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Blaming the left for Trump's weaponization of law enforcement means pretending his first term didn't happen (www.mediamatters.org)

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Pundits who portray President Donald Trump's recent steps to secure federal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as simply a response to prosecutorial efforts to hold Trump accountable after his first term have either forgotten what actually happened during Trump’s first term or are lying to their audiences.

Trump, an authoritarian to his core, repeatedly sought the investigation, prosecution, and imprisonment of his political foes throughout his first four years in the White House. The fact that he's had more success leveling actual criminal charges at his enemies in his second term says far more about the sycophants and toadies with which he's populated the government than about his own demeanor, which has always been laser-focused on using the levers of power to punish his perceived enemies.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, Dementia Don has forgotten his first term?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So did all his followers who are convinced that "Biden's FBI" was planting FBI agents at January 6th despite the fact that Biden hadn't ever been President yet.

I mean, his followers are really the issue, the fact that they are just as power hungry as him and are willful in their forgetting the past so they can pretend the present is justified.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

I was trying to thread that logic with someone the other day. He was like "you know they were dozens of FBI found out there". I said that could mean a lot of things, that they were planted by Trump to stage an insurrection, that they were Trump loyalist there in support, that they just there because they work around there, that they were actively investigating credible threats or previous crimes, or they were acting on behalf of Biden supporters in part of massive conspiracy to undernine the election and then stage a weak coup attempt to arrest Trump supporters.

One of these had a lot more steps and less evidence but he was dead set on it based only on the fact he just told me.

Its crazy tbh