People need to be paying attention to the anti-democratic steps the President is taking while people are appropriately preoccupied with the current pandemic. Some of the most outrageous steps were on a Friday night. Here is a partial litany: 1/7
The same night, he nominated a White House lawyer to be special inspector general for the stimulus program--an important oversight position that should be going to an independent expert, not a loyalist. 3/7 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/03/trump-coronavirus-inspector-general-brian-miller/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/...
More and more power has gone to Jared Kushner, who is working extensively on the President& #39;s campaign from the White House, which may violate the law, and operating a secretive shadow coronavirus task force, which may also violate the law. 4/7 https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-white-house/">https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-rel...
Yesterday, the administration changed its description on a federal website of the Strategic National Stockpile to correspond to Kushner& #39;s description of it at a press conference as for the federal government, not the states. 5/7 https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/jared-kushner-trump-campaign-white-house/">https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-rel...
This is bad stuff, people. Don& #39;t let it go unnoticed and unprotested because of the ongoing crisis. Times of crisis are when democracies collapse. Just ask Hungary. 7/7
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