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Power Consolidation (Executive Watch)

Trump Pardons His Election Theft Co-Conspirators
Donald Trump just pardoned Robert Henry Harshbarger for healthcare fraud, simply because he’s the husband of a congresswoman who is a loyal Trump ally.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Shakes Down Company on Live TV
A recent Trump press conference about a deal he negotiated to lower the price of weight-loss drugs was overshadowed by an incident in which a man in the…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Has Instructed the Department of Justice to Look for Evidence to Support His Stolen Election Lie
Donald Trump’s white whale is his refusal to accept his election loss in 2020.
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Robert Tracinski
The Trump Administration Circulates Fradulent Videos About Criminal Aliens and Antifa Terrorists to Justify His Crackdown on Blue Cities
In addition to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reposting AI-doctored footage that falsely portrayed black teens threatening ICE, her agency…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Uses Foreign Investments Extracted From Countries by Threatening Tariffs as a Slush Fund to Direct Investment Toward His Pet Projects
Despite his complaints about socialism, Donald Trump’s vision of the U.S.
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Robert Tracinski
Borrowing a Page From Socialist China, Trump Forces New Nuclear Reactors to Hand Over Part of Their Profits to Uncle Sam in Exchange for…
One of the signatures of Trump’s second term is that he caterwauls about “socialism” while making deals with private companies in which he gives them…
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Robert Tracinski
Ignoring Congress, Trump Illegally and Unconstitutionally Diverts R&D Defense Funds to Pay Troops During the Shutdown
Donald Trump has used the shutdown as an experiment in whether he can refuse to negotiate with the legislature, pretend that the Congress doesn’t exist…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Hits Up a Rich Crony to Illegally Pay Troops During the Shutdown and Diss Congress
Rather than negotiating with Congress over continued government funding, Donald Trump is trying to run the government entirely without the authorization…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Considers a Blatantly Illegal Plan to Use the IRS to Probe and Harass Donors Who Oppose MAGA
A long-standing abuse of presidential power is the use of the Internal Revenue Service as a tool for getting information on the president’s political…
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Robert Tracinski
Hegseth Restricts Defense Personnel From Interacting With Congress to Make Oversight Harder
Fresh off an apparently successful plan to dissolve the Pentagon press corps and replace it with a more pliable one, prompted in part by a general…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Proposes an Unconstitutional 'Compact' to Universities to Put Them Directly Under the Federal Thumb
A few months ago, a group of anti-freedom conservatives—no doubt hoping to benefit from the favor of Donald Trump’s sponsorship—advanced an idea for a…
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Robert Tracinski
Speaking to a Room Full of Generals, Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump Declares War on Major American Cities Run by Democrats
In a speech to 800 of America’s top military officers, brought home with little notice for a highly unusual meeting, Donald Trump announced a vision for…
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Robert Tracinski
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