'Trump Is Now Framing His Blue State Retribution Campaign as Some Sort Of Deliverance'
"The Trump administration is continuing to escalate in Minnesota."
"It has mobilized thousands of ICE agents to carry out its occupation of Minneapolis, and this week is sending still more. An ICE officer shot and killed a mother of three there last week, and the Trump administration has smeared her as a 'domestic terrorist.' The administration has, today, sparked a slew of high profile resignations from career federal prosectors over its decision to cut Minnesota authorities out of DOJ investigations into the shooting and by pushing to investigate the woman’s widow. It also has seized on legitimate fraud investigations in the state to justify freezing $10 billion in congressionally-approved federal funding for child welfare programs in Minnesota and four other blue states, a directive a federal judge promptly blocked."
"The ways in which the Trump administration is carrying out its immigration enforcement agenda — attempts at shock and awe and provocation, aimed at protestors and people of color — are demonstrative of how closely it is intertwined with another top goal of the president’s second term: retribution. Specifically, looking for ways to exert control over the blue pockets of America that he believes to be populated by his political enemies. Blue state governors and mayors have always fallen into that category, whether he has personal beef with the elected Democrat or not. It’s something we’ve been discussing since Trump began federalizing the National Guard early last year to clamp down on the protests and unrest that he created with his ICE operations in blue cities like Los Angeles and Chicago last year."
"In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Trump made his “retribution” objective explicit, and spun his administration’s plans to clamp down on First Amendment rights and his withholding of federal funding as some sort of deliverance for the 'GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA' from their duly-elected leaders."
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