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1. He says he’s legally immune to all current charges against him.

Four grand juries have indicted Trump on felony charges, and one jury has convicted him. But on August 15, Trump boasted that “the Supreme Court ruled recently on immunity, and I’m immune from all of the stuff that they charge me with.”

2. He claims the right to do whatever he wants as president.

On August 21, Trump asserted (falsely) that the criminal case against him for obstructing recovery of classified documents was invalid because “I had the Presidential Records Act. I had a right to do whatever I wanted to do.”

3. He advocates “one really violent day” of police action.

On September 29, Trump called for police violence against people who appear to be stealing from drug stores or department stores. He proposed an “extraordinarily rough” response: “One real rough, nasty day, with the drugstores as an example,” in which police would take on people who “start walking out with” merchandise. “If you had one really violent day,” said Trump, “one rough hour, and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”

4. He vows to indemnify police against “any prosecutions” for doing what he wants.

On October 11, Trump pledged to “indemnify” police officers against any prosecutions” for actions undertaken as part of his planned mass deportations. The next day, he added that when officers confront people walking out of department stores with what appear to be stolen goods, “we’re going to indemnify them against any problems they have.”

5. He threatens to use the military against “the enemy within.”

Trump says the New York Times, the Washington Post, “the press” generally, and Democratic politicians such as Rep. Adam Schiff are part of the “enemy from within” America.

On October 10, in a Fox News interview, Maria Bartiromo asked Trump whether criminals or terrorists from abroad might pose a threat to the United States on Election Day. Trump told her that “the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” not foreigners. “We have some sick people, radical-left lunatics,” said Trump. “And it should be very easily handled by—if necessary—by National Guard. Or, if really necessary, by the military.”

Later in the interview, Trump made it clear that the “lunatics” he was talking about included Democratic politicians. Bartiromo asked Trump how, as president, he would “guard against the bureaucrats undermining you.” Trump replied that “the enemy from within,” including “lunatics that we have inside like Adam Schiff,” was “more dangerous than China [or] Russia.”

Last Wednesday, another Fox News host, Harris Faulkner, invited Trump to clarify his meaning. He responded by adding former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the list. “It is the enemy from within, and they’re very dangerous. They’re Marxists and communists and fascists, and they’re sick,” said Trump. “The Pelosis, these people—they’re so sick, and they’re so evil.”

6. He says some of his political opponents shouldn’t be allowed to run for office.

On August 23, Trump said that Ruben Gallego, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona, “shouldn’t be allowed to even run in this election.” On September 27, he added, “Anybody that wants to defund the police is not qualified and shouldn’t be allowed to even run for president.” On September 28, he declared that due to Kamala Harris’s border policies, “she shouldn’t even be allowed to run.”

7. He says he could have jailed Hillary Clinton.

On August 8, Trump boasted, “With Hillary Clinton, I could have done things to her that would have made your head spin.” On August 15, he said he could have jailed Clinton “very easily.” On August 21, he repeated, “I could have put her in jail.”

In an interview that aired on September 3, podcaster Lex Fridman asked Trump about the temptations of the presidency. “If you become leader again, you'll have unprecedented power,” said Fridman. “What does that power do to you? Is there any threat of it corrupting how you see the world?”

Trump responded by bragging that he could have jailed Clinton but had spared her. “I could have done a big number on Hillary Clinton,” he said. “She’s so lucky I didn’t do anything. She’s so lucky. . . . I could have done something very bad.”
8. He has called for jailing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

On August 17, Trump said Schumer “should have been put in jail, or certainly spoken to very strongly,” for warning Supreme Court justices that if they overturned Roe v. Wade, “You won’t know what hit you.” On September 23, Trump repeated his jail threat, this time skipping the alternative of a verbal rebuke. “These people should be put in jail, the way they talk about our judges and our justices, trying to get them to sway their vote,” said Trump.

9. He has accused Harris of murder.

On October 1, Trump told a crowd in Wisconsin that because Harris was vice president when two American women died—ostensibly at the hands of illegal immigrants—“She murdered them. In my opinion, Kamala murdered them . . . just like she had a gun in her hand.”

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10. He vows to prosecute anyone who, in his view, has “cheated” in an election.

Trump insists, falsely, that his opponents stole the 2020 election. He defines cheating broadly, to include almost anything that tilted an election against him. On September 23, he implied that he would target Democrats, technology companies, and former U.S. intelligence officials for having warned in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop story might be a foreign disinformation operation:

You see all the stuff that Google and Facebook and all, what they got caught cheating on the last election, the bad things they did, the 51 [intelligence] agents. . . . We’re going to go after anybody that gets caught cheating on the election. We’re going to go after them harder than anyone’s ever been sought before, because these people are really a threat. They are a threat to democracy. The Democrats are a threat to democracy.

On September 28, Trump went further: “If we win and when we win, we’re going to prosecute people that cheat on this election. And if we can, we’ll go back to the last [election] too, if we’re allowed. But we’re going to prosecute people.”

11. He threatens to strip TV networks of their broadcast licenses for offending him.

On September 11, Trump claimed that ABC had treated him unfairly in his debate with Harris, and therefore the government “ought to take away their license.” On October 10, he denounced ABC again and added that “CBS should lose their license” for the way 60 Minutes had edited an interview with Harris. He said the editing by CBS was “probably a criminal act.” The next day, Trump repeated that government officials “have to take their license away.” He has continued to issue this demand in posts on his social media site, Truth Social.

12. He said Fox News “shouldn’t be allowed” to broadcast a speech by Harris.

On September 28, Trump raged against Fox News for airing a Harris speech about border security in Arizona. “They shouldn’t be allowed to put it on,” he fumed.

13. He advocates mandatory imprisonment for flag burning, and he rejects court rulings that such a law would be unconstitutional.

On July 27, August 23, and August 26, Trump called for a mandatory one-year jail term for anyone who burns an American flag. He repeatedly dismissed legal analysts who noted that the Supreme Court had struck down such laws as violations of free speech. On August 30, he scoffed: “They said it’s unconstitutional to stop it. Like hell it is, okay? Like hell it is. It’s not unconstitutional.”
14. He advocates one-day trials and executions of people who are charged with selling drugs.

Trump routinely praises China for subjecting accused drug dealers to a “quick trial” (specifically, in “one day”) and an “immediate” death penalty. “If you did that meaningfully, you will in one week stop the drug problem,” Trump proposed on August 30. “Nobody’s going to be selling drugs.” On September 17, he added, “If you don’t have the death penalty for drug dealers, you’re just wasting your time.”

“They even send the bullet to the family, and they make them pay for the bullet,” he marveled on October 10, speaking of China’s system in a tone of brutal admiration. “It’s vicious, but they have no drug problem.”

15. He advocates the death penalty for persistent illegal immigration.

A week ago, Trump pledged to expel migrant criminals—he didn’t explain how he would identify them—from the United States. “If they come back into our country, it’s an automatic 10 years in jail with no possibility of parole,” he said. “And if that doesn’t work, it’ll be 20 years. And if that doesn’t work, I guess it’s going to be the death penalty, right? The death penalty.”

16. He openly abuses antiquated draconian laws.

On August 26, Trump bragged that he had found an old law that he could use to impose long jail terms on protesters who deface monuments. “I found there was a bill from the early 1900s,” he said. “We don’t do bills like that anymore. [It] said if you touch government property—statues, monuments of any kind—you will serve 10 years with no probation, no early getting out.” Trump said the bill “was dusty. Nobody used it, because we wouldn’t do that, because we’ve become very soft.”

Trump understood that by digging up this old law, he could avoid the need to consult Congress. “You couldn’t get a thing like that passed today,” he lamented on September 19.

Then, on October 11, Trump announced that he would use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite a roundup and deportation of migrant criminals. Two days later, he noted that, as with the law about defacing monuments, “you couldn’t pass something like that today.” And a day after that, he crowed that the act “gives the president tremendous power to do what has to be done to secure our country.”

17. He speaks approvingly of violence against his detractors.

A week ago, after a protester tried to interrupt a Trump rally in California, Trump assured the crowd that the protester would go “back home to Mommy.” He described with pleasure the punishment that might ensue: “She gets the hell knocked out of her. Her mother’s a big fan of ours. You know that, right? Her father, her mother.”

18. He calls the January 6th insurrectionists “hostages” and says he’ll pardon many of them.

Trump routinely claims that people who were detained, convicted, or sentenced to jail for their roles in the January 6th insurrection are “hostages” of a corrupt government. On September 25, he complained that the FBI had opened the apps of “the J6 hostages” but had failed to do the same to his would-be assassins. On September 7, he denounced the House January 6th Committee and vowed: “The moment we win, we will rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner unjustly victimized by the Harris regime. And I will sign their pardons on Day One.”

THE AGENDA TRUMP IS PRESENTING in these interviews and rallies—political violence, suspension of the Constitution, suspension of civil liberties, unchecked presidential power, censorship of the media, imprisonment of opposition leaders, execution of people for nonviolent crimes, and legal immunity for the president and his thugs—isn’t just close to fascism. It is fascism. It’s what fascists have advocated and practiced in other countries.
 


Advisers Propose That Trump Give Security Clearances Without F.B.I. Vetting​

A memo circulating in Donald Trump’s orbit says that if elected he should use private firms to check appointees’ backgrounds and give them immediate access to classified secrets after taking office.

“… it would allow him to quickly install loyalists in major positions without subjecting them to the risk of long-running and intrusive F.B.I. background checks, potentially increasing the risks of people with problematic histories or ties to other nations being given influential White House roles. Such checks hung up clearances for a number of aides during Mr. Trump’s presidency, including Mr. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Mr. Epshteyn himself. …”
 

Far-Right Figures Escalate Talk of Retribution and Election Subversion​

Michael Flynn has said “hell” will be unleashed if Donald J. Trump wins. Mr. Flynn’s close associate has discussed plans to overturn the election if Mr. Trump loses.

www.nytimes.com

Far-Right Figures Escalate Talk of Retribution and Election Subversion

Michael Flynn has said “hell” will be unleashed if Donald J. Trump wins. Mr. Flynn’s close associate has discussed plans to overturn the election if Mr. Trump loses.
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Mr. Flynn and Mr. Raiklin, neither of whom responded to requests for comment, have been prominent exponents of false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election for years. But they have recently focused on specific tactics to avoid what they predict will be the theft of the 2024 election.

In a September interview on a podcast dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory, Mr. Flynn applauded right-wing activists who are surveilling election infrastructure as the “modern-day Minutemen of this cold civil war that we are currently facing,” a reference to the Revolutionary War militia.

The extent of Mr. Flynn’s current relationship with Mr. Trump is unclear.

… Mr. Trump has occasionally signaled his ongoing endorsement of Mr. Flynn’s activities and hinted at a place for him in a future administration, though only vaguely. Calling into a live event where Mr. Flynn appeared last year, he told him, “We’re going to bring you back,” to cheers from the crowd. …”
 


“… In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump’s executive actions.

He said the plans are a response to a “Marxist takeover” of the country; likened the moment to 1776 and 1860, when the country was at war or on the brink of it; and said the timing of Trump’s candidacy was a “gift of God.”

… In his 2024 speech, Vought said he was spending the majority of his time helping lead Project 2025 and drafting an agenda for a future Trump presidency. “We have detailed agency plans,” he said. “We are writing the actual executive orders. We are writing the actual regulations now, and we are sorting out the legal authorities for all of what President Trump is running on.”

Vought laid out how his think tank is crafting the legal rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president broad power to use the military for domestic law enforcement. The Washington Post previously reported the issue was at the top of the Center for Renewing America’s priorities.

“We want to be able to shut down the riots and not have the legal community or the defense community come in and say, ‘That’s an inappropriate use of what you’re trying to do,’” he said. Vought held up the summer 2020 unrest following George Floyd’s murder as an example of when Trump ought to have had the ability to deploy the armed forces but was stymied.

Vought’s preparations for a future Trump administration involve building a “shadow” Office of Legal Counsel, he told the gathered supporters in May 2023. That office, part of the Justice Department, advises the president on the scope of their powers. Vought made clear he wants the office to help Trump steamroll the kind of internal opposition he faced in his first term. …”
 
nycfan said:
He said the plans are a response to a “Marxist takeover” of the country; likened the moment to 1776 and 1860, when the country was at war or on the brink of it; and said the timing of Trump’s candidacy was a “gift of God.”
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About the only way that there could be a Marxist takeover of the country is if the country was pushed so far to the right that it caused a huge backlash.

Nobody of significance is pushing for Marxism. That generally happens when instability arises. If I were a billionaire I wouldn't tempt fate. Things are good. Be happy.
 
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“… In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump’s executive actions.

He said the plans are a response to a “Marxist takeover” of the country; likened the moment to 1776 and 1860, when the country was at war or on the brink of it; and said the timing of Trump’s candidacy was a “gift of God.”

… In his 2024 speech, Vought said he was spending the majority of his time helping lead Project 2025 and drafting an agenda for a future Trump presidency. “We have detailed agency plans,” he said. “We are writing the actual executive orders. We are writing the actual regulations now, and we are sorting out the legal authorities for all of what President Trump is running on.”

Vought laid out how his think tank is crafting the legal rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president broad power to use the military for domestic law enforcement. The Washington Post previously reported the issue was at the top of the Center for Renewing America’s priorities.

“We want to be able to shut down the riots and not have the legal community or the defense community come in and say, ‘That’s an inappropriate use of what you’re trying to do,’” he said. Vought held up the summer 2020 unrest following George Floyd’s murder as an example of when Trump ought to have had the ability to deploy the armed forces but was stymied.

Vought’s preparations for a future Trump administration involve building a “shadow” Office of Legal Counsel, he told the gathered supporters in May 2023. That office, part of the Justice Department, advises the president on the scope of their powers. Vought made clear he wants the office to help Trump steamroll the kind of internal opposition he faced in his first term. …”
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Calling trump a gift from God is, in my opinion, that the person saying it believes themselves to ultimately be in control of their life, not the mythical God they pin this on.
 
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