Guardian: The Maga backlash against Trump’s crypto grab: ‘This is bad, and looks bad’
When Donald Trump announced – three days before assuming the presidency of the United States, and followed shortly by Melania Trump – that he was launching a self-named “meme coin” cryptocurrency, many in the crypto industry were quick to express frustration. Ethics experts were also alarmed.
Among Trump’s base, however, a similar backlash – smaller, more muted, but similarly anguished – has been taking hold.
Federal government workers have been left “shell-shocked” by the upheaval wreaked by Donald Trump’s return to the presidency amid signs that he is bent on exacting revenge on a bureaucracy he considers to be a “deep state” that previously thwarted and persecuted him.
Since being restored to the White House on 20 January, the president has gone on a revenge spree against high-profile figures who previously served him but earned his enmity by slighting or criticising him in public.
He has cancelled Secret Service protection for three senior national security officials in his first presidency — John Bolton, the former national security adviser; Mike Pompeo, who was CIA director and secretary of state; and Brian Hook, a former assistant secretary of state — even though all are assassination targets on an Iranian government hit list.
The same treatment has been meted out to Anthony Fauci, the infectious diseases expert who angered Trump after joining the White House taskforce tackling Covid-19 and who has also faced death threats.
Globe: Danielle Smith axes entire Alberta Health Services board for the second time
The government said the moves were necessary to make it more responsive to Albertans’ health care needs. But critics pointed out that the province had emptied the board two years before and hospitals are still burdened by staffing shortages and long waiting times.
Globe: Carney promised to scrap carbon fuel charge if he becomes prime minister
Mark Carney says that a federal government led by him would implement incentives that reward Canadians for purchasing energy-efficient appliances, electric vehicles or improved home insulation.
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He also framed the Trump presidency as an opportunity, telling reporters that the world is shifting and one of the biggest determinants of competitiveness in industry will be the size of its carbon footprint.
“This is our moment. This is our time. We’re going to leapfrog the United States where they’ve turned inwards and trying to turn back the clock. They’ll come around eventually, and when they come around, we’re going to be ahead of them.”
Guardian: Trump’s disregard for US constitution ‘a blitzkrieg on the law’, legal experts say
Donald Trump’s rapid-fire and controversial moves that have ranged from banning birthright citizenship to firing 18 inspectors general means the US president has shown a greater willingness than his predecessors to violate the constitution and federal law, some historians and legal scholars say.
These scholars pointed to other Trump actions they say blatantly broke the law, such as freezing trillions of dollar in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), even though they were confirmed by the Senate and had several years left in their terms.
“Without any doubt Donald Trump is the most lawless and scofflaw president we have ever seen in the history of the United States,” said Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars and a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.
via SmartNews
Last Updated: 01.Feb.2025 14:15 EST
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