When a reporter asked why taxpayers should cover the costs of a $1.7 billion DOJ fund for January 6th defendants, Donald Trump responded: "Because in my world, loyalty outranks law. They broke the rules for me, so you pay the bill for them. That's the transaction."
Yes, Trump, the POTUS, actually said those words. And millions of Americans heard them.
Trump told us that he cares nothing for the Constitution nor the rule of law. Loyalty, above all else, is what Trump esteems.
A U.S. President swears a specific constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office and to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Through this oath, the President takes on the duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." This responsibility is outlined in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which directs the President to ensure all federal laws are properly enforced.
Trump's language today as he spoke those words in the title of this post is the language of a mob boss, not a POTUS who swore an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution."
As long as this criminal sits in the Oval Office, expect more criminality and disregard for law and order.
Donald Trump has told us in plain mobster language what is important to him: loyalty. And that loyalty "outranks the law."
This attitude underpins his reasoning for seeking reparations in the billions of dollars for the men and women who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and who were found guilty of felonies by a jury of their peers.
Donald Trump has pardoned those criminals and now will take your tax money and give it to them in service to him and for breaking the law.
I'm not surprised to see this happen. Trump, after all, is a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter/rapist, liar, cheat, and fraudster. Did anyone with half a brain expect excellence in the office of the presidency from someone with that rap sheet?
As someone on the internet said, I do not think Americans understand how insane this is. Trump is openly describing the country as a patronage network where crimes committed in service to the leader become obligations absorbed by the public.
This is the language of a man who thinks the state belongs to him personally.
"An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel taxpayers' money to his criminal allies. Trump will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before."
"Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a "deal." This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It is a crime."
Stay tuned for more corruption: Trump's corrupt stock trading while president. Even Wall Street is appalled.
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