aggie93 said:
Look…Trump is a pompous, narcissistic ass who loves to promote himself…zero disagreement on that…
With that said, I do truly believe that Trump, at his core, is patriotic and pro-America…
His approach has always been brash, and rude, and not what most folks see as being the behavior of someone presidential, but I do believe at his very core, he does love this country and he does want to protect it…
And because of that, though he absolutely opens himself up to all of the stuff that gets piled into him, I do think we have crossed the boundary between politics and weaponization of the law…or lawfare as some refer to it…. I do believe that someone needs to be on a "crusade" (if you will) to defeat this approach to controlling our nation…. hawg is spot on…there's literally no safeguards to protect common citizens from what is being done to Trump…if you have enemies, and those enemies have influence in the justice system, courts can be used against you for any reason, whether an actual crime was committed or not…. What Trump went through is quite literally a non-violent coup to remove him from power…and it started while he was running for president in 2016 most likely because HRC's internals showed the Left that someone that they (and the establishment at large) felt like had zero business running the country as an unknown entity (meaning someone not part of the establishment club) left their vision of America at risk…if not grave risk…. Trump wasn't going to be beholden to anyone but Trump, and the establishment saw this as a threat to their very existence…
So we had the Steele dossier (complete fabrication presented and pushed by media as fact), then quid pro quo (which turns out is exactly what the current administration has been doing to help Ukraine), and then Jan 6 (where it seems we had undercover FBI leading the charge into the capitol, with Capitol Police gladly aiding them)…
You also had a fabricated hate crime that spurred riots and violence in the summer of 2020 (all while burying the toxicology report that showed significant levels of fentanyl in the "victim's" system), and a convenient "pandemic" that the world wasn't prepared for, forced everyone to change their lives because "why would the government lie?", creating an opportunity to swoop in and confiscate an election (and then it turns out that the "vaccine" the government was trying to mandate is essentially worthless as a universal prevention, the mask mandates were proven to be absolutely worthless, and millions of school children basically lost a year of education for no reason)…
All of these things were an effort to remove Trump from office, and now his legal problems (they literally changed laws in NY to charge him with a crime, and they raided his personal residence for something that is standard POTUS protocol) have been created just to invent ways to keep him from returning to power…
How much tax payer money has been spent chasing completely fabricated crimes? It's mind-boggling to think about…
So maybe the left and establishment are using the political capital they've collected to boost him as the R candidate to be destroyed in the election, but I agree with hawg's take…they don't want him on the ballot because they can't keep him out office for a second term using non-violent means otherwise, and that's why they continue to hammer him with lawfare today…
And if that is true, then there is some validity to this being a crusade to take back our country, and whether we like it or not, Trump is the face of that crusade, and folks are migrating back toward him because of it…