It's Trump who seeks to weaponize Justice Department
By Michelle Goldberg / The New York Times
A truism of the Trump era is that every accusation is a confession. When Donald Trump hurls wild charges at his opponents, he is telegraphing what he plans to do to them, preemptively justifying the breaking of laws and norms by casting himself as the victim of the very misdeeds hes going to commit.
That is how we should understand Trumps ranting in the wake of his 34 felony convictions last week. After he was found guilty, he told reporters gathered outside the courthouse, This was done by the Biden administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent. Its tedious to fact-check such claims the MAGA movement doesnt care whats true and whats not but President Biden had nothing to do with the state case brought by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney. And as if to underline Bidens refusal to interfere in Justice Department decisions, the federal prosecution of the presidents son Hunter Biden begins this week. In spinning this fantasy about Biden, Trump is telegraphing that, should he return to the White House, he will try to use the Justice Department in exactly the way hes pretending it was used against him. When the former president compares himself to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this year in an Arctic prison colony, hes giving himself permission to act like Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with three Fox News hosts on Sunday, his first since his conviction, Trump all but promised that his second term would be even more corrupt and vindictive than his first. In his telling, he never called for Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned, and magnanimously resisted the entreaties of others to punish her. Next time, he suggested, he wont be so nice. They always said lock her up, and I felt and I could have done it, but I felt it would have been a terrible thing, he said. And then this happened to me, and so I may feel differently about it.
Speaking to the Fox hosts, Trump denied saying the words that were the refrain to his first presidential campaign: I didnt say, Lock her up. That is, of course, a preposterous lie, the kind that demonstrates Trumps strongman ability to get his followers to accept absurdities. And lock her up, its important to remember, was never just rhetoric. As the Mueller report revealed, Trump demanded that his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, whod recused himself from investigations involving the 2016 campaign, go after Clinton. According to Sessions, the President asked him to reverse his recusal so that Sessions could direct the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute Hillary Clinton, the Mueller report said. Eventually, attempting to placate his boss, Sessions tapped U.S. Attorney John Huber of Utah to probe the rights allegations about the Clinton Foundation, but Huber came up empty.
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Lovie777
(14,042 posts)and the GQP politicians and judges are attempting a coup within the system.
shithole wants to "God knows what" to the people who don't agree with his craziest.
All of the above are threatening the USA with violence, hatred while gaslighting.
Majority of the citizens are under duress.
And the GQP will try to cheat and steal the elections and or refuse to certify when Biden/Harris wins.
Fake polls and corporate media outright in our face with constant BS.