A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

Talk inside the White House about invoking the act has ebbed and flowed since Trump took office again in January, said the five people, who include the senior administration official, two people familiar with the discussions and two people close to the White House.

But the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked, both people close to the White House said.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    930·
    6 天前

    I’m not sure how this is the dems fault, but okay.

    Trump is hitler stupid, and it’s the dems fault.

    • vonbaronhans@midwest.social
      644·
      6 天前

      I’m not sure the specific blame the above commenter is referring to, but I blame Democrats for two things.

      1. They failed to recognize and truly fix systemic problems because the actual solutions aren’t market-oriented.

      2. They dragged their heels on prosecuting Trump when he was out of power long enough for him to escape any liability and ultimately establish… this.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
        837·
        6 天前

        JFC, do you really think that peace for a long time led them to believe that the republicans would go full on nazi? No one thought this would happen to this extreme. Stop fucking blaming the victims, which is the American people.

        Trump and his republicans are NAZIS.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
          461·
          6 天前

          No one thought this would happen to this extreme.

          No, it was actually pretty easy to imagine when:

          1. Trump told people to “find votes” for him;
          2. Trump had himself pre-emptively certified as the winner in some states; and
          3. Trump used stochastic terrorism to incite a riot outside a government building, as a response to his impending loss of power.

          All of that screams “power-hungry facist”, and the predictable outcome of someone like that regaining legal authority, obviously, is an attempt to transition towards fascism so they can retain that once-lost power indefinitely.

          • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
            27·
            6 天前

            And he told people they’d never have to vote again. And Project 2025 forecast what would happen if he won but people wrote off that publicly available document as a delusion of the left

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            6 天前

            Also, The Annoying Orange told everyone he’d be their “retribution”. If people heard that and were confused about what that meant for most of the country, I don’t know what to say.

        • vonbaronhans@midwest.social
          35·
          6 天前

          A lot of us thought this would happen if Trump won again. I don’t think any of us thought it would get this bad this quickly, but definitely within his 2nd term.

          Just to be clear, when I say I blame Democrats, I mean I blame the Democratic party, the Democrat leaders (Pelosi, Schumer, etc), and their apparatus. I can see how you thought I was blaming voters, but I assure you that’s not what I meant.

          And yes, I agree. The GOP are officially fascists by virtually any definition of the term.

        • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
          23·
          6 天前

          Lots of people foresaw this and tried to warn everybody and we were written off as irrational fearmongerers

        • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
          72·
          5 天前

          Actually, a lot of us didn’t fail history & have functional pattern matching abilities.

          • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
            11·
            5 天前

            The Hilldawg/DNC mugging of Bernie Sanders in 2016 confirmed to me that there were no good guys, just different sides.

            • Aljernon@lemmy.today
              3·
              5 天前

              Most popular Presidential Candidate for two elections in a row and didn’t appear on the ballot in either of them. I’ve had conservative coworkers who’ve told me that they maybe didn’t agree with Bernie but he’s one of the few politicians they TRUST. That’s rare and a squandered opportunity.

        • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          5 天前

          has eyes

          Saw this coming

          Guys I’m a fucking genius, i bet next we will find out the sky is sometimes blue.

    • TuffNutzes@lemmy.world
      261·
      6 天前

      The Dems put ‘decorum’ before sanity. The DOJ in the new admin should have gone hard after Trump and his henchmen on January 21 2021.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
      242·
      6 天前

      Because the Dems allowed open treason to fester. Trump literally should have been executed for crimes against the state.

      Instead he was let off with zero repercussions and allowed to pardon the insurrectionist mob. Terrible consequences have ensued and will continue on.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      6 天前

      There is no low the Republicans can stoop to that won’t result Murc’s Law being a thing.

      The Republicans could be at the shoving people onto trains phase and there will still be a certain type of individual trying to blame the Democrats for not stopping the Republicans…

      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
        16·
        6 天前

        If a gang of criminals is causing trouble all over town and nothing is being done to stop them, I’m gonna be mad at the criminals and also mad at police, prosecutors, and judges for not doing their job and stopping these people