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                            1. Next in our reported-out 2025 Trump policy stakes series went up this a.m. and will be Sunday NYT front: the prospect of withdrawing the USA from or gutting NATO, abandoning Ukraine and a retreat from Europe. w/ @jonathanvswan & @maggieNYT Gift link: nyti.ms/3uSNafa
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                            We've been working on this series for 6 months & have been gratified lately to see others start to join in the conversation. We have been determined to stay grounded in what Trump & his truly close advisers have said & to add substantive reporting. Gift links to other chapters:/2
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                          June 15: Trump plans to use the Justice Department as an instrument of vengeance against his adversaries, ending of the post-Watergate norm of DOJ investigative independence from the White House political control./3 nyti.ms/47RfJrQ
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                        July 17: Trump plans to concentrate greater power over the govt in the White House, ending independence of agencies Congress set up to operate free from presidential control & making it easier to replace 10,000's of civil service workers with loyalists./4 nyti.ms/41eCAuY
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                      October 3: Trump plans to use military force against drug cartel operations in Mexico, which would violate international law if its government did not consent as it almost certainly would not in light of its bitter history with the US military./5 nyti.ms/3TcXAQV
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                    Nov 1: Close Trump allies, preparing for a return to power, are planning to stock the govt with lawyers who are deemed likely to bless radical White House proposals rather than raising legal objections, as some politically appointed ones did last time. /6 nyti.ms/3t1N1Wh
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                  November 11: Trump has detailed plans for an extreme crackdown on illegal immigration, aimed at rapidly purging the United States of millions of undocumented people. /7 nyti.ms/4abYa7y
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                Dec 4: While Trump has long displayed authoritarian impulses, he now has a far more capable policy operation and various bulwarks that partly held him in check last time would be weaker./8 nyti.ms/41hopoT
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              Here is also shorter “takeaways” piece summarizing the major parts of the series to day (we need to update it for the NATO story)./9 nyti.ms/46QoYY7
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            Related: Sept. 15: The 2024 Presidential Power Survey Project We asked detailed questions aimed at getting candidates to tell voters what limits, if any, they would recognize on executive powers. Some (incl Biden & Pence) answered them. Trump refused./10 nyti.ms/46L9vsg
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          An article based on the survey that starts with Biden’s war-powers answer, while also getting into numerous executive power controversies that arose during the Trump presidency – emergency powers, self-pardons, presidential indictability, etc./11 nyti.ms/3NjPUs9
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        April 20: The role of the Heritage Foundation and “Project 2025” in preparing to build out a policy agenda & fill thousands of executive branch positions if Trump wins the 2024 election. (This one was just Jonathan and Maggie, before I joined forces.)/12 nyti.ms/3GxTjQy
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      June 21: Follow up on Trump’s vow to use DOJ to go after his political enemies, showing how few GOP rivals were willing to defend the principle of DOJ independence & exploring ways Trump tried to get DOJ to charge adversaries with crimes in 1st term./13 nyti.ms/3NjPYbn
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    Sept. 19: Closer look at Trump’s plans to eliminate job protections for tens of thousands of professional civil service workers and a (likely ineffective) Biden effort to block it using a regulation after legislative reform efforts faltered./14 nyti.ms/41hpAEP
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      Nov 1: Sidebar to the story on plans for enabling lawyers, listing some of the names outside advisers to Trump have put on confidential lists of potential agency general counsels and other top legal roles./15 nyti.ms/3Rj4UrL
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        Nov. 13: Trump campaign officials downplay discussion of plans put forward by outside allies and Trump-aligned think tanks, saying only plans announced by Trump himself or endorsed by his campaign count./16 nyti.ms/3GC6gJ5
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          December 5: Trump ally Kash Patel tells Trump ally Steve Bannon that a second Trump administration will use the Justice Department to “come after” the news media./17 nyti.ms/4aeXuhO
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            .@jonathanvswan, @maggieNYT and I are continuing to work on reporting out this important subject. /end for now
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