Imagining a Trump Justice Department

[DonViejo]

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In Trump’s world, crushing protest and dissent is the sign of a great leader. Consider Trump’s 1990 interview with Playboy, in which he was asked about the weakening Soviet Union and the Chinese government’s then-recent massacre of pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square:

Q: What were your other impressions of the Soviet Union?

TRUMP: I was very unimpressed. . . . Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That’s my problem with Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand.

Q You mean firm hand as in China?

TRUMP: When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world–

Q Why is Gorbachev not firm enough?

TRUMP: I predict he will be overthrown, because he has shown extraordinary weakness. Suddenly, for the first time ever, there are coal-miner strikes and brush fires everywhere. . . . His giving an inch is going to end up costing him and all his friends what they most cherish — their jobs.

Stop and read that again. Trump was really impressed by the “vicious” and “horrible” way that the Chinese government massacred pro-democracy protesters. Trump was disturbed when the Chinese first allowed the protest and “almost blew it.” And Gorbachev’s problem was that he didn’t have “a firm enough hand.”

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[Tal Vez]

1. Yes, that is what we face. We have never had a major candidate who

believed in such nonsense. However, there are people who eat that kind of thing up - they have been looking all of their lives for a strong father to keep them in line.