Posted on 01/30/2022 9:48:50 PM PST by Robwin
Former President Donald Trump conjured a vision of a second term that would function as a tool of personal vengeance, and become even more authoritarian than his first, when he vowed to pardon US Capitol insurrectionists if he runs for the White House again and wins.
His pledge at a Texas rally Saturday was accompanied by a call for demonstrations if prosecutors in New York, who are probing Trump's business practices, and those in Georgia, looking into his attempts to reverse his election loss in the state, do anything that he defined as wrong or illegal. The comments underscore Trump's obsession with delusional lies that he won the 2020 election, and his determination to put that falsehood at the core of the Republican worldview. As was often the case during his four years in office, Trump's pardons threat shows that he still makes no distinction between his personal goals and the national interest or rule of law.
But the former President's new rhetorical outburst also at times hinted at concern with his own legal position, and comes at a moment when various criminal and congressional lines of investigation seem to be tightening around him. The House select committee probing the January 6, 2021 riot has now penetrated deep inside Trump's West Wing inner circle, and he lost a Supreme Court bid to keep key documents secret. The likelihood of a damning accounting from the committee, bristling with new details about Trump's attempt to destroy American democracy, is growing, though the GOP has sought to thwart it at every turn.
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There you go again.
Trolls need Zotting. Toilet Paper Terrorist is numero uno.
And those two were ringers.
More lies. Georgia was outright stolen.
That would be confusing. The only insurrectionists were those that certified a deliberately stolen election on January 6th, 2021.
Talk about flogging a dead horse...Trump won’t shut up about Pence and the 2020 election.
He told Georgians not to vote in the runoff.
No. 1: It's amusing.
No. 2: It currently has 127 responses which I think shows someone is interested.
No. 3: Perhaps you should be a little more selective in your reading. If the post is sourced CNN you might consider avoiding it, and instead adding "something conservatives would celebrate" of your own.
Read his press releases from the past weekend. Railing against Pence and the 2020 election.
Apparently this is a great strategy for 2024, according to the people around here.
Pence could’ve stood up and stopped the Derp State Insurrection and been a hero for the Republic on 1/6/21. He chose to ratify the evil.
Never forget the theft. Traitors must swing.
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