Remember how Republicans used to be proponents of the rule of law? That’s all kaput now. With Donald Trump’s mouthpiece, Todd Blanche, in the DOJ, and Donald Trump’s financial manager, Scott Bessent, as Treasury secretary, laws are null and void now. The old Constitution is out, and the new one is in: Make money for Donald Trump, his family and his henchmen.
Here’s a recent example of this new Trumpian America: Aug. 14, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the Treasury Department, has been ordered to cease all operations in the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act passed by Congress in 2021. (See Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American,” Aug. 15, for a detailed explanation and bibliography of sources.)
Why does this matter? The Treasury Department has announced that it will not enforce a law passed by Congress. The rule of law in the United States is null and void now. Send us your criminals whose cash needs laundering, your oligarchs yearning to be free of the law.
Why would our public servants do this to us? Don’t they want us to have protection from the big-money criminals who have the money and power to cheat the system? That was the old Constitution. Remember, but don’t ever get used to it; the new constitution is to make money for Donald Trump, his family and his henchmen.
Charles Ashurst, Logan