It's now less than a week before Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term, and every sign out there is pointing toward him using the power of the presidency in ways no one else has before him. And this isn't simply conjecture. read more
The Justice Department can publicly release its investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case, a federal judge said Monday ... read more
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"There are multiple reports that Trump will sign 100 executive orders on day one, and only a few of these will involve the border and drilling for oil. The rest of them? They will be the first steps in Trump's retribution.
In fact, incoming senior Trump administration officials have now started questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about their loyalty. Not their loyalty to the United States, but their loyalty to Donald J. Trump.
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The questions these civil servants have had to answer involve who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made any social media posts that would have criticized Donald Trump or his policies.
This is the clearest sign that at least one of Trump's executive orders will be to remove as many career civil servants as possible in order to replace them with people who are exceedingly loyal to Donald Trump."
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