Jesse Eisinger
speaker
287 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 29 May
Jesse Eisinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The idea of an independent civil service had been developed for well over 100 years.
And what Trump said was, no, I control everything.
There is no such thing as an independent agency.
There is no such thing as—
a nonpartisan civil service, I have control over every agency, including the Department of Justice, which had really acted very independently since Watergate.
But it turned out it was just a norm.
It was just tissue paper.
And once you tore it up, there was nothing left standing, and the Supreme Court essentially allowed him to act in this way as the executive with power over the agencies.
So that was step one.
Step two was to take control of the Republican Party so much that Congress was supine and has been throughout the second administration.
So he had to have those two things in place.
And then once he had that in place, what he could do was sue the federal government.
So the Department of Justice was responding to his suit on behalf of the Treasury Department and the IRS.
And then they were in a position where they were purportedly adversarial, and it went to a judge, and the judge said, explain to me how this is an adversarial process.
I think that was a pretty good analogy, but, like, not even— Punch it up.
Didn't even get to—I mean, like, it's so circular.
It's so weird.
You know, you can imagine that you're engaged in an adversarial process with your employer.
But this is like—it's like suing yourself over having bought too many shirts.
Honestly, it's not a terrible idea.
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