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Trump’s Nightmare: The Free Media
How Hyping Some Non-existent Threat Beyond All Recognition Provides a Pretext for Extreme Actions
Ridiculous and hilarious fruit deposition given by Trump, asserting that he could have been killed if somebody threw a tomato at him, gave rise to many fruit-related headlines and internet memes. The lethal threat that must meet the maximum force was undoubtedly hilarious, but that is what came in a deposition in a civil case, where Trump attempted not to be held accountable for his security guards beating up protesters, the usual entitled Trump.
While campaigning for the 2016 presidential elections, Trump repeatedly encouraged his supporter to use violence against people protesting him. That would give him pleasure and make Trump rallies in his words, “more fun.” He once said that he could stand in the middle of the fifth street in New York City and shoot someone and get away with it. How do you get away with something like that?
Well, Rachele Maddow from MSNBC believes that hyping some non-existent threat beyond all recognition to justify and provide a pretext for whatever extreme thing you want to do is the answer to the question above. We have seen Trump using the same tactical pattern repeatedly. The ostensible reason behind “lock her up” chants was that Hillary Clinton used her personal email account when she worked at the state department. Never mind that Trump literally trucked boxes of highly classified material to Mar-a-Lago and left it laying around at his Golf Club. That is how you build yourself the pretext needed.
A handful of old Trump-supporting white men in the villages in Florida, New Hampshire and Ohio voted twice for Trump because they thought no one would notice. It pretty much sums up all the voting fraud cases that have broken in the last few months. You take that invisible, infinitesimal, totally nonconsequential threat and turn it into a mechanized million-strong cabal using South Korean planes, Venezuela and Italian satellites, or Jewish space lasers. And soon you know voting fraud is the end of America which certainly is enough to justify what you want to do in the first place, which is to stop abiding by actual election results taken hold power by force and insistence.
