The Blowback to Trump Intensifies

By Joel Connelly

The snarling visage of Donald Trump dominates TV screens these days, slandering Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota — accusing her of faking an attack at a town meeting — and claiming before Davos luminaries that the 2020 election was “rigged.” “Alternative facts” are overworked in our threatened Republic, and Trump has plastered his name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other projects.

He has cowed great American institutions. Universities have caved to the man who defrauded enrollees at Trump University. They have submitted to interference with curricula, enrollment standards, and the firing of the president of the University of Virginia. The legacy of Thomas Jefferson has been trashed.

Elite law firms, targeted by Trump, have changed hiring practices and agreed to pro bono work for Trump causes. Seattle-based Perkins Coie, to its credit, has held out. Trump has also cowed the nation’s mainstream media. By bringing defamation lawsuits, he has shaken down Paramount, owner of CBS, for $16 million — over the editing of a 2024 campaign interview with Kamala Harris — and ABC for $15 million.

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But a blowback has begun. The Biden Administration nominated and confirmed 235 members of the federal judiciary, including a Supreme Court justice and 45 appellate judges. They have comprised a bulwark against Trumpism and MAGA extremism.

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