George W. Bush’s administration was “much worse” than Donald Trump’s, says the reporter

While the media is calling the 2020 presidential election for Democrat Joe Biden and Donald Trump may be exiting the White House, reporter Glenn Greenwald ran an article in Substack that highlighted the George W. Bush administration’s atrocities. .

“There is nothing done by the Trump administration that can be rationally characterized as a radical aberration, a dramatic break from US tradition,” he said.

“On the contrary: none of Trump’s actions and policies are in a new universe of ferocity, illegality or radicalism compared to those who preceded him to power.”

The reporter – a former lawyer – noted that Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, violated the statutes of Congress to free themselves from detaining, killing and spying on anyone they wanted as long as it was considered part of the War of Terror. Like the Barack Obama administration later, the writer noted that Bush has expanded power beyond detaining US citizens without legal constraints to spy on them and target them for assassination.

The writer also highlighted the Bush administration’s torture program in the notorious prison located in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which operated outside of American law. Greenwald pointed out that dozens of people are still being held at the place nearly 20 years after its founding.

The former Intercept the reporter also claimed that Trump’s campaign was able to commit many of its atrocities due to the actions of its predecessors.

“Indeed, Trump was able to campaign and then implement intensified bombing campaigns that killed large numbers of civilians because the bipartisan framework had been established over the previous two presidencies that authorized it.”

In a previous song for InterceptionGreenwald outlined this escalation, which involved massacres of large numbers of innocent civilians as a guarantee to target terrorists. He pointed in particular to the US airstrikes that killed up to 200 Iraqi civilians in Mosul, Iraq. Such civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria reportedly increased significantly during the first two months of the Trump administration.

According to the writer, the argument that Trump’s “evils” are incomparable allows contributors to the Bush administration’s atrocities – such as David Frum and Bill Kristol – to be cleared of responsibility for their actions. He also argued that it allows such figures to benefit from pushing the narrative that Trump ran a more damaging presidency.

Many people did not like the resuscitation of the Bush image. How The Inquisitor Daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has reportedly been criticized for her friendship with the former president. His decision was defended by some, including former presidential anti-war candidate Tulsi Gabbard.