Trump Says 'They Came for Me and They Can Come for You'
The trial was the first civics lesson where he actually learned something - let's hope others on the right figure it out also.
The felonious — it’s so nice to write these words — president is trying to scare his supporters and anyone who will listen by saying that “they can come for you, too.” Vladimir Putin mockingly said that the U.S. has severe problems after announcing the Trump verdict.
Both of these cowardly, anti-democratic rats are right.
If you break the law, you will be prosecuted. As this verdict demonstrates — sort of — no one is above the law. Donald Trump also loves to whine about how “never before in our history has such a thing happened.” Here again, the orange menace is spot on. In all of its 248 years, our storied nation has never been faced with the situations that Donald Trump keeps putting us in. Scandal after scandal, broken law after national embarrassment, topped off by racist tirades never before heard from a president, Trump has pushed us so far into the darkness that many Americans are unaffected that he has been found guilty of 34 felony counts.
He is guilty, and this means that the system has once again, despite the complicity of the Republican Party and most Republican members of Congress, withstood yet another kick to the gut by America’s fascist moment.
Trump’s buddy in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, who wants nothing more than for Trump to win in November, taunted the United States by trying to make it seem the U.S. was guilty of doing exactly what Russia does daily to not just political opponents but even teenage girls who change the word “war (voina)” into the word a type of salted fish in Russian (vobla) — she made stickers. She plastered them all around her apartment building that said “No to vo-a!” When she was arrested, she explained the whole word was “vobla” and not “voina.” The 17-year-old is currently in jail regardless of her admission.
“If we speak about Trump, the fact that there is simply the elimination, in effect, of political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal, is obvious,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters at a news briefing. “That is evident to everyone, to the whole world, with the naked eye.”
Another Trump ally, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who has twice hosted an overseas version of the Conservative Political Action Conference that attracts some of the biggest rightwing and far-right names, said:
“I’ve known President @realDonaldTrump to be a man of honor. As President, he always put America first, he commanded respect around the world and used this respect to build peace. Let the people make their verdict this November! Keep on fighting, Mr President (Putin and Orban Voice Support)!”
That so many of the world’s despots voiced support for Trump speaks volumes about how right the verdict was. Proving to the citizens of countries like Russia, China, and others that a president can and should be held accountable is a blow to them. The terroristic underpinnings of the Kremlin’s rule shine brighter on days like May 30th. When the U.S. system proves that a president who broke the nation’s laws can be found guilty and declared a criminal, Vladimir Putin’s hold on power slips a few notches.
Nevertheless, Trump’s presidency and post-presidency have once created a test for our democracy that maybe we will pass and maybe we will fail. The next five months are guaranteed to be raucous, uncharted, and potentially bloody thanks, yet again, to the existence of one man: Donald Trump.
The world’s press, outside of the terrorist state of Russia and despotic Hungary, rejoiced that the rule of law prevailed. Still, journalists in almost all countries expressed a sense of foreboding. If the guilty verdict doesn’t kill Trump’s chances, then it will turn him into a cornered and wounded animal.
A victory in November will turn him into a rabid one.