DDT Plans to Destroy Democracy

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) has always been clear about how he wants the House to politicize every action and now wants to use the House as a super PAC for Deposed Donald Trump (DDT). Wearing a necktie featuring DDT’s images, he said:

“Everything that we do in the House of Representatives should be in the best interests of getting Donald Trump re-elected.”

A few weeks ago, Nehls supported extending the GOP’s 2017 cuts running up trillions of debt for the U.S., saying “Trump is right all the time” and wants Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson to be “consulting with Donald Trump on just about everything we do.” Violating his oath of office, Nehls also lied about having two Bronze Star medals (he got only one) and a Combat Infantryman Badge, revoked because he served as a civil affairs officer. Yet he still wears both medals he wasn’t awarded.

To divert attention from DDT’s criminal trial, the House campaigners plan investigations of pro-Palestine campus protests, hiding from failures in impeachment of President Joe Biden and another in the failed conviction of HHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment.   

DJT stocks clawed their way upward this past week, but no one knows for how long. The number of Truth Social users continues to shrink, dropping by 19 percent in April over a year ago and four percent from the previous month. Revenue suffers: the number of users controls advertising prices. Truth Social’s MAGA approach limits users, now numbered at 2 million while Meta’s 10-month-old Threads has climbed to 31.4 million, almost reaching the 34.2 million on X.

In another setback, SEC charged DDT’s accounting firm for his Trump Media & Technology Group, BF Borgers, with widespread fraud and operation of a “sham audit mill,” falsely representing its compliance with accounting standards between January 2021 and June 2023. The firm has shut down and agrees to pay $14 million in fines.

Trump Tower has grown shabby, struggling to find renters and looking tired—like DDT. A description with photos.

DDT’s former AG Bill Barr says he’ll vote for DDT because he can be talked down from his outrageous statements—such as executing the person who leaked his going to the White House bunker to avoid protesters. In his two interviews with Time magazine’s Eric Cortellessa when he repeatedly brags about picking only loyalists, DDT pictures himself as benevolent, saying he let his former officials “quit because I have a heart…. From now on, I’ll fire.” His plans to destroy democracy if he is reelected: 

• Build migrant detention camps and deploy the military, both at the border and inland, to deport over 11 million immigrants. Override the Posse Comitatus Act which makes using the military against civilians to do the deportation because migrants “aren’t civilians.” (They are the people who made the U.S. economy the “envy of the world,” according to the conservative Wall Street Journal.)
• Reinstall his first term Remain in Mexico program.
• Permit red states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute anyone violating abortion laws.
• Withhold congressionally-approved funds.
• Fire any U.S. AG who doesn’t carry out his orders to prosecute someone.
• Pardon everyone accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. (Over 800 have pled guilty or been convicted by a jury. He repeated his falsehood that the police “ushered” the insurrectionists into the Capitol.)
• May refuse to help an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he thinks they aren’t paying enough for their own defense. (His lied that NATO wouldn’t help the U.S. although the only time NATO needed to help was for the U.S. after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S. when 18 other NATO members launched operations, including securing the skies over the U.S., naval anti-terrorism efforts, and assistance with the ground war in Afghanistan.)
• “Gut” the U.S. Civil Service and replace employees with those who swear loyalty to DDT.
• Send the National Guard, legally controlled by state governors, to U.S. cities “as he sees fit.”
• Close the White House pandemic-preparedness office.
• “Staff his administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.”
• Increase tariffs although firms and other consumers buying products pay for this tax.
• Give police more power and immunity from prosecution.
• Maintained that “the FBI gave fake numbers” about declining in the U.S.
• Appoint a “real special prosecutor” to go after Biden.  

The title of the interview, “How Far Trump Would Go,” wasn’t a question. DDT’s “ideas” are already published in his Project 2025      prepared by far-right operatives including the Heritage Foundation. A second term for DDT would sweep away executive constraints with the doctrine called unitary executive theory. Matthew Schmitz, far-right co-founder and editor of the Compact magazine, demonstrates the conservative coverup of DDT’s destruction of democracy describing him as “the outlaw hero, a figure of defiance with deep roots in American culture who exposes the injustices and hypocrisies of a corrupt system.” The most ironic comparison is Robin Hood, because DDT stole from the poor and gave to the rich with his 2017 tax cuts that he plans to reinstate.

DDT also plans to reinstate his former Muslim ban and keep Gazans from refuge in the U.S. As for the Israeli annihilation of Gaza, DDT has said that Israel “must clean out the cancer.” People who believe that President Joe Biden is too supportive of Israel might want to DDT’s goal.  

Barr’s defense of DDT hasn’t softened DDT’s anger toward his former AG. DDT says he wants an AG with “courage” because Barr didn’t back him in his “stolen” election lie.

RNC top lawyer and strong election attorney, Charlie Spies, has resigned after he angered DDT for criticizing the lie about the stolen 2020 election. Spies had pioneered the use of unregulated campaign donations to fund super PACs and sued to purge voter rolls. DDT’s campaign said it raised $76 million last month, but these donations are for both himself and the RNC.

Legal Issues:

Fox network describes DDT’s naps in court as a power move to demonstrate his contempt for the process, but sources talk about his lack of confidence in beating the indictments. Since the New York criminal trial started three weeks ago, DDT has railed against lawyer Todd Blanche because he doesn’t follow DDT’s instructions and is lacking in aggression. DDT anger may come from his belief that the trial is not going well. He wants Blanche on the attack against witnesses, the jury pool, and the judge, vicious like his former ruthless Ray Cohn, eventually disbarred, yet Judge Juan Merchan has already reprimanded Blanche for his defenses.

A legal firm has filed a motion to withdraw from a lawsuit against DDT by a 2016 campaign staffer allegedly shut out for being pregnant because of “an irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship between the firm and the campaign.” Representing herself, the plaintiff objected  because the firm had protested submission of discovery materials. The judge ordered the firm to turn over all 2016 and 2020 campaign complaints of sexual harassment and gender or pregnancy discrimination. Representing DDT for at least a decade, the firm in another sexual discrimination and abuse case against DDT.

New York – Criminal Business Fraud/Hush Money to Stormy Daniels to Interfere with 2016 Election:

In a plan to keep DDT out of jail for violating his gag order, attorneys want delay by filing an emergency writ of habeas corpus for a stay. They briefed DDT about the idea, calling it DDT’s “jailbreak” strategy.

Presently jailed for perjury, former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg won’t be a witness in the trial, but he left handwritten notes about his secret role in DDT’s 2016 presidential campaign, documenting his plan for the allegedly fraudulent reimbursement at the heart of the case. Weisselberg’s services to DDT, assisting with FEC filings, may also be unreported contributions.

More detailed reports of the trial last week are in earlier posts.

Florida – DDT’s Taking Classified Documents:

DDT’s lawyers new plan to delay the trial is Chinese immigrant’s Supreme Court decision of a race-neutral law as precedent to toss charges against DDT.  In Yick v. Hopkins (1866) Lee Yick, convicted of operating an unlicensed laundry in 19^th-century San Francisco, argued racism in denying him a permit. The filing claims federal prosecutors are using unconstitutional “selective prosecution” of DDT with the falsehood that other people are not being prosecuted for the exact same conduct. In the 1990s, justices made this argument extremely difficult to defend, especially if the government has valid reasons for not bringing up any cases that the plaintiff uses. Other people mishandling classified documents didn’t obstruct the government as DDT did, making DDT unique. His appointed judge Aileen Cannon is sure to take weeks for a decision.

Supreme Court:

Anti-MAGA conservative former Judge J. Michael Luttig and others predict that conservative justices will return the case to a lower court, already dismissing the immunity argument, to determine which presidential acts are “official” and which are “private or personal.” Luttig described the argument assumes “all future presidents will act in bad faith.” With appeals, determination of DDT’s “official acts” could postpone his trial for up to a decade.

Biden called DDT’s bluff. At rallies, DDT demanded debates with Biden. Now Biden says okay. And DDT says only on his terms and not when the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) schedules debates.