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Miles Archer

(24,333 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:55 PM Sep 2025

Please explain to me why this isn't election interference, obstruction, or some other form of illegal threat from Trump

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-king-charles-live-updates_n_68c80c2be4b0642964ce9b92/liveblog_68da97ebe4b038b66c95e42e

Trump Threatens New York City Funding If Mamdani Wins: 'He Won't Be Getting Any'

Trump threatened to halt federal funding to New York City if Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election.

In a Truth Social post Monday after incumbent Eric Adams dropped out of the race, Trump called Mamdani a “communist” and warned that the progressive candidate is “going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City.”

The president wrote, “Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?”

New York City receives billions of dollars annually from the federal government.
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Please explain to me why this isn't election interference, obstruction, or some other form of illegal threat from Trump (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2025 OP
New York also pays billions to the U.S. Treasury. OLDMDDEM Sep 2025 #1
it is election interference Coldwater Sep 2025 #2
THIS is why usonian Sep 2025 #3
And more immediately he controls the DOJ dutch777 Sep 2025 #5
Because the United States of America is a lawless country being run by criminals. SamKnause Sep 2025 #4

Coldwater

(1,343 posts)
2. it is election interference
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 01:08 PM
Sep 2025

Under US criminal code 20511

But there's no one in the FBI or the Justice Department willing to go after him.

SamKnause

(14,945 posts)
4. Because the United States of America is a lawless country being run by criminals.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 01:20 PM
Sep 2025

That includes:

The Supreme Court: the judicial.

The president: the executive.

The house and senate: the legislative.

All branches are being run by criminals.

All of them have one goal in common.

To destroy all the institutions in the U.S. and control everything in this country using Christian Nationalism.

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