Because this is what the USA has always done: it is the place all brutal right-wing dictators who manage to escape a revolution flee to (at least at first). Here’s a list of the right-wing dictators I know of who made the USA their home of permanent exile:

  1. Paul Magloire
  2. Julio Lozano Díaz
  3. Manuel A. Odría
  4. Marcos Pérez Jiménez
  5. Syngman Rhee
  6. Joaquín Balaguer
  7. Lon Nol
  8. Nguyen Van Thieu
  9. Ferdinand Marcos
  10. Prosper Avril

I’ve probably missed a few, and this doesn’t include the people who fled to the USA only to make their final home elsewhere (like the Batistas).

But it’s pretty normal for right wing assholes to make the USA their home and political base. Almost as if the USA was telling people something.

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    This is iMO slightly different. Notice that all leaders sheltered by trump were from equivalent pro Russia far right parties. Orban from Hungary, Ziobro from Poland, Bolsonaro from Brazil etc.

    They all worked together and sending money they stole from their countries to support each other. For example CPAC was funded by Orban. You don’t hear much about it now that he lost power.

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      Donald Trump was responsible for the USA giving aid, comfort, and shelter to Magloire, Díaz, Odría, Jiménez, Rhee … ?

      I’m getting this feeling you didn’t read the actual post.