The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

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They don't even try to hide the fact ICE ain't no immigration related body anymore but simply a private gestapo army for the MAGA elite ... Unless there's something I don't get explaining why the F should those suckers manage security of Vance in freakin' Italy ?

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‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics

Milan’s mayor says agents’not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itself
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For that matter why is Vance going to the Olympics is the first place? After all, there are no events involving couches scheduled.
 

Last night, Jimmy Kimmel didn't tell jokes. He stood on his stage, looked into the camera, and said plainly what the news anchors are too afraid to whisper."We watched an American executed on video and officials won’t even admit it was a mistake."​


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Turn on the sound
 
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Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown

Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
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Shiftless2 said:
"Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen ..." #2,591
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The following quotations from the United States Constitution:

ARTICLE 2. SECTION 1. 1 The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

ARTICLE 2. SECTION 1. 7 Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:-"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) 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."

ARTICLE 2. SECTION 3. He [the president] ... shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed"

So what?

ARTICLE #14: Ratified July 9, 1868
SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Deporting a U.S. citizen without due process is a violation of the United States Constitution.
It is the sworn duty of the president of the United States to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed".

President Trump has knowingly failed this Constitutional obligation under the guise of enforcing immigration law. "Lock him up !"
 
Shiftless2 said:

Last night, Jimmy Kimmel didn't tell jokes. He stood on his stage, looked into the camera, and said plainly what the news anchors are too afraid to whisper. S2 #2,587​

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from Monday night's broadcast:
“We're less than a month into the new year, and so far this administration has managed to start a war in Minnesota, invade Venezuela, threaten to invade Greenland, pull US out of the World Health Organization, attack our own federal reserve, abandon vaccine science, bring back measles, send healthcare premiums through the roof, and kill two U.S. citizens in cold blood. And he still thinks he got cheated out of a Nobel Peace Prize. I mean if that delusion doesn't trigger the 25thAmendment, what possibly will?”
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live 26/01/26 23rd anniversary broadcast thank you S2 #2,587

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION: ARTICLE #25: Ratified February 10, 1967
SECTION 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Congress' invertebrate Republican caucus is unlikely to fulfill this Constitutional duty without inescapable coercion.

"Optimistic to the point of idiocy" Molly Ivins
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Not those obedient to Trump, but true United States patriots, those faithful to our Constitution might mirror Ivins (above) and hope after the mid-term election congressional reshuffle, Democrats could end this Trump nightmare.
Republicans control both House and Senate by slim majority, so slim, Republican congressional leaders need a few Democrats to support Republican legislative initiative to pass the bill to the president's desk for signature.

An equally slim Democrat majority in either house might seem to help, but with the same need of some support from the opposing party.

This raises the issue of what some inside the Capitol call "the nuclear option". That is, to dispense with the requirement of a super-majority, 60 votes in the Senate.

Leaders of each party understand this legislative "nuclear option" is a two-edged sword. I would make things easier for either party, and advantage neither party wishes to grant their political opponents.
The Constitution specifies "two-thirds vote of both Houses", thus tinkering with the 60 vote majority doesn't help obtain the 67 votes Article #25 requires of this Senate.

corrections / clarifications eagerly solicited

Shiftless2 said:

"We watched an American executed on video and officials won’t even admit it was a mistake." S2 #2,587​

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A deliberate mistake? How much government ammunition did they pump into Pretti?
"The report does not say whether both agents who discharged their weapons struck Pretti with gunfire." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-report-2-agents-fired-weapons-alex-pretti/story?id=129614976
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BUT !
Subsequent reports indicate Both agents were placed on administrative leave, according to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
 

Is the US preparing to strike Iran again?​

Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent

Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump sent a message to Iranians who were protesting against the regime, that "help is on its way".

Since then, there has been a slow, steady and significant build-up of US military forces in the region.

America, which is the world's most powerful military, has already shown it can strike Iran. Last June's operation "Midnight Hammer" targeted its nuclear facilities.

It involved more than 100 aircraft, with B-2 stealth jets flying all the way from the United States to deliver ....

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And back to the story that will not die, at least until they release the files

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BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell drops an Epstein bombshell that could DESTROY Trump’s efforts to bury the truth.

Ghislaine Maxwell may be currently spending her days locked away in a cushy Texas prison, but from behind bars, she just detonated a truth grenade that she hurled straight into the heart of Trump’s favorite cover-up.

Buried inside a desperate habeas petition filed to help get her out of prison, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice casually references “four co-conspirators” and “25 men” who allegedly reached “secret settlements” tied to Epstein’s abuse — and were never indicted. Not questioned. Not charged. Not named. Just quietly protected.

Which raises the question the Trump Justice Department is working overtime to dodge: Who are these men — and why is the DOJ shielding them?

Congress already tried to end this charade. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by Donald Trump himself in November, orders the DOJ to release unclassified Epstein records. No loopholes. No excuses. Mandatory. Yet Pam Bondi’s Justice Department is still slow-walking, redacting, and delaying like it’s hoping the public will look away.

Unfortunately for Bondi and the rest of the complicit Trump Administration, the public interest in the Epstein files refuses to fade away.

Even the most unlikely bipartisan duo — Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna — are livid. They’ve accused the DOJ of defying the law, demanded timelines, and warned that subpoenas are coming. When libertarians and progressives agree that something stinks, it really stinks.

And this isn’t hypothetical. We’ve already seen how the Epstein cover-up system works: settlement, no indictment, silence enforced. Billionaire Leon Black, a Trump ally and former Apollo CEO, paid $62.5 million to settle Epstein-related claims with the U.S. Virgin Islands. No charges. No trial. Just a giant check and a silent exit — despite having paid Epstein roughly $170 million for so-called “financial advice.”

Multiply that by 25 men and suddenly Maxwell’s filing doesn’t look like noise — it looks like a roadmap.

So what does Trump do when Epstein’s name resurfaces? He deflects. Greenland. Venezuela. A White House ballroom. Anything but transparency. Because if the files were harmless, they’d already be public. If the names didn’t matter, nobody would be fighting this hard to keep them hidden.

The law is clear. The silence is not. And every day the DOJ stalls, it makes one thing unmistakable: this isn’t incompetence — it’s protection.

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