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Power Consolidation (Executive Watch)

Trump Threatened to Withhold Federal Funds From Indiana Unless it Approved His Plan to Gerrymander its Electoral Map
Initially, it was just a rumor that Donald Trump was threatening to withhold federal funds from Indiana if its legislature didn’t approve his…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Wants His MAGA-Controlled FTC Board to Use its Antitrust Powers for a Hostile Takeover of CNN by a Billionaire Tech Buddy
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Federal Trade Commission in March by firing the Democratic commissioners on the board has given him considerable personal…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Wants Even Foreign Tourists to Submit their Social Media Posts for Scrutiny, a Naked Bid to Deny Entry to Critics
The Trump administration has already been screening the social media posts of those who apply for student visas to ensure their ideological conformity…
 • Executive Watch
The DOJ Is Moving to Designate Non-MAGA Americans Engaging in Wrongthink as Domestic Terrorists
Donald Trump has issued a national security directive so broad and vague it can be used to designate any ideological opponent as a terrorist threat to…
 • 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.
 • 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…
 • 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.
 • 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…
 • 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.
 • 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…
 • 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…
 • 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…
 • Robert Tracinski
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