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Nevilledog

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Sat Sep 24, 2022, 02:59 PM Sep 2022

Inside Trump's Plot to Send Rapists and Killers To 'Destabilize' Liberal Cities



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NEW: Years before Ron DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt, then-President Donald Trump had some more extreme plans: sending "actual 'murderers,' and actual 'rapists'" to liberal cities.

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Inside Trump’s Plot to Send Rapists and Killers To ‘Destabilize’ Liberal Cities
Years before Ron DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt, the then-president asked his team to take migrants suspected of violence and bus them to blue states and metropolitan areas
11:01 AM · Sep 24, 2022


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DONALD TRUMP IS privately fuming over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flying migrants from the Texas border to Martha’s Vineyard, telling confidants the potential 2024 rival stole “my idea” for weaponizing immigrants. Turns out, Trump was right — but his plans were more extreme than anything DeSantis has come up with to date.

In early 2019, three people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone, the then-president workshopped a plan to bus migrants suspected of violent crime from the border to liberal metropolitan areas. The plan, two of the sources say Trump explicitly told staff, was to “punish” his political rivals in Democratic controlled areas.

“I was in the Oval Office for a meeting in March, 2019 in which [Trump] got more specific than just dump[ing] them in blue states,” says former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor.

“He said, ‘I want you to get the worst of the worst’ — criminals, actual ‘murderers,’ and actual ‘rapists’ — who cross the [southern] border, and round them up. He did not want to expel them, which is what you’re supposed to do in those situations,” Taylor says. “He specifically said that he wanted us to put them on buses … to, and I quote, ‘destabilize’ those sanctuary cities.”

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Inside Trump's Plot to Send Rapists and Killers To 'Destabilize' Liberal Cities (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2022 OP
Same as his response to Covid-19 when it was crushing NYC central scrutinizer Sep 2022 #1
Is this not just one more part of his war against the United States? Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #2
RICO his a&& for aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise, the sending of criminal cohorts to SWBTATTReg Sep 2022 #3

central scrutinizer

(11,665 posts)
1. Same as his response to Covid-19 when it was crushing NYC
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 03:32 PM
Sep 2022

Do nothing to help and even export desperately needed PPE

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,494 posts)
2. Is this not just one more part of his war against the United States?
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 05:57 PM
Sep 2022

Take all of his plots, plans, actions together and it is either treason or the word and Constitutional definition have no meaning at all.

Lock him up!

SWBTATTReg

(22,176 posts)
3. RICO his a&& for aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise, the sending of criminal cohorts to
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 07:46 PM
Sep 2022

'blue' cities.

Really nice of him, eh? RICO his a&&, seize his properties since he aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise, and causing harm and damage to America and its citizens.

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