The Toddler of the United States loves to talk about how he’s cracking down on immigrants committing unspeakable crimes … most of which occur in his delusional/lying head. It’s a standard Republican talking point: liberals have been soft on crime since the early 1970s, when crime rates were, indeed far higher than now.
Crime is way, way down, the prison-industrial complex is a thing and cops who commit crimes still get an astonishing amount of legal and government protection (I do believe there are good cops, but there are also a lot of rotten ones). Nevertheless, for Republicans and for a lot of the media it’s still 1970: cities are violent hellholes, bleeding-heart liberal judges and soft-on-crime prosecutors (now there’s an oxymoron) are letting hardened killers run free with a slap on the wrist or watching them slip through legal loopholes.
This is incoherent gibberish. The same party that shrieks after every mass shooting that nothing can be done — killers gonna kill, criminals gonna crime — simultaneously shriek that we’d have perfectly orderly cities if not for the Democrats running them (and if the Dem is a person of color, insert bullshit about “DEI” too). And the same party that complains about Dems being anti-cop is perfectly happy punishing anyone in law enforcement whoever dared hold the toddler accountable for being a crook. Case in point, acting AG Todd Blanche, back when he was deputy AG, celebrated that the Justice Department has driven out anyone who dared investigate his Glorious Supreme Leader.
The Toddler and white supremacist puppeteer Stephen Miller are so obsessed with immigration the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases to focus more on immigration.
Nursing home kingpin Joseph Schwartz was sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes. The Toddler pardoned him after three months. Schwartz’s victims’ efforts to collect restitution are null and void.
Unsurprisingly, the Toddler is very, very keen on investigating left-wing movements as terrorist threats (more here) while ignoring the right-wing violence that he adores. Not that this is new, right-wingers have been whining about any attempt to investigate right-wing terrorists for at least a quarter-century now. Related: “The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in the White House over five years ago.”
You will be astonished that many of those seditious traitors attacking the capital on 1/6 turned out not to be good people. Another example.
Along with the ongoing cover-ups of the Epstein files, the Toddler has gutted the State Department office combating human trafficking.
Then there’s the Toddler’s DOJ policy of paying off people arrested under Biden. If they’re the right sort of people, i.e., white and conservative.
“The proposed $68 million settlement with a Texas land developer that the Justice Department had accused of preying on Hispanic residents includes no money for the victims but more than $20 million for police and immigration enforcement.”
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Piro wants to charge 12-year-olds as adults. Texas AG Ken Paxton, on the other hand, gave an accused pedophile lesser charges so the man will only spend 30 days in jail and not have to register as a sex offender (the judge insisted on 60 days). As I’ve said before, Republicans’ war on groomers is a farce (only not funny).
“Shile Trump is clearly willing to inflict gratuitous suffering on the little people, he positively revels in his association with big-time criminals, whether it’s Putin; or Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who had a critical journalist dismembered with a bone saw; or Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road, an underground e-marketplace known for drug trafficking, whom Trump pardoned immediately after assuming office; or Larry Hoover, a Chicago crime boss, who was sentenced to several lifetimes in prison for leading the Gangster Disciples, also pardoned by Trump. Yes, Trump really and truly cares about crime in Chicago.
