Trump's Hitlerian Henchwomen: Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt offer the feminine tone as their Führer sets the stage for sending people to the modern day version of concentration camps,

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, put a pretty face on his cruel policies. They might as well be twins. Even my AI can’t seem to tell them apart. 1

Now we have news about Trump exploring ways to “deport” U.S. citizens to a prison hellhole in El Salvador.

The Trump administration can now be called nothing less than downright Hitlerian in its aspirations and soon, if they can get away with it, in their actions. 

This is from the HUPPPOST article subtitled “The administration could try removing American citizens if it identifies a pathway it can claim to be legal.”

The article begins:

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is exploring legal pathways to “deport” U.S. citizens to El Salvador, where the administration has already arranged to house deported immigrants in a prison known for its human rights abuses.

Leavitt suggested the effort would be limited to people who have committed major crimes, but Trump has also mentioned the possibility of sending people who commit lesser offenses abroad.

Any such move on the part of the Trump administration is certain to be challenged in court. It is also not clear what legal authority could be used to justify expelling U.S. citizens from their homeland.

“These would be heinous, violent criminals who have broken our nation’s laws repeatedly. These are violent, repeat offenders on American streets,” Leavitt told reporters at a press briefing.

“The president has said if it’s legal, right, if there is a legal pathway to do that. He’s not sure, [and] we are not sure if there is,” Leavitt continued. “It’s an idea that he has simply floated and has discussed very publicly in the effort of transparency.”

Many people mistakenly think all of Hitler’s concentration and death camps were in Germany. They weren’t.

From 1933 to 1945, more than 40,000 concentration camps or other types of detainment facilities were established by the Nazi regime. Only the major ones are noted on the map (shown here) Among them are Auschwitz in Poland, Westerbork in the Netherlands, Mauthausen in Austria, and Janowska in Ukraine. By 1941, the Nazis began building Chelmno, the first extermination camp (also called a death camp), to "exterminate" both Jews and Gypsies. In 1942, three more death camps were built (Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec) and used solely for mass murder. Around this time, killing centers were also added at the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek.

It is estimated that the Nazis used these camps to kill approximately 11 million people. Reference.

You could say that Trump and his Gestapo think along the lines of “out of sight, out of mind.” To a large extent this is true. Once someone from America, a citizen or non-citizen, is swallowed up into the bowls of the notorious Salvadorian prison, they are indeed out of sight.

They should not be out of mind. Even the worst or the worst criminals deserve to be afforded their rights under the American judicial system. 

If they are non-citizens and found guilty of whatever crime they were charged with I do not think it can remotely be called the American way to send them to serve time in a Salvadorian prison under Salvadorian law. 

The gang members deported aren’t even from El Salvadore. There are allegedly members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. While this gang has members who have committed violent acts and broken laws it is wrong to assume that mere membership means they all are the same. Here’s a good article about the gang.

If they are Venezuelan citizens and they are going to be deported anywhere it should be back to where they came from.

So here we have happy Pam Bondi wearing her $50,000 watch doing a photo op in front of a group of prisoners in the Salavdorian prison where, behind the bars, you can see sleeping bunks reminscent of those in Nazi concentration camps. And then we have happy Karoline Leavitt talking about the idea that it’s just fine and dandy to send American citizens to the same prison.

Trump has put these women forward because he thinks they are photogenic and they are as American as Mom with her apple pie.

In fact, these two henchwomen may look the part to Trump and MAGA men and women, but I see them as far darker personalities.

They don’t look the part of a sadistic psychopath like Tom Homan (in the news today):

I see them as being just as cruel and sadistic. They are out front in the bright lights, but the malevolent parts of their personalities are visible to anyone whose eyes are wide open. They can see them for who they really are. 2

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Trump's gift to the press is Candy Karoline. At least she's better looking than Joseph Goebbels, by Hal M. Brown

 

Joseph Goebbels served his master well as his minister of propaganda. Without television Hitler didn't need a pretty face.

I watched Rachel last night when she explained unequivocally that Trump was intent on becoming a dictator and implied that anyone who denied this was a fool. If you watched this you may have had trouble falling asleep and woke from a nightmare in the wee hours of the morning. It may have crossed your mind that it is in these hours that Trump was wide awake and sending out a post on what probably should be called "Terror Social" announcing his latest assault on democracy.

How many of us look at the news on TV or online and ask ourselves "what did Trump do today?"

Just now having turned off MSNBC because they had John Larroquette on talking about the new "Night Court." I consider this their fiddling while Rome is burning. On CNN I watched a clip of Trump's Press Secretary, Karoline Leavit, lambasting the mainstream press for lying while effusively praising Trump for always telling the truth. This led me to write about her today.

Here's an article about her which people in India are reading.

This sentence jumped out at me:

The lifelong Trump loyalist is a avid gun-lover and shared a video on Instagram showing her unloading a machine gun at a firing range with the caption “Joe Biden come and take it”. 

Obviously she likes having a husband old enough to be her father. She seems to have a crush on someone old enough to be her grandfather.  Have I gone to far in suggesting this? How important is pleasing Trump to her? Consider this from the Hindustan Times:

Karoline Leavitt is a new mother who gave birth to a son in July last year amid Trump's election campaign. Leavitt refused to take a maternity leave and rejoined work four days after giving birth following an assassination attempt on Trump.

In the press conference she also announced that she was inviting podcasters, social media influencers, and new media voices to apply for press credentials. You can watch the video here.

At least she didn't call them journalists. Does anybody expect to see someone from The Bulwark or Salon added to the White House press corps?

Maybe I should apply.

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