Monday, February 18, 2019

Trump's Anti-Media War: Now Includes Retribution #1 Target SNL and Alec Baldwin

Baldwin Plays Trump —Trump Threatens Baldwin
(Orange v. Orange Warfare)

Trump's wild Tweets and public statements
(Box Score to Date)

This alone could be grounds for articles of impeachment and hopefully it will along with all his other crazy-ass messaging (see chart above) – this is all unheard of in American presidential history. The headline:


If you don't know retribution definition and word usage, try these:

Def noun: [… punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act].

Legal use related to a crime: Retributive justice is a theory of justice that holds that the best response to a crime is a punishment proportional to the offenseinflicted because the offender deserves punishment.

The theory holds that when an offender breaks the law, justice requires that he or she suffer in return.

My 2 cents: My earlier post here – this same subject. 

Trump seems to think that in this case, SNL and Alec Baldwin in particular, have “committed a crime against him” and thus: “[…] they as offenders deserve punishment.” Trump’s words could be construed to be a direct threat against the producers of SNL, their network, and Baldwin. Baldwin’s response is this headline from the Montreal Gazette

Baldwin hit back at Trump for tweets he considers a potential “threat to him and his family.” Trump was enraged by Baldwin’s  portrayal of him on Saturday Night Live recently, when the actor recreated the president’s news conference on his planned border wall and calling him out for his “fake national emergency declaration.” 

Stay tuned and thanks for stopping by.

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