8 unhinged moments as Donald Trump sets up chilling squad to probe people who tried to stop him

Donald Trump set up a chilling inquisition squad to root out people who investigated and prosecuted him - and his supporters who tried to violently overturn the last election. Well into his his third week back in the Oval Office, Trump is still joking about trying to stay on as President after the end of his second term. And one of Elon Musk's tech bro squad quit over some racist tweets - but on the other hand they've been given access to information about the nukes, so it's not all bad.

Here's everything you need to know about the chilling and unhinged things Donald Trump and his White House did overnight. Almost as soon as he got his Attorney General, Pam Bondi, confirmed by the Senate, Trump set her to work on one of his favourite pastimes - persecuting and bullying those who have tried to stop him. Memos show the Attorney General's Office has set up a "Weaponisation Working Group" - tasked with rooting out people from the Justice Department - which includes prosecutors and the FBI - who:.

Some might say this was an indication that pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists wasn't merely doing a favour for his supporters, but a chilling first step in a bid to ensure he can engineer another coup d'etat whenever he wants with few if anyone left in government who is prepared to oppose it. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast - a gathering of religious leaders - yesterday Trump gave what can only be described as a "Wide Ranging" speech.

Among his musings during the address, was a comparison between the tragic air crash disaster which killed 67 Americans on Trump's doorstep less than a week ago - to golf. "I guess the helicopter was high, and we will point out exactly what happened," he said. "But the odds even if you had nothing, nobody, the odds of that napping are extremely small. Did you ever go to a driving range in golf and hit hundreds of balls, thousands of hours.

"I've never seen a ball hit another ball. You never see them hit and balls going up all over the place. That is amazing that could happen.". Almost inevitably, one of Elon's tech bro intimidation unit has been forced to resign after someone found he'd posted super racist things on social media. And since Marko Eles is but 25 years old, the posts were pretty recent. "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," a deleted Twitter account linked to him posted in July according to the Wall Street Journal.

In September, the account posted: "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," following up with "normalize Indian hate" the same month. Other posts appeared to reflect a particular disliking for Indian software developers, whom posts said would be "replaced by slightly smarter LLMs (AI chatbots). They're going back, don't worry guys.". As well as working for DOGE, Elez has worked for Musk at Twitter and Starling.

The White House confirmed last night he had resigned. According to CNN, a 23-year-old member of Musk's Young Avengers has been given access to the Department of Energy's computer system. The agency controls access to information about America's arsenal of nuclear weapons. The White House is Suing Illinois - and the city of Chicago - in the first of Trump's bids to crack down on "sanctuary cities". In sanctuary cities or states, public officials aren't allowed to ask about someone's immigration status unless they've committed a crime - which causes a big headache for Trump's mass deportation programme.

Illinois' state law - specifically the Illinois Trust Act 2017, "prevents state and local law enforcement from assisting the federal government with civil immigration enforcement but allows coordination when there is a federal criminal warrant.". The lawsuit says the law - along with two other city and county ordinances - are an "intentional effort to obstruct the Federal Government's enforcement of federal immigration law and to impede consultation and communication between federal, state, and local law enforcement officials that is necessary for federal officials to carry out federal immigration law and keep Americans safe.".

Trump's offer of semi-voluntary redundancy to basically everyone who works in the government has been temporarily blocked by a judge. Two million employees were given until midnight on Thursday to accept an offer of "deferred resignation" - where they would be paid until the end of September. US District Judge George O'Toole Jr ordered the scheme be paused until a further hearing to be held on Monday.

It's definitely not a joke, guys. Not Trump himself this time, I'll grant you. But here's Republican House member Buddy Carter wading in to make another false - or at least unsubstantiated - claim about who America is buying condoms for. It started with $50m worth for Hamas - which wasn't true. Then Trump upped it to $100 million for Hamas - still not true, but getting funnier. Now the value has gone down, but the destination has also changed.