By Michael Woyton
It’s pretty frustrating, after taking a late-night look at the news and deciding what the next daily outrage story will be, only to wake up the next morning and find something else about which to be more outraged.
That is typical of a Donald Trump presidency as well as his mere existence. We can look forward to more of this should the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist be re-elected to the White House.
Last night, the suer-in-chief let it be known he was filing a lawsuit against CBS alleging election interference for editing and airing Vice President Kamala Harris’s “60 Minutes” interview. Plus he was demanding $10 billion. Yes, billion.
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The icing on the litigious cake was that Trump’s legal eagles dove down into the Northern District of Texas to judge shop United States District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — a Trump lifetime appointee — to oversee the filing.
The suit claims CBS Broadcasting and CBS Interactive have sided with Harris over Trump to be the next president, KFDA reported.
Forget the fact that neither CBS nor Trump are headquartered in Texas. Famously, Kacsmaryk was the chosen one, judge wise, to oversee a lawsuit against the Maryland-based Food and Drug Administration to restrict nationwide the abortion pill mifepristone.
But imagine my surprise, after waking up Friday morning, when I learned that Trump suggested that former Rep. Liz Cheney — no fan of the wannabe authoritarian — should be executed, according to the headline on the Drudge Report.
Calling her a “radical war hawk,” Trump said during an event moderated by Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, that “let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” Politico reported, adding that the crowd cheered at the suggestion that the guns be trained on her face.
CNN’s Kasie Hunt spoke about Trump’s comments on her news show Friday morning, saying that violent rhetoric was nothing new for the former president, “but this stark imagery represents an escalation.”
Hunt reminded viewers that Trump has previously said that the U.S. military be used against what he calls the “enemy from within,” meaning Americans who have the audacity to oppose him.
Also, Hunt’s viewers were reminded that, while president, Trump asked his advisers if the military could shoot protesters in the legs in the streets of Washington, D.C. Fortunately, his advisers pushed back on the idea.
Trump has also said that retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, should possibly be executed.
We all remember, thanks to the constant media coverage of the Trump rallies leading up to the 2016 election, the then-candidate encouraging his supporters to rough up people who might be protesting.
The Atlantic put together “A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks,” with 40 instances going back to the 2016 campaign when he “incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.” Read it here.
Cheney responded to Trump’s statement via the site formerly known as Twitter:
“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala”
So much of what Trump says is immediately disavowed by his followers with statements such as “he didn’t mean what he said,” “he was just joking,” or, incredibly when there’s a video or audio recording, “he never said that.”
We should believe Trump when he says he will bring retribution into the White House and will take care of his political enemies.
Thanks to the Supreme Court granting presidents full immunity for official acts — and the fact that there will not be anyone who could rein him in next time — Donald Trump is a dangerous man.
Lead art: screen grab from C-SPAN
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