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0:00It's hard to keep track of all of
0:01President Trump's criminality,
0:03illegality, and corruption. Donald Trump
0:05took office for the second time already
0:07an adjudicated felon, fraudster, and
0:09sexual assaulter. But this video isn't
0:11about those crimes and offenses. This is
0:14only about what has happened so far in
0:16the last year. Because I'll be honest,
0:19there's so much of it that it's hard to
0:20remember. And I guarantee that you've
0:23already forgotten half of it. So, buckle
0:25up cuz there's going to be a lot. and
0:27programming note. Because of some
0:29questionable acts by the Supreme Court,
0:30if something was illegal or
0:31constitutional at the time Trump did it,
0:33we include it in the list. We start with
0:35January 17th, 2025 because the
0:37corruption of his second term started
0:39just before he took office. On the eve
0:41of his presidency, instead of divesting
0:43himself of his conflict of interest
0:45ridden businesses, Trump launched World
0:47Liberty Financial and a bunch of valless
0:49meme coins. This allowed him to take
0:51bribes, engage in secret deals, and
0:53further enrich himself, all outside of
0:54many of the ordinary financial
0:56regulations. In Trump's first term,
0:58lobbyists, foreign governments, and
0:59Republican organizations curried favor
1:01with Trump by spending money at his
1:03Washington DC hotel. But this time
1:04around, it's likely many individuals
1:06skip the middleman and put money
1:08directly in Trump's pocket by buying the
1:10assets of World Liberty Financial and
1:12its various crypto offerings. Reports
1:14are that using World Liberty Financial,
1:16Trump has enriched himself by as much as
1:18$5 billion while in office. And it gets
1:20worse. We'll come back to that later.
1:22Then we get to January 20th. On Trump's
1:24first day in office, a flurry of
1:26executive orders. Now, I'll remind you,
1:27executive orders are not law, but they
1:29can direct federal agencies to do or not
1:31do things where the executive has
1:32discretion. In some cases, the president
1:34had the power, so to speak, but the acts
1:36were illegal or corrupt. In others, the
1:38president had no such power at all. So,
1:40starting things out on January 20th,
1:42Trump reported to eliminate birthright
1:43citizenship via executive order. This
1:45was a profound constitutional violation,
1:47particularly of the 14th amendment and
1:48due process. Trump shut down asylum
1:50requests at the border, claiming that it
1:52was an invasion. This violated the INA
1:54and several other immigration related
1:55statutes, as well as a takeare clause
1:57and separation of powers since Congress
1:58had already created laws on this topic.
2:00Trump reported to rename the Gulf of
2:01Mexico. Mexico sued claiming that he
2:03didn't have the power to rename an
2:04entire body of water, just a part in US
2:06territories. separate from the executive
2:08orders on January 20th, Trump pardoned
2:10the January 6th insurrectionist who had
2:12been criminally convicted by juries.
2:14Now, this may technically have been
2:15legal since the president can pardon
2:17people, but as I explained at the time,
2:19it shouldn't be. And dozens of these
2:20people had prior convictions or pending
2:22charges for crimes like rape, sexual
2:23abuse of a minor, domestic violence,
2:25manslaughter, production of child sexual
2:27abuse material, and drug trafficking.
2:28The Trump administration continues to
2:30intervene on behalf of the January 6th
2:31defendants and force pardoning these
2:33traitors not only undermines the rule of
2:35law with respect to election integrity,
2:37but sends a message that if you commit a
2:39crime, but you're on the president's
2:40team, that you'll simply not be subject
2:42to the same rules and laws as everybody
2:44else. But back to the executive orders
2:46on January 20th, Trump terminated
2:48federal employee telework agreements,
2:49contrary to union agreements. Trump
2:51unilaterally withdrew from the World
2:53Health Organization, which violated
2:54international law. Trump sent the
2:56military to seal the borders. This was a
2:58violation of posyic commitatus, which
3:00bars military engagement in civilian law
3:02enforcement activities. Trump reinstated
3:03the so-called schedule F without going
3:05through any notice and comment process,
3:06potentially firing federal employees
3:08without going through the usual merit
3:10system protection process, a violation
3:11of the APA and civil service
3:13protections. Trump pulled security
3:15clearances from John Bolton and 50 other
3:17intelligence officials. This was an
3:19unlawful first amendment retaliation and
3:20a violation of the APA and other federal
3:22regulations regarding security
3:23clearances. Trump unilaterally froze
3:25hiring in the government without any
3:27congressional authorization. Trump
3:29appointed Ed Martin to be the interim US
3:31attorney for the District of Columbia.
3:32Martin was entirely unqualified for the
3:34role. His only qualification was that he
3:35had promoted Trump's baseless stolen
3:37election claims. Martin went on to fire
3:39more than two dozen prosecutors who had
3:40worked on the January 6th prosecution or
3:42the criminal investigation of Donald
3:43Trump, which was plainly retaliatory.
3:46Trump unilaterally paused the Tik Tok
3:48ban that had been passed by Congress and
3:49signed into law. Last time I checked,
3:51the president doesn't get to decide
3:52which laws to implement and which not
3:54to. Trump declared a legally dubious
3:55emergency at the southern border so he
3:57and Steven Miller could carry out the
3:58plans to deport people on mass. This
4:00exceeded his legal authority and set the
4:02stage for a host of other legal
4:03violations. Trump rolled back a variety
4:06of energy related regulations with no
4:07process in violation of the APA. He also
4:09froze all congressional funding to
4:11alternative energy projects in violation
4:13of the empoundments clause. Trump
4:15suspended the entry of refugees into the
4:17country in violation of the provisions
4:18of the Immigration and Nationality Act
4:20and Associated Regulations. Going back
4:22to his greatest hits, Trump directed the
4:24construction of a border wall without
4:25congressional approval. This violated
4:27separation of powers and the spending
4:28clause. He terminated parole programs
4:30that had allowed immigrants to enter the
4:31country in special circumstances without
4:33congressional authorization or APA
4:35rulemaking. Trump reestablished the
4:37federal death penalty via executive
4:39order. He also directed the
4:40reconsideration of President Biden's
4:42grants of clemency, which is not a thing
4:44that you can do. Stick with me because
4:46we're only about halfway through the
4:47first day of the presidency on January
4:4920th. Continuing on that day, Trump
4:51issued a memo making it easier for him
4:53to fire senior non-political leaders at
4:55government agencies. This was an effort
4:57to prioritize loyalty and filty in
4:59violation of civil service protections
5:00and probably the First Amendment. Trump
5:02declared an energy emergency to get
5:03around regulations and laws. He even
5:05encouraged agencies to potentially use
5:06the Defense Production Act to do this.
5:08Trump shut down wind energy projects
5:10with no administrative process. Trump
5:12froze hundreds of billions of dollars in
5:14foreign aid. This was a violation of the
5:15empoundment control act spending clause
5:17and separation of powers. Trump directed
5:19construction of detention centers
5:20without congressional authorization.
5:22That was also a violation of the
5:23spending clause. And he unilaterally
5:25paused funding for immigration related
5:26services and organizations which
5:28violated those organizations due process
5:30rights, separation powers, and the and
5:32again the empowerment control act and
5:33spending clause. Trump issued an
5:35executive order that authorized a travel
5:36ban without specifying which countries
5:38would be banned. And of course, Trump
5:40created or repurposed Doge, headed up by
5:42Elon Musk, who had reams of conflicts of
5:45interest. Doge worked to illegally fire
5:47federal workers in violation of civil
5:48service protections. Doge also illegally
5:50access sensitive personal data of
5:52millions of Americans, created
5:53unauthorized information systems,
5:55illegally combined federal databases,
5:57and just generally created chaos. And at
5:59the end of the day, contrary to the
6:00public releases, save the government and
6:02taxpayers virtually no money. Trump
6:04issued an executive order that strictly
6:06defined sex and gender. The executive
6:08order required federal workers to
6:09genulect to that definition, possibly in
6:11violation of their First Amendment
6:12rights. He unilaterally changed the
6:13rules around gender designation on
6:15passports, uh, possible violation of the
6:17APA and also potentially violating due
6:19process rights, especially for trans
6:21individuals. The order also froze
6:23funding for a variety of entities that
6:24Trump claimed were promoting the vaguely
6:26defined gender ideology, which punished
6:28First Amendment protected speech and
6:30obviously was a usurppation of
6:32Congress's spending powers and an
6:33unlawful empoundment. Trump froze
6:35vaguely defined DEI related contracts,
6:38another unlawful empoundment. He also
6:40liquidated federal DEI offices, yanked
6:42federal grants related to DEI, uh,
6:45another unlawful empoundment, violation
6:47of the separation of powers, and first
6:48amendment violation. Trump laid the
6:50groundwork to invoke the alien enemies
6:51act against cartels like trend aragua
6:54likely ultravirus because the act never
6:56contemplates the designation of
6:58non-state actors and criminal
6:59enterprises. Trump later used his
7:00designation to deny people basic due
7:02process rights and violate the processes
7:04of the immigration and nationality act.
7:06Trump jawowned or encouraged in the way
7:08that the mafia encourages the end of DEI
7:10practices in private companies again
7:12violating the first amendment rights of
7:13private companies. And rounding out his
7:15first day in office, Trump granted
7:17clemency to two DC police officers who
7:19had been convicted for unlawfully
7:20pursuing a black scooter rider, killing
7:22him, then trying to cover up the crime.
7:24Of course, Trump has pardon power, so
7:26this one probably wasn't illegal, per
7:27se, but it was still gross and negated a
7:30legitimate jury finding. That takes us
7:32to the second day in office, January
7:3321st. On that day, Trump set aside a
7:36lawful verdict and issued a full pardon
7:37to Silk Road Darknet Marketplace creator
7:40Ross Albrech. He was the first of many
7:41highlevel business people to be granted
7:43pardons or clemency by Trump, especially
7:45those who paid lip service to Trump or
7:47his candidacy. Trump would go on to
7:49pardon Binance CEO Changpang Xho, Nicola
7:52Corporation founder Trevor Milton, and
7:53BitX founders Arthur Hayes, Beno, and
7:56Sam Reed, among others, many of whom
7:58contributed directly to candidate Trump
8:00uh andor had conflicts of interest with
8:03Trump's businesses. The message was
8:04clear. If you were rich, well-connected,
8:06and corrupt enough, even criminal
8:08convictions could be made to disappear.
8:10On January 23rd, Trump issued another 24
8:13full pardons for individuals convicted
8:14of threatening or obstructing people who
8:16were trying to obtain or provide
8:18reproductive health services. This
8:19overturned lawful jury verdicts and
8:21undermined federal law, like the pardons
8:23for the January 6th writers and the
8:25murderous police officers. Uh, this
8:27undermined the rule of law and making it
8:28clear that the only laws that mattered
8:30are the ones that Trump agrees with. On
8:31January 23rd, Trump's people hamfistedly
8:34declassified and published records
8:35related to the JFK assassination, which
8:37included social security numbers and
8:38other personally identifiable
8:39information of several people in
8:41violation of privacy laws. Also on
8:42January 23rd, Doge set up an illegal
8:44unauthorized, possibly unsecured server
8:46to email all government employees on
8:48mass, which violated the egovernment act
8:50and lots of government security
8:52regulations and policies. On January
8:5424th, Trump fired 17 inspectors general.
8:56You know, the people looking for
8:57corruption, likely in violation of laws
8:59that created their offices and
9:01theoretically a violation of separation
9:02of powers. On January 27th, Trump kicked
9:05trans troops out of the military. This
9:07likely violated the First Amendment due
9:08process and equal protection rights of
9:10those troops. It also likely violated
9:11the APA as arbitrary and capriccious. On
9:13January 28th, Trump's Doge used the
9:15previously discussed illegal OPM server,
9:17giving them the aonomous fork in the
9:19road offer. Union sued claiming the
9:20offer violated numerous laws including
9:22civil service protection, separation of
9:24powers, and the anti-deficiency act. On
9:25January 28th, Trump defunded research
9:27into gender affirming care for minors.
9:29And while I disagree with the Supreme
9:30Court and think this is a due process
9:32and equal protection violation, it
9:34definitely was an illegal empoundment of
9:35congressional funds. On January 29th,
9:38Trump tried to keep teachers and schools
9:39from discussing a long list of ideas,
9:41concepts, and terms, violating their
9:43First Amendment due process rights. He
9:45pulled federal funds from schools that
9:46didn't comply, violating the spending
9:48clause, empowerment control act, and the
9:50first amendment. On January 31st, Trump
9:52worked to systematically destroy
9:53collective bargaining agreements for
9:54federal employees. This violated
9:56statutory collective bargaining rights
9:58and exceeded legal authority and
9:59violated the APA. Now, 200 news outlets
10:01reported on the terrorist organization
10:03designation, but depending on the
10:04sources you follow, it's hard to tell if
10:05they were even talking about the same
10:07event. When you scroll down to see how
10:08the story is being covered by every
10:09outlet, the frames can have a subtle
10:10difference that make a huge impact. The
10:12bulk of the reporting from the center
10:13got it right. Cartel Deas Solas is not a
10:15real drug cartel, implying the legality
10:17concerns about the designation. In
10:19contrast, reporting from the right
10:20acknowledged that the designation was an
10:22allegation, but then focused on what
10:23might come next, implying legal
10:25validity. And on the left, headlines
10:26commonly use the future tense, implying
10:28that the designation hasn't happened
10:29yet, and thus legal questions remain
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11:47let's get back to February of this year.
11:48On February 1st, Trump issued his first
11:50executive orders on tariffs against
11:52Mexico, Canada, and China. These would
11:54be the first of many. He has continued
11:56to go back and forth on tariffs ever
11:58since. Trump's tariffs violated a number
12:00of international treaties, including the
12:02USMCA, which he himself negotiated, the
12:04newer version of NAFTA. It violated
12:07constitutional separation of powers, the
12:08APA, and also exceeded his legal
12:10authority. On February 5th, Trump issued
12:12an executive order excluding trans women
12:14from women's sports and pulling funding
12:15from schools that did not comply. On
12:17that same day, Pam Bonnie was sworn in
12:19as Trump's attorney general. Uh she
12:21wasted no time and issued a flurry of
12:22memos, including one that would roll
12:24back enforcement of the Foreign Agents
12:25Registration Act or FAR, a lawfully
12:28passed congressional act. Again, the
12:29president cannot choose just not to
12:31enforce certain laws, which violates the
12:33Take Care clause. On February 6th, Trump
12:35directed agencies to pull funding from
12:37NOS's that he didn't like. Trump also
12:39threatened financial and travel
12:40penalties against anyone involved in the
12:42International Criminal Court
12:43investigations into US citizens. On
12:45February 10th, Trump pardoned disgraced
12:47former Illinois Governor Rod Blgoyovich.
12:49Bgoyovich had been lawfully convicted of
12:51corruption. This was the first of many
12:53corrupt politicians that Trump would
12:54pardon. Trump also eliminated the
12:56Federal Executive Institute without
12:57congressional authorization. And Trump
12:59unilaterally paused enforcement of the
13:00Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, an
13:02anti-bribery law that prohibits
13:03companies and individuals from paying
13:05foreign officials to gain business
13:06advantages. And it's super weird how the
13:08Trump administration just chose not to
13:10enforce myriad different corruption laws
13:12and seemingly only corruption laws. And
13:15also on February 10th, Trump imposed a
13:1725% tariff on steel. Like his other
13:19tariffs, he does not have this
13:21authority. On February 11th, Trump
13:23started broad unjustified firings across
13:25the government. He gave Doge authority
13:26to fire and said that new hires could
13:28only be brought on with Doge approval.
13:30This violated the Empowerment Control
13:31Act, spending clauses and plenty of
13:33union agreements and civil service
13:34protections. On that same day, in
13:36retaliation for the media company's
13:37refusal to use the ridiculous Gulf of
13:39America title, Trump banned the
13:40Associated Press from the White House
13:42press pool. This violated their first
13:43amendment rights. Trump also imposed a
13:45unilateral 25% tariff on aluminum. On
13:48February 13th, Trump's OMB directed
13:50agencies to draw up plans to start
13:51firing federal employees on mass, laying
13:54off entire departments, and
13:55strongarmming remaining employees to
13:56leave. This violated civil service
13:58protections, but it also didn't matter
13:59because at the same time, he also pushed
14:01out the heads of the independent
14:02agencies, the merit systems protection
14:04board, and office of special counsel who
14:06would have been able to adjudicate those
14:07employees claims. The Supreme Court has
14:09now likely countenanced all of this
14:10activity, but at the time it violated
14:13existing law. On February 13th, Trump
14:15pushed out Danielle Sassoon, acting US
14:17attorney for the Southern District of
14:18New York, and Assistant US Attorney
14:20Hagen Scotton, as well as several others
14:21because they refused to drop bribery
14:23charges against New York City Mayor Eric
14:25Adams. Trump replaced them with someone
14:27more agreeably corrupt, and in April,
14:28the charges against Adams were dropped.
14:30It was clear that in exchange for this
14:32mercy, Adams agreed to cooperate with
14:33Trump's ICE enforcers. On February 15th,
14:36Trump ordered his Department of
14:37Education to begin investigating how to
14:39pull funds from schools with COVID
14:40vaccine mandates. This would potentially
14:42be a violation of the 10th Amendment,
14:43the Empowerment Control Act, and
14:44separation of powers. On February 18th,
14:46Trump seized control of all agencies,
14:48including independent agencies, forcing
14:50them to conform with his and Pam
14:51Bonnie's interpretation of law. On
14:53February 18th, Trump's DOJ stopped
14:55defending EPA rules that the agency knew
14:56would save lives. This was likely
14:58arbitrary and capriccious. On February
15:0019th, Trump froze funding for sanctuary
15:02jurisdictions and any grants that give
15:04aid to undocumented immigrants, a
15:06violation of the spending clause and
15:08empowerment. On February 19th, Trump
15:10shuttered entire agencies, including the
15:11Institute of Peace with a stroke of the
15:13pen. This violated the spending clause,
15:15separation of powers, and the
15:16empowerment control act, and likely
15:17exceeded the president's authority. On
15:19February 25th, Trump went on a revenge
15:21tour against law firms that he felt had
15:23wronged him, pulling their security
15:24clearances, and trying to pull their
15:25government contracts. This was
15:27retaliation for first amendment
15:28protected speech as well as a due
15:30process violation. On February 26th,
15:32Trump directed all federal agencies to
15:34review grants, contracts, and loans and
15:36began freezing anything Doge deemed as
15:38inefficient. On March 1st, Trump opened
15:40up federal lands for timber harvesting
15:42and contravention of environmental laws
15:43in the APA. On March 5th, Trump's DOJ
15:46appointees began more aggressively
15:47investigating the University of
15:48California system for supposed
15:50anti-semitism. and the administration
15:52began threatening grants and funding,
15:53often retaliation for First Amendment
15:55protected speech. On March 6th, Trump
15:58continued his revenge tour against enemy
15:59law firms, yanking clearances in
16:01government contracts. Again, this was in
16:02retaliation for First Amendment
16:03protected speech. It was a due process
16:05violation. On March 7th, Trump made it
16:07more difficult for employees in public
16:09interest fields to get student loan
16:10forgiveness. The government had promised
16:12them, a violation of their due process
16:14and first amendment rights. On March
16:157th, Trump DOJ leadership terminated
16:17pardon attorney Liz Oyer because she
16:19recommended against restoring gun rights
16:21to actor Mel Gibson. This was
16:23retaliatory in violation of civil
16:24service protections. On March 8th,
16:26Trump's DHS abducted and detained green
16:28card holder Mammud Khalil in retaliation
16:30for his first amendment protected speech
16:32regarding the Israel Palestine conflict.
16:34This was part of a larger pattern of
16:35detentions and illegal retaliation
16:36against student protesters, including
16:38Romea Ozurk and numerous others. On
16:41March 11th, Trump largely stripped
16:42authority from the public integrity unit
16:44of DOJ, making it impossible to
16:46prosecute corruption crimes, which is
16:47pretty convenient for him and his
16:48friends because it cleared the way for a
16:49lot more illegal acts. It was also
16:51probably a violation of the empoundments
16:53act. Also on March 11th, in a signal
16:54chat with Atlantic editor Jeffrey
16:56Goldberg, Secretary of Defense Pete
16:58Hegsath shared confidential and even
17:00classified information about impending
17:02military actions. Hexath apparently
17:03accidentally added Goldberg to the
17:05Signal chat with pretty much every other
17:06US national security leader. Holding
17:08these conversations over Signal, even
17:10without a journalist present, was a
17:11violation of federal records laws, the
17:13Espionage Act, and probably several
17:14other national security related laws. It
17:16was also really dumb, and no one has
17:18been punished for this act. On March
17:1911th, Trump pardoned former Republican
17:21Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelce, who
17:23had been found guilty of violating
17:25campaign finance laws. This set aside a
17:27lawful criminal conviction. On March
17:2914th, Trump managed to push out another
17:31assistant US attorney. This time it was
17:32Shawn Murphy who had prosecuted the
17:34January 6th insurrectionist. Murphy
17:36issued a resignation letter reminding
17:37his colleagues that quote, "You serve no
17:39man." Murphy reported that after Trump
17:41pardoned the insurrectionist, they had
17:43threatened and harassed Murphy. Also on
17:45March 14th, Trump continued his revenge
17:47against law firms, this time against
17:48firm Paul Weiss. Again, this was still
17:50super legal because it was retaliation
17:52against First Amendment Protected
17:53Activity. The same day, Trump
17:54unilaterally shuttered even more federal
17:56agencies. Again, a violation of the
17:58spending clause, separation powers, and
18:00the Empowerment Control Act. Trump began
18:02his campaign to coers universities into
18:03doing his bidding. First, he hit
18:05Columbia University with a list of
18:06demands and a threat that funding would
18:08be pulled. Later, he moved on to
18:10Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and a
18:11long list of others. This violated their
18:13First Amendment rights, succeeded the
18:14president's authority, and violated the
18:15spending clause, often because Trump
18:17tied compliance with funding. On
18:19February 15th, Trump invoked the Alien
18:21Enemies Act to go after a Venezuelan
18:23gang, Tren dear. This exceeded his
18:25authority in the language of the
18:26statute. Trump also used his designation
18:28to deny people basic due process rights
18:30and violated the Immigration and
18:31Nationality Act. On March 15th, Trump's
18:34ICE agents detained Kilmargo Garcia and
18:36shipped him off to a torture prison in
18:38El Salvador along with plane loads of
18:40other people who had never been given
18:41any due process rights. This violated
18:43the Immigration and Nationality Act, due
18:45process and international laws against
18:47torture. When federal judge Jeb
18:49Booseberg demanded that the Trump
18:50administration bring Abrego Garcia back
18:52and give him some due process, Trump's
18:54agencies openly flouted the law and the
18:56ruling. Booseberg then found probable
18:58cause and held the Trump administration
19:00in contempt for violating his orders.
19:02These contempt proceedings are still
19:03going on. On March 18th, Trump continued
19:05his war on independent offices, firing
19:07two FTC commissioners, violating the FTC
19:09Act and the Separation of Powers, though
19:11the Supreme Court now disagrees. On
19:12March 19th, Trump continued his war
19:14against the vaguely defined DEI. this
19:16time banning any words or ideas he liked
19:18from foreign service. This is likely a
19:20First Amendment violation. On March
19:2120th, Trump unilaterally shuttered the
19:23Department of Education. This was a
19:24major violation of the spending clause,
19:26Separation Powers, the Empowerment
19:27Control Act, and exceeded the
19:28president's authority. On March 20th,
19:30Trump proposed suitability regulations
19:32for federal employees that would allow
19:33the government to fire or not hire
19:34employees for vague reasons. In
19:36practice, this has turned into a loyalty
19:38test to the president, which violates
19:40the First Amendment due process and
19:42civil service protections. On March
19:4320th, Trump commanded agencies to
19:45combine vast databases full of sensitive
19:46personal information and demolish legal
19:48protections that safeguard privacy. On
19:50March 21st, Trump began shutting down
19:52civil rights and civil liberties
19:53oversightes offices at DHS. On March
19:5522nd, Trump continued his revenge
19:57against his political enemies by pulling
19:59security clearances from Joe Biden, Kla
20:01Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Chening,
20:04and a long list of others. As usual,
20:05this was retaliation for their First
20:07Amendment rights. On March 22nd, more
20:09revenge. Trump told his attorney general
20:11to pursue sanctions against lawyers or
20:13firms that were mean to him. Not up
20:14another violation of the First Amendment
20:16and due process. On March 24th, more
20:18tariffs. Trump instituted a 25% tariff
20:21on any country that traded for
20:22Venezuelan oil. This is the same
20:24violation as the last ones. On March
20:2625th, Trump attempted to seize broad
20:28control over elections, changing voter
20:30registration requirements and forms
20:31despite the fact that he actually has no
20:33authority over state elections. He once
20:35again threatened to pull federal funds
20:36from any state that dared defy him. On
20:38March 25th, Trump's administration
20:40changed a rule regarding unaccompanied
20:41minors with no notice and comment
20:43rulemaking process, making it more
20:44difficult for unaccompanied minors get
20:46sponsored and leave detention
20:47facilities. On March 25th and 27th, more
20:50revenge, this time against law firms
20:52Jenner and Block and Wilmer Hail,
20:54different law firms, same legal
20:55violations by Trump. On March 26th,
20:58Trump pardoned Hunter Biden associate
20:59and fraudster Deon Archer, overturning a
21:02lawful criminal conviction for yet
21:03another corrupt figure, one who cast
21:05dispersions against the Bidens. On March
21:0727th, Trump tried to rewrite history,
21:09strongarmming the Smithsonian, National
21:11Parks, and other public institutions to
21:13ignore the uglier parts of American
21:14history and instead focus exclusively on
21:16American greatness. This probably
21:17violates the First Amendment rights of
21:19the park rangers and employees of the
21:20museums, who are no longer allowed to
21:22tell the truth about the gruesomeness of
21:23slavery, the injustice of Japanese
21:25internment camps, or any other of the
21:27worst parts of American history. On
21:29March 27th, Trump shredded union
21:30agreements and barred employees from
21:32collective bargaining. On March 30th, in
21:34public interviews, Trump begins refusing
21:35to rule out running for a third term,
21:37despite the fact that it would be
21:38blatantly unconstitutional. He'll
21:40continue to flirt with this over the
21:42coming months. On April 2nd, Trump set
21:44more tariffs, lots and lots of legal
21:46tariffs for pretty much every single
21:47country in the world. As usual, the
21:49president doesn't have the power to set
21:50tariffs, and it violated the separation
21:52of powers, the laws regarding tariffs,
21:55and uncountable international treaties.
21:57On April 3rd, Alina Haba, Trump's acting
21:59US attorney for New Jersey, asked to
22:01dismiss a case against two American
22:02executives charged with authorizing $2
22:04million in bribes to obtain a
22:06construction permit in India. This
22:08ignores the Foreign Corrupt Practices
22:09Act, which is in keeping with Trump's
22:10disdain for that law. And it turns out
22:12that Hoba was illegally appointed to
22:14that position. On April 4th, Trump once
22:16again unilaterally set aside the law
22:18that Congress passed, barring Tik Tok,
22:20still a violation. On April 6th, Trump's
22:22DOJ fired career attorney Arezz Ruveni
22:25after he refused to lie for the
22:26administration in court over its
22:27treatment of Kilbar and Grego Garcia. On
22:29April 8th, Trump tried to unilaterally
22:31negate state environmental laws,
22:33threatening to sue states and preempt
22:34their laws and withhold federal energy
22:36funding from those that don't back down.
22:37On April 8th, Trump unilaterally
22:39deregulated coal and explored coal
22:41mining on federal lands in violation of
22:43existing laws in the APA. On April 9th,
22:45Trump went after law firm Susman
22:47Godfrey, another enemy law firm, and
22:49Chris Krebs, who dared to contradict
22:50Trump's madeup election fraud claims, as
22:52well as former Trump administration
22:54employee Miles Tyler. This was just as
22:56illegal as all the other times he tried
22:57to do this. On April 10th, the BBC
22:59reported that the Trump administration
23:00had revoked hundreds of foreign student
23:02visas over First Amendment protected
23:04activity, which is unlawful retaliation
23:06under the Constitution. On April 11th,
23:08Trump sent the military to the southern
23:09border, possibly in violation of posy
23:11comatatus. On April 16th, Trump
23:13threatened to weaponize the IRS to
23:14revoke Harvard's taxexempt status, a
23:17violation of federal tax law and due
23:19process and exceeded the president's
23:20authority. On April 17th, Trump reopened
23:22parts of a marine national monument to
23:24commercial fishing in potential
23:26violation of several environmental laws
23:27in the APA. On April 23rd, Trump
23:29demanded that the Secretary of Education
23:31and Attorney General go after higher
23:32education creditors who promote DEI
23:35goals. This is again a violation of the
23:37First Amendment and due process. On
23:39April 24th, Trump pushed the federal
23:41government to more aggressively explore,
23:42permit, and develop deep sea and seabed
23:44mineral resources both off the US coast
23:46and potentially in areas beyond national
23:48jurisdiction. On April 24th, Trump
23:50singled out Act Blue, a Democratic
23:51fundraising platform, by name in an
23:53executive order calling for the attorney
23:54general to go after straw donors. Trump
23:57has gone after ACT Blue several times,
23:58which is likely retaliation for first
24:00amendment speech, viewpoint
24:01discrimination, and violations of the
24:03due process and equal protection
24:04clauses. On April 24th, Trump
24:06unilaterally repealed several civil
24:08service rules related to probationary
24:10periods. On April 25th, the Trump
24:12administration arrested Milwaukee Judge
24:13Hannah Dugan because she led a criminal
24:15defendant out the back door instead of
24:16out the front door, which led him to a
24:18hallway that took him right back to the
24:20main hallway where ICE picked him up. On
24:23April 25th, under the direction of
24:24Trump's Doge, Americanore tried to
24:26cancel $400 million in grants with no
24:29process. On April 28th, Trump yanked
24:31funds for sanctuary cities, a violation
24:33of the spending clause and empowerment
24:34control act. On May 1st, Trump
24:36unilaterally pulled federal funding from
24:37NPR and PBS. On May 9th, Trump tried to
24:40rescend water pressure regulations
24:41without going through any of the
24:42required notice and rulemaking. On May
24:4419th, the Trump administration announced
24:46plans to begin weaponizing the False
24:47Claims Act to claim that DEI spending
24:50was somehow a criminal waste of tax
24:52dollars. On May 21st, Trump's Justice
24:54Department abanded its consent decree
24:56with Minneapolis that was meant to
24:57address racially discriminatory
24:58policing. The DOJ refused to stand by
25:01the factual findings about police abuses
25:02in Minneapolis and five other cities,
25:05retracting them from the record and
25:06potentially allowing discrimination and
25:08police violence to continue without
25:09accountability. On May 21st, another
25:11federal judge found that the Trump
25:12administration had violated a court
25:13order by deporting immigrants to third
25:15party countries without giving them due
25:17process. US District Judge Brian Murphy
25:19declared that quote, "The department's
25:21actions in this case are unquestionably
25:23violative of this court's order." On May
25:2421st, Trump accepted a $400 million jet
25:27as a gift from Cutter, which he is ear
25:30to use after he leaves office, which
25:32sure sounds like a law-breaking bribe.
25:34On May 23rd, Trump rewarded the people
25:36who made the biggest bribes, I mean,
25:37investments in his meme coin with a
25:40lavish dinner at Mara Lago. It was
25:42originally supposed to be at the White
25:43House and promised a personal visit from
25:45the president, just more corruption and
25:47ethics law violations. On May 28th,
25:49Trump pardoned a few more corrupt former
25:51politicians. This time, it was Michael
25:53Grim from New York, who had been
25:54convicted of felony tax fraud, and John
25:56Roland from Connecticut, who had also
25:58been convicted of corruption. On June
26:004th, Trump unilaterally created a travel
26:02ban for nine countries. Also, on June
26:044th, Trump just shut down foreign
26:06student visas. Often the denials were
26:08tied to pro Palestinian speech, which is
26:10first amendment protected activity. On
26:12June 7th, Trump illegally mobilized the
26:14National Guard to help ICE in its
26:15immigration enforcement actions. He
26:17started in California in June, moved to
26:20DC in August, then Memphis, Chicago,
26:22Portland, and North Carolina. This
26:24violated the Posi Commamatus Act,
26:25exceeded the president's authority under
26:27section 12406, and violated the 10th
26:29amendment. Trump made the deployment in
26:31California doubly illegal by also
26:32deploying the active Marines. On June
26:3513th, Trump's law enforcement agents
26:36dragged California Senator Alex Padilla
26:38out of a press conference. Also on June
26:4114th, Trump threw himself a very
26:42expensive birthday party, $25 to $40
26:44million expensive. And that was$25 to
26:46$40 million that Congress never
26:47allocated for that purpose. On June
26:4917th, Trump's law enforcement agents
26:51continued their assault on Democratic
26:52legislators and politicians, arresting
26:54Brad Lander, the New York City
26:55comproller at a protest in violation of
26:57his First Amendment rights. The
26:58administration would go on to arrest
27:00pastors, judges, and pretty much anyone
27:02else who objected to ISIS's increasingly
27:03aggressive tactics. On June 19th, Trump
27:06continued to delay faithfully carrying
27:07out Congress's Tik Tok ban. Same action,
27:09same violations. On July 9th, Trump's
27:11DOJ subpoenaed more than 20 doctors and
27:13hospitals that provide gender related
27:15care to minors. The subpoenas likely
27:17violated privacy laws by demanding
27:18patient information. On July 11th,
27:20Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi,
27:22fired another 20 prosecutors and support
27:24staff who worked with Jack Smith to
27:25investigate Trump. This was clearly
27:27retaliatory and violated civil service
27:29laws. On July 17th, Trump unilaterally
27:31amended civil service regulations with
27:33no notice in common rulemaking, making
27:34it easier to fire federal employees for
27:37not genulecting to him. On July 17th,
27:39Senator Rob Widen publicly accused Trump
27:41of refusing to enforce the law and
27:43investigate Epstein's financial ties.
27:45Trump denied this, but killed the
27:46financial investigation and mysteriously
27:48continued to withhold the Epstein files.
27:50Under fire for handling of the Epstein
27:52case, Pam Bonnie has now reversed course
27:53on investigating the banks. On July
27:5517th, Trump fired James Comey's
27:57daughter, Moren Comey. This was an
27:59obviously retaliatory and politically
28:00motivated act. She later sued, claiming
28:02this was both unlawful and
28:03unconstitutional. On July 23rd, Trump's
28:06director of national intelligence, Tulsi
28:07Gabbard, accused former President Obama
28:09of treason. This had no legal backing
28:11whatsoever and would be a retaliatory
28:12potential prosecution of a political
28:14enemy. On July 24th, Trump ordered the
28:17clearing of homeless camps and
28:18conditioned federal funding on cities
28:20doing his bidding to institutionalize
28:22and clear people. This violated states
28:23rights in the 10th amendment. Civil
28:25commitment procedures and local public
28:26safety laws are primarily governed by
28:28the state, not federal law. The federal
28:30government cannot compel states to
28:31expand their laws or amend their
28:32specific criteria for involuntary
28:34treatment. On July 30th, despite or
28:36maybe because of his prior unethical and
28:37corrupt actions, Emil Boie, Trump's pick
28:40for an appeals court judicial position,
28:41is confirmed. Boie had defended Trump in
28:44three criminal trials and had reportedly
28:45told his employees to disregard court
28:47orders. On July 30th, Trump continued to
28:49monkey with tariffs, eliminating
28:50dimminimous duty-free provisions without
28:52congressional approval. On July 31st,
28:54Trump continued to mess around with
28:56tariff rates that he was not allowed to
28:58institute in the first place. Still
29:00legal for all the reasons that we
29:01previously said. On April 6th, the
29:03bribes continue. This time it was a
29:04plaque from Apple with a 24 karat gold
29:07case. This joined a long list of other
29:09golden bribes, including a world boxing
29:11championship belt from Zilinski, a
29:13golden pager from Netanyahu, and a
29:15golden helmet from Japanese Prime
29:16Minister Sheibba, a portrait from Putin,
29:18and a gold crown from South Korean
29:20President Lee, and of course, the Qatari
29:22jet. For ethics related reasons, no
29:24ordinary government employee could
29:25accept any of these gifts, but the
29:27jury's out on ethics rules and emolments
29:28to the president. On August 11th, Trump
29:30tried to take over the DC police
29:32department. The court quickly struck
29:33that down because it was a violation of
29:35the Home Rule Act and exceeded his
29:36presidential power. On August 14th,
29:38Trump's Border Patrol chief, Greg
29:40Bevino, showed up with a group of
29:42well-armed Border Patrol agents outside
29:43of Governor Nuome's rally in what LA
29:45Mayor Karen Bass called a provocative
29:47act, and lawyers might call retaliation
29:48or intimidation that chills First
29:50Amendment protected speech. On August
29:5227th, in what is likely a politically
29:54motivated investigation, Trump's FBI
29:56searched John Bolton's house. On August
29:5825th, Trump tried to make it illegal to
30:00burn the American flag. Too bad the
30:01Supreme Court has already ruled on this
30:02and prosecuting it would be a First
30:04Amendment violation. On August 25th,
30:06Trump tried to fire Lisa Cook from the
30:08Federal Reserve Board. The
30:09administration falsely accused her of
30:10mortgage fraud to try and come up with a
30:12four-caused firing. On August 28th,
30:14Trump continued his vendetta against
30:16federal unions, barring more employees
30:17from collective bargaining. On September
30:192nd, Trump ordered the killing of 11
30:21people in a boat off the coast of
30:22Venezuela. He claimed they were drug
30:24dealers, but there was never a trial or
30:26any kind of due process, nor any kind of
30:28congressional authorization, which is a
30:30massive constitutional violation, and
30:32also murder. On September 8th, the
30:34Supreme Court signs off on racial
30:35profiling by ICE in the shadow docket,
30:37which sets the stage for ICE to continue
30:39using what are colloquially called
30:41Kavanaaugh stops, where ICE detains US
30:44citizens without probable cause.
30:45Generally, these are stops based on a
30:47person's race or use of the Spanish
30:48language. The Supreme Court has not yet
30:50weighed in on the merits of this
30:52decision and it is likely a due process
30:54violation and a violation of the Fourth
30:56Amendment. On September 15th, Trump
30:58launched a campaign to pressure networks
30:59to cancel comedians and commentators and
31:02commanded FCC chairman Brennan Carr to
31:03job them. Beginning with Jimmy Kimmel
31:05and later moving on to Al Sharpton,
31:07clearly retaliation for First Amendment
31:09speech. On September 15th, Trump decided
31:11to send the National Guard into Memphis.
31:13Though the governor approved this would
31:14still likely be a violation of posy
31:16comatatus. A state court judge found
31:18that the deployment violated the
31:19Tennessee Constitution. On September
31:2119th, Trump added an illegal and
31:22unjustified $100,000 fee onto all H-1B
31:26visa applications. On September 20th, in
31:28a clear First Amendment violation,
31:30Secretary of Defense Hegsth required
31:31members of the press to sign a new
31:33pledge. The pledge banned journalists
31:34from reporting on anything that Hegsth
31:36hadn't signed off on. Anyone who didn't
31:38sign it would be out of the DoD press
31:40pool. Only 15 reporters signed, and even
31:42Fox News and Newsmax opted out.
31:44Hegsathth announced an entirely new,
31:46more compliant and right-wing press pool
31:47in October. On September 20th, after
31:50Trump said publicly, "I want him out."
31:52Eric Sebert, the US attorney for the
31:53Eastern District of Virginia, resigned.
31:55He'd refused to go along with the Trump
31:56administration's politically motivated
31:58witch hunts against James Comey and
32:00Leticia James, among others. This was
32:02obviously corrupt and retaliatory. On
32:04September 22nd, Trump designated Antifa
32:06as a domestic terrorist organization,
32:08which is impossible because there's no
32:10such thing under American law. On
32:12September 22nd, numerous media reports
32:13claimed that the Trump borders a Tom H.
32:15Homeman had accepted $50,000 in cash in
32:18a cava bag in exchange for plum
32:20government contracts. Hman denied he did
32:22anything illegal, but did not deny
32:24taking the bag of cash. And the Trump
32:26administration spiked the investigation
32:28into Hman's bribery. Trump issued a new
32:30executive order pertaining to domestic
32:32terrorism, specifically referencing the
32:33murder of Charlie Kirk. The order
32:35directs Bonnie to establish a task force
32:36that would prosecute NOS's and American
32:38citizens under the Foreign Corrupt
32:40Practices Act. The order created
32:41confusion about whether the FCPA, which
32:43was illegally paused, is now unpaused.
32:45And the order illegally targets Trump's
32:46political enemies for prosecution. On
32:48September 25th, Trump's lawyers issued a
32:50retaliatory indictment against his
32:51political enemy, Jim Comey. Prosecutors
32:53had previously declined to engage in
32:55this prosecution, so Trump just fired
32:57them and found someone less competent,
32:58Lindsey Hallagan. Trump is also trying
33:00to go after New York Attorney General
33:01Leticia James, Adam Schiff, and John
33:03Brennan. On September 30th, during the
33:05government shutdown, Trump's OM
33:07instructed employees to put politically
33:08inflammatory partisan messages out as
33:11their out of office messages during the
33:13shutdown. When employees didn't do that,
33:14some agencies changed the employees out
33:16of office messages without permission.
33:18This was compelled speech in violation
33:19of the First Amendment and violation of
33:21the Hatch Act. It also violated the
33:23Anti-Deficiency Act, as were the bananas
33:25partisan banners put up on federal
33:27websites during the shutdown. On
33:28September 27th, Trump declared that he
33:30was sending troops to Portland. Again, a
33:32violation of posyic commitatus and
33:34exceeded Trump's authority under section
33:3612406. On October 6th, Trump sent the
33:38National Guard to Chicago against the
33:40wishes of the Illinois governor.
33:42Different jurisdiction, same violation.
33:44On October 11th, Lindseay Halligan,
33:45Trump's loyalist, who was handpicked to
33:47prosecute James Comey, sent an
33:49unexpected signal chat to legal
33:50journalist and legal eagle contributor
33:52Anna Bower. In between chastising Anna
33:54for her reporting, Lindsay teased
33:56information about the grand jury
33:57proceedings against Comey, which is a
33:59bizarre departure from the usual rules
34:00of prosecutorial decorum as well as the
34:02federal rules of criminal procedure.
34:04Additionally, the use of Signal with
34:06autodeleted chats was a violation of
34:08federal records laws. On October 15th,
34:10Trump's team planned an IRS overhaul to
34:12pursue left-leaning groups, clearly a
34:13violation of First Amendment rights. On
34:16October 16th, Trump used research and
34:17development money to pay the military
34:19despite the fact that the government was
34:20shut down. This violated the
34:22Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency
34:23Act. On October 17th, Trump commuted the
34:25sentence to the world's most prolific
34:27liar, former Republican US
34:28representative from New York, George
34:30Santos. On October 21st, reports are
34:32that Trump tried to force the DOJ to pay
34:34him $230 million for his prosecution of
34:36his illegal acts. This seems like an
34:39obvious conflict of interest and ethical
34:40violation. And if his minions in the DOJ
34:42approved this, it would also be well
34:44outside the usual bounds of the Federal
34:45TOR Claims Act. On October 23rd, Trump
34:48expanded his murderous strikes to
34:50non-adjudicated drug traffickers and
34:52civilians on a vessel in the Pacific,
34:54killing five people. Murder is still
34:56illegal. On October 23rd, Trump
34:58illegally ripped down the historic East
35:00Wing of the White House. Trump also
35:01illegally accepted gifts to help fund
35:03this act of vandalism. The funds to do
35:05any work on the East Wing have not been
35:06approved by Congress, another violation
35:08of the Anti-Deficiency Act. On October
35:1023rd, Trump's DOJ indicted Democratic
35:12congressional candidate Kate Abu for her
35:14involvement in protest at a federal
35:16immigration facility outside of Chicago.
35:18On October 24th, Trump accepted an
35:20anonymous $130 million donation to
35:22circumvent Congress's government
35:23shutdown. This is another violation of
35:25the Anti-Deficiency Act. On October
35:2724th, Trump killed six more people in
35:29another boat strike in the Caribbean.
35:30This was his 10th strike. He's up to
35:32about 64 people now, but murder is still
35:34legal. On October 25th, Trump appeared
35:36to be starting a war with Venezuela
35:38without any congressional authorization.
35:39On October 25th, Trump declared that
35:41he's going to send his people to monitor
35:43elections in California and New Jersey,
35:45which sure looks like unlawful voter
35:47intimidation. On October 28th, more
35:49retaliatory actions at the DOJ. This
35:51time, Trump's DOJ put two prosecutors on
35:53administrative leave because they had
35:55dared to mention in a memo that a guy
35:56who threatened former President Obama
35:58had reposted one of Trump's truth social
36:00posts, which had Obama's address. On
36:02October 31st, the Trump administration
36:04published a rule limiting public
36:05interest student loan forgiveness for
36:07anyone it decided was working for
36:09political enemies. On November 3rd,
36:11Trump sat down for an interview with 60
36:12Minutes, which was then heavily edited,
36:14likely at his request, and probably
36:16because he filed a First Amendment
36:17violating lawsuit against the network
36:18last year for releasing an edited
36:20interview with Kla Harris because they
36:23had edited it. On November 4th, Trump
36:25said he planned to ignore a judge's
36:26order that his administration pay out
36:28SNAP benefits during the government
36:30shutdown, which would be contempt of
36:32court. On November 4th, Trump was sued
36:34for months of inhumane conditions at the
36:35ICE facility in Illinois. These
36:37conditions have been repeatedly noted by
36:39judges and advocates across the country
36:41and violate due process in the eth
36:42amendment prohibition against cruel and
36:43unusual punishment. On November 10th,
36:45Trump continued pardoning his buddies.
36:47This time, it was Rudy Giuliani and
36:48others accused of the plot to overturn
36:50the 2020 election. On November 16th,
36:52another murder strike by the Trump
36:53administration, this time in the Eastern
36:55Pacific. The estimated murder count now
36:57stands at 83. On November 17th, Trump
36:59threatens to launch strikes against
37:01Mexico. Again, Congress has not approved
37:03any wars. On November 18th,
37:05Congresswoman Summer Lee launches an
37:07investigation into the Trump
37:08administration's choice to drop
37:09investigations against companies,
37:11including Boeing and politically
37:12connected CEOs. An investigation by
37:14Public Citizen found that 30
37:16corporations that faced federal
37:17investigations by the DOJ collectively
37:19gave $29.5 million to President Trump's
37:22inauguration fund. On November 18th,
37:24news breaks that the Trump
37:25administration had intervened to protect
37:26accused sex trafficker and professional
37:28misogynist Andrew Tate. Federal
37:30authorities were chastised for seizing
37:31Tate and his brother's electronic
37:33devices and told to return the devices
37:35to the suspects. On November 18th, Trump
37:37threatens ABC's broadcast license after
37:39an ABC reporter dares to ask Trump about
37:41his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. On November
37:4319th, news breaks that apparently
37:44Lindseay Halagan and the Trump DOJ never
37:46actually presented the Comey indictment
37:48to the grand jury. They apparently can't
37:50even do politically motivated
37:51prosecutions. Right. On November 20th,
37:53Democratic lawmakers who were members of
37:54the military and intelligence community
37:56made a commercial telling service
37:58members they have a duty to defy illegal
38:00orders. In response, Trump made a series
38:02of threatening posts on Truth Social
38:03calling for Democratic lawmakers to be
38:05punished with death for sedicious
38:06conduct. These are the kinds of
38:08statements that would get anyone else
38:09arrested or at least investigated for
38:10terroristic threats or assault. But
38:12given presidential immunity, I guess it
38:14just doesn't matter. Trump said these
38:16members of Congress should be killed. He
38:18posted sedicious behavior punishable by
38:20death. The Pentagon then launched a
38:21retaliatory investigation into Senator
38:23Mark Kelly. So, there you have it. Those
38:25are all the crimes or arguable crimes,
38:27illegal conduct, and corrupt acts that
38:30we could put together. I'm sure we
38:31missed some. If we did, please let us
38:33know. will update the list and probably
38:35do this at least every year and the next
38:37three years are going to be a rough ride
38:39for the rule of law. Of course, some of
38:40these acts have been ratified by the
38:41Supreme Court and I'm sure that others
38:44will be in the future. Some are stuck in
38:46litigation and of course if you are
38:47fighting any of these acts by the Trump
38:48administration, you're going to need a
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