360 Days After the Election Trump Launches One of His Harshest Attacks Yet Against His Former Political Opponent
Next week marks the one year anniversary of the election that placed Donald Trump in the White House, and yet the Manhattan real estate mogul is still fighting the fact he won – and fighting his former Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. Thursday night and again early Friday morning, hours before he departs on a ten day five country tour of Asia and with a great deal – including handling the North Korean nuclear crisis – at stake, President Trump took the time to launch one of his strongest attacks since the election against the former First Lady, former U.S. Senator, and former Secretary of State.
Thursday, Trump cited the faux bombshell former DNC acting chair Donna Brazile used to sell her new book, falsely claiming Clinton “bought and paid for” a “RIGGED” primary.
Which he then falsely claimed was “collusion” – the word he most fears and likes to use against Clinton:
Friday morning, after bragging that he must be “having an impact” because his “Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee” Thursday night (it was), the president tweeted his assault on Clinton – all but demanding the U.S. Department of Justice be weaponized to investigate and punish his political opponent because “The American public deserves it!”
He repeated the same false claim he made the night before about “Collusion,” which for some reason he felt the need to capitalize:
But Trump began his attack Friday morning by screaming, “Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn’t looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems.”Â
In point of fact, everybody is not. And Trump repeatedly refuses to understand that he cannot use the Justice Dept. or the FBI or any other agency of DOJ to go after people he thinks deserve to be punished. (This week he’s already endangered and tainted the case against the New York City terrorist by twice calling for the death penalty to be used against him.)
And then trump tried to make his case, dredging up Fox News fueled conspiracy theories about Clinton.Â
Trump then seemed to conclude his argument:
But wasn’t quite yet satisfied, hauling in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s remarks from Thursday, in which she agreed the primary was “rigged” in Clinton’s favor.Â
It’s important to note Brazile agrees no primary votes were affected by what she reveals in her book:
But here’s the bottom line: The President of the United States must not be allowed to weaponize the Department of Justice for political gain or to attack and punish his political opponents. And he is doing both. It is not only un-American, it may be illegal.
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