Trump: ‘All Arrests Are Politically Motivated As The Legal System Is The Codified Exercise Of Political Power’
Trump: ‘All Arrests Are Politically Motivated As The Legal System Is The Codified Exercise Of Political Power’
“This indictment is obviously an attempt by the Democrats to use against me the complex webs of power relations that influence the nature of rights and consequences in a given society and that we conceptualize as a legal system,” Trump said before quoting verbatim a passage from political philosopher Michel Foucault that reads, “The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based.”