I opened RawStory (you can see that it was at 5:28AM on the top of the screenshot) and was struck by the first six words in the title of the article that happened to be on the top of the page. It is shown above with my highlight.
I glanced at the article (here) but didn’t need to know that the following was what it was about to decide what to write about today:
The Trump administration has been persistent in its efforts to deport Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a migrant previously deported to El Salvador without charge due to an “administrative error,” and on Monday, defiantly violated a federal judge’s order as it pertains to the case, according to new court documents.
The story could have been about any case where Trump and his henchmen demonstrated that a judge’s order which was meant to stop them from doing anything they wanted to do wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.
Ask yourself this:
It is obvious that Trump is testing just how much he can get away with, whether someone is as famous as John Bolton or as newly famous like Kilmer Abrego Garcia.
Grand juries issue what are called either a true bill or a no true bill when they make their decisions whether or not to charge someone with a crime. When they believe there is enough evidence to proceed with prosecution, they issue a “true bill.” If the grand jury does not find sufficient evidence, they issue a "no true bill," meaning no charges will be filed.
This comes to mind because I was the foreman of a county grand jury 20 years ago. After hearing the evidence presented by the DA and the police officers involved in a case we issued true bills 100% of the time. Just recently, Jeanne Pirro, who was previously a county district attorney in Westchester County, NY, where I lived as a child, tried and failed three times to indict a woman for allegedly assaulting an ICE officer during an arrest of two purported gang members (read article).
Consider:
This is one case where a Trump toady’s overreach in trying to prove to Big Daddy how tough she was won’t result in a serious punishment for someone who doesn’t deserve more than a slap on the wrist since the assault charges were downgraded to a misdemeanor.
I want to emphasize
since there are likely to be many other cases where people charged with crimes are going to be treated to the harshest possible punishment because, well, because this is the way Trump rolls.
We know that
is one of Trump’s favorite words. He believes he’s the toughest of the tough. He wants to intimidate, not just his enemies, but also ordinary people or counties. He is driven to terrorize immigrants and criminals, because he’s not only tough, but ruthlessly tough.
There’s the old saying “if you do the cirme, you’ll do the time.” For Trump the crime is saying or even thinking anything - how to put it - nasty about him. As just happened with Chris Christie, not only will he call you a slob, but he will hint that he’ll order you prosecuted. I am sure he’s directed Pam Bondi to try to come up with some reason to sic the Justice Department on Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker. Of course, what he really wants to do is not only send soldiers to California and Ohio to show who the real boss of those states is, but to arrest them… for anything.
Trump wants to be seen as so tough that even his hero Hannibal Lector would be scared of him.
To Trump, being tough also means that nobody tells him what to do. Internationally, it includes leaders of other countries. At home this obviously includes judges. Yeah, he’d really like to have his soldiers arrest them too.
Defying judicial orders is just the beginning. His defiance will include Congress if the Democrats somehow manage to win control of both houses in 2026. He might even have his soldiers evict mmeber of Congress from U.S. Capitol buildings so the greatest real estate genius of all time can find a better use for it.
Trump is biding his time until he can issue the ultimate executive order where, in some way, shape, or form, he will make himself president for life.
The lessons of history tell us one thing:
This was the top story on The Washington Post website at 8:45AM here in Oregon:
Excerpt:
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled to dismiss an unprecedented lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against all 15 federal district judges in Maryland, finding that the federal bench in that state legally adopted a standing order pausing all deportations for two business days so judges could evaluate migrants’ claims amid the Trump administration’s breakneck schedule of removals.
“In casting its wide net, the Executive ensnared an entire judicial body—a vital part of this coordinate branch of government—and its principal officers in novel and potentially calamitous litigation,” U.S. District Judge Thomas T. Cullen, who sits in Virginia and was specially assigned to preside over the dispute, wrote in an opinion dismissing the litigation. Cullen was nominated to the bench by President Donald Trump in 2020.
Obviously this is a major setback in Trump’s quest smooth out the bumps in his road to becoming the dictator he aspires to be. I am sure he is readying a fleet of giant Army bulldozers to remove such impediments.
Read this: ‘Frog in boiling water’: Nicolle Wallace warns US creeping toward crisis under Trump, or better yet watch the video:
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