#MilesTaylor

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NonilexEarlier this month, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> issued 2 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrders</a> revoking the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> clearances of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisKrebs</a>, who led <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CISA</a> under during Trump’s first term & rebutted his claims that the 2020 election had been rigged & stolen, & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a>, who once served as chief of staff at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DHS</a>. Taylor anonymously wrote a NYT opinion essay in 2018 accusing Trump of rampant “amorality” & telling of an internal government “resistance.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstAmendment</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

Nonilex“It brings to mind the abuses of power that characterize <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarian</a> nations, not the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>. No matter one’s party or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>, every American should reject the notion that the awesome <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> of the presidency can be used to pursue individual vendettas. Behavior of this kind is more to be expected from a royal despot than the elected leader of a constitutional republic. This is the path of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a>, not <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisKrebs</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>

NonilexA number of prominent <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a>, including several fmr members of the first <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admini, have signed an open letter decrying him for using his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> to punish 2 fmr admin officials who criticized him, likening his actions to those of a “royal despot.”“For a president to personally & publicly direct the levers of the federal government against publicly named citizens for political reasons sets a new & perilous precedent in our republic,” the group wrote.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisKrebs</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a>

NonilexThat same day, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> also signed a memo targeting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a>, a fmr US ofcl who wrote an opinion column & book critical of Trump under the pen name “Anonymous.”In the Oval Office last week, Trump called <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisKrebs</a> a “wiseguy” & mocked an appearance he had seen from Krebs on TV.“He came out right after the election, which was a rigged election, a badly rigged election…this guy Krebs was saying, ‘Oh, the election was great, it was great,’” Trump said.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesOne of the stranger things about analyzing Downmarket Mussolini's fascist executive orders is the way folks around me are always prepared to write off some of the most dangerous things Der Leader tries to do as mere "petty vindictiveness." Take for example Trump's recent executive orders targeting a law firm that sued Fox News for spreading lies about an electronic voting machine company, and two former members of his previous administration - a DHS official who refuted Trump's blatantly false claims that the 2020 election was rigged for Joe Biden, and a whistleblower he's accusing of Espionage Act violations and has accused of treason in the past. Is this about revenge for our (not so) beloved tangerine tyrant? Of course, but particularly in the first two cases, this is also about establishing Der Führer's "Big Lie" about the 2020 election being rigged against him, as the only officially sanctioned truth the government, and by extension its judiciary branch, should recognize.First up we have the president signing an executive order designed to punish Susman Godfrey for forcing the Trump regime's quasi-official state news outlet, Fox, to settle with Dominion Voting Systems after they spent literally months openly broadcasting fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election (that Trump lost) being rigged:<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-executive-order-fox-news-law-firm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-executive-order-fox-news-law-firm</a>Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit"Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday punishing the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain a $787.5m settlement from Fox for lies about the 2020 election.The order against the firm, Susman Godfrey, marks the latest effort by the president to punish attorneys and firms who have opposed his interests.The order seeks to harm the firm by limiting its attorneys from accessing government buildings, revoking security clearances and essentially making it impossible for it to represent anyone who has business before the federal government."Like a lot of Trump's efforts to punish or intimidate law firms, this blatantly unconstitutional executive order is mostly about trying to put Susman Godfrey out of business by denying them access to the federal government, and the courtrooms it controls. What's telling here is that Trump isn't even trying to make the argument that the firm broke any laws, or violated any rules; no reason for the executive order was given, and the president has only said "there were some very bad things that happened with these law firms,” because Trump hasn't found a valid excuse for this ideological policing and he's not ready to just up and admit he's trying to take out his perceived political enemies for A) disputing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and B) forcing his friends at Fox to pay for its libelous claims about Dominion. Which then brings us to Trump's blatantly authoritarian use of the DoJ to target two of his political "enemies" that served in his administration, but spoke out against the regime and in Krebs's case, actively debunked "The Big Lie" Trump has been telling about the 2020 election being rigged against him since it happened:<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justice-department-critics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justice-department-critics</a>Trump orders DoJ to investigate duo who debunked claims of election fraud"Donald Trump’s persecution of critics intensified on Wednesday when he ordered the justice department to investigate a whistleblower and a cybersecurity director who refuted unfounded claims of election fraud.The US president signed memorandums targeting Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, former homeland security officials who served in the first Trump administration."Look my friends, I'm not expecting you to find much sympathy for a Big Law firm rolling in filthy lucre, or two former fascist collaborators that are now finding out the leopards will indeed eat their faces, but in this situation the "who" of this story, is far less important than the "what." What Trump is doing here is weaponizing the US government to punish folks for contradicting his "enforced unreality" surrounding the 2020 election, and let me assure you that there are a lot of people in the judiciary, legal profession, and media who have gone on record saying that Trump's claims where baseless (fascist) conspiracy theories, so that isn't just a question of the president arguing with the experts about some bullshit he picked up on Fox News. Furthermore, Trumps actions ultimately seek to make his enemies, the enemies of the United States government; this is a classic sign of a state sliding into an authoritarian dictatorship and thus cannot be dismissed as Trump simply being a petulant vengeful manchild. Smoke em if you got em, because if Trump gets away with this, we're through the looking glass and his every utterance becomes our new reality.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BigLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigLaw</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoJ</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SusmanGodfrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SusmanGodfrey</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fox</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DominionVotingSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DominionVotingSystems</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TheBigLie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheBigLie</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/2020USElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#2020USElection</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheories</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Targeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Targeting</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisKrebs</a>

Nonilex…The other allegation <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> makes against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a> is that his anonymous writings “stoked dissension.” Trump said that amounted to “manufacturing sensationalist reports on the existence of a supposed ‘resistance’ within the Federal Government that ‘vowed’ to undermine & render ineffective a sitting President.” But the idea that there was some secretive group of govt ofcls working to undermine Trump & check his impulses was also promoted by…Trump himself.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a>

Nonilex…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s memo on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a> is similarly hyperbolic. It accuses him of conduct that “could properly be characterized as treasonous & as possibly violating the Espionage Act.”  That alleged conduct? Trump claims Taylor’s 2019 book, which he also wrote anonymously, “illegally published classified conversations” & “is full of falsehoods & fabricated stories.”  But the memo points to no details about specific classified information Taylor supposedly shared.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> crosses the Rubicon on ordering investigations of foesTrump is now expressly ordering investigations of his foes — even criminal ones. That’s something Trump’s AG, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PamBondi</a>, downplayed as a possibility at her confirmation hearing. (When asked what role the White House would play in investigation & prosecution decisions, Bondi responded: “It is the Department of Justice’s decision.”)  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuseOfPower</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisKrebs</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/trump-doj-ivestigations-krebs-taylor/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/trump-doj-ivestigations-krebs-taylor/</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> new <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> targets former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CISA</a> director <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisKrebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChrisKrebs</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilesTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilesTaylor</a> aka <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Anonymous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anonymous</a> Orders <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOJ</a> to investigate Accuses them of “treason”Penalty for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/treason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#treason</a> is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#death</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dissent</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Truth</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facts</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbuseOfPower</a>

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