On 8-13-26, the Washington Post penned an article that: "White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave administration", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

She was little more than the gatekeeper who provided the nonsensical statements that projected value to an administration which protected the truth, the administration's lack of transparency and absolute incompetence.

       On 8-10-26, the Washington Post peened an article that the Washington DC US Attorney, "Pirro, in rare move, convenes special grand jury in Washington", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

I understand that Pro Publica recently contacted Trump by phone to ask about two residential properties he'd purchased (in Florida) for rentals and in mortgage papers listed them both as primary residence. He hung up on them. Is that like pleading the 5th? Maybe Pirro's looking into that???

       On 8-6-26, the Washington Post penned an article that: "Elon Musk's DOGE made big errors in claims of government savings, GAO finds", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The incompetency and immaturity of the White House staff within Trump's 2nd administration is documented in the book "Regime Change". It depicts Elon Musk as an unsupervised child let loose in his playground of the White House's Oval Office.

       On 8-2-26, the Washington Post penned the article, "As Trump cites progress on deal to end war, Iran and Israel remain on alert", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

This article lacks relevant content and only confirms what most thoughtful Americans already suspect. The least transparent Executive Branch administration in modern history enjoys no creditability on the value of what they claim.

       On 8-1-26, the Washington Post penned the article, "The last day of an American factory," and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The last thing in the world voters should be doing is comparing Trump to Biden. Trump stands alone as the most corrupt and amoral... ever!

       On 7-21-26, the Washington Post penned the article: "Trump adds condition to nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, throwing pact into doubt", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

One of the greatest faux pas heard by a noted politician of dubious fame, "No one in the world does deals better than me".

      On 7-14-26, an internet posting gave the Reuters news service credit for a full disclosure of the US District Court Judge's complete wording of the decision.  It fully explains the Department of Justice has lost all independence and is acting in Trump's behalf against the interests of the Constitution and the those of the American public.  It is reprinted here on behalf of the Enlightened Prisoner.

On Tuesday, Reuters reported that U.S. District ⁠Judge Kathleen Williams threw out Trump's settlement with the IRS (as overseen by DOJ), the one that granted Trump and family full immunity from IRS investigations and crimes arising in the past and could be read as applying into the future, though that detail is irrelevant because the entire deal has just been rendered irrelevant. Judge Williams threw the settlement out on the basis that the lawsuit didn't involve two adverse parties:

 "This action was never about a party seeking judicial resolution of a legal issue or a ⁠factual dispute," Williams wrote. The judge said it was instead an attempt to "provide some legitimacy to an agreement to ⁠confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the president and to earmark billions of dollars ⁠from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law."

       On 7-12-26, the Washington Post penned an article that: "Survivors of Iranian attack that killed 6 U.S. troops say generals ignored warnings", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Bahrain houses a 62 Acre base that has Middle East control of Naval operations. It contains a lot of personnel: 7600 active-duty military, 900 Department of Defense civilians, and about 1200 military family dependents. A very viable target. Yet the action against Iran was started with nothing done to protect the innocents. It was subjected to bombardment in retaliation and luckily no casualties of innocents. There was instant panic for their safety and an immediate evacuation order made to pack up and take them to Spain. Does that speak to Trump and his Department of War's concern for no one outside of his self-serving war against a belligerent but no threat to our country agenda?

      On 7-10-26, the Washington Post penned an article on the Huston ICE incident of another shooting and the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus: 

This is the kind of reaction that happens when the Chief promotes on social media about his record for the most immigrants being arrested and deported being the greatest for any President in our country's history?!?!  And all of his ICE thugs go to work to make it so.  I believe the worst of the worst are too smart for the likes of ICE, so they force incidents wherever they see "those kind of people".  We've been turned into a third world county being run by a mob boss.

       On 7-6-26, the Washington Post penned an article that: "White House report accuses Smithsonian museum of ‘extreme political activism’", and the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus: 

Our very best living historians for governing our nation are the 4 surviving Presidents, Biden, Obama, George W. Bush, and Clinton. They are all active friends and appear together frequently. However, none of the four consider Trump worthy of their friendship and frequently disagree with his policies and his Presidential performance. Do you not see the irony of this? Isn't it reason enough to suspect what is being wrought since Trump's elected status?