Opinion: With the White House as a Set, Trump Will Settle His Score “Apprentice” Style
By JO ANN ALLEN | Columnist for The Denver Post
Hell hath no fury like a man who believes he’s been scorned.
This twist on an old, sexist adage, however, is no joke because the man is Donald Trump.
The Republican frontrunner is not hiding what he’ll do if elected for the second time to the most powerful office in the land; he’ll make it more powerful in order to trample on constitutional rights.
Voters should be clear that Trump doesn’t just admire Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, he wants to be them.
Our Constitution means nothing to the man who says out loud that he wants to terminate the document upon which American democracy gets its oxygen.
“I believe strongly in getting even. If somebody has hurt you, if somebody’s gone out of their way to hurt you, I think that if you have the opportunity, you should certainly go out of your way to do a number of them,” Trump told the BBC in 1998. “I believe in an eye for an eye.”
A very long list of potential targets follows in the newspaper.