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Because Marko Elez resigned the same day WSJ asked Treasury about racist social media comments, it has been assumed that that was why he quit. But that's just based on correlation, not any proof of causation. So we can't rule out that he quit because Treasury discovered he had more access than they intended to give him.

Trump's DOJ keeps having to confess that the DOGE and Project 2025 people hijacking the government have misled career AUSAs about the full extent of their refusal to follow Congress' orders.

Trump is furious that his thugs can't fulfill his promises of mass deportation. But those failures arise not through want of trying. Rather, those failures stem from the fact that reality in no way matches the hellhole Miller pitched for Trump, the imaginary hellhole Miller used to get voters afraid enough to vote for Trump.

Trump's administration had a chance to substantiate the wild claims of fraud and abuse that Elon Musk has leveled at USAID.  And Carl Nichols was unimpressed. 

Acting US Attorney Ed Martin is already struggling to manage his many conflicts. But in forming her weaponization committee as one of the first things she did as Attorney General, Pam Bondi multiplied the ethical morass of her own Department of Justice.

In mooting Danny Rodriguez' sentence for nearly murdering Michael Fanone, Amy Berman Jackson contrasted Rodriguez' boast, “I tased the fuck out of the blue,” with Fanone's comment upon being revived: “Did we hold the line?”

One of two lawsuits to prevent the FBI from retaliating against Agents who conducted the January 6 investigation asserts, as part of an aggressive mandamus request, that a DOJ led by Trump's defense attorneys, "do[es] not have discretion to redefine the truth of January 6, 2021" in order to claim the work of FBI agents authorized by judges is illegal.

On January 27th, an AP story appeared on the news website Military.com with the headline "Intelligence Sharing by the US and Its Allies Has Saved Lives. Trump Could Test Those Ties." Today, after watching what's been going on at USAID, DOJ, and with Mark Milley, it's no longer "could" - those ties *are* being tested.

Trump justified a tariff war with false claims about fentanyl deaths.