As Talking Points Memo pointed out in 2017, Trump destroys everything he touches. When Trump gives immoral or illegal orders, his staff and advisors have a choice: stand up to Trump and get fired, or keep quiet and enable Trump's crimes. During Trump's first term, some of his subordinates stood up to him, knowing it would (and did) cost them their jobs. For his second term, Trump deliberately chose unqualified hacks who won't tell him when he's making a mistake. These enablers are complicit in Trump's high crimes and misdimeanors, and must also be impeached and removed from office.

Furthermore: according to Mother Jones, Musk's role in the government was unconstitutional, and everything he did as part of the DODO Trump Administration was illegal.

"Multiple challenges to Musk and the actions of his Department of Government Efficiency allege his vast authority violates the Appointments Clause, one of the Constitutions key anti-corruption measures. Under this clause, which the framers crafted to prevent the kingly practice of handing jobs and authority to unaccountable allies, any officer of the United States must be formally nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Moreover, such appointees must fill a role created by Congress. Musk's exercise of vast authority, at least four lawsuits allege, is unconstitutional, as he was neither confirmed by the Senate nor is he serving in any role Congress created...

"'If it turns out that, as Donald Trump has continuously said, Musk is actually exercising significant government power... that allows him to overrule or countermand cabinet level officers,' says Noah Rosenblum, a professor at New York University School of Law, 'then there are definitely questions about what position he has been appointed to and whether the authority he is exercising is consistent with the method of appointment.'" rtypto

While all this was going on, Musk announced that he would give two Wisconsin voters $1,000,000 checks to say thank you for voting. It's illegal in Wisconsin to pay people for voting. Musk is not above the law -- State or Federal. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed to investigate Musk.

A month later, a whistleblower alleged that Russia attempted to access the National Labor Relations Board's computers via accounts created by Musk and his lackeys. The attempt was blocked -- this time.

What's more: on March 2, Secretary Bessent announced that the Treasury Department would no longer enforce the Corporate Transparency Act, a law designed to prevent money laundering. "This is a victory for common sense," Bessent claimed. In reality, it's a victory for money launderers.

Laws applies equally to everyone. The Treasury Secretary does not have the authority to decide which laws to enforce and which not to. For allowing money launderers to get away with their crimes, Bessent must be impeached and removed from office.

As noted above, Vice President Vance gave aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States -- Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

DODO Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been on the job for five weeks when he declared that Putin's cyberattacks were no longer a threat and ordered the Defense Department to stop defending the United States against them.

Putin ordered a dozen cyberattacks against the United States in the last decade, including the 2024 Presidential election day bomb threats that took place only five months before Hegseth's announcement. One source told the Guardian that Defense Department officials were ordered not to follow up on -- or report on -- any Russian attacks. "There are thousands of US government employees and military working daily on the massive threat Russia poses as possibly the most significant nation state threat actor. Not to diminish the significance of China, Iran or North Korea, but Russia is at least on par with China as the most significant cyber threat."

Hegseth ordered his subordinates to stand down on their efforts to protect America from a hostile dictator who tried to disrupt the last Presidential election. Hegseth is aiding the enemies of the United States -- either deliberately or through gross incompetence. Had a Defense Secretary working for Presidents Clinton, Obama, or Biden ordered the Defense Department not to respond to twelve enemy cyberattacks, they would have been impeached in twelve hours. Sign the petitions calling for Hegseth's resignation or impeachment.

In June, Hegseth said he will not obey court orders forbidding the use of military force against American civilians on American soil. If a Democratic Defense Secretary had said this, they would have been impeached immediately.

In August, Putin's hackers launched another cyberattack against the United States by hacking in to the Federal Court filing system. Hegseth did nothing.

On the day Pam Bondi was sworn in as DODO Attorney General, she shut down the FBI's task force in charge of preventing enemy nations from manipulating American elections. "Every cut made to our election security and foreign malign influence operations is like handing a gift on a silver platter to our foreign adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran," an election official told NPR. (Hmm. Why would Trump and Bondi do that?) On the same day, Bondi disbanded the task force in charge of enforcing sanctions on Russia.

The Atlantic observed: Trump's "Treasury Department announced that it would weaken enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act; his Justice Department disbanded a task force charged with targeting Russian oligarchs and relaxed the Foreign Agents Registration Act, such that Putin's allies can hire lawyers and lobbyists without having to worry about the embarrassing disclosure of those relationships. The Trump administration has essentially announced that the American financial system is open for Russia's kleptocratic business."

By stopping all efforts to prevent Russian spies from committing crimes on American soil -- which happened as recently as three months earlier -- Bondi gave aid to Putin. Bondi must be impeached and removed from office.

Senator Chris Murphy pointed out that, under Bondi's leadership, the Justice Department dropped investigations against Trump allies (including Elon Musk) and threatened anyone who tried to obstruct Musk. The Justice Department is supposed to investigate crimes and, where warranted, prosecute criminals -- not look the other way when the President's friends break the law. A few weeks later, a Deputy Attorney General dropped a corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams and brazenly announced that they'd made a deal to drop the charges in return for Adams pledging loyalty to Trump. The deputy then said that the charges could be reinstated if Adams didn't comply with Trump's policies. Six Justice Department prosecutors then resigned in protest. Had an Attorney General (or Deputy Attorney General) working for Clinton, Obama or Biden done this, they'd have been impeached in six hours.

A panel of law professors, attorneys, and retired judges issued an ethics complaint to the Florida Bar about Bondi's misconduct.

In June, Bondi fired three Justice Department attorneys who prosecuted rioters who tried to assassinate then-Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021. Bondi then fired the Justice Department's ethics lawyer and at least 20 prosecutors who investigated crimes surrounding Trump's theft of classified documents. It's illegal to fire government employees for doing their jobs. Had Janet Reno or Merrick Garland done this, they would have been impeached in three days.

Sign the petition calling on Bondi to resign.

Since being placed in charge of public health, Kennedy has cancelled preparations for next winter's flu season -- when we know a deadly strain of flu is currently spreading among chickens and cattle. He either agreed to stop efforts to fight tuberculosis or looked the other way when Trump and Musk ended those efforts. He fired government workers who stop the spread of foodborne diseases and inspect cruise ships. He recommended measles and COVID treatments that don't work, and people have been admitted to hospitals for overdosing on the wrong medication. We've had the highest number of measles deaths in 25 years.

In April, the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced that it would terminate the funds of any medical researcher who... criticized a foreign country. This policy violates the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. Though Kennedy may not have been involved in this decision, his department oversees the NIH.

For implementing policies that are making people sick, Kennedy is grossly negligent, and must be impeached and removed from office. Had a Health Secretary working for Clinton, Obama or Biden done this, they'd have been impeached immediately.

Throughout 2025, Kennedy fired scientists researching cures for cancer, HIV, and other diseases. That August, he announced that only people over 65 or people with pre-existing conditions will be eligible to receive any more COVID boosters. Boosters are critical for reducing the spread of COVID mutations and preventing severe cases, and Kennedy's decision could well cause a resurgence of the COVID pandemic. Kennedy then fired the Director of the Center for Disease Control for refusing to implement the policy. (It's illegal to fire a government employee for doing their job.) A number of CDC officals then resigned in protest. Kennedy then went before Congress and lied about it.

it's illegal to lie to Congress, even if you're not under oath. If President Biden's HHS Secretary had made a large portion of the American population ineligible to receive booster shots to protect themselves from a highly contagious disease in defiance of historical and scientific facts, they would have been impeached immediately. Sign the petition demanding Congress impeach and remove Kennedy.

In March 2025, Hegseth, Rubio, and Waltz used the instant messaging app Signal to discuss the time and place of planned military strikes against anti-American Houthi rebels in Yemen, a country on the Arabian peninsula.

This is illegal, and they knew it was illegal. It seems that Hegseth, Rubio, and Waltz used Signal because the app (in theory) automatically deletes messages after a set amount of time -- in this case, four weeks. Deleting executive communications violates the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act. All three condemned then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for doing exactly the same thing when she was a government official -- using a personal electronic communications server instead of a government one.

During their discussions of the planned air strikes, Waltz accidentally copied Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine! This violates the Espionage Act, which outlaws handling national security secrets with such gross negligence so they fall into the hands of an unauthorized person. It doesn't matter whether or not the secrets were shared intentionally, nor whether or not the person receiving them wanted anything to do with it. "There is not an officer alive whose career would survive a security breach like that. It would normally result in instant consequences (relief from command, for example) followed by a comprehensive investigation and, potentially, criminal charges," wrote David French, a former Army lawyer. "...When you're careless in the military, people can die. If he had any honor at all, [Hegseth] would resign."

Goldberg later wrote that he thought the chat invitation was a hoax, or from a different Michael Waltz. He accepted the request, and was astounded to receive the combat mission plans two days later. "It should go without saying -- but I'll say it anyway -- that I have never been invited to a White House principals-committee meeting," Goldberg wrote, "and that, in my many years of reporting on national-security matters, I had never heard of one being convened over a commercial messaging app... I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president." Though the messages sounded authentic, Goldberg still thought it was probably a trick of some kind -- until the combat mission was underway and American planes started bombing Houthi targets. "The Signal chat group, I concluded, was almost certainly real. Having come to this realization, one that seemed nearly impossible only hours before, I removed myself from the Signal group, understanding that this would trigger an automatic notification to the group's creator, Michael Waltz, that I had left. No one in the chat had seemed to notice that I was there. And I received no subsequent questions about why I left -- or, more to the point, who I was."

Hegseth and several other DODO Trump Administration officals denied -- both to the press and before Congress -- that any combat plans or national security secrets were disclosed to Goldberg. The Atlantic took them at their word and released the messages Goldberg had received.

A few days after the chat, the Defense Department announced that Signal had been penetrated by Russian hackers and wasn't secure. The memo also reminded Defense Department personnel that it was illegal to use Signal or any other messaging app to transmit classified information. It's unthinkable that the DODO Secretary of Defense was unaware of this before using Signal to communicate combat plans.

This wasn't the only time Hegseth illegally used Signal to transmit classified information. Another chat session shortly afterwards discussed similar combat missions. Included on the chat were Hegseth's brother (who works for him at the Defense department), Hegseth's lawyer, and Hegseth's wife. The latter two likely do not have clearance to see classified information.

According to TruthOut, Waltz and others used unsecured Gmail accounts to conduct government business on at least 20 different occasions.

Hegseth, Rubio, and Waltz broke three national security laws. All three must be impeached and removed from office. (Sign the petitions at Common Defense and Win Without War.) Had Hillary Clinton used a private electronic communications server... yeah.

In May, Waltz was removed as National Security Advisor. Trump says he's going to name Waltz Ambassador to the United Nations instead.

Signalgate wasn't Secretary Rubio's only impeachable offense. In April, Rubio sent out a communication to all State Department employees at home and abroad instructing them to report on each other if anyone showed "anti-Christian bias." The First Amendment guarantees religious freedom to all Americans, so obviously it's unconstitutional to discriminate against Christians for being Christians. However, it's also unconstitutional to discriminate against non-Christians for not being Christian, or for the government to favor one religion over another. Article VI of the Constitution reads: "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Rubio claims that the notice was sent out because of "anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration." President Biden was a Christian, and obviously he did not show bias against people of his own religion.

Had any previous Secretary of State -- such as Hillary Clinton -- unconstitutionally shown favoritism for one religion over another and told State Department employees to inform on each other, Congress would have launched an impeachment inquiry immediately.

Rubio soon committed a third impeachable offense -- violating the First Amendment and the Bill of Attainder clause. As noted above, Rubio has revoked hundreds of student visas because the students spoke out against another country -- which is protected by the First Amendment. He also violated the Constitution's Bill of Attainder clause by declaring innocent students criminals with no warnings, no charges, no hearings, and no trials. He then ordered the students disappeared off the street, violating the students' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizures and their Fifth Amendment rights to due process.

Had any previous Secretary of State -- Hillary Clinton, for instance -- ordered a single innocent student disappeared off the street, she would have been impeached within seconds.

The Signalgate scandal grew to include Gabbard and Ratcliffe, who sought to downplay the damage their colleagues had done. An Atlantic analysis pointed out that Trump's solution was not to replace his negligent staff but to blame the press. "Trump... tried to shift blame and publicly shrug off one of the most significant blunders in decades... Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, delivered uneven and at times contradictory performances... when they testified before Congress that the Signal chat didn't include classified information."

As noted above, the chat obviously DID include classified information, leading Congressman Jerry Nadler to call for Gabbard and Ratcliffe to be prosecuted for perjury. "The latest text messages confirm that in yesterday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe lied under oath in their testimony," Nadler wrote. "Perjury is a crime, and they should be prosecuted. Any other military officer who demonstrated such disregard for security protocols would likely face dismissal from service and even a court-martial. The Trump Administration appears to believe that cabinet secretaries and senior officials are immune from the law. They are not."

Had a CIA Director or a National Intelligence Director lied under oath during the Clinton, Obama, or Biden administrations, they would have been impeached immediately.

The Atlantic points out that Gabbard's incompetence is a danger to America.

"Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has suggested that the former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad did not use chemical weapons against his own people in 2017 and 2018, despite extensive documentation of the attacks, including by the... previous Trump administration."

Gabbard's refusal to believe the evidence could have deadly consequences. For instance, Iranian General Gholam Reza Jalali claimed in 2018 that Israel had caused a drought by... sabotaging Iranian clouds.

"This story seems like a silly bit of trivia until one realizes that Jalali was also the head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, tasked with combating sabotage. In other words, a key person in charge of thwarting Israeli spies in Iran was an incompetent conspiracy theorist obsessed with Jewish climate control. About a week after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, Jalali celebrated the massacre and boasted in state-run media that Israel’s 'military and intelligence dominance has collapsed and will not be repaired anymore.'

"Jalali and other top Iranian officials were unable to defeat Israel not just because their own intelligence capabilities didn’t match up, but because their adherence to regime-sanctioned fantasies made grasping Israel’s actual abilities impossible for them."

Putin wishes to destroy the United States. Gabbard's, Bondi's and Hegseth's refusal to believe that Putin poses a threat is as dangerous to America as Jafali's incompetence was to Iran.

In July, Ratcliffe followed Trump's example and told the FBI to investigate two innocent people: former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA director John Brennan. An investigation begun during Trump's first term has already exonerated them. Imagine how Republicans would react if this had happened under a Democratic administration! For instance, imagine Janet Reno ordering an investigation of Kenneth Starr, and Starr being exonerated -- only for Eric Holder to order a second investigation of Starr over the same matter. Reno and Holder would have been impeached and removed from office.

In July, Gabbard also asked the FBI to prosecute Brennan and Comey, along with James Clapper (who'd been National Intelligence Director in 2016.) She claimed the three had been involved in a "Russia Hoax," an imaginary conspiracy to mislead the public into thinking Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had manipulated the 2016 election. The problem is, Putin DID manipulate the 2016 election, and Putin's disinformation and illegal computer hacks might well have swung the election in Trump's favor. Putin's propaganda campaign to help Trump is a well-documented historical fact.

Moreover, Gabbard's DODO claims are nonsense. She falsely claims that the Obama Administration officials didn't sound the alarm until after the election. (They did warn Congress earlier, and Congressional Republicans refused to act on their warning.) She also says that since there's no evidence that Putin's spies hacked into voting machines (there isn't, and no one ever said there was), the story of what Putin's spies actually did do must not be true either. Saying Putin's cyberattacks never happened because the Russian hackers didn't actually change any votes is like saying that the Watergate scandal never happened because the burglars didn't break into Fort Knox. All Gabbard's DODO lies are easily disproven.

The only "hoax" is the firehose of Big Lies Trump has used for the last nine years in the attempt to cover up Putin's manuipulation. If anything, Brannan, Clapper and Comey did not do enough to stop Putin.

A day or two later, Gabbard asked the DODO Justice Department to prosecute former President Obama for "a coup against President Trump." Obama did nothing of the kind, and even if he had, the Alito Court declared in 2024 that former Presidents are immune from prosecution. The only person who tried to stage a coup was Trump, who sent an armed mob to attack Congress on January 6, 2021 in an absurd attempt to force Congress to falsely declare that he'd won the 2020 election. If anyone should be investigated for treason, it's Gabbard -- who's been trying to cover up a foreign dictator's cyberattacks against our country as if they weren't already part of the public record. By using her DODO government position to cover up Putin's crimes, Gabbard has made herself an accessory after the fact.

Imagine the roles reversed: Clapper ordering an investigation of Gabbard! If Clapper had used his government authority to ask the Justice Department to prosecute an innocent person -- let alone four of them -- he would have been impeached immediately.

As head of Homeland Security, Secretary Noem is responsible for the training and conduct of the people who work in her department -- including everyone in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE.) As noted above, dozens of ICE snatchers are responsible for some of the most blatant abuses of power in recent American history. Since Trump and Noem took office, ICE snatchers have kidnapped, falsely imprisoned, and/or deported hundreds (if not thousands) of people -- tourists, undocumented immigrants, legal residents, and American citizens. Under Noem's DODO leadership, ICE has renditioned hundreds of legal residents to a maximum security prison in a third world dictatorship under false pretenses, with no proof, charge, council, trial, judge, or jury. With Noem's approval, ICE has defied court orders and violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, the Bill of Attainder clause, the Ex Post Facto clause, and the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Like the other members of his DODO cabinet, Trump nominated Noem to be DODO Homeland Security Secretary for one reason: she is blindly loyal to him. Noem doesn't know anything about our homeland, anything about security, or anything about the law. Noem isn't just unqualified. She's so ignorant about basic Constitutional rights that she'd be a laughingstock if she wasn't so dangerous.

For instance, in May, Senator Maggie Hassan asked Noem if she was familiar with Habeas Corpus. Noem replied that Habeas Corpus... is the exact opposite of what it really is.

Noem: "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to--"
Hassan: "Let me stop you. Excuse me, that is incorrect... Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason... So, Secretary Noem, do you support the core protection that habeas corpus provides, that the government must provide a public reason in order to detain and imprison someone?"
Noem: "I support habeas corpus. I also recognize that the president of the United States has the authority under the Constitution to decide if it should be suspended or not."
Hassan: "It has never been done without approval of Congress."

The Writ of Habeas Corpus is a legal principle protecting innocent people from dictatorship. Noem thinks it's a tool dictators can use to oppress innocent people. If a Homeland Security Secretary under Obama or Biden had said that, they would have been impeached and removed immediately for gross incompetence.

In March, Noem traveled to CECOT prison and shot a propaganda video in front of a prison cell holding dozens of detainees who had been renditioned there without due process. "If you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you can face," she said -- knowing full well that most of the people renditioned to CECOT prison had come to the United States legally and there was no proof that any of them were criminals. "This facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people," Noem continued -- but there is no proof that anyone she renditioned there had committed any crimes, and Trump Administration lawyers have admitted that in at least one case they imprisoned the wrong man.

As Senator Cory Booker said, "When Trump reallocates all the resources within our immigration system to conducting the largest mass deportation of people in history, American citizens are paying the price... We pay the price because to do this, he is diverting actual law enforcement resources away from solving crimes and stopping terrorism. His actions are actually making us less safe."

Had a Homeland Security Secretary under Obama or Biden illegally detained or disappeared scores of innocent people visiting this country legally, illegally reditioned hundreds of legal permanent residents to a foreign prison without due process, and illegally deported four American children -- some of whom were being treated for serious illnesses -- they would have been impeached and removed from office immediately.

In May, three members of Congress -- accompanied by Mayor Ras Baraka -- arrived at an ICE detention facility outside Newark, New Jersey. It's perfectly legal for Congresswomen to inspect ICE prisons. DHS officials later claimed that the Congresswomen "stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility." The Congresswomen deny this, saying when they arrived, they requested entry peacefully and ICE let them in without incident. It was only when they were leaving the facility that the ICE snatchers figured out that they were legally obligated to let the Congresswomen in, but that law didn't apply to the Mayor. So, ICE arrested the Mayor as the Congresswomen were leaving. Though the Mayor was released later that day, ICE later claimed the Congresswomen were violent -- something ICE's own video footage disproves. "Whether you are a civilian, a mayor, or a member of Congress, if you are storming an an ICE detention facility and putting law enforcement and detainees at risk, you can bet that we will arrest you and you will face the law," a DHS Assistant Secretary said. According to ICE's own video, nobody stormed anything, and no one was arrested until the party was leaving.

If a Homeland Security Department Assistant Secretary had threatened to arrest innocent members of Congress under false pretenses under the Obama or Biden administrations, that Assistant Secretary would have been impeached immediately, and Congress would have launched an impeachment investigation into the DHS director.

That wasn't the end of the story. As the Atlantic reported:

"Imagine if this series of events happened in a foreign country: A prosecutor who is most notable for being the president's former personal lawyer, and who is not legally confirmed to her role, charges a member of the opposition party with serious crimes based on trumped-up evidence, and then announces it not on a government platform but on the social-media site owned by the president's friend and major donor. What would outsiders conclude about the strength of democracy and rule of law in that country?

"Yesterday, interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced that she was charging Representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat whose district includes the city of Newark, with assaulting federal agents. McIver reportedly faces several criminal charges related to an incident at Delaney Hall, a privately operated immigrant-detention facility in Newark. Mayor Ras Baraka contends that the prison was operating without a certificate of occupancy, and city officials cited code violations. Baraka, who visited repeatedly and demanded access, was blocked from entering.

"On May 9, Baraka visited again, this time with three members of Congress, including McIver. He was initially invited through a gate but then asked to leave, which he did. After he’d stepped outside, federal agents pursued him on public property. A chaotic scrum followed, and Baraka was arrested. Although federal officials derided Baraka for a political stunt, this was a stunt of their own making, and the trespassing charge against Baraka never seemed likely to stick.

"Indeed, Habba dropped it yesterday and brought charges against McIver instead. You can watch the videos and decide for yourself—McIver is the one in the red blazer—but calling this an assault is a big stretch." [The videos are linked on the Atlantic's website.]

Meanwhile: Trump's "Justice Department has filed to dismiss cases against [January 6th] rioters, fired prosecutors involved in such cases, and pardoned some people sentenced to prison for their involvement, including those who injured police officers. This week, news emerged that the Justice Department is close to paying a $5 million settlement to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a woman fatally shot by Capitol police while trying to storm the Speaker’s Lobby of the Capitol. These are not the actions of an administration with a serious commitment to defending federal law-enforcement officers."

Trump claimed for years that he wasn't being indicted, prosecuted, and convicted because he'd committed crimes -- many of which were well-documented -- but instead because the prosecutors disagreed with his politics. None of that was true, but that didn't stop the DODO Trump Administration from doing exactly what they'd condemned: prosecuting an innocent member of Congress for being part of the opposition party. Sign the petition demanding that the DODO Justice Department drop charges against Congresswoman McIver. The charges are a waste of taxpayer dollars. No jury would convict her.

Later -- when testifying under oath before Congress -- Noem slandered Kilmar Abrego Garcia by calling him a "terrorist" twice. As noted above, Trump Administration layers admitted weeks earlier that Abrego Garcia isn't a criminal and renditioning him to a maximum security prison in a third world country had been a mistake. If a Homeland Security Secretary under Obama or Biden had told lies about an innocent person under oath, they would have been impeached immediately for perjury.

In June, Noem was the face of the DODO ICE raids in Los Angeles (above.) She used her official position to violate the Hatch Act, urging Californians not to vote for Governor Gavin Newsom. (Newsom is term-limited and is ineligible to run for Governor again.)

At a later press conference, Noem declared: "We are staying here [in Los Angeles] to liberate this city from the socialist and burdensome leadership that this Governor Newsom and this mayor placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into this city." Obviously, it's not the role of ICE or a cabinet secretary to "liberate" a city from the elected Mayor or a State from the elected Governor. (Imagine President Obama or President Biden sending ICE to Oklahoma City and announcing they were "liberating" the city from the Mayor!)

Senator Alex Padilla was on his way to a Homeland Security briefing when he learned that Noem was holding a press conference in the same building. Padilla stopped by the press conference -- the same one where Noem pledged to "liberate this city from... this mayor." He heard Noem making this outrageous statement, raised his hand to ask her a question -- and was grabbed by Noem's security. He was then forced from the room, pushed to the ground, and handcuffed. Noem continued the press conference as if nothing was happening. Noem later said that Padilla didn't identify himself and "lunged" at her. The video -- which was made public immediately -- proves Noem is lying.

"If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country," Padilla said.

Padilla returned to the Senate floor a few days later. "Are we truly prepared to live in a country where the president can deploy the armed forces to decide which duly elected governors and mayors should be allowed to lead their constituents? Is that really the precedent that we're okay with?" he asked his colleagues. "If what you saw happen can happen when the cameras are on, imagine not only what can happen, but what is happening, in so many places where there are no cameras."

Noem and ICE lied about the Worchester raid, the arrest of Mayor Baraka, the handcuffing of Congressman Nadler's staffer, the detention of David Huerta, the attack on Senator Padilla, and the detention of Comptroller Lander -- and that's just the occasions documented on this web page. (A line-by-line analysis of Noem's public statements is beyond the scope of this article.) Noem and ICE have been caught slandering their U.S. citizen victims so many times -- with their lies routinely and instantly debunked by publicly available video -- that they clearly can't be trusted to tell the truth about anything. Noem thinks we're stupid, and has completely destroyed her credibility.

If Obama or Biden's Homeland Security Secretary's bodyguards had attacked an innocent United States Senator and then lied about it, they would have been fired immediately, and the Secretary would have been impeached the next day. Sign the petition demanding Noem's resignation.

In September, a judge found that Noem had illegally deported refugees to Venezuela and Haiti. The judge wrote that they'd been sent "back to conditions that are so dangerous that even the State Department advises against travel to their home countries... The Secretary’s action in revoking [Temporary Protected Status] was not only unprecedented in the manner and speed in which it was taken, but also violates the law."

In March, when asked about the illegal deportations, Tom Homan -- the DODO Trump Administration's "Border Czar" -- told Fox "News" that "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think." Homan thinks he's above the law and doesn't have to obey court orders. He's wrong, and must be impeached and removed from office. If President Clinton's border czar, President Obama's border czar, or President Biden's border czar had admitted he had knowingly defied court orders and announced he was going to keep on doing it, he would have been impeached immediately.

In July, Homan told Fox "News" that "ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them. They just go through the observations, get articulable facts based on their location, their occupation, their physical appearance, their actions... it's not probable cause. It's reasonable suspicion."

Senator Alex Padilla responded:

"And there you have it.
"Under the Trump Administration, ICE and Border Patrol are being empowered to stop and question you based solely on how you look.
"No probable cause. No real reason. Just your 'physical appearance.'
"That's not justice - it's profiling."

This is the central philosophy of the entire DODO Trump Administration: fascism meets racism meets the power of the Federal government. For the second time, Homan admitted that he thinks ICE is above the law and doesn't have to follow the Constitution. Homan confirmed that ICE's directive is to assume people of color are criminals, then abduct, detain, and question people of color simply because they're people of color. With luck, ICE might discover that some of the detainees are undocumented immigrants! If the detainees are innocent, they'll just have to spend months in private prisons until a judge gets around to hearing the case and orders them released. Racial profiling -- assuming someone is likely to be a criminal because of their skin color -- is a violation of the Fourth Amendment (outlawing unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring the government to provide probable cause); the Fifth Amendment (outlawing the government depriving someone of their liberty without due process), the Sixth Amendment (requiring the officers to inform detainees of the charges against them and to produce witnesses against them), and the Fourteenth Amendment (guaranteeing equal protection of the law to everyone in American jurisdiction.)

If a Clinton, Obama, or Biden Administration official had announced that they were using racial profiling to identify suspects, they would have been impeached immediately.

Less than a week later, DODO Homeland Security Secretary Noem denied that ICE is using racial profiling. "That's not true. And so that has been another false narrative that has been put out there in the media that I absolutely want to throw back at you and say that is absolutely false and don't you dare ever say that again. We have, um, judges out there and other individuals that say people have been targeted that way and it's not true. Every single operation that we do on ICE is based on investigative work and on case work to show that there is a reason and reasonable suspicion to go into an area and to talk and look at individuals that are involved in criminal activity. Um, so, because that is a narritive that people have been out there saying does not make it true and should not be repeated."

How do we reconcile these statements? Homan says that ICE is targeting people because of their appearance, and Noem says ICE isn't. They can't both be telling the truth. There are two possibilities here:

(1) Noem is telling the truth, and Homan is lying. There is no racial profiling going on at ICE. We can dismiss that possibility, because a thirty-second internet search will turn up dozens of videos of ICE engaged in racial profiling. (The cases of illegal ICE disappearances and detentions detailed above are just the tip of the iceberg.)

(2) Homan is is telling the truth, and Noem is lying. There IS racial profliling going on at ICE. We know that's true because of the overwhelming video evidence. So: there are two more possibilities here. Noem is either a fool (she didn't know she was lying) or a liar (she knew perfectly well she was lying.)

(a) Noem's a fool. She honestly believes that ICE isn't using racial profiling. That means Homan has gone rogue. He's running an illegal and unconstitutional racial profiling operation in broad daylight under Noem's nose that blatantly denies American citizens, legal residents, and tourists their basic Constitutional rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Noem has no idea what's been going on in her department for months and has been asleep at the wheel for her entire tenure as Homeland Security Secretary. If this is the case, Homan must be fired immediately and prosecuted for running a massive conspiracy to commit kidnapping, false arrest, false imprisonment, contempt of court, and criminally negligent homicide.

Since Noem hasn't fired Homan, that only leaves one possibility.

(b) Noem's a liar. She's incompetent, but she's not that incompetent. She's openly using the fascist propaganda tactic of the Big Lie. She denied what everyone in the world has seen happening with their own eyes for months, and then denounced a reporter for asking her about it. Just like Hitler used a Big Lie to blame innocent Jewish people for Germany losing World War I, Noem is using a Big Lie to pretend that ICE is only targeting criminals -- when the reality is that they're targeting innocent people based on "their location, their occupation, their physical appearance."

A few weeks after Homan confirmed ICE is using racial profiling and Noem falsely claimed they aren't, ICE blatantly asked the Alito Court to overturn a court order forbidding them from racially profiling people. Essentially, ICE asked Alito and his cohorts -- in so many words -- for permission to target people based on their skin color. According to the New Republic,

In September, the Alito Court issued its most unconstitutional ruling yet, which is saying something. The six Republican Justices overturned the lower court's ruling and gave ICE snatchers permission to use racial profiling. As The Nation reported, ICE snatchers were rounding up Californians based solely on if they looked like they might be Latino, where they happened to be, what kind of job they were doing, or what their voices sounded like. The ruling -- written by Justice Kavanaugh, who allegedly got drunk and sexually harassed people when he was younger -- is blatantly racist. Kavanaugh calls it "common sense" to detain people based on their skin color if they're not obviously white, and implies that anyone who isn't white needs to carry a copy of their birth certificate with them at all times.

The Huffington Post adds that the Alito Court's ruling has sent the country into a dystopian nightmare. In the Soviet Union, the police had unlimited power to detain innocent citizens and demand "show me your papers" without any reason to suspect them of a crime. That was the difference between freedom and communism during the Cold War: America is a free country, and the Soviet Union was not. In the United States, the law enforcement agencies have to obey the law and the Constitution. Neither the police nor ICE are above the law. Then Kavanaugh and the Alito Court said that ICE does not have to obey the Constitution.

"We already have evidence that people who simply appear that way [with possible Latino heritage] are not just being stopped, but detained, and then they have to work very hard to get themselves out of trouble not of their own making," said law professor David Harris.

Though Kavanaugh's ruling that pretends to legalize unconstitutional "show me your papers" demands from law enforcement is racist, it isn't limited to Latinos of Spanish or Portuguese heritage. If ICE snatchers can demand "show me your papers" of any innocent Latino American citizens they see -- and detain any who don't have their birth certificate on them -- they can do that to anyone. A ProPublica investigation found that over 170 American citizens have been illegally assaulted and detained by ICE snatchers, sometimes for days. This includes 20 children. 130 of them were detained for "assaulting" ICE officers. In 50 of those cases, all charges were dismissed or never filed in the first place. One of these cases was Daniel Montenegro, who was filming an ICE raid when he was tackled by several officers and injured his back. He was accused of being a terrorist who planned to disable ICE vehicles. Montenegro told the interviewer that he'd never even heard of anyone ever planning to disable ICE vehicles until after he was released and they accused him of it.

A DHS spokesperson denied that ICE ever arrests American citizens, which is blatantly and obviously untrue.

In September, Noem said that ICE would file assault charges against anyone who films the snatchers disappearing people.

In September 2025, MSNBC broke the story that Homan had accepted $50,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents. (There's a video.) This happened in 2024, and the FBI was in the process of indicting him when Trump became President. FBI Director Kash Patel (see below) then closed the investigation in the summer of 2025.

Bribery is one of the crimes the Constitution lists specifically as an impeachable offense. It's illegal and unconstitutional for Patel to drop criminal investigations of people just because they're political allies of the President.

Trump, Bondi, and Patel have ordered DODO criminal investigations into Trump's political enemies (see above) and ended criminal investigations into Trump's allies, such as Homan and Musk. Trump has literally ordered the Federal government to prosecute innocent people and not to prosecute criminals. He's put crooks in charge of law enforcement.

Patel is a Trump loyalist who still believes laughable conspiracy theories that have been definitively proven wrong. His fanatical devotion to Trump has blinded him to reality, and he is not qualified to solve real crimes.

In September, he testified before Congress and gave nonsensical answers. He refused to answer simple "yes" or "no" questions. He slandered Senators who asked them. He contradicted his own testimony, answering "yes" to one Senator and answering "no" when another Senator asked him a similar question. Worst of all, Patel lied under oath when he claimed that the infamous serial rapist Jeffrey Epstein -- who kidnapped underage girls and trafficked them to rich clients who also raped them -- hadn't actually had any clients other than himself. Patel denied that Epstein had committed the crimes he is widely known for and are part of the public record. Patel must be impeached and removed for lying to Congress.

Congressman Mike Johnson said that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be attacked by a criminal mob -- for asking a court to uphold the law. "I'm not gonna give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tarred and feathered," Johnson said.

When a victim was "tarred and feathered," they were subjected to severe (and sometimes fatal) torture, with no charge, counsel, trial, judge, or jury. The mobs committed conspiracy, kidnapping, assault, and attempted murder. In Washington, DC, it's illegal to incite others to commit a crime.

Johnson is not a member of the Cabinet and cannot be impeached. However, Congress can (and must) expel him from the House of Representatives. In comparison, Johnson's predecessor as Speaker of the House -- Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi -- was regularly villified by Republicans who disagreed with her politics. In 2022, she escaped an assassination attempt. Imagine how the Republicans who loathed Pelosi for disagreeing with them would have reacted if she had actually done something illegal -- like calling for a Republican governor to be tarred and feathered. A vote to expel her from Congress would have taken place immediately.

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