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Post #1, November 11, 2024
As columnist Ruth Marcus notes in today’s Washington Post, Elon Musk and Trump advisor Mike Davis, like Donald Trump, are verbally attacking special counsel Jack Smith, who is shutting down his investigations of Trump. Smith is doing so because it is against Justice Department policy to prosecute a sitting president, which Trump will soon be.
Marcus’ column is titled: “As Jack Smith Winds Up His Cases. Team Trump Cranks Up the Retribution”
Most Americans knew this was coming. And this is likely just the beginning. We are going to find out in the next two to four years how much small-mindedness Trump voters will tolerate.
I have to assume that Trump won the election because of “bread-and-butter” economic concerns. And when you ponder it much, you can see that immigration, another top concern of voters, is largely an economic issue. A certain number of immigrants steadily arriving is probably good for the economy, but too many immigrants probably tighten the job market.
That’s from somebody who took one economics course 48 years ago.
Whether a Trump administration will deliver on economic concerns, we are going to see. But retribution is another matter. Anyone with a little faith in the American people will probably agree with me that Trump has no mandate to play the game of Retribution.
So that you know I am not making this up, here is what Trump, Musk, and Davis have said:
Trump: Smith “should be thrown out of the country.”
Musk: “Jack Smith’s abuse of the justice system cannot go unpunished.”
Davis: Smith “should go to prison for engaging in a criminal conspiracy against President Trump.”
“He kept saying that elections don’t matter,” Davis told a conservative website. “Then, ask this: If elections don’t matter why is he shutting down his investigation after this election? And it’s very clear that this was election interference.”
Wrong. Smith is shutting down the investigation due to Justice Department policy.
Some of my friends and readers may disagree, but I think it is fair to say that in 2020, then President Trump raised so many concerns about the approaching election as to (intentionally) create the expectation among his supporters that should he lose that election, it would be due to the Democrats cheating. When he did lose, he continued to stir supporters and on January 6, 2021, encouraged a large number of rally attendees to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop the official count of the electoral college votes. When chaos ensued, Trump refused for a few hours to call it off, resisting the pleas of family and advisors. Several people died as a result of what Trump instigated.
That is my abbreviated version. But it should be enough to demonstrate there was no “criminal conspiracy” against Trump by the decision of Jack Smith to prosecute him.
Administrations that stray from their mandates often pay the price. Joe Biden had a mandate to try to heal the country and rebuild the political center. Most of us thought he wanted to be a transitional president and serve one term. But because of the alignment of political forces in 2021, the Biden Administration went further in pursuit of a progressive agenda, most of which I supported.
Donald Trump and his advisors have better things to do. But we are going to see how insecure and small-minded they are.
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