Thursday Terrible Trump Administration Tabs
It was hard to lead off with the first two links, let alone move into the others, and use a cat picture. I know that the tab-clearing is rarely happy, but these are a bit worse than usual. We start with ICE abuses and slide into various kinds of corruption in the administration. This is as much an “In front of our noses” post as a tab-clearer
- Via the AP: Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked.
- Via the Irish Times: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September.
- Via CBS News: Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump’s 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows.
- Via CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
- Via Politico: Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations.
- Via ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
- Via NBC News: EPA to repeal its own conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the planet and threaten health.
- By David S. Bernstein at Good Politics/Bad Politics: Bunny Hopping.
- From Dan Drezner: The Trouble With Tulsi Gabbard.. and America.
- Performing for an audience of one:
Jimmy Kimmel had a great line about Pam Blondi (sic), “if she were your neighbor, you’d move.”
I know that news stories, like history rhyme, but frankly looking at the a day’s headlines are dogrel.
Trump is the canary in the mine, the exposed reality is the Presidency has accumulated way too much power.
Re Lutnick, saying “Yes, I went too pedophile island, but just for lunch and I brought my wife and kids and some young women with me,” is an admission of null moral character and not an excuse.