As one person, I can't even begin to capture everything the Trump Administration or any other Administration does. I have liked a few things Trump has done, but I have disagreed with more. I've disagreed with Trump on constitutional grounds as well as moral and ethical grounds on numerous actions so far. I'd like to summarize what I feel are the most pressing issues that I've covered since January. This list is not given in any particular order.
To read more about these issues, you can use Google, or you can search this blog, because I've covered them here.
- Using the United States military to invade a State against the consent of the elected leaders of that State. Example: California
- Warrantless arrests. Government officials entering residences and private properties and arresting people without a warrant and without even identifying themselves as law enforcement officers.
- Detaining people without probable cause on the basis of race and ethnicity (whether or not they claim lawful status or citizenship).
- Suspension of habeus corpus. People are being held indefinitely without hearings.
- Tariffs are the realm of Congress; not the president.
- Declaring student debt in default for 5.3 million people. The Department of Education announced that not only will it be reinstating the student loans of 5.3 million Americans, and it will announce them immediately in default, affecting their credit. These are people who stopped paying because the government told them their debts were forgiven. It is immoral and unethical to intentionally ruin their credit.
- Accepting bribes in an unregulated currency: You can pay Trump in cryptocurrency to have a few unobserved minutes with him. He has received crypto emoluments from foreign nations and corporations in exchange for favors.
- Urging people to inform on their family and neighbors and providing online infrastructure for doing so. Examples: Department of Education and DHS wants you to let them know if you find any evidence they are working toward equity and inclusion of disenfranchised people, or if you think your Hispanic neighbors might be undocumented immigrants.
- Defunding critical research into national security: Example, the Department of Defense ended studies that discover where the next major migrations of people will occur due to political, social, economic and climate problems. Predicting where the next conflicts will occur and what form they will take, is the job of the Department of Defense. This is a dereliction of duty.
- The "investment accelerator": The government—our tax dollars—will be paying attorneys and accountants to help rich people (foreign and domestic people) succeed in business in the US, as long as they have $5 million. This assistance is not provided to regular folks who are not rich, but who want to start businesses.
- Stripping the National Museums of factual American history that Trump doesn't like. Executive Order March 28
- Persecuting lawyers who take cases that annoy the president. Presidential memorandum March 21.
- Persecution of our young people for practicing their 1st amendment rights.
- Threatening to take by force the territory of two sovereign nations and (former) allies.
- Declining to investigate financial crimes of American corporations. (March 2 press release from Department of Commerce)
- Expelling transgender people from the military without any review of their merit. Further, the Department of Defense will interrogate cis-gendered people whose leaders simply "feel" like they might have transgender tendencies. This is according to the instructions memo from Sec. of Defense.
- Firing nearly all Federal agency watchdogs (Inspectors General) in the middle of the night and not replacing them.
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