Ex-Federal Prosecutor Explains Why Donald Trump’s Fealty Move Is Actually ‘So Dumb’
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"It just makes no sense at all," said Andrew Weissmann, who also predicted how it could spectacularly backfire.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Wednesday warned how Donald Trump’s reported work to purge his second administration of non-loyalists could end up going seriously sideways for the president.
It’s “so dumb” as a policy, Weissmann told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
At least 20 senior Justice Department officials have been reassigned since Trump reentered office, as part of the president’s bid to remake the government entirely in his image.
And while Trump and his allies may believe they are thwarting the so-called “deep state” that they allege works against the president, said Weissmann, he warned that’s actually a “complete misread that is projecting onto the Department of Justice what you may be thinking, which is that you are all about transaction and politics and power and money.”
The “big picture,” said Weissmann, is that these moves will likely make the department “dramatically less effective” even in combating the issues that Trump has highlighted for his second term.
“Glad to see that our campaign for truth and transparency through the @FCC won’t be stopped," a conservative group wrote after the news.
The executive order, which requires federal documents to reflect sex assigned at birth, has sparked concern among trans Americans.
Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was also handling Trump’s coup attempt case, said the pardons would not change “the historical record.”
The political pundit suggested the podcast host was a hypocite by posting a photo of her in a sexy outfit with the caption, "This you?"
Police say a 17-year-old shooter killed himself after fatally wounding a female student in a shooting at a Nashville high school.
Russell Vought, likely to return as director of the Office of Management and Budget, echoed the former House speaker's criticism of the social safety net.
The independent senator said there's a "small number of very wealthy people controlling what we see, hear and read" that "have kind of caved in to Trump."
Mittens, a Maine coon cat, accidentally flew three times between New Zealand and Australia this month after her cage was mistakenly left in the plane’s cargo hold.
The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
The president has pushed the baseless claim for years.
The MSNBC host accused the billionaire of “not even pretending.”
The Pennsylvania senator visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month.
President Donald Trump announced a joint venture Tuesday with OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank of up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence.
The billionaire already owns another social media platform, X.
The president's erroneous comment came amid threats of hiking tariffs on imports from other countries.
Ronny Chieng turned one of the president's executive orders into a withering punchline.
"I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis," the Democrat said. "And I will do that until I am six feet in the ground.”
And the way a link was initially phrased drew even more anger on social media.