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Soft Paywall The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate” | The national-security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/193291/trump-disappearing-students-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-biggest-scandal
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u/David_the_Wanderer 8d ago

next they'll revoke naturalized citizenship and then birthright citizenships which they've already contested.

Which is why Marco Rubio is a US citizen, as his parents weren't citizens when he was born. But he believes he's "one of the good ones".

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u/notorious_schambes 8d ago

There were Jews that believed if they help the Nazis they would spare them. Turned out they were wrong

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u/Spirited_Cup_9136 8d ago

Pick-mes are the worst. In this case having power in the form of Republican ties such as Marco Rubio, Usha Vance, Melania Trump etc. will exempt them aka "rules for thee, not for me". Hopefully Republican voters will realize it doesn't extend to them or their loved ones but evidence points to the opposite so far. Cults are no joke and deprogramming takes a lot of time and effort.

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u/David_the_Wanderer 8d ago

I do not believe that even the "leaders" are safe. Remember the Night of Long Knives.

Once they outlive their usefulness, those characters will be gladly discarded and even eliminated by the inner circle of power.