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‘Ten-Cent Dictator’: Trump Threatens Mass Arrests of Opponents in ‘Cease and Desist’ Post

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One of Donald Trump’s latest tweets is being roundly mocked, but some are warning the Republican presidential nominee is threatening mass arrests for his political opponents, and that it represents an America that will emerge if he is elected president again.

In his social media missive, Trump threatens to incarcerate anyone who cheats in the election, but given his long history of false allegations and accusations, some say they believe he is targeting anyone who opposes him.

Trump writes, “those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.”

“Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country,” Trump alleges.

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NBC News political reporter Allan Smith writes: “Trump again threatens ‘long term prison sentences’ for a whole range of people — lawyers, operatives, donors, voters & election officials — he thinks stole the 2020 election,” and adds, “Of course, his claims were examined in recounts, audits, court cases + investigations that debunked them.”

Journalist Tess Owen, who reports on extremism and disinformation, responded to Trump’s post by writing: “Trump promising mass arrests of his political opponents in retaliation for 2020 if he’s elected.”

Protect Democracy counsel Kristy Parker, a former federal prosecutor, responds that Trump “can promise whatever he wants, but he’ll need underlings to carry it out. Underlings with law licenses they could jeopardize and who lack the immunity from criminal prosecution SCOTUS has conferred on the president.”

Matt Glassman, a senior fellow at The Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University noted, “One way to end widespread concerns that you are a wannabe authoritarian bent on jailing large numbers of your political opponents is to not send tweets that make you sound like a wannabe authoritarian bent on jailing large numbers of your political opponents.”

Journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild quipped, “Donald Trump is promising large scale arrests of Democratic voters, donors, lawyers, election officials, and politicians if he wins. But I’ve been told that calling him a ‘fascist’ for vowing to purge anyone he deems an enemy is a violation of norms, and therefore impermissible.”

Some took Trump’s threat personally.

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“Trump is, literally, promising to arrest all of Kamala Harris’ donors. That includes me. Trump is threatening to arrest me,” wrote strategic communications expert Dante Atkins.

“Every time his enablers try to say ‘What he had really meant was,’ Donnie doubles down. He’s now openly threatening to imprison election attorneys, political operatives (like myself) and people who donated Democrats. This is some ten-cent dictator, Banana Republic shit,” communications strategist Evan Sutton observed.

Sutton added: “Do you believe people who donate to political candidates or work for political campaigns should be imprisoned? No? Well, then you need to vote against this wannabe dictator and send grandpa back to his golden palace in Florida to live out his days golfing and rage tweeting.”

Several, including Capital & Main reporter Jeremy Lindenfeld mocked Trump’s post for having “the same energy as those Facebook posts boomers do that are basically ‘I AM POSTING SO MARK ZUCKERBERG CANNOT LEGALLY USE MY DATA. COPY AND PASTE THIS POST ON YOUR WALL TO PROTECT AGAINST FACEBOOK SPYING.'”

MSNBC/NBC News political analyst Elise Jordan remarked: “Hard not to be disturbed and distracted by the attack on the rule of law, but remember–this is the tweet of a candidate who believes he’s losing.”

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Texas Makes It Easier for Kids to Skip Vaccines After Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades

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Texas has just moved to make it easier for parents to exempt their children from school vaccination requirements—just weeks after the worst measles outbreak in a generation ended.

762 people contracted measles over the summer. Two unvaccinated children died, and 100 people had to be hospitalized, according to PBS News.

“West Texas was the nation’s measles epicenter for months. The virus started spreading there in close-knit, undervaccinated Mennonite communities in Gaines County,” PBS reported. The outbreak was declared over in mid-August.

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This week, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) began allowing parents to download a form to request their children be exempt from any or all required vaccines. Previously, parents had to request the form, which was then mailed to them, according to The Texas Tribune.

Calling this new system “empowering,” Rebecca Hardy, executive director of Texans for Vaccine Choice, said: “The previous mailed, hard-copy process for requesting vaccine exemption affidavits was outdated, costly to taxpayers, raised privacy and tracking concerns, and created unnecessary barriers for families seeking to exercise their rights.”

DSHS also published a form telling parents the benefits and risks of immunization, but the form is not attached to the exemption request form.

Requests for exemption forms have risen dramatically.

“Since 2018, the requests to the Texas Department of State Health Services for a vaccine exemption form have doubled from 45,900 to more than 93,000 in 2024,” the Tribue reported. “Even before the new form became easier to access, the state received 17,197 requests for a vaccine exemption form in July, 36% higher than the number reported in July 2023.”

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Texas has more kindergarteners unvaccinated for measles than any other state in the nation, and falls below the 95% immunization rate required to achieve herd immunity.

In what is being called a “public health disaster,” Florida is now in the process of banning all vaccine mandates for children.

It’s not just Texas and Florida.

On Thursday, CNN reported that support for childhood vaccines being mandatory has plunged from 81% in 1991 to just 51% in 2024.

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‘Weak, Weak, Weak’: Trump Economy Getting Worse, Majority of Americans Say

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A strong majority of Americans say the Trump economy is getting worse not better, and a near-majority say jobs and the economy are on the wrong track. The just-released jobs report supports Americans’ perception, with unemployment rising and economic experts issuing dire warnings.

“Donald Trump was hired, or rehired, to fix the economy, and Americans don’t like what’s cooking with the economy,” explained CNN forecaster Harry Enten on Friday (video below). “They think the economy is weak, weak, weak.”

According to Enten, in November of last year when Democrats lost the White House, 42% of Americans said the economy was getting worse. Now, ten months later, a “clear majority,” 56% of Americans, say the economy is getting worse. Little more than one-quarter say it is getting better.

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“This is no bueno,” Enten exclaimed.

The CNN analyst also noted that the jobs outlook is “becoming a weak point in the minds of the American public.”

“On jobs and unemployment, we are on the wrong track,” he noted. “Back in January, the plurality said right track, 40%. Wrong track was 32%.”

But the situation now is “a very worrisome trend, not only for the U.S. economy, but for the White House as well.”

“The wrong track leaps up to 48%. The right track down, down, down, down, from 40% to 33%.”

“Now the clear plurality of Americans think that we are on the wrong track when it comes to jobs and unemployment. The right track, look at that. Going from 40% to 33%, that is very, very, very bad.”

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On presidential approval on jobs and employment, Enten noted that President Joe Biden last year was “underwater at minus eight points.”

“Donald Trump gets in, he goes up plus nine points,” he continued. “But look at where Donald Trump is now: minus 13 points.”

“That’s a 24 point drop since January of 2025, and get this. Donald Trump was hired to fix the economy, but when it comes to jobs and employment, look at that, minus 13, that is worse than Joe Biden was doing in December of 2024.”

“Joe Biden, of course, was in the basement, and yet Donald Trump is even lower down than him. You can barely get an elevator that goes that low.”

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‘Worst Place Since the Pandemic’: Experts ‘Worried’ Over ‘Ominous’ Jobs Report

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Economic experts are sounding alarms over the latest jobs report, showing the Trump economy added just 22,000 jobs in August — far below expectations of 75,000. The unemployment rate climbed to 4.3 percent, its highest level since October 2021, near the height of COVID.

“Another WEAK jobs report,” wrote Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal.

“The August jobs report shows the job market is going from frozen to cracking,” Long added. “The only thing keeping this from being a 5-alarm fire is the fact that the labor force grew by +436,000 people. That’s a surprise, especially given immigrants are leaving the U.S. labor force.”

Long also noted that the June report was revised down, to a loss of 13,000 jobs.

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“Jobs growth remained extraordinarily low in August,” noted Steven Rattner, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” economic analyst and chairman of a prominent investment firm.

“The job market continues to slow, and it’s worrying. We’re (just) keeping our head above water (for now),” warned professor of economics Justin Wolfers, a popular cable news guest.

“I know the focus today is on ‘the numbers.’ But lemme share a feeling: I’m worried,” Wolfers added. “The economy was in a good place in late 2024. That’s no longer true. And the trajectory is, at a minimum, concerning. That’s millions of peoples lives, and millions of stories of pain.”

Veteran finance reporter Ron Insana noted that “the composition of the newly unemployed appears to be policy-driven. Government, trade services and manufacturing. Healthcare is keeping the number above water. Those gov’t workers getting severance aren’t yet counted as jobless. That changes next month!”

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Long issued an additional warning.

“The US economy lost -13,000 jobs in June –>The first negative month since December 2020 (!) There’s barely been any job growth in the past 4 months. Almost all the jobs added are in healthcare. Without healthcare, job growth would be NEGATIVE in the past few months.”

Economics writer Joey Politano observed that “US blue-collar job growth has completely stagnated, hitting the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic—manufacturing is currently losing jobs at a rapid pace, and growth in construction/transportation has slowed to a crawl.”

He added, “the labor market is in the worst place since the pandemic.”

Hinting at the upcoming change in leadership at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, professor of economics Howard Forman wrote: “If this is, indeed, a more reliable report, it remains ominous.”

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