Democratic strategist James Carville in a Friday video demanded a “reckoning” for entities that have collaborated with President Donald Trump’s administration.
Carville alluded to France during World War II when some women faced humiliation, including head-shaving, for allegedly collaborating with Nazis. The strategist, with an empty or near-empty wine glass on his nightstand, said he does not believe Trump “collaborators” should be assaulted but said they must at least face an “intellectual reckoning.”
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“Don’t even get me started on — how disgraced must these law firms feel now? How disgraced must these companies that are sucking up to him, that are giving him tens of millions of dollars for access? Do you know what’s going to happen? Do you know how this ends[s]?” Carville said. “Do you know … what the country is going to feel toward collaborators with this regime? Maybe you need to go into history and see what happened in August of 1944 after Paris was liberated. They didn’t take very kindly to the collaborators. No, it was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris.”
“I’m not saying that these [are] people who should be placed in pajamas and have their heads shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on. I’m not saying that,” he continued. “But I’m saying that that did happen. And I’m saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States.”
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Law firms Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, caved to the Trump administration’s demands on Tuesday. The firm agreed to provide $100 million worth of pro bono services to back causes supported by the Trump administration, including assisting veterans and combating antisemitism. It became the third large law firm to cede to the administration rather than lose government business.
Moreover, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and OpenAI all made sizable donations to Trump’s inaugural fund. Big Tech firms, including Meta’s platform Facebook and Twitter (now X) previously suspended Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot Capitol riot.
However, after Trump’s November victory, Big Tech executives seemed to bend the knee to him.
“What that comeuppance is, I can only guess. I don’t believe in any kind of — I don’t believe that you should assault anybody,” Carville said. “Spitting on somebody is an assault. I warn you, I don’t recommend doing that. I guess involuntarily shaving somebody’s head is another assault. I mean, it’s illegal. Don’t do that.”
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“But these people are a disgrace to the law firms they represent, to the companies that they represent and are supposed to be in the self-interests and they’re a disgrace to the United States,” he continued. “And etch their names in the tablet of history for being some of the greatest traitors, appeasers that we’ve seen in the history of our great country.”
The Democratic strategist also called the Trump administration “the most dangerous domestic enemy this country has faced since the Civil War.” He called for maintaining a “list of collaborators and traitors that have exhibited extreme cowardness” to the administration.
“And don’t kid yourself — this is anti-patriotic, anti-American and against the interests of the United States,” Carville said. “And when this is over, there has to be, at a minimal, a intellectual reckoning with this class of appeasers that are here.”
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