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At this level, President Donald Trump’s administration has turn out to be a caricature of itself.
Trump’s cupboard already features a Well being and Human Providers (HHS) Secretary who spreads medical misinformation, dabbles in medical racism, and doesn’t appear to know the distinction between Medicare and Medicaid. We even have a Secretary of Protection who doesn’t appear to have a agency grasp on who our worldwide allies are, a counterterrorism chief who thinks Jan. 6 terrorists had been “political prisoners,” and a “border czar” who wouldn’t be capable of grasp constitutional regulation if it had been a brown particular person sneaking over the southern border with out correct paperwork.
In fact, now, Trump seems to be eyeing the primary Black particular person as somebody who could possibly be a part of his administration since he gave a Black man the Division of Housing and City Improvement spot, which gave the impression to be the one “Black job” that was ever out there in his cupboard.
Now, prepare for President Donald Trump’s — *checks notes* — “pardon czar.”
From CBS Information:
President Trump is tapping Alice Johnson, the 69-year-old grandmother he granted clemency in his first time period over long-ago drug offenses, to be his “pardon czar.”
The president made the announcement throughout a Black Historical past Month occasion within the White Home East Room Thursday afternoon. Johnson spent over 21 years in jail for nonviolent drug-related crimes when Mr. Trump commuted her sentence and she or he was launched in 2018. Mr. Trump later issued her a full pardon.
“You’ve been an inspiration to individuals, and we’re going to be listening to your advice on pardons,” Mr. Trump advised Johnson on Thursday. ” You’re going to go over and also you’re going to be — you’re going to, she’s going to be my pardon czar, okay? And also you’re going to search out individuals identical to you that ought to not this could not have occurred. It shouldn’t have occurred. So that you’re going to look and also you’re going to make suggestions, and I’ll observe these suggestions, okay? For pardons. All proper?”
Mr. Trump stated Johnson was “in jail for doing one thing that at this time most likely wouldn’t even be prosecuted.”
Initially, this couldn’t be the identical Donald Trump who, only a few years in the past, urged WNBA star Brittney Griner’s keep in a Russian jail was justified as a result of she was “loaded up with medicine,” when she was really solely “loaded up” with lower than a gram of hashish oil.
Secondly, is Trump simply creating random positions and throwing the phrase “czar” behind it now? I swear he’s the overtly bigoted model of each cartoon mayor ever.
Lastly, it’s fairly clear that Trump was utilizing his BLM celebration to pander to his few Black supporters through a name again to the pardons that occurred underneath his first administration, which included a whole lot of Black individuals who had been locked up for non-violent offenses but additionally included cops convicted for egregious police brutality, and U.S. troopers convicted of massacring greater than a dozen Iraqui civilians unprovoked. (For the sake of bandwidth, I received’t waste time harping on the 1500 some odd home terrorists Trump lately pardoned after they had been convicted for the assault on the U.S. Capitol that he instigated.)
Don’t get me fallacious, it’s a very good factor that Johnson and others like her had been launched, however we’re not going to faux Trump’s motive was social justice and never his shameless agenda of gathering “Black mates” whereas serving as arguably probably the most anti-Black president in current historical past.
Nah, we’re not about to let him gaslight us like this.
Let me cease earlier than he appoints a “gaslight czar.”
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