"A world of chaos, corruption and hypocrisy": Welcome to Donald Trump's fundraising emails

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"A world of chaos, corruption and hypocrisy": Welcome to Donald Trump's fundraising emails
"Deep State thugs" want "a tin-pot dictatorship," Trump tells his followers. Experts help decode the insanity

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 16, 2023 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Donald Trump's recent fundraising emails appear unhinged and delusional even by his standards. They offer numerous examples of his enraged state of mind, his appetite for conspiratorial thinking and outright lies, his disregard for reality, his cult-like power over his followers and his increasingly explicit contempt for democracy and the rule of law.

Although his language at times appears farcical, these are real-time warnings that Americans who oppose the MAGA agenda should take seriously. Consider this example, sent about 10 days ago after Trump had attended the early days of his New York civil trial:

Friend,

I just finished the third day of my sham trial in New York. For the past three days, I sat in a courtroom in the city I grew up in, the city I raised my family in, the city I built a tremendous organization in, the city I loved — and I listened to the Democrats fervently try to destroy everything my family and I have built. The Left wants to take down “Trump Tower” — a world-famous New York landmark, they want to dissolve the Trump Organization, and their ultimate goal is to financially ruin me and my family.

It was also here in New York that I was wrongfully arrested by a Soros-backed District Attorney earlier this year. It was the first time I was ever arrested in my entire life. ... But the truth is: this is not the same city I knew and loved. Frankly, this is not even the same country we once knew. Radical Left thugs have let crime, vandalism, filth, left-wing extremism, and illegal immigration pollute what was once the greatest city in the world.

And that’s what they want to do to all of America. Friend, I’m not running for President for myself. I’m running because I truly believe our country is dying. When I go back to a place like New York and see what’s happened, my resolve grows even stronger to save America. 2024 is our final chance to fix the greatest country in history — and I have absolute faith that with your support, we can turn it around, and turn it around FAST!

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Trump also uses these emails to threaten or intimidate prosecutors, judges and law enforcement officials (as well as potential witnesses and jurors) who seek to hold him accountable for his crimes.

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Federico Finchelstein, a historian at the New School and author of “A Brief History of Fascist Lies,” argues that Trump’s recent fundraising emails offer evidence of his “innovative” ability to combine his roles as an aspiring dictator and a supposedly successful businessman selling “salvation” to his followers:

As usual Trump combines distorting reality, turning facts into lies about imminent destruction and persecution by total enemies (who are not even human — he calls them monsters) and salvation via donation. The first elements (demonization and apocalyptic fears and promises) are rather typical of fascists like Hitler and Mussolini, but the idea of giving money to the leader to avoid calamity and destruction is typically Trumpist.

If fascism was a totalitarian ideology, movement and regime, Trumpism is that plus a personal business. The fascist identification between people, nation and leader mutates in Trumpism. It becomes not only a wannabe fascist project but also a business. ... Trump promises a new salvation that invokes the racist past but also is indifferent to it. Reaction and lies about the future are combined by Trump.

Trump has repeatedly shown himself to be mentally unwell and to possess a diseased mind and corrupt personality and evil character. Trump’s fundraising emails and other communications reflect those traits and their resulting behavior.

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https://www.salon.com/2023/10/16/a-world-of-chaos-corruption-and-hypocrisy-welcome-to-donald-fundraising-emails/

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1. Hitleresque.

The world has changed and functions pretty well, except for what Republicans broke. And only Trump can fix it. What are his plans? Mass deportation? Camps? He referred in 2016, April I believe to "his African American", a man in his crowds who turned out to be a paid actor as I recall. That's a clue. ONE of them. ONE. Trump promised to fix "the ghettos" in the same time period. Nothing more was or is said. But he's still at it, ready to fix everything if you will only give him the chance. Just like his WALL to Mexico would fix everything. More Pie in the Sky. A Con Man. America's Con Man.

[katmondoo]

2. He belongs in a Mental Institution, not the Whitehouse. What a sick minded person.