All posts tagged "Retribution"

President Donald Trump has seemingly wedged a decade's worth of head-spinning decisions, feuds, gaffes and scandals into his first year back in the White House, and according to a year-end analysis fromThe Independent, at least four "outrageous" stories got buried in obscurity amid the onslaught of news.

As the outlet noted, Trump and the wider MAGA political movement are well-known for adhering to Steve Bannon's "flood the zone" strategy, which involves inundating the press and observers with so much newsworthy content that they cannot keep up, allowing some objectionable things to skate by unnoticed.

The first story The Independent highlighted was the "Friday-night massacre" of watchdog officials. Just five days into his second term, Trump fired "independent inspectors general who root out waste, fraud and abuse within federal agencies and departments" from nearly every cabinet-level agency, violating laws requiring him to give notice to Congress before doing so....

Retribution is at the center of Donald Trump’s third presidential election campaign.

“I am your warrior,” Trump proclaimed earlier this year. “I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”

Trump’s loyal surrogates have duly embraced the project — perhaps no one more zealously than Ivan Raiklin, a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who bills himself as the former and would-be president’s “future secretary of retribution.”...