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Dump Young on Trump

By Peter Bowden - posted Wednesday, 28 February 2024


Former President Donald Trump has responded to his federal indictment the way he has responded to various other crises – with a blizzard of dishonesty.

In posts on his social media platform and in Saturday speeches in Georgia and North Carolina, Trump made numerous false or misleading claims about his handling of classified documents, the FBI’s conduct in the related investigation, the Presidential Records Act, his dealings with the federal government prior to the search of his Mar-a-Lago club and residence,

The 2024 presidential campaign is now a favourite D.C. guessing game: How many guilty verdicts will Trump rack up before the vote? His four criminal cases are in a legal traffic jam, with prosecutors jostling to start trials in New York City, Washington D.C., Atlanta and South Florida

National Public Radio media critic David Folkenflik, editor of the 2011 book “Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism.”

He cited an exhaustive Times report that contended President Donald Trump and his father, Fred, avoided taxes by using a sham corporation, undervaluing their assets and taking improper tax deductions. Much of the 15,000-word story was based on thousands of financial documents, many of them posted on the Times website. The work was authoritative, with the newspaper clearly laying out the facts, Folkenflik said.

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“They weren’t being contentious. They weren’t being barbed. They weren’t being snarky,” he said. “They were being direct and writing plainly and clearly and intensively about an issue of great importance.”

Second. Trump is a war monger.

America’s Congress continues to refuse to pass a support package for Ukraine. Add to this Donald Trump’s talk of letting Russia do “whatever the hell they want” with “delinquent” NATO members, and European security is not looking very secure at all.

A second Donald Trump presidency could spell the end of democracy in America and prove “devastating for the world order”, Adam Kinzinger, a Republican former congressman, has warned in an interview with the Guardian.

Third. Australians do not want to import any United States policies, First gun control. Trump, who got an early endorsement from the NRA before he was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, gave mixed signals over his views on gun reform in the U.S. while in the White House The former president and his rivals for the Republican nomination have vowed to defend and expand gun rights in the wake of rampages in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Fourth Trump on public executions. A search on the internet will tell you that the former president wants to expand the use of the death penalty, and expand the federal government's options for carrying out death sentences. One website, Rolling Stone claims

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Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House.

Vanity Fair claims he wants to bring back hangings .It also says he is a is “a disturbed individual with a strong penchant for violence.” Vanity is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast, one of the world's most renowned media companies,

Mr Trump is the country's most prolific execution president in more than a century, overseeing the executions of 13 death row inmates since July of this year. The US Justice Department has announced a halt on federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which killed 13 people in executions over six months.

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Peter Bowden is an author, researcher and ethicist. He was formerly Coordinator of the MBA Program at Monash University and Professor of Administrative Studies at Manchester University. He is currently a member of the Australian Business Ethics Network , working on business, institutional, and personal ethics.

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