Trump continues course blithely as voters begin to rouse [View all]
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
It was inevitable. Once Donald Trump realized he had our Republican-led Congress underthumbed, and that six servile Supremes would give him a double-oh license to abuse power any way he chose, and that our helplessly MAGAfied co-citizens would weep with joy as he stuck it to the libs (tinyurl.com/stick2us), he abandoned yet another campaign lie: namely, that he’d be a “Peace President.”
Why stop at impoverishing the poor and indicting truth-tellers? Or, based on lies, sending troops to American cities to incite violence that hadn’t existed till then? For Trump, unchecked abuse at home evolves to threatening Venezuela, and to extra-judicial maritime murder, about which he said, in his uniquely presidential phrasing, “I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We’re going to kill them, you know, they’re going to be, like, dead. OK.”
Trump has provided no evidence that the people he’s killing were smuggling drugs or headed to America, and since he knew where they were, he could have captured them. But when two unexpectedly survived, they were sent home immediately. Why? U.S. Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., said she was told in a Pentagon briefing “that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes” and that was part of the reason why the administration has not sought to detain or prosecute survivors, “because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.” Meanwhile, corpses are washing up on Trinidad’s beaches (tinyurl.com/2Trinidad).
It’s also a lie that the Venezuelan boats were carrying fentanyl (Politifact: tinyurl.com/4drugfacts). What decent American can countenance their country becoming an outlaw nation, flouting our own and international laws? Or, in the case of MAGA, thrill to it?
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