incentivizing bad behavior with a get out of jail free card. but the buck didn t stop at potential witness tampering. he implored his minions to take to the streets in cities like new york and georgia if prosecutors in those states who are investigating his businesses take action against him, fighting legitimate judicial process with mob rule. and then, of course, there was this week s gotcha moment, where trump decided to openly admit that his plot from january 6th was to overturn the election, releasing a tweet disguised as a presidential statement saying mike pence could have overturned the election. of course, it didn t sit well then and surely isn t sitting well now with his side kick. president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and, frankly, there is no idea more un-american than the notion any one person could choose the
the former president is giving classic bond villains a run for their money as he hides his crimes in plain sight for all the world to see. he may not have a license to kill, but he is taking a thunderbolt to diplomacy, justice, and our entire political system. in a classic villain trope, he spent the week saying the quiet part out loud, revealing his master plan during a campaign-style rally proclaiming if he wins in 2024, he ll consider pardoning those charged over the january 6th insurrection. it s a familiar plot. he s done it plenty of times before for his criminal companions. it s even something robert mueller brought up incentivizing bad behavior with a get out of jail free card. but the buck didn t stop at potential witness tampering. he implored his minions to take to cities like new york where prosecutors are investigating him and his businesses taking action against him. fighting legitimate judicial
it was. perhaps i think more importantly he does seem fixated on his win and his version of the size of it. what was your take? well, first of all, there s an extraordinarily extraordinary lack of accountability when it comes to the facts. this idea that as the president of the united states you can just cast off an untruth by saying someone gave me that information as if the buck didn t stop with you, as if you weren t ultimately responsible for the things that you said. part of that there s a sense among everyone i ve spoke nguyen at the white house and certainly among the president that the media gets it wrong so often. people shouldn t be so hard on us when we get it wrong. and yet the things that president trump gets wrong are extremely consequential. it comes down not just to electoral votes but his accusations about voter fraud, you know, about terrorist attacks. the list goes on and on and on. i also think that there is this