Fascist DODO in the White House

Trump claims his political movement is Make America Great Again (MAGA) -- but even a brief look at everything the first Trump Administration did abroad plainly shows that Trump and his lackeys have no interest whatsoever in making America great. 99% of Trump's foreign policy decisions helped Russian dictator Vladimir Putin at America's expense.

Trump's real agenda is best described by the many times Trump vowed to be Dictator On Day One (DODO).

Trump declared: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Three months later, Trump told an interviewer "I don't know" when asked if he has to uphold the Constitution.

Trump committed twelve impeachable offenses in the next two weeks. Never before has an American President broken so many laws in so short a time.

Though the parts of the Constitution he'd vowed to "terminate" in 2022 specifically referred to the clauses that required him to leave office after being voted out, he'd also vowed on the campaign trail to get rid of birthright citizenship -- the provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees citizenship to any baby born in America.

This was illegal and unconstitutional. If Trump wants to change the Constitution, he has to propose a Constitutional Amendment and go through the long process of getting it ratified. It can't be done by executive order.

Ironically, two of Trump's three wives weren't yet citizens when four of his five children were born. If Trump gets his way, four of his own children would lose their citizenship and be deported!

Even though a judge blocked Trump's DODO order a few days later, the matter isn't closed. Trump issued an illegal order and tried to throw out the Constitution by decree. He ordered the government to disregard the Constitution and illegally strip the citizenship from American babies born to an American parent on American soil. There is only one possible response: Trump must be impeached and removed from office. Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden issued an illegal order to overrule the Fourteenth Amendment, they would have been impeached within fourteen hours.

In July, 2025, Trump threatened to revoke the citizenship of comedian Rosie O'Donnell. Whether you agree with O'Donnell's politics or not, she is an innocent American citizen who has not done anything remotely criminal. It IS unconstitutional, however, to terminate the citizenship of someone born in the United States. Had Presidents Biden, Obama, or Clinton threatened to illegally take away someone's citizenship -- Kenneth Starr's, for instance -- they would have been impeached immediately.

(2) Treason: Abuse of the Pardon Power

On his second day in office, Trump abused the pardon power by pardoning 1600 convicted DODO terrorists who attacked Congress at his behest on January 6, 2021 and attempted to assassinate the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. The terrorists' purpose was to force Congress to throw out the results of the 2020 election and install Trump as dictator. The attack resulted in nine deaths. Though the President does have the power to pardon convicts, the President does not have the power to incite people to commit crimes on his behalf (which he did on January 6, 2021) and then pardon them (which he did four years later.)

Since Trump pardoned the terrorists who attempted to violently overthrow the Constitution in 2021, that plainly constitutes giving aid and comfort to the Constitution's enemies.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden pardoned over 1600 terrorists who attacked the United States Capitol in the attempt to install a dictatorship, they would have been impeached within sixteen minutes.

Other Presidents have abused the pardon power and pardoned one or two high-profile crooks -- such as Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. Trump, however, has abused the pardon power to an unprecedented level. Since returning to the White House, Trump has pardoned fraudsters, tax cheats, embezzlers, a sheriff who took bribes, drug dealers, and (especially) wealthy donors and their relatives. As noted below, Trump later ordered investigations into public figures who criticized him, none of whom have been accused of any crimes. Trump has perverted the pardon power into a tool to reward crooked friends who give him money and punish innocent people who disagree with him.

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explained Trump's abuse of the pardon power to free criminals whose family members contributed to his campaign or to his inauguration. "Trump is sending a message that you can commit violence as long as it's done in service of him," Reich pointed out. At the same time, Trump is using the Justice Department to persecute anyone who criticizes him, "including prosecutors who put January 6 criminals behind bars."

(3) Treason: Giving Aid and Comfort to Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and a dictator who wants to destroy America. Putin and his intelligence services have embarked on a decades-long campaign to disrupt and discredit the world's democracies, especially western Europe and the United States. Putin's efforts included the 2016 cyberattacks that helped propel Donald Trump into his first term. Russian agents later tried to disrupt the 2024 election by calling in bogus bomb threats to polling places.

In February 2022, Putin ordered the conquest of Ukraine -- a peaceful democracy that posed no threat to him. A similar situation happened in 1990 when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered the conquest of Kuwait -- a peaceful nation that posed no threat to him either. Saddam's invasion was condemned around the world, including by then-U.S. President George H.W. Bush. In contrast, Trump called Putin a "genius."

The Ukrainians were outnumbered and outgunned, and Putin expected to conquer Ukraine in a matter of weeks. Instead, Ukraine showed heroic bravery and resilience. Though 45,000 Ukrainians have died at Russian hands, Russia has only managed to conquer about a fifth of Ukraine. At the rate he's going, it will take Putin another 83 years to conquer all of Ukraine.

On February 18, 2025 -- less than a month after returning to the Presidency -- Trump denied reality and claimed Ukraine had "started" the war by defending themselves against Putin's attempt to conquer them. "You [Ukrainians] should have never started it, you could have made a deal," Trump said. "I could have made a deal that would have given them almost all of the land." Trump consistently repeats Putin's propaganda that Ukraine was the agressor and Russia the victim. "You don't start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles," Trump said in April. Trump has told tens of thousands of lies since entering politics, and his blatant victim-blaming may be the most obvious. Trump's slander echoed the lies of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler when he ordered the conquest of Poland in September 1939. "This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory," Hitler said in one of his infamous Big Lies. "Since 5:45 a.m. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs."

If George H.W. Bush had told the Kuwaitis that they should not have "started" the war with Saddam Hussein -- or if Franklin D. Roosevelt had told Poland that they should not have "started" the war with Hitler -- Congress and the Cabinet would have been stunned into inaction for a few minutes. When they recovered, the Cabinet would have immediately invoked the 25th Amendment to remove the President from power. If that had failed, Congress would have impeached the President and removed him from office.

"Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago... Shortly after Trump dismissed Zelensky from the White House, Putin’s [chief goon], Dmitry Medvedev, posted on X: 'The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.'"

"The President of the United States was insane, was the worst person in the world, was a racist, murderous, psychopathic, quasi-human who isn't even smart enough to realize he was attacking Zelensky, the man who would save him, on behalf of Putin, the man who would destroy them both."

Trump and Vance acted as Putin's lackeys, blatantly betraying an ally to an enemy.

Taking the side of a brutal dictator like Hitler, Saddam or Putin when he launches a war of conquest against a smaller, peaceful nation (like Poland, Kuwait or Ukraine) is immoral, but isn't necessarily illegal. Taking the side of a brutal dictator who has already attacked the United States when he attacks another country is illegal. As noted above, the Constitution reads: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Putin has attacked the United States with cyberwarfare and propaganda on a dozen documented occasions. By siding with Putin in his attempt to conquer a peaceful neighbor, Trump and Vance certainly gave "Aid and Comfort" to the enemy of the United States.

During his first term, Trump was impeached after he tried to coerce Zelinsky into smearing an innocent man (then-candidate Joe Biden.) If that's an impeachable offense, clearly taking Putin's side against the peaceful neighbor he invaded and trying to bully Zelinsky on Putin's behalf is also an impeachable offense.

(4) Emoluments Violations

Just as he did in his first term, Trump is using the Presidency to enrich himself. Foreign diplomats are staying at hotels he owns in order to curry favor with him. These emoluments violations are unconstitutional. They're illegal to prevent anyone from bribing the President or buying influence with him. The President is supposed to make decisions based on what's best for the country -- not what's best for his pocketbook.

A few days before starting his second term, Trump launched his own meme coin, a form of vanity cryptocurrency. It's unconstitutional for the President to receive foreign emoluments OR domestic emoluments. Anyone who buys a Trump meme coin is essentially giving him a bribe -- transferring real money to Trump in exchange for something that could be worthless tomorrow.

The Atlantic reports that companies from China, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have bought millions of dollars of them. "Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency... discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past. There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president. The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House."

The Philadelphia Inquirer and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich went into more detail about just how widespread Trump's corruption is.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden used the Presidency to promote their private businesses, they would have been impeached within minutes.

In an even more blatant emoluments violation, in May, 2025, Trump accepted a gift from the Qatari royal family -- a $400 million luxury jumbo jet. If Clinton, Obama, or Biden had accepted such a gift, they would have been impeached in 400 minutes.

As comedian Seth Meyers pointed out, Republicans made up wild stories for years falsely claiming that President Biden had taken billions in foreign bribes - but didn't say anything when Trump actually did that.

In May, 2025, Trump went on a "corruption tour" where he spent taxpayer dollars taking a trip to the Middle East to promote his businesses. As the New Republic pointed out, "Trump's brazen use of the White House to advance his family businesses should be one of the biggest scandals in the country's history.

"It's not America's business that Trump is really there for: It's his family businesses. This swing through three Gulf states, which kicked off on Monday, is the clearest and most damning instance yet of his approach to governance in his second term, where official business and personal business are fully intertwined. "Qatar is buying favor with the president in an act of deep and brazen corruption. Trump wants to be treated as a king, and Qatar is playing ball. Will Qatar be rewarded by favorable treatment by the U.S. government for as long as Trump is president? Of course it will. This is exactly how Trump has always wanted to govern -- via personal relationships, in which foreign leaders and business magnates grovel before him. This is exactly how he's governing during his second term." [Trump recently announced deals to build hotels in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.] "Since assuming office, Trump has backed pro-crypto legislation and shuttered a Department of Justice unit devoted to investigating its use in fraud, money laundering, tax-avoidance schemes, and other crimes -- all actions that benefit his own increasing financial stake in the industry. Most outrageously, he has repeatedly pushed crypto as a means of buying direct access to him. "The real estate and bitcoin ventures being pursued by [Trump's] children vastly exceed -- by a tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, at least -- the lobbying work done by President Joe Biden's son Hunter, which Trump and many others on the right spent years insisting was a massive scandal. "What is happening now is unquestionably the biggest corruption scandal in American history."

By the end of the second month of his second term, Trump spent $26 million golfing on his own property. Trump paid his golf courses for the use of his own facilities using taxpayers' money, and the golf courses then paid Trump. This is blatant corruption. Furthermore, Trump is a billionaire and can golf on his own dime. Had Clinton, Obama or Biden used taxpayer money to go golfing on their own property -- and then been paid by their golf courses to do so -- they would have been impeached immediately.

That summer, Trump opened a golf course in Scotland, again using the Presidency to promote his personal businesses. Had President Clinton been involved in a shady real estate deal before he was President... or had President Biden's son been paid by a foreign business before his father was President... yeah.

By the end of 2025, the Republican National Committee (RNC) had spent over $800,000 holding party events at properties Trump owns. Ordinary Republicans donated to the RNC, the RNC used the donations to rent Trump's buildings, and the buildings paid Trump. When people donate to the Republican Party, the Party funnels the money into Trump's pocket.

The Constitution says that "all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land." It also requires the President to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."

Trump threatened DODO military or economic warfare against four American allies: Canada, Mexico, Denmark, and Panama. Trump has blatantly said that Canada should become part of the United States in defiance of what Canadians want, and that Denmark should surrender Greenland to the United States regardless of what the people who live there want.

Trump is not joking. When Trump entered politics, he quickly became infamous for his constant firehose of nonsensical bullying lies. When other politicians have engaged in tiny amounts of the cruelty and slander Trump utters on a daily basis, their careers have gone down in flames. Though a single threat against America's closest ally might be taken as Trump's usual malarkey, Trump has repeatedly refered to Canada as the "51st State" and Canada's Prime Minister as "governor." In the course of a few weeks, Trump announced he would redraw the border, seize control of the Great Lakes' water, stop intelligence-sharing with Canada, and stop military cooperation with Canada. His administration falsely accused Canada of being under the control of Mexican drug cartels, and Trump said he would blackmail Canada into agreeing to American annexation. At The Atlantic pointed out, attacking Canada would be suicidal.

The idea of attacking friendly nations is demented. All four nations are democracies who have done nothing to threaten the United States. As Paul deLespinasse writes in Monroe News,

"The idea of seizing Greenland is so far out that even joking about it could be considered an impeachable offense. As a former Republican president, Calvin Coolidge, noted, 'The words of the president have an enormous weight and ought not be used indiscriminately.' … We already have a military base in Greenland by agreement with the Danish government."

In August, 2025, Denmark accused three Americans linked to the Trump Administration of traveling to Greenland and trying to forment a separatist movement there.

The United States has a mutual defense treaty with Canada and Denmark (the North Atlantic Treaty) and a mutual defense treaty with Panama (the Rio Treaty.) Attacking those allies is illegal and unconstitutional -- not to mention idiotic.

Who benefits when Trump threatens our allies with military or economic attack? Certainly not the American people, and certainly not our allies. The only person who benefits from the President of the United States attacking friendly nations in violation of the Constitution, international law, and American law is Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden announced military or economic warfare against four allies, they wouldn't have been impeached. The members of their cabinets would have invoked the 25th Amendment and removed them -- because everyone would have immediately realized the President had gone insane.

Denmark and Greenland have been an allies of the United States for 200 years. Trump doesn't care, and has become obsessed with conquering the island. "I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way," he wrote.

"The president's obsession with Greenland is especially dangerous because it has no real constituency: Trump is determined to get the island, it seems, only because Denmark and the rest of the world are telling him that he can't have it... polls show that most Americans oppose the whole idea.

"Danish officials are concerned that Trump will simply issue a late-night proclamation that the United States owns Greenland and then dare anyone to contradict him. The international community has become inured to many of the president's grandiose statements, and Trump declaring himself Lord Protector of Greenland might not have much impact.

"But Trump might then try to enforce his claims. He could start by ordering the U.S. military to treat Greenland as sovereign U.S. territory. And such an order, which would be illegal but would likely be fulfilled by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's Pentagon, could set in motion a disastrous chain of events.

"Either by design or accident, members of the American military might end up confronting Danish forces, men and women with whom they have trained for years and may have served in Afghanistan. Someone might be killed. The death of a Greenlander, a Dane, or a member of any other military there as a show of support for Denmark... would incinerate the NATO alliance. Then the real nightmare begins.

"If NATO collapses because of bullets fired in Greenland, Russian President Vladimir Putin might well assume that he could bury the Atlantic Alliance once and for all by attacking NATO's Baltic members.

"Putin has taken ghastly losses in Ukraine, but he has enough of an army left, backed by drones and other assets, to pummel the Baltic states and grab pieces of territory that may have no strategic value but whose capture would serve to remind the world that the United States -- the new masters of Greenland -- will not save Europe.

"Other nations, however, are unlikely to sit by, especially neighboring NATO countries such as Poland and Finland. Should they come to the aid of their Baltic allies, at least some other European nations would likely support those efforts, and the result would be a broader European conflict involving some of the most militarily capable states in the world. For the first time in almost a century, the continent would be at war, this time one involving multiple nuclear powers. U.S. forces, like it or not, would find themselves in the middle of this bedlam, and with each day of violence the chances would grow of a cataclysmic mistake or miscalculation by any of the combatants.

"China might wonder if America has finally tied itself in enough foolish knots to put the conquest of Taiwan within reach... And all this could happen -- for what, exactly? The vainglorious demands of one man who can't read a map?"

The United States -- through our NATO military alliance with Denmark -- already has strategic control of Greenland. Moreover, conquering Greenland would destroy our alliance with Denmark, other European countries, and Canada. It would play into Putin's hands and turn dozens of allies into enemies. So why does Trump want to do it?

The problem is, Greenland's mineral wealth is buried under glaciers. Mining them is dangerous and would be more expensive than the minerals. "The idea of turning Greenland into America's rare-earth factory is science fiction. It's just completely bonkers," an expert told CNN. "You might as well mine on the moon. In some respects, it's worse than the moon."

Greenland is an American ally, and is already open to American business. The reason no one mines there is because extracting the minerals simply isn't worth the cost.

"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS," Trump whined, "I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace."

Though the Nobel Prize committee meets in Norway, the Norwegian government has nothing to do with awarding Nobel Prizes. Trump has not stopped eight wars. He's stopped one, and has frequently mixed up the names of the countries involved.

"...Why do they have a 'right of ownership' anyway?" Trump continued, proudly displaying what an incredible igoramus he is. Greenland has been part of Denmark for over 600 years. "...We had boats landing there, also." The United States did not become an independent country until 1776 -- 400 years later.

"The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland," the lunatic-in-chief concluded. As noted above, the United States and Greenland are already close allies, and we have a military base there. Through the NATO alliance, the United States already has military control of Greenland. If Trump orders a military attack on America's greatest friends just for the sake of changing the words on a map, it won't make the world secure -- it will make the world far more dangerous.

As former President-Elect Al Gore said in 2006, "If what America represents to the world is leadership in a commonwealth of equals, then our friends are legion. If what we represent to the world is empire, then it is our enemies who will be legion."

That same week, Trump gave a rambling speech where he repeatedly confused Greenland with its neighbor Iceland. As comedian Seth Meyers observed, Trump "can't even remember the name of the territory he wants to conquer... we have an addled 79-year-old with his finger on the button who could at any point order a military invasion of the wrong country."

Threatening to attack multiple allied nations is illegal, unconstitutional, and insane. It violates the War Powers Act and the North Atlantic Treaty. Trump is playing directly into Putin's hands. He must be impeached and removed from office before he gets anyone else killed.

Urge Congress to pass the NATO Unity Protection Act, which would prohibit the Federal Government from blockading, occupying, or annexing territory belonging to any NATO ally. Demand Congress impeach and remove Trump before he gets anyone else killed. Sign the petition to outlaw the conquest of Greenland.

The Inspectors General are civil servants whose job it is to make sure government employees are complying with the law -- and were a thorn in Trump's side during his first term.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden illegally fired eighteen Inspectors General without giving Congress thirty days notice, they would have been impeached within eighteen minutes. In the meantime, tell Congress to reinstate the illegally fired inspectors.

Nixon's firing of Justice Department officials later led to Congress initiating impeachment proceedings against him.

Trump then sanctioned three law firms who represented clients who were political opponents of Trump (such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton) or tried to bring Trump and his criminal co-conspirators to justice during the Biden Administration (such as former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.) Trump specifically ordered employees' clearances revoked and barred attorneys from entering Federal buildings.

Not only is it unethical for Trump to use his power to retaliate against his political opponents and their lawyers, it's unconstitutional. The Sixth Amendment reads "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right... to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." It will be impossible for those firms to represent their clients if their attorneys can't enter Federal courthouses!

A brief filed by one of the firms goes into detail of how unconstitutional Trump's order was and how many laws and precedents it broke. "...It is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers. Because it does so without notice and an opportunity to be heard, and because it punishes the entire firm for the purported misconduct of a handful of lawyers who are not employees of the firm, it is an unconstitutional violation of procedural due process and of the substantive due process right to practice one’s professional livelihood... it denies the firm the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Because the Order punishes the firm for the clients with which it has been associated and the legal positions it has taken on matters of election law, the Order constitutes retaliatory viewpoint discrimination and, therefore, violates the First Amendment rights of free expression and association, and the right to petition the government for redress. Because the Order compels disclosure of confidential information revealing the firm’s relationships with its clients, it violates the First Amendment. Because the Order retaliates against [the firm] for its diversity-related speech, it violates the First Amendment. Because the Order is vague in proscribing what is prohibited “diversity, equity and inclusion,” it violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment... the Order violates the right to counsel afforded by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments."

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden signed an executive order punishing three law firms because they disagreed with their clients, they'd have been impeached in three days.

Trump announced a DODO spending freeze. It is illegal for the President to do this. Under the Impoundment Control Act, when Congress agrees to spend money on something and the President signs it, the President cannot decide to keep the money, freeze the money, or spend it on something else. Money approved by Congress must be spent as Congress has directed.

An internal document revealed that Trump violated the Impoundment Control Act deliberately to provoke a court battle. Trump's plan is to take the matter to the Supreme Court, where he hopes the DODO majority will strike down the Impoundment Control Act the same way they struck down the Voting Rights Act.

During the October government shutdown, Trump blatantly ignored the Impoundment Control Act, illegally canceling infrastructure grants, firing thousands of government employees, and redirecting research funds to be spent elsewhere. The Government Accountability Office is investigating 46 cases of Trump illegally impounding funds that Congress directed be spent on something else.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden violated the Impoundment Control Act, they would have been impeached the next day.

Though the President has the authority to nominate commissioners, after the Senate confirms them, he does not have the authority to remove them before their terms end.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden fired two EEOC commissioners, they would have been impeached within two hours.

Venn Diagram: Kleptocracy, Kakistocracy, Plutocracy

DODO strongman Elon Musk is the world's richest man and largely funded Trump's re-election campaign. Shortly after assuming office, Trump announced that Musk would be charing a committee called the "Department Of Government Efficiency," or DOGE. This is a misnomer, as it's not a department: DOGE consists of Musk himself and a few aides. Furthermore, as detailed below, DOGE has nothing to do with government efficiency or eliminating waste. A more accurate name for it would be Division Of Grift and Embezzlement -- or Dictatorship Of Gluttonous Elon! Musk's first objective was closing down the agencies that enforce the laws regulating his businesses. With no one available to enforce the laws, Musk may have evaded over $2.37 billion in fines for various violations, such as false advertising. After that, Musk cancelled government contracts with his competitors and hired his own businesses to do the work instead.

Trump -- along with his DODO Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, soon gave Musk access to the Treasury Department's payment system.

According to Senator Ron Wyden, Musk now has access to “Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk’s own companies. All of it." According to TechCrunch,

Musk then announced he was illegally shutting down USAID. According to The Atlantic, USAID's mission is to show people around the world what America stands for -- from helping Afghan women and Burmese refugees get an education to feeding starving children in Sudan to vaccinating civilians in Nepal and Nigeria.

Neither Musk nor Trump has the authority to unilaterally shut down a department established by Congress. Moreover: when Musk became a government employee, he became subject to conflict-of-interest laws. It is illegal to use government authority to promote his businesses and sabotage his competitors, which he certainly did by sabotaging USAID from within. Gizmodo reports that "USAID was actually investigating equipment from one of Musk's companies at the time that he attacked the agency... Musk has called the agency 'evil' and a 'criminal organization,' though the fact that USAID was investigating the Starlink activities may suggest ulterior motivations for the billionaire's vitriol." Walter Shaub adds:

"Musk... cannot work on any particular matter affecting a company in which he holds either stock or any other form of ownership interest... Any claim by the Trump administration that wealthy people should be excused from complying with criminal laws just because they're wealthy would be an outrageous, elitist insult to hard working Americans across the country."

Musk and Trump's war on USAID has critical real-life consequences. Contrary to what Musk claims, USAID doesn't give taxpayer money away to foreign countries. USAID buys surplus food from American farmers and distributes it to starving people around the world. Since Trump and Musk suspended USAID's operations, $500 million of American wheat, peas, and soybeans are now sitting in boxes in Houston and other port cities because Musk stopped USAID from sending it to hungry people who need it. If it isn't distributed soon, it will go bad, and Musk will have thrown away $500 million of taxpayer dollars. So much for eliminating government waste!

A court order blocked further DODO dismantling of USAID, but at this writing the food is still going bad instead of being distributed to the needy.

Trump and Bessent gave Musk and his team access to the private information of anyone who's ever done any kind of business transaction with the Federal Government. The private data of millions of innocent American citizens is now in the hands of people with no national security clearance. This violates the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code. It may also violate the Espionage Act. Time Magazine adds:

"Legal experts say granting Musk and his team access to such sensitive government data potentially contravenes multiple federal statutes, including the Privacy Act of 1974, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), as well as strict taxpayer privacy provisions under the Internal Revenue Code."

Professor Don Moynihan told Wired: "What we're seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government. We really have very little eyes on what's going on. Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials. So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world."

A few days later, a judge issued a court order denying Musk and his cronies further access to the Treasury systems. However, that wasn't the end of the story. As Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said, "This is the largest data breach in American history. [Musk and his lackeys are] an unlawfully constituted band of renegade tech bros combing through confidential records, sensitive data and critical payment systems."

USAID and the Treasury Department were not the only victims of Trump and Musk's attack on vital government functions. The Huffington Post summed up Trump and Musk's complete ineptitude in this telling piece:

"Imagine becoming president of the United States and one of the first things you do is fire the people in charge of managing the country's nuclear weapons. "For good measure, imagine you also went ahead and fired scientists trying to prevent a national outbreak of a deadly bird flu, military veterans who run a national crisis line and environmental stewards who keep the country's hugely popular national parks clean and safe for millions of summertime visitors." Trump and Musk also fired "People Who Make Sure We Have Clean Air And Water... People Who Make Sure The Pacific Northwest Has Electricity [and] Scientists Who Make Sure Medical Devices Are Safe And Effective."

The Atlantic adds that the Trump Administration fired scientists who give Americans advance warnings of tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, and hurricanes. "Now is precisely the time when governments must invest more heavily in making themselves resilient to these kinds of events," columnist Brian Klaas wrote. "But the United States is doing the opposite." For instance, "In September 2019, [Trump] eliminated an initiative that it saw as government waste: a $200 million program that tracked novel coronaviruses around the world. Three months later, COVID-19 infected its first victim... The U.S. government spent an estimated $4.6 trillion in response to the pandemic that emerged from that virus."

Trump and Musk also effectively shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- the government department tasked with ensuring banks and credit agencies are complying with the law. According to Senator Chris Murphy, CFPB officials were fired because they were investigating Musk's companies for possible wrongdoing. Musk fired leadership at the National Labor Relations Board for the same reason. (Murphy's video exposing Trump and Musk's blatant corruption is well worth the watch.)

CNN reported that Trump and Musk fired thousands of government workers without bothering to find out what the people they fired actually did. They had no idea that the people they fired were keeping the government running and the nation safe. For example, a few weeks after a deadly plane crash highlighted the need for airport control towers to be fully staffed, Trump and Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. This was exactly the opposite of what's necessary to keep airplane travel safe.

Forbes reported that Trump and Musk fired thousands of workers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (in charge of preventing car crashes), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (who rescue people from natural disasters), the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control (who stop diseases from spreading), the Food and Drug Administration (who make sure foods and medicines aren't poisonous), the Education Department (who handle student loans), the IRS (who make sure billionaires like Trump and Musk don't cheat on their taxes), and the Small Business Administration, among others. They also fired the people in charge of protecting Hawaiian airspace from incoming missile attacks.

Musk "oversaw the firing of Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Neuralink, Musk's brain implant company. [Musk] made cuts to a specialized unit with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration focused on overseeing the safety of autonomous vehicles like those made at Tesla. The fired employees include an engineer who worked with crash test dummies and a research psychologist who specializes in drunken driving and speeding... the federal agencies [Musk] has been dismantling have dozens of continuing investigations, pending complaints or enforcement actions into Musk's six companies.

"That includes 24 investigations alone from the National Labor Relations Board and a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission arguing that Musk owes the federal government up to $150 million.

Musk "has also essentially shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was evaluating hundreds of complaints about Tesla, including many about debt collection and loan problems."

Trump also had the DODO Justice Department drop a civil rights investigation into Musk's company SpaceX.

It didn't stop there. According to three Senators, Musk has been profiting handsomely from his influence with Trump. Musk accompanied Trump on Trump's recent trip to Saudi Arabia, where the Saudis agreed to start using Starlink. Bangladesh, India, Lesotho and Vietnam also signed up with Starlink in an effort to get Trump to drop his tariffs. This is a blatant corruption on Trump and Musk's part. Musk paid hundreds of millions to get Trump elected, and Trump has used American foreign policy to make Musk billions. It should go without saying that American foreign policy is supposed to protect the United States and promote American values -- not to make Musk ruch.

Faced with a Musk-ordered shutdown, the U.S. African Development Foundation -- one of the government's smallest agencies -- filed a lawsuit arguing that Musk's DOGE is illegal and unconstitutional, and that Musk has no government authority as he was never confirmed by the Senate.

In June, DOGE illegally uploaded the Social Security data of almost the entire American population to an unsecure computer. There's no evidence that identity thieves stole the data -- this time. However, if Hillary Clinton had used an unsecure computer for email... yeah.

Trump and Bessent must be impeached and removed from office, and a Special Prosecutor must be appointed to investigate Musk and his team. Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden given a drug addict with ties to hostile dictators access to the United States Treasury, they would have been impeached within a week. Sign the petitions telling Congress to block Musk's access to Social Security, Medicare, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Tell Congress to cancel Musk's government contracts (sign the petitions at Win Without War and Demand Progress.)

This merely scratches the surface of what Trump, Musk, Bessent, and DOGE have done. Cruel, stupid, greedy, and incompetent policies are not necessarily illegal, and as such are outside the scope of this article. For more information, watch the video by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

Note: though links to petitions are provided, the truth is that signing petitions doesn't really do much. The best way to stop Musk and Trump is to call, write, and email your representatives and Senators and demand action. Also: call, write, and email your Governor and your State legislators, and tell them to tax all Musk's products through the roof. If Trump can slap tariffs on imports -- the only purpose of which is to hurt American consumers -- American States can raise taxes on products sold by fascists.

Musk officially left his government position in June, having ruined people's lives. Tens of thousands of people have already died of disease and malnutrition because Trump and Musk froze or cancelled foreign aid. DOGE was a scam -- it had nothing to do with efficiency, and it cost more money than it saved. DOGE's fraud was created by Musk himself. Musk used taxpayer money to promote his businesses; awarded government contracts to himself; fired commissioners investigating his businesses; fired federal employees regulating his businesses' industries; incorporated American citizens' private data into his software; installed his own lackeys in departments that regulate or contract with his businesses; used government offices to investigate his competitors; and used his government position to secure business contracts with other countries.

Trump declared a DODO emergency at the southern border (even though illegal border crossings are down) and declared a DODO energy emergency (even though our current energy production is the highest in history.)

Declaring an "emergency" is one of the few ways the President can spend money not approved by Congress. However: the President's emergency powers do not extend to him stealing funds by declaring an emergency when there is no emergency. That's not a loophole – it's an excuse. According to Mother Jones, one of the reasons Trump declared a bogus "energy emergency" is to exempt fossil fuel companies from environmental laws and allow them to pollute rivers and wetlands.

The Atlantic points out that Congress gave the President authority to institute tariffs in an emergency. Trump's tariffs, however, are unconstututional -- because there is no emergency.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden declared a national emergency when there was no emergency, they would have been impeached within a week.

The American Prospect points out that the whole point of the firings and layoffs is to prevent the government from functioning. In cases where Congress has refused to cancel programs that Trump and Musk don't like, they just fire everyone in the department so the work Congress approved doesn't get done.

Even if a war of conquest were legal -- which it isn't -- the President cannot declare war unilaterally. Only Congress can declare war. Even though DODO Republicans control both houses of Congress by a margin of eleven votes, even they (hopefully) aren't crazy enough to send American troops into the middle of an ongoing conflict with no easy solutions that's been raging for longer than most of us have been alive.

This is exactly what terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and DAESH want. "Global jihadist groups will also use a narrative of the United States occupying Arab lands as a rallying cry for new recruits," one expert told NBC News. "This kind of language only is going to galvanize groups that want to kill Americans," said another. A third expert added, "A group like Al Qaeda has been desperate for something like this."

Trump's statements make it obvious that he doesn't understand the situation in Gaza at all and has no idea what he's talking about. If Trump weren't President of the United States, his cluelessness and naivete would make him a pathetic joke. Trump is currently the President, though. He's talking about committing war crimes, turning two million people into refugees, and triggering terrorist attacks against the United States like this is all completely normal. "Everybody I have spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area," Trump claimed. He thinks Gaza is a slum in the United States, not a disputed territory on the other side of the planet.

As commentator Keith Olbermann said, "The land is real to him... The people are just in the way. Sure, they live there in Gaza. Sure, they will just move because he says so... That's not crazy policy. That's not crazy politics. That's just crazy -- unsupported delusions of grandeur."

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden announced they were sending American troops into the middle of the Arab-Israeli conflict with the intention of committing war crimes, they wouldn't have been impeached. Their cabinets would have invoked the 25th Amendment and removed them -- because the President had obviously gone insane.

"Questions asked of several current and former officials up for top intelligence agency and law enforcement posts revolved around two events that have become President Donald Trump's litmus test to distinguish friend from foe: [Interviewees] were asked to give 'yes' or 'no' responses to the questions: Was Jan. 6 'an inside job?' And was the 2020 presidential election 'stolen?' ... These individuals, who did not give the desired straight 'yes' answers, were not selected. ... The questions were posed in direct interviews conducted by personnel hiring for the new administration. ... Separately, at least two individuals in FBI field offices outside Washington, who were being interviewed for senior positions, were asked similar questions, said one U.S. official familiar with the incidents. The questions included: Who were the 'real patriots' on Jan. 6? Who won the 2020 election? Who is your 'real boss?'"

Trump's DODO goal is to turn intelligence and law enforcement into a secret police force like those of totalitarian regimes. If FBI and intelligence agents are being denied promotions for answering questions with facts, this means that Trump wants a law enforcement apparatus that doesn't care about the truth and an intelligence service that can't tell friend from foe. According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, this is unconstitutional: public officials are prohibited from working against the duties of their offices. Law enforcement officials cannot refuse to believe evidence. Intelligence officials are forbidden from threatening national security. The Hatch Act "prohibits... politicized coercion of government employees." Also, according to the American Federation of Government Employees, the Hatch Act makes it illegal to "engage in political activity for a candidate while on duty, in a government office, in uniform, or while using a government vehicle." This likely includes telling job applicants that they are ineligible for promotion if they don't believe DODO propaganda.

If President Clinton had directed his subordinates to ask people up for promotion whether he'd had an affair with Monica Lewinsky -- and had denied promotions to people who said that he had -- Clinton would have been impeached again within minutes.

Several months later, Trump broke off negotiations with Congressional Democrats to pass a budget bill. This shut down government services, making some government workers continue at their jobs without pay. Anyone calling the White House heard a recorded message blaming Democrats for the shut down -- even though Republicans who broke off negotiations control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court. According to Congressman Robert Garcia, this blatant (and untrue) partisanship also violates the Hatch Act. Other executive departments followed Trump's lead.

The Constitution requires the President to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Trump cannot decide which laws to enforce and which not to.

If Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden had announced the Justice Department would no longer prosecute people for giving bribes, they'd have been impeached within minutes. Bribery is one of the "high crimes" the Constitution cites as grounds for impeachment.

A few weeks later, Trump announced that the Associated Press would no longer be allowed to cover presidential events because they didn't play along with Trump's bogus name change. "We're going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it's the Gulf of America," Trump said. This violated the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. It's unconstitutional for Trump to retaliate against journalists for reporting facts -- or for accurately reading a map. (The Associated Press filed suit.)

If Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden had announced that they were unilaterally changing the name of an international body of water and retaliated against reporters for using the correct name, their cabinets would have realized the President was suffering from delusions and removed him from office using the 25th Amendment.

On February 19, 2025, Trump wrote: "LONG LIVE THE KING!" on social media. The DODO White House social media accounts then posted pictures of Trump dressed as a king.

"Impeachment has been used to remove government officers who abuse the power of the office; conduct themselves in a manner incompatible with the purpose and function of their office; or misuse the office for improper or personal gain."

For the President to declare himself king meets all three criteria: abuse of power, behavior incompatible with being President of the United States, and misuse of the Presidency for personal gain. If Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden had written "LONG LIVE THE KING!" and posted pictures of themselves as kings, an impeachment inquiry would have been opened in seventeen minutes and seventy-six seconds.

In June, Trump ordered the army to hold a parade on his birthday. This cost taxpayers $45 million. The government wastes money all the time, and doing so is not in and of itself illegal. However, when taken in the context of Trump declaring himself king, it definitely qualifies as misuse of the Presidency for personal gain. The President ordering a military parade on his birthday violates the spirit of the Constitution, if not the exact letter.

If Clinton, Obama or Biden had done this, Congress would have opened an impeachment investigation immediately.

In October, 2025, Trump posted a video of himself as a king dumping excrement on peaceful, law-abiding "no kings" protesters. The message is clear: Trump thinks of himself as a king and has utter contempt for Americans, democracy, the rule of law, and the Constitution, especially the First Amendment right of free speech and the right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. Trump himself has the right to free speech, and his disgusting behavior is not in and of itself a crime. The same law that protects the protesters also protects him. However: when taken in context of everything else Trump has said and done, it demonstrates intent. Trump proved the protesters' point: he thinks he's above the law, and thinks the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to anyone who disagrees with him or criticizes him. If President Clinton had posted a video of himself as a king dumping excrement on Kenneth Starr -- or if President Obama had posted a video of himself as a king dumping excrement on the so-called TEA Party -- Congress would have launched an impeachment investigation immediately.

Trump's DODO address to Congress on March 5, 2025 was filled with blatant, obvious lies. Even the parts that weren't outrlght lies were taken out of context and distorted beyond all recognition. Lying to Congress is a felony. If President Bill Clinton had lied in a context where he was legally obligated to tell the truth... yeah.

Trump has set up a DODO bribery system where millionaires can pay him $5 million for a private dinner meeting with him, or $1 million to dine with him and other guests. The Constitution specifically mentions bribery as an impeachable offense. Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden accepted five-million-dollar bribes in exchange for dinner meetings, they'd have been impeached in five minutes.

Trump illegally fired two members of the Federal Trade Commission, a government department in charge of enforcing anti-trust laws. Supreme Court precedent held that Commissioners cannot be fired in the middle of their terms for political reasons. Both fired Commissioners are Democrats. One of the Commissioners pointed out that the Commission has open investigations into Facebook and Amazon -- whose founders have political connections to Trump and attended his inauguration. The other Commissioner agreed, telling CNN that "our laws need to be enforced without fear or favor and specifically, without commissioners fearing that they will get fired for failing to do a favor for the President's allies." Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden fired two Republican commissioners in the middle of their terms, they'd have been impeached in two weeks.

In March, 2025, Trump signed an illegal order making it harder for people to vote. According to the Constitution, the States -- not the President -- govern how Federal elections are conducted in their States. Congress can override the States under certain circumstances -- but the President cannot. Trump's DODO order ignored the Constitution and requires all voters to present a passport or a REAL ID in order to vote. 9% of voters don't have easy access to either. Trump's DODO order also required voters' current legal name to match the name on their birth certificate. This was specifically designed to prevent married women from voting, and thus violated the Nineteenth Amendment. The order also required States to throw out all absentee ballots that arrive after Election Day -- even if they were postmarked on Election Day. Furthermore, Trump's order gave Elon Musk access to voting records. (As noted above, Musk is a Nazi sympathizer and drug addict.) A judge later blocked Trump's order.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden tried to illegally force the States to make it harder for innocent American citizens to vote, Congress would have launched an impeachment inquiry immediately.

Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons for a dozen innocent people Trump had vowed to punish when returning to power -- even though they had not done anything remotely criminal. Two months after returning to the Presidency, Trump announced that those pardons would be "VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT" and the people pardoned "are subject to investigation at the highest level." The Constitution gives Presidents the right to issue pardons, but it does not give them the authority to revoke them. Furthermore, Trump's announcement was irrational even for him. Two months earlier, Trump himself pardoned the 1600 terrorists who attacked Congress in January 2021. By Trump's logic, the next President could revoke those pardons and send those terrorists back to prison! The pardoning and un-pardoning would continue every time a new President was sworn in. It would never end.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden revoked pardons made by their predecessors, Congress would have immediately opened an investigation into their abuse of power. Though Trump's annoucenment that he was revoking Biden's pardons may not seem like it rises to the level of a "high crime" demanding impeachment, many of the people Biden pardoned were members of Congress and career public servants that Trump had threatened simply for doing their jobs. Biden pardoned them to prevent Trump from abusing the power of the government to go after innocent American citizens.

Trump has been talking for years about serving more than two terms, the limit established by the Constitution. In late March, 2025, Trump said in so many words that he was "not joking." He is now selling "Trump 2028" hats.

In his first term, Trump was impeached twice, once for trying to steal the 2020 election, and the second time for trying to stay in power after he was voted out. If those are impeachable offenses, it follows that seeking an illegal third term is also an impeachable offense. If Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden had commented once about serving a third term -- let alone the many times Trump has mentioned it -- they would not have finished their current terms. They would have been impeached and removed in three weeks.

In April, 2025, Trump illegally ordered the DODO Justice Department to investigate two officals from his first term who Trump now considers political enemies. The first, Chris Krebs, was in charge of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security. In November 2020, Krebs correctly announced that the election was the most secure in American history. This drew the wrath of Trump, who refused to admit that then-President-Elect Biden had received seven million more votes than he had. Trump then fired Krebs -- even though it's illegal to fire a government employee for doing their job. Trump has been lying about the 2020 election ever since, insisting (all evidence to the contrary) that Biden had somehow "stolen" the election from him. "He's the fraud. He's a disgrace," Trump insisted of Krebs when signing the order. Krebs was telling the truth. Trump was lying in 2020 and still is. Not only is Trump attacking people for telling the truth in response to his DODO lies, he is now trying to have them prosecuted for it. Trump's tactic is to tell lies, then use the power of the government to go after anyone who responds with the truth. The purpose of law enforcement is to protect innocent people from criminals -- not prosecute innocent people on behalf of criminals.

The second, Miles Taylor, worked at the Department of Homeland Security. Taylor wrote an anonymous article in 2018 assuring worried Americans that he and other officials were working behind the scenes to restrain Trump's worst impulses -- despite Trump's "amorality" and fawning over Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Neither Krebs nor Taylor are suspected of committing any crimes. Trump ordered them investigated because they publicly acknowledged established facts: Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square. If Trump can order investigations of innocent former government officials who told the truth about his 2020 Big Lie, he can order investigations of anyone who tells the truth about his 2025 Big Lie (his nonsense claim that Ukraine attacked Russia.) In fact, since Trump acknowledged at the time that Putin had invaded Ukraine and called him a "genius," Donald Trump could order investigations of anyone who accurately quotes Donald Trump!

In June, Trump ordered an investigation of a third innocent person -- former President Joe Biden. Trump has been falsely claiming for years that Biden is both senile and a criminal mastermind -- at the same time! In May, 2025, four months after leaving office, Biden was diagnosed with cancer. Trump's use of government power to persecute an innocent 82-year-old retiree battling a possibly terminal disease is low even for a man famous for his cruelty.

Over the last several years, Donald Trump has claimed that writer E. Jean Carroll was his wife; claimed that he never met Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, then claimed he knew him well; claimed that President Obama was not born in the United States; claimed that Obama had founded the Middle Eastern terrorist group DAESH when Obama was a State Senator in Illinois; claimed that a judge from Indiana was from Mexico; claimed he won the popular vote in 2016; claimed Obama had spied on him; claimed he had repealed the Affordable Care Act; claimed he and North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un had fallen in love; claimed no one in Puerto Rico had died in Hurricane Maria; claimed windmills drive whales insane; claimed there were airports in 1812; claimed Ukraine had attacked the United States; claimed he'd built a border wall in Colorado; claimed climate change, the 2016 Russian cyberattacks, and the COVID-19 pandemic were hoaxes; claimed he'd found a cure for COVID-19; claimed he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize; claimed Osama Bin Laden was still alive; claimed he would be reinstated as President in August 2021; demanded that parts of the Constitution should be terminated; claimed he'd never said the Constitution should be terminated; claimed to be ambidextrous; claimed the entire population of Venezuela had moved to the United States; claimed the Chinese army would invade their own capitol; claimed his father was born in both Germany and Sweden; claimed that the Chinese were creating hurricanes; claimed that immigrants were eating people's pets; claimed that inflation was over 80%; claimed that an empty room was filled with people; claimed he'd been president in 2004; claimed he'd been president in 2022; claimed magnets don't work when they're wet; claimed Nikki Haley was in charge of security on January 6th; claimed Obama was still President years after he'd left office; claimed to have stopped wars with France; claimed he won the 2020 election; claimed tariffs aren't taxes on imports; claimed Ukraine started a war with Russia; and claimed that Biden was executed five years ago and was replaced by clones. But he want us to believe it's Biden's mental health we should be worried about.

Later in June, Trump said he's looking into investigating and arresting two more innocent people -- Alejandro Mayorkas (Homeland Security Secretary under the Biden Administration) and then-New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. Neither one has done anything remotely criminal. Trump's slander of Mamdani was particularly vicious, even for the rudest liar in American politics. Trump falsely claimed Mamdani a "communist lunatic," a "total nut job," and falsely accused Mamdani of being an illegal immigrant. (Mamdani's a U.S. citizen.)

In September, 2025, Trump emailed DODO Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding she indict three people who opposed him politically, even though they've committed no crimes -- and accidentally posted the email on his social media. He demanded Bondi immediately prosecute former FBI director James Comey, Senator Adam Schiff, and New York Attorney General Letitia James. "They're all guilty as hell," he wrote. Comey was indicted a few days later.

Comey is a patriot who dedicated his career to upholding the law. Comey is not a politician and, like most Justice Department officials, was completely unprepared to deal with Trump -- a rogue candidate and rogue President who brazenly and openly defied the law and the Constitution. However, Comey has not done anything remotely criminal. His prosecution is part of Trump's drive to use the power of the Federal Government to destroy anyone who stands up to him. Trump thinks he's a king, and believes the law is whatever he says it is. Trump thinks if he doesn't want to obey the law, he doesn't have to, and people who say he does are the real criminals. Trump therefore prosecutes anyone who upholds the law, and pardons anyone who breaks the law on his behalf. This is completely unconstitutional.

Comey's indictment came after Justice Department prosecutors investigated Comey for two months and found no evidence that any crimes were ever committed. U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert refused to indict Comey and James due to lack of evidence. In response, Trump replaced Siebert with DODO insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan with orders to indict Comey anyway. (Siebert says he resigned; Trump says he fired him.) This is in and of itself grounds to get the case against Comey dismissed for prosecutorial misconduct.

Trump also named Democratic donors George Soros and Reid Hoffman as targets for criminal investigation. Neither is suspected of any crimes.

The next day, Halligan -- the attorney Trump brought in to charge James Comey despite the lack of evidence -- charged New York Attorney General Letitia James with "mortgage fraud." Like the Comey indictment, there's no evidence.

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb says that Halligan's appointment broke the letter of the law, so she doesn't have any legal standing to charge anyone with anything. Moreover, Justice Department prosecutors already told Halligan -- in writing -- that there wasn't sufficient evidence to convict Comey. In November, 2025, the judge agreed and dismissed the indictments against Comey and James. (A ProPublica investigation revealed that Trump was trying to have James and Schiff prosecuted for mortgage fraud, but Trump had done exactly the same thing with his own mortgages.)

In October, 2025, Trump called for the prosecution of four more innocent people, falsely accusing Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, and Lisa Monaco of election fraud. None of them have committed any crimes, and Wray was the only one holding office in 2020 when Trump claimed they were all government officials. Moreover, Trump himself appointed Wray to lead the FBI, and Garland himself is directly responsible for Trump's second term. (When Garland was Attorney General he stalled for two years before allowing his subordinates to prosecute Trump for his illegal attempts to stay in office after being voted out in 2020. Because Garland dragged his feet, the Justice Department was unable to bring Trump to trial on Federal charges before he won the 2024 election. Afterwards, Smith was forced to drop the case against Trump, as it's against Justice Department policy to prosecute a sitting President.)

in December, 2025, Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told an interviewer that Trump's prosecution of his critics is political retribution. That means the prosecution is illegal. Not only does this mean the cases against Trump's critics will get thrown out, but Trump's critics could turn around and sue the Federal government for illegal selective prosecution. It could even mean prosecution of the Trump Administration lawyers who filed criminal charges against people they knew were innocent.

In his first term, Trump was impeached twice, once for trying to pressure a foreign country into investigating an innocent person running against him, and the second time for trying to stay in power after he was voted out. If those are impeachable offenses, ordering government investigations of innocent people is an impeachable offense as well -- especially considering one of the innocent people he's ordered investigated is the same innocent person he tried to smear last time!

As noted above, launching investigations of innocent people violates their Fourth Amendment rights and the Writ of Habeas Corpus. Had President Clinton ordered criminal investigations into his political enemies -- Kenneth Starr, for instance -- he would have been impeached immediately. Likewise, President Obama's Attorney General -- Eric Holder -- bent over backwards to protect former Bush Administration officials from being prosecuted over Bush's torture program. President Biden's Attorney General -- Merrick Garland -- forbade his subordinates to investigate Donald Trump until two years after Trump left office. Had Obama or Biden ordered the Justice Department to investigate anyone, Congress would have launched an immediate impeachment investigation for abuse of power.

In January 2026, Trump ordered the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into another innocent person: Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve -- someone Trump himself appointed. Why? Powell explained: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president."

The Atlantic elaborated: "The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on grounds so flimsy and transparently hypocritical that it is difficult to know whether anybody is supposed to take the charges at face value. When a respected public servant is being accused of wasting taxpayer dollars and lying to Congress by a president whose extravagant White House renovation has already doubled in cost in just three months, and whose inexhaustible capacity for lies has essentially broken every fact-checking medium, one almost wonders if the criminal allegation was chosen for its absurdity, to demonstrate that Donald Trump can make the law mean whatever he wants it to."

Trump blatantly told the DODO Attorney General to prosecute his political opponents. This is like Obama ordering the Justice Department to prosecute Mitt Romney. None of the people Trump ordered prosecuted have committed any crimes whatsoever, and six of them are law-enforcement officials who did their jobs -- tried to bring criminals to justice. If Trump can order innocent people prosecuted, he can do that to anyone. He can do it to you.

Trump fired Carla Hayden, head of the Library of Congress, a year before her term expired. As noted above, it's illegal to fire a government employee for doing their job. Morever, Hayden was fired under false pretenses. Trump's DODO press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Hayden "did not fit the needs of the American people... [she did] quite concerning things [by having] inappropriate books for children" in the library. This is complete nonsense. The Library of Congress is an archive that automatically gets a copy of every book published in the United States. It's not a lending library. The Librarian has no say over the Library's contents. The Library is closed to people under 16, and the Library does not allow anyone -- including children -- to check out books. It's physically impossible for Hayden to have done what Leavitt accused her of doing.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden illegally fired an innocent government official under false pretenses, Congress would have opened an impeachment investigation immediately.

Trump signed an executive order blocking funding for the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio. This is illegal under the Impoundment Control Act. Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden tried to illegally impound funds by executive order, they would have been impeached immediately. Tell the House to stop Trump.

This wasn't what Trump wanted. Trump wanted violence and spectacle -- an excuse to order attacks on anyone who disagreed with him while claiming to be on the side of law and order. First Trump launched his usual barrage of lies and slander. He called the protesters "radical left," called them "paid troublemakers," and denounced the Mayor of Los Angeles and the Governor of California as incompetent. He called the protests a "riot." Trump continued: "A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations." He said he would "liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion."

Obviously, there is no invasion, there is no occupation, there are no insurrectionist mobs, and the Los Angeles police department always had the situation under control. There were no riots, and the only "paid troublemakers" were the ICE snatchers who illegally detained American citizens. (ICE has no jurisdiction over American citizens inside the United States.)

Trump and DODO Defense Secretary Hegseth then ordered members of the California National Guard to Los Angeles. It is illegal for the President to do this without the consent of the Governor. Trump also threatened to deploy the National Guard to other cities. "We're going to have troops everywhere. We're not going to let this happen to our country. We're not gonna let our country be torn apart like it was under Biden."

Obviously, the country was not torn apart under the Biden Administration. Moreover: under the Posse Comitatus Act, it's illegal to use the military for law enforcement.

California Governor Newsom urged residents: "Don't give Donald Trump what he wants. Speak up. Stay peaceful. Stay calm. Do not use violence and respect the law enforcement officers that are trying their best to keep the peace. [Trump is] trying to manufacture a crisis in LA County - deploying troops not for order, but to create chaos. Don't take the bait. Never use violence or harm law enforcement."

The next day, Trump sent in 700 Marines to support the National Guard. This is illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. Marines are soldiers, trained to hunt down and destroy enemy soldiers on a battlefield during a war. They're not trained to police innocent civilians engaging in their First Amendment right to protest. While there, the Marines illegally arrested Marcos Leao -- an innocent American citizen on his way to an appointment at the Veterans' Administration. Leao was released without charges.

A few days later, a judge agreed with the State of California and ordered control of the National Guard returned to the Governor. Trump appealed. After a legal battle, a judge ruled that Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles was illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act.

According to The Guardian, in June, ICE snatchers arrested and charged at least 25 people for "assaulting" or "impeding" federal officers. In at least 8 cases, government prosecutors were forced to drop the charges when the video evidence did not support them. In some cases, the ICE snatchers were found to have made the charges up. In another case, ICE charged the wrong man. It's a crime to fabricate charges against innocent people. The ICE snatchers who did this must be fired and prosecuted.

In August, 2025, Trump made up a story that crime was out of control in Washington, DC and he was sending in the National Guard to aid law enforcement. Though crime is a real problem, Trump was lying -- crime is actually down in Washington since 2023. The National Guard troops patrolling Washington are focused on famous, high-visibility places and mostly ignoring areas known for high crime rates.

Using the military for domestic law enforcement is illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. Trump then threatened to send troops to five other cities (Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Oakland.) Trump falsely claims that these cities are overrun with crime. Though there are crimes committed there, the number of crimes has fallen in the recent past, and the cities are hardly the war zones that Trump claims they are.

What do these six cities have in common? All six cities have African-American mayors, and the people there have overwhelmingly voted against Trump. Notably, Trump has withheld over $800 million in funds Congress authorized for preventing crime because those cities have been dragging their feet in cooperating with ICE disappearing people without first obtaining warrants. Trump is trying to create a crime problem and then proclaim himself a hero for solving it. Rolling Stone explains:

"Trump has long yearned to unleash the military on American soil for his political agenda, and the D.C. and L.A. deployments this summer are critical stepping stones in his increasingly authoritarian government’s vision for punishing his enemies Democratic area of the country, carrying out his brutal immigration agenda, and making life hell for unhoused people.

"...Trump and his team have been plotting a second-term takeover of the D.C. police for a long time — regardless of the actual level of unrest or street crime. The plotting extends far beyond the nation’s capital.

"... It is a priority of the president’s that these kinds of military deployments — in L.A., and now D.C., in times of relative calm — become normalized in American political culture. Trump has long believed he should be able to wield the might of military forces on American soil in ways more commonly associated with authoritarian states. He now has a government stacked full of loyalists who want to help him realize this goal."

"A key chapter in the fascist playbook has always been to convince the public that it is living in such a state of mortal danger and unbridled chaos that the only chance of survival is to cede individual rights to the determined will of the Dear Leader.

"...Trump’s justifications for his policies are unsurprisingly based on bald-faced lies or gross exaggerations simply to further his pursuit of absolute power. Yet it doesn’t seem to matter. With each new announcement, Trump continues to prove how excellent he is at crafting the illusion of problems where there basically are none and leading his followers down an often-violent path of retribution.

"About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president, “our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people.”

"This does sound rather frightening. Fortunately, it’s not true. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to matter.

"The [DC] council responded to Trump’s announcement with an angry joint statement: “This is a manufactured intrusion on local authority. Violent crime in the District is at the lowest rates we’ve seen in 30 years. Federalizing the DC police is unwarranted because there is no Federal emergency. Further, the National Guard has no public safety training or knowledge of local laws. The Guard’s role does not include investigating or solving crimes in the District. Calling out the National Guard is an unnecessary deployment with no real mission.”

"Donald Trump wants to take over all forms of law enforcement in the United States, from local policing to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency that is now pumped up on budgetary steroids... Trump’s desire to control all forms of state power, and to expand them beyond belief, is a move straight out of the fascist playbook. And it’s completely dependent on the production of both extraordinary fear and blatant lies.

"The first way of fighting such an obvious power grab is not to give in to the fear and not to believe the lies. But what is less understood about Trump is that he doesn’t even care if we believe his lies. Like all such leaders, what Trump really wants is just that we no longer believe in the truth."

Police and soldiers have very different jobs. The police solve crimes and protect innocent people. Soldiers kill enemy troops on the battlefield, and aren't trained in law enforcement. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

As The Atlantic reports, Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis to justify a fascist takeover.

"Trump is goading Americans more generally to take him on in the streets of their own cities, thus enabling his attacks on their constitutional freedoms. As I’ve listened to him and his advisers over the past several days, they seem almost eager for public violence that would justify the use of armed force against Americans.

"Trump is establishing that he is willing to use the military any way he pleases, perhaps as a proof of concept for suppressing free elections in 2026 or 2028. Trump sees the U.S. military as his personal honor guard and his private muscle.

"Trump may be trying to create a national emergency that will enable him to exercise authoritarian control... He has for years been trying to desensitize the citizens of the United States to un-American ideas and unconstitutional actions.

"The American system of government was never meant to cope with a rogue president. Yet Trump is not unstoppable. Thwarting his authoritarianism will require restraint on the part of the public, some steely nerves on the part of state and local authorities, and vigilant action from national elected representatives, who should be stepping in to raise the alarm and to demand explanations about the president’s misuse of the military.

"As unsatisfying as it may be for some citizens to hear, the last thing anyone should do is take to the streets of Los Angeles and try to confront the military or any of California’s law-enforcement authorities. ICE is on a rampage, but physically assaulting or obstructing its agents—and thus causing a confrontation with the cops who have to protect them, whether those police officers like it or not—will provide precisely the pretext that some of the people in Trump’s White House are trying to create.

"Be warned: Trump is expecting resistance. You will not be heroes. You will be the pretext.

"Sending in the National Guard is meant to provoke, not pacify, and his power will only grow if he succeeds in tempting Americans to intemperate reactions that give him the authoritarian opening he’s seeking."

The Hill adds that Trump is working on creating a military force to crack down on peaceful civilian protests.

Don't fall into his trap. Protest peacefully, following the examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden made blatantly false claims about crime rates to justify illegally sending the military into six American cities, they would have been impeached in six seconds. (Sign the petition demanding Congress revoke Trump's orders -- even though signing petitions doesn't really do much of anything. Write and call Congress!)

Here's a sample letter to Congress. Feel free to copy and paste.

"Trump's lies about crime in Washington, DC would be laughable if he hadn't sent the National Guard in to work as police. This is illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. Trump has made up other absurd lies about criminals and armies of immigrant gangs having taken over Los Angeles and other cities -- and says he intends to send the military there, too. Washington residents report that the National Guard soldiers haven't even been stationed in areas known for crime. This is fascism, plain and simple. Trump is deploying the military on American soil to frighten civilians, intimidate anyone who might stand up to him, distract from his scandals and incompetence, punish his opponents, and potentially steal the 2026 midterms. Trump has manufactured a crisis where none existed and has declared an emergency where there is none. Trump himself is the emergency. If Trump is not stopped now, it will mean the end of democracy. You must immediately cosponsor legislation ending Trump's military takeover of our capitol; cosponsor legislation admitting the District of Colombia and Puerto Rico into the Union as States; and introduce new legislation prohibiting Trump (or any other President) from declaring an emergency when there is no emergency."

In June, Trump announced that he would order ICE to prioritize large cities with Democratic mayors for their immigration raids instead of other parts of the country. Ordering illegal raids targeting innocent legal residents (and others) based upon the political party of the local elected leaders violates the First Amendment right to free assembly and the right to petition the government. Also, treating some locations in the country differently from others based upon who won the last election violates the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

A few days later, Trump declared victory, saying that Iran's nuclear program had been "completely destroyed" and comparing his attack on Iran to the end of World War II. According to US intelligence, this is not the case, and Iran's nuclear program was only set back a few months. Trump then claimed he should get the Nobel Peace Prize for ordering the military attack.

Trump's attack on Iran was illegal and unconstitutional. Under the Constitution, only Congress has the authority to declare war. Congress has given Trump no authority to use military force to attack another country. Moreover, Trump has no idea what he's doing. He initially claimed he did not want regime change in Iran. A few days later, he claimed he does want regime change in Iran. Trump claimed that his National Intelligence Director was "wrong" when she said Iran didn't pose an imminent threat, and then claimed Iran's long-term threat was destroyed when it wasn't. Trump's press secretary then blamed the reporter who asked about it. Trump has no strategy to win a war and no plan to win the peace afterwards. Trump has taken no steps to defend the United States against Iranian retaliation, either by Iran forcing the price of oil up or by ordering proxies to stage terrorist attacks against American targets. (Trump's counter-terrorism chief is a 22-year-old with no experience in counter-terrorism, intelligence, or law enforcement.)

George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq was a disaster in every sense of the word. Bush ordered the conquest of Iraq under false pretenses and had no plan for what to do after toppling Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Iran is three times larger. Trump's DODO attack on Iran will backfire, and a full-scale war would be catastrophic for both sides. Trump makes Bush look smart.

The Iranian people -- not the United States -- are the ones who must stand up to their unelected leaders and demand justice and freedom.

Imagine President Obama or President Biden ordering an attack on Iran without (1) seeking Congressional authorization to use military force, (2) presenting any evidence that Iran had attacked the United States, or (3) presenting any evidence that Iran posed a serious threat. Their Cabinets would have immediately invoked the 25th Amendment and removed them from office on the grounds that the President had just gone insane. If that had not happened, Congress would have immediately impeached them and removed them from office. (Sign the petition demanding no war with Iran. Note, however, that signing petitions doesn't really do much. Call your Senators and Representatives and tell them to stop Trump's warmongering.)

Why?

For the first time in Trump's political career, he made a major foreign policy move that didn't serve his usual goal: helping Russian dictator Vladimir Putin at America's expense. Though a war with Iran will weaken the United States -- exactly what Putin wants -- it will weaken Putin's ally Iran as well. Though Iran's government is unquestionably evil, Iran has not attacked the United States and does not pose any more of a threat today than it has at any time over the last forty years. So why did Trump do it?

There are two reasons. The first: as The Atlantic's Robert Kagan points out, the war is a DODO power grab intended to make Trump king. Seizing dictatorial power is the primary agenda of Trump's second term. (Kagan is wrong when he says that George W. Bush would not have invaded Iraq if he could have ended Saddam Hussein's weapons program by bombing it. Kagan is correct about everything else, though, and his article is well worth the read.)

The second reason -- as detailed by Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump -- is that Trump is pathologically insecure. He's a bottomless pit of need. "It is long past time that we stop imputing some deeper or reasonable motives to Donald Trump," she writes. "Despite being depraved and cruel... he is driven by the most primitive impulses that center almost solely around protecting his fragile ego from humiliation (about which he has a pathological terror) and himself from the reality that he is a complete fraud.

"Donald is still no doubt stinging from the acronym recently coined to mock his inability to follow through on anything—TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out. In the wake of Israeli strikes against Iran, Donald spent a few days saber-rattling only to back off (chicken out, if you will) in the wake of searing criticism by some of the most reliably sycophantic members of his cult—e.g. Rep. Marjorie Green, Alex Jones, and Steve Bannon. He announced at a bizarre press conference that his decision to address the ostensibly urgent crisis regarding Iran would be put off for two weeks.

"Only two days later, he ordered the attack on Iran. His allies would have us believe that Donald, a brilliant strategist, was faking us out. Sure. An infinitely more plausible explanation is that, on the one hand, he hates being challenged or contradicted, especially from those who almost always fall in line; therefore, he felt the need to double-down on his threats by carrying them out."

In his first term, Trump was impeached for trying to use Presidential power to strong-arm another country into smearing a candidate running against him. In his second term, Trump threatened to attack four allies (Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Panama); pledged to commit ethnic cleansing in Gaza; and ordered military strikes on Iran without Congress declaring war. If trying to coerce another country to help you win an election is an impeachable offense, threatening to start six wars is plainly an impeachable offense as well.

In August, 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a routine report detailing how many new jobs were created in the United States that quarter. The number was significantly less than expected. An angry Trump responded by firing the Bureau's Commissioner. It's illegal to fire a government official for doing their job. Moreover, Trump firing a statistician because he doesn't like accurate reports indicates he will replace them with someone willing to lie and say things are going great when everyone can see they aren't.

Trump took his cues from the dictators of the Soviet Union. The entire Soviet political system was based on lies. Communist mismanagement sent the Russian economy into a recession for decades. Most people lived in poverty, and there were recurring famines. People had to wait in long lines for hours to buy food, and shelves were often empty. The one item that was always available was a copy of the government-run newspaper filled with propaganda claiming everything was wonderful. Everyone could plainly see those reports were lies. The communist dictators knew they weren't fooling anyone, but they kept on printing lies so no one would know what the truth was. Is that what we want in the United States?

Firing an innocent government worker for correctly doing the job they were hired to do is illegal, but it may not rise to the Constitutional standard of a "high crime" deserving of impeachment. However, Republicans spent years investgiating President Obama's birth certificate and President Biden's son hoping they would find something, no matter how insignificant, to impeach them for. Obama and Biden were both exonerated of any wrongdoing -- but had either of them illegally fired a commissioner for releasing an accurate report, the Republicans would have impeached them immediately.

In August, 2025, Trump lobbied the Republican-controlled Texas legislature to do an unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering. Their plan is to redraw the State's legislative districts to make sure all (or almost all) Texas Democrats live in Republican-majority districts, thus making sure no Democrats can win any seats. This violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. It also tries to make sure minority votes won't matter, this violating the spirit of the Fifteenth Amendment. (Texas is heavily gerrymandered already, and the percentage of Republican elected officials far outweighs the percentage of Republicans in Texas.)

In September, 2025, Trump asked the Missouri State legislature to gerrymander their state as well. Doing so would violate Missouri's constitution. According to Mother Jones, Trump's new map "targets the seat of Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, one of two Black members of the state’s congressional delegation, by stretching his Kansas City-based district 200 miles east into red, rural counties that have little in common with the urban areas he’s represented for 20 years in Congress. Cleaver’s hometown of Kansas City, where he served as mayor before joining the US House, would be split into three districts to dilute Democratic voting strength... Cleaver’s district, which he won by twenty-four points in 2024, would now favor Trump by 18 points."

Trump supporters in the North Carolina state legislature are also working on a new map, giving Republicans 80% of House seats in a state Trump won by 51%. Like Texas and Missouri, the point is to dilute Democratic votes (and especially African-American votes) by drawing district lines to make sure all districts have Republican majorities. North Carolina Republicans have made no secret that they're doing this for Trump.

Trump supporters in the Florida state legislature are also trying to rig the districts so Republicans win more seats.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama or Biden pressured the legislature of a blue State to redraw their Congressional districts to make sure no Republicans could get elected, Republicans would have cried foul immediately.

In August, 2025, Trump fired the Governor of the Federal Reserve. The Governor was appointed to the job in 2022, and her term doesn't expire until 2036. It's illegal to fire a government employee mid-term for doing their job. It's unprecedented for a President to fire a Federal Reserve Governor. Had Clinton, Obama, or Biden done this, the Republican-controlled Congress would have impeached them in fourteen hours.

Imagine President Clinton, President Obama, or President Biden posting a graphic showing the United States military attacking one of our own cities. Their Cabinets would have immediately realized that the President had gone insane and would have removed him from office via the 25th Amendment. If that failed, Congress would have impeached him for threatening the mass murder of millions of innocent American citizens.

That's exactly what Trump did in September, 2025. He posted a DODO graphic threatening to bomb Chicago, the third largest city in the United States. Chicago is home to 2.6 million people -- including his own supporters. "Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far," Trump wrote. "Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR."

Aside from his bad grammar, Trump didn't even bother trying to make his DODO lies believable. A ten-second internet search reveals that the world's most dangerous city is Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Trump was off by 9,000 miles. Chicago isn't even the most dangerous city in the United States. That's Memphis, Tennessee.

(A few days later, when a reporter asked Trump about the image he'd posted, he called it "fake news" and insulted her.)

A President who threatens military strikes on American civilians has forfeited the role of commander-in-chief of the United States military and cannot be trusted with nuclear codes. Trump must be impeached and removed from office immediately.

On September 10, 2025, an assassin murdered Trump supporter Charlie Kirk. A few days later, late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel mentioned Trump's response to the assassination during his routine. Kimmel’s routine wasn't controversial -- what he said was completely accurate. He was correct on the facts, and the highlight of the routine was a video of Trump talking to reporters.

President Theodore Roosevelt: To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Two days later, Brendan Carr -- Trump's chairman of the Federal Communications Commission -- told ABC to cancel Kimmel's show. Kimmel was suspended a few hours later. This is illegal under the First Amendment, which gurarantees freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Trump and Farr's attempt to censor Kimmel backfired. A swift consumer boycott of ABC and the network's parent company, Disney, followed, and the company lost $6 billion over the next week. Even some conservatives pointed out that if Trump can order a media personality fired for joking about him, a future Democratic president could order conservative media personalities fired too. ABC reinstated Kimmel a week later.

Had President Clinton, President Obama, or President Biden violated the First Amendment by pressuring television networks to fire their late night comedians for making jokes, they would have been impeached within hours. For the President -- any President -- to declare it illegal to criticize him is incompatible with the Presidency, the Constitution, and everything the United States of America stands for. Both Trump and Farr must be impeached and removed from office. (Sign the petition.)

By October, 2025, Trump had placed his personal attorneys in charge of the Justice Department. He then told them to give him $230 million of Justice Department funds to repay him for the legal fees he spent defending himself against Justice Department investigations into his various crimes during his first term.

Who funds the Justice Department? American taxpayers. Trump is literally using his government authority to get the government to deposit more money into his personal bank account in one day than 99% of taxpayers will ever see in our lifetimes.

If President Clinton had demanded the Justice Department reimburse him for the legal fees he incurred fighting his impeachment, he would have been impeached a second time.

The Fifth Amendment specifies that no one shall be deprived of their lives without due process of law. Without due process, there is no way to make sure the people executed were guilty of what they were accused of -- or even if they were criminals at all. Neither the President nor anyone else has the authority to order people executed with no proof, counsel, judge, or jury.

If the boats and the people on them actually were carrying narcotics to the United States -- which is possible, albeit unlikely -- the people on board should have been arrested, charged, given fair trials, convicted, sentenced, and incarcerated.

After American airstrikes destroyed the boats, subsequent airstrikes killed survivors clinging to wreckage. This is murder under both American and international law.

One of the military planes that bombed the Venezuelan boats was painted to look like a civilian plane. This is a war crime and illegal under American law.

If Venezuela had ordered air strikes on American boats killing 123 U.S. citizens, the United States would consider that an act of war.

Imagine President Clinton, President Obama, or President Biden ordering strikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean, risking war with Venezuela and killing 123 people without providing any proof that the people they'd ordered killed were committing crimes. They would have been impeached immediately, and a Republican senator has admitted as much. "If this was happening... under the Biden administration, I'd be apopleptic," the Senator told an interviewer.

Trump and Hegseth must be impeached and removed from office before they gets anyone else killed.

Four months after ordering an illegal DODO military strike on Iran without Congressional approval, Trump told military leaders to prepare a list of targets for DODO military strikes inside mainland Venezuela. Venezuela has not attacked the United States and has no capacity to do so. Starting a DODO war with Venezuela is just as illegal as starting a DODO war with Iran. The President cannot declare war; only Congress can do so. A DODO military strike on Venezuela would be illegal and unconstitutional.

Trump claims that Venezuela is sending drugs into the United States. (Last year, Trump claimed that the entire Venezuelan population had moved to the United States. If Trump had been telling the truth, there wouldn't be any Venezuelans left in Venezuela! Though there probably are some Venezuelan drugs that make their way to the United States, Trump's word isn't exactly credible.) However, Trump himself fired the Justice Department's anti-drug task force, and pardoned at least five convicted drug kingpins who actually had smuggled drugs into the USA. Trump obviously doesn't care about fighting drug smuggling. So why is Trump suddenly interested in starting a war with Venezuela?

The Atlantic reported that part of the reason for Trump's warmongering is that he wants regime change in Venezuela -- so American oil companies can get access to the country's oil wealth. Congresswoman Salazar confirmed this, telling an interviewer that Trump wants to seize Venezuelan oil fields and give them to the big oil companies that helped fund his re-election campaign. "Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because there will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity," she said.

The day after Trump told the Pentagon to prepare to attack Venezuela, he threatened to attack Nigeria too without consulting Congress. Nigeria is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and poses no threat to the United States.

Had Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden ordered the military to prepare to attack two countries that posed no threat to the United States, Congress would have impeached and removed them immediately.

In October, 2025, Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House in order to build a $400 million ballroom. The White House is a historically protected building, with the East Wing dating from 1902.

Trump ignored regulations requiring him to submit plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the D.C. Historic Preservation Office, and the Commission of Fine Arts.

Though Trump destroying a historical building is illegal, it doesn't necessarily rise to the level of a high crime deserving of impeachment. However, had President Clinton, President Obama, or President Biden destroyed a third of the White House without following regulations, the Republican-controlled Congress would have impeached them in 300 minutes.

The story doesn't end there. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains how mega-corporations who need favors from the Trump Administration have donated millions to Trump's ballroom. For instance, some need the Justice Department to approve mergers. Others need the Federal Trade Commission or the Securities and Exchange Commission to drop anti-trust lawsuits against them. For mega-corporations to donate money to Trump's illegal pet project in return for political and legal favors is the very definition of corruption.

In November, 2025, Senator Mark Kelly and five other veterans serving as lawmakers posted a video reminding members of the military that, under the law and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, they are legally obligated to refuse to obey illegal orders.

Trump blew his stack. "This is really bad," he wrote, "and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???" He later added: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" and agreed with another post saying "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!"

A video urging American soldiers to obey the law is the opposite of sedition. Moreover, it's a crime to threaten "to assault, kidnap, or murder, a United States official." Anyone else who wrote that would be arrested and prosecuted. Trump is not above the law, and he must be prosecuted just like anyone else would be.

Moreover: Trump should have agreed with Kelly. What Trump should have said was that all his past and future orders are ordinary and legal and that the whole discussion was moot. The fact that Trump went ballistic when Democratic veterans reminded service members not to obey orders to commit crimes indicates that Trump either (1) knows he has given Illegal orders, or (2) is planning to give illegal orders and expects the military to follow them anyway.

Had President Clinton called Kenneth Starr a seditionist, President Obama demanded Mitch McConnell's execution, or President Biden said Trump was a traitor who should be hanged, Congress would have impeached them immediately.

On Christmas Day, 2025, Trump ordered military strikes on Nigeria, a country in western Africa. Trump claimed to be targeting the Mideastern terrorist group DAESH. He wrote: "...the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was."

Local Nigerians told CNN that there has been no terrorist activity in the areas Trump ordered bombed, and that local Muslims and Christians get along peacefully.

"Why isn't Trump bombing Russian terrorist scum who have been targeting and viciously killing innocent Christians in Ukraine? ...Per Trump we've been bombing Nigeria to kill ISIS terrorist scum 'who have been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians.' ... If that is the standard, Trump has obligated himself to start bombing Russians today."

Trump's DODO attack on Nigeria was incompetent and unconstitutional. No Nigerian terrorists have attacked the United States or pose a threat to Americans. Moreover, it's illegal for the President to initiate military action against another country without Congressional approval.

Had President Clinton, President Obama, or President Biden ordered a military strike on a country and completely failed to hit any terrorists, Congress would have launched an impeachment investigation immediately.

In January 2026, Trump ordered attacks on the capital of Venezuela, a country that had not attacked the United States and posed no threat. 80 people were killed. Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife were abducted from their home and brought to the United States to stand trial for drug smuggling. (Trump pardoned 5 drug kingpins in the last year, including the former President of Honduras, so obviously he doesn't really think drug smuggling is a serious crime.)

Trump campaigned on the pledge that he would never begin any foreign wars. (Comedian Seth Meyers compiled a video of Trump's campaign promises.) Trump didn't change his mind -- he was lying the whole time, and knew he was lying. Why then did Trump attack Venezuela without consulting Congress or the public? As The Atlantic pointed out,

"A desire to dominate‚ an eagerness to bully his counterparties into submission‚ is perhaps the essence of Trump's character. Trump's unexpected political resurrection and return to the White House have emboldened his ambitions, which have spread outward. His threats against Canada, Panama, and Greenland, and his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, have little to do with national interest and everything to do with reifying a new order in which he's the boss and the leaders of neighboring countries are his cowering subordinates.

"Trump's faith that controlling Venezuela's oil fields will deliver wealth and power to the U.S. is so profound that he has ignored all evidence to the contrary. For starters, oil prices are currently low‚ a fact that Trump is fond of pointing out in other contexts, but that limits the financial upside of opening more oil for development. Trump insists that Venezuela's oil fields will provide a windfall to the United States ('It won't cost us anything, because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial.') Yet analysts project that any profit from Venezuelan oil will require a massive up-front investment."

After attacking Venezuela, Trump threatened to attack Colombia, Mexico, and Greenland. All three nations are U.S. allies and pose no threat to us, and Congress has not approved any military action against them. Moreover, the United States already has a military base in Greenland. Claims that the United States should own the island are laughable. The United States and Greenland have been friends for two centuries, and Greenland would certainly let America use their territory for self-defense if necessary.

Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize -- while ordering military strikes on Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela, threatening to attack Colombia and Mexico, and threatening to conquer Greenland, Canada, Panama and Gaza. If Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden had attacked three countries without consulting Congress, threatened to attack three more, and threatened to conquer three allies, they would have been impeached in three seconds.

Trump's DODO warmongering against peaceful allies Greenland and Canada is illegal, and threatens to destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO.) That decades-old mutual defense coalition of peaceful democracies has been the most successful military alliance in history. For the United States -- NATO's largest member -- to conquer territory from a tiny ally against the will of the inhabitants would pit the rest of the alliance against its most powerful member. That's exactly what Putin wants.

Trump must be impeached and removed from office before he gets anyone else killed. Sign the petition and demand Congress outlaw any more military action against Venezuela.

After Maduro's capture, Trump declared himself the "Acting President of Venezuela." This is illegal under Article I of the Constitution, which forbids officers of the Federal government -- including the President -- from accepting offices or titles from foreign States.

It is also illegal under the Venezuelan Constitution, which requires the President to be a Venezuelan citizen. (Ironically, it also forbids convicted criminals from becoming President, which the U.S. Constitution does not. As a convicted felon, Trump wouldn't be eligible to become President of Venezuela even if he were Venezuelan.)

Even after President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. military to conquer Iraq under false pretenses in 2003, he wasn't crazy enough to declare himself Iraq's Acting President. If President Clinton, President Obama, or President Biden had declared themselves the Acting President of another country -- any other country -- their cabinets would have immediately invoked the 25th Amendment to remove them from office on the grounds that the President had gone insane. If that failed, Congress would have impeached them immediately.

Renaming the Kennedy Center after himself probably does not rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" the Constitution requires for impeachment. However, this fits Trump's pattern of criminal behavior: ignoring laws to serve his narcissistic need to put his own name on everything. Imagine how Congressional Republicans would have reacted had President Clinton, President Obama, or President Biden had added their own names to the Kennedy Center! They would have seized on the fact that the President had willingly and knowingly broken the law -- any law -- and would have started an impeachment inquiry immediately.

In January 2026, ICE snatchers in Minneapolis were conducting an anti-immigrant raid in Minneapolis when they saw Renee Good sitting in her car. (ICE later falsely claimed her car was impeding traffic. Video of the incident clearly shows this was not the case.)

Good was a 37-year-old American citizen, widow, award-winning poet, devout Christian, and former missionary with a 6-year-old son and two older children. She's one of the people ICE is supposed to be protecting. Though she lived nearby, there are conflicting reports of why she was there. Her congresswoman says Good was peacefully observing the ICE activity from a distance, but her mother says she wasn't involved in any protests or observation of any kind and was just driving by.

Regardless, Good was sitting in her car not interacting with anyone when masked ICE snatchers drew their guns and walked over to her. One of them is heard on video ordering her to "get out of the f*****g car," while a witness says he heard a different ICE snatcher order her to leave. Good attempted to drive away when an ICE snatcher aimed his gun at her head and shot her dead at point-blank range. The entire incident -- from ICE snatchers approaching Good's car to Good's murder -- took eight seconds. (The video taken at the scene shows an innocent person getting shot dead in real time by an ICE snatcher. If you don't want to see footage of a real person getting murdered, don't watch the video.) An audio recording -- apparently from the murderer's cell phone -- shows him disparaging the victim as a "f*****g b***h" a moment after he shot her.

A doctor on the scene asked to see her, and the snatchers prevented him from doing so. An ambulance arrived on the scene 15 minutes later, and the snatchers refused to let it approach the victim, forcing the EMTs to walk through ICE vehicles in order to reach her. The EMT's weren't able to bring a stretcher, so they were forced to drag Good's dead body from the car in front of onlookers.

The shooting was illegal. According to The Atlantic, the Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that law enforcement officials are not allowed to shoot fleeing people if that person doesn't pose any danger. Moreover, it's illegal to fire on a moving car. It turns the vehicle into an uncontrolled battering ram that could randomly crash into anything or anyone, from law enforcement to innocent bystanders. (When Good was killed, this is exactly what happened -- her out-of-control car crashed into a parked vehicle.)

Trump wasn't in Minnesota at the time and clearly did not shoot Good himself. However, as The Atlantic pointed out, "Trump has deployed border agents to cities deep within U.S. territory, and he has demanded that ICE officers boost their arrest and deportation numbers to levels they've never had to meet before. He has seemed to delight in every opportunity to escalate tensions between the federal forces he leads and some of the people he routinely casts as his enemies: blue-state and city leaders."

Another Atlantic article pointed out that Trump's rapid recruitment and deployment of ICE snatchers created this situation. "As ICE and other border agencies scramble to add staff and to reach huge deportation quotas set by the White House, they have lowered standards and shortened training in the hopes of getting agents on the streets sooner -- but untrained officers are more likely to make mistakes."

Trump blatantly participated in a cover-up and libeled the victim. "[T]he woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense," Trump wrote. "...The reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis." Trump also claimed the shooter was recovering in the hospital and was lucky to be alive.

None of this is remotely true. Video of the murder clearly shows an ICE snatcher gunning down an innocent American citizen who wasn't involved in the situation and posed no threat. The victim wasn't violent, wasn't vicious, and didn't run over anyone. One ICE snatcher ordered her to leave, and a different snatcher gunned her down for complying with those orders. The President of the United States called a murder victim "disorderly," "violent," and "vicious," when video clearly shows she was just sitting there not threatening anyone. There is no evidence that the shooter was injured at all, much less went to the hospital.

DHS Assistant Secretary (and Minister of Propaganda) Tricia McLaughlin posted: "...One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them -- an act of domestic terrorism."

Video proves the DHS statement has no bearing on reality. There were no rioters or riots on the scene. The murder victim wasn't violent, wasn't trying to run over anyone, didn't run over anyone, wasn't trying to kill anyone, and wasn't a terrorist in any way, shape, or form. She was an innocent bystander who was complying with ICE orders to leave. According to McLaughlin, US citizens are terrorists, and people who got a single speeding ticket 12 years ago are hardened criminals.

Ironically, McLaughlin was correct about one thing. The incident was indeed "an act of domestic terrorism" if your definition of terrorism includes "state terrorism," where government operatives use extra-judicial violence against their own population in order to make citizens too afraid of getting killed to oppose the regime. The ICE snatchers were the terrorists -- not the innocent citizen sitting in her car not threatening anyone.

Vice President J.D. Vance joined Trump's chorus of libel, writing: "Do you think this officer was wrong in defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over?" He called Good's death a "tragedy of her own making... [she] aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator." Vance later said that the snatcher who shot Good dead "deserves a debt of gratitude."

There were no deranged leftists at the scene, and no one tried to run anyone over. Video of the incident clearly shows ICE snatchers approaching a stopped car and shooting the driver dead when she tried to leave. She was steering away from the ICE snatchers, not towards them. Vance -- the Vice President of the United States -- called the woman sitting in her car "deranged" and blamed an innocent white woman for her own murder.

Vance later said the murderer has "absolute immunity" from prosecution because he was a government agent on the job. "That guy's protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job. The idea that [authorities] in Minneapolis are going to go after him and make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous."

Vance is wrong -- the murderer isn't immune from prosecution -- but Vance's statement shows that Trump's Justice Department has no intention of prosecuting the murderer, even if Trump, Vance, Noem, McLaughlin, and the other people trying to cover up the murder actually allow any kind of investigation to proceed. Vance made it clear that, as far as he is concerned, ICE snatchers can shoot innocent American citizens with impunity and the law can't touch them. Taking Vance's words at face value, it sounds like shooting white American women with no provocation is what ICE snatchers are asked to do.

According to The Atlantic, "DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the officer who shot Good was an experienced ICE veteran who "followed his training" and acted in self-defense. She said he and other officers were being harassed by "agitators," including Good, who had been "stalking and impeding them."

These were also lies. Good wasn't an agitator. She hadn't been stalking or impeding anyone -- she was on her way home after taking her 6-year-old to school. Video indicates the ICE snatcher might not have been struck at all. He definitely wasn't dragged anywhere, and if he was injured, he certainly isn't acting like it in the footage -- video shows him holstering his gun and walking around later with no signs of injury.

Terrifyingly, Noem claims that the ICE snatcher "followed his training." If we interpret her words literally, Noem could be confirming that murdering innocent American citizens with no provocation is part of ICE's job, and the murderer did exactly what Noem, Trump, and Vance had told him to do.

After slandering Good, Noem blocked state and local officials from taking part in the DHS investigation into their own snatcher's actions. A Minnesota official says these orders seem to come directly from Trump. The FBI also declined to investigate, leaving the murderer's colleagues the only organization the Federal government will allow to investigate.

After the murder, the FBI announced it would not investigate Good's murder. (A FBI agent began an investigation, but was ordered to change the focus of the investigation into the victim instead of the murderer. The agent subsequently resigned in protest.)

A few days later, the Justice Department announced a criminal investigation into the victim's widow. Six prosecutors resigned in protest. Such an investigation violates the Writ of Habeas Corpus (it's illegal for the government to launch an investigation into someone when there's no reason to think they committed a crime) and the Sixth Amendment (requiring law enforcement to notify suspects of the nature and cause of the accusation and the accused's right to confront the witnesses against them.) Moreover, video of Good's murder is easily accessible on the Internet and everyone can see the ICE snatcher shooting the victim in cold blood at point-blank range. To launch a criminal investigation into the widow of a crime victim instead of the actual murderer violates the spirit of the Eighth Amendment, protecting everyone in American jurisdiction from cruel and unusual punishment.

The Atlantic wrote: "Administration officials' indifference to facts, to due process, to the dignity of the deceased, and to basic human decency is remarkable. They ... proceeded to make ostentatiously dishonest statements that they knew would be contradicted by the video evidence available to anyone with eyes to see it... Good's mother, partner, and children have to cope not only with their unfathomable loss, but with a campaign designed to justify her killing. Their own lives will be subject to invasive scrutiny by the government and its allies, in a search for any derogatory information about Good that might somehow be used to justify her killing...

"The blatant lies about Minneapolis serve several purposes. They perpetuate the false narrative that federal agents are in constant peril and therefore justified in using lethal force at the slightest hint of danger. They assure federal agents that they can harm or even kill American citizens with impunity, and warn those who might be moved to protest Trump's immigration policies of the same thing. Perhaps most grim, they communicate to the public that if you happen to be killed by a federal agent, your government will bear false witness to the world that you were a terrorist."

Trump, Vance, Noem, and McLaughlin libeled the victim -- an innocent American citizen murdered in cold blood by ICE snatchers while sitting in her car in Minneapolis -- as a "rioter," "agitator," and "terrorist." By using Presidential power and prestige to cover up a murder and smear the victim, Trump and his cronies became accessories after the fact -- breaking the spirit of the law, if not the letter. Imagine how Trump and his supporters would have reacted had anyone claimed the victim was "disorderly," "obstructing," "resisting," "violent," "vicious," "deranged," "stalking," and "impeding" if the person sitting in the car had been Charlie Kirk!

The Atlantic: "President Trump's long-standing view has become official policy: His supporters are definitionally 'patriotic' and therefore entitled to take any actions on his behalf, regardless of how violent or illegal they may be. His opponents are definitionally terrorists, and therefore constitute legitimate targets of state violence. This is how an organized mass attack to overthrow the government [on January 6, 2021] becomes 'peaceful' and 'patriotic,' while a single woman attempting to flee ICE agents constitutes a violent attempt to overthrow the government...

"There is no objective standard of conduct that could possibly explain why beating police officers is peaceful but attempting to flee from them is terrorism. This is not an oversight, but the essence of Trumpism."

To sum up: three ICE snatchers saw an unarmed white woman sitting peacefully in a stopped car. She had broken no laws and posed no threat. The snatchers approached her barking contradictory orders -- one snatcher ordering her to leave, another ordering her to get out of the car. In less than eight seconds, one of them shot her in the head three times at point-blank range.

Renee Good's murder was a textbook example of state terrorism. The ICE snatchers walked over to an innocent US citizen and gunned her down in cold blood with no provocation. If ICE snatchers can murder her, they can murder anyone, including you and me.

For covering up a cold-blooded murder by an agent of the Federal government and libeling the victim, Trump, Vance, Noem, and McLaughlin must be impeached and removed from office. The ICE snatcher who murdered Good must be fired, arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of her murder. The ICE snatchers on the scene who prevented medical care from reaching Good must also be fired, arrested, charged, tried, and convicted of being accessories to her murder. (Though the shooter was the only one to draw his gun -- indicating that the other snatchers never thought Good was a threat -- none of the other snatchers tried to de-escalate the situation or prevent the shooting.) Imagine Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris saying what Vance and Noem said -- that an ICE snatcher gunning down an innocent American woman with no provocation is not only legal, but praiseworthy. They would have been impeached in minutes.

Trump, Vance, and Noem have transformed ICE into an instrument of state terror. The agency must be abolished, and its responsibilities turned over to the Border Patrol.

As documented above, Trump has violated the Posse Comitatus Act by sending armed National Guard troops into American cities (including Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, and Portland) under the false pretense of fighting crime. (Trump chose those four cities because the elected officials are mostly Democrats.) In reality -- though crime is indeed a problem in this country -- those four cities don't have any more crime than any other parts of the country. At the same time, Trump ordered ICE to conduct raids in Democratic-led cities across the country, illegally detaining American citizens, legal residents, tourists, journalists, peaceful protesters, and bystanders -- along with the undocumented immigrants who actually fall under ICE jurisdiction. These raids are intended to provoke violence, not prevent it.

Trump's plan is to send in violent agitators (such as ICE snatchers) to force people to fight back. He will then use the Insurrection Act to send in the military to kill the people who are defending themselves from the violence he himself created. He won't stop there, though. Trump constantly lies about peaceful protests being violent riots that require a violent crackdown. If Trump succeeds in ordering the military to support ICE raids in major cities, he will order the military to attack peaceful protesters and detain anyone who criticizes him.

Americans have refused to take the bait. All the protests have been peaceful, honoring the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

After the murder of Renee Good, Trump sent 2,400 ICE snatchers into Minneapolis to punish innocent American citizens from peacefully protesting ICE brutality. (That's five times as many snatchers as there are police in Minneapolis.) According to Mother Jones, the snatchers have pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters and anyone else who happens to be nearby. They have gone door to door demanding innocent American citizens show proof of citizenship. This is a blatant violation of the Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Fourth Amendment, which forbids unreasonable searches and seizures. They have threatened American citizens. ("You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead.")

"If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State," Trump wrote.

Everything in that statement is a lie. Though there are certainly corrupt politicians in all parties, the Trump Administration itself is the very embodiment of corruption. There are no such things as professional agitators. No one has attacked ICE snatchers, despite hundreds of video recordings of ICE snatchers harassing, assaulting, kidnapping, and shooting legal residents and US citizens. Trump and Noem have turned ICE into an illegal, unconstitutional, fascist secret police.

Invoking the Insurrection Act against peaceful protesters would be unconstitutional. It would violate the First Amendment (all peaceful protest is legal) and the Posse Comitatus Act (banning use of the military for law enforcement.) Peaceful protests are not an insurrection. The President cannot use the Insurrection Act to override the Bill of Rights.

Both Governor Walz of Minnesota and Mayor Frey of Minneapolis have repeatedly called on protesters to be peaceful. The Trump Administration responded with libel, accusing the Governor and the Mayor of saying the opposite of what they actually said. They're "encouraging violence against law enforcement," wrote Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. "Walz and Frey, I'm focused on stopping YOU from your terrorism by whatever means necessary. This is not a threat. It's a promise." When the President orders ICE snatchers to violate the rights of innocent people and promises to protect the snatchers from prosecution, that's state terrorism. Calling on protesters to be peaceful is the opposite of terrorism. Trump and his DODO cronies can't tell the difference between pacifists and terrorists, and they accuse anyone who disagrees with them of committing the very crimes that they themselves ordered.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff (and noted white supremacist) Stephen Miller wrote that "Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender" after Renee Good was murdered. Minnesotan officials said they'd received no such communications from the Federal Government. Nevertheless, had a White House Deputy Chief of Staff under the Clinton, Obama or Biden Administrations made such an outrageous statement -- treating American elected officials as an enemy army -- they would have been fired immediately.

Moreover: according to Snopes, Texas has 16 times more undocumented immigrants than Minnesota does. The Trump Administration hasn't sent thousands of snatchers to Texas. The ICE raids in Minnesota have just as much to do with Trump's state terrorism as they have to do with undocumented immigration. Trump's purpose is to make sure anyone who thinks he should obey the law too afraid of state violence to stand up to him. Trump ordered ICE into cities with elected officials who disagree with him in order to provoke violence and chaos. He ordered ICE to ignore the Constitution, break the law, and brutalize not only undocumented immigrants but American citizens and legal residents alike. ICE snatchers enter peaceful communities armed and wearing masks, not only to provoke the violence that Trump wants, but to terrify legal residents, tourists, and undocumented immigrants so they'll flee the country.

"Perhaps the most disturbing part of the Trump administration’s immigration operation in Minnesota is not just that agents of the state are killing peacefully protesting citizens on the streets. It’s that they’re doing it with the expectation of impunity, backed by top government officials who are brazenly lying about what happened.

"When immigration agents kill peaceful protesters, the government will defend them unconditionally, no matter if clear video evidence contradicts its version of events. It will resist investigating shootings, and it will do everything it can to block probes by other authorities. Vice President Vance has even claimed that federal agents have “absolute immunity” for their actions. This approach all but guarantees more killings.

"...Administration officials have so clearly declared their position with lies and prejudicial statements that any federal investigation would be suspect from the start—another example of how Trump’s politicization of the Justice Department has undermined its ability to do its job.

"Trump has spent years dehumanizing immigrants, exhorting law enforcement to treat suspects more roughly, and attacking the rule of law. The killings in Minnesota aren’t the collateral damage of Trump’s approach to governance. They’re a direct result."

In January 2026, a crowd in Portland, Oregon was peacefully demonstrating against ICE. A few minutes after the protesters arrived at an ICE facility, snatchers fired rubber bullets, pepper balls, flash-bang grenades, and tear gas into the crowd. The crowd included children and a city council member. The use of tear gas is illegal in Oregon, and police were forced to close a street to keep people away from the gas. ICE directly assaulted, not only the peaceful protesters, but the First and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution.

ICE has no training in crowd control and no training in how to handle protests. They have no business being armed, and no business conducting raids in American cities in the first place. Trump has defied the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment by sending ICE into primarily Democratic cities with small amounts of undocumented immigrants, and ignoring primarily Republican cities with large amounts.

Trump wants to provoke people into a firefight with the aggressive, abusive, trigger-happy, masked ICE snatchers itching to shoot anyone they don't like the look of. The second a snatcher gets shot by an American citizen defending themselves, Trump will declare the snatcher a martyr and invoke the Insurrection Act, deploying the military to support the aggressive, abusive, trigger-happy snatchers. That's what Trump wants. Don't give it to him. Trump has been lying for years, making up wild stories about paid left-wing agitators and rioters (that don't really exist) attacking patriotic law enforcement officers. He wants footage he can point to so he can claim he was telling the truth about his opponents all along. Don't fall into his trap.

Congress must act immediately. Trump, Noem, and Miller must be impeached and removed from office, the Insurrection Act must be repealed, and ICE must be abolished . Sign the petition to Congress telling them not to provide any more funding for ICE's illegal and unconstitutional raids.

In January 2026 -- less than three weeks after the murder of Renee Good -- Alex Pretti was recording Border Patrol snatchers on his mobile phone. Pretti was an American citizen, an ICU nurse who worked at a veterans' hospital, and a former Boy Scout. When he saw a snatcher slam a woman into the snow on the side of the road, Pretti went to her assistance, stepping between the woman and the attacker. Six snatchers tackled him, and one pepper-sprayed him in the face. While Pretti was blinded by the pepper spray, the snatchers forced him to the ground, beat him, grabbed his holstered gun, and then shot him in the back ten times as he lay on the ground. Though Pretti did have a gun on him -- one he owned legally and had a license to carry -- Pretti never made any attempt to unholster it. A physician on the scene said that they tried to assist Pretti, and the snatchers initially prevented them from doing so. According to the physician, the snatchers didn't seem to understand why the doctor wanted to help the victim and instead were counting the bullet wounds. By the time the physician convinced the snatchers to let them through, Pretti was dead.

DHS responded to reports of the murder with the usual libel, posting that the victim had "violently resisted," which video surveillance shows is blatantly false. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem slandered the victim, falsely claiming that he "attacked" the Border Patrol snatchers. "We were doing a targeted operation against an illegal criminal and this individual came with a weapon and dozens of rounds of ammunition and attacked them. And these agents took action to defend their lives and the lives of people around them and acted according to their training, and we will continue to let this process go forward and not allow people like Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey to lie about what actually unfolded on that street." Everything in that statement is a lie. Pretti wasn't holding a gun -- he was holding a phone. He tried to protect a woman from a Border Patrol snatcher who attacked her. Pretti never even reached for his gun and never attacked anyone. There's no indication that the snatchers even knew he was armed until they forced him to the ground and started beating him.

As before, by praising the snatchers who shot a disarmed man lying on the ground in the back and saying they "acted according to their training," Noem apparently confirmed that murdering innocent American citizens is part of the Border Patrol's mission. Moreover, if Walz and Frey are lying about what happened, so are the surveillance videos. Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff (and noted white supremacist) Stephen Miller also libeled the victim, claiming the nurse was a "domestic terrorist" who "tried to assassinate federal law enforcement." None of this is true. In the minutes leading up to his murder, Pretti tried to direct traffic AWAY from the ICE snatchers. He never tried to murder anyone -- the snatchers killed him when he saw them assaulting a woman.

Border Patrol officer Greg Bovino also slandered the victim, stating "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement." This was a lie. As a professional nurse, Pretti did exactly what he was supposed to do: provide aid to someone in distress. He had no intention of hurting anyone, much less planning a massacre.

Noem later repeated Bovino's slander almost word-for-word. "This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement." Pretti had a gun he owned legally and was legally allowed to carry. He never even reached for it, and the video suggests that the ICE snatchers who attacked him didn't even know he was armed. Pretti could have drawn his gun to defend himself -- but he did not. On the contrary, Pretti's last words were "are you okay?" By all accounts, Pretti was a patriot and a generous human being.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chimed in, slandering the victim as a "lunatic." He wrote: "Thank God for the patriots of @ICEgov - we have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country. Shame on the leadership of Minnesota - and the lunatics in the street."

Hegseth thinks that the ICE snatchers who pepper-sprayed a woman, slammed her to the ground, and murdered a nurse who came to her aid are "patriots." Per Hegseth, assault and murder are patriotic. The innocent American civilian who helped a victim of violence was a "lunatic."

FBI Director Kash Patel added more disinformation. "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple." Patel is lying. It's perfectly legal to bring a gun to a protest, and the right to do so has long been championed by conservatives, including Patel himself. The snatchers on the scene did not even know Pretti had a gun until after they'd shoved him to the ground.

"You don't have a right to break the law and incite violence," Patel continued. "You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around."

None of that happened. The video evidence clearly shows that Border Patrol snatchers attacked Pretti and the woman he tried to help -- not the other way around. Pretti was a peaceful, law abiding citizen and former boy scout.

Trump supporters' violent attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, was a riot. It took years for prosecutors to track the rioters down, prosecute them, and convict them -- and Trump pardoned them. The protests in Minnesota haven't been riots. They've been completely peaceful. Patel slandered the late Alex Pretti by calling him a criminal, saying he'd incited violence, and saying he'd attacked law enforcement. None of that is true. Pretti was trying to help a victim of violence when the snatchers murdered him.

After Pretti was murdered, Border Patrol agents arrested Javier and over 20 other witnesses, where they were held for several hours before they were released. This could be considered witness tampering.

All six snatchers who attacked Pretti must be fired and prosecuted for his murder. By slandering and libeling the victim, Trump, Bovino, Noem, Miller, Hegseth, and Patel attempted to cover up Pretti's murder, making themselves accessories after the fact. This violated the spirit of the law if not the letter. Additionally, by claiming Pretti posed a threat because he was carrying a gun -- one Pretti legally owned, legally carried, and never attempted to use -- they violated the Second Amendment. All four have defended the murder of innocent American citizens by snatchers. They must be impeached and removed from office before they get any other innocent people killed. Moreover, Trump, Bovino, Noem, Miller, Hegseth, and Patel have turned the Border Patrol -- along with ICE -- into instruments of state terror. ICE must be abolished, and the Border Patrol must be reformed so nothing like this ever happens again.