History repeats itself. It only remains to be seen if the outcome is also tragic.
Donald Trump announced this Friday that there will potentially be "death and destruction" if he is indicted in New York by the Manhattan prosecutor in the case of allegedly bribing $130,000 to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels about an alleged sexual relationship. His position, already known, is ratified: if someone dares to legally mess with him, it will rain fire.
Since last Saturday he made it run without any foundation that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday of this week, something that did not happen that day or the following, his verbal escalation has skyrocketed to extremes considered by many to be dangerous. In his memory the tragic day of January 21, 2021 still resonates.
If he first asked the people to protest to "recover the country", his tone has followed the same pattern as his incitement to take over the Capitol to perpetuate himself in power by annulling the electoral result that punished him with defeat.
This Thursday he maintained that "they are destroying the country and they are asking us to be peaceful", an unequivocal phrase in his call for disorder to save him, not the country. In case anyone did not understand, this Friday he insisted in a much more specific way. "They know that I have not committed any crime and they know that with those false charges there will be potentially death and destruction, it will be disastrous for our nation."
His bellicose and coup drift, endorsed by the surrender of the far-right Republican charges, the loudest today in Washington, has pilloried the chief prosecutor of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, whom he has directly cataloged as the personification of " wrong" and whom he defined in his apocalyptic message as "a degenerate psychopath who really hates the United States."
Many Republicans applaud him, but many others are silent or discredit him, while the Democrats invite us to remember and believe that Trump is promoting domestic terrorism, as evidenced in 2021 with the involvement of nationalist and supremacist militias.
Hakeem Jeffries, leader of the progressive minority in the House, countered that Trump's violent language could lead to a tragic tragedy. “Her rhetoric about him is reckless, reprehensible and irresponsible. It is dangerous and we have to be vigilant because this can lead someone to death”, he affirmed.
"We have already seen the consequences of the ex-president's incitement, he is the main person responsible for the insurrection on January 6, but he clearly has not learned his lesson," Jeffries stressed.
Trump's outburst, loaded with lies and anger, has allowed him to regain leadership in the Republican race for the 2024 nomination, without seeming to care about the damage he may cause with his declared support for the riots. . In his undemocratic drift, the former president has even required that all the prosecutors who are investigating him be fired.
