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Donald Trump’s Indictments are a Timely Reminder That American Democracy Is a Sham
Why aren’t his predecessors also made to stand trial?
It is no longer breaking news that Trump is facing charges for a number of crimes committed during his time in charge of global affairs.
While there’s a compelling case against the 45th President to ensure that he spends the rest of his natural life behind bars, there’s a whiff of hypocrisy about the whole thing.
Hypocrisy?
Yes indeed.
There’s more than enough evidence to indict every one of Trump’s recent predecessors.
At least since 1945.
Before we get started with the surviving presidents, we may want to remind ourselves of the rap sheet of the ones who are no longer with us.
Harry S. Truman dropped nuclear weapons on two cities —Nagasaki and Hiroshima, thereby bringing an end to the war which the instigators had already lost.
Two hundred thousand civilians died from the use of the atomic bomb, something that the recently released Oppenheimer film will never talk about.
On Dwight Eisenhower’s watch, Pax Americana ventured further by waging the Korean war, which set the tone for American interventionism in far fling parts…