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Showing Original Post only (View all)Donald Trump's real conspiracy: It's much larger than even Fani Willis imagines [View all]
Donald Trump's real conspiracy: It's much larger than even Fani Willis imaginesTrump's Georgia indictment is impressive in scale. His conspiracy to end democracy is a lot bigger than that
By KIRK SWEARINGEN
PUBLISHED AUGUST 16, 2023 5:45AM (EDT)
(Salon) So Donald Trump is finally being charged as the mob leader he has been for many years. It's about time.
Trump's father, who told him that he could either be a killer or a loser, and his later father figure, Roy Cohn, who taught him the dark Machiavellian arts, would be proud as putsch, er, punch.
When I heard that among the 41 felony counts in the 98-page indictment, Trump is being charged with conspiring to make a public official break his oath of office (technically speaking, with "Solicitation of Violation of Oath by Public Officer" ), that stood out. In a larger sense, Donald Trump has asked all his followers to renege on their duties as citizens of a democratic republic.
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But Trump's conspiracy to falsify the Georgia vote count, as heinous and as blatant as it was, pales in comparison to his ongoing and highly successful effort to train a sizable chunk of the American public to despise their own government, to hate the free press, to dehumanize their political opponents, not to take even the most basic precautions in a public health emergency and to embrace all kinds of dangerous conspiracy theories.
Trump's co-conspirators in this larger scheme go well beyond the 18 people indicted this week and their 30 or so unindicted co-conspirators. They include dark moneyfunded Republican members of Congress, a number of Republican governors who are avidly experimenting with autocracy at the state level, the Federalist Society-approved majority on the Supreme Court, and the Fox News-Newsmax-OAN propaganda triad. .................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/16/donald-real-conspiracy-its-much-larger-than-even-fani-willis-imagines/
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Donald Trump's real conspiracy: It's much larger than even Fani Willis imagines [View all]
marmar
Aug 2023
OP
I can't believe the people follow this man he says such terrible things about the United States and
Walleye
Aug 2023
#1
It's breathtaking, isn't it. But he validates their racism (and a bucket full of other -isms...)
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2023
#48
True but they all play each for themselves and their own advantage. Regional differences apply
Ford_Prefect
Aug 2023
#43
And the author thinks Fani Willis doesn't "imagine" this? Ms Willis does the work in front of her...
Hekate
Aug 2023
#4
Yep. The author is just another chode who thinks he has some special insight nobody else has.
BannonsLiver
Aug 2023
#24
Not a thing negative about Ms. Willis in the article. Writer does rip Trump's co-conspirators.
Kid Berwyn
Aug 2023
#27
It seems we are giving too much credit to tfg. Without foreign and domestic players with brains and
housecat
Aug 2023
#13
That's a very important article. It's all worse than most of us thought. /nt
bucolic_frolic
Aug 2023
#17
I'll just go to the Winchester, have a pint, and wait for this whole thing to blow over.
Initech
Aug 2023
#23
Taught them to hate the same government that helps them live their lives
Ferrets are Cool
Aug 2023
#28