"Stalinesque"
Yesterday Trump signed a presidential ORDER that will require the Department Of Justice to conduct an official criminal investigation on a man named Christopher Krebs. What heinous crime is Krebs suspected of? Lets quote the order to open the investigation -
Trump accused Krebs of being a “significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government authority,” and claimed he – among other things – “promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices, and falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen , i ncluding by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.”
Trump has now, officially categorized truth telling about how the election was NOT stolen as criminal. All Krebs did was look at the voting machines and say they were found to be working and used properly. Now he will be criminally investigated for doing that.
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This is madness. Chris Krebs was a public servant, a GOP appointee, who *did his job* ensuring the 2020 election was secure. For our government to target him like this is appalling & Stalinesque.
Any person who reveres our constitutional republic should speak out against it.
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‘Madness’: Trump Gets Backlash Over ‘Stalinesque’ Investigation Into Ex-DHS Official He Appointed
President Donald Trump shocked conservatives and liberals alike on Wednesday after he ordered an investigation into his former cybersecurity appointee Chris Krebs for “falsely and baselessly” denying “that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen.”
In a memo on Wednesday evening, Trump revoked Krebs’ security clearances and ordered “a review of Krebs’ activities as a government employee, including his leadership of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).”
As justification for the review, Trump accused Krebsa of being a “significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government authority,” and claimed he – among other things – “promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices, and falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.”
Trump’s memo received backlash on Wednesday from social media users who called the review “Stalinesque” and pointed out that it was Trump who appointed Krebs in the first place.
“This is madness,” reacted MSNBC analyst and The Bulwark Podcast host Tim Miller . “Chris Krebs was a public servant, a GOP appointee, who *did his job* ensuring the 2020 election was secure. For our government to target him like this is appalling & Stalinesque. Any person who reveres our constitutional republic should speak out against it.”
This is madness. Chris Krebs was a public servant, a GOP appointee, who *did his job* ensuring the 2020 election was secure. For our government to target him like this is appalling & Stalinesque.
Any person who reveres our constitutional republic should speak out against it. https://t.co/TDiFiSIH2D
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) April 9, 2025
Trump telling the DOJ to investigate a widely respected former Trump administration official whom he fired for accurately attesting to the cyber security of the 2020 election. https://t.co/G1nzxOEyqu — Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) April 9, 2025
Disgraceful, gangster behavior, behind the Resolute desk. It may no longer surprise, but a free people should not lose the capacity to be outraged by the corrupt abuse of the massive powers of government to target the president's perceived enemies, including individuals. https://t.co/ijNDpZA4Dp — Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) April 9, 2025
“Outrageous,” weighed in the editor of The Dispatch, Stephen Hayes . “Trump is targeting by name a civil servant widely respected by both Republicans and Democrats. And he’s doing so in service of his false claims – thoroughly and repeatedly debunked – that he won the 2020 election. This won’t stop here.”
Outrageous.
Trump is targeting by name a civil servant widely respected by both Republicans and Democrats. And he’s doing so in service of his false claims – thoroughly and repeatedly debunked – that he won the 2020 election.
This won’t stop here. https://t.co/woQOPtAlzU
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) April 9, 2025
Trump now ordering the Justice Department to "investigate" officials in his own administration simply for saying that the 2020 election was secure.
He promised a new era for free speech, and I guess he's delivering. https://t.co/KGr4Jbsv5L
— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) April 9, 2025
Trump also received criticism from his former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews , who resigned from her position following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
“Before the election, I warned repeatedly that Trump would go after those he saw as political enemies,” she wrote . “Now he’s targeting a public servant who simply did his job and told the truth about the 2020 election being secure because it doesn’t fit with his lies.”
Before the election, I warned repeatedly that Trump would go after those he saw as political enemies. Now he’s targeting a public servant who simply did his job and told the truth about the 2020 election being secure because it doesn’t fit with his lies. https://t.co/b7w19I4oxq — Sarah Matthews (@SarahAMatthews1) April 9, 2025
Trump impeachment testifier Alexander Vindman had more explicit words for the president.
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I'd like to see anyone here defend this.
In my opinion, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET!!!
From 2021 via the infamous Molly Ball:
How Big Business Got Woke and Dumped Donald Trump | TIME
I suggest reading it before answering John's question.
I read it and nowhere does it prove any fraudulent votes in the 2020 election. Just because a group of CEO's and other politicians on both sides of the aisle agreed that a peaceful transfer of power was necessary for financial stability in our country doesn't mean there was actual "real" evidence of fraud THAT COULD HAVE OVERTURNED THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION that was ever found or ignored.
What Trump is doing now should be criminal, which fits because he is a convicted criminal. If you support Trump, you support a convicted criminal and are no better than he is. If any of his supporters had any shame left, I'm sure they would be red in the face with it. Sadly, they do not [deleted][✘]
What Trump did yesterday was make it the official policy of his administration that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
And our press and media just accept it, with very little objection. He'll probably even have Bondi investigate the two Georgia election workers who Giuliani defamed and see if they can be put in prison .
It's getting more Orwellian out there every day
The 1st Amendment needs to be silenced in order to save it and that's just a start.
It does. See link posted in Comment 3, below.
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Oh yeah. That's right. I will send it to you. Appalling.
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"appalling"
very much so. Who's suppressing whose freedom of speech?
Cretins do not only come sans teeth, just look at their leader. Just because you have a sweet suit and tie does not mean that you are not a pig.
Did you post that to show how ridiculous it is?
I posted it for context. Everyone can make up their own mind.
Not a problem, it falls under The Law of the 3 Bs - Bullshit Baffles Brains.
You are welcome to that opinion. I file it under TWoT. Total Waste of Time
So why post it?
From that so-called "fact" sheet:
Trump has been firing high level officials (mostly women and minorities, btw) for supposed reasons of 'wokeness' based on speech.
He's been disappearing people off the streets for speech.
Hell, he's going after Krebs for speech (not going along with his election lies).
How many supposedly "woke" books have been removed from school libraries, government agencies, and military academies by Trump's thought police...for speech?
So much for ending government censorship. More like kicking it in to overdrive.
And that statement is the complete opposite of reality. What Trump has made patently clear, going all the way back to his first term, is that loyalty to him and his personal, partisan agenda trumps everything else (pun intended). That's why his cabinet is so full of unqualified boot lickers and yes-men this time. He got sick of actual patriots telling him no last time.
All of this is about as Orwellian as it gets, and it's actually happening here.
Is more information a problem for you?
trmp needs to show his loyalty to the United States
Information is intended to inform, what is in the WH FoS sheet is meant to deceive ... ergo disinformation.
Trump is not patriotic, and he is only loyal to the government when he is running it.
The only loyalty these rightwing religious conservative sycophants have is to the Trumpfederacy. They already fly his flags, they attacked the American capital on his behalf in attempt to install him as leader. These sick fucks don't give a shit about the America our founders envisioned. It's why so many of them seem enamored with Russia. That's more their desired political infrastructure. One strong man they put their blind faith in because he promised to give them and their God anything and everything they want, they just have to trust him and not worry about politics, they won't even need to vote anymore, they trust he's got their backs and they give him free reign to do whatever it takes to do that, the law and constitution be damned.
There's none there. A leopard can't change its spots, neither can a tyrant.
Information includes things you might not agree with. "Disinformation" by many on the left refers to anything they don't like.
Maybe they should get a disinformation guru. OOOPs
The same goes for your school of thought that peruses DOGE reports as if they're writ by the hand of God ... jaysus where's your head hiding?
You have no idea where my school of thought is
Are you tired of the lying and the gas lighting yet? I know I am
Spewing out of the WH definitely.
He has no loyalty to the United States. He is a Traitor in both spirit and deed.
A substantial comment history of excuses for Trump gives us all a very good idea.
Again, to quote Trump's own words in the order to open an investigation
"and falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen".
If you were a government worker and deny that the election was stolen you are subject to a DOJ investigation. This is madness and in a sane world would be impeachable conduct by a president.
I think there has to be a charge a little more specific to be impeached but I can see the confusion based on the last 2 impeachments.
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Isn't that censorship? So telling the truth is now a criminal act?
Idiotic statement at best. They opened an investigation into it. Far better than setting your hair on fire and run around with zero information as this article seems to want everybody to do.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Who won the 2020 presidential Election? No evidence has been found that it was stolen, but to you, it is a serious question that bears investigation. Orwell much?
Seems the Democrats and left are good with investigations. So why not let the investigation carry on? Unless there is something to hide.
There were dozens and dozens of investigations, some 72+ court cases brought, hand recounts, all sorts of attempts by Trumps allies to prove ANY substantive voter fraud AND THEY FOUND NOTHING!
To continue the investigations at this point would be beyond stupid. The only purpose of it would be an attempt to alter the known facts in the favor of Trump who is now in power and is without a doubt the most corrupt piece of garbage to ever sit behind the resolute desk. He is an embarrassment to this nation, and to let him further stain it by dragging out long dead conspiracy theories so he can feed the resurrected dead meat to his sick brain-dead zombie-like sycophants who gobble this shit up is beyond reprehensible.
Dictator day one, and forever.