2025 has been an absolute train wreck for law and order. Extrajudicial kidnappings and imprisonments via ICE, an increasingly lawless environment for cryptocurrency fraud and insider trading (with our own president and his family neck deep in it!), and just an overall pillaging of vital government institutions and regulations written in blood. Did I mention Trump’s fraudulent pay-to-play ring kissing tariff system, tantamount to extortion in many cases? The crass enablement of Israel to commit genocide? The terrorist attacks the US has committed, and will likely continue to commit, in Venezuela? Maybe you missed the part about Trump and his followers running defense for pedophile networks, even giving convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell the royal treatment for some damn reason? Kash Patel, idiot theme of this thread, spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for private jet meetups with his honeypot gf, doing an absolutely horrid job on the Charlie Kirk investigation etc…
The list continues on, much further than your shown capacity to retain and synthesize information.
Yet you read one NY Post/Fox News drivel article and somehow have the audacity to say “Law and order is back”?
Law and order back my ass. We continue to slide into a Wild West dystopia, where it’s open season for grifters and psychopaths to pray on vulnerable populations.
PERSONALLY I believe DC sandwich guy should have been successfully charged with a FELONY for wrecklessly exploding that sandwich projectile all over that federal agent. An inch to the left and it would have severed a vital artery!
But we can’t win 'em all I guess. Totally understand why Jeanine Pirro was gunning for the felony charge. Law and Order must be restored, after all!
Democratic Cases
• Rep. T.J. Cox (D-CA, 2020–2021): Indicted in December 2022 on 11 counts of wire fraud and making false statements for allegedly stealing over $2.3 million in PPP and EIDL loans intended for small businesses. Cox, who served a brief term after a 2019 special election, is accused of funneling the funds to shell companies he controlled, including one for a nonexistent almond farm. He pleaded not guilty; trial pending as of late 2025. This case highlights vulnerabilities in SBA programs rushed out during the early pandemic.  
• Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO, 2021–2025) – Indirect Involvement: While Bush herself was not charged, her husband, Cortney Merritts, was indicted in March 2025 on wire fraud and money laundering charges for allegedly misusing $85,000 in COVID relief funds from a security firm he co-owned. Prosecutors claim the funds, meant for payroll, were diverted for personal use, including payments to Bush’s campaign. Bush lost her 2024 primary amid ethics probes into these payments; Merritts pleaded not guilty.  
Republican Cases
• Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL, 2017–2025) – PPP Misuse Probe: In 2021, Gaetz’s family consulting firm received $364,000 in PPP loans, which he repaid after scrutiny. No charges were filed, but a House Ethics Committee investigation in 2023 examined whether he improperly influenced the loan approval while in office. The probe cleared him of fraud but led to unrelated sex trafficking allegations (dismissed in 2025). This case underscores self-certification issues in PPP.  
• Former State Rep. Joe Harding (R-FL, 2022–2023): Harding, who served in the Florida House (not federal Congress), pleaded guilty in March 2023 to wire fraud, money laundering, and false statements for fraudulently obtaining a $150,000 EIDL loan for a dormant company. He used the funds for personal expenses like credit card payments. Sentenced to one year in prison in 2024; resigned after indictment. Often cited in federal fraud discussions due to its scale.   
• Former State Rep. John Diehl (R-MO, pre-2020): Diehl, a former Missouri House Speaker, pleaded guilty in 2023 to wire fraud for misusing $379,000 in PPP funds for personal luxuries. Though his service ended before COVID, the fraud occurred during the pandemic. Sentenced to 30 months; not a federal case but relevant to congressional oversight hearings.
