Donald Trump and maga Republicans attack Freedom of speech suppressing the press and political opponents

Speak up now❗  💢  #Resist

Echo opinion letter to The Daily Chronicle in Centralia Washington state: 

It is time to speak up, before we are no longer allowed to:

Freedom of speech is the foundation of our democracy, a sacred right that allows us to express dissent, share ideas and hold our leaders accountable.

But under the Trump administration, this fundamental freedom is under assault.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he will do everything in his power to silence his opponents. Whether through legal threats, attacks on the press or public shaming of critics, he has consistently shown contempt for open discourse.

This isn’t just about politics, it’s about preserving the very principles that define our nation.

Without freedom of speech, independent thought withers. The ability to challenge authority or expose wrongdoing vanishes. A government that fears criticism is not a government by the people, it is a government for one man’s power and ego.

We are at a crossroads. Will we allow our rights to erode in the name of political loyalty, or will we stand up for the freedoms that generations before us fought to secure?

It is time to speak up, before we are no longer allowed to.

From Shauna Wilhelm in Chehalis, Washington State

Donald Trump continues to disregard the rule of law he selected an incompetent Cabinet he must resign

Trump should preemptively resign. He was derelict in duty even before the January 2025, inauguration. An echo opinion letter published in the Colombus Ohio Dispatch.

Subsequent to this Columbus Ohio letter, check out the paid full page ad published in a letter in The New York Times.  the letter is on line on my Maine Writer at this site here.

Trump should resign already❗

The word “resignation” not only has “nation” in it. It cuts both ways for understanding the state of politics in America.

Democrats are expected to resign themselves to a new administration.(#IDTS 😒) believing it is the right thing to do, it would seem, considering Trump got a majority of the votes cast in the November election.

But a slim majority, nonetheless, considering that he received a mere 2.3 million more of the roughly 152.2 million votes cast, a fact which reveals a balance of power in America.

But Americans don’t just disagree.

Democrats and Republicans digress to the point of being at each other’s throats.

To expect Democrats to resign themselves to an administration they voted against because they consider it an aberration of America’s core values❓ NO💢  #RESIST❗ America is now under attack from domestic enemies. Our democracy is worth fighting for❗

Trump gave half of America even more reason to strongly resist him llast month when he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that he could mass deport children of Dreamers after moving to end birthright citizenship enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Not to mention that the incompetency inherent in Trump’s Cabinet-level picks suggests dereliction of duty on his part.

While Republicans stubbornly stick with Trump, Democrats could call for him to step down citing that President Richard Nixon’s “resignation” was for something relatively minor by comparison.

From John E. Reinier Sr., in Columbus Ohio

Donald Trump did nothing!

Axios reporting about advance warning predicting this pandemic and its dire consequences.

Warning of about mass death circulated in the West Wing in January, 2020.

In late January, Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro warned his White House colleagues about how the coronavirus could take more than half a million American lives and cost close to $6 trillion, according to memos obtained by Axios' Jonathan Swan and Margaret Talev. By late February, Navarro was even more alarmed, and he warned his colleagues, in another memo, that up to 2 million Americans could die of the virus.

Navarro's grim estimates are set out in two memos — one dated Jan. 29 and addressed to the National Security Council (NSC), the other dated Feb. 23 and addressed to President Trump. 

In fact, the NSC circulated both memos around the White House and multiple agencies.

In the first memo, Navarro makes his case for "an immediate travel ban on China."

The second lays the groundwork for supplemental requests from Congress, with the warning: "This is NOT a time for penny-pinching or horse trading on the Hill."

Why it matters: The memos reveal detailed health and economic calculations meant to grab and hold the president's attention, when there was time to prepare American citizens and officials.

The president quickly restricted travel from China, moved to delay re-entry of American travelers who could be infected and dispatched his team to work with Congress on stimulus funds.
But Trump was far slower to publicly acknowledge the sort of scenarios Navarro had put in writing.

One senior administration official who received Navarro's memos said that at the time, they were skeptical of his motives and thus his warnings: "The January travel memo struck me as an alarmist attempt to bring attention to Peter’s anti-China agenda while presenting an artificially limited range of policy options."
"The supplemental memo lacked any basis for its projections, which led some staff to worry that it could needlessly rattle markets and may not direct funding where it was truly needed."

The Feb. 23 memo began: "There is an increasing probability of a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life of as many as 1-2 million souls."

Navarro called for an "immediate supplemental appropriation of at least $3 billion" to support efforts at prevention, treatment, inoculation and diagnostics.

He described expected needs for "Personal Protective Equipment" for health care workers and secondary workers in facilities such as elder care and skilled nursing.

#Impotus

He estimates that over a four-to-six month period, "We can expect to need at least a billion face masks, 200,000 Tyvek suits, and 11,000 ventilator circuits, and 25,000 PAPRs (powered air-purifying respirators)."

Flashback: "It's going to have a very good ending for us," Trump said of the coronavirus in a speech on Jan. 30.

In a Feb. 24 tweet, he said it was "very much under control" and that the stock market is "starting to look very good to me."

The World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11.
On March 17, the president said: "I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."