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Every day that Americans don’t rise-up in the millions against the malignant fascist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump to demand his immediate removal from power they and the world get a little more covered in fascist shit.

Let’s dig into some horrific facts from the recent history of the man who Noam Chomsky rightly identified five years ago as “the most dangerous criminal inhuman history.”

Trump tried to subvert and cancel the 2020 presidential election in a rolling coup attempt that included an insurrectionary assault on the US Capitol on January 6.

Trump has sold tens of millions of Americans an endless series of fascist Big Lies that would make Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbels green with envy, including the following claims (just a small sample): the 2020 presidential election was stolen; January 6 was a peaceful protest by “good people who love our country;” the US is plagued by a violent crime wave perpetrated by “illegal” immigrants; California’s governor cause the epic wildfires that broke out in and around Los Angles last January; the Democrats are a “radical Left” and “open border” party that brings in “illegals” to vote Democratic; America is being economically “ripped off” by the rest of the world; the 2024 election granted him a “great mandate” to ram through his fascist agenda.

Trump on his first day back in office pardoned more than 1500 January 6 criminals and granted clemency to the nation’s top two fascist paramilitary leaders (Oath Keepers’ head Stuart Rhodes and Proud Boys’ chief Enrique Tarrio), both of whom were serving long federal prison sentences for their roles in coordinating the Capitol Riot.

Trump has held up the insurrectionists of January 6 as “heroes” and “patriots” and paid out $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a paramilitary fascist who was justifiably shot by a patriotic US Capitol Police officer as she attempted to leap through a door to attack legislators in the Capitol on January 6.

Trump on day one of his second administration issued an executive order that purported to cancel by fiat the explicit US Constitutional right of American birthright citizenship.

Trump(45) and his party created a Supreme Court that has (among many horrific decisions): canceled women’s half- century constitutional right to an abortion; permitted Trump him to run for president last year despite the US Constitution’s explicit ban on insurrectionists holding public office without Congressional approval; placed Trump literally Above the Law by granting him forever immunity from prosecution for any crime he commits in the name of “official presidential duties.”

Trump has made absolute loyalty to him a prerequisite for holding positions in his administration.

Trump has surrounded himself with neofascist policy architects who go well beyond “unitary executive theory” (the idea that the president must exercise full control of the executive branch) by advancing fascist “emergency” presidential power across all of government.

Trump has proclaimed at least fake “national emergencies” to advance his dictatorial ambitions – this while his presidency is now the true leading national and global emergency.

Trump has weaponized the US Department of Justice, turning it into a tool for political retribution and intimidation.

Trump has turned the Republican Party and the federal legislative branch into supine extensions of his personal rule and tools for the fascist makeover of American government and society.

Trump has used the threats of economic sanction, public demonization, and legal penalty to attack the independence, integrity, and self-respect of leading American law firms, universities, media corporations, and nonprofit organizations

Trump has violated the constitutional right of free speech by detaining and seeking the deportation of anti-genocide activists for expressing their opposition to Israel’s US-backed crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Trump has violated the core constitutional principle of judicial review by defying numerous federal court rulings, including some by his own Supreme Cour, by smearing and calling for the impeachment of judges who rule against him, and by encouraging violent threats against those judges.

Trump has issued executive orders designed to suppress the votes of those who oppose him – this while indicating he will violate the US Constitution’s 22nd Amendment by running for a........

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