{"id":50193,"date":"2021-07-25T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50193"},"modified":"2021-07-25T12:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T19:59:33","slug":"donald-trump-is-an-american-war-criminal-in-his-own-country-carl-bernstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50193","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is ‘An American War Criminal in His Own Country’ ~ Carl Bernstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past six months Donald Trump has persisted with his reckless and inflammatory “Big Lie”<\/em> rhetoric that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged”<\/em> and “stolen”<\/em> from him. That egomaniacal blather led directly to the January 6th insurrection in Washington, D.C. And it continues to this day with Trump’s most recent cult rally<\/a><\/strong> in Phoenix, Arizona, where he spent nearly all of his 90+ minutes ranting about the last election.<\/p>\n

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However, Trump’s phony election fraud fetish only scratches the surface of his danger and dementia. On Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, famed Watergate reporter, Carl Bernstein, delivered a convincing argument for changing the context with which we view Trump. His self-serving distortions of reality are not merely examples of his narcissistic thirst for adoration and power. They represent a much more serious breach of societal norms and international law. Bernstein began by noting that “What we’re talking about is a kind of delusional madness.”<\/em> Then he elaborated saying that…<\/p>\n

“I think when we’re talking about Trump’s crimes as an American war criminal in his own country, that he has perpetrated upon our people, including the tens of thousands who died because of his homicidal negligence in the pandemic, putting his own electoral interests above the health of our people as they were slaughtered in this pandemic.<\/p>\n

“Looking at his actions in terms of fomenting a coup to hold on to office, in which the head of the American military, the Joint Chiefs of Staff [Gen. Mark Milley], has now compared Trump – not the press, not reporters comparing Trump to Hitler – but rather the head of the American military, comparing him and his movement to Brownshirts, to the Reichstag fire. This is a huge wake up call to this country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Carl Bernstein: "[Trump] is our own American war criminal of a kind we\u2019ve never experienced before."<\/p>\n

Brian Stelter: "You just said war criminal. What do you mean, war criminal?"<\/p>\n

Bernstein: "I did." pic.twitter.com\/ZK7OiLgfrG<\/a><\/p>\n

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n