• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    He made the argument during an interview with David Frost years after he was president. He was also roundly criticized for it and called ignorant.

    Trump is making the argument in court while running for president and a scary number of people are supporting him. That’s quite different.

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      10 months ago

      He made the argument during an interview with David Frost years after he was president.

      He made the argument when he ordered the bombing of Cambodia and Laos at the advise of Kissinger. He made it when he launched the War on Drugs, as an excuse for federal harassmemt and surveiling civil rights activists and anti war protesters. He made it when he coordinated with criminal cartels down in Florida and the surrounding Gulf States to rig elections, disenfranchise voters, and red bait the opposition.

      He reiterated it during the Frost interview. But he never gave a shit about rule of law.

      Trump is making the argument in court

      An argument guys like Nixon and Reagan and Cheney never had to make because they were never prosecuted for their crimes.