ICYMI: American Monsters: And Then There Were 13
A series about the network of US criminals accelerating global fascism
***This compilation from my American Monster series was originally published on February 8, 2024. Each of these criminals — the living and the dead — are playing major roles in accelerating America’s troubles. Please subscribe to support independent investigative journalism and access all content.***
As I was reading Timothy Snyder this morning, he reminded me of something we too often forget — Trump is an aspiring fascist who needs violence, but we need not fear him.
“We should see Trump for what he is: an aspiring fascist who likes, wants, and needs violence. But we need not fear him or his plans. There were not that many people assembled in Vandalia, and their reactions to Trump's rhetoric were muted. Some left before he was done. Although Trump himself has (absurdly) escaped punishment for his attempted coup, the foot soldiers of the last insurrection are in prison. Trump won't actually be able to pardon anyone this fall.”—Timothy D. Snyder, Thinking About
I find the quality of fear about as useless as despair, and equally debilitating. These are boogeymen, weak corrupt souls who long ago knew they were failures, and now behind curtains, they twaddle the knobs to create unreality with the hope they’ll postpone their inevitable dictator ending — dictator endings are never elegant.
If you find yourself obeying in advance, stop. Take a contrary action.
This series — American Monster — gives shape and form to the aspiring fascists, the whodunit and who’s doing it, a veritable rogues gallery.
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Monsters are less scary in daylight. Why I do this… to expose and defang them, and because someone has to do it.
And then there were 13…
No. 1 — Paul Manafort
American Monster — Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort was born privileged. Unlike many felons I interviewed over the years, whose mothers dropped them on their heads and they had to learn some survival skills, that’s not Paul Manafort’s story. When I worked as an investigative reporter in broadcast news
No. 2 — Roger Stone
American Monster — Roger Stone
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No. 3 — Roy Cohn
American Monster — Roy Cohn
“New York, I love you, but you’re bringing me down.”—LCD Soundsystem New York media, minus a handful of investigative reporters, has been delivering us creeps — celebrating their lust for power and greed, their lavish lifestyles, and transactionally exchanging reputation washing or overlooking more sinister qualities for access.
No. 4 — Donald Trump
American Monster — Donald Trump
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No. 5 — Steve Bannon
American Monster — Steve Bannon
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No. 6 — Mike Flynn
American Monster — Mike Flynn
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No. 7 — Rudy Giuliani
American Monster: Rudy Giuliani — ‘A Dictator In Search of a Balcony’
“Truth isn’t truth.”—Rudy Giuliani, American Monster Meet the Press — a platform for US traitors to bullhorn Kremlin talking points — invited Trump’s public defender Rudy Giuliani on TV to lie to America. The date was August 19, 2018. Giuliani, who still had some pocket lint of credibility in uninformed circles, was present to obfuscate truth. Trump, his uniquely criminal loss-leader was in the headwinds of the Mueller investigation and though he’d never met a camera he didn’t like, he demurred the request to testify in front of Robert Mueller.
No. 8 — Robert Mercer
American Monster — Robert Mercer
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No. 9 — Elon Musk
American Monster — Elon Musk
Do you understand now that Elon is Putin’s guy?—Dave Troy, Oct. 12, 2023 On Putin’s birthday, Alexander Dugin tweeted out a sci-fi image of Elon Musk, anointing him as the Chosen One. Dugin, a fascist extremist who has repeatedly called for America’s destruction, is backed by US traitors who parrot his attacks on Western liberalism.
No. 10 — Erik Prince
UNLOCKED — American Monster — Erik Prince
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No. 11 — Alex Jones
UNLOCKED — American Monster: Alex Jones
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No. 12 — Tucker Carlson
American Monster — Tucker Carlson
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No. 13 — Peter Thiel
American Monster — Peter Thiel
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