No. of Recommendations: 8
Tell the truth and get investigated! Trump is out to destroy this country. No one should be surprised.
Chris Krebs
The executive orders are not getting more sane!
We’re going to start with a very low bar here. At least President Trump’s most egregious, strongman-like executive orders seeking retribution have been targeting institutions. You know, universities, Big Law, what have you. Not anymore! Now he’s now going directly after individuals. On Wednesday, he released two executive orders “addressing risks” against Trump 1–era officials who disobeyed him. The first is against Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, whom Trump fired following the 2020 election for assuring the public that it was conducted securely. “Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen,” this actual memorandum from the president reads. The order doesn’t just strip Krebs of any security clearances (child’s play). It calls on the attorney general and homeland security secretaries to investigate him and report their findings to the president. A similar order was issued against Miles Taylor, the former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff who wrote a much-discussed anonymous column for the New York Times in 2018 titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” On the law-firm front, even those decrees are getting more baseless—and why not? It’s working!—as Trump issued new sanctions on the firm that represented Dominion Voting Systems in its successful legal action against the muppets who defamed them. He also signed another order “Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads,” which is probably a lot better. Or it’s bad. We don’t know—he signed a lot of executive orders this week to distract from how he had collapsed the economy.
