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One POTUS, four indictments, 91 charges!
Former FBI agents Delbert Hahn and William Wood also struggled with the aftermath of Scott’s death. They had been sent to arrest Scott, a Black Muslim, who charged the officers after they kicked in the front door of his home. During the struggle, Hahn shot Scott twice when he thought Scott had taken Wood’s gun only to learn afterward that Scott had picked up Hahn’s blackjack.
Wood recently said that Scott’s shooting caused him to suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder.
Twenty years after the shooting, Wood taught a PTSD class at the FBI’s training academy in Quantico, Virginia,
There was a time, not so long ago actually, when the Republican Party proudly called itself the “Party of Personal Responsibility.”
Oh, how the Grand Old Party has steadily fallen!
With the latest unsealed indictment, this time in Atlanta, Georgia, one Donald John Trump, the 45th President of the United States, is facing a combined grand total of 712 years in prison— and six months to boot—after calculating his maximum exposure to the 91 criminal counts that hang over his head like the Sword of Damocles!
Whether Trump will get convicted in each case, let alone each count, is unknown at this time. But what is known is that the entire Republican notion of “personal responsibility” was and remains rank sophistry in that back when Ronald Reagan was popularizing the phrase, he was doing so to cast aspersions against poor people, particularly poor Black and Brown people, who he and his ilk deemed “Welfare Queens” and “Poverty Pimps” juxtaposed to the “hard working” (read-white) folks all across America. The same holds true today, as it disgusts me to no end to hear white Republicans, and their Black and Latino lackeys, criticize prosecutors for not going after “violent thugs” and gang members.
In fact, the Reagan era Republicans repeated the “personal responsibility” phrase so much that it still rings in my head as I watch the heir to his legacy, Donald Trump, rack up his fourth criminal indictment—91 criminal charges in all—from as far