Famous Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes once wrote: «Where there is music, there can be no evil.» Perhaps, having heard this song, he would feel the need to somehow change this statement …
Former President of the United States and an adherent of «alternative facts» Donald Trump released a single. Yes, you read that right: in fact, Donald Trump started his musical career.
The new single, released by a choir of men who are in jail for participating in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, features a recording of the ex-president as a backing track.
«Justice for All» by Donald Trump and the J6 Prison Choir is now available on streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. In it, inmates — known as the «J6 prison choir» — sing the US anthem as Trump recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
Listen if you like:
For those of you who have chosen sanity and still cherishes his hearing, you have not lost much. Just 2 minutes and 21 seconds of sickening «patriotic» posturing, punctuated by a voice that only a mother can love, and then a chant of «U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!».
It's hardly a hit.< /p>
Forbes, which first reported on the recording of the song, writes that it was «produced by an unnamed major member of the recording world.»
The publication also learned that Trump's charity single is intended to raise funds for the families of prisoners, and that the project would not «benefit the families of people who attacked a cop.»
Cutting to «a person with knowledge of the project», Forbes reported that the choir consisted of 20 Washington prison inmates who recorded the song on a prison phone .
Several people who did not like the musical novelty took to social media to criticize the single.
Robert Maguire, director of research for the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, wrote: disgust at the very existence of a song, like this single, performed by a president who tried to carry out a coup, and a literal «choir» of rebels who tried to help him.
Barb McQuaid, University of Michigan law professor and former US Attorney, called the song «a disinformation tactic straight out of the textbook of the authoritarian game» and claimed Trump was «wrapping lies into patriotism.»
Trump has repeatedly expressed sympathy for those imprisoned since January 6. Before announcing his third Presidential campaign in November, he said that if he won, he would consider pardoning the rioters.
As a result of the “storming” of the Capitol, nine people were killed, more than you thousands were accused of participating in the riots, almost 500 of them pleaded guilty.