Impeachment and removal by Congress was the original check, because the founders never imagined a majority of that body would voluntarily give up its purse power. We're in a undiscovered country now.
The mainstream news mostly ignoring this is making regular folks think this is normal and OK. The nightly news should be airing this horror footage from start to finish, and hammering the admin with hard questions. They are simply not.
They went after Bolton because no one liked him. Then they went after Comey because no one liked him. Then James and now Schiff. Speed-running Niemöller.
@unusualwhales.bsky.social has been posting about suspicious crypto short positions opened minutes before Trump's latest tariff announcement, netting hundreds of millions of dollars. Those bucks have to come from somewhere.
It's always some doofus pointing at a once-in-a-century pandemic where the world had to pump billions into the economy and blaming Biden who wasn't president then.
It's how he's always operated in business. "So sue me."
In "The Art of the Deal" he says his main tactic is: if he wants x, he asks for 10 times x. Even if he fights and gets only half that, he's gotten more than he originally wanted. (Paraphrasing) His whole admin has been the same tactic.
