It is also possible that Trump's Presidency will be catastrophic, in ways that have a lot to do with the tendencies that Trumpists overlook: he could be ruined by corruption, or enmeshed in international scandal; he might spend his Presidency persecuting his enemies, or letting his deputies run amok.
His persecuted a distant cousin, Æthelbald, the grandson of Penda's brother Eowa.
There's a kernel of truth there, twisted to fit his "persecuted" persona.
Deferring the retrial means he gets to walk free for the time being, while also keeping his "persecuted by an elite political witch hunt" thing going indefinitely.
Paul spent much of the first half of his life persecuting the nascent Christian movement, an activity to which he refers several times.
King Philip II of Spain, the dominant ruler of 16th-century Europe, sent the armada to its defeat, lost the Spanish Netherlands to the Dutch and spent large parts of his reign persecuting heretics.
Paine was charged with seditious libel, and everywhere his ideas were suppressed and his followers persecuted.
It's much harder to comprehend why this most critically feted – but, in his mind, persecuted – of performers often bars all media from his gigs, or at least denies reviewers tickets.
Mr. Chen engaged in a 16-day jail hunger strike to buttress his claims that his successor was persecuting him to curry favor with China.
Mr. Quinn acknowledged that some of his troubles resulted from his own mistakes but maintained that the authorities were persecuting his family by tapping members' phones and tailing them.
Zimbabwe was suspended last year on the grounds that Mr. Mugabe rigged his re-election and persecuted his opponents.
