This Week in Tyranny: Trump’s Pardon Racket, Pentagon Threatened the Pope, Fish Cops Track Immigrants

This week on This Week in Tyranny: The Wall Street Journal reports Trump has been floating mass pardons for White House staff, for crimes they haven’t committed yet, telling aides he’ll pardon everyone within two hundred feet of the Oval Office. In January, Pentagon officials summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to a closed-door meeting and told him America has the military power to do whatever it wants and the Church had better take its side. One official invoked the Avignon Papacy as a threat. The Vatican canceled a planned US visit. Pope Leo XIV will spend July 4th at Lampedusa instead. Trump’s DOJ issued a 52-page opinion declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional, the same law Trump was indicted under 40 times. Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has been running ICE immigration searches through Flock AI surveillance cameras, hitting over 5,000 networks across the country, after DeSantis deputized 800 conservation officers as ICE agents. Rapid Fire: Bondi fired out of accountability, Trump’s mail-in voting executive order, Raskin demands Trump cognitive test, and Trump endorsed Hungary’s election with US taxpayer money two days before the vote. Welcome to the golden age. Get full access to The Rogue Voice aka Linsay Rousseau at linsayrousseau.substack.com/subscribe