Swamp to be drained in 2025. Every Democrat removed from Gov't:
Former President Trump, in remarks prepared for delivery in Florida on Saturday evening, plans to tout his "Schedule F" executive order — and call on Congress to give the
president more power to fire federal employees, according to excerpts obtained by Axios.
The former president's new blitz against federal employees follows a two-part Axios investigative series by Jonathan Swan, "Inside Trump '25," revealing his allies' plans to make the issue a centerpiece if he wins a second term.
Why it matters: By directly raising Schedule F, Trump is amplifying plans from well-funded outside allies to purge career civil service if he gets back into power.
"To drain the swamp, we need to fire the swamp," Trump plans to tell a Turning Point USA event in Tampa, according to the excerpts.
In the speech, Trump will say he wants new presidential powers to "ensure that any bureaucrat who is corrupt, incompetent, or unnecessary can be told: 'You're fired!'"
Between the lines: Schedule F, which was repealed by President Biden on his second day in office, was virtually unknown to the general public. Now, Trump is trying to turn it into a key applause line as speculation rises that he'll announce a 2024 run.
The backstory on Schedule F
Trump signed an executive order in October 2020 which established a new Schedule F employment category for federal employees.
It was rescinded by President Biden shortly after he took office in 2021.
But back in March of 2022, Trump floated the possibility of going after the federal workforce.
"We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States," he said at a rally in South Carolina. "The deep state must and will be brought to heel."
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Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
Coming to American living rooms in Sep: another season of Trump.
If he is not indicted, Trump will declare himself exonerated and treat the entire episode as a triumph. Wags have suggested he might even propose making Jan. 6th a holiday. But short of that, he could call what happened "legitimate political discourse" – the phrase actually used this spring by the Trump-dominated Republican National Committee.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
Trump is like a bad TV show past its prime that the network won't cancel:
....could officially launch at any moment.
Trump's determination to run a 2024
campaign of vengeance rooted in his mountain of misinformation means it could be 2026, at least, before Americans experience a campaign that is not shaped by his inability to accept his legitimate loss nearly two years ago.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
All the people in the crowd waving "Save America" signs reminds me a lot about the joke about Jesus knocking on the door and saying that he's there to save them.
Trump supporter: Trump is going to save America!
Reporter: What is Trump going to save America from?
Trump supporter: He's going to save America from what we will do to it if you don't make Trump president in 2024.
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The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
Watching that clip of Trump a few post up and being reminded of Steven Seagal - another fat, overblown, confabulist, obsessed with his own image who was never as great as he says he was...
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
Frank Zappa
"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
The bloated mountebank apparently doesn't like being called out publicly on one of the many lies he bellows out. I suppose if he's aware of possible negative effects of his suit he has calculated that further instigation of umbrage in his devoted cultists will outweigh them.
Former President Donald Trump has decided to go after CNN in his latest litigation. According to documents sent to the network, Trump is demanding that the network eliminate any mention of the phrase "the big lie" and any implication that he lied about the 2020 election being stolen.
The report comes the day after it was revealed that Trump was likely part of the grand jury's investigation into the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Eliminating the phrases on a news website, however, would not cover up Trump's actions around the election. The letter says that it was sent on July 21, 2022, however.
If Trump were to sue CNN for defamation he would be forced to prove that CNN knowingly lied when they claimed that Trump was lying about the 2020 election. Such a case would also allow the network to request a number of documents and information in the discovery phase from Trump and his office post-presidency.
“I have notified CNN of my intent to file a lawsuit over their repeated defamatory statements against me,” Trump's statement said. “I will also be commencing actions against other media outlets who have defamed me and defrauded the public regarding the overwhelming evidence of fraud throughout the 2020 election.”
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Demanding an elimination of the term "big lie" in a lawsuit, if Trump makes good on the threat, would mean a more frequent use of the term "big lie" in reporting on his demand to stop the use of the term.
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Lawyers are involved, so of course there is some casuistry employed.
Trump's legal team cited the Webster’s Dictionary definition of a “lie,” which is defined as "an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue with intent to deceive." The letter claimed the definition requires the speaker to know he is speaking falsely and argues that in Trump's case, he subjectively believes the 2020 election results "turned on fraudulent voting activity in several key states."
Trump's lawyers also claimed CNN gave "unique treatment" to the former president, characterizing him as a liar, when other public figures, some of whom have been proven to be telling lies, were not referred to as liars by CNN, such as actor Jussie Smollett, former FBI official Andrew McCabe, and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.