Of course he does! He calls for jailing anyone who
doesn't agree with him, about anything! Like a little
six-year-old boy... Boy, has he got it coming from women,
particularly, across this country...at least those with
minds of their own...
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is
under fire this week for suggesting that critics of
federal judges, including justices on the nation's top
court, should be thrown in jail.
During a Monday night campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the
former president continued his trend of bragging about
appointing three of the U.S. Supreme Court justices who
ended nationwide abortion rights by overturning Roe v.
Wade. He also praised the "brilliant" right-wingers for
having the "courage" to issue the June 2022 Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization decision.
"They were very brave, the Supreme Court. Very brave. And
they take a lot of hits because of it," Trump told the
crowd.
"It should be illegal, what happens. You know, you have
these guys like playing the ref, like the great Bobby
Knight," he continued, referencing a late college
basketball coach. "These people should be put in jail,
the way they talk about our judges and our justices,
trying to get them to sway their vote, sway their
decision."
Demand Justice managing director Maggie Jo Buchanan on
Tuesday tied Trump's new comments to his past remarks.
"In 2016, Donald Trump said women should be punished if
they have an abortion. Now, he says women should be
jailed for speaking out when their rights have been taken
away," Buchanan said in a statement. "Attempting to stoke
fear among those who are simply exercising their First
Amendment rights is deeply anti-American."
The campaign of the Democratic nominee, Vice President
Kamala Harris, shared a clip of Trump's comments on
social media.
"You know, I'm going to lean forward a bit on my skis and
just suggest, hear me out on this, that this Trump fellow
is an obvious, unrepentant fascist without the slightest
understanding of what the First Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution demands and requires of every citizen, let
alone the president," said journalist David Simon.
Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) responded with a message
for Trump, saying: "The extreme Supreme Court Justices
you nominated are corrupt, radical, and ethically
compromised. They lied to the Senate and the American
people about their actual views on Roe v. Wade. Take your
attacks on free speech and shove it."
Pointing to a more recent ruling from the country's
deeply unpopular top court, writer and photographer Jason
Karsh said, "I know we're sort of numb to Trump openly
musing about putting anybody who disagrees with him or
speaks out about him in jail, but he is running for
president and this conservative SCOTUS did give him
complete immunity for any crimes he commits while in
office."
Meanwhile, Harvard University professor Maya Sen noted
that "Trump himself has made so many attacks on judges
and justices that the Brennan Center even released a
report on it."
Some of the ex-president's attacks on the judicial system
have pertained to his various ongoing legal issues, some
of which relate to his attempts to reverse his 2020 loss,
which included inciting a violent mob to attack the U.S.
Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Although Trump has campaigned on his role in reversing
Roe, he has also tried to distance himself from the GOP's
most extreme attacks on reproductive freedom and downplay
how important abortion rights are to many voters—which he
did again on Monday.
Responding to Trump's rally remarks, Harris campaign
spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said late Monday that "the
issue of reproductive freedom certainly 'pertains' to
women all across this country, especially as we learn
women are losing their lives under Donald Trump's extreme
abortion bans."
"Trump keeps trying to tell women that our health, our
freedoms, and our lives don't matter," she continued. "He
tries to tell us what to think and what we care about.
Women know better—and we will not be silenced, dismissed,
ignored or treated like we're stupid. We will vote like
our lives depend on it this November, and we'll elect a
leader who fights for us: Vice President Kamala Harris."
Trump's Monday comments followed his Friday night post on
social media that if he is elected in November, "WOMEN
WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE! YOU WILL NO
LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION."
That claim came in the wake of reporting that tied
Georgia's post-Dobbs abortion ban to the deaths of at
least two women. Speaking in Atlanta on Friday, Harris
declared that "this is a healthcare crisis and Donald
Trump is the architect of this crisis."
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Romney on possible Trump retribution: ‘I would take him at his word’
by Sarah Fortinsky - 09/25/24 2:48 PM ET
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said former President Trump should be taken seriously when he pledges to go after his political enemies if elected to another term in office.
“I think he has shown by his prior actions that you can take him at his word,” Romney told The Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins in an interview published Tuesday.
“So, I would take him at his word,” he added.
The remarks followed a conversation in which, according to Coppins, it became clear Romney had spent some time thinking about Trump’s threats to direct the Justice Department (DOJ) to go after his political opponents.
Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for president, has during his time in the senate bucked his own party on occasion and criticized the former president when he deemed it appropriate. In 2020, he became the first senator to vote to convict an impeached president of his own party. In 2021, after Trump was impeached for the second time, six other Republican senators joined him in voting to convict Trump.
Trump has repeatedly called the Justice Department corrupt and accused Democrats of weaponizing the justice system to target their opponents. He has vowed to do the same.
Coppins, who penned Romney’s recent biography, conducted a subsequent interview with the senator in May, in which they discussed the prospect of Romney appearing on Trump’s enemy list. Coppins reported that Romney “knew” that was “likely.”
Asked what a Trump reelection would mean for him and his family, Romney was reportedly careful in his response, telling Coppins, “I don’t know the answer to that.”
Romney said if Trump directed the DOJ to investigate him, “The good news is I haven’t had an affair with anybody; I don’t have any classified documents; I can’t imagine something I’ve done that would justify an investigation, let alone an indictment,” Coppins reported.
On whether his sons might be targeted, Romney told Coppins, “I mean, hopefully they’ve all crossed their t’s and dotted their i’s.”
“But it’s hard for me to imagine that President Trump would take the time to go out and see if [he] can find something on members of my family,” Romney continued.
When Coppins responded by telling Romney that “you might need to expand your imagination,” Coppins said Romney grew irritated.
“Yeah, but I’ve got 25 grandkids!” Romney said, reportedly throwing his hands up. ”How am I going to protect 25 grandkids, two great-grandkids? I’ve got five sons, five daughters-in-law—it’s like, we’re a big group.”
In response to The Atlantic’s reporting, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement that “this person is too insignificant to matter.”
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