Increasing fatalities confirm that the period of healing in the United States under President Joe Biden is over, asAlan Austinreports.

THE WORLD has watched appalled in recent days as multiple preventable deaths and injuries have been reported in the USA.

Former Democrat speaker of the Minnesota House of RepresentativesMelissa Hortmanand her husband were shot andkilledlast Saturday at their Brooklyn Park home in what Minnesota GovernorTim Walzcalled a politically motivated assassination.

State SenatorJohn Hoffmanand his wife were also shot multiple times by the same gunman at their home in Champlin, Minnesota, but have survived so far. This brings the number of mass shootings in the USA this year to 148.

Policeshota man suspected of stealing a car in Carlisle, Arkansas, last Thursday. This brings the tally of Americans shot andkilledby police to 637 for the year, and thoseinjuredto 431.

The first 100 days of Donald Trump's second presidency have seen an unprecedented level of chaos with global repercussions.

California SenatorAlex Padillawasdraggedto the floor and handcuffed by PresidentDonald Trumps thugs in Los Angeles on Thursday when trying to ask Homeland Security SecretaryKristi Noemquestions in a press conference.

A few days earlier, Australian TV reporterLauren Tomasiwas deliberatelyshotin the leg with a rubber bullet while speaking to camera near an anti-Trump demonstration she was covering. Fortunately, Padilla and Tomasi suffered only bruises.

One soldier waskilledand another injured during exercises in advance of Trumps ridiculous birthday military display last Saturday.

Multiple causes of death escalate under Trump

Observers of American brutality anticipate that this surge in deaths and injuries will accelerate as Trump resumescallsto his personal followers and his goons in the military and civil forces to attack perceived opponents physically.

Last Tuesday, hepromisedviolence against citizens protesting last Saturdays vanity army parade:

Other MAGA figures are echoing Trumps calls for immediate killings.

A senior law officer in Florida, accompanied by Floridas Attorney General,announcedon Friday that his officers would immediately kill anyone seen throwing a projectile, without arrest or trial:

Upon his re-election to the White House, Donald Trump's Administration has seen America decline through political, economic and social chaos.

Fears that violence will continue to escalate are based on the well-documented surges in multiple categories of killings in Trumps first term, including:

• hatecrimes;

• homicides;

• farmersuicides following loss of markets;

• maternal deathsfrom pregnancy complications;

• starvationand malnutrition;

• obesity and malnutrition;
• exposure andhypothermia;
• smoking, drug addiction and alcohol abuse;

• deathsin custody; and

• fatalities during politicalprotests.

Like many current and former wannabe dictators, Donald Trump appears to take personal delight in ordering the deaths of people he has the authority to kill.

An underreported fact from Trumps first term is his instructions toexecutemore than four times the number of death row prisoners than were ordered killed by former presidents in the previous 60 years.

On day one of his first term, he signed anorderexpanding the federal death penalty so he could order even more Americans executed. And he has nowresumedthe killings of death row prisoners in his second term.

The total toll of needless deaths in Trumps first term, including preventableCOVID fatalities, has been estimated at around 780,000. That is the number of Americans who would still be with us today hadHillary Clintonwon the 2016 Election instead of Trump.

The truth behind Donald Trump's lies is that he isn't interested in improving the lives of Americans at all only his own.

White hate crimes surged from 2016

As reportedhereat IA since 2020, hate crimes inspired by Donald Trump have surged ever since he announced his run for President in 2015, with direct urgings to his followers to deploy violence.

These look set to remain at around double the pre-Trump levels for the foreseeable future. See chart below:

(Data source:FBI)

Hate crimes by White offenders peaked in 2023 at 5,906, an increase of 122.2 per cent over the pre-Trump low of 2,658 in 2015. The decline in 2024 was just 2.7 per cent, according toUSA TodayandPhys.org.

Other categories of violence with similar chart trajectories include:

• personal assaults;
• firearmmurdersand manslaughters;

• childrenandteenagersshot;

• schoolshootings;
• randommass shootings;
• murders and manslaughters by means other than guns; and
• suspectskilledby police.

World Bank confirms Trumps regimes cost multiple lives

TheWorld Bankconfirmed in last weeks data release that the decline in life expectancy during the first Trump Administration was the second-worst in the developed world. From 78.7 years in 2015, U.S. life expectancy tumbled to 76.3 in 2021. Only Mexico suffered a worse setback.

This recovered during theBidenAdministration, to 77.4 in 2022 and 78.4 in 2023.

Ranking on life expectancy amongOECDnations has slipped from 28th through most of theObamayears to 30th by the end of Trumps first term. It ranked 31st in the latest dataset. See chart below:

(Data source:World Bank)

Substantial advances in life expectancy were made in 2023 by Chile, Costa Rica, Poland, Colombia, Mexico, the Slovak Republic and New Zealand, all adding more than a year to the 2022 number.

The only country with a significant decline was Turkiye, which slipped from 77.59 years to 77.16.

Australia declined slightly, from 83.20 years in 2022 to 83.05, but remained in the OECDs top ten nations, along with Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Luxembourg, Sweden, Israel and Norway.

If history repeats, which appears to be happening so far this year, Americans can expect their life expectancy to decline substantially over the next three years, especially among thoseperceivedby Trumps deranged disciples to be his opponents.

Alan Austinis an Independent Australia columnist and freelance journalist. You can follow him@alanaustin001.

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