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www.latimes.com Trump rebuffs oversight with claims his critics are 'corrupt.' Experts say it’s a tactic President Trump's increasing claims that his political opponents are criminals or "corrupt" are in line with a tactic used by strongmen and authoritarian regimes, experts say. 
www.independent.co.uk Trump rages at judge stalling DC golf course as he remains focused on renovations Deriding East Potomac Golf Links as ‘Trash Island,’ Trump argued a rebuild would attract major events such as the US Open and Ryder Cup 
www.huffpost.com RFK Jr. Shamed After U.S. Loses Measles-Free Status: 'This Didn’t Have To Happen' “He’s going to answer for it in January,” one lawmaker said. “Stop quoting laws to men with swords.” - U.S. Secretary Marco Rubio.
Rubio's statement says the quiet part out loud: the Trump administration is explicitly embracing a 'might makes right' authoritarian ethos’.
And by the way: Pompey's hubris ended in defeat and assassination. 🤣
Rubio:
“For this global elite, international law is not a neutral body of rules. International law is an instrument, an instrument to advance their interest under the pretense of universal principles. For example, they're staunch defenders of democracy, until particular elections challenge their interests. They lecture us on the importance of sovereignty, even as they demand that nations surrender control of their borders and outsource their immigration laws to unelected international courts. They oppose, they say, all forms of imperialism, of conquest, of domination. But they seek to exercise authority over every country and every government on earth.
That's why earlier this year, President Trump made the unprecedented decision to sanction the fake International Criminal Court. A fake court which is an unelected world tribunal, which claims to supersede the laws and constitutions of sovereign states, even those who never signed up for it. Americans have never agreed to submit to the ICC's authority. But that court and its allies in the global bureaucracy have appointed themselves judge and jury and executioner of the international order. Ruling over all, but account ruling over all, they ruling they think they have the right to rule over everyone. But they are accountable to no one. Armed with the power to investigate, to prosecute, to persecute and to jail our citizens, according to laws we neither consent nor control.
They can certainly try, I would say, but if they're foolish enough to try to enforce their paper decree frees on Americans, our answer will probably be the same as the Roman general Pompey. When he said to those who were trying to invoke their city's charters against his legions, he said, stop quoting laws to men with swords.”View quoted post on X
www.politico.com Are Trump Officials Living in an Alternate Reality? Sean Duffy and Markwayne Mullin’s deflection on the air traffic control debacle is a worrisome sign of the final two years of Trump’s presidency. 
