Trump’s acquisition and musk: How gold is?

Things that could be believed to be impossible in the American system of the government a few years ago.

Trump emphasizes the president’s authority to reshape the executive branch as he sees appropriate – Empowering Elon Musk to pay civil service staff aside, ventilate the entire agencies, and to hit terrorism in general in the federal workforce.

Musk’s efforts seem to be intentionally unprecedented against the launch of some employees and the requirements of spending from Congress, and external experts have argued that many of what he does seem to be blatantly illegal. He does so anyway.

At the same time, professional “independence” has been destroyed for a long time for the US Department of Justice in the conduct of criminal investigations and judicial trials.

The Trump team launched dozens of prosecutors and senior FBI officials who worked on cases against Trump or January 6 of riots, and set the foundation More widespread cleansing One of the FBI employees who worked in January 6 investigations. The fully relevant judicial prosecutions to Trump’s political allies Decline or injury.

Meanwhile, companies not only imprison themselves at Trump’s feet, but they give him huge rewards. Dead Pay 25 million dollars To settle Trump’s suit on the company’s suspension of his accounts, the largest part of the Trump presidential library will finance. Paramount, the parent company CBS He studies his own settlement In the annoying lawsuit of Trump, she complains about how 60 minutes An interview with Kamala Harris was edited last year.

It appears that both of them are starkly motivated by these companies that the president will turn the powers of the federal government against them for political recovery. and Initial procedures from Trump’s Federal Communications Communications Committee The president suggests that they have a good reason to fear this.

The common topic is that Trump is disrupted by the institutional and legal handrails that prevent the centrality of power in the presidency and the corrupt weapons of the government.

Those who suffer from a calm mood, or those who are exhausted by them, may tend to Trump’s anti -Trump and “threats to democracy”, may tend to reject it as not great. But just try to put yourself in a mentality a few years ago, to realize the shock of all these things.

We are still near the beginning of this story and we have no idea how it ends. But there are two decimal questions. First, what will the Trump team do to increase their presidential strength? Second, will they eventually clash with a wall, or do very extreme things for courts, Congress or the public to accept it?

Elon Musk took vast power

The story that was shocked by Washington since Trump was sworn in the amazing power by Elon Musk.

Musk has It is said He became a “private government employee”, although his official role is still unknown. However, many allies and former employees have been installed in many government offices, including the Personnel Management Office, Public Services DepartmentAnd the American digital service (now renamed on the DOGE US service). It has become clear that musk is responsible for a great effort to disinfect and reshape the federal workforce.

One of the main sources of musk authority is that it seems that he has acquired the ability to put professional civil service staff who resist his demands in administrative leave. This is what happened Officer in the Ministry of Supreme Treasury and Usaid security officialsThe US State Department of Aid, when they resisted the demands of his team to reach the systems. MUSK allies also ordered civil service employees who work on Dei’s initiatives on an administrative leave, and his email “thorn in the road” displayed a paid administrative leave for federal employees who agreed to resign later this year.

Former presidents did not use administrative leave in this way – partly because it may be illegal. But this does not affect Musk, who seems to use this as a “penetration” to bulldozing the former government employees standing on his way – you challenge it, and went. (“Job bureaucrats do not violate legal orders from the President of the United States,” Vice President JD Vance He said in X Publishing Monday morning.)

Musk team also has I gained control over Treasury systems that separate salaries, payments and government grants. Previously, this was controlled by professional civil service employees who simply do the payments to them. Nevertheless, it appears to be musk You want strength To freeze the payments he does not like.

The most exciting, Musk stressed that the US Agency for International Development will be closed, although it was established under a law approved by Congress. Musk Claim After talking to Trump, the president agreed that we must close it. “(” I have already reviewed with him several times. “

How does he escape all this? The answer is, simply, that Trump wants him. A Washington Post report on Monday Sources close to the president claimed that “Trump is not closely monitoring musk movements”, but “Trump looks at musk as being the task that cost him.” As long as it seems that musk is acting with the blessing of the president, as long as he can put civilian employees on a Levantine leave, and as long as judicial cases and judges are unable to curb him, he will have a huge deadline that works as he sees it appropriate.

The independence of the Ministry of Justice is destroyed

Less surprising, but still worrying and communications, is the current cleansing of the US Department of Justice, which seems to continue to increase its size.

It should be noted that Trump is not only revenge on those who personally achieved it. It seems that he wants to take revenge on anyone who holds his supporters accountable for the break and Capitol clearing in an illegal attempt to keep him in power. (Of course, he has already released an incredibly wide pardon for those who are rioters, even the violent people who attacked the police.)

Meanwhile, the Justice Ministry moved to the closure of the investigation into one Republican member in Congress, and the trial of a former member. MP Andy Oujlis (R-Tn) was examined on his financial resources, but the prosecutors in the case I suddenly withdrew last weekIn what is likely to be the wind in the case. And false data is concerned against former MP Jeff Fortnberry (R -Ne) It was dropped last week also.

All of this happens before the appointed from Trump was confirmed to the presidency of the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office – Bam Bondi and Cash Patel -. Patel I promised with a straight face During his confirmation session that he will work to protect the FBI employees from the political claim (though Years of saying otherwise).

Obviously, although Trump has no intention to allow long independence from the Ministry of Justice and the FBI still exists. The advanced question is the extent of my aggressor in an attempt to achieve Trump’s long desire to try his critics and opponents.

Companies pay the president to escape political recovery

Meanwhile, the establishment of Trump’s companies for Trump, Clear in his inaugurationI took a new annoying dimension.

In 2021, Trump sued Meta because he suspended his accounts after the riots on January 6. Last week, Mita agreed to pay $ 25 million to settle the lawsuit, of which $ 22 million will go to a Trump presidential box.

According to Wall Street JournalTrump mentioned the lawsuit during a dinner with the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg after the elections last November, indicating that it should be resolved if Zuckerberg wanted a better relationship with his administration.

Likewise, during the campaign, Trump sued Paramount, the parent company CBS News, claimed 60 minutes She was deceptive in an interview with Kamala Harris to help her campaign. Brendan Car, Chairman of the New Federal Communications Committee, has CBS News request To get an infinite version of Harris’s answer.

Trump suit It is widely believed it is Nothing, but prominent shareholders are afraid that the Trump administration will overlap with the planned company selling it unless they are satisfied with it. So they are You are now participating in Settlement conversations also.

In general, each of these companies that respond to the president appears to be by the president. Meta has already agreed to pay it (or, pushing his library box) to avoid political recovery, and Paramount may do the same. All of these slaps are practices in spoiled clips, where the rewards of senior officials are necessary for companies to work without a government campaign. What is much worse?

It is worth stopping to suspend to note that all of this may be revealed in just two weeks, with many of that occurred in the past few days only.

The Trump team seems to be a very clear task of focusing power in the presidency – taking it away from professional civil staff, Congress, and courts to the extent that they can – so Trump will be able to use government authority as he sees it appropriate.

This means that it will be more able to impose policies that professional civil staff (and his employees) believe that it will be disastrous, corrupt or illegal. It will also be more able to arm the government against its enemies, as it is always required.

There is still a lot that we still do not know about what Musk is trying to do exactly, or how exactly DOJ and FBI will end up. But the more fatigue against them, the more ideologies of the Trump team feel.

So one of the main questions is: Will there be a real recovery? Will MUSK efforts and disinfection in legal challenges stumble? Will the FBI’s workforce attempts to dismiss their agents to carry out their jobs? Will the Republic of Congress and a swinging member of the Senate decide that they were in reality not involved in this? Will there be a big violent reaction?

A disaster last week ended commander This seems to freeze all federal scholarships indicates that there is an end to the progress of the Trump administration – after the judge put the matter, Trump team Eliminate He claimed that he was not supposed to be very wide. But the Trump team continued to go forward on other fronts. And unless the courts prevented them, they are likely to continue to do so.