"Due to the Trump administration's assault on democratic norms and global cooperation, CIVICUS has added the United States of America (USA) to its Watchlist of countries with faltering civic freedoms," CIVICUS claimed in a press release on Monday. 

CIVICUS is a nonprofit that received more than $3.5 million in donations from George Soros's Open Society Foundations from 2016 to 2021, according to a Headline USA review of a grants database. 

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Given these ties, it was unsurprising that the non-profit would cite a series of innocuous actions taken by the Trump administration to place the U.S. closer to dictatorial regimes like North Korea, China and Russia.