Trump plays favorites with governors that are loyal to him by rewarding them with our taxpayer dollars. The rot of corruption is endless.
Trump agreed to continue paying for the full cost of National Guard troops deployed to help with the coronavirus response in just two states -- Texas and Florida -- after their Republican governors appealed directly to him.
The U.S. Postal Service is being hijacked in the middle of an election season. Why is Louis DeJoy removing top officials who run day-to-day operations? It's his job to get the mail delivered on time, not play partisan games.
Newly installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said.... he has a “good relationship” with Trump — he’s donated more than $2 million to the Trump campaign or Republican causes since 2016, and chaired the finance committee for the 2020 GOP convention....
Trump has abused, threatened, and intimidated whistleblowers. Now people are terrified to come forward. This is how authoritarian states work. This is a banana republic.
In the months since the Senate acquitted Trump of two impeachment charges, the president has declared an all-out assault on whistleblowing.
The Trump Administration isn't just deporting migrant children, it's expelling them as part of a shadowy program run by a private and seemingly unqualified contractor that is imprisoning them in hotels.
Trump has continuously sought to undermine LGBTQ rights and to suggest otherwise is simply wrong.
Another pillar of the FBI’s independence wrecked by Bill Barr's Department of Justice, working on behalf of Trump, not the American people.
After a 38-year career with the Justice Department, the FBI's top lawyer Dana Boente was [forced] to resign on [May 30, 2020].
Two sources familiar with the decision to dismiss Boente said it came from high levels of the Justice Department rather than directly from FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The Trump Administration just asked the Supreme Court to gut all of the Affordable Care Act and its protections for those with preexisting conditions. They want to take insurance away from you by crushing the landmark health care law that enabled millions of Americans to get insurance coverage.
In Janaury 2019, Smart Dissent wrote about former Senator and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions's last act as AG in which ue drastically limited the ability of federal law enforcement officials to use court-enforced agreements to overhaul local police departments accused of abuses and civil rights violations.
Trump removed the Department of Transportation's Acting Inspector General who was investigating Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell's wife, who is the head of the department. Most of you already know but it is INSANE that McConnell's wife is in Trump's cabinet. INSANE. She was steering millions of federal dollars towards her husband Mitch McConnell’s state of Kentucky as he faced low approval ratings and a tough reelection bid.
Trump has removed 3 inspectors general on a Friday night in the last 6 weeks.
In each case, he had a rather clear political motivation.
Right before our eyes he's eliminating all oversight and obstructing justice.
Time is running out.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL. THIS IS THE CORRUPTION ON AN UNIMAGINABLE LEVEL. THIS IS A CODE RED ALARM.