Not surprising, when you have a compulsively lying, serial fraudster, criminally-inclined front-man for a cabal of infinitely covetous billionaire psychopaths as CEO of the Executive Branch, that laws, norms, fairness, merit, competence, anti-corruption enforcement, routine law enforcement will be cast aside as needed. Trump’s recent firing of eighteen Inspectors General, even ones he appointed, and his vindictive pursuit of anyone involved in any of his multiple federal prosecutions, or the prosecutions of those who loyally attacked Capitol police on his behalf, disgusting as it is, was also completely predictable. Legal guardrails are as hateful to career criminals as the public disclosure of the evidence of those crimes, as “accountability” itself.

Here’s one of the fired Inspectors General (non-partisan government watchdogs tasked with ensuring federal agencies are run efficiently, without intimidation, fraud, corruption, waste, lawlessness) describing the duties of the Inspector General.

Any Department of Justice lawyer who worked for Special Counsel Jack Smith in any federal prosecution of Trump was also summarily fired, without rational cause or the process they are entitled to as federal employees. Those who fight back will win reinstatement, eventually, and back pay and all the rest, but it will take years in court. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, The Mercers, Charles Koch and so on (ably assisted by the ‘apolitical’ Bezos and Zuckerberg, Disney, Paramount, Hitlerco, et al), will press their advantage, based on their front man’s bold, audacious, even insane initiatives. After all, the 6-3 extremist majority on the Supreme Court has already made it a matter of Constitutional law that an immoral or criminally insane president may commit any crimes in connection with his core, official duties, without fear of prosecution for those crimes. so why not push the envelope? Figure that out of the box Constitutional interpretation out, James Madison.

Note that the Department of Justice was founded in 1870 to enforce federal civil rights laws in the former Confederacy and throughout the United States.  Its mission has often been sidelined by racist Supreme Court decisions (the essential 14th Amendment was put into a judicial coma, for formerly enslaved individuals abused by states, for almost a century, though corporate “personhood” was birthed, under a perverse reading of the 14th Amendment, during that same period) and has not always lived up to its name.  On the other hand, DOJ is an independent agency dedicated to enforcing the Constitutional rights of Americans and prosecuting violators of federal law.  Until now.  Its mission, according to the Trump-appointed lawyer acting as its head (with a Trump criminal defense lawyer as his deputy), for the DOJ and FBI alike, is “to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”  Translates nicely from the original German führerwortes haben gesetzeskraft — the leader’s word has the force of law.

Now Project 2025/Koch/MAGA turns its attention to, eh, disloyal FBI agents who gathered evidence and helped bring violent January 6 criminals/martyrs who savagely attacked law enforcement to “injustice”. Life is dark under the shadow of the swastika and morality inverted. It is time to shed as much light as possible, to as many people, as any of us can reach.