If this isn’t the epitome of Fraenkel’s description of a fascist #DualState, what is? (5/n)
Chicago, Illinois, 2025:
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
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"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If this isn’t the epitome of Fraenkel’s description of a fascist #DualState, what is? (5/n)
📢 Here: Professor @jennifertaub.com explains why the U.S. has gone “beyond regulatory capture to regulatory ruin.”
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📢 Here: Professor @jennifertaub.com explains why the U.S. has gone “beyond regulatory capture to regulatory ruin.”
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Honestly I have some amazing friends who are still walking around like nothing is going on. It makes me want to scream. Just have to keep trying to reach people!
#dualstate #ThisIsNotNormal
#dualstate #ThisIsNotNormal
So what should you do? Sigal Samuel provides insight in Vox’s advice column Your Mileage May Vary:
Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?
All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.
www.vox.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Honestly I have some amazing friends who are still walking around like nothing is going on. It makes me want to scream. Just have to keep trying to reach people!
#dualstate #ThisIsNotNormal
#dualstate #ThisIsNotNormal
On this topic, this conversation is worth your time:
"Violence Without Consequences: the Legal Pattern Behind Alex Pretti’s Killing. A Conversation on the #DualState With Law Professor Aziz Huq"
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"Violence Without Consequences: the Legal Pattern Behind Alex Pretti’s Killing. A Conversation on the #DualState With Law Professor Aziz Huq"
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/violence-w...
January 26, 2026 at 4:26 PM
On this topic, this conversation is worth your time:
"Violence Without Consequences: the Legal Pattern Behind Alex Pretti’s Killing. A Conversation on the #DualState With Law Professor Aziz Huq"
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/violence-w...
"Violence Without Consequences: the Legal Pattern Behind Alex Pretti’s Killing. A Conversation on the #DualState With Law Professor Aziz Huq"
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/violence-w...
Targeted hysteria focused on Muslims. We’ve seen it before with shockingly close parallels.
Lawyer Gareth Pierce represented the Guildford Four (Irish) stitched up on manufactured evidence, then Muslims post 911.
State targeting is an attack on rule of law.
#dualState #prerogativeState
Lawyer Gareth Pierce represented the Guildford Four (Irish) stitched up on manufactured evidence, then Muslims post 911.
State targeting is an attack on rule of law.
#dualState #prerogativeState
March 25, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Targeted hysteria focused on Muslims. We’ve seen it before with shockingly close parallels.
Lawyer Gareth Pierce represented the Guildford Four (Irish) stitched up on manufactured evidence, then Muslims post 911.
State targeting is an attack on rule of law.
#dualState #prerogativeState
Lawyer Gareth Pierce represented the Guildford Four (Irish) stitched up on manufactured evidence, then Muslims post 911.
State targeting is an attack on rule of law.
#dualState #prerogativeState
Rule of law has been badly undermined in the United States, though not gone. The USA long ago adopted the #dualState described by German Jewish lawyer, #ErnstFraenkel It is baked into its constitution.
#normativeState for white, cis, gendered landowning men. A #prerogativeState for everyone else.
#normativeState for white, cis, gendered landowning men. A #prerogativeState for everyone else.
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Rule of law has been badly undermined in the United States, though not gone. The USA long ago adopted the #dualState described by German Jewish lawyer, #ErnstFraenkel It is baked into its constitution.
#normativeState for white, cis, gendered landowning men. A #prerogativeState for everyone else.
#normativeState for white, cis, gendered landowning men. A #prerogativeState for everyone else.
Incredibly important points made here about our current reality. It seems so dissonant to go to work and raise our families while people are being murdered by the state in the streets. And that is actually the point. #DualState
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
January 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Incredibly important points made here about our current reality. It seems so dissonant to go to work and raise our families while people are being murdered by the state in the streets. And that is actually the point. #DualState
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
No worry. Trump is importing White South Africans to fill in and work on Population Control
South African raised Peter Thiel is on it, too
Let it wash over. The Strongest survive.
Hegseth will put them to efficient use to protect the DualState Israel from IRAN 🤪
Thiel:
thecradle.co/articles/dig...
South African raised Peter Thiel is on it, too
Let it wash over. The Strongest survive.
Hegseth will put them to efficient use to protect the DualState Israel from IRAN 🤪
Thiel:
thecradle.co/articles/dig...
May 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
No worry. Trump is importing White South Africans to fill in and work on Population Control
South African raised Peter Thiel is on it, too
Let it wash over. The Strongest survive.
Hegseth will put them to efficient use to protect the DualState Israel from IRAN 🤪
Thiel:
thecradle.co/articles/dig...
South African raised Peter Thiel is on it, too
Let it wash over. The Strongest survive.
Hegseth will put them to efficient use to protect the DualState Israel from IRAN 🤪
Thiel:
thecradle.co/articles/dig...
#DualState #NaziGermany #ErnstFraenkel #TrumpAdministration #PoliticalDissent #NormativeState #PrerogativeState #Lawlessness #StateViolence #PoliticalParallels #USPolitics #Authoritarianism #TargetedSuppression #PoliticalViolence #ConstitutionalCrisis #LegalSystem #PoliticalLoyalists #Insurrection
![Is America Headed Towards a "Dual State" Like Nazi Germany?
The article "America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State" draws parallels between the current political situation in the United States and the rise of Nazi Germany, using Ernst Fraenkel's concept of the "dual state" as a framework[5].
Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who fled Nazi Germany in 1938, wrote "The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship," which explains how the Nazi regime maintained a capitalist economy with stable laws while simultaneously establishing a domain of lawlessness and state violence[5].
The dual state consists of two coexisting parts:
1. The "normative state": The regular legal system with rules, procedures, and precedents[5].
2. The "prerogative state": A parallel zone where "unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees" reign[5].
The article argues that the United States is witnessing the birth of a new dual state under the Trump administration. While the normative state continues to function for most citizens, a prerogative state is being constructed through various measures, including:
- Pardons that encourage insurrectionary violence
- Purges of career lawyers and officials
- Appointments of loyalists to key positions
- Attacks on judges enforcing the law
- Threats of criminal prosecutions for unfavorable speech[5]
The author warns that the danger of the dual state lies in its capacity for targeted suppression. Most people can ignore the prerogative state because it doesn't affect their daily lives, but once established, it can potentially engulf anyone[5].
The article concludes by noting that building a dual state doesn't necessarily lead to genocide, citing examples like Putin's Russia and Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. However, it emphasizes that the deepest similarity among these systems is their intolerance of political dissent while leaving the majority of citizens undisturbed[5].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3epzqefaicyxkh2z3fywbmy5/bafkreiaac3meljh2bgollndinkjwjiit5jg3awx73rq3f53m5f55zprgca)
![Citations:
[1] https://www.europenowjournal.org/2022/03/23/legal-sabotage-ernst-fraenkel-in-hitlers-germany-by-douglas-g-morris/
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_state_(model)
[4] https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/09/05/polarization-democracy-and-political-violence-in-united-states-what-research-says-pub-90457
[5] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/
[6] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/reinventing-america/556856/
[7] https://www.lawbookexchange.com/pages/books/56961/ernst-fraenkel-e-a-shil/the-dual-state-a-contribution-to-the-theory-of-dictatorship
[8] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/
[9] https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1906&context=uclrev
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March 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Trump admin.'s ad hoc interference in private business decisions, exemplified but not limited to its recent meddling in the #AI, has come w/o congressional sanction. Trump is planning product releases and choosing customers of a key industry in our ostensibly free-market economy. Id. #DualState
July 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Trump admin.'s ad hoc interference in private business decisions, exemplified but not limited to its recent meddling in the #AI, has come w/o congressional sanction. Trump is planning product releases and choosing customers of a key industry in our ostensibly free-market economy. Id. #DualState
"These restrictions on the A.I. industry are the latest instance of the White House creating its own parallel administrative state, sidestepping Congress. Congress and the courts must push back." #DualState #AI
Opinion | This Is a Lot More Worrying Than the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Executive Power
The White House is sidestepping Congress to make huge decisions for even the most important private industries.
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2026 at 12:22 AM
"These restrictions on the A.I. industry are the latest instance of the White House creating its own parallel administrative state, sidestepping Congress. Congress and the courts must push back." #DualState #AI
Here we go
#trump asked #scotus on Friday to lift a temporary order blocking him from using a 1798 law to swiftly deport *alleged* #venezuelan gang members as part of his 2-month-old admin's hardline approach to #immigration.
#law #constitution #dueprocess #civilrights #dualstate […]
#trump asked #scotus on Friday to lift a temporary order blocking him from using a 1798 law to swiftly deport *alleged* #venezuelan gang members as part of his 2-month-old admin's hardline approach to #immigration.
#law #constitution #dueprocess #civilrights #dualstate […]
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masto.ai
March 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Here we go
#trump asked #scotus on Friday to lift a temporary order blocking him from using a 1798 law to swiftly deport *alleged* #venezuelan gang members as part of his 2-month-old admin's hardline approach to #immigration.
#law #constitution #dueprocess #civilrights #dualstate […]
#trump asked #scotus on Friday to lift a temporary order blocking him from using a 1798 law to swiftly deport *alleged* #venezuelan gang members as part of his 2-month-old admin's hardline approach to #immigration.
#law #constitution #dueprocess #civilrights #dualstate […]
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
#uspol #law #immigration #trump #thecrueltyisthepoint #humanrights #dualstate […]
#uspol #law #immigration #trump #thecrueltyisthepoint #humanrights #dualstate […]
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masto.ai
March 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
#uspol #law #immigration #trump #thecrueltyisthepoint #humanrights #dualstate […]
#uspol #law #immigration #trump #thecrueltyisthepoint #humanrights #dualstate […]
#trump issued an #executiveorder accusing the #sec & other agencies of politically motivated investigations under former President Joe #biden and directing a review of cases over the past four years. The SEC’s spokesperson declined to comment on that review.
#musk #law #dualstate
#musk #law #dualstate
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#trump issued an #executiveorder accusing the #sec & other agencies of politically motivated investigations under former President Joe #biden and directing a review of cases over the past four years. The SEC’s spokesperson declined to comment on that review.
#musk #law #dualstate
#musk #law #dualstate
…Today, we are witnessing the birth of a new #dualstate. The #us has long had a normative state. That system was always imperfect. Our #criminal #justice system, for example, sweeps in far too many people, for far too little security in exchange. Even so, it is recognizably part of the normative […]
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masto.ai
March 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
…Today, we are witnessing the birth of a new #dualstate. The #us has long had a normative state. That system was always imperfect. Our #criminal #justice system, for example, sweeps in far too many people, for far too little security in exchange. Even so, it is recognizably part of the normative […]
Academic in tone, The #dualstate sketches a template of emerging #tyranny distilled from bloody & horrifying experience.
As Fraenkel explained it, a #lawless #dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary #legal system of rules, procedures, & precedents. To the contrary, that […]
As Fraenkel explained it, a #lawless #dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary #legal system of rules, procedures, & precedents. To the contrary, that […]
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masto.ai
March 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Academic in tone, The #dualstate sketches a template of emerging #tyranny distilled from bloody & horrifying experience.
As Fraenkel explained it, a #lawless #dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary #legal system of rules, procedures, & precedents. To the contrary, that […]
As Fraenkel explained it, a #lawless #dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary #legal system of rules, procedures, & precedents. To the contrary, that […]
The man…was a Jewish labor lawyer named Ernst Fraenkel.He completed his manuscript…at UC, publishing it as The #dualstate, w/the modest subtitle A Contribution to the Theory of #dictatorship.The book explains how the #nazi regime managed to keep on track a #capitalist economy governed by stable […]
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masto.ai
March 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The man…was a Jewish labor lawyer named Ernst Fraenkel.He completed his manuscript…at UC, publishing it as The #dualstate, w/the modest subtitle A Contribution to the Theory of #dictatorship.The book explains how the #nazi regime managed to keep on track a #capitalist economy governed by stable […]
#giftarticle
#america Is Watching the Rise of a #dualstate
For most people, the #courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
On Sept 20, 1938, a man who had witnessed the rise of #fascism packed his suitcases & fled his home in Berlin. He arranged to have smuggled separately a […]
#america Is Watching the Rise of a #dualstate
For most people, the #courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
On Sept 20, 1938, a man who had witnessed the rise of #fascism packed his suitcases & fled his home in Berlin. He arranged to have smuggled separately a […]
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masto.ai
March 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#giftarticle
#america Is Watching the Rise of a #dualstate
For most people, the #courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
On Sept 20, 1938, a man who had witnessed the rise of #fascism packed his suitcases & fled his home in Berlin. He arranged to have smuggled separately a […]
#america Is Watching the Rise of a #dualstate
For most people, the #courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
On Sept 20, 1938, a man who had witnessed the rise of #fascism packed his suitcases & fled his home in Berlin. He arranged to have smuggled separately a […]
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... #uspoli #trump #fascism #Germany #DualState
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
www.theatlantic.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... #uspoli #trump #fascism #Germany #DualState
“… The Comey indictment, then, is a masterclass in authoritarian theater: a president flaunts control, a loyalist hails independence, and the public watches the line between law and loyalty blur.”
Dual State
#DualState
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Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
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“The Cabinet is composed of sycophants and loyalists who are willing to defend contradictory policies, even if doing so makes them look like fools.”
#cabinet
#ddrm
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
#cabinet
#ddrm
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This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“… The Comey indictment, then, is a masterclass in authoritarian theater: a president flaunts control, a loyalist hails independence, and the public watches the line between law and loyalty blur.”
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
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Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
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“… Trump performs his power openly, while Patel’s post attempts to sanitize it after the fact. In Trumpworld, the appearance of independence is as crucial as the law itself, because perception underwrites legitimacy, even when authority is wielded without restraint.”
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
“… This name comes from the puppet government in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Vichy French officials were Hitler’s enablers, just as most sitting Republican politicians are Trump’s enablers.”
#VichyGOP
#ddrm
www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e...
#VichyGOP
#ddrm
www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e...
Mitch McConnell is now chief of Vichy Republicans. History won’t remember them kindly. | Opinion
OpEd: Like the puppet Vichy government in Nazi-occupied France during World War II that enabled Hitler, most sitting GOP politicians are enabling Trump.
www.kentucky.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“… Trump performs his power openly, while Patel’s post attempts to sanitize it after the fact. In Trumpworld, the appearance of independence is as crucial as the law itself, because perception underwrites legitimacy, even when authority is wielded without restraint.”
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
“… Should Comey face trial, the shadow of a president publicly directing DOJ action could make conviction nearly impossible. Justice is served, but as performance.
This is performative authoritarianism at work.”
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
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This is performative authoritarianism at work.”
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
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“”You know at some point, they give up,” he said, referring to media owners generally and—we suspected—Bezos specifically. “At some point they say, No más, no más.” He laughed quietly.”
#ddrm
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
#ddrm
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“… Should Comey face trial, the shadow of a president publicly directing DOJ action could make conviction nearly impossible. Justice is served, but as performance.
This is performative authoritarianism at work.”
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
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This is performative authoritarianism at work.”
Dual State
#DualState
#ddrm
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“… The message is clear: the indictment was a personal victory, a public performance of retribution, and a spectacle of authority in action.”
Dual State
#DualState
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Dual State
#DualState
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‘JUSTICE IN AMERICA': Trump applauds indictment of 'DIRTY COP' James Comey’
“President Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Friday morning …”
#Comey
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“President Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Friday morning …”
#Comey
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'JUSTICE IN AMERICA': Trump applauds indictment of 'DIRTY COP' James Comey
President Trump took to social media, calling James Comey “one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to,” as he celebrated his indictment.
abcnews.go.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“… The message is clear: the indictment was a personal victory, a public performance of retribution, and a spectacle of authority in action.”
Dual State
#DualState
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Dual State
#DualState
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“”… JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Trump wrote, linking legal action explicitly to personal grievance and political revenge. This was Trump micromanaging the DOJ, breaking norms, and signaling that justice would be delivered on his timetable.”
#DualState
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#DualState
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“… The Justice Department has a "Weaponization Working Group" that is examining those investigations, and many who worked on them and were still in the department have been fired.”
#revenge
#ddrm
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#revenge
#ddrm
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Trump administration targets Comey and Brennan with new investigation
The Justice Department confirmed an inquiry into two frequent Trump targets as it faces scrutiny over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
www.nbcnews.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“”… JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Trump wrote, linking legal action explicitly to personal grievance and political revenge. This was Trump micromanaging the DOJ, breaking norms, and signaling that justice would be delivered on his timetable.”
#DualState
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#DualState
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“… He excoriated a “woke RINO” U.S. Attorney in Virginia, browbeat AG Pam Bondi, and pushed Lindsey Halligan to take over — all to ensure Comey’s indictment.”
Dual State
#dualstate
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Dual State
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‘Trump’s Handpicked Prosecutor Takes Over Comey and James Cases’
‘The president is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted.’
#EDVA
#ddrm
‘The president is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted.’
#EDVA
#ddrm
Trump’s Handpicked Prosecutor Takes Over Comey and James Cases
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“… He excoriated a “woke RINO” U.S. Attorney in Virginia, browbeat AG Pam Bondi, and pushed Lindsey Halligan to take over — all to ensure Comey’s indictment.”
Dual State
#dualstate
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Dual State
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