Posted on 07/09/2025 10:00:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I usually don’t give advice to President Donald Trump, who knows much more about politics, obviously, than most of us. But I think he could use maybe a suggestion on messaging.
He’s getting attacked by the Left for autocratic use of presidential powers, he’s dictatorial. You’d almost forget that the Left and the Biden administration, in particular, through five criminal and civil courtrooms, fined him over $400 million, coordinated those legal harassments, and indicted him for 93 felonies. They tried to destroy, not just his candidacy, but his person, to bankrupt him and to jail him.
You would’ve forgotten that 25 states tried to take Donald Trump off the ballot. Nobody had ever done that before. Nobody had ever impeached a president twice. Nobody had ever tried a president, probably unconstitutionally, as a private citizen in the Senate, when he had already left office. No presidential candidate had been the subject of two ex-presidential assassination attempts. No ex-president ever had his home raided by the FBI.
So, we’ve forgotten all this and we’re supposed to think that Donald Trump is acting extra-constitutionally. But Donald Trump, I think, could remind people that he’s just following the precedents that he inherited. I’ll give you a few examples.
So, they’re saying he is deporting, deporting, deporting people. Well, former President Barack Obama deported more people in his tenure than any other prior president—2.5 million. And he focused on criminal aliens. He said so. Just like Donald Trump did. And as far as cages and detention centers, Obama created them. So, Trump just said, “I’m just following the precedent of Obama.”
They’re talking about extra powers of the president to harass people. Donald Trump had two members of his administration—Steve Bannon, in the first term, and Peter Navarro, his trade adviser—who were subpoenaed by Congress and they felt for no other reason but harassment in connection with Jan. 6. And they didn’t show up. And they tried to negotiate with Congress. And Congress jailed them....SNIP
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That’s not the right way to say things at all.
Autocrats do not follow the law. Trump is absolutely acting within the law; the left-wing predecessors flouted the law.
Probably through 2023, I wanted justice for the Obama/Biden Deep State traitors.
Since then, I decided to settle for revenge.
Do it, Mr. President. Screw these people as they intended to screw you and our republic.
He came into office and he looked to prior precedent. And the prior precedent was established by former President Joe Biden and Barack Obama. And if there was criticism of them, he never heard about it. And he is just following in their illustrious tradition.
Excellent advise on today's political situation in Washington. But we don't care about them and their hypocrisy.
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The irony of Trump attacked as being “dictatorial” as the Left and the Biden administration
<><>dragged Trump through five criminal and civil courtrooms,
<><>fined him over $400 million,
<><>coordinated those legal harassments,
<><>indicted him for 93 felonies.
<><>as they tried to destroy his candidacy, his person,
<><>they tried to bankrupt him, and to jail him.
<><>never before had 25 states tried to take Trump off the ballot.
<><>Nobody had ever impeached a president twice.
<><>Nobody had ever tried a president, unconstitutionally,
<><>he was a private citizen, he had already left office.
<><>No presidential candidate was the subject of two assassination attempts.
<><>No ex-president ever had his home raided by the FBI.
I was listening to VDH’s podcast today and he spent a lot of the show discussing precedent set by Obama and urging Trump to point it out..
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