Astonishing rally speech from Trump in Texas (January 29) that is both downright scary and worrisome at the same time.
Here
is the full story from Rolling Stone – also covered by most other major news outlets with this headline (edited
and formatted to fit the blog):
“Trump Dangles Pardons for January 6 Rioters in Texas
Rally Speech”
Near the end of his meandering,
80-plus-minute address to a “Save
America” rally crowd in Conroe, TX, Trump dangled the possibility of
pardons for the insurrectionists who participated in a deadly breach of the
Capitol on January 6 that was aimed at disrupting the peaceful transfer of power from one president
to the next — he said: “If I run, and if I win, we will treat those
people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them
pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly.”
That Trump pledge of leniency came at the end of a speech in
which he returned to his favorite theme: The dangers posed by undocumented
immigrants and the need for harsh treatment of them. Trump fixated on illegal
immigration, claiming Biden and Democrats had thrown open the United States to
an “invasion and that countless lives were being lost thanks to undocumented
immigration.”
Also, this part of his Texas
rally rant is
here from The Hill – it too is very concerning to say the least with
this headline:
“Trump calls for ‘biggest protest we've ever
had if prosecutors do anything illegal’ in targeting him”
Speaking at that same rally, Trump railed about the local and federal
probes targeting his businesses and political activities saying: “If these
radical, vicious racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal I hope we are
going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had ... in
Washington DC, in New York, in Atlanta, and elsewhere because our country and
our elections are corrupt.”
My note: I cannot in my life ever believe I would hear a former president ever say something like that.
A few minutes later Trump declared
the nation was “moving on from COVID,” which BTW killed around 3,769
Americans one day before this Texas rant.
Railing against undocumented immigrants has been Trump’s
go-to message since June 2015, when he simultaneously announced a presidential
run and claimed that Mexico was not sending their best people, saying:
“They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems,
and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs.
They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I
assume, are good people.”
That was at the same time he was best known as a has-been reality television host who’d kept himself in the public eye by becoming the promoter-in-chief of the lie that the first Black president, Barack Obama, had actually been born in Africa.
In the first hour of his speech Trump largely
blasted Joe Biden while pushing supporters to vote for the state and local
officials he has endorsed. But totally eschewing mention of 2020 would require
a modicum of discipline, or grace, or civic responsibility to counter his
overwhelming need to talk about himself, so the rest of the speech grievances
drifted into the personal as the said: “The 2020 election was rigged, and
everyone knows it. You know who knows it more than anyone else? The Democrats.”
Note: Trump lost the Electoral College count by 64 votes and the
popular tally by more than 7 million.
Ever since 2015 his focus has never been the country in word
or deed. It’s always about him and nothing else. That is the hallmark of all
his speeches as he meanders at the pleasure of his MAGA followers.
For example:
1. He bemoans and smirks transgender college
athletes those of color mostly.
2. He stokes fear about Critical Race Theory (CRT) without even knowing its origin or purpose.
3. He accuses federal prosecutors now looking into
his business dealings of being “sick and racist.”
4. He lies about climate change and mocks those who
take it seriously.
5. He serves up an incoherent word salad that would
be shocking were it not so utterly familiar every time he opens his mouth about
“Poor whittle abused Donald, woe is me,” with tons of lies on top of lies built
on nothing but base-line lies.”
That is all he knows what to do – being a skilled con artist to a crowd of loyalists while spinning a load of snake oil promises, and riling them up with his crap that has
been his life-long honed skill – it’s in his DNA and he cannot change his ways.
My 2 Cents: GOP responses
have been quick and stern on Trump’s pardon promise if reelected in 2024 for
the January 6 Capitol rioters, two examples are here
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), and here
from former Nixon aide, John Dean who tweeted: “This is beyond being a demagogue to the stuff of dictators. He is
defying the rule of law.”
So, Mr. and Mrs. Trump Sycophant I ask you: “Are you ready for the
first ever American dictator if your ilk actually votes to put him back in
the White House in 2024?”
It sure seems like from
what I am hearing across GOP la-la land, which I might add is pretty pathetic
as much as seeing and hearing from many on FOX (Tucker Carlson) and RW Talk Radio praising Putin
recently about his stance towards Ukraine.
That too is very
concerning as much as this related Trump story also: Trump tours the country endorsing GOP 2022 candidates to
reinforce his “Big lie” regarding his 2020 loss.
Finally, if anyone truly
wants to “Save America” then let’s save it from Trump and his evil, criminal,
nasty, un-American ways as shown in this recent Texas rally speech.
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