When I read the following Yahoo News story the first thing I
thought of was this old phrase: “GOOD MORNING VIETNAM” … that was the name of
the movie set in Saigon, South Vietnam in 1965, during the Vietnam War. It starred
the late Robin Williams as a DJ radio host on Armed Forces radio Air
Force Airman named Adian
Cronauer who used that phrase to introduce his daily radio show – one that
was hugely popular with the troops, but infuriated his superiors with what they
called his “irreverent tendency.”
FYI: I served in VN in that era from late August 1965 until early September 1966 (my first tour with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines).
Yes, we used that phrase frequently and we heard
the radio show wherever possible, which was not often I might add – we were
busy with other things.
And now here we are on the abyss of not that ugly war in VN
but possibly one massive war brewing right here in America, and that statement is
not hyperbole, either. The story comes fromYahoo. News with this headline (edited to fit the blog for maximum
attention):
“Trump sees 'vengeance' on the
political horizon”
During a closed-door speech on May 9 to the NRCC Trump told the invited guests that “we are coming back with vengeance” in an apparent reference to his as-yet-unannounced decision to seek a return to power in 2024.
Given that Trump has
resumed holding rallies nationwide, continues to dominate Republican primary polling and has,
since losing to Joe Biden in 2020, repeatedly hinted that he plans to mount another White
House bid, it’s not exactly a closely guarded secret that he wants his old job
back. Equally unsurprising is the promise that a second Trump term would hold
its share of political payback.
Trump, after all, has
repeatedly spoken over the years about how exacting revenge is a guiding
principle.
KEY POINTS:
Trump in a 2012 speech: “If somebody hits you, you’ve got
to hit ’em back five times harder than they ever thought possible. You’ve got
to get even. Get even.”
Seven years later, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon remarked that
if the then president won reelection in 2020: “You’re going to get pure Trump
off the chain. Four years of Donald Trump in payback mode.”
In further anticipation of a second Trump term, Bannon went
after former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who has detailed numerous instances
of what he saw as Trump's faulty judgment in his new book.
Bannon said this about Esper: “When we come to power, don’t
think you're going to be skipping away from this.”
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham (and Trump
Jr’s girlfriend) in
an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” in October warned that a
Trump victory in 2024 would usher in four years of reprisals, adding: “He’s
clearly the frontrunner in the Republican Party. Everybody’s showing their
fealty to him. He’s on his revenge tour, for people who dared to vote for
impeachment. And I want to just warn people that once he takes office if he
were to win, he doesn’t have to worry about reelection any more. He will be
about revenge, he will probably have some pretty draconian policies.”
Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC), one of 10 House Republicans who voted
in 2021 to impeach Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol insurrection effectively
has a target painted on his back because Trump as they say now: “Is driven by
revenge.
Rice said about Trump in an April interview on Meet the
Press: “He is, of anybody I’ve ever met, he’s probably the most spiteful,
vengeful person I’ve ever met.”
Of the Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, just six,
including Rice, are seeking reelection. The former president has endorsed GOP
challengers in each race.
Trump’s “revenge tour,” as Grisham also has put it, takes
aim at those who refused to go along with his false contention that the 2020
election was stolen and fraudulent.
Trump also issued a statement criticizing Republicans who
still supported the reelection of Gov. Brian Kemp in GA.
Trump wants Kemp defeated over the governor’s refusal in
December 2020 to block the certification of the vote in Georgia and hand Trump
the swing state's electoral votes.
Trump
in a statement said the grouping represented: “Today, the worst ‘election
integrity’ Governor in the country, Brian Kemp, loaded the great state of
Georgia up with RINOs. That’s right, he had them all. Chris Christie, Doug
Ducey from Arizona, and Pete Rickets from Nebraska. It’s just a continuation of
bad elections and a real RINO if you vote for Brian Kemp.”
While most Republicans who may have to again work with Trump
should he win in 2024 are careful not to publicly criticize Trump out of fears
of retribution.
Chris Christie didn’t hesitate to return fire Tweeting: “Insightful commentary about three Republican
Governors who were overwhelmingly reelected by their people from a former
President who lost to Joe Biden. Maybe the ‘R’ in RINO really stands for
re-elected.”
Yet, according to polls on
a hypothetical rematch between Trump and Biden, the 45th president (Trump) appears
to have a good chance at becoming the 47th.
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele said if those polls are right, Trump’s effort to weed out dissent from the GOP regarding the false claim that election fraud cost him the 2020 election will extend beyond members of Congress.
Steele told the New Republic: “His four years would be consumed
with validating his lie. His four years would be consumed with retribution
against those who, in his view, wronged him, and he would then corrupt the
instruments of power in Washington, from Congress — because he’d have a
compliant, complicit House and Senate Republicans who would do every bidding
that he put in front of them — and then corrupt the various institutions that
would be required to execute his revenge, which would include the DOJ, etc.”
In January, Trump offered a possible preview of how he’d
settle scores if he wins reelection that is to: Pardon those convicted for
crimes committed on January 6, 2021, when his supporters attempted to block the
congressional certification of the Electoral College vote saying
at a campaign rally in Conroe, TX: “If I run and 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.”
Back on December 15, 2020, immediately after the EC count
confirmed Biden’s win, former AG Barr tendered his resignation to Trump.
The schism followed disagreements about whether the election
had been marred by fraud and whether the DOJ could intervene to overturn the
results and Barr told NBC News: “I told him that all this stuff was bull sh*t
about election fraud.”
He wrote in his memoir: “OneDamn Thing After Another,” Barr has since offered his own take about what ultimately guides Trump writing: “That Trump, of all people, should consider himself an arbiter of ideological purity — a man whose political allegiances oscillated randomly for decades — is comical. In reality, he has no concern with ideology or political principle. His motive is revenge, and it is entirely personal.”
My 2 Cents: Very good article from Yahoo News – hope you enjoyed it. My advice is simple.
For America: Wake up, pay attention, and vote.
For the DOJ: Indict and prosecute Trump and get him off the national
stage and hopefully sent to jail for his many crimes.
That would be justice for
all.
We do not need our nation
to fall into the hands of Donald J. Trump and his desire for a one-man rule in
darkness under this banner:
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