Last February, Trump met with the nation’s governors. He gave them a lecture about his agenda. When it came to his determination to ban transgender athletes, he called out Governor Janet Mills of Maine. He warned her that had “better comply” with his executive order. They exchanged words. She was unbowed. She said to Trump: “See you in court.”
Trump told the Agriculture Department to hold back $3 million in food from Maine schools.
Maine sued to get the money that was due.
They settled. Maine got its $3 million. Governor Mills changed nothing.
The state’s attorney general, Aaron M. Frey, said his office had withdrawn a lawsuit it filed in objection to the funding freeze, which had held up around $3 million, he estimated, and was initiated by the Agriculture Department last month. The federal dollars, Mr. Frey said in an interview, pay for food preparation in schools and child care centers, and also assist in feeding disabled adults in congregate settings…
“The food doesn’t just buy itself, deliver itself, cook itself,” Mr. Frey said Friday, adding that the Trump administration had tried to “bully” Maine. “The message here is if you don’t follow the law and you try to target Maine without relying on any shred of law to support it, we’re going to have to take you to court.”
The White House deferred comment to the Agriculture Department.
Ms. Mills said in a statement that the Trump administration had made an “unlawful attempt to freeze critical funding.” But the agreement, she said, will preserve healthy meals for about 170,000 schoolchildren across Maine.
That’s the thing about bullies. If you stand up to them, they back off. They get their power by intimidation. At bottom, they are cowards. Take Trump. He dodged the draft. Five times. Don’t be afraid of him.
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‘He warned her that had “better comply” with his executive order.’
More evidence that the sadistic sociopath is a tyrant and dictator lover through and through.
I hope Maine tripled her security detail. Any elected representative who stands up to the convicted rapist, fraud, and felon must have increased protection 24/7, from private or state security details, not federal.
The lifelong cheater and liar, Cadet Bone Spurs, is turning all federal law enforcement agencies into loyalist thugs who will arrest or murder anyone on command from him.
When the day comes that he makes his move to take over the US military, their will be a showdown between his loyalists and troops who still honor their oath to defend the US Constitution from traitors like him, the January 6, 2021, TRAITOR.
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Trump does have a twisted sense of grandeur. He thinks he has a mandate even though he did not get 50% of the vote. He imagines himself as an absolute dictator.
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In the red states, governors are eager to outdo Trump, seeing his hostile path to power as their own. We get what we ask for. Well, we get what a gerrymander majority want.
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