Trump Encouraged staff to break the law

 Trump Encouraged Staff To Break The Law, Says Former Press Secretary

"Former President Donald Trump encouraged staffers to feel free to break the law, his onetime press secretary Stephanie Grisham told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday.

Grisham’s revelations came just days after a federal investigative report revealed that at least 13 former Trump officials violated the Hatch Act by intermingling their government duties with campaigning."

“In the White House, when we would get Hatch Act violations, that was a badge of honor,” Grisham told Acosta.

“It was a joke in the White House. The president used to say to us, ‘You know who’s in charge of the Hatch Act? It’s me, [so] go ahead, say whatever you want to say.’”

And somehow they claim to be the party of "law and order."

It's alright that Grisham's coming out with these revelations now, sure—but come on, she's no innocent. She's capitalizing on her former position. They're all slimy, scummy people.

We were basically a coin flip away from being in a constitutional crisis on Jan 6th. The general public and the media have seemed to take the approach of “well he did try to shoot you, but he missed! So it couldn’t have been attempted murder, can’t we all just get along?” We narrowly dodged a huge bullet, and instead of holding the people who did it accountable, or reinforcing our body armor, we’ve allowed them to strip any protections we might have had and walk free preparing to do it again. We’ve also let them memory-hole the entire thing and go through several rounds of gaslighting-it wasn’t trump supporters, it was Antifa! It wasn’t trump supporters, it was FBI agitators! And if it WAS trump supporters, they were peaceful! And how dare you lock them up and treat them like terrorists! Of course they would do what they did, our democracy was on the line because the democrats stole the election! We must infiltrate every polling place and state election structure to make sure it doesn’t happen again (aka to steal it for ourselves).

I generally knew before the election things were going to be really bad, but everyone kept telling me what couldn’t happen because of the rules in place etc. Bullshit. Those rules are only as good as the people willing to enforce them. It’s like saying, “well don’t worry, he’s not gonna kill you because it’s against the law!” It’s uh, not the guarantor of safety you think it is. You still might get killed despite the person knowing the consequences, and what if the person killing you is close friends with the police, or are the police themselves? Then what do you do when nobody will uphold or enforce the law? You’re fucked.

When Trump forcefully declared he won on election night, that sealed it for me that we’d be headed towards a steep decline. “Lol but he didn’t win, he’s delusional. Look at Sidney Powell and Rudy making these ridiculous claims! Lol 4seasons landscaping!” Great, they’re playing you perfectly. You know the truth, so their obvious bullshit claims aren’t taken seriously by you or anyone who does. Meanwhile, they have a radicalized base of people who literally only believe what THEY say; we no longer have a way to prove these ridiculous things wrong to like 30+% of the country, because any information contradicting what they’re told by the RW media sphere and Trump is inherently viewed as false…

Leading up to the election, I actually expected them to do a ton of false flag stuff as far as magically discovering a ton of discarded mail in ballots for trump, or having people intentionally commit voter fraud for Biden/have some sort of conflict in swing states to sow doubt and advance the fraud narrative. Turns out, they didn’t even need to do that because they could just make shit up! They didn’t even need to stage a false reality, because reality is just whatever they say it is now. They look at voter fraud by democrats the same way we do climate change; I haven’t really looked at any specific studies about it lately, but I just know there’s such a general consensus about it that I comfortably assume those experts are correct and it’s happening. And the weather trends support it. For them, all of their “trusted” sources and politicians told them the election was stolen, so that’s good enough for them; they don’t need to actually see the evidence for themselves.

They’re responding to a phony election fraud issue and CRT with the fervor we should be responding to voter rights, ACTUALLY securing elections, and climate change. We are soon going to have states where a Republican house majority is all but guaranteed due to gerrymandering. Dems will have to win close to 60% of the votes just to get half the seats. They will have unfettered control of election certification (because there’s no filibuster at the state level) and since we use the Electoral College, there are always going to be close states that will be accused of being hotbeds of fraud and there’s some reason why they can’t certify a Democratic win. They might allow some democratic wins to go unchecked just to create an air of normalcy, but you can bet your ass that a GOP controlled House is NOT going to seat a Democratic president in 2024 (if they’re even able to win in the first place). Heavy red states are sanitizing their education systems such that kids will have a warped understanding of our history, under the guise of “banning CRT.”

So we’ve got curriculums changing based on fake outrage, voter suppression + elections being subverted based on fake fraud allegations, and an embarrassing national tragedy that could’ve been a wake up call is now viewed as either a peaceful protest or a justified attack by tens of millions of people, with the most popular cable news host doing a series about how it was a false flag to create a war on domestic terror to punish Christian Trump supporters. (Not to mention these same people basically constructed an entire worldview about a deadly pandemic solely to absolve Dear Leader of any blame for mishandling it). There’s uh, really just not any realistic roadmap for getting out of this that doesn’t involve things getting progressively MUCH worse first. We could’ve taken the difficult, but necessary steps toward accountability right after Jan 6th/inauguration, but instead they wanted to pretend we could save democracy by working with the people who just tried to kill it. Now any attempts at accountability will be seen as partisan witch hunts and oppression of “regular Americans,” and just serve as a further rallying cry/radicalization tool.

People were lulled into feeling safe because Biden took office, or thinking that Trump was the only real threat. But it’s honestly hard to think of a single area of our democracy/fabric of society that isn’t trending in a very dangerous direction right now :/