@morphyms1817 said in #8:
> Certainly every person has some deeds they are not proud of.
The thing is, Trump IS proud of these things. He's proud of every bad deed he has done. And there are a lot of them I could list but you probably wouldn't care.
A small sample:
- He's proud of not paying his taxes ("That makes me smart!").
- Proud of dodging conscription ("bone spurs")
- Proud of defrauding his financial partners by over- or undervaluing his properties on a whim (as it benefits him).
- Proud of being so famous that he can sexually assault women and get away with it (you don't brag about something if you're not proud of it and happy about it)
- Unapologetic about it when pressed ("It's just locker-room talk."). That doesn't really sound like he's not proud about this moment. That's him downplaying its importance, not him regretting faults of his past self.
- Proud of his own perceived intelligence ("I am smart", "I have good genes", "Dr. John Trump from MIT, my uncle, yadayadayada ...")
- Therefore proudly denying the scientific consensus on human made climate change and extending the trajectory of a hurricane on a NOAA chart with a sharpie just to save face
- Proudly denying the validity of the result of the 2020 election and spreading baseless conspiracies about voter fraud.
- Proudly showing disdain for democracy and the peaceful transfer of power.
- Proudly vowing to "root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections." (Trump on November 11, 2023 at a New Hampshire campaign event)
- i.e. proudly dehumanising his political opponents by comparing them to vermin who need to be "rooted out"
- Proudly trying to overturn the election (for months).
- Proud of his "perfect phone call" with Brad Raffensberger, Georgia secretary of state, who he pressured to falsify the election in his favour ("I just want to find 11,780 votes")
- Proud of the insurrectionists who chanted "hang Mike Pence" on Jan 6 and stormed the capitol building, an attack that killed several people, calling them patriots, promising to pardon them, even releasing a song they recorded in prison in order to fund his campaign
- Proudly and repeatedly defaming Jean Carroll, a woman who won a civil trial against him (being rewarded damages for the sexual assault he perpetrated), despite several court rulings
- Very, very proud of the "fun" nicknames and insults he comes up with for disabled people, WW2 veterans and other people who do not lick his boots
The only bad deeds he's not publicly proud of are the ones he has to deny due to legal reasons:
- Allegedly giving classified military information about US and Russian submarines to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, who bought a membership at Mar-a-Lago.
- Allegedly trying to hide boxes of classified information from an FBI search warrant, shipping them off to a different location just in time
- And a lot of other stuff concerning any of the other 91 felony counts (across four different cases) he's accused of
> Certainly every person has some deeds they are not proud of.
Trump hasn't. He's unabashed. And a grave danger to democracy.