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#Project2025’s Guide to Subverting #Democracy

A 2nd #Trump admin could #weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.

This article is part of “Project 2025: The Plot Against #America,” a Nation special issue devoted to unpacking the right’s vast & chilling program for a 2nd Trump term.

#law #justice #UnitedStates #Constitution #politics #democracy #USpol #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
thenation.com/article/society/

[Full article available via the #InternetArchive]

The #FBI Is Investigating #ErikPrince for Trying to #Weaponize #CropDusters

by Matthew Cole
February 20 2020

"Last May [May 2019], shortly after Congress accused Erik Prince of lying under oath and referred criminal charges to the Justice Department, an associate approached the #Blackwater founder to offer help and commiserate about Prince’s potential legal jeopardy.

"Prince, who once moved to the United Arab Emirates to avoid being caught up in a federal prosecution, immediately dismissed the associate’s concerns. He was untouchable, he bragged, and would face no legal troubles.

"'Not under this guy,' Prince said referring to President Donald #Trump, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange.

"That assumption is about to be tested.

"Prince, an heir to a billion-dollar fortune who is widely viewed as a shadow adviser to the president, is under federal investigation for his 2015 attempt to modify two American-made crop-dusting planes into attack aircraft — a violation of arms trafficking regulations — two people familiar with the investigation told The Intercept. The planes became part of private military services Prince proposed to sell or use in mercenary operations in #Africa and #Azerbaijan, as The Intercept has previously reported.

"The investigation into the modified crop dusters is one of several ongoing probes targeting Prince. Another focuses on the allegations that he lied to Congress during the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into #Russia’s 2016 presidential election interference; a third concerns a 2017 armed aviation proposal to the #UAE, according to the Wall Street Journal."

theintercept.com/2020/02/20/er

web.archive.org/web/2020041410

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#Academi #CorporateColonialism #PrivateArmies #WeaponizedCropDusters

The Intercept · The FBI Is Investigating Erik Prince for Trying to Weaponize Crop DustersBy Matthew Cole
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@Podophyllum @CitizenWald @histodons "Jews and Arabs are all really children of the House of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States and Israel. "And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4000 years." The accusation of #colonization is #propaganda and used to #weaponize #hatred #terrorism #historymatters

#JamesComer and #GymJordan are now misusing the power of #Congress to protect #FederalistSociety leader and the chooser of every #rightwing #SupremeCourt justice #LeonardLeo, just like they're doing for #Trump. They're hiding beneath the patina of Congressional #authority as they #weaponize levers of power to protect their cash-cow. The #American people shouldn't stand for this #corruption. #VoteBlue.

msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-

MSNBC · Jim Jordan and James Comer find another prosecutor to mess withBy Ja'han Jones

A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos #poll provides some bad news for #Trump:

Even as he remains the clear frontrunner for the #Republican nomination,…

The survey results suggest Americans are taking the cases seriously —particularly the #DOJ’s #2020election case— & that most people are skeptical of Trump’s claim he’s a #victim of a legally baseless witch hunt or an elaborate, multi-jurisdictional effort to “#weaponize” law enforcement authorities against him.

politico.com/news/magazine/202

POLITICOLock Him Up? A New Poll Has Some Bad News for Trump A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll punctures some prevailing political narratives about the Trump indictments.