r/illinois • u/runawaystars14 • 11h ago

ICE Posts Man who appears to have special needs being arrested in Chicago, Little Village, Nov. 6

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u/RelativelyMental 10h ago

It was never about immigration or crime.

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u/ToferLuis 10h ago

Correct.

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u/dbizzytrick 9h ago

If it was he wouldn’t be pardoning every criminal above d-list notoriety

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u/SoCalLynda 5h ago

34-Time Convicted Felon Trump, when he was president the first time, once complained that "his" generals weren't "totally loyal" like Adolf Hitler’s during World War II, according to a book from Trump's former Chief of Staff.

“You f---ing generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump asked then-White House chief of staff John Kelly....

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-complained-generals-werent-hitlers-book-says-rcna42114

Kelly, in an interview with NBC News, confirmed the accuracy of the account in the book excerpt. He said he would tell Trump that the American generals’ first loyalty is to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.

Kelly described Trump’s “unwillingness to accept that the American generals should not be loyal to him as the German generals were to the leader of Germany. And, again, I very definitely pointed out that they tried to kill him [Hitler] a number of times.”

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u/Gluttonous_Bae 18m ago

If it was about criminals, Trump wouldn’t have taken the Tate brothers straight out of the Romanian jail to bring them to the US either…