To many, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, the outcome showed that the justice system—when applied correctly—could indeed hold police accountable for the deaths they cause. But on Wednesday, with the stroke of a pen, Donald Trump wiped away the D.C. cops’ convictions. It’s one of many actions the president has taken since his inauguration on Monday that convey, to select groups of Americans, that they can behave with impunity. Police can kill young black men. MAGA fanatics can attack government buildings. Men can objectify their female coworkers and abuse their wives. Employers can refuse to accept trans people. You can even be a drug kingpin who solicits murder-for-hire—just as long as you’re also a hero to the crypto-libertarian crowd.
The contrast reveals a pattern. Trump’s compassion—if it can be called that—seems only to extend to those who are part of the aggrieved, pro-MAGA class. To the right wing, Sutton and Zabavsky were victims of a nationwide post–George Floyd crusade against police that made it impossible for officers to do their jobs. (Hylton-Brown’s death led to heated protests at a local police station.) During the 2024 campaign, he spoke frequently about providing police officers with greater immunity, despite the fact that they’re already largely indemnified from civil suits, with one study finding that accused officers only had to pay 0.02 percent of payments received by plaintiffs in civil suits. Americans, by and large, oppose qualified immunity for officers: A Cato/YouGov poll from 2020 found 63 percent want to eliminate it. As for immunity from criminal charges, cops are almost never charged with murder even when the evidence against them is overwhelming.
And so it goes with Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, which was an online black market through which $200 million of illicit drugs were sold. Prosecutors called Ulbricht “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise”—all transactions were done in Bitcoin—and also accused him of attempting to hire contract killers in six separate incidents, none of which panned out. He was serving two life sentences plus 40 years, but Trump, fulfilling a campaign promise he’d made to the Libertarian Party, pardoned Ulbricht and portrayed the FBI agents and prosecutors as the real villains—“scum,” as he put it. To Trump, these were the same people “involved in the modern-day weaponization of government against me.”
Trump did make sure to protect some people with this order, however: heterosexual conservatives who wish to assert their discriminatory views. The order included this Orwellian statement: “The Attorney General shall issue guidance to ensure the freedom to express the binary nature of sex and the right to single-sex spaces in workplaces and federally funded entities covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” So transgender people are not allowed to call themselves the gender they identify with, but people wishing to express the binary view of gender—though it goes against science—will be free to do so without any fear of repercussions. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, of course, sought to protect minority groups from the majority, not the other way around.
Which brings us to Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, who has been accused of sexual assault, marital abuse, and alcoholism. A police report from 2017 shows that a woman accused Hegseth of sexual assaulting her in a California hotel room. (He denies the accusation, and settled with his accuser in 2023.) Earlier this week, his ex-sister-in-law told senators that her sister, who was Hegseth’s second wife, feared for her safety and had a code word to use with people close to her “if she felt she needed to get away from Hegseth.” Last month, The New Yorker’s Jane Meyer revealed that a whistleblower report on Hegseth, pertaining to his tenure as president of Concerned Veterans for America, “states that, at one point, Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team. The report also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers, whom they divided into two groups—the ‘party girls’ and the ‘not party girls.’”
It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to understand what Trump sees in Hegseth: a fellow-traveler in the brotherhood of pussy-grabbers. All the braying from Democrats about Hegseth’s inexperience, history of inebriation, and low opinion of women is just the product of the woke mind virus. Hegseth, see, is the actual victim here—the one in need of Trump’s protection. By nominating him for one of the government’s most important, powerful positions, Trump is sending the message that over the next four years this type of behavior will be tolerated, perhaps even celebrated—but certainly not punished. It’s a message that MAGA America undoubtedly hears loud and clear: Impunity for we, and none for thee.
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