Leaked Emails Expose Trump’s Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor

https://newrepublic.com/post/193483/donald-trump-maine-governor-social-security-leaked-emails

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  1. >Lawmakers are calling on the Social Security Administration chief to resign after internal emails revealed that the administration shut Maine off from the late-age insurance program in retaliation for publicly defying the MAGA agenda.

    >Representative Gerry Connolly called Tuesday for the resignation of Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner of social security. In a release, Connolly’s office shared emails sent by Dudek in which the DOGE acolyte inquired to his staff about which contracts Maine had with his agency and ultimately chose to cancel them, despite being aware that doing so would increase fraud and waste.

  2. More great OPSEC. Like a screen door on a dumbass submarine.

  3. Headline makes it sound like a mean-yet-legal political move against an individual, when really it’s an unlawful, frontal assault on the people of Maine.

  4. Declaration of Independence Grievance #2:

    “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”

  5. What insurance program? Did he cut off Mainers from getting their SS checks?

  6. >When Dudek asked his staff to cancel the contracts, he acknowledged in the emails that “while our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,” referring to Governor Janet Mills.

    Rarely do you get a chance to read something as incriminating and stunningly oblivious as this fathead’s emailed confession.

  7. Where’s Susan Collins? Is she expressing her concern and furrowing her brows? I can’t go on unless I know she’s concerned because that will fix it.

  9. >At 7:09 pm on the same day, Acting Commissioner responded, stating: “Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child.”’

    So actual weaponization of the government that Republican idiots claim to hate. Always projection.

    What’s even more wild with this statement is them giving up the game. They don’t actually care about fraud, they just want blind fealty. They’d rather have fraud and pay criminals with tax payer money, than give it to folks who are entitled to it because someone said something mean about Trump.

  10. I hope the good people of Maine remember all of this when it comes time to revisit Susan Collins in 2026.

  11. Wait. Maine is just cut off from Social Security?

    How in the hell is this not so illegal it costs him the job right now

  12. This is all so, so deeply unethical and illegal. Fuck all these traitors.

    After the first administration you might have persuaded me that reconciliation was the best course. Now I just want revenge. I want every single MAGA traitor investigated and charged, and I would dearly love to see each of them face the maximum sentence possible.

  13. > Cut Maine off from the late-age insurance program in retaliation for publicly defying the MAGA agenda.

    High crimes and Misdemeanors.

  14. Trump has a huge, longtime, diagnosable problem with strong women. He repeatedly obsesses over one after another after another. Mommy issues? 

  15. The Cruelty is the Point.

    This is what 25% of this country wants… people to suffer so Trump can be king.

  17. How did this leak? Did they cc a reporter as usual?

  18. I feel like this story alone would normally be enough to shift public opinion in a major way. The interim head of SSA (57,000 employees with a budget of $14.2 Billion overseeing $1.6 trillion in annual payments) is a career mid-level IT staffer who is in place because he is a Trump supporter. And there is email evidence that he illegally cut state funding to punish the governor for hurting Trumps feelings. In normal times each of these facts would be spelled out in headlines over weeks. The NYTimes and WaPo would be openly calling for Biden to resign if he did this.

    Except this is not on the NYTimes website. And the Wapo has it mid-page with the headline “Trump administration targets Maine after governor’s public defiance”.

  19. Jesus Christ. This really demonstrates with crystal clarity how much disdain Trump has for Americans and our country in general. What an absolute piece of shit.

  20. Every day, I’m thankful for the incompetence of this administration in that it allows everyone to see the corruption and idiocy.

    I really hope it makes a difference this time.

  22. Impeachment has been on the table for weeks now.

    This is just absurd how many strikes keep racking up.

  23. Imagine if Biden or Obama did this to a Republican governor.

  24. If Democrats ever get any power back, they’ll need to charge these fuckwits to the full extent of the law. No more pussyfooting around, no more cowardly Attorney Generals. Run on law and order and fucking do it. Make them accountable for the lives they’re ruining. No Republican will face a single charge while we have a traitor in office, cowardly reprobates running Congress, and fully bought and paid for judges.

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