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He is sounding more and more like a dictator.
This is the stuff of which dangerous dictatorships are made. Trump is now threatening to use criminal prosecution of Hillary as political revenge. Twice on Friday I heard CBS radio network news reports on KCBS-AM in San Francisco, that Trump said that if he is elected, he will seek to have Hillary “prosecuted” and “jailed.” The way he said it sounded clearly like a personal vendetta. One of his statements came at a rally, the other in an interview for Face the Nation that airs this Sunday on CBS television. I did some quick searching online (www.Startpage.com) to come up with more, below.
There is no overstating exactly how dangerous this is.
The use of the mechanisms of the law to “settle scores” between competing candidates for office, is something we think of as occurring in dictatorships far away, run by tyrants with thin skins, huge egos, and petty grudges. I can’t recall an instance in at least a century when anything like it happened here. Even Nixon’s “enemies list” did not include seeking to prosecute the opposing candidates in the 1968 and 1972 elections.
And yet, here we are.
First, the item from the Face the Nation interview: www.cbsnews.com/...
[Face The Nation moderator] [John] Dickerson asked Trump whether he'd direct his attorney general to look into the matter, if he wins the presidency and the current probe into Clinton's server concludes with no indictment.
"I would certainly have my, very fair, but I would have my attorney general look at it," Trump said. "Yes, I would. Because everyone knows that she's guilty. Now, I would say this: she's guilty, but I would let my attorney general make that determination. Maybe they would disagree. And I would let that person make the determination."
Let’s see: “Everyone knows she’s guilty... but I would let my Attorney General make that determination...” Do go on, Mr. Trump.
Next, from an article in USA Today: www.usatoday.com/...
"Remember I said I was a counter-puncher?" an animated Trump asked an enthusiastic crowd of supporters at a rally in San Jose, Calif. "After what she said about me today in her phony speech — that was a phony speech, that was a Donald Trump hit job — I will say this, Hillary Clinton has to go to jail. She's guilty as hell." ...Trump also left open the possibility that his own attorney general would investigate her emails if he became president.
That language is as clear as day: “I (am) a counter-puncher. After what she said about me... I will say this, Hillary Clinton has to go to jail.”
This is new.
For a while now, Trump has been threatening to have Hillary prosecuted for the email stuff. But after Hillary’s speech last week, that, to put it mildly, tore him a new one, Trump’s threats have gotten personal.
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