Czar Nicholas II and his family were brutally murdered by the communist Bolsheviks. Trump knows that his entire livelihood, his family, and everything he has built for himself is on the line. He will not lose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_family
My dad has been brainwashed by fake news, but there's hope because he got mad when I asked if he was a communist.