Chris Christie was on ABC News to discuss his position on the Trump FBI’s investigation of Trump critic John Bolton. Christie implied Trump has weaponized his office to investigate his enemies and “doesn’t care” about maintaining separation between the office of the President and investigations being conducted by the Department of Justice.
Trump got triggered and posted the following to his Truth Social echo chamber:
“Chris refused to take responsibility for these criminal acts,” Mr. Trump wrote. “For the sake of JUSTICE, perhaps we should start looking at that very serious situation again? NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!”
Trump was referring to a political scandal involving Christie in 2013 in which Christie was accused of directing lanes of a bridge to be closed for political reasons.
Trump’s response is patently false, defamatory, unethical, and yet another proof that he is tyrannically and illegally weaponizing the office of the president to retaliate against anyone who criticizes him personally. He’s also lying. Again.
First off, I’m not a Chris Christie fan, but Christie was cleared of wrongdoing by multiple investigations conducted by an outside firm, a congressional investigation, and a federal investigation. In fact, two of his aids who were prosecuted were actually exonerated by the Supreme Court, who said their actions could not be considered fraudulent because they did not involve any sort of quid pro quo arrangement, money, or other favoritism. There’s nothing to investigate— except Trump’s personal grudges.
So, Trump is defaming Christie by stating that he has committed crimes that he has not been punished for. That is a clear cut case of “fake news,” as Trump calls it. Secondly, Trump and his cabinet member’s constant drumming of “no one is above the law!” slogan is also fake news coming from the administration who is protecting sex trafficking and child predator felons and refusing to investigate the origin of the Sars 2 virus, the fatal warp speed vaccine, not to mention Trump’s ongoing pardons of white-collar criminals, and crypto bros and many others. I won’t even get into all of Trump’s “fake news” state of emergencies that he has launched to go “above the law” to give himself powers that he was never constitutionally granted.
Here’s the real news: Trump’s administration is literally the “above the law” administration. Every time they say those words, they are simply projecting who they are and what they are doing, in alignment with Karl Marx’s “always accuse the enemy of what you are doing” political strategy.
But beyond all the lies, defamation, and projection, the most troubling thing is the weaponization of the office of the president, and if the federal government at-large, to threaten, investigate, and punish any free American citizen who has the audacity to criticize Trump or his policies. This is a horrible development and assault on our constitutionally protective way of life.
This is not the stuff of a free republic. This is the stuff of a totalitarian psycho regime. They’ve literally got people terrified of going to prison for criticizing Trump. Even the media is terrified of being sued for saying something negative about him. This is not freedom. This is the end of freedom. If we don’t have freedom WE DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY. how are you going to make America greater again when you’re taking away the thing that makes America great???
I personally don’t know how a person can call themselves a patriot and approve of the ongoing tyrannical behavior of the guy in the White House. I get that the Democrats are not the solution for America. But neither is tyranny.