It becomes more difficult with every passing day to keep current with Donald Trump’s barefaced lies, obvious scams and assorted grifts. Selling sneakers and bibles, for example, in desperate attempts to squeeze MAGAts for their last dimes in order to pay his attorneys. While his grifts are unseemly, they pale in comparison to his monumental criminality and the falsehoods he circulates that resonate with his duped voters:
In addition to his multitude of both charged and uncharged crimes, Trump is a master at inciting criminal acts. Many times, his incendiary rhetoric has prompted others to violence. An ABC News nationwide review identified at least 54 criminal cases where Trump was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault. The ABC review found that in at least 12 cases perpetrators acclaimed Trump while or immediately after physically assaulting innocent victims. In another 18 cases, perps cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. “And in another 10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant's violent or threatening behavior.”
Bottom line: Trump’s criminality has known no bounds, and is sure to escalate should he win back the White House.
Dick Hermann
March 13, 2024
- In this latter category, one of His Fraudulency’s worst and most shameless fictions is that crime is skyrocketing whereas in fact it is plummeting. This is in keeping with Trump’s “American Carnage” campaign that also includes lies about open borders, and foreign leaders’ supposed disrespect for Joe Biden and the United States. The FBI reports that violent crime in the 21st century peaked in 2020 (when guess who was President) and has since declined significantly. He compares the U.S. to a crime-ridden Ninth Circle of Hell, zeroing in on major cities in “blue states.” In fact, states with the highest crime rates are run by Republican governors and legislatures.
- He showed up in Michigan, raged about a young woman murdered by an illegal alien and lied about meeting with her family (the family says he did not). Every Trump rally is replete with incendiary language about “animals” leaving foreign jails and pouring into the U.S. intent on committing crimes. In fact, studies show that these folks are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens.
- Last week, Trump appeared at the wake for a Long Island police officer who was killed during a traffic stop where he called the murder “such a sad, sad event, such a horrible thing….The police are the greatest people we have. There’s nothing and there’s nobody like them. And this should never happen.” But then, we know he does not feel that way about all police. Just days before and at all of his Nuremberg-style rallies since, he praised the thousands of his insurrectionist supporters who stormed the Capitol and attacked police officers. He called these traitors “unbelievable patriots,” the ones among them convicted and jailed for their crimes “hostages” and “political prisoners,” and said he would pardon them once he is president again.
- He is under indictment in four criminal trials totaling 88 charges.
- He has been found civilly liable for sexual assault and is accused by more than two dozen women of similar disgusting behavior.
- He has been found civilly liable for a fraud of mythic proportions for inflating the value of his properties in order to secure cheaper loans.
- He stole hundreds of classified documents and stored them in bathrooms, among other public places at his Palm Beach citadel.
- He destroyed presidential records while in office.
- He pardoned hundreds of criminals, including felons who aided and abetted his treasonous insurrection.
- He was twice impeached for what, in a civilian context, would have been deemed criminal acts.
- He accepted campaign contributions in excess of the legal limit and failed to report certain campaign contributions as required by law.
- He accepted millions of dollars of gifts and “emoluments” from both foreign and domestic individuals and organizations in contravention of the Constitution.
- Trump and the MAGAts want to defund both the Justice Department and the FBI, the premier law enforcement and anti-crime organizations in the nation.
In addition to his multitude of both charged and uncharged crimes, Trump is a master at inciting criminal acts. Many times, his incendiary rhetoric has prompted others to violence. An ABC News nationwide review identified at least 54 criminal cases where Trump was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault. The ABC review found that in at least 12 cases perpetrators acclaimed Trump while or immediately after physically assaulting innocent victims. In another 18 cases, perps cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. “And in another 10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant's violent or threatening behavior.”
Bottom line: Trump’s criminality has known no bounds, and is sure to escalate should he win back the White House.
Dick Hermann
March 13, 2024
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