5️⃣ FBI TARGETS TRANS AMERICANS AS TERRORISTS
The Trump administration is weaponizing Charlie Kirk's death to classify transgender people as "violent extremists," despite the shooter's only connection to the trans community being an alleged relationship with a transgender roommate. FBI Director Kash Patel told Congress they're examining the "entire spiderweb" of what they're calling gender ideology extremism, creating a new "Nihilistic Violent Extremists" category that conveniently replaced Biden's classification for January 6 rioters. The Heritage Foundation has already drafted legislation with the acronym TIVE (Trans Ideology Violent Extremism) to label 0.02% of Americans as terrorists based solely on their gender identity.
4️⃣ TRUMP SEEKS LICENSE TO KILL AT SEA
Draft legislation circulating in the White House would grant Trump sweeping authority to wage war against drug cartels and any nation he claims harbored them, after his administration killed 14 people in Caribbean boat attacks without congressional authorization. The proposal would transform drug interdiction from law enforcement into a military battlefield where Special Operations forces can summarily execute suspects. While the Coast Guard normally arrests suspected smugglers, Trump ordered Special Ops to kill them instead—one Venezuelan fishing boat was released only after regular forces intervened and suspicions proved false.
3️⃣ KIMMEL SILENCED BY MOB-STYLE THREAT
Disney indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel after FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr threatened the company with regulatory retaliation, telling a podcaster "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" like a New Jersey mob boss. The suspension came after Kimmel correctly pointed out that MAGA was trying to frame the Kirk shooter as a leftist when evidence suggested otherwise. Nexstar Media immediately dropped the show knowing the FCC controls broadcast licenses and has acquisitions pending. Even the conservative Wall Street Journal called it "regulatory abuse"—but Disney had to protect shareholders from Trump's retribution campaign.
2️⃣ THE TAJ MAHAL MONEY LAUNDROMAT
New evidence reveals Russian mobster Vyacheslav Ivankov brought suitcases containing millions in cash to Trump's Taj Mahal casino in the 1990s, where money was converted to chips and laundered through the casino's daily take. Trump used what regulator William Black calls "control fraud"—using legitimate business as a weapon to defraud investors while extracting cash through mob money, impossible junk bonds, and management fees to shell companies. When Manhattan DA Morgenthau tried prosecuting the Taj for money laundering in 1991, the case mysteriously vanished after Trump donated to Giuliani's mayoral campaign.
1️⃣ ORACLE'S HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN MEDIA
Larry Ellison, now the world's richest man and biggest private donor to Israel, is orchestrating the greatest media consolidation in American history through Oracle's streaming monopoly. His son David already controls Paramount/CBS after a $16 million Trump bribe, and they're paying Barry Weiss's propaganda outlet $200 million to run CBS News. Oracle hosts the streaming for every major network—Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers—and is now buying them all, creating a vertical monopoly that controls both the pipes and the content. With the TikTok acquisition keeping Beijing's algorithm intact while enriching Trump allies, 90% of Americans will soon get their information through one Oracle-controlled pipeline—the same playbook Putin used in Russia.
The common thread: institutional capture. Whether targeting citizens as terrorists, killing suspects without trial, silencing critics through regulatory threats, or laundering Russian money for decades, Trump's regime uses government power to enrich allies and destroy enemies while actual crimes go unpunished.
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