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[quote=Anonymous]We can expect more of this if Trump wins this fall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/07/vance-messages-deloitte-retaliation/

[i]Ethics experts said the episode is a potentially ominous preview of how a second Trump administration might use the enormous power the federal government wields over private industry to punish political acts by individual workers. Although federal contracting laws prohibit cutting off a business because of its workers’ private political views, such threats could have a chilling effect, they said.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Kedric Payne, senior director of ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and former deputy chief counsel in the Office of Congressional Ethics, adding that the goal was probably to pressure Deloitte into firing the worker. “You can’t imagine that if one employee out of thousands made a statement that offended an official, that then the government contracts would be in jeopardy.”[/i]

Trump will use the bully pulpit to coerce corporations just as he chose his support of disaster relief based on how a state voted.

Authoritarianism at its finest.

And crickets from the right.[/quote]

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