Not many people out there would refute the notion that Donald Trump is a self-obsessed, egotistical narcissist, on a good day. Honestly, a good majority of even his own base of supporters would admit to as much, before quickly following it up with, “But that’s what we need, instead of these snowflakes!”
However, I think so many people out there fail to realize that the 45th President of the United States isn’t just an obnoxious egomaniac with a severely over-inflated sense of self-importance — Donald J. Trump is a monster.
Rolling Stone hit the media cycle today with a report that truly made our stomachs churn and the hair on our necks stand up with the fear and deeply disturbing realization of what truly could have been during the corrupt ex-president’s four long, tumultuous years in the highest position of power that this country has to offer.
Trump recently launched the 2024 comeback presidential campaign that we all knew was coming since the moment he realized that Joe Biden defeated him in 2020 — but thus far, the ex-president’s campaign hasn’t been going well at all. Donald himself is absolutely drowning in a plethora of scandals and legal perils that have seemingly all but destroyed his campaign before it even got off the ground.
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According to Rolling Stone, Trump has been mulling over options that could possibly breathe new life into his dead-in-the-water presidential run — and that allegedly includes the idea of televising the executions of death row inmates and filming their private last moments of life in an effort to portray his brutally Medieval take on crime in the US.
Two different inside sources spoke with the publication and confirmed that Trump has long been eager to bring back the old heinous, cruel, and unusual methods once used to execute people who were sentenced to death for their crimes — including firing squads, public hangings, and even the infamously brutal guillotine.
But it seems Trump isn’t only keen on the barbaric methods of execution, apparently, he also wants the whole world to bear witness to them. Sources told Rolling Stone that Trump went so far as to float the idea of filming death row inmates in those private, intimate, and final moments of their lives, to then air that footage publicly to serve as what he believed would be a foolproof deterrent for any future possible criminals.
One inside source confirmed to the publication:
The [former] president believes this would help put the fear of God into violent criminals. He wanted to do some of these [things] when he was in office, but for whatever reasons didn’t have the chance.”
Trump has never had any problem with publicly declaring his thoughts and beliefs when it comes to the death penalty, hailing all the way back to the Central Park Five in the 1980s when the then-New York real estate “mogul” publicly and vehemently demanded that a group of young Black men who were falsely accused of raping and murdering a female jogger in Central Park be put to death for crimes they did not commit — even going so far as to run a full-page ad in the New York Times, The Daily News, The New York Post, and New York Newsday, calling for their execution.
The group spent more than a decade behind bars before their sentences were vacated in 2002, following the emergence of DNA evidence that proved their innocence beyond a shadow of a doubt. Yet, Donald Trump never retracted his calls for the execution of the Central Park Five. In fact, in 2019 when he was actively serving as the US president, Donald Trump publicly refused to issue an apology to the group, stating, “You have people on both sides of that.”
Read the disturbing full report from Rolling Stone here.
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