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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is already threating people with using the POTUS office for personal revenge.
Truly scary.
JustAnotherGen
(31,866 posts)He's an awful human being capable of immense cruelty and the dehumanization of others.
Tal Vez
(660 posts)I don't know if everyone appreciates just how lucky we are to live in a country where one party does not routinely jail prominent members of opposing parties. Our good luck may be ending soon. Right after explaining that he has a "tougher" temperament than Clinton and that this country needs a leader with a "tougher" temperament, Trump spoke about the need to jail Clinton should he become president.
I don't think that he's bluffing. .
YouDig
(2,280 posts)that many of his supporters would support jailing political opponents. They have become increasingly insistent that they "want to take back their country." I have always believed our political institutions and traditions to be too strong for a president to dare jail opponents, but Trump is a person who seems to loathe our institutions and traditions. By facing a divided opposition he succeeded in beating 17 opponents for the Republican nomination by what everyone describes as nontraditional tactics. There is a risk that he will confront a divided Democratic party in November. If Trump wins the general election, we are going to be living a very different kind of country.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)governing. Also corruption by he and his funny bizness and mob cronies will soar too
"Am I the death squad? True. That is true," Duterte said on television last May. He added that if he became president, he would execute 100,000 criminals and throw their corpses into Manila Bay.
Statements like this have earned Duterte the nicknames of "The Punisher" and "Duterte Harry," a play on the 1971 Clint Eastwood film "Dirty Harry."
Both Trump and Duterte have also made controversial remarks about women.
During a presidential debate on April 12, Duterte joked about an Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill, who was working in a Davao prison when she was raped by several inmates and killed in 1989.
"Why did I get angry because she was raped? Yes, that's part of the reason, but also because she was so beautiful and the mayor should have been first, Duterte said, according to the Associated Press.
Widespread condemnation followed. A spokesperson for President Benigno Aquino said the comments depicted Duterte's "lack of fitness for the presidency," while Australia's ambassador to the Philippines, Amanda Gorely, tweeted that "rape and murder should never be joked about or trivialized."