Yesterday the DoJ announced that they had no plans to investigate the shooting death of Renée Good by an ICE agent. At least four leaders of the Civil Right Division have resigned. I’m hearing on the teevee that six DoJ prosecutors resigned. There may not be anyone left with any integrity.
However, there is an investigation related to the shooting. The DoJ is pushing to investigate Renée Good’s widow. Of course they are. WaPo:
Their resignations followed demands by Justice Department leaders to investigate the widow of Renée Good, the 37-year-old woman killed last week by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot into her car, according to a person familiar with the resignations who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concern for retaliation. Good’s wife was protesting ICE officers in the moments before the shooting.
I understand that the DoJ wants to investigate ties between Renée and Becca Good and several groups that have been monitoring and protesting immigration agents.
Update: See How a Grainy Video of Renee Good’s Anguished Wife Convinced Right-Wing Media to Blame the Widow by Josh Kovensky at TPM. Sick.
Trump isn’t satisfied, of course. WSJ reports that he had some U.S. attorneys at a White House event last week and yelled at them for not prosecuting people he wants prosecuted fast enough. “Among his grievances with prosecutors, Trump complained that the Justice Department hadn’t yet brought a case against one of his most prominent Democratic adversaries, Sen. Adam Schiff of California, the people said.”
Paul Krugman has a new column about the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell. This is a must-read. Basically, Trump wants to get Powell out of the way so he can goose the economy by cutting interest rates. Krugman provides examples of what happens when wackadoo dictators cut interest rates against advice of economists. For example, “Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s authoritarian, Trump-like president, forced Turkey’s central bank to keep rates down in the face of rising inflation. The result was that inflation … eventually rose above 80 percent.”
Stuff to read — see Paul Waldman, Trump Is Proving the Wacky Lefties Right. And see Michelle Goldberg, The Resistance Libs Were Right. (The “Resistance Libs” were right to call Trump a fascist.) And see Trump Unmasked by Thomas Edsall.
It’s possible that the SCOTUS will release its opinion on Trump’s tariffs tomorrow. That could be fun.
"The result was that inflation … eventually rose above 80 percent.”
The key word there is eventually. Diaper Don doesn't care about eventually, he only cares about November. If he can get a huge rate cut this summer he can get some good econmic numbers, that combined with his $2000 tariff check will buy the house and senate. He doesn't care that the economy will crash later, in fact that is his plan. The man is working for Putin, the end of democracy and prosperity in this country are his goals, that is the plan.
If he makes it that long. Though I'm sure his courtiers will prop up his drooling husk even if they have to reboot "Weekend at Donnies".
This about sums it up. Our government is run by petulant children!
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Hahaha
Once upon a time not very long ago, a Union worker got inspired and took advantage of favorable conditions. Like me he was searching for a name for the guy formerly known as fearless leader and tried one out on him. It worked. He found one fearless leader would answer to or at least flash the 'your number one sign' at with his less than ample equipment. He was soon rewarded. Not only an early retirement from boring manual labor but a supplemental from Go Fund Me account that went so parabolic they had to shut it off.
He used his formal new moniker, but I am going with just PP. It fits and is quick to type. For a weak speller like me it is more in my ballpark anyway. So, he who used to be FL is now PP. At his age this could soon need changed to a more appropriate name like Puddles. For now, PP works just fine.
From the Reuters interview:
The president expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate in this year’s midterm elections, citing historical trends that have seen the party in power lose seats in the second year of a presidency. “It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”