MSNBC - President Donald Trump — whether intentionally or not — is laying the groundwork to normalize the concept of the U.S. military’s killing Americans without due process.
With his recent legally questionable use of the U.S. military to summarily execute suspected drug smugglers in international waters — combined with his increasingly violent rhetoric regarding military incursions into several U.S. cities that voted overwhelmingly against him — the president is once again taking America down a dark road.
If the past eight months should have taught us anything, it’s that there is nothing that Trump and his administration believe they don’t have the right to do.
Second-term Trump has already demonstrated a complete lack of respect for constitutional limits on executive power, the rule of law and due process. His administration has misidentified innocent people as “gang members” and sent them to foreign torture prisons where they reported enduring physical and sexual abuse. His immigration crackdowns feature masked, unidentifiable agents of the state who regularly violently detain people based on their appearance — including natural-born U.S. citizens. He has used the military for domestic law enforcement purposes — and promised to continue to do so even after a court ruled that illegal. And this is hardly a comprehensive list of the outrageous, un-American abuses of power of the still-young second Trump administration.
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