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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 'president' doesn't believe in our system of justice.
Link to tweet
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,607 posts)Having already dissed the civilian judicial system, now he's decided the military courts suck, too - for issuing a decision he doesn't agree with.
spanone
(135,795 posts)In 1989, after these black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were accused of assaulting and raping a white woman in Central Park, Mr. Trump spent $85,000 placing full-page ads in the four daily papers in New York City, calling for the return of the death penalty.
Muggers and murderers, he wrote, should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes. Though he didnt refer to the teenagers by name, it was clear to anyone in the city that he was referring to them.
Incredibly, 14 years after their sentences were vacated based on DNA evidence and the detailed and accurate confession of a serial rapist named Matias Reyes, Mr. Trump has doubled down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/why-trump-doubled-down-on-the-central-park-five.html
unblock
(52,126 posts)tell us more about nfl players kneeling, donnie!
malaise
(268,715 posts)The fucking draft-dodger in chief said that during the campaign.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Throw all his opponents in jail (also follow Putin's way). Everybody who is not the 1-2%er ya on your own. Tax the shit out of middle class and poor so his cronies can live like king and queens. GOPers agree.
malaise
(268,715 posts)He is the quintessential definition of a fascist dictator
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)Wait...what?
Calculating
(2,955 posts)I know it's fun to see Trump frustrated, but Bowe really was a pos. He got good men killed and wounded when they went to look for him after his coward desertion. This was definitely a miscarriage of justice.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,607 posts)and for Trump to disparage not only the sentence but the court itself is typical of his disregard for the whole system.
sweetroxie
(776 posts)he can get someone else to do the dirty work.