Category: trump immunity

Democracy Saved for Now because of Federal Court Ruling on Mail-in Ballots

Within the last few days, the federal court in Massachusetts blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing new restrictions on mail-in voting.

The court decision about the Trump Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” on March 31, 2026,  made just before the mid-terms is unconstitutional and not supported by Federal law. Trump believes he can push out Executive Orders whether they are constitutional or not, simply because he can and has the ultimate tool of “Presidential Immunity” which protects him from being prosecuted for his unconstitutional acts. Trumps order if carried out by the U.S. Postal Service which in it self in unprecedented, would disenfranchise voters. In Judge Talwani’s order, she noted that the President of the United States does not have any specific power over elections, asserting that election regulation is reserved for Congress and the states.

Trump’s tool of ‘the Executive Order’ has been grievously abused by him, as he has unlawfully used it in every sense possible to predict outcomes for his own enrichment and also for his family. NONE of the Executive Orders made in Trump’s second term would be for the benefit of the American people. You knew where he was going with such powers when he forgave the rioters of their attacks on the U.S. Capital building On Day ONE of his second term, then pardoning major criminals and convicted felons of confessed crimes since then. He would pardon himself if he can. He did it because he can with the power of his pen. Within the office of the President, he can perform any unlawful acts while performing his presidential duties. He knows that using the Executive Order as one of his presidential duties, he will not have to account for any unconstitutional orders in a court of law in the future. Some of the people he pardoned owned restitution for their crimes. They stole from the people, and were ordered to pay money back as part of their sentence upon conviction. But Trump’s order to free them from detention was that they also did not have to repay the people they stole money from. These actions confirm Trump as being on of the most corrupt presidents of all time. Criminals got to keep what that stole. These Executive Orders given and carried out cannot be contested under law. Judge Talwani has stopped Trumps Executive Order of interfering with elections has been stopped in its tracks before implementation.

Trump has issued just under 275 Executive Orders in his second term. This surpasses his orders of his first term, and signed 26 orders on his very first day in office in his second term, the highest number in presidential history. All of the people convicted of their crimes, even with people who confessed to those crimes, were pardoned by Trump, and in matter of fact, all January 6th offenders were pardoned by him. They were doing his bidding to openly state that the certification of Joe Biden could not take place and performing acts at the U.S. Capital never seen before in American history, unlawful acts  where defendants were prosecuted, but are now back on the streets to preform unlawful acts again, as some of them have been arrested again for additional crimes committed after their release.

Donald Trump has granted executive clemency to numerous friends, political allies, and associates across both of his presidential terms, a practice critics describe as using the pardon power to protect loyalists.

In his first and second terms, the following are just some of the people he pardoned from the crimes that they committed…

First Term (2017–2021)

  • Paul Manafort: Former campaign chairman, pardoned on his last day in office.
  • Roger Stone: Long-time ally, pardoned for lying to Congress. 
  • Michael Flynn: Former National Security Adviser, pardoned for lying to the FBI.
  • Charles Kushner: Father of son-in-law Jared Kushner, pardoned for tax evasion and witness tampering.
  • Dinesh D’Souza: Conservative commentator and friend, pardoned in 2018.
  • Elliott Broidy: Republican fundraiser, pardoned for lobbying-related charges. 

Second Term (2025–Present)

Since returning to office in 2025, Trump has continued granting clemency to allies and donors. Recent high-profile pardons include:

  • Rudy Giuliani: Former personal lawyer and NYC mayor, pardoned for obstruction of justice and other charges.
  • Mark Meadows: Former White House Chief of Staff, pardoned.
  • Todd and Julie Chrisley: Reality TV stars convicted of fraud, pardoned in May 2025.
  • Trevor Milton: Founder of Nikola Motors, pardoned for securities fraud.
  • Changpeng Zhao: Binance founder, whose ties to Trump family businesses have been noted. 

Regarding Trump’s latest Executive Order interfering with upcoming elections, Trump’s targeted effort to use the USPS would make it harder to vote. Meanwhile mail in ballots are already being mailed out.

In the mean time, Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice has filed a notice of appeal to the First Circuit. It is an expedited challenge that is expected to reach the Supreme Court by early next week. If Judge Talwani’s order is erased by the Supreme Court, so does democracy get erased. There will not be a free and fair election this fall.

It is Donald Trump’s only wild card left to subvert the upcoming election to prevent a mid-term disaster for Republicans. He knows the Republican party is doomed if the Supreme Court does not step in. When the American people vote this time as long as the Supreme Court does not interfere, Trump will immediately become a Lame Duck President, and the newly elected Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold Trump’s conspirators accountable.

Life for Donald Trump will be nothing less than miserable for the rest of his second term, including more up and coming impeachments, except when the impeachments reach the U.S. Senate, it is possible that Donald J. Trump can be voted out of  office. He would not face convictions, because Vice-President Vance who would now take office as President of the United States and would immediately pardon him of any of his crimes just like Republican President Gerald Ford did for President Richard Nixon who resigned in disgrace in his second term.

But for now, democracy has been saved.

Trump Corruption in form of Pardons and Immunity given by the Supreme Court

President Donald Trump is replacing the demolished East Wing with a 90,000-square-foot “New East Wing” centered around the White House State Ballroom.

Construction costs have escalated from an initial $200 million estimate to between $400 million and $600 million, funded by a mix of private donations and taxpayer money for security upgrades. While underground work continues, a federal appeals court ruled in August 2026 that above-ground construction must halt until Congress approves the project, leaving the future of the visible ballroom structure uncertain.

But here’s the hurdle if there even is one.

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the president lacks the constitutional authority to unilaterally renovate the White House complex.

Even so, Trump has already demolished the East Wing and started the construction of his new complex. Can the Federal Court stop him? I don’t believe that they will. Trump doesn’t abide by the courts. Why? Because the Supreme Court gave him immunity, and as acting President, he can do what he sees fit, regardless of rulings. In the mean time, Trump will take his case up to the Supreme Court.

You would think that the Supreme Court has the final say. If the Supreme Court came up with their decision that he could not build the complex, would he stop?

The Answer – he would not and then you may ask why? It’s because the same Supreme Court gave him “IMMUNITY”. As long as he does ANYTHING within the “official capacity” of his office, he can do what he wants, anything, as long as it’s done in his official capacity. Trump can simply make a proclamation that as President, he has the right to improve on the property. Of course, that doesn’t give him any right to do so. Just the mere fact that he takes it upon himself to make major changes to the property, even when he’s just a temporary tenant. The White House and the properties that it resides on belongs to us, the American citizen.

He doesn’t have to listen to ANY court, including the Supreme Court, just because he now has the power of “IMMUNITY”. Let that sink in. Even if the courts tell him, even if the Supreme Court tells him, he will do it anyway.

No one has the power to rein in the president. Sadly, I must say that the U.S. Congress realizes that they can’t rein him in too. That’s the reason they side with him on everything. Since there is no pushback from Congress, Trump continues to do what he wants to do.

In November, when the Congress is now a Democratically led body, there will be pushbacks, there will be oversite hearings, and there will be convictions. People will get prosecuted and maybe even convicted, but as long as Trump is in office, he can pardon anyone of any Federal crime, anyone.

But that in itself is still not enough to create any accountability if the President of the United States can act as a king and do what he wants.

As an example, Trump has absolute pardon power, granted to every U.S. president by the Constitution. This power has been enjoyed by every U.S. president, but never has this power ever been abused so much as the pardons that Trump has given.

Let’s start with the pardoning of approximately 1,500 people charged or even convicted of insurrection for the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capital.

On day one, Trump pardoned everyone convicted or about to be convicted of January 6 offenders. He pardoned all rioters who attacked the Capital Police. He pardoned anyone who defaced any property or defecated inside the building.  He pardoned all who were convicted of carrying weapons of any kind. He pardoned the rioters who installed the noose that was hanging outside the capital, to be used to kill vice President Mike Pence. He served as Donald Trump’s first vice president, holding office from January 20, 2017, to January 20, 2021. He pardoned an additional 77 people consisting of lawyers and political operatives involved in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election (e.g., Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell), which stand up in my mind.

To go a step further, there is a policy called “No MAGA Left Behind”. The new Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, has explicitly adopted a philosophy of protecting Trump’s political allies. This is corruption at the core.

The pardons include language that potentially covers hundreds of unnamed individuals involved in the 2020 election interference, including the Pardon Attorney himself.

While these pardons signal total political protection, they only apply to federal crimes. They do not shield recipients from state-level prosecutions, such as the Georgia RICO case.

The traditional, merit-based vetting process – typically managed by the DOJ to ensure recipients have rehabilitated and do not pose a public safety risk – has been ABANDONED.

How serious is this ‘pardon thing’.  How about this? Pardons were granted to individuals with dangerous criminal profiles, including a January 6th defendant (Daniel Edwin Wilson) convicted of separate firearm offenses as a felon.

How about corruption and embezzlement? Examples include Michelle Fiore (embezzling police memorial funds for plastic surgery) and Scott Jenkins (selling sheriff’s badges for cash). That’s right. People carried badges that can now break the law as acting police officers.

Another level that has to be recognized are that pardons are now being used as currency for political loyalty or to secure the silence of potential witnesses (e.g., Paul Manafort).

Just two years to go and that will seem like an eternity considering all that’s happened for the first two years of Trump’s second presidency, but maybe the rule of law will finally be realized once again.

Hopefully there will be potential avenues to be explored to restore the rule of law and prevent future abuse of the pardon power.