• Trump's Second Term

    From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to ALL on Wed Feb 15 22:05:26 2023
    Hello Everybody,

    I told you he'd go full Nazi ...
    Endorsed by his friend, Mad Vlad ...

    Trump's plan for a 2nd term reportedly includes firing squads,
    hangings, and group executions

    As Donald Trump's second re-election bid begins to pick up steam in the
    new year, details about the former president's plans for his return to
    the White House have begun to emerge — including a new report from
    Rolling Stone, which alleges Trump has begun polling his advisers on
    whether he should bring back firing squads, hangings, and even the
    guillotine should he win in 2024.

    According to two sources, the former president has even begun exploring
    the possibility of group executions, with a third person claiming Trump
    has expressed interest in a government ad campaign to highlight the administration's lethality and, per Rolling Stone's source, "help put
    the fear of God into violent criminals." A Trump campaign spokesperson
    denied the former president had plans for an execution ad campaign in a statement to Rolling Stone.

    Trump's fascination with the death penalty has long been on public
    display, stretching back to his call to execute the "Central Park Five,"
    five young Black and Latino men accused of rape and assault in the late
    1980s (all were later exonerated). As Rolling Stone had previously
    reported, Trump had ended his first term by executing more than four
    times as many convicted persons in his final six months in office as
    the federal government had killed in total over the prior half-century.
    He also signed an executive order in those last weeks in office that
    expanded the federal government's ability to conduct hangings and
    firing squads as methods of execution. And during his campaign launch
    in November, Trump made a special point to highlight a call to execute "everyone who sells drugs [or] gets caught selling drugs" if given a
    second term.

    This latest report has earned harsh rebukes from some, including
    journalist Oliver Willis, who called it the "kind of fascist s--t
    Republican primary voters love." Citing a 2016 campaign event in which
    Trump enthusiastically lauded the disproven myth that U.S. General John Pershing summarily executed dozens of Muslim prisoners in the
    Philippines with ammunition "dipped [...] in pig's blood," Semafor
    Washington Bureau Chief Benjy Sarlin wryly noted that now Trump was
    "moderating his stance ahead of 2024, before he just favored summary
    executions while defiling the bodies."

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-plan-2nd-term-reportedly-
    181144421.html

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