Millions of us rightly want to see Donald Trump held accountable for what he allegedly did in the past.
Maneuver to overturn the legitimate outcome of the 2020 election and resist the peaceful transfer of power, a first for U.S. presidents. Stealing top-secret documents and conspiring to hide them from the federal government. Falsifying business records to keep money paid to a porn star secret from voters in 2016.
However, we must not lose sight of what Trump it will be fine, if – despite all this baggage – he beats Joe Biden become president again. His feverish dreams are no secret. He told us so, and his acolytes also did so in interviews and in exhaustive and frightening detail in their so-called 2025 plan for a second Trump term.
Among Trump’s first acts? Turning the historically independent Department of Justice into his personal law firm, filled with money paid for by taxpayers. Roy Cohns ready to drop criminal charges against the boss.
And then, despite Trump’s arguments to the Supreme Court that presidents should be granted legal immunity (something no other president has ever sought), he will go after his government prosecutors on Biden. As he told Time magazine in its recent cover story, “Biden, I’m sure, will be prosecuted for all his crimes.” What crimes? Trump doesn’t say it and his Republican acolytes in the House I found bubkes after more than a year of investigation.
Focusing on Trump’s plans is important in itself. But it is all the more crucial for voters as responsibility for his past actions is uncertain. turns out to be so elusive, thanks to Republican appointments to the Supreme Court and the new Trump judge in charge of the classified documents case in Florida. They indulge in his outlandish legal tactics and develop their own. The financial silence case could well be the only one to reach a verdict before November.
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The fact that Trump 2.0 hasn’t gotten more attention reflects how normalized his scandal has become — and how distracted voters and the media have been by the prosecution of Trump 1.0.
In any other time, proposals like these would be big news: the National Guard, and perhaps the Army too, rounding up and deporting an estimated 11 million people who entered this country illegally, most of them there years, and which are now detained. jobs, pay taxes, and raise children who are citizens. Huge detention camps for migrants. National Guard troops police the city streets at the whim of the president. A setback in programs to combat climate change for “drill, baby, drill.”
For voters who aren’t inclined to wade through the voluminous Project 2025, Time’s cover story provided a CliffsNotes version, “If he wins…how far will Trump go.” » He participated in two interviews with the journalist, reflecting his longtime obsession with being a Time coverboy; pre-presidency, he had a fake cover created and hung framed copies…
