This isn’t Germany or Italy in the nineteen thirties, but the word police state does leap to mind considering an evening last weekend, four New York Times reporters had a knock on the door and were served with a subpoena to appear in court this week about their story on why Trump’s new airplane did not possess the sufficient security protections to fly out of Ankara last week. He had to switch to his previous plane.
Now here’s why this story has just an awful ring to it. One, the new plane was a gift from Qatar. If not for the Supreme Court, that would seem to be a violation of the emoluments cause. Two, it is the public’s right to know if a plane used as Air Force One by the president and where taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade it, the people have a right to know if it’s not ready. Three, Trump lied about why he was switching planes. He said he wanted to show the new aircraft off to troops.
It is responsibility then of the news media to tell the truth. What was this really all about? Four, usually before any news media is questioned in an investigation, there has been investigations of others taking place to try to set the predicate. None of that has occurred. Five FBI Director Cash Patel has taken charge of this investigation. That’s unusual. But if it were previous FBI directors like William Webster or Bob Muller or Christopher Wray, you’d say, okay, maybe it’s maybe it’s acceptable.
But with this free drinking, rule violating, partisan little hit man, this is just nothing but an absolute political hit job. Questions arise also about the role of the Manhattan U.S. attorney Jay Clayton, slated to be director of national intelligence, who was the one that issued the subpoena to the Times reporters. This case is about political embarrassment. Trump celebrated new plane, at least as of now, is a dud and it’s a cover up.
Maybe it’s exaggerated, but you know it does have a little bit of a Gestapo ring about it.
Petulance, stamping his feet, tantrum like overreactions. More infantalism than fascism. Yet perhaps that is what fascist thugs have always been about: Angry, unloved infants. Emotional vacuums that suck in all the grievances of a tribe for support. As one psychatrist put it " a group symbiotic narcissism of poor me vuctimhood". Poor macho babies!