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I'll be shocked if the GOP does anything. They willingly kiss the ring and are the party of Trump now.

The Evil Genius wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:36 pm

I'll be shocked if the GOP does anything. They willingly kiss the ring and are the party of Trump now.

But didn't he fire the IGs? So how exactly is this supposed to happen?

Federal judge blocks Trump from shuttering Radio Free Europe

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s effort to cut funding for Radio Free Europe, a nonprofit news agency funded by the U.S. government that operates in 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, granted a temporary restraining order preventing the U.S Agency for Global Media from shutting down Radio Free Europe after the government indicated it would disburse $7.5 million in frozen funds.

“The leadership of USAGM cannot, with one sentence of reasoning offering virtually no explanation, force Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to shut down — even if the president has told them to do so,” Lamberth wrote in a 10-page order.

Radio Free Europe was created in 1949 to broadcast in Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe, while Radio Liberty was established in 1951 to target the Soviet Union itself in an effort to counter Communism during the Cold War. The two organizations were covertly funded by the CIA until 1972 and merged in 1976.

The organization is governed by the Agency for Global Media, originally the Broadcasting Board of Governors, along with Voice of America and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting — operated by the government — and the independent nonprofits Radio Free Asia, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, the Open Technology Fund and the Frontline Media Fund.

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency targeted the organization, along with Voice of America, as a cost-saving measure, similar to its efforts against independent agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Institute for Peace and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

On March 15, Kari Lake, senior adviser to the acting CEO of the Agency for Global Media, sent Radio Free Europe a termination letter, citing President Donald Trump’s March 14 executive order, “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” as the basis for terminating the outlet’s federal grants.

According to the letter, Radio Free Europe did not perform statutorily required functions and no longer effectuated the agency’s priorities.

Radio Free Europe sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 18, arguing that funding for the organization is a statutory function of the Agency for Global Media.

“Whether to disburse funds as directed by appropriations laws, and whether to make those funds available through grants as directed by the International Broadcasting Act, is not an optional choice for the agency to make,” the organization said. “It is the law.”

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The Evil Genius wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:10 pm

Tя☭mp: OK already, I’m trying as hard as I can! Just be patient.

Trump Considering Reparations for Jan. 6 Rioters He Pardoned: ‘They Were Treated Very Unfairly’

President Donald Trump signaled openness to some form of “compensation” for the Jan. 6 rioters he pardoned.

Hours after being sworn into office for a second time, Trump issued sweeping pardons to about 1,500 people charged or convicted in connection with the 2021 Capitol riot he helped incite. The president falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged against him and held a rally on the day Congress was certifying the election for Joe Biden. When then-Vice President Mike Pence declined to heed Trump’s harebrained advice that he refuse to recognize the results in his ceremonial role as presiding officer, a pro-Trump mob – which Trump had encouraged to come to Washington, D.C., stormed the Capitol.

Trump was criminally charged for his attempt to overturn the election, but the case was dropped after he won a second term.

More than 1,200 people were convicted on various charges ranging from assaulting police officers to simple trespassing. In the four years since, the rioters have become sympathetic figures among some on the right.

On Tuesday, Trump appeared on Newsmax, where Greg Kelly asked him about reparations for the rioters. The host first pointed to a lawsuit against the federal government filed by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a police officer as she attempted to break through a door.

Kelly noted that the Department of Justice is still fighting that lawsuit and asked, “Shouldn’t that be something that can just be settled at this point?”

Trump said he was unaware of the situation and that he would “look into that” because Babbitt “was a really good person.”

“Is there any talk of – because they lost opportunity, they lost income – any kind of compensation fund?” Kelly asked, referring to the rioters in general.

“Well, there’s talk about that,” the president replied. “A lot of the people that are in government now talk about it because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people. They were patriots as far as I was concerned. I talk about them a lot. They were treated very unfairly.”