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The Presidential Records Act was written in 1978 for one reason: Nixon tried to claim his White House documents as personal property on his way out the door. Congress said no. Presidential records belong to the public.
Forty-eight years later, Trump’s Justice Department just said that law is unconstitutional.
The opinion came from T. Elliot Gaiser - Assistant AG at the Office of Legal Counsel, former clerk to Samuel Alito. His finding: the PRA “unconstitutionally intrudes on the independence and autonomy of the President.” Trump accordingly does not need to comply with it.
This is the same law Trump repeatedly cited to defend himself after he was indicted in 2023 for keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. He argued the PRA let him keep the material. Now his own DOJ says the law isn’t valid at all.
OLC opinions bind the executive branch. Courts can override them. But until one does, the administration has told itself it has no legal obligation to preserve emails, texts, phone records… anything.
Nixon at least tried to hide what he was doing. This is just saying it out loud.
CBS News@CBSNews
The Justice Department said that a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal that requires the president to preserve certain documents and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of his administration is unconstitutional. cbsn.ws/4tiEszE
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So far in the past year, Trump has either fired, pulled the nominations, or had resignations for the following positions:
AG - twice (Gaetz & Bondi)
DHS
NSA
FEMA
UN Ambassador
NASA
Border Patrol
BLS
Surgeon General
IRS
CDC
Dep FBI Dir
Multiple US Attorneys
Asst Sec of State
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USFS turned over to a logging CEO, HQ moved to anti-Fed Govt Salt Lake City, all 10 regional offices closed, all research labs shuttered, all the science lost, public lands handed over to corporations for logging, mining, fracking. Our country is being raped, looted, stolen.
Anonymous@YourAnonNews
BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethanju…
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The admin plans to detain 30,000 kids and parents every day in family detention, per its budget out today. This is about the total detained daily nationwide in the average pre-Trump year. Since it's all debt-financed, you'll be paying for Kiddy Detention for decades.
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@atrupar "Every single waiter had tears in their eyes, and they all called me 'sir'... I told them to see what the economy would be like in another two weeks."
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Hassett: "Last night, I was in a restaurant and I asked every waiter, 'How much money did you make?' now that they're doing their taxes because of the no tax on tips. The lowest answer was $3,000 and the highest was $10,000. This is really an economy that can't be slowed down."
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@BenjaminCrew1 Eagerly awaiting a SpongeBob/The Wire crossover...
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@jarvis_best Mike Johnson needs to hook him up with one of those "accountability apps"...
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INBOX: @VP Vance will hit the campaign trail in Budapest next week — he’s going to Hungary to campaign for Viktor Orban
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Hegseth purge of Black and women officers larger than previously reported
"Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for MORE THAN A DOZEN Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military."
nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
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The inside story of Pam Bondi’s ouster based on dozens of interviews. Our latest with a FREE LINK: wsj.com/politics/polic…
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Army Chief of Staff fired: THIS IS VERY BIG.
Firing the Army Chief now, and replacing him with a loyalist, is preparation for orders the previous leadership might have slow-walked or resisted.
When you fire a service chief mid-war with no stated cause, the real reason is almost certainly doctrinal disagreement — how the war is being fought. It should be noted that the US started bombing Iranian civilian infrastructure today (Iran's largest bridge).
A career infantry officer like George, who ran the Army's transformation initiative, would have serious institutional opinions about the feasibility and cost of a ground operation in Iran. If he was pushing back — even through internal channels — that's exactly the kind of friction Hegseth would remove.
The likely replacement is Gen. Christopher LaNeve, formerly Hegseth's own military aide — meaning Hegseth is installing a loyalist at the top of the Army during active combat operations against Iran.
Hegseth has now fired over a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife, and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.
Bottom line: This is escalatory.
The civilian leadership is systematically removing any institutional brake on military options — this is what the entire purge has been building toward. The George ouster happening simultaneously with Trump's "stone ages" speech is not coincidence. Expect the next two weeks to be the most kinetically intense phase of the war so far.
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Hundreds of U.S. personnel have been killed or injured in the region since the U.S. launched a war on Iran just over a month ago. CENTCOM has sent outdated statements on casualty numbers. interc.pt/4cm5Ua4
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The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG.
And it won’t get 1% of the coverage.
Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.
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Yet another firing of a four-star general & the current highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Army.
The scale of senior officer dismissals under Secretary Hegseth — including at least two dozen generals and admirals and a 20% cut to four-star positions — is historically unprecedented. And the fact that these radical overhauls are being directed by a SecDef with the least military & government leadership experience in modern history is deeply concerning.
For decades, the U.S. military has maintained its global edge through a culture of meritocracy and professional expertise. Replacing seasoned leaders with those perceived as "personally aligned" risks a permanent erosion of institutional knowledge, morale, and the nonpartisan tradition of our armed forces.
The military didn't need radical changes. But even if it did, firing top military leadership while our forces are engaged in active conflicts & facing global instability seems like a really bad idea.
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs
Hegseth has asked the chief of staff to the Army Chief to step down. Randy George previously served as the senior military assistant to SecDef Lloyd Austin during Biden admin. One of the sources said @SecWar wants someone in the role who will implement Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army. The vice chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Christopher LaNeve, who was formerly Hegseth's military aide, will likely be considered as a replacement. This is unrelated to the helicopter flyby at Kid Rock's home, I'm told. Scoop from @ellee_watson @JimLaPorta and me: cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-o…
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It's incredible watching the New York Times having to describe ethnic cleansing without ever using the phrase.
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NEW: Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments, three sources familiar with the intel told CNN.
“We can keep f**king them up, I don’t doubt it, but you’re out of your mind if you think this will be done in two weeks,” one of the sources said.
w/ @NatashaBertrand @jimsciutto @talshalev1
cnn.com/2026/04/02/pol…
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NEW: Trump is considering more changes to his Cabinet, according to four officials.
He has expressed frustration and disappointment with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
"He's very angry and he's going to be moving people," an administration official told @politico.
No final decisions have been made on Chavez-DeRemer and Lutnick, and Trump has contemplated firing people and then backed off before.
My latest reporting: politico.com/news/2026/04/0…
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