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At the end of October, Propublica published one of the most prophetic stories in our history. You can forgive if you missed it at the time. The days before the election, there were a lot, and the headlines prevailed, the following problems such as the racist humor of the comedian, who turned to Donald Trump’s action at Madison -Skver Harden.
But if you weren’t among several hundred thousand people who read our story, “” ‘Put them in injury: “Inside the key plans of the Maga leader on the new agenda Trump“In real time, you may have seen it referred to Trump in January.
The story attracted private records of a number of speeches outlined in 2023 and 2024 Russell Uc received by our colleagues in DocumentedThe news site with great agility to disclose information, powerful interests prefer to remain secret.
Vus, self -recorded by a Christian nationalist who held the position of director of management and budget at the first term of Trump, was known for his provocative public speeches. But he went even further in private, providing for Trump’s presidency, in which the regulatory authorities will be closed, and the civil servant will be too depressed to get out of bed.
“We want the bureaucrats to be injured,” Vus said One entry. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them not to go to work because they are increasingly regarded as villains. We want their financing to be closed so that the EPA could not follow all the rules against our energy industry because they do not have financial bandwidth.
“We want to carry them into injury.”
Vought told openly about constant planning to cancel independent federal agencies and demonize government scientists. “We have detailed plans for agencies,” he said. “We write actual executive orders. We are now writing real rules, and we understand the legal authorities for all that President Trump works.”
Vus claimed that the radical steps were needed because Trump’s opponents themselves tried to stop democracy. “The reality in America is that we are in the late stages of the country’s complete Marxist absorption,” he said in one speech. “Our opponents are already holding a government apparatus, and they sent to us. And they will continue to target until they have to win the election.”
It is difficult to imagine a more perfect piece of journalism. The story captured, like few of them, the width and fury of the future attack on the federal government. WuTS returned to his post as a budget director, and his plans to reduce entire agencies and destroying the moral state of federal workers turned into reality. Trump 47 looks very different than Trump 45, as Wuts told his audience what it would be.
So why didn’t this story have caused a more national conversation when it appeared?
As an information organization that tries to overcome changes, revealing new facts, we think a lot about this issue. Our job in PROPBLICA is to get a story and get it into the heads of the critical mass of citizens and elected officials.
I was a reporter and an investigation editor for almost three decades, and I am still fighting to predict which of our stories would catalize national conversations. Our 2018 story is about recording a young girl in an immigration detention center pushed the Trump administration to stop the family division policy on the border. Many other powerful stories will not break through.
Of course, part of the problem is the spread of the media. Every day, dozens of important stories cause readers’ attention as well as the floods of messages in social media and texts of friends and colleagues. And this is not to mention all podcasts and multi -dramas on Netflix and HBO.
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It was a problem long before Trump and his allies adopted the strategy of “flooding the zone” with several actions involved in the norm, but now it seems even more acute.
Often they talk about journalists that we are writing a rough project of history. But our work is different from historians in the decisive aspect: scientists are usually events on chronicity after the result is clear. As journalists, we face a tougher problem when we try to find stories in cacophony of daily events that tell us where we are going.
A lot of what we do as journalists is like getting tired through opaque windows at events that unfold in a very vague room. We see who is inside and how they move, but our lack of context often prevents us from understanding what is really going on. We default suggested that the future would be approximately as the past, guessing that, say, Trump 47 would be approximately like Trump 45 with less fence.
The mustache could not be more clear that it was not, and he had the powers that had to do what he said completely securely. After all, Vought was the author of the plan in the first term Trump to facilitate the shooting of a large number of civil servants. He was a key member of the project “Project” 2025, a heritage project project, which in a rich detail how the second Trump administration could unfold.
However, there was at least one point of the data that may prevented the readers from viewing his speeches as predictable as they were. As our history has found out, WuTS despices the federalist legal and state policy, the main republican ally in attracting conservative votes into the judiciary and federal law enforcement agencies. We quote it as claiming that the “saved the so -called federalistic society and the original judges” served “Pretorian Guard” for the Democrats.
Seem Federalistic Society to select judges which make up conservative superfood in the Supreme Court.
Today everything looks different. Acquired against the backdrop of recent events, the disdainfulness of Wutta to the rules of the law on the legislation of the legal thinkers of the federalistic society seems to be fully consistent with Trump Last post Assuming that the federal judge should not have the powers over his administration.
Just a few weeks ago, Daniel Sasson, one of the bright lights of the Federal Society, a graduate of the Yale Law, who was engaged in official conservative icon Antonina Skalia, resigned as Acting Prosecutor of the United States in the Southern New York district, and did not obey the orders from the Justice Department. By refusing to give up a corruption case against the Mayor of New York Eric Adams, Sasson wrote that she understood her obligation to the prosecutor, which means “implementation of the law impartially, and this includes persecution that is true, regardless of whether his dismissal is politically advantageous.”
Many years ago, when I discussed the story we worked on, and I discussed the story we sharply and justified when new facts appeared. “I can be fair and accurate,” he said. “But rightly, accurate and ancient is me.”
It seems, by the way, to give the voat the last word, because described which he described the worldview was so accurate. What the grandiose on the days of the previous lady sounded like a reasonable way that Trump and his allies chose.
“We are here in 2024, a year, which is very good (I could) – and I believe it will be – the rival of 1776 and 1860 for the complexity and uncertainty of the forces that are against us,” said Wuts, citing the years when the colonies declared independence from the UK and the first state, which was recognized by President Abraha.
“God has put us here in such a time as this one.”
I am not sure about the role of the PROPBLICA in the coming years. But we feel equally strongly that we are here “such a time”.
