Rubbish.. Trump corporation acted fraudulently over many years. Hundreds of millions of dollars of false property valuations designed to gain more favourable loan conditions and/or reduce local property taxes. They got it both ways.
Proven guilty. Awaiting sentence.
Defamation against Jean Carroll. Lied, lied and continues to lie about his sexual abuse of her in the 90's . Found guilty of defamation - then goes out and maintains the lie. Sics his followers onto Jean to make her life a misery in revenge.
But its not just women who call him out for his sexual abuse or courts that find him guilty that are trashed by Donald Trump. He makes no bones about going after anyone who stands against him. How do you think Trump avoided impeachment after the outrageous attempt to stop Congress counting the electoral votes ?
This story goes into how effective Trumps vigilante justice program has impacted on the US. He is a menace.
As the election looms, we must be alert to Trump’s threats of vigilante justice
Robert Reich
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There is a direct and alarming link between Trump’s political rise and the increase in political violence and threats in America
Donald Trump has galvanized an army of vigilantes who are casting a fearsome shadow over the 2024 election.
It’s impossible to know how large this potential army is, but last October
41% of pro-Trump Americans agreed with the statement that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” (That view was shared by 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats.)
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We’re seeing the consequences. The day after the Maine secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, barred Trump from the primary ballot there in late December, her home was “swatted”. As Bellows
explained, “That’s when someone calls in a fake emergency to evoke a strong law enforcement response to scare the target. Swatting incidents have resulted in casualties although thankfully this one did not.”
Along with the swatting, Bellows
discussed “extraordinarily dehumanizing fake images” of her online:
“I know from my previous work that dehumanizing a person is the first step in paving the way for attacks and violence against them. These dehumanizing images and threatening communications directed at me and people I love are dangerous. We should be able to agree to disagree on important issues without threats and violence.”
The Colorado secretary of state, Jena Griswold, has also faced mounting threats since the Colorado supreme court in December disqualified Trump from the state’s primary ballot.
“Within three weeks of the lawsuit being filed, I received 64 death threats,” Griswold has
said. “I stopped counting after that. I will not be intimidated. Democracy and peace will triumph over tyranny and violence.”
Jack Smith, the special counsel in charge of two federal prosecutions of Trump, has received a number of death threats. Between April and September of last year, the justice department spent more than
$4.4m providing increased security for Smith and his team. On
Christmas Day he was swatted.
On 4 August, Trump posted, “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” The following day, a Texas woman left a voicemail for Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge presiding over the case charging Trump with seeking to overturn the 2020 election,
threatening that, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you.”
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Security has been
increased for Judge Chutkan, as well. On 7 January, she was
swatted.
..... There is a direct and alarming connection between Trump’s political rise and the increase in political violence and threats of such violence in America.
In 2016, the Capitol police recorded
fewer than 900 threats against members of Congress. In 2017, after Trump took office, that figure more than quadrupled, according to the Capitol police.
The numbers continued to rise every year of the Trump presidency, peaking at 9,700 in 2021. In 2022, the first full year of Biden’s term, the numbers declined to a still-high 7,500. (The 2023 data is not yet available.)
Data also shows extraordinarily high levels of threats against
mayors,
federal judges,
election workers and administrators,
public health officials, and even school board members.
And what about threats on the Republican side of politics ?
The retiring senator Mitt Romney recounted (in McKay Coppins’s biography of him) that during Trump’s 23 January 2021 impeachment for incitement of insurrection, a member of the Republican Senate leadership was leaning toward voting to convict Trump. But after several other senators expressed concern about their personal safety and that of their children, the senator in question voted to acquit.
Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney said that in that impeachment vote, “there were members who told me that they were afraid for their own security – afraid, in some instances, for their lives.” She cited how “members of Congress aren’t able to cast votes, or feel that they can’t, because of their own security.”
Just before the House vote on impeachment, the Democratic representative Jason Crow of Colorado said he heard firsthand from Republicans that fear was holding at least two of them back. “I had a lot of conversations with my Republican colleagues last night, and a couple of them broke down in tears – saying that they are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment,” Crow said on MSNBC.
Former representative Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, recalls one of his House colleagues voting to overturn the election results on the evening of January 6, hours after the assault: “My colleague feared for family members, and the danger the vote would put them in.” After voting to impeach Trump, Meijer himself faced so many threats that he felt the need to purchase body armor and make changes to his daily schedule.
Meijer also noted that his colleagues who voted not to certify the 2020 election “knew in their heart of hearts that they should’ve voted to certify, but some had legitimate concerns about the safety of their families. They felt that that vote would put their families in danger.”
When announcing his retirement, former Republican congressman Anthony Gonzalez cited threats to him and his family after his vote in favor of Trump’s impeachment. Gonzalez was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. In September 2021, Gonzalez announced he would not seek another term.
There is a direct and alarming link between Trump’s political rise and the increase in political violence and threats in America