David Kurtz

Morning Memo, chronicling the Trump II depredations each weekday so you can do your civic duty and stay informed, then get on with your day: morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com

It’s the kind of politicization one imagines the most cravenly loyal Trump prosecutors to engage in, but you don’t expect it to be put in writing for an international news agency to report on it.

No choice but to lead Morning Memo with President Trump's dark effort to subsume the military officers corps to his cult of personality, but let me take you inside to the important story of Sigal Chattah, Trump's acting U.S. attorney in Nevada talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/t… via @TPM

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Emil Bove, then-acting DAG and now an appeals court judge, “told Justice Department officials he did not support the investigation,” MSNBC reported. Bove called it a “deep state” operation, and FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the probe closed over the summer, Reuters reported.

Operation Fast Casual: The Trump DOJ shut down a bribery investigation of Tom Homans, now the White House border czar, which recorded him allegedly accepting $50K in a Cava bag during a sting in the summer of 2024: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/e… via @TPM

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Trump’s brutalization of Abrego Garcia for having the temerity to challenge his wrongful removal to El Salvador– which the administration has conceded was a mistake – is a cruel face-saving move and a grotesque flex of executive power.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s dark journey through the lawless Trump immigration system took another grievous turn Monday morning when he was detained by ICE in Baltimore only three days after being freed from criminal custody in Nashville. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/t… via @TPM

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I'd hoped a week of marveling at geological time scales would make me more prone to see Donald Trump as a passing fad in the larger sweep of our political history. But I came back instead a bit more sensitive to how far we’ve fallen in such a short time.

I returned last night from a weeklong trip paddling down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. No phone signal. No news. No real contact with the outside world. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/t… via @TPM