Sarah Kendzior, author of “They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent,” and “Hiding in Plain Sight,” in an interview conducted by Scott Harris
In the weeks after Donald Trump’s election victory, corporate media is breathlessly reporting on all of Donald Trump’s bizarre and unqualified Cabinet nominations that include Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general, who’s been under an House ethics investigation for sex trafficking with underage girls; Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, who paid a financial settlement to a woman who accused him of sexual assault; Robert F. Kennedy Jr., promoter of deadly anti-science conspiracy theories and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard who’s accused of repeating Kremlin talking points verbatim.
As Trump’s authoritarian clown car takes shape, the first former president ever to be charged with and convicted of felonies will escape legal accountability for his alleged crimes, including his attempt to subvert the 2020 election, taking classified documents to his Florida estate and the postponement of any sentence in his New York conviction for covering up a hush money pay-off to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Trump’s 2024 candidacy and election victory was made possible by President Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland’s 2½-year delay in indicting the twice impeached president for these serious crimes, enabling his expensive lawyers to slow walk the court cases and invite intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately gave Trump absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Sarah Kendzior, author of “They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent,” who reflects on the fact that, under Biden, the United States became the first country in modern history to face an attempted coup and failed to punish the coup plotters – allowing them to run and win the next election.
Source: Between the Lines