He threatened to jail his political opponents and sue his sexual accusers.
Of course, Abraham Lincoln began his Gettysburg Address by invoking the democratic principles upon which the Founding Fathers conceived this nation “four score and seven years ago.” Donald Trump began his by invoking the personal grievances upon which he intends to base lawsuits to settle scores.
As it happens, threatening to jail his political opponents, most notably Hillary Clinton, has been a sure-fire applause line in his stump speech for months now. But this is new:
Donald Trump vowed Saturday to sue the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct in recent weeks.
‘Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign,’ Trump said during remarks in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania…
Trump often threatens to file lawsuits without actually doing so.
(CNN, October 22, 2016)
Clearly, Trump’s “every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign” makes a mockery of Lincoln’s “we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.’ But this is just the latest in a string of stunts, all of which suggest that Trump is hell-bent on making a mockery of every political institution and democratic tradition Americans hold dear.
Defiling the hallowed grounds of Gettysburg, as he did on Saturday, was bad enough. But Exhibit A in this respect was Trump refusing, during the final presidential debate last week, to promise that he will accept the results of the election … if he loses.
Meanwhile, these sexual accusers are just the latest targets of his litigious spite. After all, nothing has distinguished Trump’s presidential campaign quite like the fusillade of legal threats he has hurled.
Besides these (now) eleven women, the most notable targets of his delusional civil war include
- the Former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz for cheating, running negative ads, and being an Obama-like birther fraud.
- the Washington Post for running stories about his bankruptcies and the New York Times for running stories about his sexual predations.
- the political, media and corporate establishment for conspiring to rig the election against him.
But, as CNN reported, Trump is more bark than bite when it comes to his threats (aka hot air). Which is why his threat to jail his political opponents and sue his sexual accusers is about as credible as his promise to release his tax returns.
Mind you, with respect to suing his accusers, this is like a bank robber suing the bank manager for calling him a thief. After all, Trump effectively confessed his predatory behavior during that now-infamous hot-mic moment on Access Hollywood. And he further incriminates himself every time he insists that he is “doing better with women than men” in national opinion polls. In fact, polls routinely show the opposite. Frankly, given this, it’s easy to indict Trump as one of those “entitled” men who only hear yes when a woman says no to their sexual advances.
Meanwhile, you’d think his record of bullying rants, brazen lies, and broken promises would give his supporters pause. I determined long ago, however, that Trump was right when he insinuated that they are either so deplorable or stupid, he could shoot a woman on 5th Avenue in broad daylight and they would still support him. But rest assured, they will not amount to 50 percent of the Americans voting for president of the United States this year.
NOTE: Lincoln and every other dead president must have begun rolling over in their graves at the mere thought of this vain, vindictive, predatory buffoon joining their ranks.
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