The prosecutions are all shutting down because they were naked corruption of the justice system and they don't want Trump to do to them what they have been trying to do to Trump.
Many of us, us being Americans as well, felt, if we were true to our ideals, if we really were different than say, a third world country without experience in self governance, than it was critical that we hold a president to account for the crimes against our ideals. Those Americans, myself included, felt, again, if we are who we think we are, and actually believe none of us, including a president, is above the law, then we needed to honor our foundation, needed to act on our defence of this nation’s ideals, and how we transfer power following a free and fair election. Which is exactly what the 2020 election was: free and fair, no widespread fraud, and no theft of the election by Democrats.
Sadly, for those of us Americans who believe we owed this to ourselves, and, importantly, to our future generations, this accounting, this demonstrating that a president is not above the law, did not happen, and will not happen. Does not mean your position is correct. Trump winning does not make your position any less ludicrous. If you believe what you’re hoping for here, you’re very naive. Trump: “I will be your retribution”. Will future generations think well enough of our ideals, that they will find your position “really poor civics, reflecting a really poor opinion of who we are”? I don’t know. I hope so, but no guarantee.
But, as of now, your above statement is rooted in alternate history, that bears no relation to reality. You agree with Trump. It does show how little you care for your own country, and how we handle our elections and transfer of power. In any moral universe, Trump’s Big Lie is exposed, expunged, and the man is held to account.
They want Trump to be the better human being, and I think Trump is going to be the better human being.
Really? Think they, and you, are gonna fall short….sounds like a pipe dream to me:
Trump’s choice for FBI director speaks volumes about his real second-term agenda
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-He’s chosen a
Fox News host with a sordid personal history to lead the Pentagon, an
apologist for dictators in Russia and Syria to be the Director of National Intelligence, and an anti-vax, anti-science
activist to be the nation’s top health official.
-Trump has now added yet another dangerous nomination to this list. In a Saturday night post on his social-media site, Truth Social, he announced that he is nominating Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, to serve as the director of the FBI.
-Patel’s nomination is shocking in many ways, not least because the FBI already has a director, Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed to a 10-year term only seven years ago and who he would have to fire almost immediately to make way for Patel. Worse, Patel is a
conspiracy theorist even by the standards of MAGA world. Like other senior Trump nominees, his primary qualification for the job appears to be his willingness to do Trump’s bidding
without hesitation.
-For Trump, naming Patel to the post serves several purposes. First, Trump is taking his razor-thin election win as a mandate to rule as he pleases, and Patel is the perfect nominee to prove that he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. Even knowing what they know, Americans chose to return him to office, and he has taken their decision as a license to do whatever he wants—including giving immense power to someone like Kash Patel.
-Second, Trump wants to show that the objections of senior elected Republicans are of no consequence to him, and that he can politically flatten them at will. Some of his nominations seem like a trollish flex, a way to display his power by naming people to posts and daring others to stop him. Trump has always thought of the GOP as his fiefdom and GOP leaders as his vassals—and if the Senate folds on Patel and others, he may be proven right on both counts.
-Trump has made clear how much he hates the FBI, and he has convinced his MAGA base that it’s a nest of political corruption. In a stunning reversal of political polarity, a significant part of the law-and-order GOP now regards the men and women of federal law enforcement with contempt and paranoia. If Trump’s goal is to break the FBI and undermine its missions, Kash Patel is the perfect nominee. Some senior officials would likely resign rather than serve under Patel, which would probably suit Trump just fine.
-Of course, this means the FBI would struggle to do the things it’s supposed to be doing, including fighting crime and conducting counter-intelligence work against America’s enemies. But it would become an excellent instrument of revenge against anyone Trump or Patel identifies as an internal enemy—which, in Trump’s world, is anyone who criticizes Donald Trump.
-The Russians speak of the “power ministries,” the departments that have significant legal and coercive capacity. In the United States, those include the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the FBI, and the intelligence community. Trump has now named sycophants to lead each of these institutions, a move that eliminates important obstacles to his frequently expressed desires to use the armed forces, federal law-enforcement agents, intelligence professionals, and government lawyers as he chooses, unbounded by the law or the Constitution.
-If you want to assemble the infrastructure of an authoritarian government, this is how you do it.
The early-20th-century Peruvian strongman Óscar R. Benavides once stated a simple principle that Trump now appears to be pursuing when he said: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” It falls now to the Republican members of the Senate to decide whether Trump can impose this formula on the United States.
Patel has long raged against the so-called Deep State and prioritized his loyalty to Trump.
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