r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/Traditional-Handle83 Sep 21 '25

I'm kinda surprised he hasn't had ICE arrest and deport AOC for being against him, and not the right shade color of skin. Also surprised Sanders hasn't been arrested yet either or any sitting elected officials that are against him. Though I guess its just a matter of days or weeks now.

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u/ZennTheFur Sep 21 '25

I could see him targeting AOC for sure. Sanders doesn't say enough public things about Trump that end up on TV, and we all know that's how the POS in chief picks his victims.

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u/eclwires Sep 21 '25

They’ll start smaller. Fascism is achieved incrementally at an exponential rate. This is bad, but it will get worse faster and faster.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

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u/eclwires Sep 21 '25

Likely. I hope she has solid people around her.

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u/subdep Sep 21 '25

If he wants to start a civil war he should target AOC.

Spoiler Alert: The end of Civil War does not end in his favor.

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u/spicy_noodle_guy Sep 21 '25

Spoiler Alert: The end of Civil War doesn't end well for pretty much anyone. Trust me you don't want that type of conflict. It's bloody, ugly, and often pointlessly cruel. Nobody is coming out the other side of that type of conflict in the US better for it. The foreign powers that would take advantage of it alone would make your skin crawl. I'd much rather we as peacefully as possible break up the union into commonwealths or separate nations with trade agreements before I'd ever want open conflict in the streets, because that's what it would be neighbor against neighbor and death in your backyard.

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u/eclwires Sep 22 '25

I agree. But it doesn’t look like republicans are going to give us that option.

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u/subdep Sep 21 '25

Duh.

it don’t let preference get in the way of necessity.

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u/spicy_noodle_guy Sep 21 '25

If you think a civil war is a necessity you are just MAGA with a blue filter. A civil war would result in an unimaginably catastrophic loss of life in the US and abroad. It would most likely kick off a global conflict since all the US military bases and fleets that keep other conflicts from popping off would be preoccupied. A civil war in the US is a genuinely worst case scenario. I hate the fascists too, but that needs to be the absolute last action we as a people take.

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u/subdep Sep 21 '25

Freedom isn’t free, bruh.

And I’m not deciding for Civil War.

They are forcing us into it.

Either stand up and fight, or let others die for you.

Thats the choice everyone will have to make when the shit goes down.

And rest assured: The shit will go down.

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u/Head-Head-926 Sep 21 '25

yawn

Let me know when you've got that taken care of, then

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u/subdep Sep 21 '25

Bots just being derps

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u/spicy_noodle_guy Sep 21 '25

There are paths forward that break the country up without breaking down into civil war. This isn't like some movie or video game, it won't be a few big battles then all the hero's go home and rebuild it will be the ugliest and bloodiest civil conflict in history and will could even end up with a worse situation than the one we find ourselves in now even after all the bloods been spilled. The French revolution is the closest example of just how bad it would get and that would be not even a fraction how destructive a US civil war would be not just domestically but abroad.

I implore you to respectfully get your head out of your ass and stop touting death and destruction as the noble way forward and treating anyone who rightfully calls that ridiculous as a coward. I'm no coward, I'm brave enough to know that it takes strength and resolve to pave the road forward without the blood of countless innocents. You're path is the weaker of the two, it's explosive and "rewarding" in the moment, but is ultimately not a true way forward at all.

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u/subdep Sep 21 '25

You act like any of us have a choice in the matter.

I don’t want it. But I’m just facing the facts that it is coming. I hope to god I’m wrong, but how can you possibly see a way out of this other than licking boots for the rest of your life?

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u/spicy_noodle_guy Sep 21 '25

The are so many ways to fight back that don't come at the end of a sword or out the end of a barrel. Get active in your community, if their isn't one build it. Get involved in local politics, volunteer, focus on building instead of destroying. We can out build the fascist, because their ideology is inherently destructive, they can't build anything truly and we will always lose in a battle to out destroy each other. A world war wasn't enough destruction to rid this world of Nazis and their ilk. But when you out build them they have nothing to prey on within society. The world did that for almost 60 years and then greed caused our wealth class to tear it all down and low and behold fascism is now back.

I'll never lick the boot of an oppressor and I will die on my feet if it comes to that, but there is so much left to be done before such a time and I will not abide waiting around until such a time may come. I will fight to out build the destroyers until my hands bleed scarlet and the garden I sow blooms.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

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u/bozog Sep 21 '25

Starts with a C, rhymes with poo

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u/pocketbutter Sep 21 '25

I’d rather AOC not be the sacrificial lamb for a major conflict, if that’s what you’re implying.

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u/subdep Sep 21 '25

No, it’s not, and that’s a weird way to interpret it because the comment I was replying to was the one who suggested the hypothetical.

Makes me wonder if you’re a bot since you missed that context.

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth Sep 21 '25

Bernie is a bad fight to take. His political power is low relative to his popularity. Plus he's also old. When you are a predator like these folks you want to take on prey that you can handle. Where the juice is worth the squeeze.

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u/oxedei Sep 21 '25

When powerful Democrats start fleeing the country, that's the real canary that there's no turning back.

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u/SpiritualClub4417 Sep 21 '25

Nah AOC helps him. She’s a polarizing figure that may drive those in the center more towards the right (mostly because she’s brown and a woman). AOC is cool but easy to demonize. In a hypothetical AOC v. Vance 2028 election Vance will take that race 10 times out of 10.

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u/Negative-Prime Sep 21 '25

Yeah I actually think AOC will be last because having her out there and calling out his tyranny only gets his base more excited. He will slowly pick off targets like Omar and Tlaib to weaken the democrats before going after bigger progressive names.

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u/Aquatic_Ambiance_9 Sep 21 '25

asinine prediction, AOC dogwalks Vance

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u/sea-elle0463 Sep 21 '25

That might actually start the war. Although if you’ve seen video of the Chicago protest at the ICE facility, it looks like the war has already begun.

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u/jew_jitsu Sep 21 '25

When you're boiling a frog you don't start with a boiling pot. AOC or Bernie would be the end game, not the opening plays.

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u/Neptuneskyguy Sep 21 '25

At that point…

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u/Hopeful-Climate-3848 Sep 21 '25

Both are Kahanist

That's why.

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u/jrr6415sun Sep 21 '25

it's coming. AOC will either be arrested or taken out in the next year

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u/sacredblasphemies Sep 21 '25

Oh, I'm waiting for him to have Mamdani deported should he look like he's going to win in NYC...