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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan. On this show, we have heard from hundreds

of people who've been harassed by Trump and Trumpites. They've been sent rape imagery, gas chamber

imagery, lynching imagery, simply for being critical of the president. I've had a glimpse of this

myself periodically. Trumpites don't listen to this show as far as I know, but at times when they

haven't liked a tweet of mine or a column, they rake me over their MAGA calls and Breitbart or

DailyColor or RT that's Russia today has in the past rolled in to finish the job. I get on lists

called Brain Damage and Trump D'Arrangement Syndrome and of course more on Lib. You know how

you used to have seared in your brain every cruel thing anyone ever said about you? That doesn't

happen after these trolling jamborees. I actually can't remember the words anymore they blurred

together. But I know that during the Trumpite attacks there are really dark days and you become

hyper vigilant when all that language is coming at you like sniper fire or napalm from people

who keep telling you how much they want to hurt your children and how many guns they have.

But that kind of trolling is nothing compared to what happens to people like Christine

Blasiford or Congressman Adam Schiff or Congresswoman Frederica Wilson whom the president himself

...