And Acting President Stephen “Trump’s Brain” Miller
On Friday, the criminal Donald Trump refused to take off the table the United States attacking another NATO member (meaning the Danish territory of Greenland). Watch:
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) thinks the criminal Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland are “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” and any moves in that direction could lead to impeachment. At the very least, says Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), they would generate “sufficient numbers [in the Senate] to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto.”
Also on Friday (according to Axios), the Department of Justice weaponized by the criminal Donald Trump “launched an investigation into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly obstructing federal law enforcement officers in their state, per a source familiar with the matter.” Walz and Frey are not alone:
The statute bandied around as supporting the investigation is 18 USC 372:
If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.
Force? Intimidation? Threat? The DOJ investigation is BS. But like CBP agents ignoring your valid passport, Trump doesn’t care. The cruelty (harrassment) is the point. Trump’s DOJ doesn’t care if it wins in court; “winning” is causing headaches for Walz and Frey, costing their families dearly, and frightening other critics into silence. The only intimidation here come from the criminal Donald Trump.
Government of the bullies for the billionaires
Meantime, Acting President Stephen “Trump’s Brain” Miller is furiously preparing the ground for his puppet’s invocation of the Insurrection Act by painting victims of CBP/ICE violence as perpetrators of violence.
Is public resistance to CBP/ICE assaults in Minneapolis an insurgency, asks Fox’s Laura Ingraham. “Insurrection,” Miller corrects her. Or “domestic terrorism.” By “criminal illegal aliens and criminal refugees who are looting and pillaging” Minnesota. Minnesota. Miller cites (as if he himself discovered it; he didn’t) Federal Nutrition Program fraud by Somali refugees as another reason armed goons have flooded the state.
Will Stancil, a lawyer-activist, tells Richard Warnica of the Minneapolis Star:
“If you want to investigate fraud, bring an accountant,” Stancil, a Democratic activist and education policy adviser told me as we drove around his neighbourhood Monday. The ICE agents in Minnesota don’t look like accountants. They look like soldiers. And you don’t bring soldiers unless you want to fight a war.
Walz called the CBP/ICE invasion “a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”
Miller is the same Wormtongue who convinced the criminal Donald Trump that Portland was in flames, Chicago is a hellhole, and other cities run by Democrats are “cesspools of blood.”
Neighbors rallying behind neighbors in Minneapolis, Miller insists, engage in “trained insurgent tactics.” He’ll sell that hard until Trump invokes the Insurrection Act and puts the U.S. Army in the streets to crush any dissent.
One observation. If Acting President Stephen “Trump’s Brain” Miller believes neighbors with whistles are trained insurgents, then he clearly believes their “training” is better than that of the goons Trump’s DHS has dispatched to beat blue state citizens into submission.
At this point I may take to referring to the dangerous, doddering fool occupying the Oval Office as the criminal Donald Trump. Because he is. I’d also like to see people referring to Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as Acting President Stephen “Trump’s Brain” Miller, a la Karl Rove. Trump cannot abide challenges to his authority, nor to his magnificent brain. Undermine their relationship every chance you get.