Brush Prairie resident Steven Zimmerman believes President Trump is ‘suppressing free speech, freedom of the press, and States rights, by pulling VISA’s, withholding federal funds, and suing the media’
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If you, a friend, or family member are a non-citizen you could be abducted by the government in the middle of the night or day, put in jail, and transported to a notorious foreign prison, based on the judgement of some suit in Washington DC. Given not trial, hearing, or public process, all secret. Who knows what happens to them after that, how are they treated? Are they there for life? And now the President is saying he may send American citizens to those prisons.
Our President has an enemies list of people and groups who have offended him in some ways. He has directed the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute these people. He is treating the AG like his personal lawyer, not the people’s lawyer.
The President is suppressing free speech, freedom of the press, and States rights, by pulling VISA’s, withholding federal funds, and suing the media. He is sending chills throughout the system, and creating fear of speaking out and challenging the powerful.
What is this Country becoming?
Steven Zimmerman
Brush Prairie
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Fully agree, Steven.
This country is now a fascist dictatorship.
It is sad, that almost everything this man says is untrue. He is ignorant of so many topics. Starting with our Constitutional Republic upheld by LAWS that he conveniently ignores or purposefully obfuscates. The questions are not powerful, they are deceitful and meant to confuse and brainwash.
If you read you’d note I never said we were a democracy! However we are a democratic republic.
You mean the Biden Administration, right? I think you have your administrations confused about who is suppressing free speech and violating constitutional rights. The question that burns in my heart is when will those who have committed crimes against our state finally be held accountable? The Biden/Obama administrations have been playing a shadowy game far too long, the media complicit in propagating their game. They’ve manipulated narratives to weaponize agencies, trampling on our constitution, and scorning our values. Accountability is coming. The truth always wins out. Traitors and criminals will be punished. What we’re seeing now is just the beginning of exposing those who have been committing crimes against the people.
If you’re “resisting”, you’re on the wrong side of history.
You must be talking about both of Trumps administrations. Why don;t you explain some specifics about O’bama/Biden administration, both are decent people, did nothing to overthrow the government, never denied a fair election did not deport people without due process, cared deeply about the middle class and lower income.
I fully agree Andee. What I am concerned about is the lack of due process. Where are the checks and balances I learned about in school. I wish congress would step up and get involved. Specifically Republicans. It’s getting scary.
It is unbelievable how quickly Trump has destroyed our country and moving towards a dictatorship. The GOP sits back and lets him get away with it. They are more concerned about their power and positions than upholding the Constitution and many are helping him. He has destroyed the economy, devastated peoples lives, fires people without cause, pushes racism and sexism, destroyed free speech, seeks revenge against anyone who disagrees with him, is destroying our history, wastes tax dollars by jetting to Mara largo every weekend or going to sporting events that takes a large amount of security and time. He brought in a cabinet of billionaires with no experience and given them free reins with catastropic results in national security. His insistance on loyalty destroys all the checks and balances, has an attorney general who represents him not the government or Constitution. Musk has a huge conflict of interest and has his hands on everything getting him more government contracts. Are people going to wake up befire it is too late?
I agree, John. The most frightening part of the Trump actions are his contempt for those in the judicial branch who have issued rulings against him and his deliberate refusal to abide by those rulings. And then those Republican lawmakers who have ignored or even cheered his destruction of the co-equal branches of government.
Where were you when Biden was forcing our population to take an experimental “vaccine”. “My body – my choice?” Freedom of speech? How was that working when the Biden administration was coercing big tech to ban any discussion of the origin of the Covid virus, the availability of early treatments, the hazards of long shutdowns, the danger of the shots themselves? You have to get past your Trump Derangement Syndrome to really achieve any credibility.
Where were you when 200,000 illegal aliens were pouring over our border to take advantage of our freedoms… our free medical… housing and more… not to mention that there were so many of them that are repeat offenders, and gang members.
Wake up!
What “prison” allows inmates to rub elbows with (sym)-pathetic American Democrat politicians, in civilian attire, while sipping refreshing adult beverages??
Asking for a friend…