"There will be bloodshed," wrote Daniel Rodriguez on January 5, 2021, on a group chat on the PATRIOTS 45 MAGA Gang Telegram. A fewer hours later, he and his colleagues headed for the Capitol.
Uniform camera Police officer Michael Fanone recorded the events. Attackers dragged Fanone down the stairs, sprayed gas in his face and beat him with metallic tubes, threatening to kill him with his own weapon; Fanone begged for mercy, saying he had children. Rodriguez repeatedly hit a cop with a taser until he passed out. “I fucked up with a blue taser!” (Tased the fuck out of the blue) – he wrote in the chat area Rodriguez.
Michael Fanone suffered a heart attack and concussion; injuries did not let him to full return to his ministry. The officer testified against his oppressors, so he and his household began receiving threats.
Rodriguez was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison. Now, thanks to Trump's pardon, he's out. On the day of Trump Fanone's oath, he applied for judicial protection against the men who attacked him at the Capitol. Freed criminals They curse revenge on his victims. Sentenced to 41 months in prison celebrated Shaman QAnon reported Joyfully: “I have been pardoned! Thank you, president Trump. Now I'm gonna buy any fucking guns! I love this country!’
A complete and unconditional pardon for all convicted of assault crimes at Capitol sent a clear message to Trump supporters. He commented on it well Political writer Chris Hayes:
“[Trump] could say that he orders the lawyer General to review all 1 and a half 1000 cases and separate these most violent criminals from the rest. alternatively he pardoned everyone, how's it going. He pardoned a man who almost killed a police officer with a taser, pardoned all convicted of plotting against the United States. 1 of them, Stewart Rhodes, appeared on phase at his rally. This is not an oversight or laziness, this is simply a clear message that Trump's force is desirable and will be rewarded."
Rhodes, the founder of the paramilitary Oath Keepers militia, was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for plotting against the United States. pardoned by Trump, He was standing right behind him at a rally in Las Vegas.
In the first week of power, Trump signed over 50 regulations. To a large extent, it is simply a spectacle for the storyteller – any of these decrees are unconstitutional, any simply absurd, just like a beautiful order in its simplicity lower prices and cost of living Americans. any of them, on the another hand, let us to see how grotesque and threatening the next years of Trump’s regulation can be.
Regulation entitled Ending the Weaponization of the national Government First, he accuses the Biden administration of stalking political opponents. Democrats "precedentably, in the kind of 3rd planet countries, utilized the prosecution to undermine the democratic process". Trump intends to settle the democrats from these persecutions by exposing supposedly biased decisions of predecessors and implementing "appropriate corrective action". What are the actions? I don't know.
What strikes the most is to attribute Trump's sins to democrats. Trump, who, in front of everyone, attempted to illegally take power after the 2020 elections, which has so far persisted and lied to the fact that these elections had been stolen from him, who, after unsuccessful attempts at force on officials, forced a raging mob on Capitol Hill to violently disrupt a democratic process, now announces the settlement of Biden's administration from attempts to disrupt the democratic process.
The obscenity of this motion is to make disloyal people aware of the scale of their failure to the leader – they lost not only the election but the conflict for any objectivity and truth. Facts are meaningless, and what people saw with their own eyes never happened. Something precisely other happened and this version of reality was approved a week ago with Trump's signature. "Conservativeism has 1 basis: there must be interior groups that the law protects, but does not apply, and external groups that the law applies but does not protect" — this quote Frank Wilhoit did not accidentally sound many times last week.
There was quite a few enthusiasm among Trumpists about the biggest hit of the campaign, namely the promise of mass deportations of immigrants who came to the US illegally. They began immediately – 500 people were arrested and planes were shown ready to decision immigrants out of the country. The point is that flights deporting immigrants take place all the time, and 5 100 arrested are about a day's average from last year's Biden term. The only fresh feature is the usage of military aircraft for this process.
This is another play typical of Trump, which is to attribute to itself long-standing solutions that are expected to give the impression that already on the first day of his revolutionary leadership brings spectacular results.
However, this does not mean that real mass deportations will not happen. Already in his first week of office Trump expressed discontent that the deportation action was going besides slow – and imposed quotas. The ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) liable for its conduct is now required to arrest from 1200 to 1500 people a day. It is unclear what scale Trump yet wants to reach. If he does not get tired of the idea, he will gotta wait for legislature to grant funds for specified an extended run of catching, holding and deporting millions.
Meanwhile, Trump signed another blatantly unconstitutional regulation ordering officials to cease issuing papers confirming the nationality of immigrant children. It has already been blocked by national justice John Coughenour (established by Reagan, which is frequently highlighted in this context). "I've been on the bench for over 4 decades and I don't remember a case that would be equally apparent – said Coughenour.
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution He says clearly: everyone who was born in the United States becomes a national of the country falls under his jurisdiction. This was confirmed by the ultimate Court in 1898 on the United States vs. Wong Kim Ark, where the court ruled that the amendment besides applies to migrant children who themselves are not eligible for naturalisation. Thus Trump voluntarily orders national officials to ignore the law set by the ultimate Court.
“Do you think this regulation is consistent with the Constitution?” justice Coughenour addressed Brett Shumate, a lawyer sent to the Justice Department on behalf of Trump.
"Definitely yes," Shumate replied.
"We sometimes look back at certain moments in past and ask where the judges were then, where were the lawyers? Honestly, it is hard for me to realize how a associate of the bar can clearly say that this is simply a constitutional regulation," Coughenour said. "It just doesn't fit my mind."
American lawyers take an oath to abide by the Constitution. Shumate besides had to submit it and knew perfectly well that the regulation was incompatible with the essential law. He besides knew it would be blocked by a national judge. So why the show? First of all, for the show. Trump wants to tighten his muscles in front of the cameras and give the impression that he rapidly and effectively fulfills election promises. By the way, show how easy he is to break the spines of his officials and what kind of loyalty he expects from them.
Secondly, any of the regulations are so clearly unconstitutional that they will not stand trial. specified judicial blockade Trump can usage twofold, especially if the most absurd regulations were placed before Trump's denominations the ultimate Court. If the court acts in accordance with the sense of decency of most Americans, Trump can usage it either as evidence of the impartiality of the court or as evidence of the uselessness of corrupt judicial power and, consequently, for the request to dismantle it. Anyway, Trump's on his way.
Officials have the right to refuse to execute an illegal order and judges may block it. So it's crucial for Trump to plant all possible levels of power on his people and was planned in advance – it was yet through “unloyal” Republicans (including their own vice president) who refused to fake election results in his favor, he failed illegally to take power in 2020.
The disloyalty of state officials is to be addressed by another regulation, colloquial as Schedule F. As a rule, it is not easy to fire a national worker – the reasons for this must be truly serious, and the worker can appeal this decision. The rules besides supply for the protection of whistleblowers. Both of these fuses are intended to guarantee stableness of employment in government agencies and to reduce political force from the President's administration.
Schedule F removes this protection from tens of thousands of specified officials, which means that they can be fired and replaced by employees loyal to Trump. At this point, the scale of the threat is unknown: it is not known how many Trump is planning to release or how effectively he will circumvent the legal blockades set by Biden to prevent specified a cleansing.
It is besides unclear to what degree Trump will be able to exploit and abuse the tools of its regulations. Most of them will most likely be contested, but any of them may go before (advanced to Trump and mostly appointed by him) the ultimate Court.
However, the theatrical, evocative momentum of the avalanche of presidential regulations itself is important. Trump brings a fresh order, even at the expense of breaking the law and denying reality. Whatever the courts will yet decide, this fresh order has already settled in the minds of the people – Trump's supporters and enemies.
If individual comes into association with tyranny, comfort is offered by the 1 interested: “I will be dictator, but only on the first day”, promised Trump with a philuter grin during the campaign. Can that grin lie?
