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#Trump intends to erase any distinction between his #agenda and those of his #appointees.
#Trump intends to hold the door wide-open for #venalPublicOffice.
#Trump intends to shield ALL decisions and actions of his loyalists behind “official acts”
There is NO WAY that the #SupremeCourt #PresidentialImmunity decision and the exemption from #CorruptionLaw for tips, gifts, and payments for #officialActs was NOT informed by #Project2025
The 3 recent #SCOTUS rulings — overturning #Chevron doctrine, exempting government officials from tips & gifts under #Corruption law, and selective #PresidentialImmunity are a naked power grab in ALL 3 branches of #US govt.
It is the SELECTIVE nature of the new presidential immunity doctrine that vests the true power in the #FellowshipOfTheKings at the #SupremeCourt, for it is the Fellowship that determines what acts an out-of-line president is to be held accountable for.
#Trump already made many public offices venal
A million dollars bought Gordon #Sondland the job for US amb to #EU, where he boasted he had come to “destroy the #EuropeanUnion"
Sondland testified he operated at express direction of Trump and that #Pompeo knew about the shakedown scheme to hold back #Ukraine aid in return for fake investigations of #HunterBiden
He also implicated #Pence, #Giuliani, #Bolton… “Everyone was in the loop,” he said TWICE
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>> #Bribe-fattened #SCOTUS #Justices, as part of the #secureSocialElites, have turned the #SupremeCourt into a #venalPublicOffice.
We have already seen Supreme Court Justices #ClarenceThomas, #SamuelAlito, and #BrettKavanaugh bought by wealthy benefactors.
Without a #wealthTax, social secure elites like #LeonardLeo and #HarlanCrow can effectively pass Supreme Court seats down to their children.
And SCOTUS will make it legal to resell them to 3rd-parties just like in olden times. Splendid!
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#Bribe-fattened #SCOTUS #Justices, as part of the #secureSocialElites, have turned the #SupremeCourt into a #venalPublicOffice by ruling that #Corruption Law did not apply to tips, gifts, and payments meant to reward actions taken by state and local officials.
They did this by distinguishing after-the-fact rewards for #officialAction from before-the-fact bribes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/supreme-court-corruption-bribery.html