Trump Wants His Enemies to Fear for Their Lives

[Nevilledog]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/trump-milley-death-fbi-threats.html

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https://archive.ph/qSQGA

Last Friday, the Republican Party’s presidential front-runner suggested that America’s top general deserves to die. In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump accused chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley of committing treason, “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!”

Specifically, Trump wrote that Milley had been “dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States,” and that this “treasonous act” could have triggered a war between the two countries. The ex-president was seemingly referring to a report that Milley had called his Chinese counterpart shortly before the 2020 election, and after the January 6 insurrection, to assure him that the United States was stable and that Trump would not be ordering any attack against China on his way out the door. Given that this accurately conveyed the administration’s posture, and that the U.S. had no interest in tricking a nuclear-weapons state into believing that America was about to attack it, it’s difficult to see how Milley’s calls would have constituted treason.

Of course, it’s not remarkable for Trump to issue a baseless (yet incendiary) allegation against one of his critics. What is noteworthy — or at least, should be — is a leading presidential candidate deliberately trying to intimidate his perceived enemies through tacit threats of violence. And it seems fair to conclude that this is precisely what Trump is up to.

The ex-president’s remarks about Milley came amid a surge of violent threats against federal law enforcement, threats that his own rhetoric appears to have inspired.

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[Chainfire]

1. The crime deserving the death penalty was not "treason" against the United States, but treason

against Trump personally. Trump most likely has a long list of people that he believes deserve to be put to death, in fact, he is campaigning on it.

[Recycle_Guru]

2. corporate media should be running this wall to wall but are mot

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. This is inconsistent with the weak claims made by TFG's attorneys in latest filing

TFG's attorneys are claiming that there will be no violence due to TFG's rants
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143135163

[intrepidity]

4. Best paragraph:

The most salient truth about the 2024 election is that the Republican Party is poised to nominate an authoritarian thug who publishes rationalizations for political violence and promises to abuse presidential authority on a near-daily basis. There is no way for a paper or news channel to appropriately emphasize this reality without sounding like a shrill, dull, Democratic propaganda outlet. So, like the nation writ large, the press comports itself as an amnesiac, or an abusive household committed to keeping up appearances, losing itself in the old routines, in an effortful approximation of normality until it almost forgets what it doesn’t want to know.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Who does he fear the most?

Could all of his Secret Service call in sick for a week?

Could his social media be hacked?

[TheRealNorth]

8. That is a really interesting analysis

I am not honestly sure if it's complacency or complicity when it comes to the MSM.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. It's all fun and games until your friends start disappearing.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Or you wake up with a horses head in your bed. nt

[sarcasmo]

7. Fascist Pig