Would dictator Trump kill his rivals?

Time magazine reporter Eric Cortalesa spent hours interviewing Donald Trump producing a shocking cover story this week.

Converting one of his opening paragraphs into bullet points for readability,

he summarized that Trump fully plans to carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country,

Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military both at the border and inland.

These are all quotes by the way.

He would let Red States monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion

bans.

He would at his personal discretion withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top

advisors. He would be willing to fire a U.S. attorney doesn't carry out his orders to prosecute

someone breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America's founding.

He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,

more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury.

He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country

wasn't paying enough for its own defense.

He would gut the US Civil Service, deploy the National Guard to American Cities as he sees fit,

closed the White House Pandemic Preparedness Office, and staff his administration with accolades who back his false

assertion that the 2020 election was stolen." End quote. While each and every one of

Cordelles's points gleaned from Trump's admissions and brags have the potential to

transform America into a nation more closely resembling Russia or Saudi Arabia than anything

seen here since the violence of the Confederacy. The reporter failed to ask

Trump about his most troubling threat to use assassination as a political weapon the

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