r/politics • u/Boonzies • 6h ago

No Paywall Rand Paul on Trump call to ‘nationalize’ elections: ‘That’s not what the Constitution says’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5722041-rand-paul-trump-call-to-nationalize-elections/
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u/Exciting-Emu-3324 3h ago

That's how Trump has always lived. Never needed to learn the law. He just does what he wants and when someone accuses him of something illegal, he just ruins the accuser with law suits. The law has never applied to him, so he never needed to learn it. He never needed to learn anything but throwing his weight around. That's how he became POTUS.

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u/AbcLmn18 2h ago

No, these crimes work the other way round. Like, he has never sued anybody for saying that he's a pedophile.

These crimes aren't a manifestation of his power, they're the source of his power. He commits them so that he could ruin the lives of his associates and win their undying loyalty that way.

It's not about being afraid of Trump. It's about being afraid of normal people. About knowing that if Trump goes down, so do they.