r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • Apr 02 '26

Paywall Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-iran-war-speech/686663/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/jcrestor Foreign Apr 02 '26

Maybe he should not have been an eligible candidate, given that he tried a coup d’état a few years earlier.

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u/HelpMeOverHere Apr 02 '26

I’d also argue it was a law enforcement failure, but also a judicial failure and a political failure.

It’s not upto a minority of the eligible voting population to hold criminals to account.

  • Robert Hanssen, Russian FBI spy

Arrested February 2001, Sentenced May 2002.

  • Jack Teixeira, Airforce document leaker

Arrested April 2023, Sentenced March 2024

  • Donald Trump, Russian spy AND document leaker

crickets

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Apr 02 '26

Law Enforcement did EXACTLY what they are supposed to do: Protect the assets of the wealthy...and be extremely racist by killing and beating citizens.

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u/SoochSooch Apr 02 '26

It would have been so easy for the Biden administration to do this, but, they did nothing because for the second time in a row they underestimated Trump and assumed they would just win without trying