#Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over #Trump attacks on #law
Federal DC Judge #ReggieWalton warned Trump’s attacks on #HushMoney trial judge & others could lead to #violence.
The Republican-appointed judge denounced Trump’s attacks against the judge presiding over his hush money trial in Manhattan & his daughter, calling them assaults on the #RuleOfLaw that could lead to violence & #tyranny.
Judge #ReggieWalton’s remarks came as several federal judges in DC appointed by #Republican presidents have spoken w/increasing urgency about #Trump’s disregard for historical #facts & alarmed at his increasingly #graphic & at times #violent description of defendants prosecuted in the #Jan6 riot as “political prisoners” & “hostages” who did nothing wrong.
#Republican Donald #Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the #history of the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol attack [#insurrection], but positioning the #violent siege & its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the #WhiteHouse.
At a wknd rally in #Ohio, his first as the presumed #GOP presidential nom, #Trump stood onstage, his hand raised in salute to the brim of his red #MAGA hat, as a recorded chorus of prisoners [#criminals] in #jail for their roles in the #Jan6 attack sang the national anthem.
An announcer asked the crowd to please rise “for the horribly & unfairly treated January 6th hostages.” And people did, & sang along.
Having previously vowed to #pardon the rioters [#insurrectionists], he promised to help them “the first day we get into office.”
Initially relegated to a #fringe theory on the edges of the #Republican Party, the #RevisionistHistory of #Jan6, which Trump amplified during the early days of the #GOP primary campaign to rouse his most devoted voters, remains a rally centerpiece even as he must appeal more broadly to a general election audience.
They call it “Cowboys and Indians” because it sounds so much nicer than “Genocidal Racist, Bigoted White European Immigrants and Their Descendants VERSUS Indigenous Peoples They Are Murdering En Masse Because They Want the Natives’ Lands.”
🗣️ "Ladies and Gentlemen, we'll be landing soon in #Tallahassee. Please set your watches back 175 years."
The #Florida Board of Education met Wednesday morning to approve new "standards" and rules for the state's schools, including what teachers are "allowed" to teach about #BlackHistory.
▶️ Thumbnail: They can't teach anything not in the whitewashed version unanimously approved by the Board.