Submission + - The Birth of a Dictatorship? (nytimes.com) 2
sammyF70 writes: Trump apparently removed at least 12 watchdog officials, charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse and preventing misconduct, over night, defying the law mandating a 30 day notice and an actual reason for the firing. Considering how much previous criminal charges and condemnation hindered him to do whatever he wants, the only question that seems to remain is how fast the USA will shift to a full blown dictatorship.
Paywalled (Score:2)
The linked article is paywalled, but I don't disagree with the summary.
Seattle Times published the NYT article (Score:2)
https://www.seattletimes.com/n... [seattletimes.com]
If it ever goes behind a paywall, here's the last paragraph - searching for it may find additional outlets that published the article:
At the time, Trump was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic spreading across the country, but he also was seeking to reshape the government to remove people he saw as trying to damage him. That included Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community, who dealt with the anonymous whistleblower complaint that had led to Trumpâ(TM)s first impeachment by the House.
Note: The "Ã(TM)" is Slashdot's munging of a curly-apostrophe.