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Here are 5 ways President Trump behaves like the leader of a corrupt banana republic
Here are 5 ways President Trump behaves like the leader of a corrupt banana republic
It's one of the most troubling trends of his presidency.
Whenever John Dean, Jill Wine-Banks, Dan Rather or Carl Bernstein are asked to discuss President Donald Trump’s controversies on CNN or MSNBC, a word that inevitably comes up is “Watergate.” Wine-Banks was a Watergate prosecutor in the 1970s, while Rather and Bernstein reported on Watergate extensively as journalists—and Dean served as White House counsel under the Richard Nixon Administration. Dean and Bernstein appeared together on CNN on November 20, discussing the revelation that Trump urged the Department of Justice to pursue criminal charges against Democrat Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey.
Dean told CNN, “If I had to channel a little of Richard Nixon, I think he’d tell this President he’s going too far. This is the sort of stuff of a banana republic [3]….This is a level Richard Nixon never went to, where you went after somebody’s personal well-being by a criminal prosecution.” And Dean didn’t get any argument from fellow Watergate-era veteran Bernstein, who denounced Trump’s actions as exemplary of his “abuse of presidential power” and his “embrace of authoritarianism.”
Certainly, “banana republic” are strong words, but in Trump’s case, they are appropriate. Here are five ways in which President Trump has conducted himself like the leader of a corrupt banana republic.
https://www.alternet.org/print/news-...anana-republic
Frank Apisa (11-24-2018), kudzu (11-24-2018), moon (11-24-2018), Phantasmal (11-27-2018)
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Trump is an abomination...an existential threat to our Republic.
The people who continue to support him are either insane or terminally stupid.
Anyone who does not see the authoritarian streak in him is WILLFULLY blind.
Racism is a disease
Or both. I mean, you have to be a fucking moron to vote for a fucking moron. Right?Originally Posted by Frank Apisa
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
Frank Apisa (11-24-2018)
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I tend to go easier on the people who voted for him. They made a horrible mistake.
BUT THE PEOPLE STILL SUPPORTING HIM ARE TRAITORS TO OUR NATION...AND TO HUMANITY.
jimmymccready (11-24-2018)
Racism is a disease
The people who are still sucking his dick are too embarrassed to admit they made a horrible mistake. It makes them look stupider than they actually are.
But we all know it takes a fucking moron to vote for a fucking moron.
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
Frank Apisa (11-27-2018)
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