Stacey Abrams Says Trump Will Turn United States Into An Autocracy

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed President Donald Trump is one step away from turning the U.S. into an autocracy.

Abrams appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” where guest host Anthony Anderson asked her to explain the “10 steps to autocracy.”

Abrams said her 10 steps apply to “every nation that has become an autocracy having been a democracy,” specifically referencing Brazil India, Russia, and the Philippines.

“Start with winning an election,” Abrams said. “Usually the last one you’ll get to have for real.”

Abrams’ next steps included expanding executive power and weakening Congress and the judiciary.

“Like, I don’t know, the Supreme Court is giving you unfettered power and saying we don’t have the ability to stop things,” Abrams said, presumably referencing the recent Supreme Court ruling limiting nationwide injunctions.

Abrams skipped right over former President Joe Biden, who notably ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down his student loan forgiveness plan.

Abrams said autocracies then “gut the civil service” to “break democracy” and put loyalists in the FBI “so they go after your enemies.”

She failed to mention that under former President Joe Biden — who shares her political affiliation — Trump was charged in four criminal cases that were widely viewed as political prosecutions..

Abrams said that Trump “[going] after DEI” was evidence that he was looking for someone to blame, which she said was another hallmark of autocracies.

She then suggested Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard and the U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was one step away from a full autocracy.

“You send the U.S. Marines into spaces where they should not be, you send the National Guard in, you kidnap people off of the streets and pretend that’s normal,” Abrams said.

Trump sent the Marines and the National Guard into Los Angeles to protect federal agents and buildings from anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rioters. Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined protestors attempting to disrupt the ICE raid of a park controlled by MS-13.

“Once you’ve done those nine steps, step 10 is easy,” Abrams said. “That’s when you decide there won’t be new elections because everyone’s either afraid, poor, broken, or complicit.”

Abrams has claimed dozens times that the 2018 gubernatorial election was stolen from her. In 2019, she said, “I didn’t lose. I got the votes. But we won’t know exactly how many because of how they cheated.”

Recently, nonprofits affiliated with Abrams have come under scrutiny, with IRS complaints alleging the organizations campaigned on behalf of Abrams and other candidates in violation of federal law, The Daily Wire reported.

Number Of Missing Texas Flood Victims Jumps To Over 160, Gov. Abbott Says

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott provided another tragic update on the catastrophic floods on Tuesday, saying that 161 people remain missing in Kerr County, Texas, while another 12 people are still missing in other parts of the state.

Earlier on Tuesday, reports had the number of those missing at 40, but the governor’s latest update reveals an even grimmer situation after the state was devastated by the floods that hit over the July Fourth holiday. The death toll from the flooding across the state reached 109 on Monday, including dozens of children.

“To put this into perspective … there are far more fatalities than there were in Hurricane Harvey. That’s how catastrophic this is,” Abbott said, giving an update from Hunt, Texas, in Kerr County.

“Know this: We will not stop until every missing person is accounted for,” he added. “Know this also: There very likely could be more added to that list.”

Five young girls and one counselor remain missing from Camp Mystic, the Christian girls’ camp that took the brunt of the flooding when the Guadalupe River in Central Texas rose more than 30 feet in under an hour in some spots. Camp Mystic said on Monday that the death toll of campers and counselors had risen to 27.

Emergency responders have rescued at least 850 people. One United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer, Scott Ruskan, is credited with saving 165 people, most of them children, alone.

As more days go by in the rescue operation, however, hope for finding anyone alive fades into dread that any bodies found will only add to the already-large death toll.

“The primary job right now continues to be locating everybody who was affected by this flood,” Abbott said.

Flood victims include children such as 8-year-olds, Renee Smajstrla and Eloise Peck, who were attending Camp Mystic, and 64-year-old Sherry Richardson, whose cabin in Liberty Hill, Texas, was swept away on Saturday morning. The bodies of sisters Blaire and Brooke Harber were found 15 miles from where the flood waters washed them away from a cabin near the river, according to the Houston Chronicle. Blair and Brooke, ages 11 and 13, were found clinging to each other while holding rosaries, their aunt said.

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