8 unhinged moments as Donald Trump sets up chilling squad to probe people who tried to stop him

Donald Trump acceptable up a chilling inquisition squad to basal retired radical who investigated and prosecuted him - and his supporters who tried to violently overturn the past election.

Well into his his 3rd week backmost successful the Oval Office, Trump is inactive joking astir trying to enactment connected arsenic President aft the extremity of his 2nd term.

And 1 of Elon Musk's tech bro squad discontinue implicit immoderate racist tweets - but connected the different manus they've been fixed entree to accusation astir the nukes, truthful it's not each bad.

Here's everything you request to cognize astir the chilling and unhinged things Donald Trump and his White House did overnight.

1. Launched a squad to basal retired Justice section officers who investigated and prosecuted Trump and January 6th coup rioters

Almost arsenic soon arsenic helium got his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, confirmed by the Senate, Trump acceptable her to enactment connected 1 of his favourite pastimes - persecuting and bullying those who person tried to halt him.

Memos amusement the Attorney General's Office has acceptable up a "Weaponisation Working Group" - tasked with rooting retired radical from the Justice Department - which includes prosecutors and the FBI - who:

• Prosecuted Trump
• Raided Mar A Lago wherever helium was illegally storing classified material
• Investigated and prosecuted rioters who stormed the Capitol Building successful a convulsive bid to overturn the 2020 election, installing Trump for a 2nd word contempt losing the vote.

Some mightiness accidental this was an denotation that pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists wasn't simply doing a favour for his supporters, but a chilling archetypal measurement successful a bid to guarantee helium tin technologist different coup d'etat whenever helium wants with fewer if anyone near successful authorities who is prepared to reason it.

2. Compared the level clang to golf

Speaking astatine the National Prayer Breakfast - a gathering of spiritual leaders - yesterday Trump gave what tin lone beryllium described arsenic a "Wide Ranging" speech.

Among his musings during the address, was a examination betwixt the tragic aerial clang catastrophe which killed 67 Americans connected Trump's doorstep little than a week agone - to golf.

"I conjecture the chopper was high, and we volition constituent retired precisely what happened," helium said.

"But the likelihood adjacent if you had nothing, nobody, the likelihood of that napping are highly small. Did you ever spell to a driving scope successful play and deed hundreds of balls, thousands of hours.

"I've ne'er seen a shot deed different ball. You ne'er spot them deed and balls going up each implicit the place. That is astonishing that could happen."

3. One of Elon Musk's bully bro squad discontinue implicit racist posts

Almost inevitably, 1 of Elon's tech bro intimidation portion has been forced to resign aft idiosyncratic recovered he'd posted ace racist things connected societal media.

And since Marko Eles is but 25 years old, the posts were beauteous recent.

"Just for the record, I was racist earlier it was cool," a deleted Twitter relationship linked to him posted successful July according to the Wall Street Journal.

In September, the relationship posted: "You could not wage maine to wed extracurricular of my ethnicity," pursuing up with "normalize Indian hate" the aforesaid month.

Other posts appeared to bespeak a peculiar disliking for Indian bundle developers, whom posts said would beryllium "replaced by somewhat smarter LLMs (AI chatbots). They're going back, don't interest guys."

As good arsenic moving for DOGE, Elez has worked for Musk astatine Twitter and Starling.

The White House confirmed past nighttime helium had resigned.

4. Still, Elon's minions mightiness person entree to accusation astir the nukes now...

According to CNN, a 23-year-old subordinate of Musk's Young Avengers has been fixed entree to the Department of Energy's machine system.

The bureau controls entree to accusation astir America's arsenal of atomic weapons.

5. Sued Illinois

The White House is Suing Illinois - and the metropolis of Chicago - successful the archetypal of Trump's bids to ace down connected "sanctuary cities"

In sanctuary cities oregon states, nationalist officials aren't allowed to inquire astir someone's migration presumption unless they've committed a transgression - which causes a large headache for Trump's wide deportation programme.

Illinois' authorities instrumentality - specifically the Illinois Trust Act 2017, "prevents authorities and section instrumentality enforcement from assisting the national authorities with civilian migration enforcement but allows coordination erstwhile determination is simply a national transgression warrant."

The suit says the instrumentality - on with 2 different metropolis and region ordinances - are an "intentional effort to obstruct the Federal Government's enforcement of national migration instrumentality and to impede consultation and connection betwixt federal, state, and section instrumentality enforcement officials that is indispensable for national officials to transportation retired national migration instrumentality and support Americans safe."

6. Had his wide redundancy strategy blocked by judge

Trump's connection of semi-voluntary redundancy to fundamentally everyone who works successful the authorities has been temporarily blocked by a judge.

Two cardinal employees were fixed until midnight connected Thursday to judge an connection of "deferred resignation" - wherever they would beryllium paid until the extremity of September.

US District Judge George O'Toole Jr ordered the strategy beryllium paused until a further proceeding to beryllium held connected Monday.

7. Continued to "joke" astir moving again

It's decidedly not a joke, guys.

8. People support connected conscionable making up numbers astir each the condoms America isn't buying

Not Trump himself this time, I'll assistance you.

But here's Republican House subordinate Buddy Carter wading successful to marque different mendacious - oregon astatine slightest unsubstantiated - assertion astir who America is buying condoms for.

It started with $50m worthy for Hamas - which wasn't true.

Then Trump upped it to $100 cardinal for Hamas - inactive not true, but getting funnier.

Now the worth has gone down, but the destination has besides changed.

"The US assistance that was chopped off, should person been chopped off," helium said. "I mean, $15 cardinal for the Taliban?"

Asked if helium was conflating 1 nonsense fig of wealth spent connected contraceptives for atrocious radical successful the Middle East with another, Buddy insisted helium wasn't.

So this is simply a caller purchase. Let's bash the numbers connected that one, portion we're here.

If you judge the Taliban's ain (probably inflated) numbers, determination are astir 378,000 of them.

USAid, the present diminished bureau that among many, galore different things, distributed contraceptives to places wherever they are hard and costly to obtain, bought condoms for astir 5c each.

So $15 cardinal buys you astir 300m condoms.

That's astir 793 condoms for each subordinate of the Taliban. And fixed the Taliban person banned contraceptives, reportedly going doorway to doorway threatening midwives and pharmacies that connection immoderate benignant of commencement power to their patients, it's rather improbable galore of them volition instrumentality their afloat quota.