"A world of chaos, corruption and hypocrisy": Welcome to Donald Trump's fundraising emails
Source: Salon
"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)
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.
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His movement of "more than 74 MILLION patriots," Trump concludes, "will NEVER, EVER SURRENDER our country to Third World Marxist tyranny!" These fundraising emails, and Trump’s larger communications strategy, offer almost a textbook example of how fascists and autocrats seek to erode democracy by maintaining and expanding their control over their followers, and bulid political power more broadly.
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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Read more: https://www.salon.com/2023/10/16/a-world-of-chaos-corruption-and-hypocrisy-welcome-to-donald-fundraising-emails/
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