It’s been 14 chaotic days since Donald Trump’s circus of horrors arrange store within the White Home and the media remains to be taking part in catch-up. It’s tough to overstate simply how disruptive and harmful the Trump administration has already been, between Elon Musk seizing entry to the federal government’s delicate cost system and Trump’s tidal wave of regressive and probably unlawful govt orders.
Jim Acosta
Because the media trade wrestles with layoffs, sudden departures, and the growing subservience of shops’ company house owners, there’s hardly time left over to report on America’s speedy descent into autocracy. Don’t fear: Every day Kos is right here to select up all of the tales that legacy media left on the chopping room flooring.
Let’s see what the media missed this week!
The Hangover
Donald Trump
Trump’s sweeping tariffs are each broader and deeper than the commerce warfare he led towards China throughout his first time period. Meaning Kentucky’s distillers aren’t the one ones who’re about to really feel the ache: Farmers who provide feed grain and the corn and rye used for bourbon are additionally dealing with dire financial storm clouds.
In 2018, when Trump applied smaller tariffs than he’s threatening at the moment, the USA ended up authorizing practically $30 billion in direct assist to farmers harm by the commerce warfare that adopted. That’s virtually six instances as a lot cash as we spend to function the complete legislative department. Farmers confronted a lot financial strain throughout Trump’s final tariff tantrum that rural suicide charges reached file highs. It certain didn’t really feel like a Golden Age for farmers on the plains.
The second time round might be even worse. As Every day Kos’ Alex Samuels studies, Trump is contemplating extra 100% tariffs on 10 rising economies in the event that they exchange the greenback as their reserve foreign money. The menace is extensively seen as an effort to continue to grow nations out of China’s political orbit, however these tariffs would primarily solely reach sending client costs hovering. If Trump follows via on his threats, shoppers will finally pay extra on the money register and the fuel pump for the foreseeable future. For now, Trump thinks that’s a value most People are prepared to pay.
The Purge
The DOJ purge is right here.
Trump has been laborious at work reshaping the federal justice system in his personal picture. It’s taken the president simply two weeks to fireside greater than a dozen of the federal government’s high U.S. attorneys, empty out key FBI departments, and drive his critics from profession civil service positions. Patel has reassured Republican lawmakers that additional purges will come as soon as he’s safely put in because the FBI’s high man. The end result might be a federal police drive staffed fully by Trump’s truest believers—and greater than prepared to harass anybody the president suggests.
Patel’s invisibility within the mainstream media is among the greatest abdications of journalistic accountability we’ve seen thus far. That media sanitization has allowed Patel to come back inside a hair’s breadth of the FBI’s appreciable police powers, and its continued silence makes his affirmation extra doubtless with every passing day.
Kash Patel is able to be Donald Trump’s federal enforcer. The query is: Are we prepared for him?
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