The walls are closing in

The threat of impending accountability is now weighing heavy on the mind of a president under siege from every direction.

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Trump has begun the task of shielding himself from accountability should the Democrats win back the House and, with it, subpoena power in November. He has been forced to resign himself to the reality that the odds of passing the Save America Act are remote, and Republican leadership will not risk abolishing the filibuster, especially given the real possibility that they will be out of power in 2028. Reality is beginning to come home, but the one gift Trump has been given is the confirmation of Todd Blanche as Attorney General.

If there’s one thing we know about Blanche, it’s that he will do as he’s told and carry out Trump’s orders to the letter. In effect, Trump has now officially taken the justice system hostage. It’s now been fully weaponised to serve his malign intentions and put in place protections against him ever being held accountable. He understands the importance of putting things in place that any subsequent Democratic administration will find hard to overturn.

Blanche’s first act as confirmed Attorney General was to issue, as reported by Rebecca Beitsch in a piece for The Hill yesterday, an opinion which:

“..argues the president can assert executive privilege not just over communications with his White House staff, but also with “private advisors” outside of government, an interpretation that would broaden the number of people President Trump could try to shield from congressional investigations.”

It’s important to note that this is a non-binding opinion. Nevertheless, it clearly indicates the intended direction of travel in what is a clear attempt to allow Trump to avoid accountability in any inquiry that might be instigated by a hostile Congress following the midterms. T. Elliot Gaiser, assistant attorney general for the OLC, who authored the opinion, states:

“The interests motivating the privilege are at their apex when it comes to decisions of the President. The need for ‘candid, objective, and even blunt or harsh opinions’ … is all the more important for the President, who is tasked with making ‘the most sensitive and far-reaching decisions entrusted to any official under our constitutional system,’” he added.

“Without a promise of confidentiality, the President’s ability to ‘decide and act quickly’ on matters of unrivaled importance would be seriously hindered.”

Beitch goes on to note:

The OLC said the claim is not absolute and that the president could only assert executive privilege for discussions with outside advisers who are “limited to communications ‘in performance of [a President’s] responsibilities,’ ‘of his office,’ and made ‘in the process of shaping policies and making decisions.’”

Nonetheless, it could be used in an effort to stymie congressional investigations, particularly for a president routinely in touch with business leaders and who has hatched several business deals while in office.

It should be noted that Punchbowl News was the first to report the newly issued memo, and if you’d like to read the official definition of Executive Privilege, I have linked it here. In addition, I’ve included a very informative video below from the former US Pardon Attorney, Liz Oyer .

The reason this is important, is that it speaks to the clear intent to shield a convicted criminal from any attempt to hold him accountable for crimes he may have committed outside the official definition as ruled by the Supreme Court. The aim is to expand the scope of privilege to any and ALL communications, which could, for example, include discussed arrangements with ANY outside party for payments to his crypto accounts. It should not escape your attention that he admitted on camera to controlling the Make America Great Again SuperPAC, which is by definition illegal given that, under the law, it can raise unlimited money for campaigns and spend it freely to support him, but it is barred from coordinating directly with presidential campaigns.

Trump is a man approaching the ‘find out’ phase of his second term, and he’s not even halfway through. Beneath the bravado, he’s worried, regardless of what he might say. Imagine being the alleged most powerful man on earth, and being forced to hide in a catering truck because you fear the reach of a middle-tier nation you have proclaimed to the world has been defeated. I have no words to describe the absurdity of the situation he finds himself in. The thing about Trump is he’s obsessive about his safety; he’s a known germaphobe, yet he has an unhealthy obsession with McDonald’s junk food. He’s truly a man of contradictions.

He now plays golf surrounded by mobile air defence missile units. His paranoia is very evident, and Iran, I’m sure, is enjoying having a front-row seat to watch an American president with no escape from the war he declared, leaving Iran in a much better geopolitical position than they had prior to him spending billions of dollars and diminishing missile stocks to achieve absolutely NOTHING. Trump is the textbook definition of a failed president. It’s like he’s suffering from presidential locked-in syndrome. He can see the dangers on every front, but he’s powerless to act.

The courts have now denied his attempts to prevent mail-in ballots. The ruling by US district ‌judge Indira ‌Talwani in Boston expanded on an ‌earlier order she had issued in June that had prevented Trump’s administration from implementing it in 23 mostly Democratic-led states. Slowly but surely, the door is being closed on his attempts to restrict the voter pool, enabling Republicans to choose their voters rather than the other way around.

Be in no doubt, no matter how many of the doors are closed on his attempts, he will not stop; he cares about nobody but himself, as clearly demonstrated by using reporters, cabinet members and staff on Air Force One as human shields on a decoy aircraft. He effectively declared them expendable, given that a credible threat had been assessed as credible enough to hide him in a catering truck and transport him to safety on a separate aircraft. He’s a coward who will stop at nothing to protect himself from both threats and accountability, regardless of the cost.

On the point of threats to Trump’s life, it’s important to note that a ‘fatwa’ against Trump was issued following the 12-day war in 2025; this effectively put a $20 million price on his head. Per HH 6230 :

Congress finds the following:
            (1) Abdolmajid Kharghani, a hardline cleric and Quranic 
        studies expert, reportedly revealed an online fundraising 
        campaign to the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump 
        and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Khargani claimed 
        that this could be achieved in Europe with $10-$20 million.

For the sake of clarity for those unfamiliar, a fatwa is a formal legal ruling or advisory opinion on a point of Islamic law (sharia), issued by a qualified legal scholar known as a mufti. It’s usually a non-binding response to a specific question about daily life, ethics, finance, or religious practice. It’s not normally, as media commentary would have you believe, a death sentence. Although there are exceptions, as in the case of Salman Rushdie in 1989, who actually had his throat cut by Hadi Matar on stage at an event in New York as he was stabbed 15 times on August 12, 2022. This was in response to Iran’s late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa in 1989.

In short, Trump is right to be worried and will never be rid of that fear, because Iran has a long memory and they are masters at waging psychological warfare. He will always be looking over his shoulder until the day he dies, and I have to admit that does give me a warm feeling inside; however inappropriate that might be, given the death and destruction he is complicit in imposing on the world.

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The fact is, Trump is facing threats from every direction, from threats on his life from Iran, to the domestic threat of losing his grip on political power. That makes him increasingly dangerous the closer we get to the midterms. The confirmation of Todd Blanche only serves to emphasise the danger, as there is clearly nothing that the most senior law officer in the country will not do for Trump.

There’s little doubt in my mind that ICE will be deployed as ‘protection’ for polling places, with an unspoken remit to intimidate non-white voters. Don’t rule out the possibility that they will have a dual role. One to intimidate, and two, to encourage violence from voters who are unhappy with their presence. I’m pretty sure the military will be on standby too, with an objective to seek every opportunity to suspend the elections, claiming them to be unsafe. The possibilities are endless with a compliant Attorney General and Secretary of War. Trump simply can’t afford to lose. I hope I’m wrong, but I believe we are about to see the kind of elections that are common in African banana republics.

Trump will not allow it, but there should be UN election monitors on the ground; that’s how serious this is. He will accept no other result than victory; you don’t have to be a political scientist or scholar in fascism to see exactly what’s on the cards for November, so everyone needs to buckle up and, more importantly, Americans need to check their voter roll status on a regular basis.

Bear in mind I have not even discussed the number of election workers the regime now has on the inside, and the threats that experienced election workers are about to face just trying to do their jobs. 90 million Americans sat on their hands in 2024; it is vital that they step up and do the right thing. The only way this goes down without incident is if the margin of defeat for Trump is too big to fix. It really is as simple as that.

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