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Let's Use Trump's Threats To Topple Him

Trump has used personal threats against individuals for decades. The Cohen/Trump tapes should be released so the public can hear Trump's intent to harm people.

By Michal Spocko
03/05/19 02:00 pm

Trump makes threats. Sometimes he personally makes them, other times he has people do it for him.

Rep. Speier: How many times did Mr. Trump ask you to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf?
Michael Cohen: Quite a few times.

Rep. Jackie Speier: 50 times? Cohen: More
Rep. Jackie Speier: 100 times? Cohen: More
Rep. Jackie Speier: 200 times? Cohen: More

Rep. Jackie Speier: 500 times?

Michael Cohen: Probably, over the 10 years.

Cohen says he made "threats of litigation" which makes them sound nice and polite. But listen to this call Cohen made to a reporter. (Link) It's more than a legal threat. That's a threat of violence.


For Trump, legal threats aren't enough. He wants the people on the other end to be afraid for their life. Trump's use of threats of violence can provide another route to impeachment, in addition to all his campaign finance crimes and other law breaking. Remember this threat to Stormy Daniels and her daughter?

"A guy walked up on me and said to me: 'Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,'" Clifford said. "Then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, 'That's a beautiful little girl — it'd be a shame if something happened to her mom.' And then he was gone." --Stormy Daniels, 60 Minutes on March 25, 2018

Someone ordered Daniels and her child to be threatened. In the 10 years of working for Trump how many of those kind of calls and actions did Cohen make? Who else made those type of calls or made in-person threats at Trump's direction?

I say it's time to look into former bodyguard and current Chief Operating Officer at the Trump Organization, Matthew Calamari.

Matthew Calamari, chief operating officer at the Trump Organization, first joined the company as a bodyguard in 1981 after Trump saw him eject hecklers while he was doing security work at the US Open tennis tournament in Queens Credit: James Leynse/Corbis Via Getty Images

Did Calamari order his son to threaten Stormy Daniels on Trump's direction?

In the hearing Cohen said he didn't think a videotape of Trump hitting Melania existed. But Cohen knows multiple people tried to obtain it because they knew it would be a brand disaster for Trump. Cohen didn't believe Trump would hit Melania, but his views about Trump's capacity for violence differ from Ivana Trump's. Especially considering her statement about Donald Trump raping her.

Trump has talked about shooting and killing a generic someone in public and getting away with it. But what kind of specific personal threats has Trump made in private? What did he say when he didn't know he was being recorded?

As to how serious Trump was about those threats, Cohen himself said, "He's not joking."

Remember, the house committee now has access to over 100 of Cohen's audio tapes. What might they reveal?

It's time to look carefully at Trump's previous and current threats for threats of violence toward people. 

Born Yesterday on Amazon Prime  and it showed a millionaire businessman who uses lawyers and legislators to set up a corrupt deal for his business. When he is defied by a woman he uses his fists. The "dumb blond" was played by Judy Holliday who won an Oscar in 1951 for this role. In real life she had a 172 IQ. Her dumb blond act outsmarted the men on the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee during the McCarthy era. 
Thank you EFF for helping me defeat KSFO/ABC/Disney in a copyright case!)

I think the women powering the #MeToo movement will force Senators and Congressmen who support Trump to condemn him for directing others to commit violence against a woman/women.

Use Trump's history of Abuse of Power against him

How Trump threatens people hasn't changed, even though his power has increased.

It's bad enough to use the power of the corporation you are the head of to threaten someone, it's worse when you are the President of the United States. (As was noted in this New Yorker article, abuse of power was one of the reasons behind the articles of impeachment of Andrew Johnson)

RICO Act, but Trump has always run his organization like a mob boss, so let's look at the tools used to bring down the mob and crime families when they use coercion and threats on people.

When Trump is losing he makes threats. He is now suggesting to his millions they need to act to save him from the Big Bad Mueller.  I know there is concern about how the base will react to Trump getting impeached and, as it has been pointed out to me, "They have guns!" But I'm not concerned about that right now.

Let's stop the hand wringing about what the Red Hats will do in the future while we professionally investigate and expose multiple egregious crimes that can lead to impeachment.

Like a lot of Human Males I watch comic-book action films. I see the heroes often physically punch their way to victory. I understand that action is needed to keep the monkey mind of the public engaged, but for me the best battles in the good movies also involve an intellectual problem solving component to victory.

A strategy, plan and combined tactics of a group of committed people can defeat an opponent with a bigger stick. To defeat Trump we need a combination of people who aren't afraid of him, who aren't beholden to him and who know they are part of something bigger and better than him. We have all those people--and the Constitution is on our side.
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