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…