It’s been a terrifying week for America, and may be remembered as a turning point, the moment when President Donald Trump took off his mask and moved decisively to wreck our democracy. This is not a drill.
Jimmy Kimmel survived it, for now, but Trump promises his rampage will continue, that he intends to use the full powers of the federal government to silence his critics, and that his next target will be ABC’s talk show, “The View.“
“I have read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me,” he told reporters. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”
No ambiguity there. But that wasn’t all.
He also explicitly directed the Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies, starting with Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, and James Comey, the