“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
-George Orwell.
The following is really a core example of why I created this series in the first place. The following statement is simply abhorrent and should be utterly unacceptable for the president of a liberal democracy to utter. It is gross and dictatorial. It is not, despite his claims, the kind of thing that a person who is respectful of the office says.
It is tiresome, shameful, and exhausting, but it needs to be seen, recorded, and remembered, and not just passed by as “Trump being Trump.” This is just another reminder, in a series of daily (if not hourly) reminders, that he never should have been president once, let alone twice.
And let’s be clear: yes, he could have used the power of his office to harass the persons listed. That’s the bad thing he could have done: abused his office to punish his enemies, as dictators often do.
To actually prosecute someone requires that they actually commit crimes, which is why he was indicted: there was ample evidence of criminality. He was almost certainly saved from being convicted in federal court because the Biden administration was too slow, a morally corrupt judge, Aileen Cannon, blocked an obvious case from going forward, and because SCOTUS eventually decided to bestow king-like power on the president.
If this administration had even a weak basis for pursuing a criminal case (like, I dunno, posting a photo of some seashells in the shape of “86 47”) it would have done so.
And let’s not forget, Trump is a convicted felon on 34 counts.
