Michael Schmidt, Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Alex Wagner about reporting that shows Trump engaged in abuse of power while in office and weaponized the federal government against advisories

 

Former U.S. Attorney Berman Reveals How Trump Weaponized The DOJ

Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, details instances when Donald Trump abused the power of the Department of Justice.

 

Weaponized the Federal Government Against Political Enemies

The Trump IRS Audited former F.B.I. Director James Comey and former F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe shortly after he called for Comey and McCabe to be “Punished”. Former Chief Of Staff John Kelly accused Trump of having the I.R.S. investigate political enemies such as former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe. Nov 15, 2022

 

John Kelly says Trump discussed using IRS to retaliate against FBI employees.

New York Times Washington correspondent Mike Schmidt and former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann discuss Schmidt’s reporting on new evidence of a potentially illegal pressure campaign by Trump. Jul 10, 2023

 

Trump is the greatest threat to Democracy and Freedom our country has ever faced

 

Trump’s Promises and Plans for 2025 — in his own words

There’s no mystery about what Donald Trump wants to do in his second term. He’s told us his plans and Project 2025 is how Trump’s rhetoric will become an authoritarian reality for us all. Here’s what he has promised, in his own words.

1 – Pardon power
Trump will use his pardon power to shield himself and his allies from criminal accountability

2 – Directing Investigations Against Critics and Rivals
He’s promised to order the Department of Justice to investigate people who challenge him.

3 – Regulatory Retaliation
Trump has also promised to purge professional staff and experts inside the government and replace them with “Yes” Men and Women.

4 – Federal Law Enforcement Overreach
Trump plans to explode police powers in ways that would make America unrecognizable.

5 – Domestic Deployment of the Military
Trump wants to use the military to police our streets and send troops to our cities over the will of state and local officials.

6 – The Autocrat Won’t Leave
AND, like he showed us in 2020 and on January 6th, that if he is elected to office, he will be unwilling to leave. He’s willing to use every tool at his disposal to remain in power.

 

Project 2025 and the Radical Right Wing GOP Republican Dominated Supreme Court gave Trump “Absolute Immunity” and the Power of a Dictator to exact REVENGE against political opponents and anyone who criticizes him.

 

It’s up to the American people to stop Trump and MAGA Republicans from attempting to take over the government again this November.

 

Trump pledges to jail opponents, baselessly suggests election will be stolen from him

The former president’s latest threats, made in a social media post, represent the most overt signal yet that he will not accept the result in November if he loses.

Per the above article: “Trump pledges to jail opponents, Baselessly suggests election will be stolen from him”

“Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatened to jail people “involved in unscrupulous behavior” related to voting in the 2024 election, suggesting without evidence that the election could be stolen from him — and prompting widespread condemnation from election officials who said such rhetoric could provoke violence”. WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Trump wrote on Saturday on his Truth Social platform”.

OPINION: TRUMP and REPUBLICANS are the ones who CHEATED and attempted to STEAL the 2020 election. TRUMP and REPUBLICANS who tried to steal the 2020 election and those making plans to steal the 2024 election (by claiming ‘irregularities’ and refusing to certify the election if Trump loses) are the ones who should get ‘long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again‘.

 

Donald Trump threatens to imprison Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and others. Experts are worried

Donald Trump is threatening to prosecute and imprison his political enemies. Experts on democracy and the rule of law told USA TODAY the risk is real.

Per the above USA Today article – “Donald Trump threatens to imprison Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and others… Richard Painter, who was a White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, likened the comments to a vision of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where Putin’s political opponents end up behind bars on charges such as “extremism” or “treason” after criticizing his regime.

“It’s extremely dangerous for democracy, this idea that the winner just puts the loser in prison, prosecutes the loser,” Painter told USA TODAY.

Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told USA TODAY in an email that Trump “believes anyone who breaks the law should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, including criminals who engage in election fraud.”

“Without free and fair elections, you can’t have a country. Ask Venezuela,” Leavitt said.

The former president has previously suggested prosecuting his rivals would be legitimate revenge for his own legal troubles, which include one criminal conviction in New York state court and three other criminal cases. Painter said that argument ignores some stark differences between Trump’s own situation and what he is threatening to do.

“Joe Biden never campaigned on a promise to put Donald Trump in prison,” Painter said. “When Donald Trump engaged in the conduct he did, an independent prosecutor was appointed,” he added, referring to special counsel Jack Smith, who has significant independence from Justice Department leadership and secured grand jury indictments in the two federal cases Trump faces, one alleging Trump unlawfully attempted to subvert the 2020 election and the other alleging he mishandled classified documents”.

 

“Trump Pledges to Jail” Election Opponents, Fabricates “The Big Lie”

As The Washington Post reported, “Trump pledges to jail opponents, baselessly suggests election will be stolen from him.” In advance of the upcoming election, Donald Trump is again telling the big lie about voter fraud and stolen elections and is again inspiring people to anger and priming the pump for violence. Trump has a demonstrated track record for inspiring and inciting violence using his transparent election lies. Yet the institutions of government seem disinclined to do anything about it, notwithstanding the fact that Trump is intent on replicating the circumstances that produced the violence of January 6, 2021.

 

The Washington Post reported that former President Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading statements during his time in office.

Trump falsely accuses Ted Cruz of “stealing” the 2016 Iowa Republican Primary. Trump falsely accuses Ted Cruz’s father of being involved in JFK’s assassination. In response, Ted Cruz calls Trump a “Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies” and claims Trump “is a narcissist at a level this country’s never seen”.

Dr. John Gartner states; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies“.

 

 

 

Trumpworld lies get more outrageous with a month to election

Chris Hayes: “The term ‘misinformation’ doesn’t quite do enough to capture what is happening with one half of the American two-party system. Outright brazen, dangerous, ludicrous lies in denial of the most obvious reality, the one you can see before you.”

 

 

‘Staggeringly dishonest’: CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checks Trump’s September 10, 2024 debate performance with Kamala Harris

 

Trump’s Threat; “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!”

 

 

Trump promoted a video featuring an extreme close-up photo of his face in black and white, and audio of him making an obvious threat: “If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”

 

Trump posts disturbing baseball bat photo with Alvin Bragg, threatens ‘death and destruction’

Former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage by sharing images of him holding a baseball bat next Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head.

March 24, 2023: Trump threatened “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged in New York — writing the shocking social media warning after posting an image of himself holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head. Trump shared the image of himself holding a baseball bat — with Bragg’s hands up — on his Truth Social platform Thursday as he devoted his day to attacking the prosecutor for pursuing a case over a “hush money” payout to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Trump PROVES he’s a LAWLESS THUG for making threats: “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” & “If you f— around with us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before & threatening “death and destruction” if he’s criminally charged for his crimes in New York.

This is how MOB BOSSES and CRIMINALS behave and is more PROOF that Trump IS the Most Lawless, Corrupt & Dangerous President in History

 

Trump Threatens NY DA Alvin Bragg in violation of NY state law

“Former President Donald Trump threatened New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as Bragg investigates and prepares to indict Trump for his earlier New York crimes. Specifically, Trump indicates there will be “death and destruction” if Bragg indicts hims. Then, Trump commits a second crime by posting a picture of himself, holding a baseball bat, mid-swing, next to a picture DA Bragg whose hand is upraised as if in a defensive posture.

This conduct by Trump violates New York penal law section 195.05, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree: “a person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree when that person intentionally . . . attempts to prevent a public servant from performing an official function, by means of intimidation or interference . . . ”

 

The above video shows Trump taking about putting people in jail for saying & doing things he doesn’t like (or for failing to do what he wants) and having FCC licenses of news outlets revoked

 

In an interview with Andy Borowitz from The New Yorker on May 9, 2018, Trump Stated about the United States Constitution; “I’ve seen a lot of bad deals in my life, but this Constitution is a total mess. We need to tear it up and start over. The first thing we do when we pull out of the Constitution is get rid of two of those branches. He also called the First Amendment “something that really has to go. No one in his right mind would put something like that in a Constitution. Russia doesn’t have it. North Korea doesn’t have it. All the best countries don’t have it.”

• September, 24 2024 suggested it should be “illegal” to rebuke judicial decisions or try and advocate in favor of a certain decision. “It should be illegal, what happens,” Trump told a crowd in Pennsylvania. “You know, you have these guys like playing the ref, like the great Bobby Knight. 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, sway their decision.”
• On November 29 2023, Trump stated that he wants the ‘Federal Government to come down Hard on MSNBC’ for its criticism of him.
• On Veterans Day, November 11, 2023 Trump stated; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.
• In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
• On March 28, 2024 Steve Bannon stated: “After we’ve won, the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.
• On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.
• Mike Davis, who may be a candidate for Trump’s Attorney General, stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in “the gulag” and ‘caging migrant kids would be “glorious’.
• Kash Patel, who may be a member of Trump’s ‘administration’ stated; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.
• On May 23rd, 2024, Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon stated: “We mock your fear, we want your fear. We are going to hold everyone who opposes Trump responsible”

These are OUTRAGEOUS threats which should disqualify Trump from running for President. The fact the RNC / GOP is allowing him to run on their ticket speaks volumes about what a lawless, corrupt, anti-democratic ‘organization’ they have become.

Trump & his cronies have made it clear they intend to seek retribution against political enemies, eliminate Freedom of Speech and shut down news outlets which are critical of him. They have made it clear; if Trump is elected President they plan on engaging in a reign of LAWLESSNESS and TERROR, where dissenters are arrested, locked up and executed, similar to Putin’s Russia. Let’s not forget how Trump praises brutal, murderous dictators like Kim Jong Un and Putin.

The American people should not have to live in fear of a Wannabe Dictator Lunatic becoming President.

 

 

 

Trump made it clear that he would NOT accept the outcome of the 2020 election if he lost and would claim “Voter Fraud” .

Trump had no intentions of leaving office and refused to commit to “a peaceful transfer of power”, stating on 9/23/20; “Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a peaceful a continuation.” He wanted a Republican dominated Supreme Court to contest the election results & use his Partisan Court to rule in his favor (like they did in 2000.. Bush V. Gore).

 

Trump attorney Jenna Ellis testifies that Trump stated he would NOT leave office after learning he had lost the election

 

Aids say Trump is running for President to have all Federal Charges dismissed by his Attorney General if he’s elected. This is also a Motivation to stay in office and become a dictator so he’s never held accountable for his crimes

 

Guilty on all counts, Trump becomes the first former president convicted of crimes

 

 

Trump Administration was the most LAWLESS in History with a Record number of Arrests, Prosecutions and Convictions

 

Trump associates arrested, charged and found guilty of crimes

 

Most Lawless & Corrupt, Self Serving “Administration” in History

 

Trump arrested and booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia (Aug. 24, 2023)

 

Trump attacks led to ‘serious and credible’ death threats to court

New documents in the New York fraud case against Donald Trump reveal that the ex-president’s attacks on the judge’s clerk resulted in “hundreds of threatening and harassing” messages against her. Nov 22, 2023

 

Comey: Trump is coming for the FBI, DOJ

Former FBI director James Comey talks with Alex Wagner about how Donald Trump conducted his business and the presidency like a mafia organization, and why he thinks Trump will have greater success corrupting American institutions if he is able to return to office.

 

This video shows one of Trump’s staff saying he wanted one of his own staffers executed

 

After Trump posted attacks on Judge Engoron’s law clerk in New York, hundreds of threats poured in from Trump’s supporters. Special Counsel Jack Smith packaged up the evidence of those threats and filed the information with the appellate court in DC that is deciding the constitutionality of the gag order imposed by Judge Tanya Chutkan in Trumps federal prosecution in DC.