Heed the signs and don't underestimate the threat to our republic from within: -Trump obstructed justice -A McConnell-packed SCOTUS says precedent can be changed more easily than previously thought -AG Barr is an open partisan and slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre beneficiary
-White House ignores congressional subpoenas, document requests -Mnuchin is violating a law on turning over taxes to House -Barr & Senate allies want to investigate officials who investigated Trump to retaliate against them and deter future efforts to hold him to the rule of law
-State Dept is setting up a commission to supplant human rights with "natural law" -An Inspector General found standing room only in border detention cells, with detainees standing on toilets to breathe -children stolen from parents at the border are dying in internment camps
-Trump cut resources for investigating domestic terrorists -FBI reports a recent significant rise in white supremacist domestic terrorism -evidence found of a white supremacist plot to add census Q to help gerrymander in ways "advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites"
-Trump is still resisting setting up defenses against foreign election interference -Trump's personal attorney solicited foreign govt investigation of current Trump political rival Biden -AG Barr said something in a weird interview about investigating former Trump rival Clinton
-There's cause for concern Trump/Kushner personal interests may be influencing middle east policy -Ignoring Congress, Trump declared fake emergency & abused authority to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia to continue its atrocities in Yemen, after it murdered a Washington Post reporter
-Trump declared fake emergency to get more power to ramp up activity at border -ethics violations (and ethically dubious conduct not rising to a violation) occurring at an unprecedented rate among Trump appointees -senior admin official says she doesn't care about an ethics law
-if impeached, Trump says he'll try to get SCOTUS to overturn the impeachment -McConnell, who blocked Merrick Garland ostensibly because it was an election year, shamelessly hinted this week that he'd be willing to fill a SCOTUS position for Trump in an election year
-Trump is praising autocrats, undermining allies -Tone of OLC's recent opinions has changed under Assistant AG Steven Engel, who was tied to one of the torture memos -Military went to the border for Trump -Military hid a ship to placate Trump -Airborne seen wearing MAGA patches
-Trump admin & Graham inexplicably advocating war in Iran/Venezuela -DOJ experimenting with new legal theory for prosecuting those who publish classified information (raising a question as to whether the theory will be limited to hostile foreign actors or expanded to journalists)
-some public voices are normalizing Trump admin conduct -voicemail from Trump lawyer to Flynn shows a disturbing carrot/stick approach (or worse) -Trump has seemed to dangle pardons to buy silence or worse -Trump admin officials are violating records laws to conceal actions
-Trump said "Russia, if you're listening" -Trump said "fine people" marched with nazis -Trump has told over 10,000 false or misleading statements, per Washington Post -Trump helped cover up Khashoggi murder, and Kushner's said to have offered advice to MBS on weathering the storm
-a foreign prince is reported to have said he has Kushner in his pocket (but denies saying that) -Helsinki -Trump's behavior is erratic and is marked by frequent lies, bizarre public outbursts, name-calling and confusion -no press conferences, and no transparency
-Trump allies in congress are either lying about the Mueller report or haven't read it -Trump allies in congress are trying to prevent Mueller & others from testifying because they know their base hasn't read the report and right wing media has kept them from hearing about it