It's a beautiful thing, seeing Trump use a crime underboss with blood on his hands as his character witness calling for "strength and honesty in our New York courts." It really takes you back. Once upon a time in America, the specter of the NY mob and the menace of the Five Families might have fucked with a prosecutor or a judge. Maybe after Rudolph Giuliani and Gravano's own turn, this isn't as certain as it used to be.
Am I being tongue in cheek? I recall when Trump was proud of a mob celeb at one of his South Florida businesses not so long ago. He's not shy about his associations with this kind of people--he has relied on it as a business fact. He was denied a casino license in Australia because of this business fact.
Now, I don't pretend I've researched a lot into what degree Trump, the builder, had to ingratiate himself with the mafia consortium who owned everything to do with concrete back in the day, when he was supposedly changing the NYC skyline (I only expect those contractors, for sure, were the ones who got paid), but I do understand what he's doing here:
He's just letting people know he's got friends in all kinds of places. Loyal ones. Maybe dangerous ones.
Yeah. The friend of judges and prosecutors is called the law. It should pertain to historically criminally adjacent Trump whether he finagled his way to being president or what. And I don't know if this helps him, anymore than continuing to talk shit about his rape victim or front about how his business practices were just great because he never got caught before being dishonest. (Congratulations on the NYT lawyers getting paid by Trump per court order, by the way! And a great day for journalism!)
It's just--maybe the intimidation is now understood as the exact reason why he has to be held to account, now more than ever before. Maybe his little Republican congressional friends don't care about whether they are pummeled into compliance with his fuckery, and maybe they even further that fuckery by helping him intimidate potential witnesses.
They should know better.
Authoritarianism thrives on people being suborned into fuckery via intimidation. Resistance is realizing how much is just bravado and spent effort wasted when resistance begets resistance and encourages more resistance.
Trump isn't a law and order guy. He's long been lawless and pro-disorder. Maybe his little friends like Mike Lee worry what he might do, but real republicans (as in, people who value the democracy our forefathers gave us) understand that the law must dispose of this trash.
I wish Judge Cannon down in Florida felt the same way, but she's in no way threatened to. And I would not have her be so threatened by anything other than her own good conscience.
That's the American way, you see.
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