"Trump knows that they will mention his history-making presidencies, his ostentatious wealth, and his unusual charisma-but he also is aware that when he dies, people will remember his conviction on 34 felony counts, and that there is nothing he can do about it. Even now, White House officials have told me, Trump rages about how his guilty verdict is sure to be mentioned way up high in his obituaries."
"Trump's fixation on all of this leapt to mind today when I heard that he'd called for the arrests of the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago-not just because it explains Trump's psychology, but also because this obsession is one of the driving motivations of his revenge crusade, which is now escalating dramatically. It bears pausing on the starkness of these facts: The president of the United States today demanded the jailing of two elected officials who belong to the opposing political party."
"This, of course, is hardly the first time Trump has urged the incarceration of his political foes. (This is the man who led "Lock her up" chants at his rallies, after all.) But what makes this moment so significant is what happened a short time later, in a courtroom just outside Washington, D.C. There, former FBI Director James Comey was arraigned on charges of making false statements to Congress. Trump's threats are no longer bluster. The guardrails of his first term are gone."
Donald Trump is fixated on how his eventual obituaries will record his conviction on 34 felony counts, and he rages about his guilty verdict being prominently mentioned. That fixation motivates a revenge crusade that is escalating dramatically. He publicly demanded the arrests of Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson without offering evidence or specifying charges, apparently responding to their opposition to sending the National Guard to protect ICE officers. The demand exemplifies a continuing pattern of urging incarceration of political opponents. Institutional guardrails have eroded, and aggressive actions are now enabled by supportive allies.
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