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Celerity

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Thu Nov 19, 2020, 01:08 PM Nov 2020

On His Way Out, Donald Trump Wants To Break The World

There could be ramifications that outlive the Biden administration and possibly a dozen subsequent administrations

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/on-his-way-out-donald-trump-wants



by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC -- The American system of justice has never indicted, arrested or prosecuted an ex-president before. Then again, we’ve never had a president as unforgivably corrupt as Donald Trump. Amazingly, however, Trump’s corruption led to the one and only time an ex-president has been investigated by the Department of Justice. Some time ago Trump, filled with piss, vinegar, and transfats, ordered his attorney general and personal fixer Bill Barr to investigate Barack Obama and now-president-elect Joe Biden for allegedly spying on Trump’s campaign. They didn’t spy on the campaign, but facts don’t matter anymore to 73 million Americans who still inexplicably support the outgoing regime. As far as we know, Barr and U.S. attorney John Durham are still investigating the Obama administration -- to this day. The precedent that once stood for 240 years ended with Trump. As we’ve all witnessed, however, Trump always makes things worse for Trump. So, unless he somehow scams his way to a pardon before the inauguration, it’ll be entirely in keeping with the new precedent for the incoming Justice Department to investigate Trump for his myriad crimes. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s going to prison, but it’ll surely indicate that the rule of law isn’t dead. Not yet.

And during the last two weeks alone, Trump’s given the proper authorities plenty of material to work with. In addition to all the obstruction of justice charges in the Mueller report, in addition to his confessed quid-pro-quo with Ukraine in an attempt to cheat in the election, and on down the line, Trump is currently attempting to overrule democracy itself by engaging in both legal yet frivolous lawsuits as well as outright treasonous attacks on the democratic process itself. And this, perhaps above all else, can’t be allowed to go unpunished. At some point, Trump ordered his loyalists in various cabinet-level agencies to do whatever’s necessary to disrupt the transition, potentially crippling the incoming Joe Biden administration before the new president is even sworn in. First, we learned this week that Trump ordered Health and Human Services to stonewall the Biden team -- in the midst of a worsening pandemic. CNN’s Kristen Holmes reported: Some Health and Human Services staffers instructed today that if anyone from President-elect Joe Biden's team contacts them, they are not to communicate with them and are to alert Deputy Surgeon General Rear Admiral Erica Schwartz of the communication per an administration official.




How many people will die for Trump’s tyrannical hissy fit? It’s too early to tell but a solid guess would be “many.” Without official government information about the pandemic, Biden and his newly assembled team of COVID experts are effectively operating with one hand tied behind their backs. It gets worse. CNN also reported Wednesday that Trump and his henchmen are planning to intentionally sabotage Biden on foreign policy. A second official tells CNN their goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out. In other words, stir up total chaos in the world for no other reason but to soothe Trump’s fragile, deranged, malevolent, deformed ego. Depending on where the fires are -- probably several in the Middle East alone, possibly one gigantic one in Iran -- there could be ramifications that outlive the Biden administration and possibly a dozen subsequent administrations. If he does it, the blowback will be immense, catastrophic, and unstoppable -- terrorist attacks, retaliation against overseas allies, or worse. Long before he lost the election, many of us predicted Trump’s temper tantrum on the way out. He’s that kid who wings the board game across the room when he’s losing. He’s that screaming German kid in that viral video. Only instead of breaking toys and computers, Donald Trump is breaking the world.



Oh, and there’s still more. As I predicted back in July, Trump continues to sue various swing states to get vote-by-mail ballots thrown out. He hasn’t won any of these lawsuits, mainly because they’re laughably incompetent. Surprise, surprise. Now, he’s apparently moving on to more extreme legal measures. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Trump has sued Nevada’s electors -- the actual officials who cast their votes in the Electoral College on December 14. The latest challenge from the Trump campaign does not name state or Clark County election officials as defendants. Instead, it names the electors who are set to cast their Electoral College votes for Biden next month after the election gave the former vice president a 33,596 -vote victory in the state. One of Nevada’s electors tweeted: I have just been informed that the Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit against me as an elector for the state of Nevada. Me a homeless veteran who is nonetheless continuing to do her duty to the American people. Enough is enough. It doesn’t matter whether charges stem from election interference or whether this generates more public outcry for prosecuting Trump and his regime. Either way, there has to be accountability beyond simply losing the election -- beyond being a one-termer -- beyond losing the popular vote twice. As we learned before World War II and during the Cold War, appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive. Walking away from Trump and his crimes will only guarantee that the next Trump will be even worse.




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On His Way Out, Donald Trump Wants To Break The World (Original Post) Celerity Nov 2020 OP
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Nov 2020 #1
Republicans have been trying to break the world for decades. onecaliberal Nov 2020 #2
Tantrum-throwing shitstained infant. Mike 03 Nov 2020 #3
k&r for justice. n/t Laelth Nov 2020 #4
Doing Putin's bidding TheRealNorth Nov 2020 #5
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