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Trump’s Anti-Judge Tweetstorm Is Prelude For His Reichstag Fire

The next "Bridgegate" is going to be Trump blowing up the Golden Gate Bridge.

By Elie Mystal on February 06, 2017 1:15 pm

Burning Reichstag (National Archives and Records Administration.)

Burning Reichstag (National Archives and Records Administration.)

President Donald Trump wants there to be another successful act of foreign terrorism on domestic soil. He needs it. He can’t push through his Muslim bigotry policies without it. Steve Bannon can’t finish his destruction of the free press without it. Why do you think Bannon sits on the National Security Council now? Keeping flyover America terrified of foreign threats is the only way to keep them from noticing the deregulation and tax breaks aimed at the top 1% of people Trump desperately wants to like him.
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By Barbri

A terrorism attack is the rug that ties their room together. The intelligent Trumpkin probably just realizes how an attack could be turned to give the administration more power. The establishment intelligentsia thinks they’re just inviting an attack. I’m telling you these motherf**kers will pull the trigger themselves if they have to, and I’ll be saying that even after you people start treating me like I’m a 9/11 truther (#BowlingGreenMassacre). Look at what they did with the mosque attack in Canada. They tried to turn the shooter from a white nationalist into a Moroccan, and I promise you that idiot Trump supporters like Tom Brady still think “Mooslims” attacked our neighbors.

You’d have to be incredibly naïve to not see how terrorism and death in America benefit the sitting American president. If/when we are “attacked,” the only exposure for the administration will be the diminishing number of people who actually believe in personal responsibility, who think that the president should be blamed for not keeping us safe. Trump needs a patsy he can shift the burden to when talking about the “great ratings” he got while attending the funerals of Americans killed in his false-flag operations.

Enter U.S. District Judge James L. Robart. Judge Robart, a federal judge in Washington State appointed by Bush, blocked Trump’s Muslim ban over the weekend. It’s just a temporary stay but for now, Trump wants you to think Robart is in charge of keeping us safe, not the Commander-in-Chief. Here it is directly from the horse’s ass:

(Trump: James Robart? What are you doing dressed up like a federal judge?
Catwoman: Because he IS a federal judge, you idiot.)

(Emma Lazarus: A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame / Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, Mother of Exiles.
Trump: They know that if certain people are allowed in it’s death & destruction.)

THERE IT IS, FOLKS. People huffing and puffing about Trump’s attack on separation of powers are not wrong, but they’re still missing the point. He says it right there — Trump’s main concern isn’t preventing an attack, it’s making sure that the right person gets blamed for it.

It’s exactly the kind of thing you’re concerned about when you are more interested in using an attack than stopping it.

Trump isn’t trying to make America great, he’s rooting for it to fail. He thinks that he can set up the courts to take the “fall” if it fails, and he’s already primed his base to think of courts as an institution against their interests. The same people who allow gay people to walk around with rights and freedoms are also helping the terrorists. That narrative is already packaged and ready to go.

I imagine step two is disbanding the judiciary or declaring martial law or who the hell knows what. But step one is certainly some act of foreign terrorism designed to keep people afraid and pliant.

I’ll can tell you right now that I won’t be buying it. It’s not the courts’ fault for striking down unconstitutional actions, it’s Trump’s fault for not being able to work within the bounds of the Constitution. The next “Bridgegate” is going to be Trump blowing up the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe he’ll light the fuse himself, maybe he’ll pay the guys through his Russian contacts, maybe he’ll simply ignore security warnings about the impending attack contained in briefing books he refuses to read.

But the proverbial buck is going to stop on Trump’s desk, no matter how many judges he tries to throw under the bus.

Joe Scarborough: Trump’s reckless shot at a federal judge [Washington Post]

Earlier: When John Yoo Thinks You’ve Gone Too Far….

Elie Mystal is an editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]. He will resist.