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Will Trump Come After You?

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller, Lutheran Minister – Germany (around 1946)

Trump plans on coming after people who have expressed their political opposition to him.  He has made this abundantly clear on multiple occasions. There are parallels between the words of Trump and the words and  actions of Hitler.

Trump has expressed plans of using the attorneys of the Justice Department to prosecute people like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.  Also included is Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney responsible for Trump’s prosecution in which a jury convicted him of 34 felonies for falsifying business records.  Trump has threatened to take away the licenses of media outlets like CBS, ABC, NBC and even FOX.  He has called for a military tribunal of Retired General Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Trump and Biden.

German Pastor Martin Niemoller,author of the quote above, was originally sympathetic to and supportive of Hitler’s right-wing ideas.  But then Niemoller started opposing Hitler in part because of his interference with churches in Germany.  Niemoller was eventually arrested and imprisoned for 8 years.  He was released upon the Allies defeat of Nazi Germany.  After the war he spoke frequently on the moral failures during the Nazi era.

According to the first link below from the Holocaust Encyclopedia … “Niemöller declared that through silence, indifference, and inaction, Germans had been complicit in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people. He felt that it was particularly egregious that he and other German Protestant church leaders, whom he believed had positions of moral authority, chose to remain silent.”

The following links on Trump’s retribution and Martin Niemoeller are provided for your further reading.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/30/trump-doj-revenge-political-enemies-00178218

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/bob-woodward-book-mark-milley-trump

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/media/trump-strip-tv-station-licenses-punish-media/index.html

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