Ben Meiselas
05/05/25
(MeidasTouch) “Donald Trump’s trying to take over all these independent agencies, and what he’s done in the case of the Federal Elections Commission is he said, ‘Well, we’re going to just outright fire the biggest advocate who’s taking on corruption, who’s calling out the abuses of money in politics’ when he fired Commissioner Weintraub, and then they’re just going to leave the other vacancies open, right? Because again, if there’s not at least four members on that commission, they can’t do anything. They can’t do any business whatsoever. And so this is one more step that Donald Trump has taken to really gut the watchdogs who are at the heart of our government trying to clean up corruption. We saw it with the Federal Elections Commission. We’ve seen it with inspectors generals in independent agencies, and we see it in weaponizing the DOJ time and time again.”