappy with American global supremacy..”

15] “This is the new world that America is entering, voluntarily shown of its greatest assets…When Russia or China went to war, it went alone. When the United States went to war…it had the support of dozens of allies.”

18] “Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next.”

***. “Mankind will never know what it was spared because of risks avoided or because of actions taken that averted awful consequences. – if only because once thwarted consequences can never be proved.”
[ Henry Kissenger; former U.S. Secretary of State ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLXXX. – Trump’s Blatant Cruelty Toward Afghans Who Helped America

~ tomdolen

***. “Of all the vices to which human nature is subject, treachery is the most infamous and detestable…The greatest wrongs will not justify it, as it destroys those principles of mutual confidence and security by which only society can subsist.” [ L.M. Stretch ]

Of all the cruelties perpetrated by the Trump DICTATORSHIP, the tragedy of blocking Afghans who risked their lives and families , now waiting, after being promised sanctuary – lives in America. U.S. military vets have organized on their behalf. This will NOT be pleasant reading; but as an American patriot – YOU must read this story – because YOU are the only ones who can save these deserving people. Please contact your political reps. Thank you.
It gets worse. Read “America’s Secret Veterans” – New York Times magazine; 4/23/26. Read about these Afghan men who fought for America. Read about how the CIA “trusted them completely, ” how CIA personnel defend them against the Trump DICTATORSHIP.””

This post presents excerpts from: “In danger, in limbo, and now in fear” [ Megha Rajagopalan, Eileen Sullivan, Zolan Kanno-Youngs; New York Times; 4/23/26]:

10]. “Who is going to fight alongside the U.S. when the U.S.betrays the people who stood alongside us?”

14] “Discussions over the Afghans are separate from the deportation deal, but both are examples of what has become a hallmark of Trump’s immigration strategy: moving people to faraway places, even when those countries have human rights abuses or authoritarian governments.”

2] “The Afghans have been living in limbo in Qatar for more than a year. They were taken there after being evacuated by the United states for their own safety because they supported U.S. forces during the war against the Taliban..”

4] “We think this is just them wanting to send these people back to Afghanistan, where they know they will face certain death. They know the Afghans are not going to accept the DRC,” VanDiver said…”

***. “Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]

1] “After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Donald Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Congo, which is suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.”

3] “More than 600,000 refugees, mostly from the Central African Republic and Rwanda, are currently in Congo…Human rights activists say the country is not equipped to take in more..”

5] “The discussions highlight the long-standing tension between America’s obligation to Afghans, who face grave danger in retaliation for helping U.S. forces during the war, and the Trump administration’s pledge to curtail immigration.”

***. Cunning nad treachery are the offspring of incapacity.” [ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ]

6] “More than 190,000 Afghans who aided the U.S. effort resettled in the U.S. between August 2021 and mid-2025, after passing background checks.”

7] “But a group of more than 1,100 Afghans are being housed in a former U.s. military base in Qatar…The U.S. government brought them here in late 2024 and promised them a path to settlement in the United states if they passed further checks.”

8]. “Qatar was intended as a stopover, but many of the Afghans found themselves in limbo after the Trump administration ended policies that would have enabled them to resettles in the U.S.”

9]. “THry had the expectation that within weeks †hey’d be relocated to the U.S.”..”

*** “Promises are worse than lies. You don’t just make them believe, you make them hope.” [ Marilyn Monroe ]

11]. “Some of the people left at the camp have been fully vetted; others have not, VanDiver said. but Trump’s immigration policies have made it impossible for any of them to come to the United States now.”

12]. “Andrew Sullivan, a military veteran and the executive director of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit group that has been working to resettle Afghans, said some have been deemed ineligible for reasons that have nothing to do with national security. For example, one woman turned 21 and is no long eligible to be included on her father’s visa..”
[NOTE: the cruelty of this is monstrous – what normal human does this???]

13]. “Our belief is that if, if they can pass security vetting, they should be coming to the United States,” Sullivan said…”

***. “Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.” [ William Hazlitt ]

[NOTE: for more perspective on the Corruption and Cruelty of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – reflect on pardoning 1,600 rioters who tried to overthrow the U.S, government – and killed and injured over 100 police officers. – or admitting dozens of white South Africans alleged to have been “victims” of discrimination [none of whom risked their lives and families to help the U.S. fight a war]. – and refusing the Afghans who DID risk everything.]

*** “Humanitarianism is a link that binds together all Americans…Whenever tragedy or disaster has struck in any corner of the world, the American people has promptly and generously extended its hand of mercy and help. Generosity has never impoverished the giver, it has enriched the lives of those who have practiced it…And the bread we have cast upon the waters has been returned in blessings a hundredfold.”
[ Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican; 34th U.S. President ]