After World War II, America led the world in building a global trading order,

a stable world economy, geopolitical calm and international trust in our

government. It’s all quickly vanishing by sitting Republicans who enable

Trump to take a bull dozer to our government and the global respect, trust

and influence America enjoyed for centuries. Sitting Republicans are the

only part of our government in a position stop Trump

rom eviscerating what’s left of our government. Tragically, though, they’re

on Trump’s leash and have violated their Constitutional obligation to act as

a check on presidential tyranny rather than surrendering to it. Trump has so

much confidence in their complicity and cowardice that he commits his

treacheries and corruption in broad daylight.

REPUBLICANS BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

Every House Republican except two voted for it. The bill takes money from

Medicare and Medicaid benefits and food assistance programs to cover

1the trillions in lost tax revenue from the Republicans’ $4.5 trillion tax cut

for America’s wealthiest. It’s like wiring money from your bank account

directly to the very rich.

Trump has a history of borrowing more than he can afford. He’s

doing it again. But this time the U.S. Treasury is on the hook. Worse, he

also has a long history of defaulting on his debts, including in 6

bankruptcies. He was turned down by 30 lenders and Bonding companies.

60 lawsuits and judgments reveal that he stiffed dishwashers, waiters,

plumbers, bartenders, carpenters, other hourly workers and small

businesses.

TRUMP’S TRUE ECONOMY

The wealth gap in America is shamefully wide.

Wealth inequality in America just hit its widest gap in more than 3

decades.

• Since 1989, the share of American household wealth held by the top

0.1% increased more than 60%. Everybody else’s fell.

• The wealthiest 1% held $55 trillion in assets in 2025 which was

equal to the wealth held by the bottom 90%.

• The top 10% own $61 trillion in assets. The bottom 50% own $4.21T.• Billionaire wealth in 2025 increased three times fasterthan the

average wealth over the previous five years.

• A rising stock market hasn’t helped the bottom two thirds of

Americans because the top third owns 87% of the market.

• Trump’s tariffs are the highest since the Depression and have

increased U.S. retail prices by $1,100-$2,300 for basic items. Tariffs

on building materials raised new home construction costs by 3.3%,

stifling home building and making homes unaffordable for most

Americans.

• Republicans claim middle- and low-income earners will gain “at

least $13,000 a year” under Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill. But that

was based on inflated growth predictions that never materialized,

just like the last five times Republicans made the same promise.

• Republicans claimed their bill would reduce the federal deficit by

$1.4 trillion. The bipartisan Congressional Office said it will add a

least $3.3 trillion.

• Consumer loan defaults are on the rise.

• Car payment delinquencies surged to a record.

• Credit card defaults climbed to the highest levels since the 2008

financial crisis.

• Total household debt hit an all-time high. Consumer sentiment, an

indicator of future growth, is at record lows

TRUMP RISKS THE NEXT RECESSION AND COULD MISMANAGIE IT

INTO A

DEPRESSION

Trump’s tariffs are the highest since President Hoover’s which started a

trade war that deepened the Depression. The U.S. was a large creditor

nation then, and, thanks to the Republicans, is now a large debtor nation.

So borrowing to spend our way out of a recession will be difficult.Trump and the most dangerous, unqualified cabinet in America’s history

that the Republicans confirmed could mismanage it into a depression. We

came close during the Great Recession of 2008, but Presidents Bush’s and

Barak Obama prevented it. They called on Treasury Secretary Henry

Paulson (previously Goldman Sach CEO), Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke,

and NY Fed President Tim Geithner to save us with a bank bailout and an

economic stimulus. Each had deep experience in US and international

monetary policy. In 2008, it was international cooperation that saved us.

There’ll be none of that next time. Nether Trump nor his cabinet will have

any idea what to do.

THE IRAN WAR

You can add it to the list of Trump’s betrayals that were enabled by his

subjugated Republicans. Our European allies denied Trump’s request for

help in clearing the Strait of Hormuz. They would have helped if Trump

hadn’t alienated them by:

• Withdrawing from international agreements, including the 7-nation

Iran nuclear deal,

• Constantly disparaging NATO, European countries and their leaders.

• His surprise (and illegal) tariffs,

• Not alerting our allies in advance of the bombings of Iran. History

shows that when the United States consults allies to align strategies

before acting, they are much more willing to help.

• Trump, not having consulted anybody outside his unqualified toadies,

had didn’t know that securing the Strait would need coordination with

other countries and a legitimate political purpose which was absent.

• His real reasons for bombing Iran were to distract voters from the

Epstein scandal and his punishing economy.

• Trump readied 50,000 troops to invade Iran. A ground war would

require as many as 1.6 million troops — roughly three-quarters of the

U.S. military, including combat forces America doesn’t have.

• It will be near-impossible to win. Rugged mountains make up half of

Iran’s territory. And its urban centers are inland and protected by the

mountains and uninhabitable deserts.

• China and Russia will be delighted to see our military power

weakened, giving them the opportunity to be more aggressive.

• Trump fired the counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats

from Iran. It hobbled the United States’ ability to detect and subvertIran’s retaliatory threats. Did Trump not want intelligence to stand in

his way of the bombing?

• Trump’s only off ramp may to declare victory and pull out, which

would leave Iran to charge tolls at the Strait of Hormuz and rebuild its

infrastructure, strengthen its economy and increase its treacheries.

It’s clear who won and who lost the war.

TRUMP’S TRADE STRATEGY AND FOREIGN POLICY

The Supreme Court decided that Trump’s tariffs were illegal, but they’ve

already driven our trading partners to replace America with other countries.

• Canada now buys more cars from Mexico than the U.S. for the first

time in

three decades. No wonder auto manufacturing has lost 29,000 jobs

since November of 2024.

• China, the world’s largest soybeans buyer, switched from buying from

U.S. farmers to buying from Brazil and Argentina. Trump had to pay

more than $10 billion to compensate our farmers for the lost

revenues.

• Peru switched to buying blueberries and textiles from Asia, Europe

and South Africa.

• The EU entered a pact with South America that has 780 million

consumer

• The EU signed a free-trade agreement with Indonesia eliminating

tariffs for most goods it used to buy from the U.S.

• Canadian Prime Minister Carney visited China for the 1st time and

signed an agreement to tear down trade barriers and forge a new

strategic relationship because China is “a more predictable and

reliable partner” than the U.S.

• India and the EU signed a free trade agreement creating a $2B

market that accounts for nearly a quarter of global GDP, but excludes

the U.S.

• The EU signed a free trade agreement with Mercosur, a bloc

comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It will create

one of the world’s largest free trade zones, with more than 700 million

people.

• UK Prime Minister Keir Stamer led a delegation of more than 50

British companies to China from sectors such as finance, healthcareand manufacturing. The two countries are expected to sign trade and

investment agreements that exclude the U.S. They expect China to

buy agricultural products from Canadian farmers that will replace

products formerly purchased from U.S. farmers.

• The six countries in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and

South Africa), which represent a third of global GDP and nearly half

the world’s population, deepened their ties with Russia and China.

• Spain and Brazil signed 15 agreements covering critical minerals,

telecoms and artificial intelligence at a meeting hosted by Spain’s

Prime Minister who plans to strengthen ties with countries pushing

back against America’s aggressive foreign policy.

• India and Moscow expanded their bilateral trade ties with the BRICS.

• The Prime Minister of India made his first visit to China in seven

years, where he held hands with both Putin and Xi.

• Trump exited the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) with eleven Pacific

rim countries that excluded China. It would have eliminated 18,000

tariffs on American exports and establish stronger labor standards

and environmental protections that would have put state-owned

enterprises on a level playing field with U.S. businesses. After Trump

pulled out, China stepped in and took our place. The result: Trump

gifted one-third of global trade to China.

CORRUPTION

Trump’s enslaved Republicans watch as he brazenly and in full daylight

violate the Constitution’s prohibition against federal officials receiving any

profit or benefit from a foreign government without Congressional consent.

• They let him abolish the guardrails that restricted presidential

corruption and then build his net worth from $4.3 billion in 2024 to

over $7.3 billion in 2025. No American President before him ever

abused their Presidency to enrich themselves.

• Anonymous profitable purchases and sales of oil futures were

made 15 minutes before and after Trump announced the bombing of

Iran and the cease fire.

Trump made $500 million in 2025 plus $50 million annually from

nine deals with the Saudis. He arranged for a United Arab Republic

Sheikh to buy $2 billion of stablecoin from a crypto firm in which

Trump owned a 60 percent. Then Trump quickly allowed it to import

AI computer chips in violation of a Congressional ban.• He accepted a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar.

• The Kuwaiti embassy switched its National Day celebration from

the Four Seasons to the Trump International Hotel in D.C under

pressure from Trump.

• Trump bragged that the Saudis paid his businesses hundreds of

millions of dollars. Then, against bipartisan demand, Trump refused

to punish Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince for the murder of

American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

• He withdrew our troops from Syria against military advice to allow

Turkish President Erdoğan to annihilate the Kurds who fought along

with our soldiers to defeat ISIS while Trump was profiting from Trump

Towers in Istanbul and a $400 million Turkish investment.

• Trump vetoed an act of Congress blocking an $8 billion arms sale to

Saudi Arabia then proceeded to make the sale. Citing hundreds of

millions of dollars the Saudi’s paid his businesses, Trump asked

mockingly, “Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”

PARDONS

If you’re convicted of perjury, committing tax or bank fraud, aiding election

finance crimes, an insurrection, lying to the FBI, rigging an election with

foreign help or impeding a Congressional investigation Trump will pardon

you. He pardoned:

• Nearly 1,500 individuals charged with offenses related to the January

6, 2021, Capitol riot, many of whom were convicted of violent crimes.

It’s likely that ICE agents wear masks to hide the identity of the

criminals he pardoned.

• After calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, Trump pardoned

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of a secret platform for the sale of illegal

drugs.

• Jho Low who was accused of stealing $4.5 billion from Malaysia’s

sovereign wealth fund.

• Members of his innermost circles, including his campaign chairman

Paul Manafort who was convicted of bank and tax fraud, and Trump’s

long-time confident, Roger Stone, indicted for lying to Congress;• Charles Kushner, Ivanka’s father-in-law who pleaded guilty to 16

counts of tax evasion, and

• Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon arrested for stealing $25

million of donations from hundreds of thousands of supporters who

donated to the “Build the Wall” fundraising campaign. Instead he

spent it on home renovations, cosmetic surgery, and a boat.

Does the phrase, “birds of a feather” come to mind?

HEALTHCARE/SHUTDOWN

Republicans gulled Democrats into agreeing to vote for a bill that didn’t

renew subsidies that kept Obamacare affordable. Republicans promised to

address the issue after the bill passed. Of course, they didn’t. As a result,

Obamacare premiums doubled.

TRUMP CUTS TO MEDICAL REASEARCH CUTS AND HOSTILITY

IMMIGRANT HAS SENT OUR BEST RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS

TO CHINA

Trump’s cuts to medical and technology research and his hostility towards

immigrants sent our qualified experts to China. At least 85 U.S. scientists

have joined Chinese research institutions since the start of last year, and

China is culling experts from across the globe who would have come to the

U.S. but for Trump’s actions.

TRUMP ILLEGALLY ELIMINATED 90% OF FOREIGN AID, CAUSING

THE SPREAD OF DISEASES AND DEATHS.

Trump illegally eliminated 90% of foreign aid for development and disease

prevention while HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis were spreading

unchecked around the globe. As a result, more than 780,000 people in

developing nations, two-thirds of them children, died.

The U.S is losing key benefits of the foreign aid Trump cut . It:

• Spreads America’s influence, leadership and military might around

the world, including having locations for U.S. military bases and

developing and maintaining critical allies.

• Bolsters economic and political stability in developing countries that

reduces coups by corrupt leaders hostile to America.• Strengthens the U.S. economy by growing foreign industries that

buy U.S goods. Over the past 10 years, nearly two-thirds of the

growth in U.S. exports went to major recipients of U.S. aid.

TRUMP HOBBLED AMERICA’S ABILITY TO PREPARE FOR

DISASTERS AND RESCUE THEIR VICTIMS.

• He cut funding for the agencies that prepare for catastrophes and

rescue their victims in order to replace revenues lost from his $4.5

trillion tax cut for the wealthy.

• The agencies he hobbled could have saved most – maybe all – of the

120 people killed in Kerr County, Texas.

• FEMA had warned Trump that it was unprepared for disasters due

to the mass exodus of emergency managers.

• Kristy Noem fired the highly qualified head of FEMA for opposing

its dismantling and hired someone with no background in

emergency management who said he had not been aware the

country had a hurricane season.

• Just before a record-breaking hurricane season, the National

Weather Service had 216 vacant positions due to Trump’s

government-wide hiring freeze.

• He stopped the analysis of weather data and turned off weather-

tracking satellites.

SENATE REPUBLICANS APPROVED THE MOST UNQUALIFIED

AND DANGEROUS CABINET IN AMERICAN HISTORY,

Senate Republicans sacrificed America’s health, security, safety, crime-

control and economy to protect both their anatomical and

Congressional seats. Take a look at whom Republicans confirmed:

• A Secretary of Health who discourages the use of provenvaccines even though they knew the death rate among those

vaccinated against Covid was 5 times lower than among the

unvaccinated.

• An alcoholic Fox co-host and sex offender as Defense

Secretary who is willing to unleash the military on Trump’s enemies

and wouldn’t discourage Trump’s impulsive use of nuclear

weapons, as Trump attempted when it took his Chairman of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff, General Milly, to stop him.

• A Director of National Intelligence who parroted false Russian

propaganda and posted a video repeating false Russian claims.

• An Attorney General who pledged to prosecute the prosecutors

who indicted Trump.

• An FBI Director who pledged to use the FBI to “go after the … media”

that opposes Trump and that he’d purge any FBI employee who

refuses to implement Trump’s retribution against his enemies.

SITTING REPUBLICANS TOLERATE TRUMP’S CRUEL INHUMANITY,

SHAMING THE U.S. ACROSS THE GLOBE INCLUDING:

• His masked Gestapo-like ICE arrests of immigrants and sending

many to the Western Hemisphere’s most gruesome prison.

• Trump pardoned nearly 1,500 individuals charged with offenses at

the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Rip off the masks of his ICE agents

and you’ll probably find Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and other zealots

that are Trump’s private militia.

• As the Irish Times observed, “Over more than two centuries, the

United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of

the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe

and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed

towards the US until now: pity.” “The idea of the US as the world’s

leading nation that has shaped the past century – has all but

evaporated.”

TRUMP CHOOSING PUTIN OVER ZALENSKI IS LIKELY TO LEAD TO

RUSSIA’S INVASION OF NATO MEMBERS

• Handing Ukraine to Putin will set the stage for him to invade

European NATO members to help fulfill his dream of a Russian-led

Eurasian empire.

• Trump is pushing Zalenski to accept Putin’s preposterous conditions.

They are:

o The demilitarization of Ukraine,

o Russian sovereignty over territories equaling 23% of Ukraine,

o Ukraine’s neutrality,

o Ukraine must be prohibited from joining NATO,

o Ukraine must hold new elections, likely enabling Putin to install

a puppet government, and

o That European security not be funded the United States.

As former US Secretaries of State and Defense, Condoleezza Rice and

Robert Gates warned, “to avoid confrontation with Russia, the U.S. must

help Ukraine push back the invader now…. If this lesson is ignored and

Ukraine is defeated, Russia will almost certainly … attack NATO member

countries.”

and defended only by Europe and

GIVEN TRUMP’S SHAMEFUL RECORD AGAINST COVID,

AMERICA COULD SUFFER THE MOST DEATHS AND CASES

IN THE WORLD WHEN, NOT IF, THE NEXT PANDEMIC HITS, AND ONE

MAY BE BREWINF NOW.

An outbreak of Bundibugyo (“BVD”), a disease caused by a strain of the

Ebola virus just broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo and was

declared an international emergency by the World Health Organization.

If it hits the United States, and Trump repeats his performance against

Covid, we’re likely suffer the most BVD cases and deaths in the world.

America suffered more Covid cases and deaths than any other country.

Having failed to control its spread, Trump turned to massive

misinformation. He predicted the mortality rate would be close to zero

“within a couple of days” and will “disappear like a miracle” and everybody

“infected is getting better.”

He abandoned over 7 decades of America leading the fight againstglobal pandemics including Ebola and seven other diseases.Obama sent

more than 3,000 health officials to West Africa as part of a 10,000

international team he helped organize. Cases fell by 80 percent from

their peak levels. He also prepared healthcare facilities in the U.S. to

combat a possible outbreak at home. In total, just 11 cases and two deaths

reported in the U.S.

TRUMP ILLEGALLY REPLACES DEMOCRATIC HEADS OF AGENCIES

WITH REPUBLICANS

• Trump replaced a Democratic FTC Commissioner with a Republican

in violation of Congress’s express prohibition against firing employees

without cause. Shamefully, Trump’s obedient Supreme Court Chief

Justice violated his Court’s 90-year precedent and stayed a lower

court injunction against the firing. Trump is now

free to replace any agency Democrat with a Republican to bring the

agencies, which were created by Congress, under his control.

• Trump also fired the first black female member of the National Labor

Relations Board, also a Democrat, created by Congress. It deprived

the Board of the ability to make decisions or hear cases on unfair

labor practices and union representation.

Sitting Republicans are the only part of America’s government that can rein

Trump in. But they refuse, so they need to be replaced. Impeachment and

removal may be a drastic step, but it is more necessary now than ever, and

a new national poll finds that 55% of likely 2026 voters nationwide

support impeaching and removing Trump—an extraordinary and

unprecedented level of support so early in a presidential term.

But it’s necessary to repair the colossal damage Trump’s wreaked on

America and restore the honor, trust and respect that Republicans helped

Trump strip away that diminished a respected global leader to the most

immoral country and a nation widely mocked, distrusted, and increasingly

shunned.

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