Our "Schmuck" Godfather Threatens Us All

By Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News

05 January 21

n his infamous one-hour shakedown of Georgia�s Secretary of State, wise-guy Donald Trump TWICE calls himself a �schmuck.� It�s a gross undershot.

You may be hearing clips of that conversation. But no American should miss the whole mobster rant that Trump has clearly aimed at us all.

Sounding like a Godfather hit man, Trump verbally derides himself for having supported Brian Kemp, the KKK-style governor who stripped the state�s voter rolls in 2018 to defeat Stacey Abrams. (Trump trashes her too.)

But Kemp won�t hand Trump Georgia�s electoral votes. Nor will Secretary of State Ken Raffensperger, himself a bigly vote purger.

Kemp and Raffensperger did all they could to prevent Georgians of youth and color from voting this fall. The huge lines marring the January 5 runoffs for US Senate have underscored their strategy of making it as hard as possible for �undesirables� to cast a ballot in Georgia.

But the Prez needs about 12,000 votes to steal the Peach State�s Electoral College delegation. He treats them all like cheap chips from the Don�s bankrupt casinos.

The criminality is breathtaking � and historic. Richard Nixon taped his own racist, anti-semitic Oval Office trash talk. He faked a refusal to offer his Watergate thugs a million-dollar bribe, saying �it would be wrong� while scheming to shut them up.

Meanwhile, he slaughtered thousands of American soldiers and untold Vietnamese in a hated war he�d promised to end.

In the hour Trump used to promise Raffensperger cement shoes, 100-plus Americans died from his virus. He, Giuliani, Brazilian dictator Jair Bolsonaro, UK�s Boris Johnson, etc. got �magical� cures while the rest of us die in droves.

Watergate insider John Dean thinks the Donald leaked this tape himself. �When the story first broke I figured the GA Secstate recorded and leaked it,� Dean tweets. �After listening I believe Trump recorded it (his voice is always the strongest and clearest, and it sounds like a speakerphone being recorded). So the White House/DJT leaked it. Trump no doubt likes it!�

Trump says he�ll sue Raffensperger over the tape�s release. But it�s a fake cover for the message he wants us all to hear: I can say anything. I can threaten anybody. Your alleged democracy does not exist. Your beloved ballots are confetti. Cross me and you�ll pay.

He knows the uproar will enhance his hit-man image, then evaporate. The moderate Republicans that forced out Nixon are gone, replaced by fascist Klansmen who love his foul tongue and lynch-mob mentality. The federal prosecutor who could�ve pursued charges has already quit. The core of the old Republican Party has long since kissed his ring.

Trump lost by seven million votes in November. Since then, he�s raised more than a quarter-billion dollars with no strings. He can pay off his mob debts. He can arm his thugs. He can call himself a �schmuck� for having backed a governor that now won�t steal a state for him. He has no intention of going away.

Kemp and Raffensperger are hardcore right-wingers. But to Trump, they embody the remnant �moderate� Republicans that ousted Nixon, another �surrender caucus� wimping out on his fascist coup.

The Don has served notice: This time, you will not be tolerated.

This hour-long rant and forever assault on democracy are the Mein Kampf of Trump�s class/race/age-based misogynist blitzkrieg.

It will not end on January 20th.

Harvey Wasserman co-convenes the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition (www.electionprotection2024). His People�s Spiral of US History is at www.solartopia.org. He hosts California Solartopia at KPFK/Pacifica 90.7 fm Los Angeles, and Green Power & Wellness at (prn.fm).

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