Now Trump wants to give all police immunity from prosecution:
“We’re going to give our police their power back,” Trump told supporters during a rally last week in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “We are going to give them immunity from prosecution.” The twice-impeached and four-times-indicted former president made a similar statement in December 2023 during a campaign event in Iowa, where he promised to “indemnify” police officers to shield them from prosecutorial harm.
That’s literally an authoritarian police state. A strong man with absolute immunity, and a police state with no accountability.
Absolutely. And sadly, all the rest of us will get it, too.
Some of this is due to our media culture. Outrage = self-righteousness, and we humans love to feel self-righteous. Having your righteousness validated via numbers of the like-minded happens every day on the internet.
This is so true. In a local protest encampment near me, they are currently outraged by a made up story of cameras on a building (they do not exist) and are also outraged that the police have not been called to break them up, therefore denying them the right to be visibly oppressed.
Maybe Trump should set up a kissing booth outside the courthouse so all the visitors can masticate derriere. The speaker of the house, the senators, George Santos, Vivek Ramaswamy could get photos with him to further their careers.