{"id":134133,"date":"2024-06-07T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134133"},"modified":"2024-06-07T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:17:51","slug":"even-with-trump-convicted-his-mini-trumps-still-make-him-dangerous-to-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134133","title":{"rendered":"Even With Trump Convicted, His ‘Mini-Trumps’ Still Make Him Dangerous to Black People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024, in New York City, for his hush money trial.
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Donald Trump just became the first former U.S. president to be found guilty of a felony, having been convicted of\u00a0all 34 counts of his hush money trial<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

However, the law of the land says he\u2019s\u00a0still\u00a0<\/em>eligible to be elected to a second presidential term and his supporters will certainly be out in full force to support him on November 5, leaving many Democrats scratching their heads, wondering how it\u2019s possible that Trump is a viable candidate for president following a conviction \u2014 not to mention the strife and violence he caused while in office.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, there\u2019s no inevitability about Trump winning the White House in 2024. Polls show that his early lead over President Biden\u00a0is marginal<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at best. And there\u2019s no telling how his\u00a088 criminal indictments<\/a><\/span>\u00a0will play out in the courts and among independent voters who will likely decide this close presidential race.<\/p>\n

Still, even if Trump is not elected president, he has puppets in high places who have unabashedly shown their allegiance to him and \u201cTrumpism.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a stunning revelation,\u00a0The New York Times reported<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside-down U.S. flag outside his Alexandria, Va., home after Trump supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

MAGA Republicans have coopted the inverted flag that the military has used to signal distress. Unsurprisingly, some of them flew it at the riot, but it was shocking to see a Supreme Court justice boldly display his alliance with the insurrection.<\/p>\n

Alito blamed his wife for displaying the controversial symbol. But a week later,\u00a0The Times reported<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that Alito also flew the \u201cAppeal to Heaven\u201d flag, another MAGA symbol, two years after the insurrection from his vacation house in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Alito, a\u00a0staunch conservative<\/a><\/span>, has written opinions\u00a0against voting rights for African Americans<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and opposing abortion and LGBTQ rights. Yet, he claims that\u00a0liberals pose a threat to freedom<\/a><\/span>. As a Trump loyalist, he\u2019s now\u00a0poised to hear cases<\/a><\/span>\u00a0involving the Capitol riots and whether the former president has immunity for his role in sparking the insurrection.<\/p>\n

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If Trump fails to win the White House, his mini-me, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is waiting in the wings for a 2028 presidential bid after losing the 2024 GOP primary to his boss.<\/p>\n

Trump and DeSantis are\u00a0sometimes allies and sometimes enemies<\/a><\/span>. Recently, the pendulum swung back to allies in April when the governor met privately with Trump and kissed his ring.\u00a0According to The Washington Post<\/a><\/span>, they buried the hatched, and DeSantis agreed to help Trump retake the White House.<\/p>\n

Like his mentor, DeSantis has fashioned himself into a right-wing political warrior\u00a0in his \u201cwar on woke,\u201d<\/a><\/span>\u00a0which amounts to attacking diversity, silencing discussions about racism, whitewashing America\u2019s racist history and reversing progressive policies. DeSantis is the evil wizard behind a\u00a0series of anti-Black policies<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Florida that prompted the NAACP to warn that the Sunshine State is\u00a0dangerous for Black people<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the second person in line for the presidency, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, created, what\u00a0the Associated Press described<\/a><\/span>\u00a0as \u201ca remarkable moment in modern American politics,\u201d when he traveled to Trump\u2019s hush money trial in New York to condemn the court system as \u201ccorrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Johnson has a history of supporting Trump\u2019s mess. According to NBC News,\u00a0he was instrumental<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in aiding Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn Biden\u2019s 2020 presidential victory. It\u2019s a shameful about-face for Johnson,\u00a0who said in 2015 that Trump was unfit<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to serve as president and could be dangerous.<\/p>\n

Since then, his dependance on Trump has grown. In November, Johnson sought the GOP boss\u2019 help\u00a0to save his speakership<\/a><\/span>\u00a0when hard-right Trump allies in the House threatened to remove him for joining with Democrats to avert a government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Trump is a puppet master. Johnson, DeSantis, Alito, and many others are undoubtedly ready, willing, and able to carry out his bidding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 29, 2024, in New York City, for his hush money trial.Photo:\u00a0Doug Mills-Pool\/Getty Images\u00a0(Getty Images) Donald Trump just became the first former U.S. president to be found guilty of a felony, having been convicted of\u00a0all 34 counts of his hush money trial\u00a0on Thursday afternoon. However, the law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134136,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134133\/revisions\/134136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}