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Donald Trump Says He Will. Believe Him.
The New York Times ^ | 10/25/2024 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 10/25/2024 9:25:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Donald Trump has described at length the dangerous and disturbing actions he says he will take if he wins the presidency.

His rallies offer a steady stream of such promises and threats — things like prosecuting political opponents and using the military against U.S. citizens. These statements are so outrageous and outlandish, so openly in conflict with the norms and values of American democracy that many find them hard to regard as anything but empty bluster.

We have two words for American voters: Believe him.

The record shows that Mr. Trump often pursues his stated goals, regardless of how plainly they lack legal or moral grounding. The record further shows that many of his most reckless efforts in his first administration were stymied only because of others in his administration who blocked, delayed or watered down his aims to ensure that he could not put himself above the law or the country. Mr. Trump has learned from that experience to surround himself with supplicants who would instead obey his wishes and bring his words and ideas to life even if they contradict facts, the public interest or the Constitution.

For this reason, Americans would be wise to see this language as a genuine threat, not simply Mr. Trump on a tangent. We should take the painful step of imagining America were his plans and promises to come to pass, to imagine the impacts to our culture, to our economy, to our security, to our shared commitment to the rule of law.

The promises Mr. Trump made during his first presidential campaign, in 2016, turned out to be a pretty good road map of the policies and priorities he pursued as president. Today he says he is ready to deploy the military against his political opponents...

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You can smell the hysteria.
1 posted on 10/25/2024 9:25:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gonna need a calculator to tabulate all the lies in this one.


2 posted on 10/25/2024 9:27:05 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AND LO, THE GNASHING OF TEETH WAS HEARD, AND THE RIVERS DID RUN RED WITH COPEUM.


3 posted on 10/25/2024 9:31:42 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I been telling these Leftists get prepared for Work camps in Alaska...as you folks will be relocated to work..The fear sweeps over them like waves!


4 posted on 10/25/2024 9:34:44 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump’s 2nd term is gonna be fun. The leftist media is already hellbent on avenging his upcoming victory. Fasten your seatbelts.


5 posted on 10/25/2024 9:39:05 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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He can send government workers to Alaska in the winter and then transfer them to Southern Arizona in the summer.


6 posted on 10/25/2024 9:43:47 PM PDT by tiki (To)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The MSM in 1979
“Reagan is going to start WW3 with the Soviet Union”


7 posted on 10/25/2024 9:45:58 PM PDT by Zathras
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I love how President Trump has fully exposed these Communist nutters.

They all deserve to swing.

8 posted on 10/25/2024 9:54:35 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And they are certainly getting desperate.


9 posted on 10/25/2024 9:54:49 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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And deservedly so.


10 posted on 10/25/2024 9:55:08 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is this supposed to make me like Trump less?


11 posted on 10/25/2024 9:56:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is what gall is.

They are the ones supporting the side imprisoning political opponents, well known and common people alike.

They are the ones supporting censorship of political views.


12 posted on 10/25/2024 10:03:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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I am completely astounded that these people think NOTHING of what they have done to this man and his supporters, the utter gall of these people, I pray the wrath of God is brought against them, they are dripping in pure evil, they are utter SCUM!!


13 posted on 10/25/2024 10:05:26 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: NoLibZone

Yep.


14 posted on 10/25/2024 10:07:35 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: NoLibZone

If it is, it’s not working.


15 posted on 10/25/2024 10:09:44 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump is a threat to bureaucracy


16 posted on 10/25/2024 10:09:59 PM PDT by joshua c
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Trump is a threat to bureaucracy

Post of the day.

17 posted on 10/25/2024 10:17:42 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They always cause us of the things they do. Like lock us up, cancel our accounts, lawfare, and yes, the recent EO for the military to use deadly force on civilians. THAT’S all stuff THEY have and are doing. Cancel Culture istheirs


18 posted on 10/25/2024 10:38:37 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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SUCH HIGH SOARING RHETORIC ... in defense of sordid deeds of traitors.


19 posted on 10/25/2024 10:41:58 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LMAO

liberals are just too stupid to realize that Trump is trolling them.


20 posted on 10/25/2024 10:42:01 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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