I hate my opponents and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry. I am sorry Erika, but now Erika can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that’s not right, but I can’t stand my opponents.
The Erika in question is, of course, Kirk's widow who made a point of publicly forgiving the man who killed her husband. Trump, however, was in no forgiving mood:
The Department of Justice is also investigating networks of radical left maniacs who fund, organize, fuel and perpetrate political violence, and we think we know who many of them are, but law enforcement can only be the beginning of our response to Charlie’s murder over the last 11 days.
We have heard stories of commentators, influencers and others in our society who greeted his assassination with sick approval, excuses or even jubilation. You’ve heard that, so have I … some of the very same people who spent the last eight years trying to sit in moral judgment of anyone who disagreed with them about politics suddenly started cheering for murder.
There are certainly those in this country who approved of Kirk's murder. As hateful, foolish and counterproductive as those sentiments are, they are not unlawful much less evidence they were involved in his death.
Yet in Trump we have someone who is every bit as hateful, foolish and counterproductive as those who condoned Kirk's killing. The difference is that he is the President of the United States, and he is using Kirk's killing as a means to consolidate power he constitutionally does not have.
Unless Congress or the courts keep him in check, Trump will use this consolidation of power against the "opponents" he hates in any way he sees fit including imprisonment and execution. How broadly Trump defines his "opponents" remains to be seen. But don't be surprised if Trump defines an "opponent" as anyone who publicly disagrees with him in anyway. If it should come to that then no American is safe from Trump.
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