(November 20, 2023 at 4:38 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:Quote:Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Steele said in an interview that former President Trump deserves to be jailed for his consistent attacks on judges and court officials, often in violation of court order.
“It’s enormously dangerous,” he said Saturday on MSNBC. “I’m just shocked that we’ve allowed this to get this far.”
Steele suggested Trump, who is the GOP front-runner for president in 2024, was getting unfair treatment from those who are trying to appease him and his base and trying not to appear political.
“Put his ass in jail. That’s how you end it. That’s how it stops,” Steele said. “Now, yeah, people will be mad, and they’ll be upset. But there is no other person on this planet — and certainly not in this country — who would be given the kind of grace that Donald Trump has been given to run his mouth the way he has, attacking the clerks, attacking the judges, attacking the prosecutors, personally, threatening them.”
Steele warned of the consequences of not applying the law equally.
“We’ve shown the evidence, when he does that, how his base responds. And so the system is getting pulverized from within by Trump. And it’s being pressed to the … umpteenth corner it can go in trying to appease him and allow him to be free while he’s still behaving this way,” he said.
“So if he wants to continue in this vein, then use the system the way the system would be used against all of us on this show right now. Because you know damn well — if any one of us said half of what Donald Trump has said we would not be on air tonight. We would be in a jail cell. We would be shut down.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-bat...rves-jail/
All too true. I wonder about their level of fear of retaliation by one of the millions of MAGAts.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
