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If the US president threatens to take away freedoms, are we no longer free?

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67% Informative

Trump has threatened deportation, loss of US citizenship or arrest against, respectively, the world’s richest person, the prospective future mayor of New York and the former homeland security secretary.

On Tuesday , Trump turned his sights on none other than Elon Musk , the tech billionaire who had been his closest ally in ramming through a radical agenda of upending and remaking the US government.

Mamdani , 33 , became a naturalized US citizen in 2018 after emigrating from Uganda with his ethnic Indian parents when he was a child.

Threat echoed a threat Trump ’s border “czar” Tom Homan made to arrest Gavin Newsom , the California governor, last month .

Some doubt the legal basis of Trump ’s threats to Musk , Mayorkas and Mamdani .

But the bigger danger was to the time-honored American notion of freedom, Bassin warned.

“When the president of the United States says something, we have to take it as serious and literal,” he said.

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69

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66

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informal

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English

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66

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