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by aredox 298 days ago
Easy: the hundreds of millions of dollars he has extorted from universities, media companies and law firms for "saying things he happens to disagree with".

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/trump-harvard-settlement-de...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-pro-bono-legal-work...

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-jobs-report-dc-crime-...

https://www.ibanet.org/Trumps-assault-on-the-First-Amendment

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/us-free-spee...

Why did Mahmoud Khalil spend 3 months in prison for and missed the birth of his child, again? And Rümeysa Öztürk?

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I get downvoted when in the last 24 hours, he has signed an executive order to go after people who burn the American flag and has threatened to revoke the licence of ABC and NBC. Imagine just for a second the reaction of Clinton or Obama did that, on top of having a loyalty list of companies and sending the FBI after your critics...

There is clearly a cabal of MAGA supporters trying to game this website to suppress anything that make Trump look bad.