The Daily Populous Wednesday May 21st, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Aggravating_Money992

“There is a division in our government between the federal branch and the judicial branch. No judge, and the judicial branch, cannot tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy,” Rubio said. “No judge can tell how I have to outreach to a foreign partner or what I need to say to them. And if do reach to that foreign partner and talk to them, I am under no obligation to share that with the judiciary branch.”

FIREWORKS: Marco Rubio just declared that he doesn't have to comply with the judiciary after clashing with Senator Chris Van Hollen who asked him to stop making unsubstantiated claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. pic.twitter.com/wC9TJRP3Zp — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) May 20, 2025

First of all, Rubio completely gets the branches of government wrong, as there are three of them: the executive branch, consisting of the presidency; the legislative branch, comprising Congress; and the judicial branch, made up of the federal court system. But perhaps even more troubling, Rubio also declared that he did not believe in the Constitution’s separation of powers, in which the three branches exist together in a system of checks and balances.

Rubio betrayed what seems to be the Trump administration’s actual beliefs about the U.S. government: that the presidency is more like an absolute monarchy that isn’t subject to congressional or judicial oversight. The conservative-controlled Supreme Court seems to have inspired that belief last year in its ruling on presidential immunity. Now, as President Trump deports immigrants without evidence or due process, we are seeing the actions of a president who believes he is above the law.

bnh1978 on May 20th, 2025 at 22:56 UTC »

Krasnov is simply following orders... destroy america.

Legitimate-Quail5317 on May 20th, 2025 at 22:48 UTC »

A very well researched, extremely well presented documentary was made, way back in 1991, you can find it and watch it free if you search for it on YouTube. It's called 'Trump-What's the Deal?'.

Very sobering to watch. 1991. They tried to warn us in 1991 about how unhinged bizzarro and completely idiotic Trump was with his finances. Trump's casino failure does not begin to describe any of it.

To think that he is president, and somebody to be trusted, is just insanity.

TheOrqwithVagrant on May 20th, 2025 at 22:46 UTC »

As far as killing a major nation's economy, it doesn't look slow, it looks like a historically unprecedented speed-run to me.