Democrats must create a new period of Reconstruction after Donald Trump and maga Republicans are voted out of office

Echo opinion published The New York Times by Jamelle Bouie:

Liberty under attack by Trumpism is in dire need of Reconstruction!

This past week in early June, 2026, I wrote about the need for Democrats to construct a Project 2029 that takes the revolutionary nature of the Trump regime seriously and seeks not to restore what was, but to build something new in the wake of this conjuncture.

In it I refer, as I often do, to the Reconstruction period of American history — the roughly 10 to 15 years following the end of the Civil War — as inspiration for how Democrats might approach that task.

In particular, the Radical Republicans who spearheaded the most far-reaching attempts to reconstruct the South embraced a constitutional vision rooted in the broad authority of Article I of the Constitution. Part of this was by necessity. After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, they had to contend with President Andrew Johnson, a vicious white supremacist who opposed Black civil rights and sought a speedy end to Reconstruction so that he might build a new political party on a Jacksonian vision of white supremacy. They also had to contend with a Supreme Court that saw itself as a bulwark for a narrow and restrictive vision of the Constitution.

The leading congressmen of the period had their own conception of the relationship between Congress, the presidency, and the courts — shaped in large part by their battles with the slave power. 

But, Reconstruction Republicans were also determined to secure and consolidate the political settlement of the Civil War against their foes in government. Congressional supremacy then was as much about the moment as it was about a deeper political perspective.

Here I want to highlight two things about the way congressional supremacy worked.

First, is that the Reconstruction Congress rejected the Supreme Court’s authority to invalidate its legislation. It was Congress — representing the entire people — that had the right and authority to say what the Constitution meant and it was the duty of the Supreme Court to enforce that meaning on the states. 

To stymie the court, this Congress took steps to limit the court’s jurisdiction, to directly repudiate court rulings with its own laws, and to reshape the Supreme Court itself — including preventing President Johnson from appointing new members when old ones died or left the bench.

The second is that the Reconstruction Congress leveraged a long-dormant part of the Constitution, the Guarantee Clause, which says that all states shall be guaranteed a republican form of government. It was under the Guarantee Clause that Republicans pursued their most far-reaching efforts to reconstruct the South.


As I wrote, should Democrats have control of the White House and both branches of Congress in 2029, they will be faced with a project of reconstruction, not restoration. You could do worse in those circumstances than to ask: What would Charles Sumner do❓

What would Thaddeus Stevens do❓ What would John Bingham do❓

They wouldn’t stand by and allow their project to be destroyed by the hostile forces arrayed against them. They would look to the Constitution which, for all of its flaws, gives Congress the power and authority to make its vision reality.

My column this week was on the prospect of a Project 2029, and why any effort worthy of the name must have a vision for reconstruction, not restoration.

If this is all true, and it is, then any plausible response to Project 2025, must include a larger vision for the future of the American Republic. A Project 2029, cannot be a collection of Democratic Party agenda items. It must articulate a broad new conception (aka, a new Lazarus❗)  of the nation’s political order — one that will guide the way a future Democratic-led government might wield power. 

Above all, Democrats must have a plan for reconstruction — for building something new on the wreckage of what Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party have wrought — not for restoration of what was.

Donald Trum and evil maga Republicans do not want us to know the difference between human beings and space aliens!

You cannot make this stuff up❗

Echo opinion published in The New York Times by M. Gessen

White House’s Latest Provocation Is ‘Grotesque and Terrifying and Juvenile’👽🤢

“They walk among us.” The glowing green letters emerge ominously against a dark backdrop. Above them hover the words “aliens” and “declassified,” suggesting the release — long awaited in some corners of the internet — of secret government files concerning extraterrestrials. Slowly, tantalizingly, more text appears: “For 60 years, the U.S. government has kept a closely guarded secret.” Then the big reveal: It’s not the trailer for a horror film; it’s a White House web page, posted last Thursday. And the scary creatures in question aren’t extraterrestrials; they’re the other kind of aliens — the immigrant kind, the kind hunted by ICE.

“Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods and interacting with us in our daily lives,” the page announces. “They’ve shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children and lived seemingly normal human existences.” That’s the joke: Human beings are described as nonhuman invaders. Fascism, 😟but make it a troll.

This web page, which invites users to look up the number of immigrants supposedly arrested on charges of criminal activity in American cities and towns, belongs to a subgenre of Trumpian gestures that are menacing and sophomoric at the same time. “Grotesque and terrifying and juvenile” is how Ernesto Verdeja, a genocide-prevention expert at the University of Notre Dame, described it to me. These gestures are hard to write about: The ugliness is undisguised, so what is there to say❓

And yet, these statements, step by preposterous step, change the world we live in. 

With phrases like “They do not belong here” and “Deport them all,” the page struck me as an incitement for Americans to commit acts of violence against immigrants. But Benjamin Valentino, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, thinks that the purpose of the page is not to get Americans to do anything: It’s to get them to do nothing, while the government commits its campaign of cruelty against millions of people just trying to live in peace. “They want a majority of the population to turn their backs,” he said. “That’s all that’s necessary.”

Valentino co-founded the Early Warning Project, which assesses the risk of mass atrocities around the world. To be sure, anti-immigrant violence in the United States does not approach the scale of the atrocities Valentino usually studies. But, the dehumanizing language of the sort used by the Trumpzi administration is, he said, “a pretty standard indicator” of risk, a necessary if insufficient condition of mass violence directed at a particular group.

“It’s not that it turns normal people into murderers,” Valentino said. “It’s that it turns them into bystanders.”

To the extent that the Trump administration has pulled back on its violent anti-immigrant campaign, it has done so because nonimmigrants have stepped up — in the courts and, especially, in the streets. The most dramatic confrontations took place this past winter in Minneapolis, but in the months since the federal government ended its occupation of that city, resistance has continued. In Newark, N.J., demonstrators have been protesting the conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility. At least 63 people have been arrested in the past week alone. 

In New York City, a relatively new coalition called Hands Off NYC has, since January, trained more than 7,000 volunteers to peacefully resist ICE. The Aliens web page, Valentino thinks, is intended to discourage this kind of activity.

“The key is that you are supposed to see your city with a big red dot over it,” Valentino said, referring to a map on the website, then click to read, supposedly, the number of immigrants who have been charged with crimes. (For example, “Jamestown, N.Y.: 10; larceny, obstructing the police; Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria.”) “And you see the charges — do you want to risk your life for this kind of person?”

When the page went up, the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration advocacy organization, happened to be hosting a gathering of data experts. Participants thought they saw something interesting. “The page is poorly coded, badly designed and yet weirdly transparent about some things the administration hasn’t been transparent about before,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the council, told me. It appeared that the map was based on raw data of ICE arrests — information that the government had mostly kept secret since the beginning of Trump’s current term. The map is possibly the best document to date of the scale of the ICE campaign, which, it shows, has raged not only in big cities but in small towns, where it’s sometimes less visible.

As is usual for the Trump administration, the figures are decontextualized and misrepresented. In addition to the map, the page contains a supposed tally of “encounters,” a term that has one meaning in 1970s, sci-fi and another in Customs and Border Protection-speak, where it typically refers to instances in which immigrants are apprehended. What struck me after spending too much time staring at the page was that it wants you to be afraid of all aliens: the space kind and the “illegal” kind, but also the “legal” kind, foreign-born people who have been living in this country for decades. As for the counter, it’s tracking nothing. The numbers just tick upward at a perfectly steady pace, one every second and a bit.

Underscoring the sophomoric aspect of this astonishing document is the fact that it’s shot through with references to “The X-Files.” I caught only one of them: The last lines say, “The truth is no longer out there. It’s right here. Right now” — a nod to the show’s tag line. Verdeja, the Notre Dame professor, grew up with the show, so he pointed out some other echoes, such as the combination of interplanetary warfare and a deep-state conspiracy. But superimposed on all that pop culture are the white supremacist tropes. The sentences about aliens “walking among us, living in our neighborhoods,” Verdeja said, read to him like invocations of the Great Replacement theory, which has become so familiar as to seem almost mainstream. “It’s similar to the way Jews were talked about in Europe in the 1920s, and ’30s,” Verdeja said.

He made the comparison gingerly, wary of falling into an alarmist cliché. But the ideologues of Trump’s immigration policies are taking no such pains. A couple of days after the “Aliens” page was published, Gregory Bovino, the former head of the U.S. Border Patrol who oversaw the federal immigration operation in Minneapolis, traveled to Portugal for a meeting of far-right politicians to discuss “remigration,” a concept that refers to the forcible displacement of millions of people on the basis of their ethnicity in the wake of World War I — what we now call ethnic cleansing.

Driven by the same nativist and xenophobic ideas, the United States adopted the Immigration Acts of 1921, and 1924, which ended mass immigration by introducing national-origin quotas designed to favor Northern and Western Europeans and exclude nonwhite immigrants almost entirely. These quotas stayed in place for four decades — until they were repealed just over 60 years ago, which is when the White House page claims the story of the aliens begins.

The point of making historical connections is not to say that any two actions, or any two eras, are exactly alike. Context always changes. But it’s important to see that this web page isn’t just a troll. It didn’t come out of nowhere. Provocations like this are part of an old and terrible story, and it continues to be written today.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are killing innocent people at sea, like the humans they target are in a video game!

 Echo article published in USA Today by Cybele Mayers-Osterman

US boat strikes killed (like in evil video games) over 200 innocent people. Service members have questions? But, Donald Trump could preemptively pardon service members for acts committed during his term.

Maine Writer comment- Donald Trump cannot pardon the guilt experienced by many who were ordered to kill innocent people without evidence of them having engaged in any crimes. 

U.S. military killed more than 200 😓😞😡people in strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in the last nine months in what legal experts and former military lawyers broadly agree constitute illegal military orders that service members should refuse to follow.

While there is no record of troops refusing to follow these orders, at least a handful of service members grappling with these questions have sought legal advice, according to anonymous hotlines for U.S. military members.

Before the Trump-era boat strikes, the United States viewed the drug trade as a law enforcement issue and tasked the Coast Guard with interdicting boats trying to bring drugs into the country.

The military has published dozens of videos of the attacks on social media – grainy, black and white videos taken from above of boats speeding through the water before they explode into balls of flame.

And Trump officials continue to say the attacks are lawful. ❓

At a June 2, 2026, Senate budget hearing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said every boat strike "has a legal officer on the deck that has to make a determination about whether the call is legal or not."

The Pentagon referred USA TODAY's questions to U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in South America and the Caribbean. The command said in a statement: "All operations are conducted deliberately and lawfully, in full compliance with U.S. and international law, including the law of armed conflict." 

"All targeting criteria are developed according to legal, operational, and intelligence requirements."

Since the first strike on Sept. 2, scores of legal experts and former military lawyers have characterized the strikes as extrajudicial killings or murders. Members of the military are required by U.S. law to refuse illegal orders.

Dan Maurer, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former military lawyer, said he hoped the boat strikes would serve as an (unethical❗) example for future generations.

"It’s going to be a shameful episode in the history of American military operations, and I hope it becomes a case study in what not to do," he said.

Maine Writer- sadly but inevitably, reparations must be paid from the United States to the countries where illegal boat strikes killed so many innocent people. Humans are not "video games".❗😡

Donald Trump only wakes up when he can bully, lie and denigrate Americans and people he wrongly perceives as being weak

Echo opinion letter published in The Virginian Pilot newspaper:

Trump’s ugly coercive style rarely has positive results

Donald Trump is the American bully — and nobody likes a bully. Throughout his political career, his communication style has heavily relied on public humiliation, aggressive behavior and personal attacks. When dealing with individuals — including political rivals, journalists and private citizens — he frequently uses derogatory nicknames and targeted social media campaigns to isolate and disparage his targets.

Internationally, this confrontational approach translates into a transactional foreign policy — everything is a deal.

What kind of deal can he make❓ Rather than relying on diplomacy using professional negotiators, he frequently uses public threats, tariffs and the withholding of foreign aid to pressure both adversaries and allies. This behavior often undermines international agreements and strains traditional diplomatic alliances.

This pattern is starkly visible in Latin America, where his playbook is designed to force sovereign nations into submission. His approach in Venezuela was to arrest President Nicolas Maduro on narco-terrorism charges and then dictate the terms under which Venezuela can participate in global oil markets. 

In Cuba, he has boasted about an imminent friendly takeover or military intervention. Trump recently used federal indictments against former Cuban President Raul Castro to try to force political collapse in the country.

This bullying coercive style usually just makes people mad and want to dig in their heels. It rarely results in positive outcomes.

From David M. Grochmal, in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Donald Trump and maga Republicans are supporting the evil commander in THIEF greed!

New York Times echo opinion by Thomas Friedman

 Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief❓Who knew❓🙄

With each passing month, Donald Trump behaves more like America’s commander in thief than its commander in chief.

How so❓ Let me count the ways. We are a nation at war today, with tens of thousands of troops deployed near Iran. 

Generally, when our nation has been at war, the commander in chief’s top domestic priority is to keep the country united. Because there is nothing more demoralizing for U.S. troops fighting abroad than to look back and see our country ripping itself apart at home. And, there is nothing that encourages an enemy to hold out for better terms for ending a war with America than seeing America at war with itself.

But, how has Trump risen to that commander-in-chief unifying duty❓ He has not lifted a finger to bring the Democrats behind his war. Instead, he’s prioritized acting like an autocratic monster  "in thief". At the same moment Trump was asking our men and women in uniform to make the ultimate sacrifice, he engaged in a brazen, in-your-face attempted heist of the U.S. Treasury to benefit himself, his family and his political allies, which could include those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. It was so outrageous that even some of his most reliable Republican Party sycophants couldn’t accept it.

Trump conspired with his own Justice Department, headed by his former personal lawyer, to use taxpayer money to create a 💲1.776 billion political slush fund, supposedly to compensate those Trump supporters who “suffered weaponization and lawfare” at the hands of his predecessor. In fact, as this paper’s editorial board noted, it would “reward loyalists willing to defy the law and commit violence on behalf of the president.”

Fortunately, a federal judge put a temporary hold on the scheme that no one described better than the Republican former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops❓ Utterly stupid, morally wrong — take your pick.” In the face of all that opposition, Trump’s acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Tuesday he was withdrawing this terrible plan.

If Trump had an ounce of integrity, instead of scheming to set aside 💲1.776 billion to potentially pay off these phony defenders of freedom’s frontier — loyalists who ransacked and defecated in the halls of Congress — he would direct Congress to spend that exact amount to support today’s real defenders of freedom’s frontier: the Ukrainian Army. It is both resisting Vladimir Putin’s attempt to crush Ukraine’s democracy and sapping Russia’s ability to threaten the other free countries of Europe. God bless Ukraine’s fighters.

Alas, though, Trump apparently wants money only for people who tried to overthrow our Constitution at home, not for those who want to emulate our constitutional democracy abroad.

In addition, the Trump-directed Justice Department quietly inserted, as a supplement to that slush fund deal, a one-page document signed by Blanche stating that the government would be “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing” pending tax claims against Trump, his family members or his businesses. That measure remains in force, Blanche said on Tuesday.

Trump has another moniker suggesting his ethical challenges: “trader in chief,” as The Associated Press recently proposed. Why❓ Because “recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders,” The A.P. (Associated Press) wrote, “many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government.”

That was an average of 50 trades a day in stocks that included U.S. military suppliers affected by the Iran war. “If he were defense secretary, he would be committing a crime,” Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics adviser in the George W. Bush administration, told The A.P. “Technically he can do this, but it is a fundamental breach of trust.”

Not only has Trump choked off virtually all U.S. financial aid to Ukraine, but he is also reducing U.S. troops on the ground in NATO countries right when Putin, sensing he is losing the war, is increasingly threatening them.

Just as Americans are starting to realize that Trump is becoming a predator on our system — trying to manipulate the justice system to generate cash available to his Jan. 6 pirates and immunity from ongoing inquiries into taxes for himself and his family — our allies are concluding that Trump’s America is becoming a dangerous predator on them.

Indeed, something is happening with America’s traditional allies that I never thought I would see in this lifetime or the next. In the post-World War II era, we and our allies together embraced the doctrine of “deterrence” against the Soviet Union, and later Russia, to prevent any attempt by the Kremlin to forcibly expand its influence into the free world or put neighbors under its thumb.

Not any longer.

• Our allies watched Trump threaten to make Canada the 51st state and to seize Greenland from Denmark. 
• Our allies have watched him start a war with Iran without consulting NATO and then demand that NATO help rescue us from what has turned into a mess. 
• Our allies watched Trump slash U.S. financial assistance to Ukraine, but put the Russian aggressor on the same moral footing as that country 
• And then, top it all off with reckless, ill-conceived tariffs on all our allies.

As a result of all that, something unprecedented is happening: “Deterring Trump’s America is now becoming a strategic priority of our allies as much as deterring Russia was,” Nader Mousavizadeh, the chief executive of Macro Advisory Partners, a geopolitical consulting firm, and a former senior adviser to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, told me.

And how could it not❓ When you look at how Trump has hammered Canada with tariffs, it is hard not to conclude that the worst position for a country to be in during the second Trump administration “is to be America’s closest ally and have integrated your economy, energy systems and military with that of the United States,” Mousavizadeh said. Everyone can now see, he added, that Trump will “weaponize any country’s dependence on America and use it to extract whatever he can in the narrowest and most tactical and transactional definition of American power.”

No wonder that after Trump stepped up his rhetoric about taking over Greenland, European NATO members — Germany, Sweden, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom — all announced plans to send small military contingents to Greenland to bolster the Danes.

Daniel Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland, noted in an essay for the Atlantic Council that though these NATO allies tried to frame their move as necessary to bolster Arctic security, they also “have used the word ‘deterrence.’ For Europeans to speak in such terms about the United States, even implicitly, is a low point, but it is needed.”

Let’s not forget that early on Trump forced Ukraine to give the United States access to critical minerals in return for U.S. help against a Russian Army trying to overrun it. This is the real “Trump Doctrine”: Oppose America, and I will tariff you; depend on America, and I will extort you.

The only rational response for our allies is to try to “deter and diversify,” Mousavizadeh concluded. And if Trump keeps this up for his full four years, he added, “no NATO leader can ever again responsibly agree to the degree of dependence on U.S. technology, U.S. defense systems or financial systems” that NATO countries long took for granted.

I have been in Portugal this week and I have been shocked by the degree to which European business executives speak of having lost faith in American institutions ❗and in America as the guarantor of global legal norms — something they have always taken for granted. It is literally disorienting for them, like hikers who have lost their compass.

In short, having a president who behaves like a commander in thief — not a commander in chief — is costing us dearly at home and abroad. This perversion of the American presidency is undermining the very alliance structure that won two world wars and the Cold War and generated one of history’s longest ages of peace and prosperity. Every day we tolerate such behavior we endanger our children’s future.

P.S. Senator Susan Collins where are you❓ Impeach Trump now❗

By Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs Opinion columnist. 

Donald Trump and maga cult supporters want to steal $1,8 billion of our tax money to create a slush fund and tRump is not backing down!

Echo opinion letter published in the Sun Sentinel, a South Florida newspaper:

On the infamous date of January 6, 2021, as I settled in to eat lunch and watch Congress count the presidential electoral vote on TV, I became an eyewitness to one of the worst days in our history.

I saw every frightening, disturbing moment unfold live, and I was distressed for hours. I wondered where the cavalry was to stop this violent insurrection by traitors and torture of the poor police officers and terrible threats to members of Congress running and hiding in terror.

So what insanity reigns that these dangerous violent convicted criminals, including Nazi sympathizers and racist white supremacist extremists, not only were pardoned by Trump, but now will be given $1.8 billion? It’s beyond belief.

Trump has taken huge sums of money that could pay for food for children, education and healthcare for the poor, and is giving it to vicious traitors. A special “MAGA tax” is in order to pay this outrageous loyalty payoff. The rest of us should refuse to pay taxes, like the Trump, but now will be given 💲1.8 billion❗ It’s beyond belief.

Trump has taken huge sums of money that could pay for food for children, education and healthcare for the poor, and is giving it to vicious traitors. A special “MAGA tax” is in order to pay this outrageous loyalty payoff. The rest of us should refuse to pay taxes, like the Trumps do.

From Elin Shusterman, in Boynton Beach, Florida

Voters must take back American democracy. Donald Trump dishonors those who died to protect our democracy!

Echo opinion letter published in the Sun Sentinel, a South Florida newspaper: 

Over Memorial Day Weekend, while reflecting on the brave men and women who died protecting our democracy, I found renewed strength to fight back and not allow Donald Trump and others who are in power to steal our democracy.

Each day, multiple news sources report brutality endemic in the Trump administration. The daily reporting of corruption, theft of taxpayer funds for illegal purposes, insider trading by high-level leaders and repeated violations of our Constitution and the laws. 

If you look at more than one news source, you will readily see that where there’s smoke, there’s 🔥fire.

These corrupt actions are allowed by the three branches of government, controlled by so-called fiscally conservative Republicans. I say so-called, because fiscal conservatives claim to support limited government, lower taxes, reduced spending and minimal public debt. What happened to those beliefs?

On Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican-S.C., reacted to the defeat of a Senate candidate in a Republican primary after Trump backed his rival, saying: “This is the party of Donald Trump.” Is this your Grand Old Party (aka "Growing Old Party"), or is Graham correct that it’s ruled by one man who acts like a 👑king❓

On Nov. 3, please vote for candidates who promise to take back the Congress and protect our Constitution. Otherwise, your votes will sadly reflect that you favor money over all else, or wear blinders to bigotry. Or else, are you simply brainwashed by right wing organized religion or Fox (aka "Fake❗" News❓

From — Candice Clausell, Jupiter

Donald Trump does not care about you or anything else he campaigned on he only cares about himself. Impeach Trump Now!

Echo opinion letter by Stan Livingston, in Vancouver Washington, published in The Columbian

Donald Trump Does Not Care❗

Well, it’s official. Donald Trump clearly stated without any possibility of claiming “fake news” that

• He doesn’t care about you. He said so.
• He doesn’t care about the midterms in November,]He doesn’t care about gas prices,
• He doesn’t care about killing innocent people, (175 innocent school children in an Iran tomahawk bombing❗)
• He doesn’t care about international law (or the laws of his own country which he swore to uphold),
• He doesn’t care about the fact that he has broken his promise about “no more forever wars.”
• He doesn't care about Epstein's victims who were abused by Trump and his pedophile friends who are named in the Epstein Files.
  

Trump only cares about himself. He is forcing a false legacy by establishing an obsession about building a massive ballroom, a gigantic arch and all of the signs to which he adds his name, and he only cares about what his own “morality” guides him to do.

Donald Trump just doesn’t care …😔😐😟😡

A suggestion for our sick leader: If Trump wants to save the government money, I suggest he fire the entire corrupt White House staff (except the butlers, cooks and staff who bring him McDonald’s hamburgers), his Cabinet and all of the “advisers” from which he refuses to accept advice. Could be big savings that would help pay off the national debt.  #ImpeachTrumpNow❗

From: Stan Livingston, in Vancouver, Washington state

Message to Republican maga cult groupie Senator Susan Collins- it is time to "do something"!

Message to all 🐘Republicans especially to Maine Senator Susan Collins.

Senator Collins has more seniority than practically anybody else in the House and Senate; but she is now full cult maga in a frozen kowtow position of fealty to Donald Trump. She is "always concerned but never courageous", she will not criticize Trumpzi-ism.

A message to all sane 🐘Republicans from Gianl1974 on X/ formely Twitter: 

• He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing. 
• He bulldozed the East Wing. You said nothing. 
• He interfered with the release of the Epstein Files. You said nothing. 
• He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.
• He accepted a 💲400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing. 
• He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing. 
• He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing. 
• He attacked Iran, a nation, during mediated negotiations. You said nothing. 
• His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing. 
• He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing. 
• His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing. 
• He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing. 
• He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing. 

It’s time for 🐘Republicans to start talking❗

#ImpeachTrumpNOW