This is *Trump’s True Crimes – Episode 81: Undermining Democracy Abroad.*

The President of the United States is meant to be the world’s leading defender of democracy. But during Donald Trump’s time in office, he often sided not with democratic allies, but with authoritarian strongmen.

Trump praised Vladimir Putin, calling him a genius and denying U.S. intelligence reports about Russian election interference. He echoed the Kremlin’s propaganda while undermining America’s allies in NATO. He even withheld military aid to Ukraine in an attempt to pressure its government into investigating Joe Biden — a move so corrupt it led to his first impeachment.

But Russia wasn’t the only regime Trump cozied up to. He fell “in love,” as he put it, with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un. He praised China’s Xi Jinping and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. And he turned a blind eye to Saudi Arabia after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered, because U.S. arms deals and Jared Kushner’s personal ties to the Saudi royals mattered more than human rights.

At every turn, Trump weakened America’s moral authority abroad. He treated autocrats with admiration, while insulting democratic leaders in Europe and Canada. He pulled out of agreements designed to strengthen global security, and in doing so, emboldened the very regimes that want to see democracy fail.

This wasn’t just reckless diplomacy. It was part of a pattern: undermine alliances, empower dictators, and make the world less safe — all while America’s enemies benefited.

Join us next time on *Trump’s True Crimes* for Episode 82: *Gag Orders Violated.*

This is *Trump’s True Crimes – Episode 80: USPS Sabotage Before 2020 Election.*

The United States Postal Service has long been one of America’s most trusted institutions. But in 2020, Donald Trump turned it into a political weapon. Why? Because mail-in voting threatened his grip on power.

Trump spent months attacking mail-in ballots, falsely claiming they were fraudulent. At the same time, his administration was working behind the scenes to make mail voting harder. He installed a loyalist, Louis DeJoy, as Postmaster General — a man with no postal experience but deep Republican fundraising ties.

DeJoy immediately ordered sweeping changes: removing high-speed mail sorting machines, cutting overtime, and reducing post office hours. These moves slowed mail delivery across the country — just as millions of Americans were preparing to vote by mail during a pandemic.

The result? Mail piled up in warehouses. Medications and paychecks were delayed. And most critically, ballots were at risk of not being delivered on time to count.

Trump’s White House denied it was sabotage. But Trump himself let the truth slip. He openly admitted that if the Postal Service was fully funded, too many people would be able to vote — and in his own words, Republicans would never win.

It was an attack not just on the Postal Service, but on democracy itself.

Join us next time on *Trump’s True Crimes* for Episode 81: *Undermining Democracy Abroad.

This is Trump’s True Crimes – Episode 79: Census Manipulation Attempt.

The Census is one of the oldest institutions in American democracy. Every ten years, it counts the people, and that count determines how political power and federal funding are distributed. It’s meant to be neutral, accurate, and fair. But Donald Trump saw it as something to weaponize.

Trump’s administration made an unprecedented push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The official excuse was enforcing the Voting Rights Act. But leaked documents later revealed the real plan: to suppress immigrant participation, shift political representation away from diverse urban areas, and give Republicans a long-term advantage in redistricting.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross pushed the change, despite the Census Bureau’s own experts warning it would reduce response rates and skew results. When the Supreme Court finally weighed in, Chief Justice John Roberts called the administration’s explanation “contrived.” The Court blocked the question—but the effort didn’t stop there.

Behind the scenes, Trump’s team still tried to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census count altogether. That move violated centuries of constitutional precedent. The Constitution is clear: the Census counts all “persons,” not just citizens. But Trump insisted on bending the rules.

Why? Because redrawing congressional districts based only on citizens would strip representation from immigrant-heavy states and hand more seats to whiter, more conservative regions. It was a blatant attempt to rig the political map for a generation.

Civil rights groups, states, and immigrant advocates fought back. Multiple courts struck down Trump’s attempts. In the end, the Census counted everyone. But the damage was done. Fear and confusion spread through immigrant communities, and millions of people hesitated to participate. That chilling effect was part of the strategy all along.

The Census manipulation attempt showed how far Trump was willing to go to twist the machinery of democracy in his favor. It wasn’t just about numbers on a form—it was about who counts in America, and who gets erased.

This is Trump’s True Crimes – Episode 79: Census Manipulation Attempt.

And next, we turn to Trump’s True Crimes – Episode 80: USPS Sabotage Before 2020 Election—how Trump and his allies tried to cripple the Postal Service to block mail-in voting and tilt an election.