3) Another note - Deputy #AttorneyGeneral #ToddBlanche, who represented #DonaldTrump during his 2024 #criminal trial, and facilitated the transfer of #convicted #sextrafficker #GhislaineMaxwell to a club fed minimum security facility, was appointed acting #librarian of #Congress after #Trump fired librarian #CarlaHayden saying she was advancing a “woke” agenda. Dr. Carla Hayden was appointed senior fellow at Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance public #knowledge through libraries & #archives.

The media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman suggested ingredients for a meal that would reflect the culture of the mansion: a simple salad & whatever else “would enhance Jeffrey’s sexual performance.”

And the director Woody Allen described how the dinners reminded him of Dracula’s castle, “where Lugosi has three young female vampires who service the place.”

Ehud Barak, former PM of Israel, & his wife noted the great diversity of guests. “There is no limit to your curiosity,” they wrote in their message, which was compiled with others in January 2016. “You are like a closed book to many of them but you know everything about everyone.”

The #Trump #DOJ requested that a #Louisville police officer #convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in #BreonnaTaylor’s death serve just one day in prison. In an unusual sentencing memo, the #FederalGovernment suggested to a #judge that the #Biden admin should not have prosecuted the officer on #CivilRights charges.

Already… #Trump has granted #clemency to at least 8 individuals #convicted on fed #drug charges. Some, incl’g Hoover, have extensive #criminal records involving #violence & #gun charges.
“There's a lot of mixed messages &…which creates… #chaos & #uncertainty,”said Jeffrey Singer, a drug policy analyst at Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank. "On the one hand you're threatening…tougher penalties on people who deal in #drugs, while on the other hand you're releasing #DrugDealers from prisons."

Fox & Croft were 2 of the defendants federal prosecutors successfully #convicted after a pair of trials in 2022—initially, a jury acquitted Brandon Caserta & Daniel Harris, whom the govt also alleged plotted to #kidnap #GretchenWhitmer, & were hung on Fox & Croft. But at a second trial later that year, jurors in west #Michigan returned #guilty verdicts for the latter 2.

14 men were charged in the plan to #kidnap & #murder #GretchenWhitmer, a #Democrat, & 9 were #convicted. The ringleader of the group, Barry Croft Jr., was given the longest sentence at >19 years.

In 2020, Whitmer placed some blame for the kidnapping plot on #Trump's rhetoric, saying that he "refused to condemn white supremacists & hate groups like these 2 #Michigan #militia groups,” referring to Trump's comments at the 2020 debate against Biden [& his social media posts attacking her]

#Trump, the first #convicted #felon elected president, has erased #ethical boundaries & dismantled the instruments of accountability that constrained his predecessors. There will be no official investigations because Trump has made sure of it. He has fired government inspectors general & #ethics watchdogs, installed partisan loyalists to run the DOJ, FBI & regulatory agencies & dominated a Republican-controlled Congress unwilling to hold hearings.