If Attorney General Merrick Garland needed any more impetus to indict Donald Trump, this ought to do it. Trump is essentially saying “I did it before and I will do it again,” like the serial killer who taunts police with “stop me before I kill again.”
Jason Easley reports, Trump Is Basically Promising A Coup In 2024:
Trump is off the deep end and making it clear that he intends to try to take back power by any means necessary in 2024.
This was Trump’s Truth Social post:
this is probably the most nakedly authoritarian thing Trump has ever posted pic.twitter.com/fnO5VbXyhX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 3, 2022
Trump is claiming that any election that he loses should be tossed out and a new one held because that is what the Founders would have wanted. Of course, the nation was founded in rebellion against the tyranny of a monarchy, which is defined as one person holding power and denying representation and voice to the population.
Donald Trump isn’t hiding it. He isn’t pretending to respect democracy. If the 2024 election doesn’t go in his favor, the failed former president is going to demand that the Constitution be terminated [as well as the rule of law], and a new election held [one that is rigged to ensure he is declared the winner.]
Such are the daydreams of the every day fascist.
Anyone who continues to support Donald Trump is by definition an insurrectionist, and is a traitor to the Constitution, the rule of law, and to the country. You will be treated accordingly.
Politico adds, POLITICO Playbook: Trump’s pre-runoff message: Terminate the Constitution:
Every Republican will be asked about Trump’s statement. The former president dined with antisemites last week, and now he says the Constitution should be discarded. If you are a Republican who thinks being asked to take a position on this is just some liberal media trap, consider what you would say if BARACK OBAMA or JOE BIDEN tweeted this.
UPDATE: The White House on Saturday responded to Donald Trump calling for the suspension of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election, saying in a statement, ‘You cannot only love America when you win’:
“The Constitution brings the American people together – regardless of party – and elected leaders swear to uphold it,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said. “Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation, and should be universally condemned.”
In response to Trump’s call to suspend Constitutional laws, the DNC said in a statement: “Donald Trump lost by 7 million votes in 2020 and his calls to undermine our democracy cost his party key races in 2022. The continued silence by Republican leaders, including his potential primary competitors, shows a MAGA party that is beholden to Trumpism, his divisive rhetoric, and his extreme positions.”
Axios reports, Democrats react to Trump’s call to suspend Constitution (excerpt):
What they’re saying: “Trump just called for the suspension of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 results. Georgia VOTE. You stood tall against Trump and his minions last time. A win for Warnock is another win for democracy,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) tweeted Saturday.
- “A few hours ago the leader of the republican party donald trump called for destroying the Constitution and making himself dictator,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) tweeted.
- “Every congressional reporter should demand responses from Congressional Republicans about Donald Trump’s call for the Constitution to be terminated … how many of them called themselves ‘Constitutional conservatives’ during the Obama years???” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) tweeted Saturday evening.
- “Donald Trump wants to suspend the Constitution in the name of protecting the Constitution, just like he perpetrated election fraud in the name of preventing election fraud,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) tweeted.
- “January 6 was Donald Trump’s attempt at terminating the US Constitution. He’s a repeat offender,” Torres added in another tweet.
Congressman Don Beyer of Virginia tweeted:
Days after Trump dined with men who praise Hitler and the Nazis, he demands the ‘termination’ of the Constitution’s electoral process so he can be illegally reinstated. Trump’s words and actions are unacceptable, they stoke hatred and political violence, and they are dangerous. Every Member of Congress swore an oath to ‘defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.’ Donald Trump has openly declared himself an enemy of the Constitution, and Republicans must repudiate him.
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz said:
Trump just called for the suspension of the Constitution and it is the final straw for zero republicans, especially the ones who call themselves ‘constitutional conservatives.’
Where is any condemnation from Republican leadership in Congress?
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Mark Sumner has an excellent analysis, “Trump calls for a ‘termination of all rules … even the Constitution’ to install him as dictator”, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/3/2139823/-Trump-calls-for-a-termination-of-all-rules-even-the-Constitution-to-install-him-as-dictator
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Trump so regularly says something absolutely vile which should be offensive to the sensibilities of anyone who cares about facts, laws, history, or democracy has left all his statements in a kind of odd limbo. On the one hand, a former leader of the nation calling for the overthrow of the current government and installation of himself as the head, while explicitly calling for the Constitution to be pitched, seems like textbook sedition. On the other hand, Trump is just such a repetitive and consistent asshole, that raising the stakes to tossing the Constitution on the bonfire of his vanity, seems like just another Saturday.
Truthfully, there is great danger in paying too much attention to anything that Trump says. Even his most drooling followers have long since stopped listening to the words in his rally appearances. They just come to bask in the reflected orange glow of his better than Washington / Lincoln / Jesus wonderfulness. Trump knows how to hate the right people. That’s all that counts for those who love him.
It’s not as if Trump calling for an overthrow of the government is likely to lead to a violent uprising. This week. This week, Republicans will just be celebrating how with nothing more than words, Trump once again “owned the libs” and caused people to fume in outrage.
However, there’s a huge danger in dismissing any of this as “oh, that’s just Trump. Ignore him.” Because no one has done more to normalize racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-science, anti-journalism, anti-facts language than Trump. Every time he speaks like this and it doesn’t generate a powerful backlash, Trump has succeeded in moving the line for “political speech” a little further toward having “Kill them all, let God sort them out” as the platform of the Republican Party.
Will Trump be charged with sedition over this latest statement? He will not. Odds are good that not one Sunday morning talk show will even ask their Republican “guests” about the this latest demand for a monarchy.
That doesn’t mean this isn’t significant. Because no matter what any poll says, there are very good odds that Trump will be standing for election in 2024, and that half of America will be ready to automatically stamp that GOP button. So that Trump can take his lighter over to the Library of Congress and see how parchment burns.
“Because no matter what any poll says, there are very good odds that Trump will be standing for election in 2024…”
As I’ve said many times, the only thing that will effectively end America’s Trump problem is a well placed aneurysm ready to burst.
It appears he’s just going to keep doing what he does until he finally drops dead.
Hopefully he’ll wind up living out his days as some sicko’s prison bride. Which, considering how often he’s joked about that happening to those he doesn’t like, would be just desserts.
I think Liza is right.
As long as T4ump can manage to pick up a putty knife to scrape on his makeup, get his jumbo-sized can of Aqua-Net up over his head and hold down the spray button, and squeeze into his lifts, he’s not going away.
He’ll never do time. People around him have and more people will, but not him.
I dread the day he passes, because his cult followers put him up there with Jesus, they’ll expect him back three days later wearing a Superman shirt, and when that doesn’t happen, the conspiracy theories that are coming…
Oh, lawdy, the conspiracy theories…. they’re going to be epic.
Don’t know, Sharpie. The ideal situation is letting the bum roam free doing as much damage to the Repugs as he can, especially if he’s not the nominee then let the indictments fly in the spring/summer of 2024. Being an apparent flight risk would be sufficient justification for locking him up upon indictment.
Will he or not be donning an orange jumpsuit? There’s points to be made for either outcome. Assume the worst (his never seeing the inside of a cell) but hope for the best.
I disagree with many here that believe Trump can only be a liability for the GOP if he’s allowed to roam free. History informs us that in a republic, if the great and powerful are not brought to account for their violations of norms and laws, those violations become the new normal and the de facto law. That is one way how republics fall. I believe that unless Trump personally experiences legal accountability for at least some of the many, many crimes he’s committed during his Presidency, then our Republic will be even more weakened than the damage he’s already done to the public’s normative expectations of elite political behavior.
Trump needs professional psychiatric help. Or could he be acting mentally ill to save himself from going to prison. He has acted out violent. We do not need more damage. his actions and demands are not logic.
You gotta be way more crazy than this to avoid prison.
Who knew? His idol, the “leader” he wants to be, is a combination of (mostly) Vladimir Putin with (a little) Idi Amin mixed in.
We’ve been warning where this was all leading for 6 years now. Perhaps we might call our concerns fully justified, now? Just glad he did slide over this particular precipice while he still held the Presidency…
The sky is falling!
Get Him Out Of Public Eye, NOW
And we would ever believe a Republican’s response to that question? Not I!! They lie and will continue to lie to attain or keep power. That is their only interest. Never let them hold power again.