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struggle4progress

(127,354 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 02:42 PM 19 hrs ago

About to Demolish the White House?

Talking Feds with Harry Litman

Jul 6, 2026

Harry fills you in on Trump's latest gambits to remake the White House and Washington DC in his image.

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wcmagumba

(7,112 posts)
1. There has to be a way to stop this destructive idiot...he is not an all powerful emperor though he thinks he is...
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 02:43 PM
19 hrs ago

flvegan

(66,737 posts)
3. Oooh, clickbaity nonsense!
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 02:50 PM
19 hrs ago

I can't wait for the clout chasing clickbait bullshit timeline we're on to be over.

struggle4progress

(127,354 posts)
7. could be. but he's been willing to tear up other stuff; and he is on record hating the columns
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 03:20 PM
19 hrs ago

so -- what is he doing there now?

flvegan

(66,737 posts)
9. Well, he's not "about to demolish the White House????" like the title states.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 03:37 PM
18 hrs ago

"demolish the White House" implies he's having the whole place bulldozed, which is what the title/thumbnail wants the observer to think/question and to then click on the YouTube link to be so enlightened that he is indeed not going to do what was implied.

The columns? Quite possibly.

struggle4progress

(127,354 posts)
11. He suddenly bulldozed the East Wing, after saying it wouldn't be affected
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 03:46 PM
18 hrs ago

That counts towards White House demolition to me

Suddenly replacing historic columns with something more to his taste counts in the same direction, IMO

I don't know what he might or might not do

The people around him won't serve as any check on his impulses

Should I pretend I think he has limits? I don't think I'll pretend that

Their whole game "flood the zone" is intended to overwhelm us

flvegan

(66,737 posts)
12. That clickbait ass thumbnail is intended much the same.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 04:15 PM
18 hrs ago

Maybe that's the sort of company the video author wishes to keep. Clout chasers gotta chase, don't hate the chasers hate the game I guess.

lol

maxsolomon

(39,520 posts)
4. He's going to gild the column capitals.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 02:56 PM
19 hrs ago

The way the Romans would have. Maybe like this, or worse:

maxsolomon

(39,520 posts)
14. Probably the full capital.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 06:13 PM
16 hrs ago

The entire Ionic scroll?

I don't entirely hate this polychrome paint job:



That's not flashy enough for a man of such low taste.

Kid Berwyn

(25,667 posts)
5. Harry Littman is an excellent analyst and a former DoJ bigwig.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 02:58 PM
19 hrs ago
From his bio at USC:

Harry Litman is a lawyer, law professor, and legal commentator.

He is the former United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He served previously as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice, an Assistant United States Attorney, and a Special Assistant United States Attorney.

He is the creator, host, and executive producer of the Talking Feds podcast, a roundtable with prominent political and legal figures discussing issues of the day as well as foundational issues in law and government. The franchise also includes a “Talking Books” series, which comprises extended interviews with authors of the leading books of the day.

Litman is the current legal affairs columnmist for the Los Angeles Times opinion page. From 2018-2020, he was a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. He has contributed commentary to many other national publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Lawfare.

Litman is a frequent commentator on legal issues on MSNBC, CNN, CBS News, BBC News, and France 24.

Litman is affiliated with the law firm Constantine Cannon, where he specializes in False Claims Act litigation. He also maintains a small independent private practice with specialties in white collar criminal defense, constitutional law, and appellate law.

He is listed in “Best Lawyers in America,” in 3 separate categories, “Commercial Litigation,” “White Collar Criminal Defense,” and “Qui Tam Law.”

Litman teaches constitutional law at U.C.L.A. and U.C.S.D. He previously taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and the law schools of Georgetown, Rutgers, University of Pittsburgh, and UC Berkeley. He has published a number of articles on constitutional law, criminal law, and federalism.

He is active in the community and serves on the Regional Leadership Councils of Brady and the boards of the Constitutional Accountability Center and the San Diego branch of Jewish Family Services.

In July, 2000, Litman was nominated by the President to a federal judgeship on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, but the Senate adjourned without taking action on the nomination.

Litman received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Litman thereafter served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court; and Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court.

Source: https://communicationleadership.usc.edu/fellows/senior-fellows/harry-litman/

Bettie

(20,062 posts)
6. I think that's his goal
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 03:00 PM
19 hrs ago

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to just demolish the whole thing.

I also suspect that items have been disappearing from the WH since he came back.

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