The intensity of #anger & open desire for using the #criminal#justice system against #Democrats after the verdict surpasses anything seen before in #Trump’s tumultuous years in national #politics. What is different now is the range of #Republicans who are saying #retaliation is necessary & who are no longer cloaking their intent w/euphemisms.
#StephenMiller, a fmr snr adviser to #Trump [& pure concentrated evil] who still helps guide his thinking on policy, blared out a directive on #FoxNews after a jury found Trump #guilty of falsifying financial records to cover up… his 2016 [#ElectionInterference]. Miller posed a series of questions to Republicans at every level, including local DAs.
The jury is still out,
but Donald Trump’s campaign has already suggested that
the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will seek #revenge against whoever was involved in his myriad legal trials.
Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt warned that
🔥people will “certainly… be held accountable for the crimes that have been committed over the last several years”
—that is, all the people who have attempted to prosecute Trump and give the former president the same legal treatment as they would any other private citizen.
"We’ve seen them lie, we’ve seen them abuse our justice system, we’ve seen Joe Biden target innocent Americans across this country such as the protesters on January 6,” Leavitt said.
🔥Insinuating that Trump’s followers do not expect to be held to the law if they commit a crime, Leavitt said:
“Yes, justice needs to be served for the good-hearted Americans across this country who want to see an equal application of the law,And this trial proves we don’t have that in America right now."
“They’ve thrown in the gulag in Washington, D.C. President Trump has said he will pardon those protesters on day one of his presidency,” she continued, referring to the Soviet Union-era work camps for criminals and political prisoners.
Chitown Kev on how Trump didn't choose his followers: they chose him:
"Trump is a known quantity; ever since he rode down that escalator in 2015, he’s been saying progressively more and nastier and dangerous political rhetoric.
He simply wouldn’t say that much nasty and mocking rhetoric if he didn’t have an audience for what he says.
I always remember: Trump didn’t choose his audience, his audience chose him."
‘My ultimate and absolute #revenge’: #Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/24/donald-trump-cpac-speech "Unbound and unhinged, ex-president vilifies immigrants before devolving into bizarre riffs, including calling himself ‘total genius’" how can any sane person vote for this monster?
Wholesale rape, murder, and razing of villages since 1949
Murder of peaceful activists
Murder of journalists
Theft of homes and possessions
Making Gaza a prison city
Starvation-focused embargo
Oppressive laws for Palestinians
Thousands of Palestinian #prisoners, many tortured & assaulted
Indefinite "detention" even after death
Keeping bodies of prisoners
I think the response of #israel to the Oct. 7 attacks has done more to inform the world about their policies toward #Palestine than any other event in the last 70+ years.
"Trump’s continued support from white evangelicals shows how much they share his zeal to destroy democracy. To them, Trump is not a menace but a messiah — which tells us a lot about what they think the God-ordained Christian nation should look like."
Tim Alberta, author of a book studying US white evangelicals and son of a pastor, says,
"You have millions of evangelical Christians who voted for Donald Trump and just sort of gleefully embraced his terrible rhetoric and his un-Christlike conduct."
Journalist Bob Costa asks Alberta why white evangelicals are behaving this way. Alberta replies,
"Trump campaigned for president in 2016 promising that if he was elected, Christians would have power. He gave it to them. He gave it to them in ways that, arguably, no American president has in modern history. And when you have power, you can very quickly lose sight of your principles, your values and your beliefs."
"Donald Trump’s talk of punishing his critics and seeking to 'weaponize' the US justice department against his political opponents has experts and former DoJ officials warning he poses a direct threat to the rule of law and democracy in the US."
"“Do not open if you are under the age of 18,” the outside of the mailer reads, and, “Warning: Explicit material enclosed.” Inside, “voters found two pieces of paper with censored quotes and screenshots from Gibson’s public porn livestream,” NBC12 reported."
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I guarantee you that if I received that mail in my teen years - it would have been opened. Those words are a challenge... not a warning.
Another move straight out of the #fascist playbook—blame others for the choices you make. #Vengeance is a primary motivation for #Trump, but he's too much of a #coward to own the decision to seek #revenge on his perceived #enemies.