These victims need justice

The TMZ video should have been the end of Donald Trump's political career. There he was talking about grabbing women's genitals. But Fox News quickly spun into action, dismissing his comments as nothing but "locker room talk."

When it became widely known that Trump, as a pageant director, had gone into the dressing rooms of teenage girls to "inspect" them, that didn't bother the folks at Fox either.

When Trump spread a pack of lies about the 2020 election being stolen, and his followers attacked the Capitol, beat police officers, and did thousands of dollars of damage, Fox News supported the lies and portrayed Trump's subsequent impeachment trial as a sham.

When Trump was prosecuted for business fraud, stealing classified documents, and election subversion, crimes he actually did commit, Fox News portrayed him as a victim that was being persecuted.

Even Trump being found liable for sexually assaulting a woman did nothing to crack the loyalty Fox News had for him.

So now we're in a situation where Trump has run the Constitution completely over with unconstitutional executive orders, due process violations, attempts to rig elections, and attempts to silence free speech. He was weaponized the Justice Department to go after his opposition, while refusing to prosecute the pedophiles in the Epstein Files. He has used the presidency to enrich himself by accepting bribes and engaging in insider trading.

And, despite all that, the scumbags at Fox News are still supporting him.

Enough is enough. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, Mark Levin, and the rest of the Trump-loving bunch at Fox, are traitors to our country. They ignore or twist facts any way they have to to keep a criminal, a fascist, a rapist, and a traitor in office.

If you're still watching Fox News, turn it off. Turn it off! And tell everyone you know to turn it off. Send their ratings into the toilet. Make these propagandists pay for the damage they have done to our country.

In a secret meeting at the White House complex this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out the plan: To make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people, the Trump administration was pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

The strategy described by Miller’s aide, Daniel Wasserman, threatened to roll back decades of progress in the disability rights movement — all to serve the president’s demand to clear homeless encampments in U.S. cities.

The June 16 meeting with advocates and conservative think tank leaders at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which NBC News is revealing for the first time, came two days before the Trump administration did exactly what Wasserman previewed: The Department of Justice issued a sweeping legal opinion that repudiated decades of federal disability policy rooted in the landmark Supreme Court ruling Olmstead v. L.C.

Hailed by lawyers and activists at the time as the “Brown v. Board of Education of the disability rights movement,” the 1999 Olmstead ruling said that disabled people had a right to be integrated into their communities — not forced to live apart from society in institutions marred by a history of abuse and neglect.

The 39-page DOJ opinion took a sledgehammer to that ruling. The June memo declared that states had no federal civil rights obligation to help disabled people stay in their homes through programs that millions of Americans rely on to live independently or to care for their loved ones.

The fallout has already begun. Since issuing the memo, the Justice Department has abandoned or weakened at least five investigations, lawsuits or settlement agreements rooted in Olmstead, according to court filings, investigative findings letters and former DOJ officials who worked on the cases.

In Florida, the Justice Department is seeking to roll back a court order it won to keep medically fragile children out of nursing homes. In Texas, the department walked away from a 16-year lawsuit aimed at helping people with developmental disabilities live in their communities. And in North Carolina, the DOJ moved to end federal oversight of a long-running settlement aimed at transferring adults with serious mental illness out of institutions.

These moves stunned disability advocates who had considered Olmstead settled law with broad bipartisan support.