To forestall chaos and controversy, football, baseball, basketball, and other “games” are played according to mutually accepted rules. Umpires, referees, and other “officials” ensure the rules are enforced. On and off the court or field, contestants never resort to character assassination, name-calling, slandering, and threatening an umpire, referee, or other official.
Likewise, cultures function according to mutually accepted rules or “laws.” Magistrates, judges, and justices ensure the laws are enforced. In and outside the courtroom, citizens never resorted to character assassination, name-calling, slandering, and threatening magistrates, judges, or justices—before Donald John Trump!
I am puzzled by the motive behind Donald’s egregious, outlandish, assaults on judges, their family, and staff. By intimidating and threatening umpires and referees a rogue coach might seek to ensure his team’s infractions are ignored. By intimidating and threatening judges and jurors a rogue ex-President seeks to ensure that judges rule in his favor and jurors absolve his of alleged crimes.
Until now, witness intimidation, jury tampering, and judge bribing were perhaps more common than we like to believe, but clandestine. Today, Donald’s blatant attempts to game the system are open and notorious!
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