The Reign of Trump

[Raw Shark]

Just to be clear, this is the Norwegian equivalent of being named John Smith right...

I mean, yeah, about there. Not far off.

[Raw Shark]

I mean, it takes a little here but my name is Matty D and I'm starting to get very pissed off.

[EnterpriseSovereign]

Might want to contact him first if you can

[EnterpriseSovereign]

Trump hails 'giant win' after Supreme Court curbs judges' power to block his orders

What just happened?

Let's quickly recap what has happened today with the Supreme Court's ruling.

The US Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling that curbs judges' powers to block President Donald Trump's orders nationwide
The case stems from Trump's order to end the constitutional right of birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants
This will allow Trump's birthright citizenship order to partially go into effect in 30 days - after judges in lower courts had blocked it
In a sprawling briefing with the media, Trump called the ruling a "big amazing decision". Attorney General Pam Bondi says it will put a stop to "rogue justices" issuing injunctions against the president's agenda.
In a scathing dissent of the opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor says it is an "open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution"
This ruling did not directly tackle the constitutionality of Trump's birthright citizenship order - so the case is likely to end up before the top court at a later date
For Context: There is a conservative majority in the Supreme Court, and Trump appointed three of the nine justices that decided today's ruling

[Solauren]

Well, looks like most American Citizens are screwed.

Trump can start ordering parts of the constitution ignored, knowing if he does it correctly, he'll get rulings in his favor.

[kavin223]

The most concerning part here isn’t just the ruling, it’s how it effectively invites executive overreach while bypassing judicial safeguards. The idea that a president can push constitutionally shaky orders and expect them to stick unless challenged all the way to a friendly Supreme Court is... not how a functional democracy is supposed to work. Sotomayor’s dissent should be a red flag for anyone still clinging to the idea that judicial neutrality is alive and well.

[bilateralrope]

Remember how Musk seemed to have made up with Trump ?

Musk renews attacks on Trump's "big, beautiful bill," says it will "destroy millions of jobs"

June 28, 2025 / 9:05 PM CDT / CBS/AP

Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday doubled down on his distaste for President Trump's sprawling tax and spending cuts bill, arguing the legislation that Republican senators are scrambling to pass would kill jobs and bog down burgeoning industries.

"The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country," Musk wrote on X on Saturday as the Senate was scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill. "It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, whose birthday is also Saturday, later posted that the bill would be "political suicide for the Republican Party."

The criticisms reopen a recent fiery conflict between the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency and the administration he recently left. They also represent yet another headache for Republican Senate leaders who have spent the weekend working overtime to get the legislation through their chamber so it can pass by Mr. Trump's Fourth of July deadline.

Musk has previously made his opinions about Trump's "big, beautiful bill" clear. In late May, just a few days before he officially left his post in the federal government, he told "CBS News Sunday Morning" he was "disappointed" with the bill's price tag.

"I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing," Musk told CBS News.

"I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful," Musk added. "But I don't know if it can be both. My personal opinion."

Following a laudatory celebration in the Oval Office, his language became more aggressive and he blasted the bill as "pork-filled" and a "disgusting abomination."

"Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it," he wrote on X earlier this month. In another post, the wealthy GOP donor who had recently forecasted that he'd step back from political donations threatened to fire lawmakers who "betrayed the American people."

When Mr. Trump clapped back to say he was disappointed with Musk, back-and-forth fighting erupted and quickly escalated. Musk suggested without evidence that Mr. Trump, who spent the first part of the year as one of his closest allies, was mentioned in files related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

The president also threatened to cut off federal subsidies and contracts to Elon Musk's companies. SpaceX receives tens of billions of dollars in federal money, most of which are in the form of federal grants from NASA.

"He's got a lot of money, he gets a lot of subsidy," Mr. Trump told reporters on June 6. "So we'll take a look at that. Only if it's fair for him and for the country. I would certainly think about it, but it has to be fair."

Musk ultimately tried to make nice with the administration, saying he regretted some of his posts that "went too far." Trump responded in kind in an interview with The New York Post, saying, "Things like that happen. I don't blame him for anything."

The shocking rift came after Musk donated $277 million to Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and other Republican candidates in the last election cycle, according to campaign finance records.

It's unclear how Musk's latest broadsides will influence the fragile peace he and the president had enjoyed in recent weeks. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Musk has spent recent weeks focused on his businesses, and his political influence has waned since he left the administration.

It seems that Musk has managed to focus on the bill itself this time round.

[bilateralrope]

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent

from the seems-backwards dept
Wed, Jul 2nd 2025 12:06pm - Mike Masnick

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement has revealed itself to be not just cruel, but fundamentally backwards: They’re literally freeing dangerous criminals while manufacturing cases against innocent people. And they’re doing it all to cover up their own massive legal fuckups.

Take the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. We covered this last week when Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ordered his release, noting that the Justice Department appeared to have leaned on actual criminals to fabricate evidence against him. Now the Washington Post has the full story, and it’s even more damning: The Trump admin is literally freeing a repeat violent offender in exchange for testimony against Abrego—a man with no criminal history who was working and raising a family.

The Trump administration has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon who drunkenly fired shots in a Texas community and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García, according to a review of court records and official testimony.

Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, 38, has been convicted of smuggling migrants and illegally reentering the United States after having been deported. He also pleaded guilty to “deadly conduct” in the Texas incident, and is now the government’s star witness in its case against Abrego.

Let that sink in: They’re freeing someone, who drunkenly fired shots in a community, to help them prosecute someone whose only “crime” was being the victim of the government’s own illegal deportation, making the Trump administration look totally incompetent in the process.

Remember, the Trump regime insisted that it was focused on going after the worst of the worst, the most hardened criminals of all. Yet, over and over again we’re finding out that they can’t actually find all those criminals they insisted were out there, so they’re randomly grabbing anyone they can find. In the case of Abrego, that meant taking a man who had no criminal history, and appeared to be gainfully employed, and raising a family, and shipping him to the one place an immigration court had forbidden the US to send him.

That set the DOJ off on a wild goose chase to try to justify their own massive fuckup, leading to these questionable criminal charges against him, which they used to try to distract from the fact that they accidentally sent a man to a foreign concentration camp after being forbidden from doing so.

But to make that work, apparently it involves freeing the actual hardened, dangerous criminal, in hopes that he’ll testify against Abrego.

Hernandez is among a handful of cooperating witnesses who could help the Trump administration achieve its goal of never letting Abrego walk free in the United States again. In exchange, he has already been released early from federal prison to a halfway house and has been given permission to stay in the U.S. for at least a year.

“Otherwise he would be deported,” Peter Joseph, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent, testified at Abrego’s criminal hearing June 13. The government is also likely to give him a work permit, the agent told the court.

There’s no way to look at this other than “we’ll release a hardened criminal who is here illegally, and who has already been deported multiple times, including letting him stay in the US with working apers, so long as he concocts a story that lets DHS and the DOJ save face after we fucked up royally in renditioning a man illegally.”

That should be an embarrassment to the Trump regime, but it will barely get any attention.

It Gets Worse: Trump Is Also Freeing MS-13 Leaders

But the Abrego case isn’t an isolated incident—it’s part of a pattern. At the same time Trump is manufacturing criminal cases against innocent people, he’s also cutting deals to free actual MS-13 gang leaders.

The NY Times has reported that for all of Trump’s promises to destroy the MS-13 gang, he’s cut a deal with Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele to let actual top MS-13 gang leaders go free:

Even among the brutal ranks of the transnational gang called MS-13, Vladimir Arévalo Chávez stands out as a highly effective manager of murder, prosecutors say.

Known as “Vampiro,” he has been accused of overseeing killings in at least three countries: of migrants in Mexico, rivals in El Salvador and his own compatriots in the United States.

His arrest in February 2023 was a major triumph for American investigators, who only months earlier had accused him and 12 other gang leaders of terrorism, bloodshed and corruption in a wide-ranging federal indictment on Long Island.

But this April, the prosecutors who brought those charges suddenly — and quietly — asked a federal judge to drop them. Citing “national security concerns,” they said they needed to return Mr. Arévalo to El Salvador, his homeland.

The report details how these actual MS-13 leaders have evidence of Bukele’s corruption, and Bukele asked for them back, rather than letting them tell their stories to American courts:

But the Trump administration has not acknowledged another reason Mr. Bukele would want them back: U.S. prosecutors have amassed substantial evidence of a corrupt pact between the Salvadoran government and some high-ranking MS-13 leaders, who they say agreed to drive down violence and bolster Mr. Bukele politically in exchange for cash and perks in jail, a New York Times investigation found.

The deal with El Salvador heralded by Mr. Trump as a crackdown on crime is actually undermining a longstanding U.S. inquiry into the gang, according to multiple people with knowledge of the initiative. Two major ongoing cases against some of the gang’s highest-ranking leaders could be badly damaged, and other defendants could be less likely to cooperate or testify in court, they said.

The Pattern Is Clear

So let’s be clear about what’s happening here:

- Innocent people like Abrego: Prosecuted with manufactured evidence from criminals who get released in exchange for their testimony
- Actual violent criminals: Released early from prison and given work permits if they’ll help prosecute innocent people
MS-13 gang leaders: Handed over to a foreign dictator to protect that dictator from corruption charges, undermining ongoing DOJ investigations
- This isn’t “tough on crime”—it’s the opposite. It’s law enforcement theater that makes everyone less safe while covering up the administration’s own legal violations.

All that seems really bad! It’s almost as if the Trump regime is much more focused on public relations claims than actually helping to stop gang activity.

Meanwhile, the judge in his criminal case has agreed that even though they’ve ruled that he should be released, Abrego is probably safer in federal prison, because were he released, ICE would likely ship him halfway around the world to some dangerous war zone.

Think about that: A federal judge is keeping someone in prison not because they’re dangerous, but because they’re safer there than in the hands of immigration enforcement. That’s where we are now—federal prison as sanctuary from ICE’s lawlessness.

This is what happens when immigration enforcement becomes completely divorced from actual public safety and becomes, instead, a machine for generating propaganda victories, no matter how many innocent people get ground up in the process.

I wish this was surprising.

[Solauren]

Let's be clear on something -
We have no evidence Trump said to do this specifically (free criminals to deport innocents). He just said 'start deporting them as quickly as possible'.

This is entirely on ICE not following procedures, and fucking up along the way.

[bilateralrope]

Let's be clear on something -
We have no evidence Trump said to do this specifically (free criminals to deport innocents). He just said 'start deporting them as quickly as possible'.

This is entirely on ICE not following procedures, and fucking up along the way.

I disagree. This latest part is mostly on the DOJ for their BS charges against Abrego to help cover for ICE fucking up.

But when we have one part of the Trump administration covering for another, I find it hard to see how Trump can avoid blame when people he appointed are in charge of this.

[Solauren]

Oh, I'm not saying that Trump is the root cause/person to blame.

I'm saying, I don't think he was personally involved in the decision to spare crooks to go after immigrants.