 So the president of the United States who always talks about how much he loves law and order once again just admitted that the United States government Assassinated a US citizen. He bragged about this at a rally. We sent in the US marshals took 15 minutes. It was over 15 minutes They knew who he was they didn't want to arrest him and 15 minutes that ended He just Admitted to a crime. He just admitted That they violated the Constitution This should outrage everyone who claims to be in favor of law and order who claims to be in support of the US Constitution Because as a US citizen the US government isn't supposed to be able to just assassinate you That's what authoritarian regimes do extra judicial killings are not supposed to be a thing that happens in Civilized societies, but yet the president of the United States just bragged about their decision to just assassinate someone Now I know that if you're a conservative you're gonna respond by saying but the person that they assassinated killed someone else Do you understand what due process is? If the US government suspects that someone is culpable in any wrongdoing that person is Entitled to the right to defend themselves in a court of law They can't just be assassinated by the US government if the US government suspects That they're guilty That person has a right to use the judicial system that we have to try to defend themselves and Furthermore, even if you agree with the assassination, which you should not if you just accept that the United States government Can be able to do this. I mean, what if they get it wrong? What if they get the wrong person? What if it's just political retaliation? Do you understand why this opens the door to so many horrible situations and again It goes back to basic due process something that as citizens we are entitled to if you don't know what due process is No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on Presentment or indictment of a grand jury Except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the militia when an actual service in time of war or public danger So that's a lot of jargon, but at the end of the day it means that if the government Thinks that you did something illegal They have to try you they have to try a case against you Present facts and evidence against you. They can't just unilaterally choose to end your life Because they say that you did something wrong They have to prove it the person who they assassinated didn't have the chance to prove that maybe in that shootout between the Anti-fascist protesters and the far right. Maybe that was self-defense We don't know that individual was denied the ability to defend himself in a court of law because Trump decided they wanted to assassinate him They wanted to assassinate him because he is a political enemy Now this isn't the first time that the United States government has Extraditionally assassinated one of its own citizens. It's not the first time But understand what Trump is doing and how he takes us further down this path towards authoritarianism So actually President Obama who everyone loves also Assassinated a United States citizen as Glenn Greenwald for the intercept explains Obama killed a 16-year-old American in Yemen Trump just killed his eight-year-old sister now this article explains how Obama directed the CIA to assassinate a US citizen named Anwar al-Alaqi now his son Abdul Rahman was killed two weeks later by the United States and then when Trump decided to greenlight a raid In Yemen on dubious intelligence that led to the murder of Abdul Rahman's sister Nawar So it's not a new phenomenon, right? The United States government has done this before But understand why this is a little bit different The US government when they killed US citizens abroad They can at least try to put up some facade that look Maybe these American citizens were associated with some terror cell and we had to take them out We couldn't risk it they can try to hold up that facade and even if they don't explicitly say that the American people will think well That person was in a different country where we're waging this war on terror So maybe you know Maybe it's justified even if it was unconstitutional But when they start doing it here at home on American territory That sends a different message. That's the US government telling people look what we did We just assassinated a United States citizen and guess what? You let us get away with it So we can do it again. We're gonna do it again Trump is bragging about this So this isn't just some you know out of sight out of mind thing because oh this bad thing happened Our government shouldn't have done this but it happened abroad now. They're doing it at home Now if you are a conservative Just try to be objective for a moment consider that Biden was president and A conservative was plotting some sort of attack like wanted to kidnap the governor of Michigan Let's just use this hypothetical situation And before they were able to carry out this terror attack Biden decided to assassinate that individual Do you think that it is legally and constitutionally justifiable For the Biden administration or any Democratic administration to just assassinate a right-winger No, this isn't about Partisanship this isn't about oh your team versus my team This is about the Constitution and if you genuinely believe in the rule of law and law and order and the Constitution and You just don't care that Trump assassinated a United States citizen and is now bragging about it Which is the worst part you have to understand You don't support the Constitution you're against it and you are willingly accepting authoritarianism So there isn't much that we can do about this, right? We can we can try to vote Trump out but in terms of how we can hold him accountable We're not gonna hold him accountable, and I'm more flabbergasted and disturbed by the fact that his supporters are trying to justify this action This is how democracies die. We're seeing it right now We are seeing exactly what happens when a country moves further and further towards fascism It starts out. We're an individual. It's democratically elected and just is a Expressing fascism. He's a proto fascist and then we start moving closer and closer towards authoritarianism when that individual Consolidates their power and starts carrying out more fascist acts like we're seeing it all happen This is how it starts folks. This is how it starts. It's not like Trump is Hitler not saying that but he is a fascist and People need to take everything that he's saying here very seriously because this is a threat to democracy