Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Very Trumpian, conflating the truth. "Oh, this is so unfair."

The image from Thesaurus.com leaves out the word TRUTH.

Trumpian politics has a clear element of criminality. One thing Trump said very frequantly, was how life was treating him unfairly. This conflating of two separate events on opposite sides of the country is so much like the politics of Trump. Included in Trumpian politics is the idea that Trump appointed judges should be indulging "The Big Lie."

The rioters in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2020 weren't attempting a coup of the 2020 elections. That should be very plain in the differences of the severity of the lawbreakers.

December 29, 2021
By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen

Two Trump-appointed federal judges (click here) have rejected claims from January 6 defendants that they're being treated unfairly, because of their conservative politics, compared with left-leaning rioters in Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 2020.

Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday became the second judge in two weeks to reject the comparisons, which are popular in right-wing circles, after his colleague in Washington, DC's, federal court Carl Nichols made a similar ruling last week.

McFadden and Nichols both said the US Capitol riot defendants' arguments didn't have enough evidence to show discrimination....