What we’re reading…
Republicans remain silent on Stephen Miller proposing suspension of habeas corpus, indicating complicity with declaring martial law if Trump wants.
Do you agree that Trump alone can declare martial law as a way to suspend habeas corpus? Just by declaring martial law based on his opinion that we are under attack by (fill in the blank)?
53 Republican senators stayed silent when asked if they agreed with the president saying he didn’t know if he needed to uphold the Constitution or not.
Republicans stayed silent after the administration announced it was planning to accept a gift of a $400M luxury Boeing 747-8 plane from the Qatari royal family.
Trump loyalist AG Pam Bondi and Trump’s top WH lawyer signed off on Trump’s acceptance of the Qatari jet. They concluded it was an acceptable gift.
In 2019, Bondi was a registered lobbyist for Qatar, earning $115,000 a month.
The Trump family’s connections to Qatar are longstanding. Jared Kushner’s backroom deals in the Middle East during Trump’s first term are a mystery. But the evident financial benefits are not.
Together with Saudi Arabian company Dar Global, which has close ties to the Saudi government, the Qatari company will build a $5.5 billion Trump International Golf Club in Qatar.
Trump heads to the Middle East today to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—three of the world’s wealthiest nations—in search of business deals.
This is corruption
Republicans’ silence matters. The Trump administration is deliberately attacking the fundamental principles of our democratic republic. That lawmakers who swore an oath to uphold those principles are choosing to remain silent makes them complicit in that attack.
Trump backed down on China tariffs. China won the round. And any spin intended to portray it as a win is ludicrous. Trump wanted a way out of the mess he made. China agreed.
Looks like a similar pattern was followed in the bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. Trump thought he could stop Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea by bombing the Houthis, and he expected results within 30 days.
But he’s not playing a made-for-TV Prez where things work out just because he says ‘make it so.’
After 31 days, we didn’t even have air superiority over the Houthis. They shot down 7 US drones costing $60M. And continued to fire at US ships.
In the first month, the US campaign cost about $1B and lost two $67M aircraft.
Again, Trump wanted out of the mess. He agreed to stop the bombing campaign in return for the Houthis’ leaving US ships alone. But with no promises from the Houthis to stop the general attacks that had led Trump to start the US strikes in the first place.
On May 5, Trump ended the operations and declared victory.
The Houthis posted “Yemen defeats America.”
He’s really bad at deals.
We’re a Republic. Not a monarchy. Will Republicans continue to allow him to do whatever he wants? With our country? Our Constitution? Our pocket book?
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