Good point â Yoo isnât necessarily saying that being Benito is such a bad thing. Given his track record, the rich, full-bodied taste of Mussolini is the perfect way for Yoo to start a new day in America.
Holy fuck. When Trump is too authoritarian for John Yoo irony is dead.
I wonder what gave him the impression Trump was like Mussolini?
http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Trumpolini.jpg
Edit to add:
Yoo told the Washington Post that Trump âreminds me a lot of early Mussolini,â calling the comparison "very disturbingly similar.â
Wow, what a coincidence, I liked the later Mussolini much more too!!I guess you canât bullshit a bullshitter, except âŚ
Well, it seems like Trumpâs entire voting base is composed of bullshitters.
When President Trump wants to round up and deport 11 million people, extort Mexico into building his wall and institute a 35 percent tariff to target and punish individual corporations itâs the John Yooâs of the world who will write the legal briefs to allow him to do it.
The resemblance would be even closer if Cheeto Jesus took that orange beaver tail off his head.
No shit. If he thought Trump had a snowballâs chance in hell would he be saying this? I mean, honestly, weâre talking about John Yoo.
When you have lost Yoo & The Torturers (not a punk band from the 1980s), you have really jumped the shark. Someone is going to lose bigly.
Either that or Yoo is simply protecting his flank from an inevitable Trump loss. He surely would have had a nasty job in a Trump Admin.
"If you are a Republican or a conservative, you think that special prosecutors are unconstitutional,â
If you are a Republican or a conservative, you think that special prosecutors are unconstitutional. If you are a Republican, you think they are a political tool.
FIFY
Former Bush DOJer John Yoo: Trump âReminds Me A Lot Of Early Mussoliniâ
Trump: Thank you.
Yoo told the Washington Post that Trump âreminds me a lot of early MussoliniâŚâ
âWhereas Iâm more of a Baby Doc Duvalier guy. More crushing a little boyâs testicles in front of his father.â
Yoo told the Washington Post that Trump âreminds me a lot of early Mussolini,â calling the comparison "very disturbingly similar.â
Oh, did Yoo write legal opinions for Mussolini, too?
Trump wants to make America great by excluding immigrants. Meanwhile, Mussolini said in a 1927 speech that immigrants make America great. Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/mussolini-tells-immigrants-to-make-america-great-in-1927-speech/2016/07/23/a723d158-5122-11e6-bf27-405106836f96_video.html
Yoo: âearly Mussolini was awesome. This was before he went all-electric at Newportâ
To sum up:
- Yoo thinks the Tangerine Tyrant is like Mussolini, but we donât know whether he considers that to be a problem or whether it sends a tingle up his leg
- Yoo has a problem with the concept of a special prosecutor, but not necessarily a prosecution of a political opponent directed by the president
The legacy continues.
Man.
When you lose the guy who once said itâs GOP-legal to crush a childâs testicles, youâve really fallen.
THIS is the step too far, Yoo? You should have thought of that when you decided to blow up the Geneva Accords. You own this.
TPM does not need to publish articles which quote war criminals, or even have anything said or written by any of them on this site. I advocate TPM never again publish anything about the dubya cabinet of war criminals, including the War Criminal In Chief himself. Seeing these hateful evil slimes, like Yoo / Cheney / Rice / Rumsfeld / dumdum dubya etc. does nothing for my day or mind.
Truly evil thug who should have been extradited to The Hague to answer for his war crimes.