Former Republican strategist turned Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson wrote a blistering assessment of former President Donald Trump in Resolute Square, laying out how frequently he runs away from problems — and lacks the courage to take any real issues head-on.
"I want to encourage people in the pro-democracy fight ahead to keep a key fact close to their hearts," wrote Wilson, a frequent critic of the former president. "Donald Trump is a coward. A chickens--t. He’s a yellow cur, running from, not to, the sounds of the guns."
This sort of thing is actually typical of autocrats, Wilson noted — which Trump increasingly publicly aspires to be.
"A shocking number of 20th-century autocrats were never tested by their people and died in bed," wrote Wilson. "Nevertheless, Hitler took the coward’s bullet. Saddam Hussein was dragged from a spider hole. Gaddafi died begging in a sewage culvert. Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu actually died with some guts, monsters though they were. Elena hissed to their guards after their very brief trial, 'You could have shot us without this masquerade' as they were backed up on a barracks wall before a firing squad."
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Trump has never faced this sort of mortal threat. However, he is now facing four criminal trials and mounting civil fraud litigation — and when he's in the courtroom, he puts on a different face than he shows the public.
"As long as he feels physically safe — behind the walls of the White House, or before that, protected by the security bros at Trump Tower or Mar A Lago — Trump is a swaggering, shit-talking goon," wrote Wilson. And yet, "In videotaped depositions for civil litigation, Trump often displayed a more restrained and controlled demeanor. He typically answered questions with a level of formality, adhering to legal advice and showing a (relatively) measured response to avoid legal complications ... behind it all is a man scared of his ferocious father and controlling mother, a man who has never taken or delivered a punch, a man who knows he’s a fraud and a fake, but dreams of one more con before he’s caught."
"Remember, America. Trump wants you to be afraid of him…because he’s petrified you’ll see him for precisely the coward he is," Wilson concluded.
