2024 is Different
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2024 7:50 pm
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For those who imagine Trump 2025 would be no different from Trump 2017, see the above music video declaring him the Chosen One.
Trump lost no time in promoting it:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrum ... 8459805958
This article from The Hill highlights how the revenge rhetoric is becoming even more explicit following Trump’s conviction last week in the hush money business fraud case:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... onviction/
The former president has routinely suggested it would be fair game to target his opponents ever since he was indicted last year in cases in New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C., including by saying he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Biden family.
Republican lawmakers have for months echoed Trump in complaining about the various prosecutors bringing charges against him – threatening action from Congress or that they could be prosecuted themselves in the future.
But those threats have become less veiled in the wake of Trump’s guilty verdict.
Following the Trump guilty verdict, Republicans have called for slashing federal funding for the Department of Justice and the FBI, as well as from state-level prosecutors such as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who brought the case in New York and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who indicted Trump in Georgia over his attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
It’s a plan with limited reach, as the federal funds flowing to local prosecutors are primarily grants for programs on policing and preventing violence.
But Republicans have also said the tables could turn more sharply once Trump is in office, and his own appointees will helm the Justice Department.
“I think people think, ‘Oh he wouldn’t be able to put people in Cabinet positions because of Senate confirmations,’ but people forget how he abused the system toward the end of his first term and would just name people as acting secretary,” said a former Trump administration official. “He’s kind of learned the levers of government and understands how to bend it to his will better.”
In multiple interviews over the past week, media personalities have attempted to dissuade Trump from pursuing retribution against his opponents if he wins in November. But the former president, furious over his conviction and insistent that he’s being targeted for political reasons, has been reluctant to go along with their suggestions.
Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump if he would “pledge to restore equal justice, equal application of our laws,” and “end this practice of weaponization?”
“Well, you have to do it. But it’s awful. Look, I know you want me to say something so nice,” Trump said. “But I don’t want to look naïve.”
Phil McGraw, host of the TV show “Dr. Phil,” suggested to the former president he didn’t have time to “get even” with his critics.
“Well, revenge does take time, I will say that,” Trump responded. “And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest. Sometimes it can.”
For those who imagine Trump 2025 would be no different from Trump 2017, see the above music video declaring him the Chosen One.
Trump lost no time in promoting it:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrum ... 8459805958
This article from The Hill highlights how the revenge rhetoric is becoming even more explicit following Trump’s conviction last week in the hush money business fraud case:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... onviction/
The former president has routinely suggested it would be fair game to target his opponents ever since he was indicted last year in cases in New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C., including by saying he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Biden family.
Republican lawmakers have for months echoed Trump in complaining about the various prosecutors bringing charges against him – threatening action from Congress or that they could be prosecuted themselves in the future.
But those threats have become less veiled in the wake of Trump’s guilty verdict.
Following the Trump guilty verdict, Republicans have called for slashing federal funding for the Department of Justice and the FBI, as well as from state-level prosecutors such as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who brought the case in New York and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who indicted Trump in Georgia over his attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
It’s a plan with limited reach, as the federal funds flowing to local prosecutors are primarily grants for programs on policing and preventing violence.
But Republicans have also said the tables could turn more sharply once Trump is in office, and his own appointees will helm the Justice Department.
“I think people think, ‘Oh he wouldn’t be able to put people in Cabinet positions because of Senate confirmations,’ but people forget how he abused the system toward the end of his first term and would just name people as acting secretary,” said a former Trump administration official. “He’s kind of learned the levers of government and understands how to bend it to his will better.”
In multiple interviews over the past week, media personalities have attempted to dissuade Trump from pursuing retribution against his opponents if he wins in November. But the former president, furious over his conviction and insistent that he’s being targeted for political reasons, has been reluctant to go along with their suggestions.
Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump if he would “pledge to restore equal justice, equal application of our laws,” and “end this practice of weaponization?”
“Well, you have to do it. But it’s awful. Look, I know you want me to say something so nice,” Trump said. “But I don’t want to look naïve.”
Phil McGraw, host of the TV show “Dr. Phil,” suggested to the former president he didn’t have time to “get even” with his critics.
“Well, revenge does take time, I will say that,” Trump responded. “And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest. Sometimes it can.”