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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

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

A protester on a city street carries an upside-down US flag
A protest in New York City on 22 June 2025. Photograph: Olga Fedorova/AP

Threats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty, but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful vengeance in recent days have represented a dramatic escalation.

In the past week, 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 Joe Biden’s former homeland security secretary.

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