A president with total contempt for the rule of lawby digby
Presidents are not supposed to weigh in on legal cases. But if he has no respect for the rule of law and believes that terrorist suspects should be tortured and summarily executed with bullets dipped in pigs blood, such legal niceties are irrelevant:
During a news conference three days after an alleged neo-Nazi drove his car through a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia — killing a 32-year-old woman named Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others — President Trump didn’t rush to condemn the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville. Instead, he infamously said there “were very fine people on both sides.”
Trump justified his equivocating response by insisting he was simply being responsible.
“I want to make sure when I make a statement that the statement is correct and there was no way of making a correct statement that early,” Trump told reporters. “I had to see the facts, unlike a lot of reporters… I didn’t know David Duke was there, I wanted to see the facts.”
Fast forward two and a half months, after a Uzbekistan national named Sayfullo Saipov allegedly drove his vehicle onto a bike path in New York City, killing eight and injuring 11 more.
This time, Trump isn’t waiting for the facts to come in. On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the president went as far as to repeatedly call for Saipov’s execution before his trial has even begun.
NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017
…There is also something appropriate about keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed. Should move fast. DEATH PENALTY!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017
This is just how he roll and has always rolled:
