There is more and more evidence that the shooting death of Michael Reinoehl of Portland, Oregon, by federal law enforcement officials was not the result of an arrest turned deadly. In fact, recently published investigations point to a much darker conclusion, suggesting the 48-year-old Reinoehl, wanted in connection with the shooting death of right-wing protester Aaron Danielson, was an extrajudicial execution carried out by our government.
Today, Donald Trump is out in Greenville, North Carolina, speaking at a campaign rally. The rally has been filled with all of the violent rhetoric that has marked the entire Trump experience, harkening back to the days of segregation and Europe in the 1930s. But one remark Trump made while attacking Biden for not believing in “law and order” was quite stunning, though, sadly, not surprising. Trump bragged about the extrajudicial killing of Reinoehl, an American citizen.
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After lamenting about how the law won’t allow him to just send his Gestapo forces into localities to squash peaceful protesters, he turned to the case of Michael Reinoehl, bragging that while local authorities had taken days to go about arresting the fugitive Reinoehl, Trump and his squad were able to do it like that. “We sent in the US Marshals, took 15 minutes [sic] it was over. 15 minutes it was over. We got him.” The crowd cheered because murder tastes delicious to people living in the general malaise of a death cult, and Trump made sure they knew that Donald Trump knows how to deliver murder.
DONALD TRUMP: They knew who he was, they didn’t want to arrest him, and in 15 minutes that ended.
They didn’t want to arrest him, and so in less than the time it takes Donald Trump to undo his tie, they killed an American citizen without a trial. Is he talking about the US Marshals or the Portland authorities? Probably the latter? Does it even matter with Trump at this point? The entire thrust of his brag is that you don’t need to have a trial when you can have Trump’s federal agents act as judge jury and executioner in 15 minutes of arriving in small neighborhood USA.
Then, because either Trump’s medication is off, his dentures are loose, or he’s just always something of a catastrophe, Trump transitioned by saying “Anywhile,” and then saying, “and they call themselves peaceful protesters.”
Trump also pushed for people to be put in jail for one year for burning the American flag. So there’s what passes for a new idea in the Republican Party these days.