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Friend,

Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” email series, that will serve to
remind us all of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we
encountered during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others
in the MAGA movement still pose – and to keep those moments clear in our
memory as we fight to defeat Republican extremists during the upcoming
elections.

This week’s recap brings into focus Trump’s tendency to promote conspiracy
theories or create outright lies in order to advance his MAGA agenda –
while viciously attacking any person or media outlet that dare to question
him:

On Nov. 28, 2018, the president of the United States apparently had
nothing better to do than retweet a bunch of far-right propaganda,
including a call for various political opponents and law enforcement
officials to be put on trial for treason. Among those he sought to punish
were former President Barack Obama, former Sen. Hillary Clinton, and
then-serving Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

ABC News [ [link removed] ]noted at the time that Trump’s retweets of an account calling
itself The Trump Train came after he had tweeted his own screed claiming
without evidence that investigators were “viciously telling witnesses to
lie about facts” as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s
investigation.

A week earlier, the New York Times had reported on [ [link removed] ]Trump pressuring the
Justice Department to go after Clinton and former FBI Director James
Comey, in what the Times called “one of the most blatant examples yet of
how Mr. Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool
to be wielded against his political enemies.”

Trump’s post-Thanksgiving propaganda fest, his habit of accusing political
opponents of the capital offense of treason, and his desire to use the
federal government as a bludgeon against his political opponents remind us
that he is far too dangerous to be given the power of the presidency a
second time:

* As we have noted before, the truth means nothing to Trump. He lies
constantly about matters large and small. He continues to repeat lies
long after they have been debunked. He demands that his supporters
accept and promote his lies about the election, which is a [ [link removed] ]tool of
fascist dictators.
* Trump and his [ [link removed] ]allies have [ [link removed] ]frequently accused his political
opponents of treason. He repeatedly called the investigation of
connections between his campaign and the Russian government a
“treasonous hoax.” He’s even applied the term to [ [link removed] ]media coverage he
considered unfair. Axios [ [link removed] ]commented in 2019, “Treason is one of the
most serious crimes an American can commit, and is punishable by
death. The president freely using the term to attack his political
enemies, without evidence, is not normal.”
* This September, Trump railed against Gen. Mark Milley, the outgoing
chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, for “an act so egregious that,
in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Milley’s
offense? Making phone calls at the direction of other administration
officials to assure China that Trump was not preparing to attack them
in the final months of the administration, the New Republic
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* Trump’s willingness to repeat dangerous lies—like the stolen election
claims that led to the insurrection and undermined millions of
Americans’ faith in our elections—and charge his opponents with
treason is particularly alarming when combined with his intense
[ [link removed] ]eagerness to [ [link removed] ]turn the power of the Justice Department into a
[ [link removed] ]weapon for [ [link removed] ]personal revenge. As The Washington Post recently
noted, Trump “has made ‘retribution’ a central theme of his campaign.”
* The threat to eliminate the independence of the Justice Department is
just part of the broader scheming by Trump allies and former Trump
officials involved with Project 2025 to impose total Trump control
over the federal government. In the [ [link removed] ]words of Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an
NYU professor and author of a book about strongmen in modern history,
“He wants to convert American democracy into some kind of autocracy."
* Trump will be even more dangerous now that the Speaker of the House is
Mike Johnson, an ardent loyalist who, at Trump’s urging, [ [link removed] ]organized
an amicus brief signed by more than 100 House Republicans in support
of a case brought by the Texas attorney general seeking to overturn
the 2020 election. Johnson has [ [link removed] ]declared himself “all in” for Trump
in 2024, telling CNBC recently, “I was one of the closest allies that
President Trump had in Congress. He had a phenomenal first term.”
 Since then, Johnson has [ [link removed] ]met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Given how
aggressively Trump’s allies in the House have already resisted holding
him accountable, a President Trump and Speaker Johnson would be a
dangerous double threat to democracy.

These are just some of the reasons we need YOU in this
fight. So, find your
favorite way to unwind after reading through this week’s recap, and then
make a plan for how you will fight back THIS week, this MONTH, this
election cycle.

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Thanks for all that you do to defeat Republican extremism.

– People For the American Way

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