I finally got around to listening to former President Trump's Friday post-conviction press conference today. I actually thought it had a great, strong opening - "if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone." I stopped it right there and thought "Yes! Yes! You're exactly right! I hope to God if I ever do anything as remotely cri…
I finally got around to listening to former President Trump's Friday post-conviction press conference today. I actually thought it had a great, strong opening - "if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone." I stopped it right there and thought "Yes! Yes! You're exactly right! I hope to God if I ever do anything as remotely criminal as you have done, that our system of justice will treat me just as fairly regardless of my wealth and power, in the egalitarian manner that our Founders intended when they established the Constitution that we all still agree to live by." I should have stayed stopped, since that obviously wasn't what he meant, and it all went down hill from there. How flooded is the zone when a former President of the United States (or anyone for that matter) can utter the words that his witnesses in his trial were "literally crucified" and that doesn't get reported anywhere - literally...crucified...bringing to mind not only images of Jesus, but of Spartacus and his followers, lining the Appian Way. Trump made the comments like he had legions of witnesses standing by to testify on his behalf, yet all he talked about were Costello and the FEC Chair (who they decided not to call) and...oh, wait, that's it. I guess the paralegal who testified for the defense somehow escaped the fate of literal crucifixtion.
I finally got around to listening to former President Trump's Friday post-conviction press conference today. I actually thought it had a great, strong opening - "if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone." I stopped it right there and thought "Yes! Yes! You're exactly right! I hope to God if I ever do anything as remotely criminal as you have done, that our system of justice will treat me just as fairly regardless of my wealth and power, in the egalitarian manner that our Founders intended when they established the Constitution that we all still agree to live by." I should have stayed stopped, since that obviously wasn't what he meant, and it all went down hill from there. How flooded is the zone when a former President of the United States (or anyone for that matter) can utter the words that his witnesses in his trial were "literally crucified" and that doesn't get reported anywhere - literally...crucified...bringing to mind not only images of Jesus, but of Spartacus and his followers, lining the Appian Way. Trump made the comments like he had legions of witnesses standing by to testify on his behalf, yet all he talked about were Costello and the FEC Chair (who they decided not to call) and...oh, wait, that's it. I guess the paralegal who testified for the defense somehow escaped the fate of literal crucifixtion.