Huffman Says FCC Commissioner Misusing Official Position to Advance Project 2025
Press release from U.S. Representative Jared Huffman:
Today, U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02), founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force, along with 15 of his colleagues, sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Office of Special Counsel, and the Office of Government Ethics decrying FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr for crafting part of Project 2025 in his official capacity as an executive-level employee of the federal government. The lawmakers also called on the administration to urgently to investigate Commissioner Carr’s involvement and make a determination as to whether he complied with the Hatch Act and other federal ethics laws and regulations.
Led by the Heritage Foundation, a network of former Trump officials and conservative organizations developed Project 2025 with the self-declared “goal of shaping policy decisions among presidential candidates.” Senior Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, whom Trump originally appointed to the agency in 2017, wrote an entire chapter of the report calling for dramatic changes to his own agency, including notably calling for enlisting the FCC into the Republican battle against Section 230, which protects digital platforms from lawsuits over user-generated content. Carr has long advocated for modifying the law on the grounds that social media companies are disproportionately “censoring” conservative viewpoints.
“Given the close ties between Project 2025, Trump, and his re-election campaign, it is deeply troubling that Commissioner Carr would use his official title and position to author part of the political playbook for a Republican presidential candidate,” the lawmakers wrote. “This potential misuse of title raises serious questions about Commissioner Carr’s commitment to keeping his private political activities separate from his official duties. Therefore, we ask the relevant authorities to determine to what extent Commissioner Carr violated the Misuse of Position Rule or leveraged his government office in other ways to enhance his personal standing or advance the private and political interests of Project 2025.”
The members also requested the agencies coordinate with the Department of Justice to preserve the ability to prosecute any criminal Hatch Act violations and to immediately notify Congress and relevant authorities if additional evidence of misconduct is uncovered during the investigation.
Project 2025 is a detailed roadmap for a conservative presidential administration to consolidate power in the presidency and gut federal checks and balances, strip individual freedoms, and effectively end democracy. In June, Congressman Huffman founded the Stop Project 2025 Task Force which serves as a central hub for pro-democracy Members of Congress, civil society, and affected communities to coordinate on examining, highlighting, preempting, and counteracting this rightwing plot to undermine democracy.
In addition to Rep. Huffman, the letter was signed by Representatives Ted Lieu (CA-36), Hank Johnson (GA-04), Dan Goldman (NY-10), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Sean Casten (IL-06), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Jasmine Crockett (TX-30), Barbara Lee (CA-12), Delia Ramirez (IL-03), Nanette Barragán (CA-44), Raúl Grijalva (AZ-07), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-01), Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), Judy Chu (CA-28), and Jamie Raskin (MD-08).
For a full copy of the letter, click here or see below.
Dear Special Counsel Kerner, Acting Director Finlayson, and Inspector General Damelin:
We respectfully request that the Office of Special Counsel, Office of Government Ethics, and Office of the Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigate possible ethics violations by Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr. We are concerned that Commissioner Carr may be misusing his official position as an executive-level employee of the FCC to craft and advance a political playbook to influence the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, in violation of the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. §§ 7321-7326) and the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch (5 U.S.C. § 2635).
In April 2023, a network of former Trump officials and archconservative organizations came together under the leadership of the Heritage Foundation to produce the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025) with the self-declared “goal of shaping policy decisions among presidential candidates.”[1] Project 2025 lays out a detailed roadmap for a conservative presidential administration to consolidate power in the presidency and gut checks and balances. The President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, claims that Project 2025 is “institutionalizing Trumpism.”[2] Paul Dans, the Director of Project 2025 and Trump’s former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), also noted during the Republican primary that his affiliates expect and “and hope” that Trump will ultimately end up in office again.[3]
It is alarming that Commissioner Carr was one of many Trump appointees to participate in this endeavor. Although federal employees may certainly express their private opinions or engage in political activity in their personal capacity, they may not do so in their official capacity.[4] Despite this requirement, Commissioner Carr used his official title to author the chapter of Project 2025 about the FCC.[5]
The Misuse of Position Rule clearly prohibits federal employees from using their government positions, titles, or authority to sign letters, write op-eds, speak in their personal capacity, or—as it were—draft the blueprint for archconservatives to take over their agency.[6] Nevertheless, Project 2025 unambiguously identifies Commissioner Carr as the sole author of the chapter about the FCC, referring to him as “FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr.”[7] Commissioner Carr’s official title is included again in the authors section, which describes him as “the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission.”[8]
This potential misuse of title raises serious questions about Commissioner Carr’s commitment to keeping his private political activities separate from his official duties. Therefore, we ask the relevant authorities to determine to what extent Commissioner Carr violated the Misuse of Position Rule or leveraged his government office in other ways to enhance his personal standing or advance the private and political interests of Project 2025. This includes any efforts to give an appearance of government sanction to Project 2025, favor partisan allies, utilize information learned by virtue of his position, accept gifts or compensation for writing about the FCC, or misuse official time and government property to contribute to Project 2025.[9]
To verify if Commissioner Carr assented to the use of his official title or otherwise violated the Standards of Conduct, we ask you to question him, review his ethics disclosures, and request access to his government devices and correspondence with any Project 2025 affiliates.
Additionally, we urge the Office of Special Counsel to determine if Commissioner Carr violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from “using their official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of an election by, for example, using their official titles or positions while engaged in political activity.”[10]
While there is no Hatch Act prohibition against Commissioner Carr engaging in political activity in his personal capacity, he may not use his government title, office, or computer nor may he rely on the official time and resources of other federal employees. As to the secondary question of whether contributing to Project 2025 constitutes political activity, there is ample evidence that Project 2025 is a partisan effort to support a conservative candidate and influence the election.
Project 2025 speaks openly about supporting the “next conservative President.” Inasmuch as the conservative party is the Republican Party, it would not be a stretch to say that Project 2025 supports the Republican Party and the election of a new GOP President.
For instance, the landing page for the playbook states that Project 2025 is “building now for a conservative victory.”[11] It reads further: “The time is short, and conservatives need a plan. The project will create a playbook of actions to be taken in the first 180 days of the new Administration to bring quick relief to Americans suffering from the Left’s devastating policies.”[12] The group’s mission statement declares: “It is not enough for conservatives to win elections.
If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.” It adds: “The project is the effort of a broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government.”[13]
In addition to its blatant support for the Republican Party, Project 2025 openly touts its ties to candidate Trump. The entire leadership team of Project 2025 served in Trump’s White House, and most of its authors are former Trump aides and officials who are likely to serve in any future potential Trump administration. That includes Russ Vought, a self-described Christian Nationalist who authored part of Project 2025 and served as Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).[14] Earlier this year, the Trump Campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) also named Vought as the Policy Director of the RNC committee crafting the party platform.[15] The Trump Campaign’s National Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also appeared in a Heritage Foundation video alongside other former Trump administration staffers to promote Project 2025’s training program for potential future political appointees.[16] Earlier this year, John McEntee – a former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office for Trump and a senior advisor for Project 2025 – told The Daily Wire that the Trump Campaign and Project 2025 would “integrate a lot of our work” after the summer.[17]
Additionally, the leading pro-Trump Super PAC (MAGA Inc.) is running ads to promote “Trump’s Project 2025” with a website titled TrumpProject2025.com.[18] Project 2025 also boasts that “the Trump administration relied heavily on Heritage’s “Mandate” for policy guidance, embracing nearly two-thirds of Heritage’s proposals within just one year in office.”[19] And Trump campaign officials acknowledge that Project 2025 aligns well with their own “Agenda 47” program, which in some cases even cites the work of the Heritage Foundation.[20]
For his part, Trump has said that he “needs” the Heritage Foundation to enact his agenda, and he has gone out of his way to praise its leaders.[21] Earlier this year, Trump praised Roberts as “the highly respected president of the Heritage Foundation” and urged him to “keep going” and “get the word out.”[22] Just a month later, Trump was shaking hands with Roberts in front of the National Religious Broadcasters and publicly praising him again, saying that the “Heritage Foundation president is somebody else doing an unbelieve job; he’s bringing it back at level it’s never seen.”[23] At the same event, Roberts laid out additional information about Project 2025 and declared: “We want no credit, we want the American people if President Trump is elected again, President Trump and his administration to take credit for that.”[24]
Given the close ties between Project 2025, Trump, and his re-election campaign, it is deeply troubling that Commissioner Carr would use his official title and position to author part of the political playbook for a Republican presidential candidate. At the very least, it creates an appearance of impropriety.
For all the aforementioned reasons, we ask you to investigate and make a determination as to whether Commissioner Carr complied with the Hatch Act and other federal ethics laws and regulations. Since we are already deep into the presidential election season, we would appreciate your prompt attention to this matter, interim updates on the status of your investigation, and a briefing on your findings.
We trust you will coordinate appropriately with the Department of Justice to preserve the ability to prosecute any criminal Hatch Act violations. We also request that if during your investigation you encounter evidence of misconduct beyond your agency’s remit, you promptly refer it to the appropriate authority and notify us.
Sincerely,
[Members of Congress]
[1] The Heritage Foundation, “Project 2025 Publishes Comprehensive Policy Guide, ‘Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,’” April 21, 2023, https://www.heritage.org/press/project-2025-publishes-comprehensive-policy-guide-mandate-leadership-the-conservative-promise.
[2] Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plans for ‘Institutionalizing Trumpism,’” New York Times, January 21, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html.
[3] Shelby Talcott, “The Heritage Foundation Recruits an Army to Build a Trump Presidency Playbook,” Semafor, February 20, 2024, https://www.semafor.com/article/02/20/2024/heritage-recruits-an-army-to-build-a-trump-presidency-playbook.
[4] 5 U.S.C. §§ 2635.702, 7323(a) and 7324(a).
[5] The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership, April 2023, https://archive.org/details/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.
[6] Office of Government Ethics, “Standards of Ethical Conduct,” https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/0/86D5B4F72AF0FBCB852585B6005A1A22/$FILE/Standards%20of%20Ethical%20Conduct%20508.pdf. Based in 5 U.S.C. § 2635 Subpart G.
[7] Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, p. 825. See the full chapter at pp. 845-857. The Author’s Note at the end of Commissioner Carr’s chapter states that “the author alone assumes responsibility for the content of this chapter, and no views expressed herein should be attributed to any other individual,” making clear that Commissioner Carr is solely responsible for this chapter.
[8] Ibid., 15.
[9] Office of Government Ethics, “Standards of Ethical Conduct.”
[10] Office of Special Counsel, “Federal Employee Hatch Act Information,” https://osc.gov/Services/Pages/HatchAct-Federal.aspx#tabGroup12.
[11] Heritage Foundation, “Project 2025,” https://www.project2025.org/.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Heritage Foundation, “About Project 2025,” https://www.project2025.org/about/about-project-2025/.
[14] Beth Reinhard, “Trump Loyalist Pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ Vision for Second Term,” Washington Post, June 8, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/08/russ-vought-trump-second-term-radical-constitutional/.
[15] Ibid. See Republican National Committee, “RNC, Trump Campaign Announce Leadership for 2024 Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee,” https://gop.com/press-release/rnc-trump-campaign-announce-leadership-for-2024-republican-national-conventions-platform-committee/.
[16] Patrick Svitek, “Trump Tries to Distance Himself From Project 2025 Plan,” Washington Post, July 6, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/05/trump-project-2025-disavowal/. See also Heritage Foundation, “Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy” (Video), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTw6SNI3SR4.
[17] Adriana Gomez Licon, “Biden Assails Project 2025, Trump Denies Knowing About It | AP News,” AP News, July 7, 2024, https://apnews.com/article/trump-project-2025-biden-9d372469033d23e1e3aef5cf0470a2e6.
[18] Media Matters Staff, “Project 2025 Advisor Says the Initiative Will ‘Integrate a Lot of Our Work’ With the Trump Campaign Later This Year,” Media Matters for America, April 22, 2024, https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/project-2025-advisor-says-initiative-will-integrate-lot-our-work-trump-campaign-later.
[19] The Heritage Foundation, “Trump Administration Embraces Heritage Foundation Policy Recommendations,” https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations.
[20] Michael Hirsh, “Inside the Next Republican Revolution,” POLITICO, September 19, 2023, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/19/project-2025-trump-reagan-00115811.
[21] Rachel Dobkin, “Donald Trump’s Project 2025 Post Met With Skepticism,” Newsweek, July 6, 2024, https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-project-2025-heritage-foundation-1921773.
[22] J.D. Wolf, “Trump Praised President of Project 2025 Parent Group by Name Twice This Year,” Meidas Touch News, July 5, 2024, https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-praised-president-of-project-2025-parent-group-by-name-twice-this-year.
[23] Ibid.
[24] Kate Plummer, “Donald Trump Allies’ Project 2025 Comments Resurface After He Denies Role,” Newsweek, July 6, 2024, https://newsweek.com/project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-1921824.
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Thank you for being detailed in this. Understanding Project 2025 and all its effects is important to me.
What’s important to me is how it has affected you since its inception in 1981?
By facilitating a continual slide further into a corporate fiefdom predicated upon workingclass exploitation.
huffman should talk about mixing official, private duties and affiliations in conflict with the law. a regular johnson law violator himself. don’t go away in a huff jared, just go away.
Huffman’s just blowing hot air again. He should get to work building support for the PRIME act so we don’t lose all of our local meat producers. Killing off our local producers and consolidating the meat industry to big corps is probably part of his plan. Very reminiscent of the “agenda 2030” nonsense which benefits only the largest and most powerful conglomerates. And I’m sure he’ll keep fighting to steal more Eel water for his developer buddies down south. Pardon my French, but fuck this guy. I’d rather have Thompson back.
Huffman has been misusing his official position in a lame attempt to discredit the Supreme Court, as of the new threat of absolute Presidential immunity he fears isn’t actually immediately coming from his party leader, Biden himself.
It isn’t possible for me to take Huffman at all seriously, any longer, after such foolish projection and hypocritical political nonsense.
Huffman is doing more to get Trump re- elected, than he is doing to get Biden re-elected…
The Supreme Court manages to discredit themselves. Regularly.
The democrats are such hypocrites they used the first to attack conservatives they used the fbi and doj to attack trump people are fed up with this crap
Irs
That may be so, but The Supreme Court of The United States is a crucial aspect to our Government.
For a lowly politician, such as Huffman, to attempt to undermine such a fixture of the US Legal System as The SCOTUS, in nothing more than a totally lame, Un-American campaign stunt, especially since he has so badly misinterpreted the immediate political significance and current potential consequences of any perceived disadvantage of their latest “absolute presidential immunity” ruling.
Since Huffman has grossly misinterpreted that ruling’s implication of creating an immediate threat by Trump, (who is not currently President), and not by Biden, (who currently is), then it becomes glaringly apparent to all that are not also so afflicted, that Huffman has his head proverbially planted firmly up his political rear.
That’s just common sense.
Let’s just say that what I am seeing isn’t what he is seeing…
Huffman must really be panicking now that Biden doesn’t have even a slim chance of reelection, and refuses to capitulate and won’t simply relinquish the nomination to a different Democrat.
Why is he clearly over compensating by over energetically brown nosing nosediving Biden.
Brownie points…???
That’s gagger.
He is simultaneously slinging the filthy political mud at the Republicans like there is no tomorrow.
He sounds extremely desperate.
We are obviously getting closer and closer to the election…
It’s not a good look if you ask me…
By following established law, judged on a constitutional basis, as is their obligation?
Sorry your feelings are hurt by not getting your way in the real world.
The Project 2025 boogeyman put forward by Dems is desperate attempt to divert attention from the Alzheimer’s patient occupying the White House and his daily missteps losing his train of thought even attempting to read a teleprompter, just look at the tape from his Las Vegas speech yesterday. Trump has nothing to do with Brookings whatever that prepared this document, we wouldn’t even know about it if not for Dems elevating to front page
This is why you do your best work for Biden, unless it’s a Trump-morons-appealing-to-morons kind of thing to divert attention from Trump’s Project 2025 policy bros.
The right-leaning Heritage Foundation (not center-left “Brookings”) led Project 2025 prep. Have a nice day.
P25 has roots in 7 Mountain/Dominion theory that started in the 70s. It isn’t a “new” movement per se, but is mainstream now. It’s part of the plans. https://www.christianity.com/wiki/end-times/what-7-mountains-of-influence.html
Yes, and roots going further back than that, some much further, lol. And thanks to tech, the current manifestation has proven … infectious.
It is also not part of government. Project 2025 has become the Biden’s Administration whipping boy in the campaign against Trump. The troops have been rallied and are on board. Of course he also said he has no issues with his mental health.
Biden is raising the boogeyman as if all Trump had to do was win and it would be implemented. He said so. As if Congress and the courts don’t exist. This is an example of the status given to Trump by the Democrats and the press. There can be all the plans in the world (which may or may not be part of the Executive branch) but it still needs the backing of the other two branches to exist in reality. Fear of Trump has become the whole of liberal’s reason for existing and what a pathetic life it has bedome.
https://x.com/BidenHQ
Not part of government? It’s right in their mission statement. https://www.project2025.org/about/about-project-2025/
Having Trump in office just rubber stamps what they’ve been working on for a few decades already, regardless of whatever party’s spokesperson called themselves President. Any given “movement” or “revolution” never started with someone saying it was OK to engage in; you just did it and hope it gained traction. And believers. By whatever means.
Spoiler alert! Mandate for Leadership was around during Trumps first term as POTUS.
Going all Agenda 21? As if announcing a manifesto magically makes it exist. No wonder TDS is so pernicious. You have such faith. Or more likely fear? Certainly reflects a very poor level of education in civics in this country.
Me? I think most government in the US is more like ignoring hard issues until what Obama dic in getting all pissed off with Congressional inaction and changing the law by EO fiat as he did in DACA. It’s still an unresolved mess only perpetuated by inertia.
Likely Trump would be pleased to get bits of it. And probably object to other bits. And never hold office long enough to get much of any of it done. But whiz on in the name of partisan fear mongering. It keeps RHBB in business,
You’re trying to imply what I do or do not feel about any of it. Good luck with that. Nor do you have any idea what my level of civic education or involvement is either. I only pointed out that P25 has far older roots than what’s become mainstream. If you ever spent time with church going folks, you’d have heard about it already. Perhaps you just misunderstood me. But the Project-whatever types are intending to put their….whatever….in place regardless of who wins the Presidency. Trump just has the power of the pen to legitimize it.
Church-going folks? Care to elaborate on your predjudice?
Spot on. Chronic TDS is a mental issue.
Calling our guy. Oh, there you are Mr. Trump, Mr. Executive branch. Here’s your megaphone. Tell our 500,000 Heritage Foundation members exactly what you think:
“(The Heritage Foundation) is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”
— Trump, 2022 Heritage Foundation speech
How’s that for status given, by the Heritage Foundation and vice-versa? Apologists for Trump, Heritage, and their collective movement, what a pathetic life. I love it when you comment.
And which morons do you appeal to. Asking for a friend…
The Democratic Party used to stand with the common man—against corporate consolidation, war, mass surveillance, etc….The “project 2025” boogeyman is pushed by the same bad actors that brought you the fake Steele dossier. They are more desperate this time because they can’t hide Biden’s mental decline anymore. And nobody believes Harris is fit for the job. The polls are so bad that it sure looks like they are desperate enough to have made a hasty attempt on Trump’s life. Either the secret service is exposed as totally worthless for protection detail, or they were complicit in planning this assassination attempt. Would a clearly visible assassin be able to get that close to Biden or Obama? No way. With the DNC’s doj and fbi investigating we will never know the truth. Meanwhile these DNC clowns are actually implementing “agenda 2030”, which amounts to a fascist take-over of the United States by global conglomerates. When fascism came to America it didn’t come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. It came wearing a Stuart Hughes suit, diamond edition, and carrying a big briefcase full of freshly-printed dollars. Say goodbye to your choices, mobility, and freedom. But at least you’ll still be able to abort your children to spare them a bleak future of corporate servitude.
The maga lower- and mid-level thinkers, still bumbling along calling the center (including actual conservative Republicans) the uni-party one week, then communist/ marxist the next, then … fascist. Just a complete messaging mess. Maybe call leadership for the new best thing to go with, eh?
The new crop infecting the GOP these past years, they learned from the mistakes fascist leaders and certain friends in the church made. Today’s neofascist-leaners (add theo) have focused on methods (instead of the original idea). Best methods? Groomed lawyers, High tech. As to the latter, data harvesting and crunching to create messaging, new media venues (alt-right, think: Bannon), and garbage-spewing sites like Parler, Gttr (get her), Truth Social to deliver. Feed folks enough the equivalent of fatty salty sugary junk food, flag-and-cross-and-firearm packaging and …
Get ready for ultra-conservative and nationalist lawyer and tech-bro corporate rule, and get ready for the super-rich getting much (much) richer.
You just described the entirety of the left…using the wrong labels.
FAIL
Says a poster named “SickofSocialists”, lol. Oops, given shouldn’t it be “Sickof Fascsists”? In other words, you make my point.
Low-information voters, limited idea of the biggest practitioners of fascism to ever scorch the earth. When Mussolini got going, Europe was freaked by the spreading Bolshevik revolution. Just prior to Mussolini? The Catholic church saw the government as enemy, given separation of church and state. This led to Pope Pius XI facilitating the idea that Mussolini was sent by God to end separation of church and state and … fend off the Communists. That’s the US rightwing today, Mr. … SickofSocilaists. The clear-eyed Pope Francis has formally taken Opus Dei down a notch. Francis knows what up.
Given there’s precious few Communists to gun for in America, the neo-fascist elite pulled the ruse of pointing at Democrats, civil servants, gays, migrants, environmentalists — even moderate Republicans — as their commie boogeyman. What a scam. Why, if I had a nickel for every time some rightwing regulars on social media have cried “Socialists”, and “Communists” and “Marxist” as to moderates, the left, even “uni-party” Conservatives, I’d be very rich.
And note it was the fascists in Italy who introduced the “Concordat” (the teaching of religion in schools). Fast forward to today in the US: the new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments in schools. A law the right-backed LA Governor and his AG (both arriving ‘22) want challenged in front of their stacked-SCOTUS, opening the door to the Nation. And in Oklahoma there’s a scheme afoot to have religious schools receive public funds. These kinds of efforts, just the beginning, given the all grooming of a young lawyers class of operatives. So much winning!
Marching, marching, marching, all hail shadow leadership and their current Trump front-man, now front-men. Amen.
This level of chronic TDS is sad to see…
Bluh, bluh, bluh
Can you be more articulate, grace? I didn’t gather any meaning from that paranoid, garbled pidgin English.
Of course you wouldn’t, would cut too close to the Tbone. Read some history. 😊
Pidgin means grammatically simplified, or perhaps “free prose” to some as written to make things easier to understand between languages, so what reads in a narrative context, should have been an easy read for you. Took me about a minute and a half and I understood their points.
It took you a minute and a half to read that rant? I bailed after the first few lines of gibberish.
So attention span issues. Got it. We’ll try to keep responses to 50 words or less. And simple-er. That work?
No. I just don’t waste my time with a person’s BS if they can’t bother to communicate in plain English. And I am not going to dignify you with anymore responses either.
That’s unhinged.
You’re spewing the lies about Trump that almost killed him. You should be more responsible.
Funny you accuse someone else of bumbling
Here we go… the surrogates freak out. They must be convinced they are goin down.
Well the ones who said they were going to leave the country if Trump got elected the last time. But either didn’t go or came back. But the really mean it this time. Really, really, really mean it.
Remember this? “… delivered two of her children unassisted, the last, a girl named Koriander, in a Canadian hotel room, because Donald Trump was about to be elected president.” From the PR on Ditch school? She’s back of course. I wonder what name she is using to post here. Several new names appeared about the same time.
This whole country is now pretty much insane. It is impossible to tell which group of the institutionalized are going to be running the asylum.
https://kymkemp.com/2024/06/21/ditch-school-revolutionizes-education-with-an-innovative-hybrid-model-of-unschooling-and-early-college/
Blah blah blah… it looks like Huffman has been huffing some of that leftist glue again.
A quick Google search will tell leftists that project 2025 is also known as “mandate for leadership”, and has been released every four years since Reagan, in 1981.
“ The books have traditionally been released to coincide with an incoming U.S. presidential administration. The first edition was released in 1981, following the election of Ronald Reagan, to serve as policy guidance for the incoming Reagan administration. The latest edition was published in April 2023.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Leadership
If you want to see Trumps plan laid out in detail, Google “agenda 47”. The desperation of the leftists is apparent.
Much ado about nothing.
Thank you Jared Huffman for your efforts to save our democracy from trumpism and a wannabe fascist dictator.
Your lies about Trump have been proven to be dangerous.
Oh please, this dog whistling buffoon couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a roadmap.
Huffman is a commie
I don’t find Huffman trustworthy.
Dear Mr. Huffman,
While you may be technically correct, as to Hatch Act violations, it no longer matters in the court of at least public opinion. The New GOP has driven a stake into Justice, at least at the small-ball Hatch Act violation level. This given Trump has slipped around so many of his legal problems.
America awaits the goods the President must have on Trump, given there’s no other conceivable reason for Biden to stay in the race. Of course, he could also still step aside (how about 5 minutes before Trump makes his big GOP Convention speech?).
Short of the above, Democrats will be in for a long dark night of the soul. In deep, to the level of reading veritable tea leaves and chicken gizzards in deciding what direction to re-build. As you know, the current GOP power structure — the big boys behind the curtain — are predominantly ultra-conservative nationalist Catholic’s; the type of folk who, once-upon-a-time, worked extremely well with Franco, suggested Mussolini was sent by God, and who de-facto shrugged as to Hitler.
What the New GOP did, starting post-Romney run, was chuck any remaining morals and ethics and go full-on Kremlin-style dark side. Dark strategy, dark candidate, dark tech-bros, dark media, dark messaging, dark law, etc, helped along by gobs of dark money and saying to themselves “the means justify the ends”. Dems of course can’t and won’t stoop so low … which is something the New GOP counts on.
Good luck.
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”
— Peter Thiel, champion of JD Vance.
“(Vance) is absolutely going to be one of the leaders — if not the leader — of our movement.”
— Kevin Robert’s, Heritage Foundation President
That’s absurd.
Dark tech….Josh Hawley (R-Mo) wrote a book about it, “The Tyrrany of Big Tech” a couple years ago that points some of this out and how tech gets corporatised and monopolized against the wishes of consumers. And he’s part of the Senate GOP. Go figure.
Of all people to talk about ethics. Jared Huffman wouldn’t know ethics if the slapped him in the face. It’s a disgrace he keeps getting reelected over and over. He’s the total poster child of corruption in government.
I don’t think Huffman is credible or trustworthy. His last hyperbolic attack on the Supreme Court (I don’t like the current court either) and his hysterical attacks on Trump (I don’t like Trump either). He has shown himself to be more like a panicked moron than an intelligent and thoughtful statesman. And our country needs intelligence and rational discussiion right now! Not panicked and whining babies…
What happened to Russia! Russia! Russia!?
Saying Project 2025, Project 2025, Project 2025, is just too tedious.
Huffman is also getting tedious. What is this? An election year?
Huffman participating openly in election interference.
The democrat way!!
Can this clown be sent back to a real job yet? As if he ever had one…
Everyone should read and understand what Project 2025 includes and what it would mean to them, personally, should Trump be elected. It is a blueprint to destroy our democratic republic, and includes provisions that would negatively affect each of us, in different ways. I’m still working my way through it (it’s long), but please don’t dismiss it without understanding how it could affect your life…and our country.
Please tell us how it has negatively affected your life since its inception in 1981.
Huffman is a wef puppet which is way more dangerous. Look into their agenda. It’s anti human. Which goes along with transhuman religion that he practices.
I hope all you people supporting Huffman, Biden and the DNC have some real deep pockets to back up your lofty ideals. Otherwise you’re about to get smacked with the rest of us. Project 2025 is nothing but a desperate DNC attempt to prop up a scary boogeyman. Just like the last two elections where they pulled out the phony Steele dossier and then the covid hoax. Why are they so desperate to keep decrepit Joe or dingbat Kamala in office? I think the deep state is so desperate that they hastily tried to assassinate Donald Trump. They have exhausted all of their other options.
A real threat, Agenda 2030, is already being implemented. Low income families and young people are already being hit the hardest. Good luck to you all, and i suggest saving money for a decent electric car or two. Make sure you have plenty of sweaters and blankets. Start perfecting your recipes for roasted crow and dandelion stew. Maybe putting some solar panels on your apartment will do the trick. When deciding your household budget be sure to account for record inflation and corporate price-gouging like we’ve seen the past few years.
If your portfolio isn’t heavy on real estate and foreign investment then you might be fucked.
We really need to discuss his involvement with the wef agenda that is against humanity.
This is a much broader issue than a Democrat politician going after a Trump appointee. It seems the Democrats created an expansion of the Hatch Act with the appointment by Biden of Hampton Dellinger as special council in 2023. Now that he is in place he acted to “lose a loophole” as he saw it of federal employees conducting political activities while in the White House, charging them even after the left their positions. Especially he targeted former Trump White House staff as violators. How can a political office of the President function if all its staff are barred from any connection of political intent? This smacks, not of nonpartisan interest, but another ratcheting up of the Democrats weaponizing the Admistrative branch to attack Trump. While handy dandy for the Democrats in their war against Trump at the moment, it will not “calm the rhetoric “. It will only make the political divide more fraught and bitter.
“OSC brings Hatch Act violations to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent and quasi-judicial body, and the board can impose a range of sanctions if it determines the rules were broken.
But, in the past, OSC has declined to bring MSPB cases against White House officials. Instead, OSC has left the question of whether punishment should be imposed to the sole discretion of the president. This distinction creates separate and not automatically equal systems of accountability for violators, one where an independent adjudicator (the MSPB) can impose sanctions and another where it is left to the president to dole out — or not — any consequences.
It’s clear Congress wants the Hatch Act to apply to as many people as possible. Only two positions are walled off completely from its restrictions: the president and vice president. While most Senate-confirmed officials are exempted from enforcement at the MSPB, White House staffers are not. It would be extraordinary if they were.”
That last paragraph is actually absurd. And unfunctional. The White House staff can not be used by the President if the action is political? What action in the White House is not political? And offers to pursue them for it after they leave office? Now that is a real chilling effect on anyone likely to work for a President. The Party politics have become a scorched earth battle that we will pay for. .
Yet they are serious and politicians like Huffman have plunged into battle assured that the Office, which holds to the absurdity of the above, will surely take it to the wall on an official one step away from the White House. We live in farcical times.
And now Biden’s handlers also seek to impose term limits and “enforceable ethics standards” on the US Supreme Court. The big banks and conglomerates are going for the whole enchilada. They want to impose their top-down draconian style on the whole world. Food for thought- it’s not necessarily our government that hates Libya, Iraq, Iran, Russia, North Korea…it’s the big banks and global conglomerates. But they sure love Saudi Arabia; so much for human rights I guess! Our corporate dictators don’t give a shit about the environment, the common man, human rights or equality. They want total surveillance and control of a fractured populace. Time for people to puke up the lies they’ve been fed. The DNC is the just the makeup-caked face of corporate oligarchy.
The corporate overlords use their media and our government as clubs to batter the people into 300 million pieces. There are worse things in the world than a Donald Trump presidency, much worse.
Think tank thinking. That’s all. Nothing to see here. It’s a lotta hue and cry about nothing.