Action 225: The Flying Monkeys
Background: The Wicked Witch of Oz had her Flying Monkeys. (1) Trump has his. They include the cast of incompetent sycophants within the Executive Branch who are enabling the deranged Trump agenda to benefit both the Russians, and homegrown grifters including Trump and his family. Note there are Trump Flying Monkeys all across the country, even in Maine, at least one of them running for Governor on the R ticket. Fortunately we are onto them.
How Trump and his Flying Monkeys are benefitting the Russians
For example, here is an article from Thom Hartmann this week, titled Trump Is Making Khrushchev’s “We Will Bury You” Real for Putin. (2) It’s worth reading. In the article, Hartmann describes “a cabinet of grifters, ideologues, and 13 billionaires whose loyalty runs to Trump and the morbidly rich rather than to the nation whose Constitution they swore an oath to defend.” He goes on to list the highlights of what these Flying Monkeys have been doing, calling their actions “an operational blueprint [that] a hostile foreign intelligence service might draw up if it had been handed unlimited access to the executive branch and told to dismantle the American republic from inside without firing a single shot”.
· Hollow out the public health system so disease can do its work (RFK Jr)
· Demoralize the officer corps and burn through munitions in unconstitutional wars (Hegseth)
· Terminate the diplomats and intelligence professionals who keep allies aligned (Rubio, Gabbard)
· Replace independent journalism with state propaganda at Voice of America (Lake)
· Defund the agencies Congress created (Vought)
· Abandon the clean energy transition that would have weakened OPEC and Russia simultaneously (Wright, Zeldin)
· Politicize the FBI and DOJ so they target dissenters instead of crooks (Bondi/Blanche, Patel)
· Turn armed, masked ICE thugs loose to terrorize immigrant communities while conditioning the rest of us to accept our neighbors disappearing into massive concentration camps (Miller, Noem/Mullen)
· Abandon our allies in Europe by withdrawing our armed forces, starting with Germany right after Trump’s nearly two-hour phone call with Putin (Witkoff)
The above-named Flying Monkeys are only some of the characters mentioned in Hartmann’s article. In pure Flying Monkey fashion, they do what they do in an effort to please Trump and carry out what they think are his “orders”.
The Grifters
Remember the completely unsubstantiated, bogus Republican whining about the “Biden Crime Family”? Well, in November of 2025, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee issued a blockbuster report on Trump family corruption, and unlike the Republican whine, this one is full of details. (3) In January 2026, Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued another report on the same subject (4), along with a Trump digital grift tracker (https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov) that now stands at about 2.5 Bn. Most (but by no means all!) of the exponential increase in what was already a shocking level of grift is due to cryptocurrency speculation. But there are too many other examples of grift to list here.
Actions:
1) Tell Senators Collins and King, and your favored candidates for election to replace Susan Collins and Jared Golden, that you want hearings, subpoenas, and roll-call votes on the troop withdrawal from Germany, the lifting of Russian oil sanctions, the anti-American behavior of every Trump official named above, and the Trump grift machine.
2) Check your voter registration and VOTE in the June primary and the November general election. Volunteer to help your local or county Dems and your favored candidates to Get Out The Vote!
3) Support independent journalism. Did you know there are no embedded journalists in the current Iran war? We have no clue what is really going on unless we are reading foreign and independent sources.
4) Publicize the Trump Digital Grift Tracker! https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov at the top of the page
Extra Credit:
(1) https://www.verywellmind.com/narcissists-and-flying-monkeys-7552473
(2) https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-making-khrushchevs-we-will-36b (Hartmann doesn’t call them Flying Monkeys)
(3) https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-11-24.hjc-dem-staff-report-trump-crypto-corruption-small_0.pdf
(4) https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-robert-garcia-releases-damning-new-report-highlighting-trump-family-corruption-launches-trump-digital-grift-tracker and https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/12026cryptoreport.pdf