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Trump: Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader, but I said no thanks

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‘Men need to be perp-walked’ after Epstein files release, Massie tells BBC

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Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

A Cabinet secretary was forced out amid contracting and oversight scrutiny, signaling that executive control—not transparent accountability—can dictate leadership of the agency driving mass detention and deportation.

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The Trump gold coin is not normal : Consider This from NPR

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White House Confronted Over Huge Bets Made Minutes Before Trump’s Big War Move

A $580 million burst of oil-futures selling minutes before Trump’s Iran “talks” post raises a basic public-interest question: did anyone trade on advance knowledge of a market-moving national security decision?

Mar 24, 2026

Trump Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus in Surprise Show of Panic

A report suggests Trump wants to hide the optics of “mass deportations,” but the policy machinery and legal end-runs Stephen Miller champions appear to be moving ahead anyway.

Executive

Mar 24, 2026

Sources

https://newrepublic.com/article/208114/trump-stephen-miller-immigration-panic

Summary

The New Republic reports that Trump may be trying to reduce the visibility of his administration’s deportation push while privately shifting rhetoric toward “criminals.” The piece frames this as Trump throwing Stephen Miller “under the bus,” but the underlying evidence described is mostly about messaging and speculative internal dynamics, not a confirmed policy reversal. The bigger stake is whether the administration (and allied states) are testing legal strategies that could weaken equal-protection norms affecting immigrant families and their children.

Reality Check

The strongest verifiable takeaway is not “Trump sidelined Miller,” but that some reporting suggests a rhetorical/visibility recalibration around deportations while hardline legal strategies remain in play. Even if Trump wants less public talk of “mass deportations,” that doesn’t equal a documented change in who is arrested, detained, or removed—those are operational questions that require evidence like policy memos, enforcement data, and on-the-ground practice. On the education front, Plyler v. Doe (1982) is binding law; any serious state attempt to deny K-12 education based on immigration status would almost certainly trigger immediate litigation and could be used as a vehicle to ask courts to narrow or overturn Plyler.

Detail

The article’s central peg is a Wall Street Journal report that Trump wants to “lower the profile” of mass deportations and emphasize “criminals” in GOP messaging, reportedly with chief of staff Susie Wiles viewing deportations as a midterm liability. The New Republic treats the reported shift as a political rebuke to Stephen Miller, but it also acknowledges skepticism: the described change could be primarily an optics and messaging adjustment, not a change in enforcement priorities. The piece highlights separate reporting that Miller met with Texas legislators and discussed restricting state public education funding to children who are citizens or lawfully present—an approach that would conflict with Plyler v. Doe (1982), which barred states from denying K-12 public education based on immigration status. The article argues that provoking state-level litigation could be a pathway to ask today’s Supreme Court to revisit Plyler v. Doe, potentially enabling other states to follow if Texas acted. It links this to the administration’s broader constitutional project around the Fourteenth Amendment, including Trump’s 2025 executive order (EO 14160) attempting to narrow birthright citizenship; litigation has centered significantly on the scope of nationwide injunctions and class-wide relief. The piece cites claims about enforcement priorities (e.g., that a small share of ICE arrests involved violent criminal records in 2025) to argue that “criminal-focused” rhetoric can obscure broader, non-violent targeting. Missing from the New Republic narrative is what the administration has actually ordered ICE to do (written policy changes, directives, metrics) and whether any operational changes followed the reported PR recalibration. Also missing: what, precisely, Texas lawmakers are considering (bill text, sponsors, timetable), and whether the education proposal is a concrete legislative push or a floated trial balloon at a private meeting.

Norms Impact

The Worst President Ever

Trump is depicted using executive power to punish speech, bypass warrants, and profit alongside policy reversals—an assault on constitutional limits and the norm that government power cannot be sold.

Executive

Feb 16, 2026

⚖ Legal Exposure

Ethics Violation

Likely Unlawful

Potentially Criminal

Likely Criminal

The article alleges a $500 million foreign purchase of a 49% stake in a Trump-family/associate crypto venture occurring just before a significant U.S. national-security policy reversal benefiting the UAE (AI chip export approval). That sequence and magnitude support a structural quid-pro-quo inference consistent with potentially criminal bribery/honest-services theories, even without explicit agreement language. Additional facts (decisionmakers, communications, and benefit flows to the official) would determine whether charges can be proved.