A Totalitarian Fascist Coup on the United States

Every order from the Trump Administration is on behalf of Trump's handler, Vladimir Putin. Every order hurts the United States and helps Russia. A few examples follow:

-- Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded the Foreign Influence Task Force which investigated violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

-- Bondi disbanded Task Force KleptoCapture which monitored sanctions against Russia.

-- Bondi disbanded the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force.

-- Elon Musk gave a 19-year-old with ties to Russia and cybercrime full access to systems and data at the U.S. Government Cybercrime Agency.

-- Trump's CIA director sent a list of CIA employees to the White House in an unclassified email. Trump is also giving out security clearances without background checks.

-- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive operations against Russia.

-- Trump is shutting down U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that supports programs for health, disaster relief, socioeconomic development, environmental protection, democratic governance, and education around the world. It main goal is influence. Putin views USAID as interference.

-- Trump will not allow the Associated Press or Reuters into the Oval Office to cover events but he did allow TASS Media, the state media controlled by Russia.

-- Trump would welcome the collapse of NATO and wants to let Russia back into the G7. Russia was removed from the G8 (now the G7 after Putin's removal) after it annexed Crimea in 2014.

All of the above actions are an internal attack on the United States that aids and abets a brutal dictator, Vladimir Putin. The only way to interpret these actions -- there are many more -- is that Putin is ordering Donald Trump to orchestrate a totalitarian fascist coup on the United States government. Trump is guilty of treason and must be held accountable.

John L. Ferri
jlferri@epix.net

(printed in the Towanda Daily Review on 3/18/25)