Last week, Donald Trump went up to the Department of Justice and gave what can best be characterized as a “triumphalist” speech, in which he alternately boasted about his ability to beat the legal cases against him, decried the “weaponization” of DOJ against him under the Biden administration, reiterated unfounded claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” and gloated about deceased college basketball coach Bob Knight’s endorsement of him.
“We’re turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to violent criminals, and we’re restoring fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. Under the Trump administration, the DOJ and the FBI will once again become the premier crime fighting agencies on the face of the earth.”
Since returning to the White House, the Trump administration has moved to demote DOJ attorneys who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, cases, pardoned those who were convicted for their actions related to the insurrection, and fired those who personally investigated the president. On Friday, Trump praised his administration’s actions to strip political opponents of security clearances, including “the Biden crime family and Joe Biden himself.”
“There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked. That’s what they were doing at a level that’s never been seen before.”
So Trump’s oft-repeated claim that the DOJ was “weaponized” against him is . . . how does one put this politely? . . . a complete crock of shit.
What Trump wants isn’t that the DOJ is impartial. What he wants is total immunity from any criminal liability.
Let me repeat that.
What Trump wants is total immunity from any criminal liability.
That’s what he wants.
Of course, the Supreme Court got him halfways there in Trump v. United States (2024). That decision, which may someday rank up with Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Korematsu v. United States (1944), Bush v. Gore (2000) and Citizens United (2010) as among the worst decisions ever written by the Supreme Court, made Trump mostly immune from criminal prosecution while he is President.
But contrary to his constant assertions, Trump was not “unfairly” prosecuted.
If anything, no one in the history of the United States has ever gotten more breaks from the legal system than Donald Trump.
No matter how many breaks he gets, it will never ever be enough for Donald Trump.
This man has a hole at the center of his being that will never ever be filled up. It must be so painful being Donald Trump, existing in this constant state of “not enough.”
Like his cousin Elon Musk, who also has a hole at the center of his psyche, and who is also in a constant state of “not enough.”
Trump is clearly perplexed that he cannot go after the people pardoned by Joe Biden, which includes all the member of the January 6th Commission. He is so perplexed that he recently invented the theory that the Biden pardons are “void” because Biden used an autopen (a device that allows officials to have their signature imprinted automatically).
Hey Trump, did you sign each of those 1500 pardons for your January 6th conspirators individually?
I thought not.
That was too much for even Chief Justice John Roberts, who issued a statement to the following effect:
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
I mean, Chief Justice Roberts only has himself to blame for unleashing this lawless President upon the county, but at least he said something.
But President Trump was not content.
- He was not content to go after the people who prosecuted him for crimes that he actually committed.
- He was not content to ignore Joe Biden’s pardons and try to have them vacated.
- He was not content to call for the impeachment of judges who ruled against his illegal orders.
- No, this putz also started coming after the law-firms who represented his political opponents.
This putz is going to turn law-firms and lawyers into folk heroes, and that is really saying something!
On the campaign trail Trump repeatedly said “I am your vengeance,” and to the degree that this meant “owning the libs” many of his supporters were cheering him on. But as people are slowly finding out, Trump is only his own one-man vengeance parade. If his own supporters get burned along the way, Trump isn’t going to care in the least. He never has. He never will.
