The New York Times: With Comey Indictment, Trump Gets Retribution but Shatters Norms

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Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump, with zero evidence, directed criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey. It took two attorneys to even get this far. The first was forced to resign after refusing to fabricate a case. The second attorney took the job with no prosecutorial experience, but every intention of doing whatever Donald Trump says.

We have seen this pattern again and again. When Trump doesn't get his way, he lashes out, then uses the power of his office to punish people. Diana has never backed down from fighting Trump's abuses of power, and she will not start now. If you want to stand with her in the fight for our democracy and help her reach her end-of-quarter goal, make a donation today >>

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What should alarm us all the most is that Trump's attacks reach far past politics and into our most basic freedoms.

Donald Trump has been relentlessly attacking freedom of speech. Earlier this month, he directed his hand-picked FCC chair to pressure ABC into pulling late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Days later, Trump openly declared that negative news coverage should be illegal and mused about revoking the broadcast licenses of networks that run critical stories.

These petty revenge plots and authoritarian attacks on free speech are the exact opposite of what it means to be American. Our country was never meant to have a king. And yet we have a man in the White House abusing his power to punish opponents and silence dissent.

Diana has never stayed silent when faced with an attack on our Democracy. In Congress, she was one of the very first members of the Democrats' Litigation Working Group and Rapid Response Task Force, a group tasked with fighting back against Trump and the GOP's unlawful actions.

But she needs your help to keep up this fight. Our end-of-quarter deadline is days away, and when those numbers go public, the strength of our campaign will show just how ready we are to stand up to Donald Trump. Can you chip in right now to help Diana reach our EOQ goal? Every donation is a statement that we will not tolerate Trump's assault on our freedoms >>

Thank you,

Team DeGette

 

 

 

Diana is relying on grassroots donors to continue fighting for Colorado values in Congress. Can we count on you to chip in $5 — or whatever you can today — to help her keep fighting?

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