It would have been more to the liberal rag’s credit had its editors had the taste and decency not to publish it in the first place, but the fact that they pulled it all shows that they have more character than we might have imputed to them. The story, a version of which is still available in Google’s cache, is titled “Impeachment Is No Longer Enough; Donald Trump Must Face Justice.”
And what does its author, Jason Fuller, consider to be justice? After carting out a list of the president’s “crimes,” which include reversing a number of Barack Obama’s more outrageous and job-killing regulations (those are my words, not Fuller’s) and accusing Trump of “fir[ing] the former head of the FBI specifically for investigating the Trump campaign ties to Russia” — which is pure venting over an allegation that has never been proven — he lists the charges. Since in the strange world that Jason Fuller inhabits, “there is little room to doubt [Trump’s] guilt, he dispenses with the trial and moves directly to sentencing:
Draining the swamp means not only ejecting Trump from the presidency, but also bringing himself [sic] and everyone assisting in his agenda up on charges of treason. They must be convicted (there is little room to doubt their guilt). And then — upon receiving guilty verdicts — they must all be executed under the law. Anything less than capital punishment — or at least life imprisonment without parole in a maximum security detention facility — would send yet another message to the world that America has lost its moral compass. In order for America’s morality and leadership to be restored, it must rebuke Donald Trump, his entire administration, and his legislative agenda in the strongest manner possible.
Fuller’s bio at HuffPo is also a mission statement of sorts. In it, he notes:
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
I have seen the best and worst in society and in America and am constantly speaking out to try and bring about change. Many of my tweets and blogs are critical of what I see as erosions of civil liberties and freedom, as well as bullying and extremism. Though I may sometimes fail at it, I try to be the best person I can be and to always stand up for my beliefs.
If the best person he can be is the one who penned the drivel quoted above, then I would submit he has failed bigtime.
