Years before this ruling, that was the defense trotted out by the Calm Down types: they didn’t do it! Too many people said no, I won’t commit crimes for you, Trump.
They fail to realize there were multiple who were willing! If he’s reelected how many Jeff Clark’s do you wanna risk him appointing
And honestly, I don't think he thought he would win the first time.
Neither, he, or his people, had any idea how things worked. They brought in halfway normal people.
Yea, a Oil Exec for energy wasn't ideal, but he wasn't a sycophant.
This time would (not will) be different.
When I was young and naïve I fought to remove what I thought were terrible administrators. I quickly learned that you might win a battle but if the powers that be liked what that administrator was doing they'd find someone the same to replace him. There's always someone willing to sell their soul.
Between Stephen Miller's own personal Stasi cosplay department and the NYC FBI field office who spent all of 2016 leaking to Giuliani, does anybody really *doubt* that there are feds out there who will do their fuhrer's bidding?
I mean part of Project 2025 is basically, we're going to fire everybody in the government who *isn't* a Trumpist and replace them with people who are. Expecting anyone in the chain of command to save us with their principled stand is dangerously naive.
I'm sure that "POTUS is unencumbered by the law but the entire executive branch working for him is" is a "problem" that the supreme court would be happy to solve if asked