Trump ‘cannot be allowed to command the United States military’ after threatening civil war: Law and ethics expert // This isn’t a crisis of ‘civility’ – it’s the right whipping up violence

Noted law professor and former Bush chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter has issued a warning after President Donald Trump effectively threatened a civil war via Twitter Sunday nightTrump tweeted remarks from his top religious advisor, far right wing extremist Dr. Robert Jeffress, saying, “If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.”

Professor Painter warned that in light of Trump’s threat, he “cannot be allowed to command the United States military,” and “should be removed from office immediately.”An associate professor of international relations and national security at the U.S. Naval War College, David Burbach, says Trump’s comments cannot be dismissed as “he just talks that way.”....
https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/trump-cannot-be-allowed-to-command-the-united-states-military-after-threatening-civil-war-law-and-ethics-expert/

Putin reasserts his authority over Trump, reminding him where his true loyalties lie

MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters): The Kremlin said on Monday that Washington would need Russian consent to publish transcripts of phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. That’s not a statement of fact from the Kremlin. The U.S. remains a sovereign nation, Trump’s efforts notwithstanding. No, that’s a direct warning to Trump. It’s an assertion that Putin made him, and that he can break him

This isn’t a crisis of ‘civility’ – it’s the right whipping up violence

As well as the murder of Jo Cox and other attacks, several rightwing plots have been foiled, and the police now say Britain’s fastest-growing terror threat is from the far right, which is bombarding public figures with threats of violence and death on a daily basis and harassing them on the streetHate crimes based on race have doubled, and on religion they have increased five-fold in the last 6 years. Boris Johnson’s defenders claim that objections to his rhetoric – whether it be of a “surrender bill” or “betrayal” – are simply hypocritical over-sensitivity from political opponents who are themselves not averse to hyperbolic rhetoric. 

But the difference is context: the far right openly sees Johnson’s language as legitimising its cause, lauding his tirades against what they describe as the “traitors in parliament”. Even his own sister has described his rhetoric as “tasteless”, and his former colleague Amber Rudd says it “legitimises violence”.  That’s before we discuss how a rightwing press - which dominates Britain’s media - has popularised terms such as enemies of the people, saboteurs
and “traitors”, whipped up bigotry towards Muslims, refugees, migrants and trans people....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/30/crisis-civility-right-whipping-up-violence-hate-crimes

see also
The Decline of the West - Boris Johnson takes to the airwaves to lie, lie and lie again / Donald Trump has now said more than 10,000 untrue things as president
Someone accused the US president of rape. The media shrugged



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