Trump will implement Martial Law, Shoot Protestors and Prosecute his enemies
If Donald Trump is re-elected he's made a lot of promises, most of them are Fascist and Dictatorial
If there was any reason to oppose Trump’s re-election, this is it.
He’s said it many times, he’s included this in his Agenda47, but this week he laid it out very clearly for Univision. If he’s re-elected Trump will use the Justice Dept. to attack his enemies. He’ll also invoke the Insurrection Act and place Troops in the streets to put down protests against him using deadly force. It may sound like a joke, but Trump is planning to implement a totalitarian regime.
(The relevant comments start at 3:32)
While discussing the former president's interview with Univision, in which he vowed to use the United States Department of Justice to arrest and indict multiple political opponents, Mattingly emphasized that he didn't think that anyone should believe Trump was merely speaking off the cuff.
"Those aren't flippant remarks," he said. "That's insane."
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig shared Mattingly's analysis
"If he says he's going to do this, I believe him," he said. "If we look back at the first Trump administration... Trump would often call for the prosecution of his political enemies, whether it was James Comey, Andy McCabe, the prosecution of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton."
Honig then said that even former Attorney General Bill Barr, whom Honig wrote an entire book attacking, deserved at least a little credit for refusing to carry out Trump's every order.
"Barr had a line he would not cross," he said. "He wasn't going to go out and indict Barack Obama or Andy McCabe. What Donald Trump is telling us, I'm going to pick different types of people the next time around, people who don't even have that line, and that to me is really really dangerous."
[Nobody points out that if Trump were re-elected, he can’t run for the White House again — so in exactly what election would he be indicting people who he can’t run against? Or does he simply not know the 22nd Amendment exists?]
As Honig points out, this isn’t an idle threat. Trump may be blaming his current batch of indictments as the reason he can now do this, but the fact is he already tried to do all this — it was just that it was a bridge too far for the appointees he had at the time.
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