Ninety-One-Time Federally Indicted Felon, Insurrectionist, and Cognitively Deficient Rapist Shows His Control over the GOP as it Prepares to Nominate Him A Third Time

‘America Rises’ Post #33: Saturday, February 10th, 2024

While Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party happened many years ago, it has never been laid bare for all to see as clearly as it was over the past week. In the span of just 72 hours, Trump led the charge to kill a painstakingly negotiated bipartisan border and immigration bill in Congress, compelled the Republican National Committee chair to issue her resignation, and humiliated his only remaining competitor for the presidential primary in Nevada.

In Washington, Trump demonstrated his hold over Republicans in both chambers of Congress when he commanded them to crush the bipartisan border and immigration reform legislation that leadership from both parties in the senate had been working on for months, and they obeyed. Why did he do this? Because Trump wants (or more accurately, he needs) the border issue to campaign on, so the last thing he wants to see passed is legislation that will serve to actually fix the problems that plague our border or immigration system. Remember that Trump’s initial announcement that he was running for President in 2015 was replete with racist fearmongering about immigrants from Central and South America “bringing crime, bringing drugs, and being rapists” and “Build the Wall!” was an incessant and central mantra of his first campaign.

So at the directive of a twice-impeached, nationally disgraced, 91-time federally indicted felon and judge-and-jury-adjudicated rapist found liable for over $83 million in punitive damages for defaming his victim, the Republican Party, in 2024:

1.    Destroyed the best deal they’ve ever been able to negotiate on the border (and likely ever will again) as well as tossed any hope of passing critical supplemental assistance packages to Israel and Ukraine—which were attached to the border bill—back into total uncertainty, with potentially disastrous international implications.

2.    Pushed its National Committee chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, to offer her resignation following the South Carolina primary on February 24^th, simply in response to Trump stating that he wanted “big changes” at the RNC. The party’s chief of staff, Mike Reed, is also set to step down from his role later this month in response to Trump’s demands.

Have we ever seen anything like this in U.S. politics?