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TRUMP Crime Syndicate; He DOES Commit Crimes-Promises Violent Scenes If He Loses
TRUMP Promises Scenarios of Violence If He Loses - Chapter Seventeen of Project 2025
TRUMP Really DOES Commit Crimes
MSNRAW 8 SEP 2024
Bill Maher finally had enough of conservative Rich Lowry's complaining about Donald Trump's legal problems and bluntly stated the former president is guilty of committing criminal acts.
Moments after National Review editor Rich Lowry went on an extensive rant about Trump's 34 felony convictions in a Manhattan courtroom, for which the former president will be sentenced after the election, Maher announced to the panel, "Trump really does commit crimes"
"He does commit crimes is one thing and two, if positions were reversed, and a Democrat did this, not only would the Republicans have gone after him, they would have done it instead of what the Democrats ? talk about feckless ?this is feckless. You had four years to bring four trials and we get none of them?"
A Sociopath, Scenes of Violence AND Chapter Seventeen of Project 2025
Journalist for three decades, D. Earl Stephens, has recently opined in a guest essay for Raw Story that ?The New York Times and our broken mainstream media seem to need the America-attacking Donald Trump a helluva lot more than the America-attacking Donald Trump seems to need The New York Times and our broken mainstream media.?
Stephens has accused mass media news institutions of committing journalistic malpractice for not ?monitoring the dangerous maneuvers of a sociopath, who is still free and on the loose after unleashing his rabid attack dogs to besiege our Capitol, stomp on law enforcement officials, seek out political leaders for harm and hanging, and prevent the certification of our vote while doing nothing for three hours except to root for the attack?s success.?
To this criminologist, as the custodian of the democratic republic, the Fourth Estate seems derelict in its duty for not correctly framing the genuine issues that confront or threaten American freedom and constitutional democracy.
Should Trump win the fall presidential election, perhaps the most dangerous of these maneuvers will have to do with the forthcoming transformation of the U.S. Department of Justice from an independent and self-directing law enforcement system to one that would become part of a proxy ?police state.?
A law enforcement system whose absolute discretion of power would become exclusively dependent on a de facto dictator with presidential immunity from any crimes, harms, injuries, or violence that he may inflict or unleash on the people of the United States.
Chapter Seventeen of Project 2025 outlines other changes that would accompany the former relations between the office of the presidency and the Department of Justice.
A Non-Exhaustive Listening of These Changes Includes:
Placing FBI agents on loyalist leashes
curtailing its online investigations of misinformation
ending investigations of police misconduct and canceling existing consent decrees with police departments
stripping local and state attorneys of their discretionary power to prosecute
changing the federal government?s roles from upholding voting rights to suppressing them
downplaying right-wing domestic terrorist groups and organizations like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys
focusing instead on those groups and organizations advocating for voting, civil, equity, climate, and worker rights
In tandem with these changes in the federal and state relations of the administration of justice, Trump plans on using the military to enforce domestic law violations involving, for example, criminal gangs, protesting demonstrators and securing the borders by using detention camps ? all characteristic of illiberal democracies such as today?s Hungary or authoritarian regimes like contemporary China or North Korea going back to the 1950s.
Trump also plans to ?target and jail critics, including government officials and journalists.?
Let?s not forget that at least a ?dozen times Trump pushed to prosecute his perceived enemies,? including Hillary Clinton, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, James Comey, and Joe Biden.
Presently, Trump continues to bang ?the drums of hate? and to follow ?the roadmap created for him by? the MAGA 2025 Manifesto. The Insurrectionist-in-Chief is also ?backstopped by a radical, bought-off Supreme Court, and bolstered by known election deniers.?
Relying on the twisted Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, Trump is now saying that ?he had ?every right? to interfere in the 2020 election.? During a podcast interview with Russian American computer scientist Lex Fridman that aired on Tuesday of this week, he also admitted that he did lose the election ?by a whisker.?
At this point, Trump is undoubtedly winning this legal battle. It has even been more effective than the tactics of delay, delay, and delay. Then again, with the sentencing for his criminal conviction of 34 felonies in the election interference case being postponed from September 18 to after the election on November 26, the former president has been quite successful at ?beating the law? concerning all four of his criminal indictments.
As David Rhode in Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy has written, during Trump?s presidency, he ?intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys Generals Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants.?
If this were not enough, the would-be dictator is promising ?retribution to anybody who dares get in his way? and, if elected again, clemency for his all-American patriotic ?hostages? who have been ?unfairly? convicted of crimes for their First Amendment activities at the Capitol on January 6.
Lest anyone forget, as I have elaborated in great detail in Criminology on Trump, while in office, the president?s practices of granting pardons and awarding clemencies were quite different from those of other presidents, going back as far as the 25th, William McKinley.
For example, Trump did not use the usual vetting process and sold pardons at $50,000 each ? often for much more. We learned earlier this week that two of those individuals Trump released from prison were known to be wife abusers, including one who was also a drug dealer as well as a cop killer.
Accordingly, on September 5, at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, a fundraiser for the January 6 riot defendants was held. Tickets at the ?J6 Awards Gala? ranged from $1500 per person to $50,000 for a table of twelve.
At a bare minimum, retired journalist Stephens wants to know, ?Why haven?t Democracy Desks been set up in these broken newsrooms staffed with journalists who do nothing but monitor the Republicans? movements as they ruthlessly defend an attack on America and go about annihilating truth, justice, and our right to even vote??
Meanwhile, during Trump?s incoherent speeches, they ignore his ?word salad? discourse and the abnormal things that Trump says, like his responding to a reporter?s question about inflation when he pointed out that people are not eating bacon because of the use of wind power. In other words, what about the lack of coverage of Trump?s ?alarming cognitive decline.?
Similarly, Stephens and many other media critics would like to know how these mainstream news platforms can continue to normalize the illegal and bizarre behavior of Trump and his morally bankrupt political party. After all, at this very moment in time, his MAGA minions are doing everything they can think of to destroy American Democracy as we know it.
Stephens accurately points out that Trump is the ?literal definition of a terrorist and/or an authoritarian strongman ? a thug. He bows to murderous fascists like Putin and openly revels in their success.? Yet, the mass media currently seems indifferent or oblivious to these facts, not as if they previously paid enough attention to them.
While it has occurred to many in the news media that Trump is a wannabe authoritarian strongman, few think of him as a gangster or as a thug, let alone as a domestic terrorist, even though he is armed with plenty of MAGA backup. Nor has the mass media discussed the various types of violence that are likely to occur should Trump win or lose in November.
Trump most likely continues to slip in the polls to Kamala Harris, he will undoubtedly become more desperate. In response, he will spend even less time discussing the campaign issues except when he is forced to respond to journalistic queries.
For example, ?Will he or won?t he? vote for the six-week abortion ban in Florida. Meanwhile, these same journalists seldom point out that, in the first place, this terrible choice about abortion bans was only made possible because of Trump?s three appointed justices to the Supreme Court.
Trump has already been spending most of his time and energy doubling down on demonizing immigrants as well as his political and legal adversaries, which ? except for his sycophantic supporters ? may not be enough to run on and win the election. Besides, these absurd statements are becoming so stale and boring.
This stirring of violence serves as a distraction for the likely far-right MAGA violence that looms shortly. Mass, as well as social media, law enforcement, Homeland Security and the Democratic Party should all be mindful of and foreshadowing the dangers of this potential violence.
Rather than continuing to ignore the signs online and off or sticking their proverbial heads in the sand because they would prefer not to go to such dark and ominous places.
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