These images will live forever, and even if they ultimately help his campaign…
Not since OJ in the Bronco has America watched such a surreal, slow-moving, real-time disaster.
And it’s safe to say we have never seen a more somber, defiant, serious Donald Trump. The showman in him was gone. There were no derogatory nicknames thrown around, no mocking of the process or inciting protests.
Trump made his lone statement before his arrest on Truth Social, and for a man whose factory settings are grandiosity and braggadocio, it was remarkably subdued. Sad, even.
‘Heading to Lower Manhattan, the Courthouse. Seems so SURREAL — WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can’t believe this is happening in America. MAGA!’
Surreal doesn’t begin to cover it. This country, this great ongoing experiment, just arrested and indicted a former president. This is the stuff of banana republics.
Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for far greater crimes against democracy for the very sake of democracy. At the time Ford was vilified, but history looks upon him kindly; this was the defining act of an otherwise unremarkable presidency.
Little wonder Trump looked as if he could barely raise his fist this morning outside Trump Tower. Little wonder he listened to his lawyers and declined to be handcuffed. No mug shot, either.
Whether pro-Trump or against, reasonable people can agree: such images aren’t just rocket fuel for his imminent run. They are a defiling of the office he once held.
America deserves better. Anyone taking glee in these events would do well to consider: next time, it’s very likely your candidate – your side. The precedent has been set.
Wait hang on, you’re pointing to the pardoning of Richard Nixon as a good thing? Do you just not believe wealthy and powerful people should face consequences for their actions, or…?
Yes pardoning Nixon was a good thing as he committed no crime, except he ended the Vietnam war! Bob Woodward was not a reporter. He was part of the CIA. He was also a great liar, who made up about every story he wrote about. ucker Carlson on Fox News: “If you really want to understand how the American government actually works at the highest levels, and if you want to know why they don’t teach history anymore, one thing you should know is that the most popular president in American history was Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon. Yet somehow, without a single vote being cast by a single American voter, Richard Nixon was kicked out of office and replaced by the only unelected president in American history. So, we went for the most popular president to a president nobody voted for. Wait a minute, you may ask, why didn’t I know that? Wasn’t Richard Nixon a criminal?
Wasn’t he despised by all decent people? No, he wasn’t. In fact, if any president could claim to be the people’s choice, it was Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 by the largest margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since. Nixon got 17 million more votes than his opponent. Less than two years later, he was gone. He was forced to resign and in his place, an obedient servant of the federal agencies called Gerald Ford took over the White House.
Like Kennedy, who was killed for by the Deep state for wanting to pull out of Vietnam, Nixon-like Trump- was hated by the media and was accused for crimes he never committed. He didn’t kill some 138 people that were his close allies, he didn’t delete 30,000 top secret emails on his server, he didn’t take billions of dollars from our enemies, as the Biden’s have done. He was just another victim of the Deep State that wants us all in chains.