President Trump notoriously believes that what goes around comes around, or in his words, “When people treat me unfairly, I don’t let them forget.” Spoken like a true mob boss.
Among those targeted for the president’s wrath: former FBI Director James Comey who in the early days of Trump’s first Administration, attempted to get him indicted and/or impeached for colluding with the Russians to fix the 2016 election; New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who got a monumental judgement against the president for undervaluing his real estate holdings, in a case that went nowhere after the U.S. Supreme Court held the president immune from such trifles; feisty Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky primaried to oblivion at the president’s behest ultimately losing his seat in Congress, and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana who lost his job because in 2021 he voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial.
Others on this President’s Enemies List 2.0 include John Brennan who headed the CIA during the Obama administration; the late Robert Mueller who as Special Prosecutor ultimately failed to bring a chargeable case against Trump for colluding with the Russians to fix the 2016 Election. (Mueller remember passed away recently, an event President Trump noted by saying “Good. I’m glad he’s dead”); former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who tore up a copy of Trump’s State of the Union Speech on live television, and former Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to rewrite the Constitution to award Trump the Presidency despite his loss in the November 2020 election.
Mueller, Brennan, Comey, James, Massey, Pelosi, Pence, etc. All bad for Trump, all targets.
But what about those Trump considers “good guys,” like the warped patriots who ignominiously stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2001 to undo Trump’s election loss?But what about those Trump considers “good guys,” like the warped patriots who ignominiously stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2001 to undo Trump’s election loss?
To compensate those convicted and punished by the government for their actions on that dark day, he is in effect proposing a slush fund. You know it is phony by its tricky amount $1,776,000,000. Get it, 1776 billion? The money will come from the so-called Judgment Fund, the cash held by the Justice Department to speedily compensate those who successfully sue the government.
President Trump apparently intends to reward everyone who stormed the Capitol, including those who crawled their way up the exterior, busted out windows and doors, assaulted cops and defaced our nearly 250-year legacy of constitutional democracy. Trump believes those vandals are the real victims of what he believes the weaponization of the legal system.
Hopefully it’s not going to happen. For the first time since Trump was elected to his second term, to begin what even his friends believe to be an imperial presidency, Republicans in Congress are standing up to him. They adjourned Congress and fled the capital before Memorial Day to escape having to ratify this noxious ploy.
I am among a small group of independent voters who believes that Trump has on occasion been the victim of politically motivated prosecutors who have essentially weaponized the law. The “Russia/Russia” probe was over the top. Plus, I do not believe that Trump should have been criminally prosecuted for moving his documents to Mar a Lago. Still, these examples are a far cry from rewarding a gang of thugs who after trashing the Capitol dare call themselves patriots.
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