This was TONIGHT. And he's not campaigning, doing some schtick to rile his "base".
This is simply who he is AND YES even his own voters stated they knew his "baggage" BUT were comfortable with it.
Now imagine him in office.
With the full power of state surveillance at his whim and the ability to imprison without due process.
If perhaps you're not concerned about the rights of free assembly and expression, let's look at freedom of the press.
During his campaign, Trump had media "blacklists" - journalists who were not allowed in his events because he didn't like their coverage.
In other words: he refused to respect freedom of the press even as a *candidate* - which was unprecedented.
He even called out a female journalist in front of an audience of many thousands and had the entire audience boo her. By name. In person
What do you imagine will stop him once he's POTUS from using the powers of the state to act out on his disdain and hatred for journalists?
AND he has voiced support for the same exact UK press liable laws to be able to sue at will any journalist article and or statements....
One of Trump's surrogates has already admitted the campaign is keeping a "list" of "enemies"..."enemies" meaning those that did not fully and completely support Trump...
What do you imagine will stop him once he's POTUS from using the powers of the state to act out on his disdain and hatred for journalists?
BOTH bush Presidents saw Donald Trump and his cadre as so dangerous and extremist they disavowed them.
What we're facing in 2017 is a perfect storm:
1. GOP controlled House, Senate, and White House.
2. SCOTUS openings.
3. POTUS Trump
4. No moral compass.
WE have seen this already by statements of his transition team that those that did not fully support Trump will not be hired AND his denial yesterday to allow the press to follow his WH visit yesterday AS he has a distain for the WH Press Corp...THAT he has voiced over the last four years.....
WHAT is amazing is just how fast the press and journalists have finally after a long number of years "has gone against Trump"
WHAT TRUMP has vastly underestimated is the power of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) WHICH now he faces as a government employee....he must respond to and provide everything asked for or end up in court defending why not....and the Press has stated to dig and dig and dig in his past business deals...and his financial contacts to China and Russia...
THIS is the real reason Clinton had her own private email server ...to sidestep FOIA....
BTW.....Like Putin, Trump suggests protesters are being paid.
This destruction of property and violence is what the President-elect wants to see. It will give him a reason later to crackdown and introduce federal laws against demonstrations on anything...
One of the first symptoms of autocratic regimes is the paranoia that all protests are "professional". Good morning.
"Trump's electorate did not take his racism/mysoginism/threats seriously, unlike us", muse soul-searching pundits. BASED ON WHAT EVIDENCE?
IMHO the Trump supporters did fully and seriously take what Trump stated as evidence he would act on what he stated at his rallies..JUST the MSM did not....
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