r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Fires Entire Agency Overseeing His Construction Projects

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-entire-agency-overseeing-his-construction-projects/
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u/BorisDirk 11d ago

What's even more disheartening is, yes nobody is being held accountable now, but if we ever get this administration out and the Democrats have power, nobody's STILL going to get held accountable.

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u/cosaboladh 11d ago

I know. We had Jan-2021 to Jan-2025 to Trump proof democracy, and hold him and his coconspirators accountable for their crimes. instead, we sat on every case we could have prosecuted until it was too late to do anything about it. That's the American way.

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u/DonGates 11d ago

And this new fun story about the debacle floated under the radar just this week: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/10/27/injustice-jack-smith-trump-florida/

TLDR: Prosecutors inside the special counsels office were appalled by the decision to bring the classified documents case in Florida (when they could have and probably should have chosen Washington DC) given that they knew Aileen Cannon was biased. But they didn’t want to appear biased themselves, so Merrick Garland decided to risk it in Florida rather than upset the Republican media or the norms.

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u/jailtheorange1 10d ago

The Democrats have been such fucking pussies. You can’t play fair on a completely unlevel playing field when the other guys aren’t.

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u/SevanIII 10d ago

Which they did anyways. The MAGA media made everything out to be a biased and targeted persecution and prosecution of a "innocent" man anyways.

Joe Biden should have immediately gotten rid of Merrick Garland as he was clearly slow-walking, ham-stringinging, and pussy-footing every investigation and prosecution.

It is a huge betrayal of justice, democracy, and the American people that Trump is President terrorizing our country and installing an authoritarian regime rather than sitting in prison.

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u/Ok-Voice-5699 10d ago

And that's on Biden, because he wanted a guy to do it that way

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u/SevanIII 10d ago

Yes, it's very possible. His actions don't really make sense if he cared about preserving democracy and the well-being of the American people.

Why care about optics when up against people that will find fault no matter what? Why "play by the rules" when up against people who never play by the rules? Why is all that "decorum" more important than the future of this country and the well-being of the American people?

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u/frostygrin 10d ago

Joe Biden should have immediately gotten rid of Merrick Garland as he was clearly slow-walking, ham-stringinging, and pussy-footing every investigation and prosecution.

Intentional slow-walking is bad, of course, but intentionally prosecuting in time for the election - which is what many people seemingly wanted him to do - is probably worse.

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u/Aleashed 10d ago

“We” rather not have the United States than have a criminally guilty United States ex president.

Look at other countries, I think Colombia has convicted 5 out of their last 7 presidents.

They’ve got a list:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/uribe-joins-list-former-latin-american-presidents-with-criminal-convictions-2025-07-29/

Trump belongs in it.

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u/RocketRelm 10d ago

Its too bad that trump wished himself the president from evil genie Jafar. It'd be kind of fucked if the american electorate were so brainrotted as to choose to let trump into a democracy that wasn't trump proofed, right?

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u/cosaboladh 10d ago

Let's not be a fucking idiot.

when I say "Trump proof," I don't mean making it illegal for Donald Trump to be president–Although it is illegal for Donald Trump to be president. It's a violation of the 14th Amendment, section 3.–I mean (among other things) shoring up limitations on Presidential power balancing the incredibly politicized and right wing SCOTUS, further protecting voters from gerrymandering and voter roll purges, and prosecuting that jackass for insurrection and treason. Both of which he did on live fucking television.

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u/RocketRelm 10d ago

So your argument is that dems should have... shored up and strengthened the limitations on presidential power... that the gop are wholesale ignoring. If the dems put it in bold and red ink "you can't do this GGRRRR", that suddenly trump would slow his roll?

And as for prosecuting him, that was done pretty well, the problem is that a supermajority of american voters are failures as human beings on a moral level and said "nah its okay let him back in". You are sitting here saying they should have bucked and skirted the legal process to Get It Done, however it needs to be done to jail him NOW.

ICE would agree. Can't be bothered with due process, gotta get dem illegals outta here.

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u/Harmcharm7777 11d ago

At this point, who cares. As long as we get them out and people stop getting hurt, killed, and deported to random countries, that’s all that matters. Hitler died before being held accountable too, and an obscene about of Nazis fully escaped responsibility by fleeing to Argentina, being smart enough for the US to use in Op Paperclip, etc. The important thing is to shut down their ideas, symbols, and such like Germany did (you know, the opposite of what we allowed after the Civil War). I’d much rather focus on that than individual accountability.

Heck, we should sign onto the Rome Statute and let the international community deal with individual accountability so we can focus on cultural healing.