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Opinion Trump wants retribution. That's dangerous, unlawful and un-American.
TFG will seek revenge against President Biden and all democrats if he is re-elected
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/05/trump-verdict-bannon-retribution/
But we are not dealing with reasonable people in the Trump-fueled reaction to his conviction on 34 felony counts. We are dealing with dangerous people — and a dangerous assault on the rule of law in the call for state-level officials to launch revenge prosecutions and the threat of federally directed retribution against President Biden and other Democrats if Trump returns to power.....
Listen to Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, who wrote in a text message to the New York Times, which assembled a chilling montage of such exhortations. “There are dozens of ambitious backbencher state attorneys general and district attorneys who need to ‘seize the day’ and own this moment in history,” Bannon wrote.
Listen to Trump adviser Stephen Miller. “Is every House committee controlled by Republicans using its subpoena power in every way it needs to right now?” he asked on Fox News. “Is every Republican DA starting every investigation they need to right now. ... Every facet of Republican Party politics and power has to be used right now to go toe-to-toe with Marxism and beat these communists.”
Listen to almost-attorney general Jeffrey Clark, who called for “brave district attorneys in the United States to step forward and to take aggressive action … just for starters, as soon as possible,” filing civil rights lawsuits against those who prosecuted Trump.
Listen to Mike Davis, a former Republican Senate aide, who is pressing a similar strategy. “The Republican attorneys general in Georgia and Florida and the county attorney in Maricopa County, Ariz., need to open investigations” into those pursuing Trump and his allies, he said. “Then on Day 1, when he wins, President Trump needs to open a criminal civil rights investigation.”
And listen to John Yoo, who served in George W. Bush’s Justice Department and who had the audacity to cast his argument as a defense of the rule of law, not its dismantling.
“Repairing this breach of constitutional norms will require Republicans to follow the age-old maxim: Do unto others as they have done unto you,” Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in National Review.
“In order to prevent the case against Trump from assuming a permanent place in the American political system, Republicans will have to bring charges against Democratic officers, even presidents,” Yoo continued. “A Republican DA will have to charge Hunter Biden for fraud or corruption for taking money from foreign governments. Another Republican DA will have to investigate Joe Biden for influence-peddling at the behest of a son who received payoffs from abroad. Only retaliation in kind can produce the deterrence necessary to enforce a political version of mutual assured destruction.”
In other words, Yoo suggests, we must destroy the rule of law to save it.
Listen to Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, who wrote in a text message to the New York Times, which assembled a chilling montage of such exhortations. “There are dozens of ambitious backbencher state attorneys general and district attorneys who need to ‘seize the day’ and own this moment in history,” Bannon wrote.
Listen to Trump adviser Stephen Miller. “Is every House committee controlled by Republicans using its subpoena power in every way it needs to right now?” he asked on Fox News. “Is every Republican DA starting every investigation they need to right now. ... Every facet of Republican Party politics and power has to be used right now to go toe-to-toe with Marxism and beat these communists.”
Listen to almost-attorney general Jeffrey Clark, who called for “brave district attorneys in the United States to step forward and to take aggressive action … just for starters, as soon as possible,” filing civil rights lawsuits against those who prosecuted Trump.
Listen to Mike Davis, a former Republican Senate aide, who is pressing a similar strategy. “The Republican attorneys general in Georgia and Florida and the county attorney in Maricopa County, Ariz., need to open investigations” into those pursuing Trump and his allies, he said. “Then on Day 1, when he wins, President Trump needs to open a criminal civil rights investigation.”
And listen to John Yoo, who served in George W. Bush’s Justice Department and who had the audacity to cast his argument as a defense of the rule of law, not its dismantling.
“Repairing this breach of constitutional norms will require Republicans to follow the age-old maxim: Do unto others as they have done unto you,” Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, wrote in National Review.
“In order to prevent the case against Trump from assuming a permanent place in the American political system, Republicans will have to bring charges against Democratic officers, even presidents,” Yoo continued. “A Republican DA will have to charge Hunter Biden for fraud or corruption for taking money from foreign governments. Another Republican DA will have to investigate Joe Biden for influence-peddling at the behest of a son who received payoffs from abroad. Only retaliation in kind can produce the deterrence necessary to enforce a political version of mutual assured destruction.”
In other words, Yoo suggests, we must destroy the rule of law to save it.
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