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Everyone will agree that Trump makes silly comments! He made the same comments in 2016 and never even attempted to lock up anyone for the whole four years. The

by klear 2y ago

Everyone will agree that Trump makes silly comments! He made the same comments in 2016 and never even attempted to lock up anyone for the whole four years. The Democrats always say the right things, but proceeded to try to lock up Trump for the entire period of 2021-2024. Barking dogs don't bite, it seems that "Silent dogs bite" is also true.

derektank 2y ago
Jeff Sessions was actively encouraged to investigate Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump which, to his credit, he largely resisted as he had decided to refuse himself on all matters that might be related to the 2016 campaign (Sessions had been a member of the Trump campaign). It's overwhelmingly likely that the next AG will be far more compliant to Trump's demands
- mikeyouse 2y ago
  Trump was literally impeached for attempting to trade US weapons for dirt on his political opponents after which his personal lawyers and DOJ appointees spent years “investigating” his opponents. Then there was the IRS targeting he used to go after those who worked with Mueller.. people who deny this stuff happened are either super low info commenters or actively malicious so it’s probably not worth engaging but it’s gaslighting on an impressive scale at least. Aside from all that, if the best defense of a Presidential candidate explicitly promising to use the military and DOJ to target the media, political rivals and anyone who opposes him is that he “says silly things”, that’s not actually reassuring at all. “You can’t trust his repeated promises” shouldn’t be a benign fact..
rootusrootus 2y ago
The best thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he has the attention span of a gnat and a sense of vanity so large that manipulating him is trivially easy. He had fewer accomplishments in his term than any president in memory. What he brings is chaos, not policy, and that is the only thing that gives me much hope at all should he win another term. We'd be much worse off if he had the skill to turn the rhetoric into action. Probably we will just get more useless wall.
V-eHGsd_ 2y ago
> but proceeded to try to lock up Trump for the entire period of 2021-2024. that's a very strange/partisan way to say that they tried to hold him legally accountable for his actions.

by klear 2y ago

derektank 2y ago

Jeff Sessions was actively encouraged to investigate Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump which, to his credit, he largely resisted as he had decided to refuse himself on all matters that might be related to the 2016 campaign (Sessions had been a member of the Trump campaign). It's overwhelmingly likely that the next AG will be far more compliant to Trump's demands

mikeyouse 2y ago
Trump was literally impeached for attempting to trade US weapons for dirt on his political opponents after which his personal lawyers and DOJ appointees spent years “investigating” his opponents. Then there was the IRS targeting he used to go after those who worked with Mueller.. people who deny this stuff happened are either super low info commenters or actively malicious so it’s probably not worth engaging but it’s gaslighting on an impressive scale at least. Aside from all that, if the best defense of a Presidential candidate explicitly promising to use the military and DOJ to target the media, political rivals and anyone who opposes him is that he “says silly things”, that’s not actually reassuring at all. “You can’t trust his repeated promises” shouldn’t be a benign fact..

rootusrootus 2y ago

The best thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he has the attention span of a gnat and a sense of vanity so large that manipulating him is trivially easy. He had fewer accomplishments in his term than any president in memory. What he brings is chaos, not policy, and that is the only thing that gives me much hope at all should he win another term. We'd be much worse off if he had the skill to turn the rhetoric into action. Probably we will just get more useless wall.

V-eHGsd_ 2y ago

> but proceeded to try to lock up Trump for the entire period of 2021-2024. that's a very strange/partisan way to say that they tried to hold him legally accountable for his actions.