Donald Trump: America's Most Dangerous Terrorists
You’re probably thinking, “Well, that’s a bold claim. Sure, Trump is terrible, but he’s not a terrorist. He hasn’t hurt anyone, he just says insane things. Right?”
The FBI defines domestic terrorism as activities that:
1. Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
2. Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping; and
3. Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
Let’s take those apart, step by step, and examine them in the case of Mr. I-Can’t-Stay-With-A-Woman-Unless-She’s-My-Daughter. Trump has been involved in plenty of activities harmful to dangerous life. In fact, he has been party to a crime during several assaults which have taken place regularly at his rallies. At a February rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Trump said, “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.” When Trump says comments like this, and then cheers and jeers as his radical thugs assault civilians, he serves as a principal and party to crime. It leads to peaceful protesters getting sucker-punched and beaten at rallies and signals to his supporters that it is okay to commit hate crimes against minority groups and those who disagree with them. That’s pretty dangerous to human life, and it violates federal and state laws.
He has coerced his supporters into beating up civilians at his rallies, and then committing violent acts to their neighbors and fellow community members.
Step 2 is achieved as well. Trump’s violent rhetoric has opened the door for a wave of hate crimes across the nation, which ThinkProgress has documented on their website. He has coerced his supporters into beating up civilians at his rallies, and then committing violent acts to their neighbors and fellow community members. In addition, Trump has certainly hinted at assassination and violent resistance to the rule of law. Trump encouraged supporters to take violent action against Hillary Clinton, stating, “By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” Typical of Trump, this line does not outright call for an assassination, but he leaves the topic in the air for someone to latch on to, without ever addressing the violent and catastrophic implications of the terrorist acts that he brings up in conversation. Comments like these cause rational observers to consider what a disgusting and despicable excuse of a man Blonde Bird’s Nest is. Finally, Trump has attempted to intimidate at least one half of our government when he said that were he to lose the Republican Nomination, “I think you’d have riots.” And then, repeating himself, as is his wont to do, he redundantly stated, “I think you’d have riots.” This clearly marks off the second check. By promising to pay the legal fees of criminals, suggesting that assassination could even be considered in this country, and then predicting gleefully that Cleveland would burn if he didn’t get his way, Trump gets a perfect score on the terrorism watchlist.
Ignoring the fact that Fascist Fatso here is advocating for murder and torture, it is a scary sentiment that Trump loves to pick on civilians.
However, that’s just the FBI definition of terrorism. And as Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, explains, “...the FBI is certainly suspect these days...” Ignoring the fact that Trump’s team seems to be run by crybabies who throw tantrums every time they don’t get the results that they want, let’s take a look at another definition of terrorism.
The University of Wisconsin’s Michael Barnett has an interesting test of terrorism: “For me, the critical issue is this question of whether the immediate target is civilian.” In the case of every protestor assaulted at one of Trump’s rallies, the target has been a civilian. In the case of the assassination remarks about Hillary Clinton, the target has been a civilian. Even in dealing with terrorists, Trump chose to focus not on the terrorists themselves, but in torturing their families, saying, “The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.” Ignoring the fact that Fascist Fatso here is advocating for murder and torture, it is a scary sentiment that Trump loves to pick on civilians. Heck, Baby Hands even threatened the Pope’s life, saying that he wouldn’t protect the Holy See should ISIS try to assassinate Pope Francis. In the words of Twitter user @Mark_Andrew_M, what a, “weaselheaded f*cknugget.”
Perhaps Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s definition works best, “I know it when I see it.” We see your filth, Trump, and we know what you are.