Feb 7, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, SECOND REICH
House Judiciary Democrats sent a terse letter Friday to newly minted Attorney General Pam Bondi, expressing concerns that Elon Musk’s role at DOGE creates “conflicts of interest” due to what they said are his “sprawling financial...
Feb 7, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, SECOND REICH
The former governor of Illinois, whose corruption conviction sentence Trump commuted, chaired a group called Serbians for Trump in the 2024 election. President Donald Trump is considering nominating former Illinois Gov. (Democrat) Rod Blagojevich, who served eight...
Feb 7, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, MISCELLANEOUS, SECOND REICH
USAID helped fund Melania Trump’s Be Best program and Ivanka Trump’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative during the first Trump term. And each woman traveled with the agency on separate trips to Africa, where they praised the...
Feb 7, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, SECOND REICH
At least 12 people pardoned by President Donald Trump in his first and second terms—including two last week—have since been apprehended by the police. At least 10 people pardoned between 2016 to 2021, and two people pardoned last week, were charged again on new crimes...
Feb 7, 2025 | RUSSIA!, SECOND REICH
The US justice department under Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin. The Guardian
Feb 7, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, RUSSIA!, SECOND REICH
Stern proclamations by U.S. President Donald Trump concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine initially caused trepidation in Moscow, but Trump’s latest actions have transformed the reaction into pure joy over America’s self-destruction as a global superpower. In...
Feb 7, 2025 | MISCELLANEOUS, QUOTES, SECOND REICH
Here’s Paula speaking in...
Feb 6, 2025 | SECOND REICH
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday. NBC
Feb 6, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, SECOND REICH
Ivanka Trump used money from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for recording equipment for a White House event, USAID documents show. NEWSWEEK
Feb 5, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, ECONOMY, SECOND REICH
But what was once thought of as an outside advisory board is now very much inside the federal government and drawing an official salary, so to speak. Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover the agency’s expenses, while the administration...
Feb 5, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, SECOND REICH
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to “read only” access to department payment systems, this is not true. A 25-year-old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges...
Feb 5, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, MISCELLANEOUS, SECOND REICH
Keep in mind that Trump took hundreds of millions of dollars from the Adelsons during both of his campaigns for president. So it is no surprise that Trump has suggested that all Palestinians, people who have lived in in that region for centuries, should be moved...
