Donald J Trump lies. He lies about everything all the time. His super power is that he doesn't feel any issues about lying. He isn't bound by normal human mores that would cause some hesitation or pause when lying. He has some belief, and then he creates facts and stories to fit the story he has in his head.
We saw this around his businesses where he lied about the size of his assets or liabilities to suit his needs (his assets are huge for getting loans from banks and much less valuable when the tax man asked). He lies about the whereabouts of top secret files he has stolen from the government. He lies about the results of an election. He lies about American being at war and being invaded by Venezuelan gangs. He lies about, well everything.
An area DJT loves to lie about to fit his narrative is violence in America and in particular who is committing that violence. According to President Trump we are living in American carnage. Rape and murder is everywhere, and its mostly the result of illegal immigrants and their woke Democratic overlords. In Trump's mind when immigrants aren't eating Fido and Garfield they are raping American women and murdering our grandparents and grandchildren. During his single debate with Kamala Harris he repeated a known lie that immigrants are eating the dogs and cats of Americans in Springfield OH. Except of course they weren't, and that FACT was known. Yet in Trump's mind immigrants must be eating dogs and cats because that is the kind of stuff immigrants do.
In Trump's mind immigrants are also rapping and murdering Americans when they take a break from eating domestic animals. Except they aren't. In the past couple of years the percentage of rapes and murders committed by illegal immigrants is under 0.3%. For example in 2023 there were 29 illegal immigrants convicted of murder, out of 19,252 murders. Is murder or rape by an American citizen somehow not so bad, but one committed by an illegal immigrant 1000Xs worse? I am pretty sure of the 127k people raped in 2023 stopping the 284 committed by illegals would be nice, but spending that money stopping the other 127k rapes is much more important.
And that brings us to Kilmar Garcia. Team Trump paints a picture of a violent gang leader. The courts and the facts are entirely different. Not only has Garcia not been convicted of any crime in the decade plus he has lived in the US, he hasn't even been accused of any crime. There are no court cases or accusations against him. Yes he wore a hoodie, and a bulls hat. Is that a crime? Should a brown man in a bulls baseball cap be sent to jail for life in a foreign prison? Team Trump thinks so. Is this really a power we want a President to have? While no President should (or even does) have this authority, its particularly dangers in a man who is untethered from reality. The ability to disappear anyone he doesn't like. That is the power of a despot, not a President. If that doesn't make you want to take to the streets in protest then any true understanding of freedom and democracy must have died in you.
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