r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/Zen1 Oregon 1d ago

Trump has threatened dozens of times to use the government to target political enemies

‘Vengeful’ Trump withheld disaster aid and will do so again, ex-officials warn

Both articles are from 2024.

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u/WhoTookFluff 1d ago

Exactly why I keep asking, who is surprised by this? How can anyone with functional brain capacity possibly be surprised?

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u/toriemm 1d ago

Because Faux news has done such a good job at slowly turning the heat up til all the frogs are boiling.

There's SO MUCH STUPIDITY and it's so hard to figure out what the truth is that most people don't bother. They have more important things to worry about, like paying rent and declaring medical bankruptcy.

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u/Unnamedgalaxy 21h ago

Surprised and perplexed I would say are different things.

No one is really surprised

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u/yourmansconnect 20h ago

Why do you keep asking that? Nobody is surprised

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u/maximumhippo 1d ago

'Covertly' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this headline. Anyone paying attention would have known this was happening even if it was being kept hush hush.