Who are you trying to convince? The participants in this thread, or you?
Anyone subscribing to observable reality is not buying this nonsense. We've been over this many times.
What was Trump going to "get past [sic] through an obstructive GOP-led Senate?"
The "criminal justice reforms" he ran on in 2016 were NATIONWIDE STOP AND FRISK and racist immigration restrictions.
Donald Trump vetoed a defense spending bill passed by the "GOP-led Senate" to protect CONFEDERATE base names.
So much for that "theory."
If you want
slightly more honesty about this:
Let's state the obvious here: this was about reducing
your tax obligations, first and foremost. (Even that is dishonestly framed as faux-concern for the working class, who were so obviously
not the primary beneficiary class of the legislation:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html )
Stop trying to play it off like you did this to advance criminal justice reform. Tell that to Brandon Bernard.
Four of the five coming executions by the federal government involve Black men, while the first woman in 70 years will be executed in January.
www.nbcnews.com