*** “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself.” { Justice Louis Brandeis ]

“The Unraveling of the Justice Department”. [Emily Bazelon, Rachel Power; New York Times Magazine; ll/30/25. Some excerpts below from “more than 60 attorneys” who worked in the Justice Department:

20]. “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.”
[Note: Read this again – think what this means for “the rule of law.”]

15] “Trump pardoned a series of white-collar offenders….His family was wealthy…someone who defrauded everyday folks in Ohio….they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention..”

8]. “The way we did investigations drastically changed….That process turned upside down. it was outcome driven.”
[Note; FACTS didn’t count – ideology and connections did]

4]. “It was inconceivable to me they’d fire people for no reason except they’d worked on cases that were now disfavored….It flipped the culture of the institution. it’s a culture now of fear. And they are losing people all the time, very good people, who were the future of the department.”

*** “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ]

1] “President Trump’s second term has brought a period of controversy…Trump and his appointees have blasted through walls designed to protect the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency from political influence; they have directed the course of criminal investigations, openly flouted ethics rules and caused a breakdown of institutional culture.” [Note; read this again, word-by-word. this IS the destruction of “the rule of law.”]

2] “..the lawyers narrated the events that most alarmed them…described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. they also talked about the work they and their colleagues were told to abandon. – investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud.” [ Note; read this again! – the Trump DICTATORSHIP is deliberately sabotaging American security]

3] “On his first day in office, President Trump made ir clear that lawyers loyal to him would lead the Justice Department.” [Note: – just like in any other dictatorship]

5]. “Pam Bondi..issued a first-day flurry of 14 memos that radically redefined the department’s mission. One mandated that government attorneys “zealously defend” the president’s agenda..” [Note; thus the title of this article!!!]

*** “I don’t want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.” [Roy Cohn – check his biography!!!]

6] “What happened to PIN was an alarm blasting everywhere. that’s when I was like, “They’re just going to break every rule. They don’t care.”

7]. “The E.P.A. found in 2021 that the new standard would save thousands of lives and that the health benefits would outweigh the cost of compliance. The Trump administration put the litigation on hold in preparation for rolling back the regulation.” [Note: Trump just decided to endanger YOUR. health. Big Question: WHO asked him to do this???]

9]. “The idea of the investigation was that Perkins Coie supposedly engaged in illegal discrimination against white men. But Perkins Coie is an extremely white firm – only 3 percent of the partners are Black. When my colleague pointed that out, the leadership didn’t care. They’d already reached their conclusion.” {!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

10] “Our laws gave American companies cover so they could resist shakedowns to pay bribes….People across the political spectrum saw promoting the rule of law abroad as important for promoting American interests and national security. You could see these ideals fall away quickly in the moves the administration made.”

***. “When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There – a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator. – so decrees.” [ Jessica Mitford ]

11]. “Mel Gibson has a history of domestic violence….It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know.” [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

12] “Erez Reuveni, acknowledged in court that the Trump administration wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia….In previous administrations, including Trump’s first term, the government routinely worked to get people back when they were deported without legal authority. In this case, however, Bondi put Reuveni on leave and trhen fired him.” [Note; a highly respected attorney is fired because he told the truth. What else do YOU need to know?]

13] “When the president issued his executive order related to voting, the Civil Rights Division was initially charged with defending it. But many provisions of it were an unlawful power grab..”

14]. “It’s unprecedented to shift resources away from national security to this degree….You have to have good, experienced, trained people doing this work on a daily basis. If you don’t, because you demand they do immigration shifts, there is real danger to national security and public safety.” Note: apparently, to the Trump DICTATORSHIP, a few undocumented immigrants are a bigger danger than Russia or China]

***. “My task is not to make men better but to make use of their weaknesses.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

16] “Bondi fired around 20 prosecutors and support staffers who worked on the special counsel Jack smith’s investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his refusal to return classified documents after leaving office…..Trump demanded the prosecution of several of his perceived political enemies…Based on the results of investigations by career prosecutors, Erik Siebert…told senior Justice Department officials he did not think there was sufficient evidence to indict Comey or James.”

17] “No one should be charged with a crime because the president says. “Do this,”….”

18]. “This is the whole problem with the White House directing criminal investigations. This is what you get. We won’t get the benefit of credibility from judges that we had, and I’m even more concerned about juries. I really fear the Justice Department. – which has a good record of convicting dangerous, violent people. – won’t see the same success rate, becuase people will think it’s not on the level.”

19] “It shows the president has no regard for ethics or rules or the appearance of impropriety or any of the guardrails we used to have before… The Mar-a-Lago case was buttoned up. They begged him to give them the documents so it wouldn’t rise to the level of the F.B.I. going in to get them. To say there’s abuse here. – it’s absurd.”

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

[ Ludwig von Mises ]

*** “For one person alone to have the Government of a people in his hands, would be too great a Temptation. It tends to excite and draw forth the Pride of man, to make him unsufferably haughty; it gives him too much liberty to exert his corruption and it encourages him to become a Tyrant and an oppressor, to dispense with Laws and break the most solemn oaths.” [ John Barnard ]

This post presents excerpts from. “PRESIDENT FOR LIFE….Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.” [ J. Michael Luttig; The Atlantic; December, 2025]. Mr. Luttig is a former federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth District. He was appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.

4] “..Trump is different from all prior presidents in his utter contempt for the Constitution and America’s
democracy.” [Read this again – think what this says]

3] “Trump proved in 2021 that he would do anything to remain in the White House.”

11]. “Trump has turned the federal government against the American people.”
[*** This is written BEFORE the ICE terrorism unleashed against Minnesota***]

8] “For anyone who doubts that Trump is contemplating a monarchical reign, consider how very far down that road he already is. Since returning to office, he has sought absolute power, unchecked by other branches of government, the 50 states, or the free press. On the first day..he launched a direct attack on the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment……. He has arrogated to himself Congress’ power to levy tariffs…….. He has usurped Congress’ spending and appropriation powers……. He has likewise usurped Congress’ power to establish executive-branch departments and agencies….unilaterally overhauling the U.S. government.”

***. “Uncontrolled power, in the hands of an incensed, imperious and rapacious conquerer, is an engine of dreadful execution; and woe be to that country over which it can be exercised.” [ Thomas Paine ]

1] “The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, and political inevitability – the sense that he, and only he, can rescue the nation from looming peril.”

2] “The Founders of our nation foresaw a figure like Trump, a demagogue who would ascend to the presidency and refuse to relinquish power to a successor chosen by the American people in a free and fair election.”

5] “Witnesses before the January 6 committee testified that Trump expressed support for hanging Pence while the attack was under way.”

6] “among his first acts after being sworn in again was pardoning or commuting the sentences of every person convicted in connection with January 6. He then set about exacting revenge on the American justice system.”

***. “Every tyrant who has ever lived has believed in freedom – for himself.” [ Elbert Hubbard ]

7]. “Today, Trump has vastly greater powers than he did in 2020…a willing vice president….Trump’s party controls both houses of Congress…The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has paved the way for a third Trump term, by essentially granting him absolute immunity..”

9] “The Supreme court..has largely given the president its imprimatur to continue his power grab. It has either effectively reversed lower-court rulings against the president using the so-called shadow docket, or allowed the administration to proceed until the Court determines the constitutionality of various actions, by which time the damage to the Constitution, the U.S. government, and American society will have been done, as the justices well know.”

10] “The Founders built layers of safeguards into the American system of government to constrain a president…But Trump has run roughshod over these fail-safes too.”

***. “The technique of acquiring dictatorship over what has been a democracy…always involves the same mixture of bribery, propaganda and violence.” [ Bertrand Russell ]

12] “Trump has always told us exactly who he is. We have just not wanted to believe him. But we must believe him now..
– “This is the man who said in January 2016, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot sonebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters..”
– “The man who proposed in 2022 that the “Massive Fraud” he alleged in the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” and who proclaimed, soon after reassuming office, “He who saves his Country does not violate any law.”
– “The man who, when asked the question “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution as president?,” answered, “I don’t know.”
– “The man who said in August that he can “do anything I want to do,” because he’s president.”
– “The man who has demanded that his attorney general and Department of Justice immediately prosecute his enemies..”
– “and the man who summoned American military generals from around the world to Quantico, Virginia, to tell them that “America is under invasion from within.” repeatedly describing the enemy invasion as being by the “radical left,” a term he now seemingly uses to characterize all of his political opponents.”

13] “We have been given the high charge of our forebears to “keep” the republic they founded a quarter of a millennium ago. If we do not keep it now, we will surely lose it.”

***. “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
[ Dante Alighieri ]

So – what are YOU going to do???????? YOU may have one last chance to end the Trump DICTATORSHIP – on November 3, 2026. – vote out. EVERY REPUBLICAN. WHY?? Because they have NOT honored their oath to defend the Constitution. they’ve been to busy defending Donald Trump – and they’ll do it more.

***. “This is probably the first time and this is the first country in which people are being taught to realize that, of all the tasks which we have to face, the noblest and most sacred for mankind is that each racial species must prove the purity of the blood which God has given it.” [ Adolf Hitler; 1/30/1937 ]

This post presents excerpts from. “Administration social media posts echo white supremacist messaging” [ Evan Gorelick; New York Times; 2/1/26 ]:

10] “Also this month, the Labor Department posted a video captioned “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.” That phrase resembled a German slogan used by Nazis during World War II, “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer,” or “One People, One Realm, One Leader.”

1] “The posts have referred to Neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing and QAnon conspiracies, mused about deporting nearly a third of the U.S. population, and promoted lyrics from an anthem bellowed by the far-right militants of the Proud Boys.
“Their authors are not on society’s fringe. They are in the White House and the departments of Homeland Security and Labor, using official government accounts.”

2] “To some people, the administration’s posts sound patriotic. Others might sense at most a faint dog whistle to extremists. Some posts may just look odd. But those well-versed in the abstruse codes of right-wing extremism hear klaxons.”

*** “Prejudice is the reason of fools.” [ Voltaire ]

3]. “This month, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security jointly posted a recruitment ad for Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Instagram, Facebook and X, overlaid with the words “WE’LL HAVE OUR HOME AGAIN.”

4]. “They do everything up to the line; it’s kind of clever,” he said. “We’ll Have Our Home Again’. is a white nationalist song.” He added that to his knowledge, no other groups would use it.”

5] “In the past month, government agencies have made dozens more social-media posts that include iconography associated with far-right extremist groups.”

*** “Racism remains in the eyes of history…merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.” [ Ruth Benedict ]

6] “The slogans echo the title of a 1978 book – “Which Way Western Man?” – that white supremacist groups treat as “foundational,” said Robert Futrell, a sociologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The book claims that Jewish people are plotting to destroy Western civilization, that Adolf Hitler was right and that violence against Jews is justified.”

7] “This month, the Labor Department posted a noir-style image with the words “TRUST THE PLAN.” That’s also a central catchphrase of QAnon, an internet conspiracy theory that falsely claims the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles, and that Trump has been chosen to sunder it.”

8] “On New Year’s Eve, the White House’s X account posted a photo of Trump alongside the word ‘remigration.” That is a decades-old European concept centered on. the expulsion of nonwhite people and immigrants deemed “unassimilated,”…”

9] “Tens of thousands of Germans protested the concept two years ago after the country’s far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party secretly met with neo-Nazis to discuss plans to implement it.”

*** “If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.”
[ Hannah More ]

11] “Those who study the online right said one or two posts might be coincidental. But “when you add it all together,” said William Braniff, director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation lab at American University, “it’s much harder to dismiss.”

12] “For years, Trump and his campaign have dealt with and rejected accusations that officials in the Trump inner circle were surreptitiously appealing to racists and antisemites.”

13] “Trump’s final campaign commercial that year featured grainy images of George Soros, the liberal American financier; Janet L. Yellen, then the chair of the Federal Reserve; and Lloyd c. Blankfein, then the chair of Goldman Sachs. – all of them Jewish. – as Trump warned darkly about the “global special interests.”

This is only one incident. If you need more info on Trump’s prejudices, etc. – research his business career, his statements about Obama, etc.

*** “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?” [ Jeremiah 13: 23 ]

*** “Nothing is more terrible tan ignorance in action.” [ Goethe ]

Below are headlines from ONE day. – discussing the STUPIDITY, INCOMPETENCE, CRUELTY, RECKLESSNESS. leading to undermining and damaging America by Trump DICTATORSHIP actions:

1]. “Justices cast doubt on bid to fire Cook”. – because it would “weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve.” {Mark Sherman; Assoc. Press; 1/22/26]

2]. “In Ist year of his second term. Trump leaves economic stamp”. – “an all-out assault on many of the institutions and policy paradigms that have long been seen by leaders of both major parties as the foundation of American economic strength.” [ Ben Casselman; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]

3]. “Social Security data bared by DOGE”. – “confirms concerns among career government employees and data security experts that DOGE’s chaotic access to sensitive government data risks sharing this data broadly…without knowing what data was exposed or who has seen it..” [ Eileen Sullivan; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]

4]. “Off-duty police officer boxed in by federal agents”. – “Bruley and fellow law enforcement personnel spoke against what they say is a spate of racial profiling by federal immigration agents..” [ Allison Kitel; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/22/26]

5]. “Gap in ICE ‘worst case'”. – “Homeland Security has released the names of only about 240 immigrants arrested”; nearly ALL had served time and were “not actively wanted by police..” [ total people arrested is about 3,000 !!!]. [Christopher Magan, Jeff Hargarten; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/22/26 ]

6]. “Refugees with legal status being detained” – 5600 Minnesota refugees “who have gone through a robust screening process and are on a pathway to citizenship.” [ Susan Du; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/22/26 ]

7]. “Russia observes Greenland with glee” – “state media praises Trump’s goal as historic…it weakens the European Union and NATO…takes some of the West’s attention away from Russia’s war in Ukraine.” [ Dasha Litvinova; Associated Press; 1/22/26 ] {Trump is sabotaging THE most effective alliance in world history}

8]. “Canada Elbows Up On Global Stage”. – “PM gets standing ovation at Davos for firm talk about the U.S….calling the current phase ‘a rupture..” [ Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Ian Austen; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]

9] “Immigration operation begins in Maine”. – “ICE official says nearly 1,400 “targets” in state…Some employers have begun looking to immigrants to fill labor gaps, as native-born employees have either left the state or retired.” [ Hamed Aleaziz; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]

Look over the above again, and THINK. – what this mea”coldns not only now but years from now. “Our” 13-year old P.R. performance president does NOT think long-term, cares little for details, and – as a Pulitzer Prize winner said – thinks ONLY of himself. And – reflect on the following:

A] “But economists from across the ideological spectrum warn that Trump is setting the country on a path hat will, in the long run, leave the economy less dynamic, the financial system less stable and Americans less prosperous in the decades ahead…. “We’re weakening the special sauce that made America great,” said Kimberly A. Clausing…. Vance Ginn, who was chief economist in the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term…said the benefits of those moves are outweighed by the costs of its policies on trade and immigration, its failure to rein in the federal deficit and its intervention in the private sector.” [ Ben Casselman; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]

B] “Three top Catholic clerics decry U.S. foreign policy”….’..American “moral role in confronting evil” is put in jeopardy, they say.”… “is in question for the first time in decades..” [ Ruth Graham; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]

C] “Trump insults Minnesota Somalis at Davos” – “Trump directly questioned the intelligence of members of the community…Some near the front of the audience groaned loudly.” [ News Services; 1/22/26 ]

*** “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” [ James 1:8 ]

THINK about other facts:
1] America was on the winning side of several 20th century wars, hot and “cold”. – BECAUSE we had friends and allies; BECAUSE. American treasure and blood were spent defending freedom and other nations

2]. American “soft power” conquered the world – music, movies, freedom, openness, accepting immigrants ans scientists, economic opportunity. We did NOT go out of our way to make enemies.

3] Look at NUMBERS. – not rhetoric. – expert, mainstream, bipartisan. analysis of many, if not most, Trump DICTATORSHIP. policies, shows they will NOT. ‘Make America Great Again.” But will, numerically, make America weaker, less prosperous, less stable. Listed above, YOU have only ONE day’s worth of the STUPIDITY, INCOMPETENCE, DESTRUCTIVENESS. of ‘our’ 13-year old president and the radical reactionary Rasputins around him. America has now endured 365 days of this INCOMPETENCE and STUPIDITY.

***. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” [ Proverbs 29:18]


THINK also when the Founders created the United States, the goal was to have a government that was intended to “..promote the general Welfare..” This is NOT a goal of the Trump DICTATORSHIP.

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself…The stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself.” [Leviticus 19: 18, 34] This is NOT a goal of the Trump DICTATORSHIP.