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Xenophobia haiku: Asahi Haikuist Network/ David McMurray
England
sheep grazing
among gravestones
To escape participating in the Vietnam War (the American War to the Vietnamese) I left home at 20 and went to live in England. For me it was a strange time living in an unfamiliar land.
ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray
April 17, 2026 at 08:00 JST
passing by Ali’s Barbershop--Grandma’s paces faster
--Claudia Brefeld (Bochum, Germany)
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April seas
mingled feelings
far Persian Gulf
--Murasaki Sagano (Tokyo)
* * *
knees tremble
crossing the departure gate
first trip abroad
--Masumi Orihara (Atsugi, Kanagawa)
* * *
soft shove
in the platform crush--
bulleting homewards
--J.E. Jeanie Armstrong (Canterbury, England)
* * *
its holiday time;
middle-aged ladies in hats
munch buns on the train
--Alan Maley (Canterbury, England)
* * *
mute
her world obscured
beneath the veil
--Margaret Ponting (Victoria, Australia)
* * *
balmy breeze
step by step we count
how long we can last
--Bona M. Santos (Los Angeles, California)
* * *
walking miles
to fill an empty cooking pot
daily newsfeed
--Christa Pandey (Austin, Texas)
* * *
Gingerly holding
family ties in my hands--
a dandelion
--Saba Zahoor (Srinagar, Kashmir)
* * *
updated inscription
my rage, my hunger...watch out
outcast’s warning
--Luciana Moretto (Trevino, Italy)
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FROM THE NOTEBOOK
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headed to the unknown...
for each village
a doctor and a priest
--Junko Saeki (Tokyo)
The haikuist was moved by the Japanese migrants who were pushed to work in Hawaii and Brazil over a century ago by the forces of poverty and overpopulation. Raj Bose felt discord in a chaotic sky remaining overhead Honolulu, today.
night falls silently
slivered moon and scattered stars
behind broken clouds
Archie G. Carlos can’t forget seeing where a protester was shot--right out front of a Malaysian restaurant in his hometown of Minneapolis.
shooting scene
the color of garnet
on January snow
Thomas L. Vaultonburg lives and breathes in Rockford, Illinois.
when you are no one
the door opens in your chest--
and the forest walks in
The Meiji Restoration opened Japan to the world in 1868, encouraging major waves of overseas migrants seeking better economic opportunities. Jackie Chou could likely have been heard swallowing nervously in Pico Rivera, California.
Chinese bakery
customers turn around
when I speak
Venturing abroad, Urszula Marciniak noticed differences everywhere. So, she began to question everything.
a lonely walk
trees in a foreign land
a different yellow
* * *
cemetery dusk
there are doubts as to whether
these are fallen leaves
David Cox visited Powazly, the largest military cemetery in Warsaw, Poland. Wieslaw Karlinski read the foreign names of the fallen in Namyslow, Poland.
swirling flames--
all these souls gathering
in pristine light
* * *
war cemetery
only the grass and ants
are from here
Chen-ou Liu originally hails from Taiwan.
shout after shout, go back
to where you came from
yellow leaves drifting
Vaultonburg was caught between two minds.
two winds
argue in the oak--
my pocket fills with leaves
To support their families, the Japanese workers who emigrated to the Americas in the early 20th century relied on locally built temples and shrines as spiritual anchors. Carlos lives to the south of the Canadian border. Claire Ninham mourned in North Yorkshire, England.
a migrant worker
wiping a tear
last maple leaf
* * *
red,
so red,
this last maple leaf
Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo described leaving Bombon, Philippines.
moving clouds
a migrant’s luggage heavy
with dreams
Samo Kreutz discovered a mother’s hidden treasure in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kanchan Chatterjee paused for a moment in Jamshedpur, India. Yutaka Kitajima left an unrequited love behind in a pile of rubbish in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture.
wooden chest…
stashed on a narrow beam
her son’s baby tooth
* * *
Spring cleaning...
faint smell of sandalwood
granny’s tin trunk
* * *
Spring-cleaning...
the unposted love letter
marked “burning” in red
Mary L. Leopkey wished she had learned to knit and hand-stitch on Texada Island, British Columbia. Rosemarie Schuldes had a strict overseer in Mattsee, Austria.
log cabin quilt
each stitch by great grandma
each strip a silk tie
* * *
knitting flaw
the cat unpicks it
playfully
Religious sites play an important role in building connections, affirming identity, educating children and passing on culture. Newly arrived Japanese immigrants in 1924 built Nichiren temple, the heart of the Japanese community in Hawaii before and after wars. Today, its congregation gathers to celebrate Japanese traditions and fellowship. Sagano felt blessed by cherry blossoms.
sakura
for the motherland
sky for birds
The oldest sakura trees in Sagano’s neighborhood have lived through several wars, but lately she sees “more and more stumps” sawn off by city workers to prevent accidents.
the elderly watch
sakura toppled on the street--
another sky
Christopher Calvin can count how many years his ancestors have lived in Mojokerto, Indonesia.
feeling the way
of my lineage
ring trees
Gordana Kurtovic read Hebrews, 13,2 in the Bible. Brefeld prayed. Minko Tanev didn’t look back.
host a stranger
maybe he’s an angel--
God’s word
* * *
buried
in foreign soil
without mourners
* * *
pillars of salt--
reading the biblical whirlwinds
Sodom and Gomorrah
Returning home after a loved one’s funeral in Labertouche, Australia, Margaret Ponting wondered what to do with a keepsake red rose. Sagano slept restlessly.
brittle flower
pressed between two pages
of the tribute book
* * *
war repatriates
in a dream
spring torment
The flow of migrants reversed in the 21st century when Japan began to receive foreign workers. Notably since 2023, foreign immigrants to Japan have constructed centers of Islam, Jainism, Taiwanese Buddhism, Sikhism, Vietnamese Buddhism and the Coptic Orthodox Church alongside Christian churches and Jewish synagogues. Walking past a construction site in her neighborhood in Kanagawa Prefecture, Orihara couldn’t understand what the foreign laborers were saying.
demolition workers
briskly exchange words
in a foreign tongue
From Chennai, India, Geethanjali Rajan wondered when her neighbor will start spring cleaning.
dusty Christmas star
yet to be taken down
Spring clouds
Jasminka Nadaskic Djordjevic returned to her birthplace in Smederevo, Serbia. Feeling like he’s “a little boy again,” Slobodan Pupovac celebrates his 69th birthday today in Zagreb, Croatia.
ancestral home--
all my dear memories
wrapped in ivy
* * *
late night
in the thick fog the sound
of my childhood fears
Nicoletta Ignatti maintains a balanced point of view.
Bible and the Quran
on my bookshelf--
side by side
Uchechukwu Onyedikam referred to a former great king in Lagos, Nigeria.
the Oba decree
revealing a collective intent
night bus
Elancharan Gunasekaran traveled by train to Singapore. Arevalo flew.
even ghosts fear me
last train home
empty seats beside me
* * *
first flight--
a foreign worker grips
the armrest
Helen Buckingham observed the following scene in Somerset, England, on “the timely subject of xenophobia.” Derived from the Greek words “xenos” (meaning stranger) and “phobos” (meaning fear), the subject became common parlance when the United Kingdom left the European Union in a backlash against an influx of immigrants.
our leafy green streets
increasingly blotted by
the cross of St. George
Baptized nearly 90 years ago in St. George’s Church in Ritterswalde, Upper Silesia, Horst Ludwig marked April 23 on a Christian calendar to celebrate the saint.
From the flea market
a clay paper weight: St. George
kicking the dragon
Providing an update on government policy in Athens, Greece, Foteini Georgakopoulou honored a patron deity of hospitality, guests and travelers.
in Xenius Zeus
refugees and migrants are now officially
fair game
Rupa Anand from New Delhi, India, mused while watering a split-leaf fern and a flower at home.
new construction--
a monstera struggles to climb
higher & higher
* * *
windowsill geraniums--
the desire to marry
within the community
In Venice, Italy, Luciana Moretto had this “flash of inspiration about xenophobia.”
his garden fence
keeps the marigold
from the marigold
Deftly writing from Imphal, India, Jagajit Salam cut his haiku into two distinct parts. Buck M. got yelled at in Bath, England. Helga Stania was all ears in Ettiswil, Switzerland.
border wall--
the gardener trims
a foreign shoot
* * *
Wisteria blooms
Hanging over garden wall
A neighbour complains
* * *
Unfriendliness
I’m silent and listen
to the robin
Gordana Vlasic took a bite in Oroslavje, Croatia.
red apples
one doesn’t seem to be
from the same orchard
Carlos lamented food supply disruption. Elizabeth Moura is hurting in East Taunton, Massachusetts. Jerome Berglund prayed for relief in New Orleans, Louisiana.
overripe olives
the migrant pickers
in holding cells
* * *
stifling heat
the dragonfly can hardly breathe
it hurts when children die
* * *
goddess of spring
and dawn: heat expands
across U.S.
Foreigners entering Japan as workers are culturally different from their Japanese hosts, but perhaps only to a degree that’s understandable with some thought. Nishieeta Daksh Singhvi from Kolkata, India, hides her innermost feelings in the light of day, but the sunset draws them out.
Brown skin hides
story of alienation
you’ll never see
* * *
Sun goes down
soft fulmination
homesickness
Teachers of children with international roots in Japan tried to counter tightening regulations on foreigners by recommending that parents “Don’t say it, don’t let others say it: Japanese First.” Ignatti described her hometown of Castellana Grotte, Italy.
xenophobia--
in my school classes
no one was a foreigner
* * *
abandoned farmhouse--
the gate creaks
in summer silence
Ian Willey attended a conference about introversion that focused on teachers of English in Japan, and he “was surprised and heartened to learn that more than a few of us teachers are introverts at heart. I’ve been one all my life.” He believes haikuists can relate to his acknowledgement that “deep down there’s that little groundhog in me that wants to run and hide whenever a shadow appears.”
abandoned burrow
my natural inclination
to run and hide
Tim Chamberlain played with his food in Tokyo. Mel Goldberg felt empty in Ajijic, Mexico. Vasile Moldovan advocated for a homebound senior in Bucharest, Romania.
eating alone--
mashed potato
Devil’s Mountain
* * *
sleeping alone
in the mountains
the emptiness
* * *
old and alone
she has no one to share
spring memories with
Loneliness is a sign of seeking social connections. Earl Livings sleepwalked in Melbourne, Australia.
black cat
follows the sun
sleeping
“On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho” is a short collection of the master haikuist’s work translated by Lucien Stryk. The intriguing title was drawn from this poem penned in the spring of 1691: mugimeshi ni yatsururu koi ka neko no tsuma
The she cat,
so thin on love
and barley
Sagano loves cherry blossoms and baseball. She often pens poetry about the sakura growing close to her home. Even though he moved to Los Angeles, Shohei Ohtani still has her heart and she admires his Japanese language haiku, too.
hanami strolling
and MLB opening day
both scheduled early
Orihara suggested “experiencing life abroad is key to avoid hatred and fear of others.” As an example, she recalled backpacking into a remote village. Remarking that was likely the first time the children ever saw a Japanese traveler, “the kids just stared at us in silence for a while.”
throwing stones
at foreign travelers…
piercing stare
After a storm, Marek Printer picked up the broken pieces of a salt-shaker from under the kitchen table in Kielce, Poland. Samo Kreutz had almost boiled over in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
argument over
brushing the salt
from the table
* * *
swan song...
the kettle whistles
after our debate
Anand’s dreams were scuttled.
rejecting her daughter’s
foreign date--
mother’s eye roll
Stoianka Boianova left home.
a kiss on the doorstep
mom gives me flowers
for health on the road
An American expat residing in Bali, Indonesia, James Penha “imagines the voice of a migrant… of so many migrants.”
I have escaped hate
and abuse only to find
you despise me more
Aggressive deportation policies are changing minds in America. Stephen J. DeGuire kept rethinking in Los Angeles, California.
trash can full
of crumpled paper
one death poem
Poets often have no idea of the impression they’re making on readers. In this sense, haiku are sometimes delusional, and share false beliefs about an external reality despite evidence to the contrary. Xenia Tran will likely squirm through April 25, a patron saint’s day when black hairy insects with long dangly legs are supposed to take wing in Nairn, Scotland. An early pollinator for fruit trees, hawthorn bugs sluggishly fly around inoffensively eating nectar.
long hot summer
St. Mark’s flies hover
on the hillside
Ed Bremson spotted yellow camouflage in Raleigh, North Carolina.
spring morning
pollen-colored
butterfly
Carl Brennan intends to observe the April 29 anniversary of the liberation of the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany.
The crewcut next door
checking surveillance feeds...
old Dachau footage
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Give your brain a boost by deciphering haiku at http://www.asahi.com/ajw/special/haiku/. The next issues of the Asahi Haikuist Network appear on May 1, 15 and 29. Readers are invited to send haiku about illusions, delusions, or hallucinations. Send haiku on a postcard to David McMurray at the International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, Japan, or e-mail to <mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp>.
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David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News. He is on the editorial board of the Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, columnist for the Haiku International Association, and is editor of Teaching Assistance, a column in The Language Teacher of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT).
McMurray is professor of intercultural studies at The International University of Kagoshima where he lectures on international haiku. At the Graduate School he supervises students who research haiku. He is a correspondent school teacher of Haiku in English for the Asahi Culture Center in Tokyo.
McMurray judges haiku contests organized by The International University of Kagoshima, Ito En Oi Ocha, Asahi Culture Center, Matsuyama City, Polish Haiku Association, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Seinan Jo Gakuin University, and Only One Tree.
McMurray’s award-winning books include: “Teaching and Learning Haiku in English” (2022); “Only One Tree Haiku, Music & Metaphor” (2015); “Canada Project Collected Essays & Poems” Vols. 1-8 (2013); and “Haiku in English as a Japanese Language” (2003).
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the White House Crime Family: Charlie Angus
This past week, Ed Davey, leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, stood up in the UK Parliament and denounced Trump as a dangerous gangster. They were powerful words. Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s The Last Word, stated that the phrase “a dangerous and corrupt gangster” would define Donald Trump’s legacy. Only took a year. I have referred to Trump as a gangster since the day he won the 2024 election. I don’t say this out of any chip on my shoulder, but my incredulity that Trump’s staggeringly long list of criminal connections and activities has always been siloed from discussions about his role as president of the United States. Early last year, as threats against Canada escalated, I was interviewed by CNN, where the host said to me, “You view him as unreasonable.”
I haven’t been invited back. The Al Capone comment was not about a colourful flair. It was an attempt to remind people that we were dealing with a man who has a deep history with threat, intimidation and outright gangsterism. And this criminality didn’t just lurk in his deep past but has been present at every level of his political career. Consider the threat he made against Justice Tanya Chutkan in 2023, as she was investigating his role in undermining the 2020 election.
The threat couldn’t be more direct. It wasn’t whispered in the judge’s ear or sent in an anonymous letter. It was posted and signed online for maximum impact. The next day, Chutkan received her first death threat. But the intimidation kept coming. Special security had to be set up at the courthouse. Large security vans were parked outside her home at all times. When she went for a morning jog, special agents had to accompany her. This is the kind of threat you might expect from taking on a mafia don in Italy, or a Latin American narco-boss. Not from the former president of the United States on the eve of his re-election in 2024. Trump’s threats were so severe that it was feared that it might be impossible to find jurors willing to serve at the trial.¹ What Justice Chutkan faced was par for the course for any judge who drew the short straw in dealing with the most powerful lawmaker in the United States. In 2023, Justice Juan Maerchon had special protections put in place for him and his family as he dealt with 34 felony counts against Trump.² When Trump turned the threats on the judge’s daughter, the court had to issue a special gag order for fear of her life. In February 2024, Justice Arthur Engoron was investigating the Trump crime family, including sons Eric and Don Jr., who were guilty of massive fraud. The threats against the court were deadly serious. Trump not only went after the judge but targeted court clerk Alison Greenfield. She faced a torrent of threats and anti-semitic hate because Trump falsely claimed that this court official was in a relationship with 74-year-old Chuck Schumer.³ In the end, Justice Engoron issued a ruling of $350 million in damages against the Trump crime group. But Trump didn’t need to sweat it. He had just been re-elected and had been given a total immunity card by his appointees on the Supreme Court. Such is the relationship between the courts and the man who has been brought to court 4,000 times over his career on lawsuits over fraud, defamation, sexual assault, real estate deals gone south, and harassment. Two separate accusations of child rape were dropped when the complainant went into hiding after receiving death threats. His first run-in with the courts was in 1973 when he and his developer father, Fred Trump, were sued by the Department of Justice for their openly racist policy of refusing to rent to Black people. The evidence was overwhelming. Trump’s lawyers advised him to settle and avoid the bad press. Trump didn’t like the advice. He reached out to Roy Cohn, who was a fixer for the Mafia in New York. Wayne Barrett, who conducted major investigations into Trump’s connections to the criminal underworld, described Cohn as “incandescent evil.” He advised Trump to take the fight to the Justice Department. They launched a $100 million countersuit claiming they were being persecuted. It was ridiculous, and the effort failed. But in the court of public opinion, Trump had learned a valuable lesson — always turn the tables, always blame, never admit to anything. Cohn became Trump’s political confidant and advisor. Low Rent Godfather It’s often said that the character of Don Corleone from The Godfather is based on Carlo Gambino. The Trumps, with their real estate holdings in Queens were no strangers to the Gambinos or the Genovese crime syndicate. They knew how to cut deals. Cohn was the glue between them and the Trumps. But as Trump was coming into his own, the old school crime families were on their way out. They were being marginalized by a new brand of criminal — ones with track suits, gold chains and lots of tattoos. In the late 1980s, the Russian mafia began setting up in Brighton Beach and looking to take over the Big Apple. The Russians weren’t interested in small time Mafia shakedowns like jacking up the price of cement on building sites like Trump Tower. The Russians had looted the national economy of the former Soviet Union and were looking to launder massive amounts of stolen money through American businesses. Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote about the mob in the 1980s, describes the difference between the old mob and the new one:
The Italian mafia was into shaking down shopkeepers. The Russians were buying prime property. No wonder they fell in love with Donald Trump. Trump’s real estate deals and sketchy morals made him an obvious choice for the incoming mobsters. David Bogatin, who was connected to the Simion Mogilevich transnational crime syndicate, was the first to move into Trump Tower. In 1984, he paid the then-staggering fee of $6 million to buy into Trump Tower. Such a huge investment should have set off alarm bells in US intelligence. But the deal was cash. This is how foreign money gets laundered. Russian mobster Vyachelav Ivankov also set himself up at Trump Tower. He was tied to gambling, prostitution and arms smuggling. Then there was Felix Sater, another convicted felon with ties to the crime family. He moved into Trump’s building and began working with Trump on real estate deals. A Former FBI official said Trump Tower was crime central, “Everything was moving in and out of there.”⁵ Felix later bragged that he would work with Vladimir Putin’s crew to get Trump elected president. Anatoly Golubchuk owned a condo in Trump’s International Beach Resort and helped set up a $100 million gambling operation in Trump Tower. The gambling operations were done in two locations. Art dealer Hillel Nahmad purchased the entire fifty-first floor and set up a very lucrative casino operation for the wealthy and powerful. The other gambling den was run by an associate of Mogilevich, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov. He was on the FBI’s most-wanted list but owned an extremely luxurious apartment on the 63rd floor, just below Trump’s quarters. The suite featured alabaster walls, a floor of amethyst imported from Africa, and 24-carat-gold faucets. When the FBI broke in, they arrested 13 men but couldn’t find Tokhtakhounov. He would be later spotted sitting very close to Trump at the infamous Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Preet Bharara was the U.S. Attorney who led the investigation into this scheme in Trump Tower. He was fired as soon as Trump became president. Since the Trump election in 2016, the Trump crime family has turned global politics into a form of shakedown. When Jared Kushner had difficulty covering the costs of a massive real estate development at 666 Fifth Avenue, he was bailed out by the Saudis. He was then accused of pushing a blockade of American ally Qatar to benefit the Saudis.⁶ Congressman Dan Goldman pointed to a $2 billion payment to Jared Kushner’s investment firm as an example of the patterns of what Vanity Fair referred to as “the real White House Crime family.”⁷ Kushner’s father, Charles, was the recipient of one of Trump’s many pardons for a shakedown crime that former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says was “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he ever prosecuted as U.S. attorney. Trump pardoned Kushner’s father and made him the ambassador to France. In my writings on Trump, I have consistently used the term “gangster fascism” to define the MAGA movement. When people think of the Nazis, they think of the mass rallies, the choreographed movements, the groupthink and the unbelievable violence against targeted enemies. Often overlooked is that they were the ultimate criminal organization. The Nazi economy was a smash-and-grab enterprise at every level of the administration. Historian Richard Evans documents how, during the 1938 Anschluss, the Nazis broke into homes of Jewish families to steal whatever they could find. People were stopped on the streets and robbed of their fur coats and wallets. By the 1940s, this shakedown was so thorough that it included stealing gold teeth from the corpses of murdered civilians. The difference between Nazi gangsterism and Trump gangsterism is that Trump gets his thrills by showing off his lawlessness. And this is where he differs from traditional mob families, which believed in the “Omerta” code of silence and carried out their deals in the shadows. The Trump crime family have done everything in the open. And those who have tried to take Trump on are the ones who pay a price. Trump used his presidency to actively undermine the rule of law and to turn both the Justice Department and the FBI into his personal vendetta machine. Former acting FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was a legal expert on the Russian mob. Before being fired, he met with Trump and described it as the same as meeting a “mob boss.”
If you’re a crook, kissing the ring of America’s top crime boss pays off – just ask Rudy Giuliani, recently pardoned by Trump for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election. But it has been his willingness to protect larceny — even from people that he doesn’t know – that has defined the gangster nature of his regime. It is hard to keep up with the more than 1,800 people who have received the “get out of jail free” card from the White House. But in March 2026, the governor of California issued a list of some of the more notorious criminals who have received pardons from Donald Trump. The list provides a guide of Trump cronies who read like a who’s who of American fraudsters and crooks. There was Trevor Milton, guilty of securities fraud and jailed for 4 years, who was pardoned by Trump. Lawrence S. Duran, former co-owner of American Therapeutic Corp., was sentenced to 50 years in jail for multiple felonies, defrauding Medicare, health care fraud and money laundering. Or Jason Galanis, described as “porn’s new King,” was sentenced for securities fraud. Devon Archer defrauded the Oglala Sioux in a $60 million scheme. Trump not only freed Archer but also absolved him of the court’s repayment order. Adriana Camberos was found guilty of mail and wire fraud and ordered to pay $48 million in restitution, but that payment was erased by Trump. Carlos Watson was given a 116-month prison term for securities fraud and aggravated identity theft, and he also got to walk away from his $36 million restitution order. The list also includes Julie and Todd Chrisley, reality TV stars, guilty of defrauding the United States and tax evasion and Imaad Shah Zuberi, a Trump political donor, was sentenced to 12 years for unregistered foreign lobbying, illegal campaign contributions and obstruction of justice. Trump’s crime spree is now international. He has told Venezuela that they must come up with 50 million barrels of oil, which he will sell and deposit into an offshore account controlled by him. Smash and grab. His “Board of Peace,” which was supposed to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, came with a membership price tag of a billion dollars — payable to Trump. To understand the threat from the White House, we need to know who we are dealing with. Trump is a politician in name only. What we are really dealing with is a two-bit gangster who can run global shakedowns through the use of aircraft carriers. If any photos or images on this site are under copyright please let us know and we will give appropriate credit. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting.Charlie Angus / The Resistance is a reader-supported publication — please consider becoming a paid subscriber. This post is public — feel free to share it. 1 Leonnig, Carol, Davis, Aaron C. Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department. Penguin Books. New York. 2025. P. 246. 2 Judge in Trump’s Criminal Case has Received Dozens of Threats, Police Sources Say. ABC News. April 6, 2023. 3 Trump’s attacks on Engoron lead to threats and harassment. He doesn’t care. MS News. November 25, 2023. 4 Unger, Craig. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia. Dutton. 2019. (e-book edition) 5 Russian Mafia Boss Still at Large After FBI wiretap at Trump Tower. ABC News. March 21, 2017. 6 The Troubling Overlap between Jared Kushner’s Business Interests and American Foreign Policy. The Guardian. July 8, 2019. 7 “The Real White House Crime Family”: Dem Representative tells the GOP to Stop Wasting Time with Hunter Biden and Subpoena Jared Kushner. Vanity Fair. February 29, 2024. 8 Andrew McCabe. Every Day is a New Low in Trump’s White House. The Atlantic. February 19, 2019. Thank you for reading Charlie Angus / The Resistance. If you’d like to upgrade to a paid subscription your support will help keep this project independent and sustainable. I’m grateful to have you here - thank you for your support. © 2026 Charlie Angus |
