Rolling Stone’s Suebsaeng: Trump Wants to Get as Close to Philippine President’s ‘Death Squads’ ‘as Humanly Possible’

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SUEBSAENG: “Now, is it possible that a second term, re-elected Trump, could get exactly that? No, maybe not. But the point is, he wants to get to as close to that as humanly possible, which is a remarkable thing for a modern American presidency. Some of the things he wants to do, that he's discussed with close advisors during his campaign, is, in late 2020, he toyed with the idea of pulling federal funding from different states and cities that were not sufficiently 'pro-cop' enough for his liking, or didn’t let the police get away with enough degrees of abusive behavior or even alleged racial bias. He’d threaten to pull federal funding if they didn’t do those things to his liking. He has talked to people recently about using pardon powers to excuse different officers, where people have been federally charged with things. There’s all kinds of things that his second administration would be planning with the Department of Justice, with the power of the executive branch, to try to make police in this country as cartoonishly violent as men like Donald Trump would like them to be."