I would submit that this sort of news does not signal the coming end of the Republic...it is merely more evidence, heaped as high as Everest by now, the the Republic has already died and we are currently living under government class tyranny at this moment...and have been for some time.
The fact that Trump, elected against the will of the government, is an almost powerless president - with little to no control over any part of the federal bureaucracy, is yet another sign that we are well past the point of tyranny descending.
I hold out the slim hope that if the criminality of Obama and his cronies, along with their enablers and promoters in the Democrat party, can be fully exposed, we might be able to pull back from the brink. The odds are not good, given the cult of enablers that has been fostered by the mainstream media, but it’s still a shot.
Sums it up well.
Amendment II is all that is left of our Bill of Rights.
Use it or lose everything.