Former US President Donald Trump is in the limelight again, this time for his participation in a controversial song release. The single in question has been recorded together with a male choir consisting of inmates imprisoned for their participation in the storming of the US Congress.
In the song “Justice for all”, Trump is heard reciting the American Pledge of Allegiance interspersed with the choir singing the US national anthem. The song ends with a steady “USA! USA! USA!”, reports The Guardian newspaper.
According to Forbes is the song’s purpose to raise money for the families of those imprisoned, all of whom were convicted of violence in connection with the deadly congressional storming on January 6, 2021. The move is the latest in a growing trend in which Trump and other US politicians on the right are celebrating the Capitol attack and painting the rebels as ordinary protesters persecuted by the state. “I have never felt more disgust at the existence of a song than this one sung by a president attempting a coup d’état and a literal chorus of the rebels trying to help him,” writes Robert Maguire , head of research at the non-profit organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, on Twitter.
On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump, who lost the election in November 2020, called on his supporters to “fight the hell out” to prevent Joe Biden from being formally nominated as president. Shortly thereafter, the Capitol – where the members of the United States Congress were gathered to count electoral votes – was stormed by hundreds of violent rioters. Five people lost their lives in connection with the attack.