New York Attorney General Letitia James sits in the courtroom during the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump and his children at New York State Supreme Court on November 3, 2023, in New York City. | Source: Pool / Getty
One of the more obnoxious things about members of the Republican party is how they keep complaining about “divisiveness” — as if they aren’t part of the divide.
They think liberalism is divisive, not conservatism. They think DEI is divisive, not the systemic racism that made DEI necessary in the first place. They think anti-white discrimination exists and is divisive, not their glaring anti-Blackness or the white supremacy that actually exists. They think “wokeness” is divisive, but not their seethingly resentful war on “wokeness.”
Now, representatives of Donald Trump are trying to convince New York Attorney General Letitia James to drop her multimillion-dollar civil fraud case against the president-elect so that the man who has spent the last eight years of his political career talking about Democrats like they were the collective devil incarnate will be free to “cure” the partisan divide.
From the Hill:
D. John Sauer, an appellate attorney whom Trump tapped for solicitor general, in Tuesday’s letter framed dropping the case as “necessary for the health of our Republic,” invoking former President George Washington’s Farewell Address and former President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation during the Civil War.
“In the aftermath of his historic election victory, President Trump has called for our Nation’s partisan strife to end, and for the contending factions to join forces for the greater good of the country,” he wrote. “This call for unity extends to the legal onslaught against him and his family that permeated the most recent election cycle.”
Sauer couldn’t even manage to call for peace between Republicans and Democrats without framing the latter as a party that perpetrated an “onslaught” against the Republican messiah. TRUMP’S PEOPLE CAN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT ENDING DIVISIVENESS WITHOUT BEING DIVISIVE!
Donald Trump ran on a campaign of hate and divisiveness, and he rode that energy all the way back to the White House. He spent the entire four years since his last abysmal presidency lying about Democrats rigging the 2020 election against him. He also spent three campaigns in a row lying about the state of America under democratic leadership, including, but not limited to, his lies about the economy and crime under President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris.
Trump also relentlessly taunted Letitia James, and he even doxxed her while he was under a gag order. He repeatedly called her and other Black prosecutors who brought cases against him “racist” without bothering to give a single example of their racism — which would have been rich anyway coming from a man who provides endless examples of his own racism.
There is arguably no modern president who has done as much to exacerbate “divisiveness” as Donald Trump — but sure, he’s going to “cure” it all once he’s back in office.
It’s like when Fox News host and persistent white supremacy defender Laura Ingraham erroneously claimed Trump would be the one to “end racism,” which she said to Hulk Hogan, who infamously destroyed his public image by being blatantly racist. In other words: a racist was telling a racist that a racist is going to end racism.
Either these people are as delusional as the racist, divisive blowhard they put back in the Oval Office, or they have abandoned any semblance of their waning integrity.
Or both — it’s probably both.
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