What makes this country different from countries with dictators in Africa or Stalin or Hitler or any of those countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders is when they took over, they put their opponents in jail?

What makes this country different from countries with dictators in Africa or Stalin or Hitler or any of those countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders is when they took over, they put their opponents in jail? -Dana Bash

In the USA we do not threaten to jail political opponents. @realDonaldTrump said he would. He is promising to abuse the power of the office - Eric Holder
Eric Holder Twitter 2016

A few politicians who have jailed their political opponents:
Putin
Erdogan
Chavez
Mugabe
Pinochet
Noriega - Jacob Horowitz
Jacob Horowitz Twitter 2016

Who would consent to serve as Attorney General to a president who believed he could direct prosecutions of his political opponents? - David Frum
David Frum Twitter 2016

You cannot underestimate the history was made in our country. A line was crossed that I don’t know has been crossed in my lifetime, maybe ever. He threatened to jail his opponent,” CNN political commentator, a new low in American democracy. - Van Jones

Not to sound too corny, but what makes this country different from countries with dictators in Africa or Stalin or Hitler or any of those countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders is when they took over, they put their opponents in jail. To hear one presidential candidate – even if it was a flip comment, which it was – say you’re going to be in jail to another president on the debate stage in the United States of America. Stunning. Just stunning. - Dana Bash, CNN

That photo ticked off several libtards around me at Work.
Two grown men from different departments
Yelling ‘Who does Trump think he Is!-—
ETC. ETC. ETC.
They came at Me like nothing I’ve
Seen before! ———Ain’t joking.
.
EXORCISM was going through my mind.

I'm not understanding this sentence. This country is EXACTLY like countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders.

Just ask the thousands of political prisoners in US jails today as a result of peacefully protestimg on J6.

25 posted on 06/09/2023 7:14:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (So it begins...Pulled on 05/29/2023 4:49:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: TDS article)

This was written in 2016 to criticize Trump for talking about Hillary Clinton going to jail.

I posted this to show what you are saying is true now and how these words from 2016 ring hollow and how these people now fully support putting political opponents in jail.

And they are doing it, Brandon cartel took over and is putting their opponents in jail.

Well, we know it isn't partisan media shills spewing agitprop.

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