Trump’s retribution doesn’t stop at death.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia beat the Trump administration at the Supreme Court. Days later, unsealed documents show DOJ leadership made his prosecution a “top priority.” Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s granddaughter, died of leukemia at 35. Hours later, Trump shared posts mocking her family. George Pruitt was 23 when he drowned saving a fellow soldier in 1945. Eighty years later, they removed his story from a Netherlands cemetery because honoring Black heroes is now “DEI.”
Win in court, they’ll find another charge. Bury your dead, they’ll mock your grief. Rest in a foreign grave for eight decades, they’ll erase your sacrifice. This is what retribution looks like when there are no limits.
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