Throughout the Trump era, the 45th president used one tactic over and over again to try and get what he wanted, bullying.

Sometimes it came in the form of wanton cruelty and bigotry directed

toward everyone from war heroes to disabled reporters to judges of

Mexican heritage.

He's a war hero because he was captured.

I like people that weren't captured.

You got to see this guy.

I don't know what I said.

I don't remember. We're building building a wall he's a Mexican we're

building a wall between here and Mexico sometimes it came in the form of hostile

exchanges with the press you know you're a fake, you know that, that's okay, I know you're not thinking, you never do.

I'm sorry?

No, go ahead.

You are a rude, terrible person.

Sometimes Trump recruited other people to aid in the bullying, like encouraging crowds to beat up protesters or getting Fox News to pressure Republican senators to oppose his impeachment. From the day he

entered the presidential race to his final days in office trying to reverse the

results of the 2020 election, Trump thought he could get what he wanted by pressuring and

intimidating the people around him, even if it meant tearing apart American

democracy. And now his lawyers have been forced to try and defend that tactic in his January 6th

criminal case in Washington, D.C.

Two weeks ago, Trump's lawyers tried to argue that Trump should be, quote,

absolutely immune from prosecution because all his false public statements about

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