Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/trump-picks-his-former-lawyer-to-be-top-prosecutor-as-he-pushes-bondi-to-investigate-foes

"Donald Trump said he was appointing his former lawyer Lindsey Halligan to be US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after an extraordinary outburst in which he overtly put pressure on his attorney general to more aggressively pursue senior public officials he regards as his political enemies.“We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW,” Trump wrote."

The guy is in a hurry to beat down any dissent from wherever it arises, he does not want anybody employing his legal tactics of delay, delay, how long before he starts behaving like Putin and the way he dealt with Navalny and others, skips out any semblance of legal process.

An attempt to double down on his other gripe, the prosecution cases taken against him in congress and the courts being a witch-hunt and fake, block all mention of those cases in/by the media at all. No more mention of rape and assault cases as well where he was sued and he is losing/lost, no more WSJ stories.

I made an error in a previous post about Brendan Carr's career as FCC Board chair. He was originally appointed as one of the commissioners on the FCC board in 2017 by Trump and was voted back on to it again in 2019. He continued to serve on the board as a commissioner during the Biden Administration, reappointed by Biden in 2023 to serve through to 2029, and was appointed as chair by Trump this year. I was also not aware of Carr's input into Project 2025 which seems to be majorly an attempt to deny the media of a right to freely report on what was and is going on in the U.S and elsewhere which would let the public have knowledge of unlawful scheming by persons in positions of power and authority. Curtailment of the freedom to report the news ends as a loss to the public purely for the benefit of crooked persons and criminals.

What was Carr’s role in Project 2025?

Carr also wrote a section of the FCC’s agenda in Project 2025, a policy framework for a prospective second Trump administration from the conservative Heritage Foundation.

In Project 2025, Carr called for the FCC to overturn Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which prevents websites and social media companies from being held responsible for content posted by users of their platforms.

“Courts have construed Section 230 broadly to confer on some of the world’s largest companies a sweeping immunity that is found nowhere in the text of the statute,” Carr wrote. “They have done so in a way that nullifies the limits Congress placed on the types of actions that Internet companies can take while continuing to benefit from Section 230.”

LINK:https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=478831f9afe891e70b984d4607a09a46c80287b70415de76071b2f7838d1078fJmltdHM9MTc1ODQxMjgwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=04f55f2f-e40c-6108-1379-4b9fe541609e&psq=Did+Brendan+Carr+serve+as+a+commissioner+on+the+FCC+during+the+Biden+administration&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9ob21lbmV3cy9tZWRpYS81NTEwMTQ0LWZjYy1jaGFpci1icmVuZGFuLWNhcnIv

In fairness he was only using them to wipe his arse.

The delay of starting these various legal cases against him were fatal, should all have been started at least 2 years earlier, it played into his hands in terms of his delay, delay legal tactics.

For you to have a point, they would in fact need to be two sides of the same arse.

Unfortunately for you, that isn't even close to being true. The "both sides" deflection doesn't work

I had half imagined, or at least hoped, that a lot of the nonsense he talks or tweets on his truth social was just him giving his supports, especially MAGA, what they wanted to hear. But if this is actually real and these are the kind of dictates he is issuing to his minions in control of the branches of government the White House is now a mental asylum with a complete and utter self serving lunatic with no regard for anybody or anything other than himself in charge.

It really is unfathomable how the U.S. has allowed itself to be brought so low.

Trump EO orders National Parks Service to remove or cover up exhibits about slavery including this one at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, about the John Brown raid.

You might as well have an exhibit about 1916 that takes care not to mention British rule in Ireland or a display about the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre that doesn't mention religion. I take it they are still alluding to a significant event that took place at this place…or is all inconvenient history to be memory-holed now?