Trump’s drift towards fascism picks up more speed

Trump’s drift towards fascism picks up more speed in the last 24 hours with threats to deploy Troops to Chicago…

Trump’s threat to deploy troops to Chicago draws criticism from city and state officials

Illinois political leaders and Chicago municipal officials are raising alarms over President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy National Guard troops to the city, insisting that sending in soldiers would be baseless and a clear case of federal overreach.

…and his sacking of the Fed Governor on trumped up charges…

Cook to sue Trump over order to fire her from Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook will file a lawsuit challenging her removal by President Donald Trump, setting up a potential standoff between the president and the US central bank.

“President Trump has no authority to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook,” her lawyer Abbe David Lowell said in a statement.

…this madness follows Bolton being raided and an ever escalating abuse of powers…

• National Guard troops patrolling Washington, D.C., will now carry weapons under orders from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Go deeper.
• Chicago and New York City are President Trump’s next targets for federal crime crackdowns, following Washington. “We’re going to make our cities very, very safe,” he told reportersat the White House this afternoon.
• President Trump threatened to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook after housing regulator Bill Pulte doubled down on his attacks against her, Axios’ Courtenay Brown reports. Go deeper.
• The Texas House passed a new congressional map last night that’ll likely give Republicans five more seats in Congress, Axios Austin’s Asher Price writes
• Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has used his 3 million followers on X to reinvent the sleepy mortgage regulator as a platform for political combat.
  • Pulte has elevated allegations of mortgage fraud against two of Trump’s top antagonists, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Both are now under criminal investigation.
  • Pulte also has led the campaign to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, calling for him to resign — or be fired — over cost overruns in the Fed’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation.
  • Yesterday, Pulte escalated Trump’s war on the central bank by accusing Fed governor Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud. Trump responded by calling for Cook to resign. Cook said she has “no intention of being bullied to step down.”
• Martin, a conservative activist who defended Jan. 6 rioters, was named the Justice Department’s weaponization czar after his nomination to be U.S. attorney for D.C. collapsed in the Senate.
  • In his brief time as acting U.S. attorney, Martin demoted prosecutors who had worked on Jan. 6 cases, vowed to pursue legal action against critics of Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, and attempted to launch an investigation into Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
  • Now leading the DOJ’s probe of James, Martin stunned ethics experts by showing up outside the New York attorney general’s Brooklyn home in a trench coat and posing for tabloid photos.
• Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, sent shockwaves through the intel community by accusing former Obama officials of a “treasonous conspiracy” stemming from the 2016 Russia probe. Her allegations have electrified Trump’s base.
  • Gabbard went further this week, revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials she claimed had manipulated or leaked classified intelligence.
  • Then yesterday, she approved plans to slash ODNI’s staff by 40%.

I told you Trump was an Orange Fascist and every passing week where he abuses power only confirms that.

There is a hard rain gonna fall in America as Trump’s aggression and desire to crush any and all opposition starts to manifest from Art to Politics to the Economy and all of Society.

 

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